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

Sean nodded nervously. “I am. May I see him, please?” He was scared hearing his own pleading tone. Don’t let the worst thing have happened to Jonah. But before he knew it, Jonah’s mother charged forward and beat at Sean’s chest.


“Where is Jonah?” she screamed. “Where did you take my boy? Huh? Huh? Bring him back here, or I’ll call the cops!”


Amidst the stinging pain on his chest, Sean processed the new information Mrs. Wilder had unwittingly told him. Jonah was missing? What garbage was she talking? Sean saw himself how that twat Ryan dragged Jonah inside the house. But his mother thought he was missing. Or did Jonah’s own mother have bad intentions toward him? Surely that was impossible.


“Please—ouch! I know nothing about where Jonah is now. What’s going on?”


“That boy, Ryan, he said he’d not seen Jonah anywhere,” said Jonah’s mother in between her sobs.


Sean was about to ask something when he heard another voice—a man’s.


Chapter 8