After retiring from his career in construction and trying to cope with the death of his wife, Isaac York experiences an infatuation for a lifelong male friend and discovers his world fills with sunflowers and a risqué transition. Isaac moves to Lake Samoy in search of a new life, to abandon his past, and to start a fresh relationship with a famous and sexy man named Nebraska Close, whom he falls head over heals for.<br><br>Nebraska Close, a professional photographer who is drawn to summer nights and a younger man’s skin, finds pleasure for a second time in his life. Unconditionally he falls for Isaac and mixes together his lust, photography of sunflowers, and homosexual longing.<br><br>Isaac's son, Nicholas, lives at Lake Samoy and doesn't understand his father's lack of interest in his mother's fatal illness. With the help of Nebraska Close, Nicholas confronts his father’s sexuality, and Isaac learns to love his son again.

Nebraska Close

I slept on the floor at the cabin, since there wasn’t a spare room with a guest bed. There, on the two cotton blankets and an arrangement of pillows, I had nightmares of losing Lock. My father slept in his bedroom and heard my nightly outbursts of wailing and masculine screams. He came to my rescue and woke me from my troubled dreams, shaking me. Usually he talked me back to sleep, cradling me in his arms like a young boy, whispering to me, “Nothing’s going to hurt you. You’re safe here with me. There’s no harm in your world. It was just a bad dream, Nicky…something unreal. All is well now.” 


Chapter 6