“We can't pretend that anything we do right now is simple, easy or without strings. You and me, we're made of string." "Then let’s get tied up," Jacob mumbled against his throat. The boldest thing that Hawthorne Walker has ever done is kiss the star quarterback, his best friend Jacob, under the bleachers during his senior year of high school. A kiss that ended in tragedy. Fifteen years later, he works at a homeless teen outreach center in the small town where he grew up. It’s quiet and uneventful, until the man who stars in all his fantasies returns. Jacob Shaw is a man adrift. Divorced, working a job he hates, his life can’t get any shittier, until his son runs away. During the search for his son, Jacob is led back to the one place he never wanted to see again—the town he grew up in. Worse, the one man who can help him is none other than the man who broke his heart in high school. Jacob never got over the way Hawthorne had made him feel fifteen years ago but he’ll have to learn how to work with the man who still makes his heart thump if he’s going to find his son. This small town, best friends to lovers, second chance gay romance is 53k words, can be read as a standalone and features a HEA.If crazy big family moments and steamy gay sex scenes aren’t your thing, this may not be the book for you.
