THE TAWAN GRAY ANTHOLOGY • VOLUME 1

Roommates & Neighbors

By Tawan Gray

What happens when the only thing standing between you and the person you're falling for… is the wall you share?

Close Quarters is a collection built for those who believe the best love stories begin in the smallest spaces. Five tales of men brought together by fate, floor plans, and the unshakeable suspicion that the person just next door—or across the hall, or ten feet away in the dark—might be exactly what they've been missing. Warm, tender, and deeply romantic, this anthology wraps around you like a well-worn armchair on a rainy afternoon.

From a meticulous law student whose fifteen-page roommate contract couldn't account for a paint-stained artist who rewrites every rule he's ever lived by, to two college roommates who spend a semester mistaking their feelings for ordinary friendship—these stories know how to keep you guessing. Watch a fake-dating experiment unravel two people who were already halfway in love, follow anonymous letters passed between apartment doors by a man too shy to knock, and lose yourself in a sound designer in Lisbon who falls for the warm voice humming through his too-thin wall. Each setup is irresistible. Each payoff is earned.

Tawan Gray writes romance for readers who want to feel something without a three-hundred-page commitment. Each story in this collection delivers a complete emotional journey—confession, vulnerability, the aching almost-moment, and the deeply satisfying resolution—in a single sitting. Perfect for a long commute, a slow Sunday morning, or anyone who simply needs to be reminded that love, when it finally arrives, is almost always closer than you think.

A contemporary MM romance anthology featuring five bite-sized stories of forced proximity, slow-burn tension, and the undeniable pull of falling for the man next door.