Green Twining: A Queer Gothic Romance of Secrets, Small-Town Love, and the Courage to Belong… by Andrew Cheffings

A love buried beneath secrets. A farm haunted by the past. A future that refuses to be silenced.Surrounded by the windswept fields of Green Twining Farm, eighteen-year-old Joe Coffin feels trapped by silence, by grief, and by a family history kept fearfully hidden beneath awkward silences. The English countryside, beautiful yet suffocating, offers only ghosts and unanswered questions. Joe longs for escape, for connection and for the courage to live authentically.Then in his new job at Scawthorpe Town Hall he meets David, who is a quiet but magnetic presence in an otherwise everyday world of desks and filing cabinets. And what begins as friendship then starts to grow into something more tender and forbidden. But as David’s love for Joe unfolds, it begins to become clear that David hides a shadowy past of his own, a past which could threaten both his standing in the small town of Scawthorpe and the fragile love growing between him and Joe.Then when an eccentric and unexpected guest arrives at Green Twining Farm, long-buried memories begin to rise to the surface. And the past and present collide, forcing Joe to choose: stay silent in a world that demands it, or fight for the love his heart has always longed for.Set in the English countryside in the summer of 1985, Green Twining is a hauntingly beautiful LGBTQ+ romance about love, loss, and the quiet bravery it takes to belong.