While traveling in a storm, Glen Harper takes a wrong turn and crashes his car. Unhurt but cold and wet, he decides to get help. Using a distant light as a guide, Glen discovers an uninhabited cottage, where he lights a much needed fire. Glen quickly warms up but soon becomes aware of a presence in the room. Hank Waterford is the caretaker of the estate where Glen found refuge from the storm. They meet when Glen, thinking he’s alone in the cottage, jumps into Hank’s bed. Both men are strongly attracted to each other, but they have to overcome a hurdle Glen never anticipated: the spirit of Henry, the estate owner’s son, who committed suicide after his unrequited love for Hank became too much to bear. Together Glen and Hank must deal with Henry, who haunts the manor house as well as Hank’s cottage. Can they find a solution that will allow Henry’s spirit to finally come to rest? Will he accept Glen and Hank’s relationship, or will he become a malevolent presence in their lives?

The Haunted Caretaker

I awoke the next morning in a new and greater level of contentment. To have been fucked by the big man lying beside me now had been the final piece to the carnal puzzle, and I felt a not unnatural sense of fulfillment. Fucking him, that wonderful ass of his, that had been incredible, but this—thisact had been for me the deepest (so to speak), most profound kind of physical connection with Hank.


Odd, I thought, that that had been the first time—


I turned and looked at the big man, who was lying next to me. He was awake, his eyes half open. After a few seconds, evidently registering my gaze, the eyes widened.


“That first night,” I said. “Did you fuck me in my sleep?”


My tone must have been sharp, for he seemed reallyto wake up then. He stared and blinked. Then he stretched, but still regarded me, I thought, uneasily. At last he swallowed.


Chapter 25