Peruvian-Japanese pro golfer Dimas Kanashiro should have been celebrating his first major golf tournament win. Instead, the suspicious death of his boyfriend’s stepfather places Dimas’ boyfriend, Hunter Mullins, under suspicion.<br><br>Carl Mullins was a lousy stepfather and lousy human being in Dimas’ book, but Hunter always thought differently. So after beating Carl in the most important golf tournament of his life, it’s now up to Dimas to help Hunter find out how his stepfather died and, if murdered, who killed him in order to clear Hunter’s name.

Sudden Death

“It was several months after your mom passed…the three of us got together, and ate at that nice seafood restaurant overlooking the ocean. You know the one? Your mom’s favorite. But, I forget the name. After dinner, Lenny encouraged me to go out with Carl. I liked Carl too. I didn’t want to see Carl, in that way, and I didn’t want to make this to be a public, almost public kinda thing. After all, if people suspected I was with Carl, then that make Lenny a cuckold, as they used to say. I don’t know…do they still use that word?”


“I don’t even know what that means,” Hunter added as he accepted more hot water and a fresh tea bag.


“I didn’t realize until recently that this was Lenny’s opportunity to get Carl to invest some money into some of his ideas. I was basically a pawn in Lenny’s game to flip houses, and sell them with Carl involved, taking a second mortgage I found out too late.” Ida sighed. “By then, I was too much into Carl.”


Chapter 23