Baseball Star's Gift: Intimate Awakening by Jaylen Florian

Darius, an Italian-American gay actor with smoldering good looks, studies Brett, the down-to-earth and straightforward captain of the collegiate baseball team, to help him perfect his upcoming role as a sports star.

Both of these ambitious young men are at a crossroads and may have invaluable life lessons to share, while their complicated friendship and chummy relationship begins to flourish.

They are real men with authentic challenges.  They may be unprepared for the cooperation, guidance, devotion, and intimacy the other has to offer.

"Baseball Star's Gift: Intimate Awakening" is a work of short fiction, an MM novelette (9,000 words), containing mature romantic themes intended for mature audiences.