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

What really happened that Camera 21 picked up: Katz climbed off the bed after kissing Tacoma, brushed a palm through his mussed hair; picked up his boxers off the floor and slipped into them; exited the room without looking back and without kissing Tacoma; and Tacoma lay naked on the bed, staring at the ceiling; an unsmiling face, uncertainty in eyes, blankness.


How strange. How very strange, I thought, and ended my evening of being a voyeur.48: Ghost


I never heard ghosts walking within the lake house during my residence there. No one had ever died on the property that I knew. Nor had the act of suicide taken place there. Spirits of the dead did not roam about the house’s long halls or in the spare and empty rooms. But ghosts walked inside my mind after what I had viewed in my secret, camera room.


I couldn’t sleep. I wouldn’t sleep without first confronting Katz; the only ghost, goblin, or supernatural being in the night, haunting me.


Chapter 53