The Range Rules is a daring, defiant, and darkly wondrous exploration of transgressive queer pornography, prison culture, twelve-step recovery, and a search for redemption, connection, and compassion in spite of the invisible laws that govern our lives.

When Ryan and Shawn Sullivan’s socially ambitious father enrolls them in the prestigious Novato Towne School for Boys, the brothers unwittingly uncover the strange legacy of Charles Steven Kaye, a student who, expelled two decades prior for “lewd and disgusting acts,” became the notorious and universally reviled queer pornographer John Dark. Obsessed with the enigmatic figure of Dark, Shawn rejects the stifling expectations of his upper-class upbringing, leaving his affluent family home and disappearing into the underground queer scene in California. Ryan follows his older brother into this hidden world, seeking to capture Shawn’s life on film and make sense of his unravelling.

The story is set against the backdrop of a parole house, to which Ryan was released after three years in jail.

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Darren Greer is the author of five award-winning, critically acclaimed novels. Still Life with June won the 2004 ReLit Award, and was a Now Magazine’s Top 10 pick for 2005. Just Beneath My Skin won the Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award in 2015 and his novel Advocate won the Dartmouth Book Award. His short fiction, poetry, and journalism have appeared in journals internationally. He is also an accomplished singer‑songwriter and visual artist. He is originally from Nova Scotia but now lives in Toronto.

About the Author

Bryen Dunn is a freelance journalist based in Toronto with a focus on tourism, lifestyle, entertainment and community issues. He has written several travel articles and has an extensive portfolio of celebrity interviews with musicians, actors and other public personalities. He’s willing to take on any assignments of interest, attend parties with free booze, listen to rants, and travel the world in search of the great unknown. He’s eager to discover the new, remember the past, and look into the future.