Jefferson Sebring wined and dined, charmed and cajoled, and lured and seduced handsome men into his bed. However, he never wanted to keep one longer than a few dates or a few months. He had his work with the CIA and his duties to his family, and with those and his men, he was content. That was, until Ludovic Rivenhall.<br><br>First Ludo squired Jefferson’s sister Portia around town, then fell into Jefferson's bed as so many others had. But Ludo wanted more than a same time next year type of relationship; he wanted to stay in Jefferson’s life, and Jefferson found he was willing to allow it as long as they both still wanted it.<br><br>Years later, they both still wanted each other -- but men didn't marry men. Or did they, in this new world they had survived to see?

Ace-High Royal Flush

She shook her head. “I think young Rivenhall is trying to get your attention. The poor boy is too polite to tell Ada she’s stuffed full of wild blueberry muffins.”


“Dance me over to your father. I believe he needs rescuing from Algernon Mann.”


Father excused himself from Mr. Mann and began dancing with Mother, leaving me with Mr. Mann.


Before I could escape, he grabbed my arm and demanded, “What’s Kennedy doing, trying to put a man in space?”


Just a month earlier, Scott Carpenter had orbited the planet three times in the Aurora space capsule, and that was a year after the president had announced the goal of putting a man on the moon within the decade. Mr. Mann glared at me as if I, personally, had convinced the president that we needed to get into the space race.


“If the good Lord had wanted us to go to the moon—”


Chapter 13