Two years ago, Chris and his boyfriend left the city to settle in a small town at the US-Canada border. Eager to start a new life, Chris bought the Frontier Café, but a year later, his boyfriend dumped him, leaving Chris the only openly gay man in town. Nowadays he's resigned to a life of romantic solitude.<br><br>Hank spent the last years traveling through the country for his job as a water plant engineer. Deeply closeted, he's careful about the men he meets. Like the rivers he studies, he runs fast through the land.<br><br>In town only for a few weeks, Hank is intent on getting the job done and returning home out west to take care of his father. But Chris’s warm manner and decadent desserts are no match for Hank’s defense mechanisms. For the first time in his life, he finds himself wanting to go with the flow.

No River Wide Enough

Liliana climbed into the station wagon, but Donnie stopped in the stairs and climbed back up to me. “I need to know something, Chris.”


“No, I need to know. Please. Please, okay? Just answer one question and then I’ll leave.”


I nervously looked over his shoulder at Liliana’s tense face peering at us through the windshield. “One question. Shoot.”


Donnie didn’t hesitate. “If I was ten years older and you were single, would you go for me?”


Looking into his young eyes, I knew a lie wouldn’t do and that the truth would give him wings. “Yes…now get out of here.”


His smile told me I’d done the right thing. He was beaming. “Yeah? Really?”


“That’s two other questions.” I winked at him. “Go…and Donnie, keep that number close. Promise me.”


“And, please, give me a head’s up before you run off to New York?”


Chapter 58