Ellis Parker is a lucky man: he escaped his persecuting family, survived his tour of duty, and met Maxwell Clark in the city of New Amsterdam. Clark showed Ellis more than the ropes: Clark helped Ellis figure out who he is -- a gay submissive with a massive fixation on a beautiful, mysterious ballet dancer named Bryn Rothe. Ellis knows a Good Man when he sees one, and he wants nothing more than to score a first date with Bryn.<br><br>Little does Ellis know that Bryn has a violent past that is crawling out of shallow graves to haunt him. Even his hectic schedule and beloved stage aren’t enough to distract him. It’s impossible for Bryn to figure out how he feels about Ellis with his demons between them, but when Ellis saves Bryn not once but twice, Bryn is forced to admit that there’s something about Ellis that Bryn might not merely want but need.<br><br>Together, they journey to the scene of Bryn’s original crime -- Charles Towne, South Carolina. There they will dig up secrets that might explain Bryn’s tortured life but might also be his -- and Ellis’s -- undoing.

Earthquakes

But how could somebody who had done such horrible things be so…so…Ellis didn’t know how to describe it. He could only picture Bryn’s face in the bath, all open and scared and vulnerable. He’d looked like a rabbit about to bolt, not like some sadist about to slit Ellis’s throat. Ellis had met Bad men before. Bryn wasn’t Bad. He was Good.


Or maybe Ellis was Wrong. Could his sense of good and bad be that off? Had he hit his head in his sleep and woken up stupid when it came to judgment? Was he that off because of how he felt about Bryn? He knew he cared more about Bryn than he’d ever cared about anyone, except maybe Clark. Could that have clouded his vision to the point that he’d overlook a little murderous intent?


Chapter 54