From the farms of Tennessee, Beau Watkins had it all in high school: the cute girl, the popular jock lifestyle, a loving family. As a rising freshman at an out-of-state college, he's determined to find out who he really is behind the fake it 'til you make it attitude. He joins Rainbow Connection, the gay student alliance, hoping to find himself. Instead, he meets Vin Reyes. Raised by his grandparents and the heir to a prosperous company, Vin has been out of the closet since he figured out what that meant. He has it all: fashionable clothing, fancy cars, huge houses, and a real party lifestyle, even a bodyguard. Most of all, he has a secret. Uncomfortable with Vin's generosity, Beau fights his growing attraction for the president of Rainbow Connection, instead chasing a series of shallow affairs. Vin's never been denied anything he wants, though, and now he wants Beau. But it isn’t until an old rival puts Beau in the hospital that Vin realizes Beau means more to him than a simple affair. Can the two of them bridge the gap between their worlds and roll with the all the punches life throws at them?

On a Roll

“You have got to be the most fucking wonderful person I have ever met,” she declared. She sniffled loudly in his ear.


“Oh, come on, you are notcrying because, seriously, that was cheesy as hell.”


“Yeah, that’s more like it. Let’s go pick you out a fabulousdress.”


“Not too fabulous,” she said. “I’m trying to get a job, not place in a drag-queen contest.”


“You know,” Beau said, hanging Ann-Marie’s suit bag over the plastic back of the chair in the food court, “if there’s one thing I didn’t miss about having a girlfriend—I mean aside from the girl-bits that I never quite knew what to do with—it’s this.”


“Carrying all your shit,” Beau said.


“That’s totally not my fault,” Ann-Marie snarked. “That horrible sales lady handed it to you, even though I paid for it! Besides, I’m carrying your milkshake.” She handed it to him.


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