Insomniac Sean Diaz spends his nights riding the subway around Manhattan, ignoring the people he might encounter, getting lost in the rhythms of the train so he’s exhausted enough to sleep once he gets home. A hallucination about his dead high school boyfriend turns it into an obsession, but when Sean sees him a second time, he nearly falls apart.<br><br>That’s how Judah Morey finds him. Concern prompts conversation, which in turn sparks friendship. When Judah invites Sean back to his place, Sean decides to take a chance for the first time in nearly a decade. Dating is new territory for him, but he thinks he’s ready for it. He just needs to figure out how to let go of the past so he can take that step into his future.

The Unbeaten Track

The question startled me. Forget the fact that talking to strangers on subways is suicide. People rarely spoke to me unless they had to or had known me for a while. It served me well most of the time, but I wasn’t sure what to do about this.


“Yeah.” I drew my knees up and buried my head on my folded arms. “Just swell.”


Fuck, he was supposed to let it go, not keep up with the commentary. “I always look like this.”


I knew exactly what I had to do shut this asshole down. Lifting my head, I gave him my hardest stare and said, “Just dealing with ex-boyfriend shit. That’s all.”


Chapter 3