Big, burly CEO Abe Behr is furious to discover someone -- probably a relative -- is embezzling from Behr Construction, a family-run business in the Sierra Nevada foothills outside Lake Tahoe. To confirm his suspicions, Abe takes the unprecedented step of hiring a non-family accountant, handsome Jeff Mason, to go over the books and help find the culprit. As they talk to Behr relatives and visit construction sites, Abe and Jeff are drawn to each other, bringing out new, softer emotions in workaholic Abe. Since he has sacrificed romance all his life to build the construction business, Abe’s surprised by his feelings for the handsome Jeff. He’s even more shocked when they come face to face with homophobia in the small foothills community where generations of Behrs have called home. Abe had always thought Stone Acres was a live-and-let-live kind of town. As he and Jeff get closer, he finds out how wrong he is when he comes out to both family and a community who think he’s making a big mistake. Will being the head of a large, powerful family and a pillar of the community be enough to win Abe his happily ever after with Jeff?

Behr Facts

I kept going, massaging his delts and traps, digging in to give him relief. He moaned and groaned as if he were about to come. I had a bear-sized boner by then. I caught myself bending toward him. Then stopped. Shocked. What was I thinking? Kissing him? God, what was happening to me?


I finished, shaken to the core. I gave him a light slap on the shoulder.


He rolled his back and shook himself. I was helpless. I couldn’t look away, even though I wanted to. My thoughts were a jumble. What had I just done to our friendship? Shit.


He turned as I scooted back and rose. I nodded to him, feeling the heat in my face and the weight at the front of my jeans. He glanced down at my groin, then back up again. Color bloomed in his face.


“Yeah, thanks,” he murmured, a puzzled frown on his lips.


Chapter 14