Dale Chase

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

“It’s amazing,” I told Glenn. “Like new.”


He beamed with pride, then took me back inside and handed me one of the home’s brochures, pointing at the asking price. A million eight. I was floored. “Really?” I asked.


The Realtor had crept up beside me and she jumped in with an, “Oh yes, and it’ll probably go for more. This area is very desirable.”


I gave Glenn’s hand a squeeze. He chuckled as if he, too, couldn’t believe his good fortune. The house sold in less than a week. Two million.


The night after we learned the sale had gone through, Glenn insisted on taking me out to dinner. He’d obviously scouted a new spot, and soon we were in a Walnut Creek upscale restaurant called Georgie’s, eating halibut. I hadn’t known until then that we shared a love of fish.


Raising his wineglass, Glenn proposed a toast. “To prosperity. Rolling in it.”


“To prosperity,” I repeated, clinking my glass to his. “And to us.”


Chapter 20