Easy-going Sebastien divides his time between working as a cleaning technician, caring for his widowed father, and running off to the park for soccer practice. Coasting through his existence, he's convinced he doesn't have much going for him.<br><br>That isn’t what his best friend Jack thinks. Quick-witted and passionate, Jack is fascinated by art and history, but the greatest book or painting could never compare to how he feels when he's alone with Sebastien.<br><br>In the last five years, Seb and Jack have shared everything, sometimes even a bed. Yet though their chemistry is smoking hot, Sebastien keeps Jack at a safe distance. But when the two move in together to lower their living expenses, that distance gets smaller and smaller, until Sebastien and Jack are standing so close, they can't see what's right in front of their eyes ... the love of their life.

Auguries of Summer

He let out a long breath. “I was folding the goddamn Fall cardigans today—can you believe the head store is already sending me the Fall collection and we’re in July?—and anyway, I was just standing there, folding those sweaters, and then that song came on, that song you really like. That Blue Rodeo cowboy song—”


Jack squinted. “Whatever. Anyway, I thought about you…and my heart jumped.” He glared at me. “Can you fucking believe that shit? My heart jumped. Do you know what that means?”


“I’ll kill you in your sleep before I fall in love with you again.”


“What do you mean?” I asked, innocently enough. But then he’d really had said those words to me the other day. I hadn’t imagined it.


“Look, Seb, I’m a little vulnerable, okay? I’m getting over a nasty, ugly, break-up, and I’m not feeling my own usual super bitch self, all right?” Jack pointed a finger at me. “And you, you better be good to me.”


Chapter 16