Ryan Halloran is attracted to Boon Andrews the moment he sees him on the window cleaners’ gondola outside his high rise office. But horror sweeps through Ryan when a gondola cable snaps, and his call to 911 saves the lives of Boon and his co-worker. Although the near-fatal accident brings these two men together, never could two men be further apart in lifestyle and social status. Boon, a tattooed high school drop-out, wears earrings and dresses in frayed cutoffs and Doc Martens boots, and he cleans pools and windows for a living. Ryan, however, holds a master’s degree from the most famous film school in southern California and, as the elegant, cultured, and self-controlled vice president of a motion picture studio, he dresses in Versace suits and Bruno Magli shoes. Despite their differences, Ryan not only responds to Boon’s carefree spirit and relaxed manner, he lusts for him. And Boon discovers his craving for nude sex play with this man turns out not to be based on gratitude that Ryan saved his life, but out of love. As Ryan wrestles with work problems that could mean the loss of the film studio, he also falls deeply in love with the one-of-a-kind Boon. But when they start appearing in public together, and a former lover makes an appearance, the differences in their social status may well destroy their future.

Hangin' with My Window Man

While he ate, he switched on his plasma screen TV and watched news that was filled with photos of the rescue. Shot from the ground up, Boon and Harold resembled little people as they clung to the safe end of the gondola. There were glimpses of Bear in his red helmet and Dane in his yellow one as they reached through the broken window, and later shots of Harold and Boon being loaded into the ambulance. The videos were interrupted when Bear and Dane casually blocked the cameras’ views, as if unaware they had.


Thankfully, Ryan’s name wasn’t mentioned. Missing out on exposure for DreamMagic might not make Buck happy, but Ryan was relieved. If a Tom Cruise or a Brad Pitt received publicity for a rescue, that was great. They were already in the public eye. Ryan, on the other hand, was a quiet man and it would have made him enormously uncomfortable.


Chapter 5