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

My mother and Frankie were also at the Thanksgiving dinner. Mother and Miss Kitty were becoming the best of friends: grocery shopping and antiquing together, attending local bingo parlors, getting their hair done every other Saturday morning at place called Ruthie’s Gossip Palace, and other feminine joys that the two women relished.


A new tenant lived in the Tudor, living in Tuck’s old room. Her name was Estelle Cartwright. She was beautiful with long blonde hair, blue eyes, and a thin build. Carl said she could have passed as Taylor Swift’s sister, but I didn’t agree with him. Estelle was thicker around the hips and didn’t have Taylor’s adorable pug nose. She was twenty-six, an elementary teacher at Proctor Elementary on Sher Street in downtown Erie. And she was originally from Pittsburgh, parentless, a sweetheart, and what Miss Kitty referred to as her adopted daughter, happy to care for her as Miss Kitty had also cared for me.


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