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Banyak & Fecks (The Clearwater Mysteries) Kindle Edition
Banyak & Fecks is a prequel to The Clearwater Mystery series of romantic gay novels.
However, it is not a mystery. It is a story of how a Ukrainian refugee and the son of an Irish immigrant come to meet in the East End of London in 1884. It is a story about friendship.
1881. Andrej’s family are dead or missing, and his village in Ukraine decimated. Aged thirteen, he walks west to find a boat to take him to London. Three years later, homeless, starving and having resorted to prostitution, he finds safe passage and arrives in London alone but determined.
1884. Silas’ mother has died, leaving him to fend for his twin sisters in the hellish world of the Westerpool slums. Silas only knows the work of a thief and trickster and at sixteen, heads to London to make his money. What he finds is poverty, starvation and the Greychurch workhouse. About to give up, he encounters a giant Ukrainian, proud, handsome, and renting his body in the alleys of the East End.
Silas (Banyak) and Andrej (Fecks) make an unlikely pair, but their friendship is all they need to survive life in London’s notorious East End. When disaster robs them of their home, they have no choice but to live rough and work the streets. Lodging houses, rope houses, arrest, violence and prostitution, they face it together.
But when the Ripper starts slaughtering Greychurch rent boys, Banyak and Fecks have only their friendship to ensure their survival.
"A colourful and enchanting tale. Beautifully written. Marsh does an excellent job of evoking the look and feel of a different age."
Olivier Bosman author of the DS Billings Victorian Mysteries
‘Banyak & Fecks’ ends the day before the first Clearwater Mystery, ‘Deviant Desire’ begins. It is a story of friendship and platonic love set in Greychurch, the imaginary Whitechapel of the Clearwater world. Extensively researched, readers are taken from the Russian steppe and the Wirral slums to the squalor of the East End in the late 1880s.
[Genre: Historical Bromance]
[‘The Clearwater Mysteries.’ Historical MM Romance, mystery and adventure.]
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateNovember 27, 2020
- File size3.0 MB
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- ASIN : B08P8HT9DY
- Accessibility : Learn more
- Publication date : November 27, 2020
- Language : English
- File size : 3.0 MB
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Print length : 254 pages
- Page Flip : Enabled
- Best Sellers Rank: #197,024 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #60 in LGBTQ+ Historical Fiction (Books)
- #2,665 in Gay Fiction
- #8,418 in Historical Fiction (Kindle Store)
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About the author

Jackson Marsh is an award-winning author, composer and lyricist. His novels mix bromance, history and facts with thrilling plots, and mainly revolve around gay characters. Originally from the UK, he now lives in Greece.
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- Reviewed in the United States on November 25, 2024Enjoy the journey this incredible series will take you on. Jackson Marsh is brilliant. He's such a talented and incredible story teller. He transports you to a time and place that's difficult to imagine and yet because of his descriptions, you feel as though you are there. You get to know the characters intimately and grow to love the two main characters.
These stories have so much depth. You'll find it's nearly impossible to put them down until you've finished reading them. I can't wait to continue the story.
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- Mrs. E. J. CurtisReviewed in the United Kingdom on April 5, 2021
5.0 out of 5 stars Interesting Series
Very enjoyable series, well written with likeable characters. Some very interesting historical facts as well. Can't wait for more.