When seventeen-year-old Mark Potts fell from a balcony, he lost both the use of his legs and any faith in heroes. Now twenty-nine, he’s long-since come to terms with his injury. His job provides more opportunities for eye-rolling than for riding to anybody’s rescue, but with two kids to bring up, he barely has time for his husband, much less for heroics. Besides, Starr Bradford is a policeman -- how many heroes does one family need?<br><br>Mark and Starr love each other madly, but stress management is a load-bearing pillar of their happiness. When Mark’s coping skills fail him at exactly the wrong moment, he’s left hanging by a thread of words he should’ve kept in his mouth. He has the power to repair their relationship, but when Starr’s workday suddenly goes south, will he get to wield it? Keeping it together long enough to find out is a job worthy of any superhero!

You Had Me at Hero

Mark knew it was excessively Donna Reed of him, and he would have bristled mightily had Starr expressed expectations around it, but the challenge of a perfectly-timed dinner appealed to his practical, problem-solving nature, and he strove to have dinner ready to serve at 7:30 without fail. Starr was almost always home within a ten-minute window of this go-time, unless he got stuck on a call or at the hospital or the jail, in which case Mark made him a little plate, put some foil over it, and called the boys to the table.


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