Fox McHardy leads a charmed life. Puget Sound penthouse, gorgeous boyfriend, jet-setting job -- everything he’s ever wanted, he’s gotten, including the heck out of the small Iowa town he grew up in. Even the trip he takes to Miami to surprise his boyfriend Jeremy is something of a long-shot wish fulfilled. Until he arrives in South Florida. Once things start to unravel, they do so with alarming speed, and he finds himself riding shotgun in a rented convertible with his new sworn enemy faster than he can say, “I want my old life back.” During an unscheduled stop on the cross-country road trip From Hell, Fox passes up a perfectly good opportunity to keep his mouth shut and finds himself planning the town’s first legal gay wedding -- his own, to a man he’s pretty sure he should hate. But someone needs to set a positive example for the queer and questioning youth in this corner of Middle America and, after creatively arranging certain of the facts of his life more attractively, he is proud to offer himself up as a role model. Small Town, USA, steps up; the grooms are widely celebrated, and generous offers of food, flowers, and picture-perfect venues pour in. The only real challenge will be keeping the lies straight and the truth under wraps until they can get out of town.

Crazy Like Fox

She laughed through the tears and swiped at her cheek again with the back of her hand. “How did you know?”


“I didn’t,” I admitted. “But I did the math and took a stab. I can’t really picture you with Hunter. You should have told me.”


She laughed again. “Should I have? And pray tell, Fox, how? You were gone. Vanished into thin air, the way people talked about it. I waited for you to come home, just like Berger did, but it never happened. No call, no forwarding address, no nothing. By the time we were all on Facebook and all that shit he was a grown man. At that point I didn’t care if you ever knew. Why should I share him with you now that he’s grown into such a great kid? You weren’t around for any of the hard stuff, why should you get the good stuff? I sure wasn’t going to tell you before you left.”


“No. The whole town assumes he’s Hunter’s, and Hunter hasn’t said anything. People see what they wanna see, so what do I care?”


Chapter 58