Back in college, Larry Carson played drums in a friend’s band and fell in love with the lead singer, Geoffrey Mason. But all that’s in the past. Larry’s now thirty-five, divorced, and father to a precocious thirteen-year-old daughter. One day, when Larry picks Crystal up from school, a song comes on the radio by a new rockstar climbing the charts. Larry recognizes Geoff’s voice immediately, though Crystal calls him Geo and claims he’s the hottest new singer on the scene. Just hearing him brings back a flood of memories, reopening wounds Larry thought long healed. The more he listens to Geo’s music, the more Larry falls in love with his former boyfriend all over again. Partly to prove to his daughter that he used to know Geo back in the day, and partly to reconnect with his old friend, Larry buys tickets to an upcoming concert and manages to score backstage passes. But there was a reason Larry and Geoff lost touch -- and stayed out of touch for so long. Will Geo even want to see Larry again after all this time? Or will the magic of their old familiar song bring about a harmonious duet?

Old Familiar Song

Larry had to agree. “Really? You’re going to make him live in the pantry?”


“Then there’s the basement.” A slow smile spread across Doug’s face. It was obviously the ace up his sleeve, as if the basement were a fully finished, fully furnished apartment waiting to be rented out and not a damp, moldy room with a concrete floor and stained walls where the sorority girls on the second floor strung up their underwear to dry.


Still, for a moment, Larry had to admit the thought of Geoff spending the whole summer with him was a glorious one. If they shared Larry’s bed, surely Geoff could keep his things in the basement and not technically have to livethere, right?


But Geoff made a hacking sound of disgust in the back of his throat. “Ack, no. Hell, no. I’m not staying there.”


“Why not?” Doug wheedled. “You and Larry—”


Chapter 68