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

“I’m sorry. I’ll get rid of it.”


I reached for the album, but he pulled it back. His expression remained fixed, as if steeling himself against an awful weight, the album some kind of anchor. I wanted to be patient, but his silence did me in.


“What’s the hold these people have on you?” I demanded. “They’re just pictures. Throw them out and be done with it.”


He shook his head as I spoke and I felt an awful falling sensation, everything between us crumbling because of a damned photo album.


“Please, Glenn, what can I do? Say something.”


He turned, went inside to get his keys, album still in hand, got into his truck, and drove away.


I walked down the driveway and stood at its end long after he’d gone, having no idea what to do next. Get in my car and chase after him? Wait him out, certain he’d return full of apologies for his foolish action? As the falling sensation continued, my stomach seizing in an effort to stop the descent, I heard my name called.


Chapter 21