When forty-year-old Chicago podiatrist Matthew Pepper is approached in a bar by college student Ryan Meade, he figures hooking up with the handsome twenty-one-year-old might be just what he needs to help him get over his recent breakup.<br><br>But the hookup doesn’t go as planned and Matthew writes the evening off as a failed one-night-stand. Ryan, however, views things differently. To him, a failed hookup is nothing more than an opportunity to try again.<br><br>Ryan pursues Matthew, not just because he wants to be with the man, but because he wants something ... and he’s determined to get it. Will Matthew find out Ryan isn’t as transparent as he claims to be? Does Lyin’ Ryan live up to his nickname?

Lyin' Ryan

As much as I hated to admit it, I was in love with Ryan Meade. Gone were the days when I could stop thinking about him during the week until I saw him again on the weekends. Now I thought about him constantly and I longed to be with him. Even before the incident with Andrew, I’d worried about him when he wasn’t with me. God, I wished I’d stopped seeing him before I’d started to fall for him. It would have been easier to get rid of him then. But now, I couldn’t dream of being without him, and it scared me. 8


Chapter 33