Alaskan Thunder

Maybe if I read a few novellas, I'll snap out of this funk? Here's Nando Gray's "Alaskan Thunder."

["Calvin hated Zayne the moment he saw him. In fact, the two couldn't have been more different if they'd planned it. But the pilot needed money badly, and the young, scrawny, raven-haired influencer who had just flown up here from California as part of some ridiculous come-to-nature find-yourself nonsense was apparently loaded with the stuff.

The pilot had never seen so many designer suitcases in one place in his life. The guy had brought at least three times the amount of cargo he'd been warned to limit himself to, insisting unapologetically that it was all "really super important," the spoiled kid was apparently used to get whatever he wanted. Calvin had given up instantly on expecting much from the vapid tourist, deciding then and there to charge the chump double for his chartered flight.

But that baggage did weigh down his seaplane dangerously now, and he eyed the coming stormclouds with nervous apprehension, their coal black mass roiling in ominously over the volcanic peaks that ringed the quaint harbor town of Skagway, Alaska, menacing the pair's upcoming flight to Fort Yukon with the distant and crackling boom of Alaskan Thunder..."]

This book was like the classic middle grade novel “The Hatchet” but gay. And not for children. ;)

Both characters are highly flawed and so completely different, but they were able to set those differences aside to survive. And fall in love. 

I loved all the details and the side stories in this novella, too. It helped round it out and really extend that time they were lost.

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