Readers just got sucked in by the relationship that Michael and Nunzio have and just wanted to see what would happen next with them. Find solace in self-destruction or just accept the love of a man that has been beside him for twenty years. Michael’s world starts to crumble in an ocean of complications and tragedy, he knows that he has got to make a choice. Things just do not stay easy for all that long. Problems pop up, both at home and at work, Michael finds that he is looking for constant escape in the easy intimacy and crazy good sex he keeps having with Nunzio. Michael is unable to forget the feel of best buddy’s hands on him. So they believed until a brutally hot night of dancing winds up leading to an unexpected encounter that alters forever their friendship.Ĭasual touches and lingering looks are crammed with sexual tension. From being teachers in one of the city’s most queer friendly schools in all of Brooklyn to escaping their own dysfunctional families in the working-class neighborhood located in South Jamaica, Queens. For two decades now, Nunzio Medici and Michael Rodriguez have been friends. This novel stars Nunzio Medici and Michael Rodriguez. “Sutphin Boulevard” is the first novel in the “Five Boroughs” series, which was released in the year 2015.

Santino has been a finalist for an EPIC Award and a Bisexual Book Award. He was nominated for a prestigious RITA award back in the year 2017.

They are also based off of his belief that human relationships are both flawed and complex, as well as some of his own personal experiences. He also became an unlikely romance author that has an affinity for baseball caps.Īll of his novels are influenced by the urban, gritty landscape of New York City, and intensity and passion fuels his desire to write relationships. A transient twenty-something, and he eventually transformed into a grouchy introvert. Author Santino Hassell grew up in a conservative family, but he grew up to be a school cutting, smart mouthed grunge kid.

Insight by Santino Hassell