Three years ago, one drunken night blew Marley Moore’s world apart.
Now he’s back home for his mother’s wedding—older, sharper, hiding a life no one in his family knows about. Not the life he built in New Orleans. Not the career that made him a Michelin-star chef. And definitely not his marriage.

But the secret he’s been running from isn’t his new life.
It’s Jones.

Edward “Jones” has been everything to Sevynn Moore—best friend, anchor, partner in chaos. The man she trusts above all others. But the closer her wedding draws, the more Jones feels the ground shifting beneath his feet… and the more the truth he’s been avoiding claws its way to the surface.

What happened between him and Marley the night before Derrick’s wedding?
What happens when Sevynn finds out?
And what happens to a family when their entire foundation cracks on the same week they’re meant to celebrate love?

Tension simmers. Old wounds reopen. Unexpected desires ignite.
And the Moore–Pierce family is about to discover that love isn’t just romantic—it’s messy, layered, and sometimes impossible to neatly define.

THE BEST MAN is a sharp, heartfelt emotional storm about found family, poly identity, forbidden history, and what it really means to choose each other—again and again, even when it hurts.