When Ai Met Yu

Ainori "Ai" Uchida is just out of University, trying to make his way in the world. He is also gay, and struggling with himself in a society where LGBT awareness is skewed by fiction. A chance encounter with old University friend Yusuke "Yu" Ishinori leads to the two slowly realising their mutual attraction. In a society that still misunderstands and misrepresents, can Ainori and Yusuke forge their own path?

Originally published online and now available in a polished and edited form, Thomas Wrightson's first contemporary romance tells a story of acceptance and love in modern day Japan, deconstructing the tropes of yaoi and bara fiction.