College football player Brett is devastated when he learns Gavin, the man he’s waited for in Heaven, is married and intends to spend his afterlife with his wife, who predeceased him.<br><br>Lost, Brett leans heavily on his friends, his dads Colton and Dennis, as well as his work as a vet tech. Brett is assigned the rehabilitation of Willow, a tall sorrel horse, who died in a lightning strike. However, where Willow goes, so does Jake Rushton, the cowboy who rides him.<br><br>Can Jake adjust to life in Heaven and, for the first time, allow someone close enough to love and care for him? Despite past hurts, can Brett be all Jake needs him to be?

Brett's New Game Plan

“Brett, please listen to me.” The Archangel spoke softly and Brett felt compelled to hear. “Gavin loves Susan. They deserve their afterlife together.”


“What about my afterlife? I’ve waited for Gavin, haven’t had sex with anyone else, and he…he…” Suddenly Brett felt great anger toward the man he’d loved, the man who couldn’t wait for him, who had jumped into bed with…with a woman before Brett’s body was even cold in the ground. Turning to see Gabriel’s calm face, Brett’s anger spilled out toward the archangel. “You knew! All along, you knew.”


“You saw me pining for Gavin, keeping myself just for him, and you said nothing!” Brett wanted to strike out at Gabriel for deceiving him all this time, but couldn’t bring himself to raise his arms.


“I know you’re angry,” Gabriel continued in his annoyingly calm tone.


“I’m fucking livid is what I am!” Brett stamped his feet and picked up a chair to throw it, but again couldn’t find the strength.


Chapter 5