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

He hesitated, unsure if he should continue. He lifted his eyes to meet James’ open, unguarded gaze and his resolve melted. There wasn’t any reason to be worried about his reaction. “I never thought someone else could complete me the way my brother did. You can’t replace Brian, but you enhance me in a different way.” Matt’s mind whirled. He loved the man before him, more than he’d loved any other stranger before. The fears he’d harbored most of his life, of finding someone to love, and who could love him, like he did his brother and Brian him were now irrelevant. He had that love, and so much more. He could love Brian, they could be in each other’s everyday lives, but he could have this, too, which was only his. “Can you take Brian and me as a package?” He held his breath for the longest time, alarmed at his apprehension over the answer.


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