"The Erstwhile Tyler Kyle" by Steve Hugh Westenra
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Summary: Tyler Kyle doesn’t believe in monsters.
A washed-up thirty-year-old actor and reluctant cryptid investigator, Tyler is used to playing the Scully to his best friend Josh’s Mulder on their stupidly popular YouTube channel. But when Tyler receives previously unseen footage of the B movie bombshell mother who abandoned him eighteen years ago—footage linked to an isolated island in the Canadian wilderness—the mystery is one conspiracy he’s determined to investigate. The fact that following the scent gives Tyler an excuse to run away from the “straight” Josh, whom he drunkenly made out with, is just the cherry on the shit sundae.
But Echo Island isn’t what it seems. Its eerily scenic veneer hides a twisted secret buried in its roots as a gay conversion camp, and as Tyler retraces his mother’s footsteps, he discovers a supernatural connection between the residents and the island—one they seem to think Tyler and his mother share. View more on Amazon
SubGenres:
Representation:
Sapphic, LGBTQ+ Author, Mental Health
Age Range:
Tropes:
Found Footage, Isolation/No Way Out, Survival, Human Experimentation, Slow Burn, Cults, Creature Feature, Found Family, Psychopaths, Obsession
Romance Level:
Romance Ending Warning:
Romantic or Love Story, HEA (Happily Ever After) Not Guaranteed
Content Warnings:
Sexual assault, physical abuse, emotional abuse, psychological abuse, gore, explicit violence, torture, stalking, vomit, implied ingestion of urine for survival purposes, implied cannibalism, mild dysphoria, discussions of homophobia, discussions of conversion therapy, starvation, eye trauma, body horror