The Emergency Contact Problem: An As It Turns Out Novel

Miles Chen has plenty of people.Friends who invite him to dinner. Coworkers who notice when he skips lunch. Group chats that never stop buzzing. A sister who knows exactly how impossible he can be.So when a minor medical incident reveals that his emergency contact is still the ex-boyfriend he broke up with six years ago, replacing the name should be simple.It isn't.Because Miles has spent years building a life in which he never needs too much from anyone.Then there's Adrian Cole.Adrian is the longtime friend who brings the right sandwich without asking. The person Miles calls when his father gets hurt. The man who quietly handles problems Miles can't solve from hundreds of miles away. Somewhere along the way, Adrian has become one of the most dependable parts of Miles's life.Miles just hasn't figured out what to call him.As one blank form forces Miles to examine the difference between having people and actually letting them show up, an eight-year friendship begins shifting into something neither man can conveniently categorize.And Miles may have to admit that the person he'd call in an emergency is also the person he wants beside him when absolutely nothing is wrong.The Emergency Contact Problem is a warm, wry LGBTQ+ contemporary romance about friendship, chosen family, inconvenient feelings, and two grown men discovering that needing someone doesn't mean losing yourself.