David Majors should be looking forward to a long and prosperous life: after tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, he's attending college courtesy of Uncle Sam and riding the fast track to success. He's tall, fit, and good-looking, so shouldn't the world be his oyster?<br><br>But underneath his clothes -- and beneath the surface -- David is a mess of scar tissue and insecurity. Then he meets Kevin Boxer, another former Army Ranger. Their first night together, Kevin stares David's scars in the face and doesn't flinch, instead showering David with the passion and attention he craves but never imagined possible. Slowly but surely, Kevin helps David rebuild his confidence, and the two of them begin to build their life together.<br><br>But their journey is far from over, and it turns out Kevin may need David to help him heal some scars of his own.

Magic Fingers

When the subject somehow changed to my parents’ home church in Charlotte, Tom said, “You have a Goulding & Wood pipe organ, don’t you? I’ve heard good things about it.”


“Yes, we do,” Mom said. “It was installed back in the early nineties, and the members like it very much.”


“Great,” Tom said. “I’d love to come play it sometime.”


They only stopped talking when Father Cullen asked for silence so that he could give the invocation and blessing.


Later, sitting in the den with glasses of wine in hand, Mom couldn’t stop talking about the dinner. “I haven’t had such a wonderful Thanksgiving meal since I was a girl,” she said. “When I was growing up, my family had a huge reunion every Thanksgiving. Those people were so warm and friendly, it took me back to those days.”


“Yeah,” Dad said. “So much for the old wives’ tale about Episcopalians being ‘God’s frozen people’.”


Chapter 27