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Rain By Midnight
Paperback
General GLBTQIA FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Mar 7 2026
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Rain By Midnight is a literary psychological novel with a slow-burn gay military romance at its core-a story about secrecy, restraint, and the cost of being seen.
Staff Sergeant Andrew Hayes has built his life on discipline. After witnessing a fellow soldier's career destroyed under military policy, he learns to survive by compartmentalizing everything that cannot be spoken. In the 82nd Airborne, control is protection. Silence is survival.
Then a storm changes the math.
When a sudden Carolina downpour forces Andrew into a collapsing supply tent with civilian contractor Ryan Mitchell, a single charged moment fractures the structure he has spent years reinforcing. What begins as cautious coffee meetings becomes an intimate, dangerous connection-one that threatens his career, his identity, and the carefully controlled life he has constructed.
Ryan carries damage of his own. The Army watches. And the past has a way of resurfacing when least convenient.
Set against the charged stillness before a storm, Rain By Midnight is a character-driven LGBTQ military novel about moral risk, suppressed desire, and the quiet courage required to choose connection over fear.
For readers drawn to slow-burn emotional tension, forbidden love, and psychologically layered fiction, this is a story about what happens when control begins to crack-and whether survival is enough.
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