David Miles and Richter Layover are young lovers from West Hollywood who move to Snowden to open a liberal and fun bakery called Cupcakes. What follows is a string of extraordinary men who enter their lives and change their matrimony and the bakery forever. Realtor Anthony Jarr, handsome and alluring, who lives above Cupcakes and considers himself an exceptional lover. When he meets Ryan Glayson, a professional cellist with a relentless urge for sweets, Jarr falls in love for the first time, turning his life into a topsy-turvy spin of surprising romance and selflessness. The magnetic and strange Stefan Pavlov is one of Cupcakes' regulars. Although he comes across as being sweet and charming, he has secrets that are quite damaging, which are exposed during a heated summer along the lake. Erich Misslow, a part-time employee at Cupcakes, becomes enamored with Pavlov, who is almost three times his age. Erich has always enjoyed the company of older men, but does Pavlov have too much peculiar baggage to share? Cupcakes also draws in Ken Eclipse, a charming underwear model with a taste for sweet men and sultry sex. Eclipse searches for Mr. Right like a slice of cinnamon cake for his appetite and personal needs. Can he find the man of his dreams at Cupcakes, or will he forever be single, enjoying the bakery's treats alone? These employees, friends, and lovers combine together with their individual recipes of bliss and loss, and the little bakery called Cupcakes comes to life as the sugary flavor of a gay neighborhood along the lake bursts into life.

Cupcakes

Stefan Pavlov never showed for his appointment with Jarr at the estate. Jarr waited for an hour for the man to arrive, and after a number of calls to Pavlov’s cell phone, leaving messages for the possible buyer, Jarr became irritated and left the property, no longer willing to stay another minute.  20: The Boy’s Body


It was all over the news. The boy’s naked body was discovered behind Cupcakes in the woods. It was mutilated with an abundance of lacerations, bloody and bruised. All ten of the boy’s fingers were found next to his body. His eyes were placed between his legs and beneath his scrotum. The tip of his dick was cut off and placed over his navel. The story on Channel 11 was brutal and nothing that Jarr or others in Snowden expected. News reporter Can Marco called it, “…haunting and unbelievable. Devastating. Nothing like this has ever happened in Snowden’s recent history.”


Chapter 14