For the past twenty years, Dane has taken care of his wealthy Aunt Beatrice. One rainy day, she’s killed in a car accident, and Dane is devastated. When he returns to the large, luxurious home they once shared, he falls into a depression.<br><br>Lonely, he places an advertisement on Craigslist, in part to find someone to keep the house clean and take care of maintenance, but also to keep him company, as he did Aunt Beatrice. The next morning, Ryan is at his door to claim the job. Soon Dane finds himself falling in love with the handsome handyman. But there’s more to both men than first meets the eye.<br><br>Secrets and shocks culminate in a decision no one should have to make. Especially without all the answers.

Ryan

His mother had been born many years after Beatrice, a surprise rather than an accident. When his parents had died in a small plane crash travelling in the outback of Australia, naturally he’d been devastated. With his father’s parents and his mother’s father deceased, and his mother’s mother in a home for dementia patients, Beatrice was, as she’d stated, all the family he had. 2


For several days, Dane lazed around the house. The few times he’d attempted to go outside, the sunlight had hurt his eyes, and shortly afterwards, he’d suffered a headache. While he thought this development was rather strange, he didn’t pay it much thought. He’d survived a disastrous car accident, not to mention the surgeon’s knife. Naturally, it was going to take some time to make a full recovery.


Chapter 2