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The Equally Yoked
Hardcover
General FictionGeneral GLBTQIA Fiction
Publisher: Beaubien Press
Published: Nov 10 2026
Pages: 242
Weight: 1.09
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Langston Cole learned early that love was not a speech. It was a pair of warm socks, a fixed window, a plate of food appearing when no one asked, and a grandmother's law delivered over the top of a paperback: you go to school or you go to work, but you do not sit still.
Raised by his grandparents in a two-story apartment off Jefferson Avenue, Lang grows up among card tables, church voices, Eastern Market hustle, and the quiet discipline of people who show love by showing up. From failing the entrance exam to Detroit's most legendary high school and appealing his way in, to discovering the power of words, ledgers, ambition, and his own identity, Lang learns how to turn every no into a file, every wound into strategy, and every dream into something he can build.
But success does not teach him how to choose love.
Across Detroit, Chicago, San Diego, Italy, and Mexico City, Lang survives the wrong men, the wrong houses, and the wrong versions of himself. He mistakes chemistry for alignment, service for safety, and devotion for proof that someone is worthy of him. Again and again, he builds for people who cannot meet him at the same height.
Then comes Mateo.
Rooted in Black family, queer becoming, cross-cultural love, and the sacred ordinary work of building a life, The Equally Yoked: Book One is a sweeping contemporary novel about inheritance, ambition, heartbreak, and the kind of love that does not ask you to shrink, perform, or prove your worth.
It is a story about the families who raise us, the cities that shape us, the people who almost break us, and the one love that finally feels like home.
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