As Josh Tully returns home from running errands, he stumbles across a handsome man leaving his apartment complex. Distracted by the charming new stranger, Josh spills his groceries across the front stoop. As the new neighbor helps Josh pick up his belongings, a sudden surge of electricity sparks between the two young men. When Eddie returns to Josh’s apartment with a fresh gallon of milk, a chance meeting turns into mutual attraction. But a severe case of pneumonia lands Josh in the hospital and Eddie stays at his side, and their budding friendship deepens. Eddie is not the nesting type, and he does not stay in one place for long. But as days turn to weeks, something in Josh’s laid-back persona draws Eddie to the small Minnesota town of Gordonville and through the door of Josh’s heart. Will Eddie decide to stay this time ... and for how long?

A Door to the Heart

Outside, hunkered against the hard rain, they run to the shelter of a nearby tree. Beneath the naked limbs, Eddie confesses, “I didn’t know when it would be the right time to tell you.”


Josh slides up next to him. Pecks his cheek. “I don’t mind watching Fletcher for a few days.”


A glimmer of light awakens in his eyes.


Josh asks, “What’s her name? Your sister.”


“Shelly,” he yells over the hum of engines in the lot.


“Nice name.” He thinks the comment sounds ridiculous, and that he is trying too hard to be polite.


But when Eddie holds him in his arms, longer than usual, the moment is lost on both guys. Josh feels Eddie gripping him too hard, but it feels right somehow.


Eddie reaches behind Josh’s head and pulls him into one final kiss before they head back to the apartment.


Chapter 14