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

In the hallway, upon my exit, the pool boy popped his head out of his room, looking disheveled and sleepy, half-drunk perhaps, and asked, “What’s going on?”


I smiled and pointed to Katz’s room behind me. “He had a nightmare. I’ve calmed him down. Everything’s fine. Go back to bed, Tacoma.”


The pool boy listened, slipped back into his room at the end of the hallway. I didn’t see him until the next morning, when he saved my life.


Thereafter, I slid into my office and settled at my writing desk. I didn’t work on The Next Fall, though. Instead, I spent the next two hours and Googled everything I could about Katz Strong from West End, Pennsylvania.


Chapter 55