Choosing Hope

What if shame cost you the only people who ever truly loved you?

Spencer Barton-Jones has everything: the wife he adores, the best friend who’s stood beside him since childhood, and the secret life the three of them share. Together, Spencer, Sophie, and Carlo build a love that feels untouchable—passionate, loyal, and dangerously fragile.

One fight shatters that illusion. Old wounds surface, shame corrodes what’s left, and the man who’s always been his anchor becomes the temptation he can’t bear to face.

Years later, Spencer is still trying to outrun the truth—his desires, his guilt, and the wreckage of the life they built....

What if shame cost you the only people who ever truly loved you?

Spencer Barton-Jones has everything: the wife he adores, the best friend who’s stood beside him since childhood, and the secret life the three of them share. Together, Spencer, Sophie, and Carlo build a love that feels untouchable—passionate, loyal, and dangerously fragile.

One fight shatters that illusion. Old wounds surface, shame corrodes what’s left, and the man who’s always been his anchor becomes the temptation he can’t bear to face.

Years later, Spencer is still trying to outrun the truth—his desires, his guilt, and the wreckage of the life they built. Sophie wants forgiveness. Carlo wants him back. Spencer doesn’t know if he deserves either.

In a world that calls their love wrong, Choosing Hope asks: can three people rewrite the rules, or will secrets and self-punishment destroy their chance at redemption?

A darkly tender MMF romance about forbidden desire, emotional damage, and the terrifying, beautiful choice to love anyway.