Jason Mann needs a vacation, badly. A psychologist, he feels like he works all the time and plays very little. Honestly, he just wants to go away with his ruggedly handsome boyfriend, policeman Dillon Snyder. He doesn’t care where, but hopefully soon.<br><br>A vacation isn’t easy to plan in their lives, though. Jason has his string of patients he helps, and Dillon cleans up the streets as an officer of the law. Plus, their friend Gillian pulls them in different directions, always demanding. Something has to give, and quickly. Before Jason loses his mind over his job and friend, he desperately needs to get away.<br><br>When Dillon has an opportunity to fly south for a vacation in Florida for eleven days, Jason’s on board. But with every treat in life comes a price. Will this adventure and a colony of nudists rip the two men apart, or will their days of fun in the sun only bring them closer together?

Rugged Mann

“I know he has a small, red-bricked outside area, or what I call a patio, at the front of his bungalow: something like a courtyard with wrought-iron fencing that stands approximately five-feet high, two clotheslines form the letter X over three battered lounge chairs, a kiln in the far-left corner that he uses for his daily work, five-gallon plastic buckets filled with different clays. Spider plants, a banana plant, and rubber tree plants in terra-cotta pots create a perimeter next to the wrought-iron fencing. Too many green-white plants to count. Too many pots. It’s a busy place, but I like it. Sort of like home away from home.


Chapter 3