When the first note shows up at the restaurant where he works -- when he isn't designing costumes for a local theater -- Jim Foster laughs it off. When the notes keep coming, he doesn't find the fact that he might have a secret admirer quite so amusing. Alan North, a lonely, bookish customer at the restaurant, is too shy to even think of talking to Jim -- as much as he wants to. Then the killings begin. Two of Jim's friends are murdered in what appear to be muggings. However, the detective in charge of the cases believes they're more than that, and that Jim is either the killer ... or being stalked by one. When Jim and Alan finally connect, can they help find and stop the stalker, or will Alan end up dead before their budding relationship can become more than friendship?

His Secret Admirer

Jim was afraid they wouldn’t allow him to visit Alan. He found out differently when the nurse at the hospital’s front desk readily gave him Alan’s room number, telling him Alan was in a semi-private room.


When he got to the third floor, he asked a nurse where 311 was. She pointed him in the right direction and moments later he was standing beside Alan’s bed.


“You don’t look half as bad as I expected,” Jim said quietly, in deference to the man in the other bed, who seemed to be sleeping.


“I’ve got a hard head,” Alan replied with a small grin. “They’re keeping me overnight because I’ve got a mild concussion. I guess they’re not supposed to set me free until they know I’m going to be okay on my own.”


“Here,” Jim said, handing Alan his glasses.


“They survived. Thank you!” He put them on. “Now, I can see.”


Jim chuckled. “Always a good thing. You’ll take tomorrow off work, I hope.”


Chapter 31