Sex can be a dangerous business. So can love. On the worst day of his life, Wren Gallagher wants oblivion when he steps into Tricks for a drink. When a mysterious stranger steps up to pay his tab, he offers Wren the key to fulfilling his dreams of prosperity and true love. But appearances are not always what they seem. His savior owns the escort agency ? Louer, and he wants the young and handsome Wren as part of his stable of men-for-hire. Down on his luck, Wren figures, why not? He needs the money. When he joins, though, he doesn't count on meeting Rufus, another escort with whom he falls hopelessly in love. But their love story will have to overcome the obstacles of not only trading love for money, but ? Louer's dark -- and deadly -- secrets.

A Dangerous Game

Yet she hadn’t aborted him or given him up for adoption. Wren assumed that’s what many other women would have done, especially when they were high-school-age girls. She had kept him close to her through the years, raising him with love, nurturing, and protectiveness, often going without nice things for herself so Wren could have things like new winter coats, new shoes, school supplies, and medical care.


Like his father, his grandparents had been conspicuously absent from his life. A gut-wrenching thought occurred to him—had Linda’s parents thrown her out because of her pregnancy? Even though it was the result of a rape? That was almost too cruel for Wren to comprehend.


It made him love his mother that much more that she had kept him, despite what must have been his horrifying origins and the cost to her.


Chapter 12