The line between friendship and love can sometimes become blurred. Sal, Major, and Abby have a complex relationship. When Major and Abby call off their engagement and Major announces he’s leaving the country, Sal is devastated and wonders if he’s to blame.<br><br>Five years later, Major returns in time to find Sal obsessed with tracking down a stranger he flirted with at a stoplight. Wanting nothing more than for his friend to find true love, Major agrees to help in the search. The two enlist Abby, as well.<br><br>Somewhere along the line, the trio becomes a quartet, old feelings resurface, old wounds are healed, and everyone learns where love really is.

Red Light, Green Eyes, True Blue

I grabbed her into our vortex, on the move once more. Abby squealed with laughter as we rolled all over one another and the grass.


Ginger joined in, leaping, pouncing, and barking. Around and around we all went, until she got distracted by a butterfly and Abby stopped giggling.


“How’d you get so smart?” I found my way back between her and Major once we settled.


“I still don’t get why you guys…” I looked left, and then right. Neither one of them needed words to tell me to shut up. “Okay. Okay. What do you two want, then…as far as a romantic partner is concerned?” I just knew they’d describe one another.


“I like a dork,” Abby said without hesitation. “A hot guy, not necessarily underwear model hot, but my idea of hot. Macho and manly…no manscaping or designer labels, he can cut down a tree, restore an old car, build a deck—which I’m pretty sure I could do myself if I put my mind to it—and screw in a lightbulb.”


Chapter 21