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Kevin Snell

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in Illinois, The United States

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Kevin Snell writes literary, upmarket, and M/M fiction about desire, restraint, and what it costs to be truly seen.

His novels follow men under pressure—navigating love and secrecy, power and grief, survival and the fragile work of staying connected to another person.

He moves between contemporary romance, literary fiction, paranormal and small-town romance, and speculative worlds, but the throughline is constant: relationships that change the people inside them.

Snell is the author of I Loved You in Reverse, Rain by Midnight, Ice and Gravity, Still Life with Fugue, How We Became Ourselves, The Night Opens, The Terms of Us, Claimed by the Ninth Orbit, and other novels and collections.

His work returns again and again to masculinity and vulnera ...more

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	Stopped Short (Seattle Bluejackets #1) 3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2018 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Claimed by the Ninth Orbit: A M/M Alien Romance (Fated Mates, Forced Proximity, Alien Bond) (The Ninth Orbit Series Book 1) 2.29 avg rating — 7 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Terms of Us: A Slow Burn, Fake Relationship, M/M Billionaire Romance (The Meridian Series Book 1) 3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rain By Midnight: A Slow-Burn M/M Military Romance it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Becoming the Ninth Orbit: A M/M Alien Romance (Fated Mates, Forced Proximity, Alien Bond) (The Ninth Orbit Series Book 3) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Ice and Gravity: A Slow-Burn M/M Romance About Control, Collapse, and Connection 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

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