Arden McKenna | Contemporary MM Romance Author
Arden McKenna writes warm contemporary MM romance about found family, second chances, complicated hearts, and hopeful endings. Join the reader list for updates on the Wrenwood books.
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Hard Lasted,
Book One:Teddy Mercer knows how to repair almost anything except the life he has quietly outgrown. When Eoin arrives in Wrenwood carrying grief, uncertainty, and a camera’s careful eye, Teddy’s familiar world begins to feel less like a hiding place and more like a choice. Between cobbler-shop routines, village interruptions, old family ache, and the slow work of learning to stay, Teddy and Eoin find themselves drawn toward a future neither of them quite knows how to ask for. But love in Wrenwood is rarely dramatic all at once. Sometimes it looks like a fixed strap, a saved seat, a hand offered at the right moment, and two men discovering that lasting things are made by showing up again and again.
Last Effects,
Book Two:When Sebastian Marlowe returns to Wrenwood after fifteen years, he expects grief, paperwork, and a few difficult rooms. Instead, he finds Lock Cottage waiting with Tilly’s food notes, Chloé’s long-distance vigilance, a village that remembers him far too loudly, and David Rowe, no longer the boy he left behind but a steady, maddeningly careful man who knows how to handle fragile things without deciding what they mean. As Bash sorts Hazel and Jack’s belongings, old questions surface: who kept him away, what was stolen by silence, and whether leaving has to mean disappearing. But with estate folders, muddy boots, dangerous tea, and a road now open between Wrenwood and Montréal, Bash and David must learn that love is not the absence of distance. It is the choice to keep speaking across it.
Last Common,
Book Three:When Wil Mercer becomes the solicitor guiding the newly formed Ashcombe Trust, he expects boundaries, minutes, and difficult questions about what Jack’s left behind. What he does not expect is River Adler, an ecologist with muddy boots, bright restraint, and a dangerous talent for making change sound like care. As River and his longtime friend Ellis assess Ashcombe’s fields, canal paths, old orchard, and uneasy village future, Wil finds himself defending a proposal he meant only to contain. But the land carries more than legal obligations: Jack’s and Hazel’s quiet history, Heath’s uncounted labor at the marina, trustees with opinions, and a town already deciding what Ashcombe should mean. To build anything lasting, Wil and River will have to learn whether promise and possibility can share the same ground.