Twin brothers Brian and Matt Walker went to live with their mother’s brother after the death of their parents at an early age. Brian is still wracked with the guilt he carries around from a young age and sees the world through a distorted lens of self-loathing. When he meets a sexy and interested college-aged guy at the beginning of his senior year of high school, he may have finally found someone who can help him escape his mundane existence.<br><br>Matt has his life all planned out -- he longs for a solid career in journalism after graduating college. But his tenuous hold on family life threatens his dreams of independence, as does the attentions of a closeted new transfer to their school.<br><br>Can Matt pull away enough from his family to come into his own? And will Brian finally get to grips with his past and allow his twin to chase his own happiness?

Twice the Hands to Hold

Even though there was so much he wanted to say, Jake didn’t know how to begin the conversation. “Brian, I love you,” he said, the most important thing he needed to say coming out.


His nephew didn’t acknowledge him, just stared at nothing. Jake placed a soft palm on the duvet covering Brian’s leg and increased the pressure into a small embrace. The reassuring pressure must have worked as the rigidness left his nephew’s body.


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