Laurie Parkinson, who’s lived in Laurel Hills all his life, is a gay sheet metal worker who’d rather be a gay hairdresser. Wheat Dupuis, who’s also gay, is the scion of one of Laurel Hill’s wealthiest families. He’d rather grow grapes than become CFO of Dupuis International. Laurie wakes one morning to discover his family gone and his town decimated by a bacteria that has lain dormant for millennia, incased in ice. With the melting of the ice caps, the bacteria is released, and mankind faces a pandemic that could surpass the Black Plague. Wheat and his family are on their way to safety when the unthinkable happens and he’s left behind. Laurie knows of a bunker in the woods outside Laurel Hill, where he intends to take refuge. On the way there, Laurie finds and rescues Wheat. Can two such dissimilar men work together through a pandemic to find their families ... and possibly find love, as well?

Pandemic

“No, no, no. I keep telling you. I’m not Lync.”


“For which I’m eternally grateful.” All Wheat knew about Lync was what Laurie had told him and that Adam wanted him more than he wanted Wheat. But Laurie…Laurie made it more than clear he wanted Wheat.


He proved it by kissing Wheat right there in the great room, and Wheat’s grin broadened.


“What are we going to do about the charcoal?” Laurie asked. “Let it burn out on its own?”


“Yes. But if Althea has some coffee in her supplies, we have an old percolator in the kitchen, and we can brew a pot in the charcoal.”


“Come on, guys,” Jo said. “We’re starving.”


Laurie placed the platter on the table in the breakfast nook, and Wheat had to admit he was relieved. Had he really wanted to confess exactly how he’d learned?


“Why don’t you get started?” Wheat looked around. “Where’s Mother?”


“She decided to have her tea in the bedroom where your father is.”


Chapter 63