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

It’d be one of the hardest things Ellis had ever done in his life, but he could cut out Bryn. Ellis would switch shifts to avoid Bryn when he came to the range, and other than that, Ellis would likely never see Bryn again. It wasn’t like Ellis had any excuse to go to the ballet. To watch the man he loved shine like a beacon on stage…


“We here?” Bryn mumbled, opening his eyes.


“Yeah.” The car pulled through a gate and swept toward a shiny white jet with its door open and steps down. Ellis had never been on a private plane before. He wasn’t even sure he’d seen one in person. “Wow,” he said.


Bryn didn’t comment, and when the car came to a stop, he climbed out and up the plane’s steps with Ellis’s help. The interior of the aircraft was plush with leather swiveling seats, solid wood tables, marble trim, and carpeting. Bryn took a seat next to a window and put his crutches on the seat directly next to him. Ellis took the hint. He sat across the aisle.


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