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’m sorry,” Jason pleads. “Can I help you?”


“Please.” Dillon shifts to his left and Jason cuddles against his right side. They begin to organize the contents of the three suitcases, one by one, with very little talk.


The next morning, they run into minimal traffic heading to the small airport which sits next to Lake Erie. Jason drives because his plan to get Dillon drunk, works. Dillon becomes a chatterbox on the short distance to the airport, always a talker when he’s had too much alcohol. He rambles about the beautiful morning (lots of sun, on the warmer side, and no humidity, the perfect day for a long walk and some pre-summer sunbathing, or to visit the wine galleries in the area, or stop into the Yol Gallery and study paintings by the up-and-coming oil painter, Ruth Mendell, or…), an all-black cat named Sylvia Plath when he was a teenager, his second boyfriend Teddy Rixen, and how he used to have a crush on the butcher at Della’s Meats, long before he met Jason.


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