From the moment he finds The Naked Remedy, Noah Booker is enthralled. Not only because the blog owner is gorgeous or that the nude photos are hot, but because Fisher uses his platform to face his fears about a crippling accident, as well as the aftermath of putting his life back together.<br><br>Noah isn’t brave. He copes with his shyness by staying in his comfort zone. At twenty-six, he still hasn't come out or left his conservative hometown. Finding the blog offers a beacon, but when he summons the nerve to comment, he never expects Fisher to respond.<br><br>The two men strike a friendship. Sparks fly, but dating isn't easy. Noah lives in California, and Fisher's in Florida. But making it work takes more than coordinating schedules. It means taking risks. For Fisher, though, Noah will try. Because if he's learned anything, it's that change only happens one step at a time.

The Naked Remedy

No, Mom’s case centered on me. “You deserve someone to make you happy,” she always said. “You’re young, you should be out having fun, not sitting around, watching game shows with your parents.”


I’ve always wondered if she’d stop trying if she knew I was gay. Our tiny town has a grand population of six thousand people within city limits, and I can’t claim to personally know another member of the LGBT tribe if my life depended on it. Who was I going to date?


But that would require telling her, and as ready as I’d been last Christmas, I couldn’t do it yet. I was too afraid of how she and Dad would react. Our pastor at church had sparked a few conversations during services over the last couple years about the national attention gay marriage was getting, and though they never really agreed with him out loud, they never said a word against him, either.


Chapter 6