Blog Tour & Cover Crush: Right Beside You by Tucker Shaw

Crushed on by Christy Jane, on April 28, 2025, in Blog Tour, Cover Crush, New Releases / 0 Comments

Blog Tour & Cover Crush: Right Beside You by Tucker Shaw

We need to talk about this cover. I mean, really talk about it. Because Right Beside You by Tucker Shaw is giving us all the feelings before we even crack the spine.

At first glance, you can already feel the intimacy. The way one boy cradles the other’s face? Tender. Protective. Devastating in the best way. There’s a softness in their posture, a quiet safety in their closeness. It’s the kind of pose that says, You’re safe here. You’re seen. You’re loved.

That cityscape blur in the background gives us strong New York energy, grounded in nostalgia and a little heartbreak. You know how sometimes a cover tells you exactly what kind of emotional journey you’re about to go on? This is that cover. It’s stunning. It’s tender. And it’s sitting at the top of my must-read, must-cry list.

Have you added Right Beside You to your TBR yet? Because it’s out tomorrow.

Right Beside You

by Tucker Shaw
on April 29th, 2025
Genres: Speculative Fiction
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In this fresh, speculative blend of queer romance and coming-of-age, Eddie meets Theo in present-day New York and Francis in a New York of the past... torn between eras and his heart, he must make a decision that will change his life forever.

High school has just ended and Eddie is at a loss for what's next. He had a falling out with his best friend, and he never really related to the rest of his peers in the sleepy Colorado town he calls home. The future is bleak.

Until his ancient and eccentric great aunt Cookie asks him to care for her in New York City as she recuperates from an illness. Eddie leaps at the opportunity. Soon after he arrives at her tiny Greenwich Village apartment, homebound Cookie asks Eddie to use her vintage polaroid camera to snap pictures of her favorite places she can no longer visit. But something's unusual about this camera. When he takes a photo, he's launched back in time to an entirely different New York of the early 20th century.

As Eddie explores the underground queer life of the Roaring 20, he discovers new undercurrents of his own identity. Not to mention a dangerously handsome boy in scuffed boots and tattered stovepipe trousers who keeps popping up in his visions of the past.

But when Eddie begins to develop a crush on the mercurial Francis, a cute baker named Theo enters the picture—and he's in the present. Caught between timelines and feelings, Eddie must make a decision about what he's willing to his romantic fantasies of the past or a reality that might just be what he's wanted all along.