Twenty-six and gay, Shane Polk isn’t having a good year. After blowing out his ankle during an Everglade Eagles football game, he does eight months of rehab in Pittsburgh. Now that rehabilitation is over, Shane returns home to Florida and comes to terms with the fact that he has to get back in the game, which isn’t easy for him.<br><br>Summertime along the Gulf Coast for Shane has been better. Not only does he have the hassles of starting a new job with the Eagles, he grows jealous of his best friend, Frankie, who is falling in love with Mr. Right in the Caribbean.<br><br>Unfortunately, Shane can’t seem to get a grip on his own love life. Sexy football players come and go, none of whom are worth a long-term relationship. Then he meets Tommy Rawe, a young man with a charming smile. Is Tommy someone special who just might be able to change Shane’s topsy-turvy world for the better?

Back in the Game

He had three sisters: Janika, Jantura, and Jankara. He lived in a bright yellow bungalow at 239 Hurricane Drive, in Tarpon Cover, some ten miles north of Turtle Bay Reef. Both of his parents had died of heart attacks seven years ago, during a car accident in Atlanta, Georgia, while visiting their oldest daughter, Janika. Although he enjoyed pets, mostly cats, he didn’t own one or adopt. He was a college graduate of Miami University with a degree in political science. He claimed that if a football career ever failed him, he could run for office in Tarpon Cover. At Miami University, he minored in journalism and wrote news articles. He had a beautiful face for any camera, although he had never really seen himself working at or on WTBA News, Channel Eleven.


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