When Noah Dahl ends an eight-year Hollywood relationship with actor Reece Landreth, he heads north to the family home he inherited years before, intending to make a new start. What he doesn’t anticipate is finding his boyhood crush Glenn Wager has also returned.<br><br>Though Noah suffers from his breakup, he finds Glenn suffering far more from difficult circumstances surrounding the death of his mother. As Noah’s boyhood feelings return, he must acknowledge that twenty-four years have passed and work at approaching the troubled Glenn as a man, not a boy.<br><br>But Noah quickly finds obstacles in his way, namely Glenn himself. Can the two ever fully reunite and possibly build a life together?

Square One

“Glenn Wager,” I now said. “I haven’t seen him since he left for college years ago. University of Oregon. I guess he stayed up north.”


“Yes. That was disappointing,” replied Mrs. Springer.


After this, I wanted her gone because talk of Glenn Wager had stirred me. I needed to be alone with him, so I purposely let conversation dwindle until she got the idea and toddled off. I thanked her for the brownies as I closed the gate behind her.


Glenn had always been the older boy up at the end of the street, friendly and always saying “hello” as he went by. When he was fifteen, my parents decided he was old enough to babysit my nine-year-old self. I’d complained about this, everything from anger to pouting, because being babysat by my crush made me just that, a baby. I was mortified when he’d arrived and my parents left.


First thing he did was turn off the TV. “Let’s do something. TV is such a waste.”


Chapter 8