Earthbound

Derek K Harris, a bisexual art specialist living in New York City, is hopelessly in love and always in some kind of trouble. Life has been unkind to Derek, but not to all those around him. Take his enigmatic on–again–off–again boyfriend, Colin Hess, for example––he never seems to age or get sick, never has a hangover, always weighs the same. When Colin suddenly vanishes, Derek is forced to come to terms with his failed career, his addictions, his mental illness, and the dangerously twisted sexual relationship he's gotten into with Rene Hess–Perez, Colin's roboticist half brother.

In order to unravel the secret of Colin and his mysterious disappearance from the New York art scene, Derek sneaks into Rene's mysterious company, Neurobotics, and incredible secrets about Colin and his twenty–year–long vanishing act are revealed. Derek is suddenly plunged into a fantastical world of robots and fallen angels unlike anything he could ever have imagined. With the help of his friend Lee, he tries to navigate this new reality, all to get Colin back.

-- Laura K Arnold