T.J. Alton is shy and reticent, living alone with a rescue cat after his parents' death a year earlier. He rarely strays from his usual daily routine of work and home and back again.<br><br>Then he meets Devon Ryder, an outgoing, colorful, and ruggedly handsome man, with his own long list of emotional baggage. After a month of chatting online, the two men decide to meet in real life, and their first date is at a local Great Escape theme park in upstate New York.<br><br>As they discover more about each other through conversation and food, a connection is made. But will T.J.'s fears of large crowds and intimacy drive him back to isolation, away from the social circle of life, and the idea of starting a new relationship with someone special?

Love's Chances

“Fuck her,” Pete said, blowing out a frustrated sigh and waving a hand over his shoulder at our waitress. “Regardless of Four Eyes, I’ll be eating.”


“Meat. But of the other variety,” Pete said, licking his lips in a crude gesture.


“I thought you were vegetarian,” I said, slow on the uptake before I grasped what Pete really meant. He looked at Devon, blew him an air kiss. He turned to me and smirked.


I squirmed in my seat, slightly unnerved, and taken aback by Pete’s brashness.


Suddenly, my mind was yanked back into the conversation at the touch of Devon’s hand on my thigh. My gaze fell across the table, trying hard to sidestep the sexual arousal pitching inside my shorts. Shocked, I reached for the small glass of ice water already in front of me, my hands shaking around its sweaty edges.


Chapter 9