Fiction critic Micah Berk makes a point to spend as much time as possible with neighbor and pianist Tuck Martini. During twenty days of a particularly hot August on the shores of Lake Erie, the two men fall head over heels in love.<br><br>A year later and life has unexpectedly changed for Micah. He meets and falls hard for Carl Bascoe, an irresistible and dark-haired carpenter. Carl is witty, romantic, and the sweetest guy along the lake.<br><br>What happens when events from Micah’s past mix with those in his present? What will Micah do when various ties between his twenty days with Tuck and his current days with Carl begin to unravel? Will Micah finally experience the true meaning of endless love?

20 Days of Tuck

The arrangement was simple according to Miss Kitty: the piano could stay for two days, which was plenty of time for Tuck to find it a new home. I knew he was sad about that, storing his baby elsewhere, but come on…the house was a Tudor, not a Northern estate. There was a piano bar that was interested in renting the baby from him, which he was thinking about doing. Bar 88—it was called that because there were eighty-eight keys on a piano—was on Sand Street in downtown Erie, next to the lake. Tuck worked there three nights out of the week, killing the keys and making tips. The other two nights of his work week were spent at various solo gigs and the Mastery Orchestra of Western Pennsylvania.


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