After his boyfriend Jonah Wright defeats the alien queen attacking their hometown, Sean Cross thinks everything is solved and things will go back to normal. But normal no longer exists. Jonah and his other friends look and act too good to be true.<br><br>Sean's suspicions grow after his search for a boy who stayed in Jonah's house, Ryan Godfrey, turns up nothing. It’s as if Ryan no longer exists. Can Sean save his boyfriend, or will he lose Jonah forever? And perhaps the most important question is -- did the alien queen really die?

It Never Left

“Jonah.” Sean tried to sound calm and took Jonah’s upper arm. “I need you to…uh…help me with these physics problems.”


Jonah’s head whirled toward him. “Sean?” He looked completely perplexed, but Sean didn’t give him a chance to say more.


“Come on.” He practically wrenched Jonah away from Jeremy and dragged him toward the door, not bothering about the quizzical looks coming from Jeremy.


Sean pulled up his car exactly in front of the gate of Jonah’s house. He leaned on the steering wheel, staring wordlessly as Jonah clicked open the safety belt and unlocked the car door. The boy turned to him.


“Really. You don’t need to do this. I can always take the bus.” Jonah’s voice was still as cheery as before. He let out a geeky guffaw. “Nothing will happen to me, don’t you think?”


Chapter 3