Daniel Greene is an artist with an exhibition coming up which he should be excited about, except he isn’t. He can’t sleep, he has no enthusiasm for social activities, and his constant tears and dark thoughts alarm him. When he’s finally diagnosed with depression, he starts the slow process of resisting the dark lure.<br><br>One day Oliver Campbell arrives at Daniel’s gate to deliver art supplies. He’s tall and muscular, and for the first time in a long while, Daniel feels there might be light at the end of the tunnel.<br><br>Yet Oliver has a secret. He has a son, five-year-old Cameron. When he reveals this to Daniel the morning after their first date, Daniel has the courage to reveal his own secret battle with depression. Will these two men be able to accept each other’s secrets and go forward together?

The Darkest Hour

Unfortunately, the crying continued. And worse, I was waking up in the night, unable to fall back asleep. With sleep eluding me, I’d get up and check my emails, or go out to the studio and paint for a while, or tidy up. While I occasionally cried myself to sleep, the tears never came during those periods of wakefulness, in the dead of night. Once, I woke up with the crusted evidence of tears in my eyelashes. I know I hadn’t been crying before falling asleep, which could only mean I wasn’t even safe from this demon in my dreams.


I also became aware I was becoming forgetful. I’d walk into a room and forget what I’d gone in there for, or I’d be in the middle of a sentence and forget what I wanted to say.


“I must be going senile,” I’d say with a nervous laugh as I struggled frantically to regain my train of thought.


Chapter 3