Dink: Diary of a Reluctant Target

Dink Rosser is the kind of university student who can turn a normal day into a full-blown incident without even trying.He is loud, messy, funny, and far more vulnerable than he wants anyone to know. Life at Tennyson Brown Hall is already chaotic enough with hall drama, mixed signals, a twin brother who always seems one step ahead, and an unexpected relationship that begins to shift the way Dink sees himself and the people around him.Then things start getting weird.Photos appear that should not exist. Notes turn up where no one should have been. Private moments stop feeling private. What starts as something unsettling quickly becomes impossible to laugh off, and Dink finds himself at the centre of something far more personal, invasive, and dangerous than simple student gossip.As suspicion spreads and trust starts to crack, Dink has to figure out who is watching him, who he can rely on, and what to do when the version of himself he shows the world is no longer enough to keep him safe. Along the way, he is forced to confront a love interest he never expected and feelings he never saw coming.Set in Auckland, Dink: Diary of a Reluctant Target is a queer campus suspense novel packed with sharp humour, messy friendship, romantic tension, and a creeping sense that something is very wrong. At its heart, it is a story about identity, vulnerability, desire, and what happens when being seen turns into being targeted.