Suzanne Nelson was raised just outside of San Francisco. A Stanford grad and varsity runner, she heads to New York City for law school. She is gay, but has come out to no one. In New York she meets Kerry Neally, a New Yorker and fellow student. Who is straight. First in a study group and then as a pair, they find themselves become attached to one another. And have to work out that Kerry thinks she's straight. Eileen is Kerry's mother. She is a widow, and meeting Suzanne helps her leave the shell into which she placed herself after her husband died. And she comes to the attention of two men. One a widower. The other divorced. And love intevenes for her choice. With Suzanne settled into her New York life, she turns her back on her parents, who turned their backs on Suzanne's aunt Mary, a gay woman disowned by her parents and brother decades before. She, too, lives in New York and she and Eileen attempt to get Suzanne's parents to understand their daughter. Kate Nelson comes to New York to reason with her daughter. As eventually does William, her father. The story is about how the members of what becomes a large New York family deal with themselves, each other, and love.

The Neallys

His cock was again fully extended. She beckoned him with her finger and after some stumbling—he was well out of practice—he had the condom on and was atop her and lowering himself and letting her guide him into her. He slowly entered and it was the most physically enjoyable moment he had experienced in many years. Perhaps ever.


The two found a rhythm and were soon grunting like the newly-emancipated teens they had been before that first kiss months before in Grand Central, when Eileen had gone for her train.


For Eileen, there was no doubt. This was the most pleasing experience she had ever had. This man filled her as he brought her to a mind-numbing orgasm, with him soon following as he burst inside of her and then collapsed atop her for a few seconds before rolling off of her and onto his right side.


Chapter 33