The Fixer, The Maker, The Drag Entertainer: A Queer Romance by Kyle Steenblik

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The Fixer, The Maker, The Drag Entertainer: A Queer Romance
by Kyle Steenblik
Cover Art by Rose Hannel
Paperback | ISBN: 9798995363804

Love is messy. Magic is worse. And New Brunswick, New Jersey has never been ready for either.

Mark Williams has built his life around fixing things. Broken printers. Family problems. His widowed mother’s struggling apple orchard. If something falls apart, Mark steps in quietly and holds it together, usually at the expense of himself. What he cannot seem to fix, however, is the impossible truth sitting at the center of his heart: he is in love with two people.

There is Elijah Cohen, his brilliant best friend and magnetic drag performer whose humor hides years of unspoken longing. And there is Viktoriya Soroka, a fiercely talented Ukrainian baker and designer trying to build a future far from the life she left behind. Mark cares deeply for both of them, but years of people-pleasing have taught him to avoid difficult truths rather than risk hurting anyone.

Then he accidentally releases Eros from a bronze lamp.

Ancient, theatrical, asexual, and entirely incapable of minding their own business, Eros cannot grant wishes, but they can interfere spectacularly. Fascinated by Mark’s relentless self-sacrifice and emotional obliviousness, Eros decides his life deserves a better ending and appoints themself director of the unfolding romantic chaos. Through carefully timed coincidences, meddling commentary, and emotionally catastrophic nudges, Eros attempts to push Mark toward happiness before he destroys his relationships entirely.

But love proves far more complicated than mythology.

As miscommunications pile up, friendships strain under pressure, and a predatory developer threatens the family orchard, Mark is forced to confront the reality that no “easy” choice exists. To protect both his home and the people he loves, he must finally stop editing himself into smaller shapes and begin building a future large enough to hold honesty, vulnerability, and ethical non-monogamy.

Warm, witty, emotionally intelligent, and quietly magical, The Fixer, The Maker, The Drag Entertainer blends queer romance, found family, drag artistry, mythology, and cozy contemporary fantasy into a deeply original romantic comedy. With dual narration balancing Mark’s grounded realism against Eros’s dramatic immortal perspective, Kyle Steenblik delivers a heartfelt story about love that refuses to fit neatly inside conventional boundaries.