UNDER CONSTRUCTION: A DOMINANT BUILDER CLAIMS HIS STRAIGHT ROOMMATE by Zane Croft

When laid-off marketing guy Ethan Caldwell moves in with his old college roommate to work on a house flip, he expects nothing more than sore muscles and a paycheck. What he gets is something far more dangerous.

Lucas Rivera — tall, powerfully built, and openly dominant — owns the renovation company and the half-gutted Victorian they’re restoring together. From the first day on site, Luke’s commanding presence and rough hands start cracking Ethan’s straight-boy armor. Close quarters, sweat-soaked labor, and Luke’s low, filthy commands push Ethan into a slow, relentless awakening.

What begins as confused arousal quickly spirals into raw need. Luke introduces Ethan to submission, praise, degradation, and the overwhelming pleasure of being owned by another man — on workbenches, against exposed beams, and in the bed they built together. Every inspection, every risk, every deep breeding leaves Ethan craving more, until he can no longer deny the truth: he doesn’t want women anymore. He only wants to be Luke’s boy.

Steamy, emotional, and unapologetically explicit, Under Construction is a scorching straight-to-gay erotic romance about surrender, identity, and finding home in the arms of the man who tears you down and rebuilds you better.

Warnings: This book contains explicit sexual content including dominance/submission, light bondage, breeding talk, cum play, public risk elements, and graphic M/M sex. It is intended for adult readers only (18+).