Keenan Hunter, a na?ve farm boy, quickly falls for his college roommate, Tucker Reynolds, a more sophisticated city slicker. For a time, Keenan's feelings for Tucker appear to be reciprocated, although neither man openly expresses any feelings they may have for the other. For reasons Keenan can't understand, Tucker starts to date Jane Williams, a fellow student. Keenan deals with the pain of rejection by finding another man to love. But time and again, this proves unsuccessful. Tucker has captured Keenan's heart and no one else can match the forever love Keenan thought he had with Tucker. When Tucker marries Jane, he asks Keenan to be his best man. Keenan reluctantly agrees and performs his duties, all the while hiding the pain of his broken heart. The experience leaves Keenan with a life-long aversion to weddings. Years pass and the two men drift apart. Keenan becomes the head veterinarian at an animal rescue center. And because of a three-legged Yorkshire terrier, Tucker comes back into Keenan's life. Circumstances have changed for Tucker. Will these changes finally allow Keenan to regain his forever love? Maybe weddings aren't so bad after all.

Keenan's Forever Love

Tucker raised his head. “Well, it turned out it wasn’t the best plan after all. I never could get you out of my mind…out of my heart, really. After a while it effected my relationship with Jane, especially after Charity was born. We were intimate less and less. Finally, it stopped altogether. Oh, I did love her, still do, but not in the way a man is supposed to love his wife.


“She began to suspect something wasn’t right. So, one night after we got ready for bed, she came right out and asked me what was going on. She thought I was having an affair. I didn’t want her to think that, so I told her about us.”


Chapter 22