Overview

With his family a mess, Will has to find love and affection wherever he can.

Pining after his best friend might be a good place to start - but Will needs all the help he can get. Finding that help at school may be more complicated than his impulses would have him believe. Will knows a bad idea when he sees it, but he's at the end of his rope, and if pursuing his math tutor outside of the classroom distracts him from obsessive calorie counting, excessive exercise, and throwing up, then it’s worth the risk. At least, it was at the start. As Will falls deeper and deeper he can’t help but think of the danger. Is feeling good in his own skin worth endangering the man he’s falling for?

Growing Pains is the first book in the L. Sherleen lgbt coming of age series. Will’s story is a story of love, but also of friendship, family, the struggle for self-acceptance, and bravery.