Because his pool is untended and filthy, romance author Robert Fine needs to hire a pool boy for the summertime position at his estate. So at the beginning of summer, he places an ad for a pool boy to hire. Enter Kent Tacoma, an ex-Navy stud, handsome, who lands an interview. Almost immediately Robert enjoys his company and himself, hiring Kent on the spot. As Tacoma tends the pool, Robert cannot keep his hungry eyes off the young man. All he can think about is his desire. Unfortunately, Tacoma starts to break Robert’s house rules with a local bad boy named Katz Strong, Tacoma’s opposite. Soon a jealous Robert is convinced Tacoma is under Katz’s bad influence. As Tacoma pulls away from Robert and grows closer to Katz. Robert finds his rage building. Can’t the three men just get along? As summer comes to a close, Tacoma becomes the center of everyone’s attention. Whose heart will survive the heated summer?

The Pool Boy

He leaned over the side of the pool, catching his breath. Such a stunning looking man in the summertime sun of July: wet and shimmering dark hair, rounded shoulders that still sported droplets of pool water on them; nose dripping with water; brown, moistened eyes reflecting in the bright afternoon sunshine; too young for wrinkles around his eyes or on his forehead. Beyond beautiful. My wet soulmate.


“How is the water today?” In the shade, I sat in one of the six Adirondack chairs next to the pool, trying to read over 27 in The Next Fall. I became bored with the words and characters and dialogue, and started to draw a stick figure in the right margin on the top page. Once that became dull, I started watching the pool boy doing laps in the pool. Now, with a green ink pen in hand (never red!), I drew muscles on the stick figure, biceps and quads, abs and gluts. And underneath the stick figure, I wrote in script: Tacoma


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