Even the nicest of guys can decide to cut loose at some point, especially if he's at college and a frat brother invites him to a party. Unfortunately, that can end quite badly. Luckily for Dante ap Owen, it doesn't -- until he keeps needing to piss every few minutes and he sees blood in his urine. Another stroke of luck for him is the substitute professor, also a medical doctor he’s been crushing on, who happens to be there when he passes out in class and pushes him to come to his clinic.<br><br>But Dante and his beloved, critically ill mother are under the control of his bitter uncle, who also provides health insurance. If his uncle finds out Dante is being treated for anything, let alone what Dante fears is an STD, he's ... Dante doesn't want to think about that. So he flees the clinic before he has to make a follow-up appointment.<br><br>The good doctor shows up at his uncle's farm when phone calls do nothing. And when Dante's uncle invites the doctor to dinner and serves a meal worthy of Medea, the doctor urges Dante and his mother to leave. But will they? And will Dante realize the doctor wants him as much as he wants the doctor?

So Let Us Rejoice

“It is. It’s been in the family for over two hundred and fifty years, since the first Moore came over shortly before the Revolution. And there’s one thing I’ll say for the Moores—they’ve always loved this land. I’m not much of a farmer, but I wouldn’t mind staying here myself if Uncle John didn’t come along with it.”


“Will this be yours after he passes on?”


“Good God, no! He told me when Mum and I first moved here not to get my hopes up, that Moore Farm would never be mine. He plans to leave it to the agricultural department of Mercer U.”


“If you’re not going to stay on the farm, what do you plan to do with your life?”


“You mean what do I want to be when I grow up?” I gave him a droll grin. “I thought I’d become a cardiologist.”


He chuckled until he realized I was serious. “That’s a difficult field to specialize in.”


Chapter 26