Tricks can mean many things: sex partners, deceptions, even magic ... or maybe all three.<br><br>Arliss is a gorgeous young dancer at Tricks, the hottest club in Chicago’s Boystown. Sean is the classic nerd, out of place in Tricks, but nursing his wounds from a recent breakup. When the two spy each other, magic blooms.<br><br>But this opposites-attract tale does not run smooth. What happens when Arliss is approached by one of the biggest porn producers in the business? Can he make his dreams of stardom come true without throwing away the only real love he’s ever known? And ... will it even matter if the mysterious producers realize their dark intentions?

Tricks

He got up and tiptoed to the bedroom. Arliss lay curled in a fetal position on the bed. Josh didn’t know if he was sleeping or simply staring listlessly ahead. Josh thought about saying some words to comfort the guy but knew there was nothing he could say that would make his situation any more tolerable, at least not without lying. Josh turned away from Arliss, trying to imagine him as nothing more than a slab of meat lying on the bed, a hole waiting to be filled.


He needed to think of him that way. It was his only option for getting through this shoot with his own sanity intact.


Chapter 53