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

So Jim stopped talking, except when absolutely necessary, putting his mouth to better use by kissing Alan as they made their way to the bedroom, then exploring every inch of his body once he’d stripped him naked—with Alan reciprocating enthusiastically.


With needs, physical and emotional, sated for the time being, they lay wrapped in each other’s arms, savoring the results of their first time making love.


“Will you regret this in the morning?” Jim asked. “That we moved faster than we’d planned?”


Alan shook his head, grinning. “Since I instigated it, I sodon’t think so. In fact, if it wasn’t close to midnight, I’d suggest we go for round two, just to be certain this wasn’t an anomaly.”


Jim dropped a kiss on his lips. “Tomorrow night. After we go to that movie we want to see.”


“Tomorrow afternoon, before the movie?”


Chapter 49