Cam’s life isn’t all that exciting. Boring job, failing relationship, and a handful of missed opportunities. He often wonders how his life might have turned out if he’d made different choices. Especially when he runs into Mattie, his childhood best friend who’s grown into the man of Cam’s dreams.<br><br>That dream becomes a reality -- or an alternate reality, at least -- when Cam wakes up one morning in the arms of an adoring Mattie. This version of Mattie and Cam have been together for years, though Cam has no memory of his new life. He’s determined to figure out how he arrived in this new dream life -- and how to keep it.

The Right Turn

Then, of course, there were the albums hidden in the bedroom closet that sent Cam’s pulse skyrocketing when he’d uncovered them. They housed photos of Cam alone in various intimate settings. In some, he was seemingly nude, wrapped in pale sheets. In others, he wore nothing but a pair of old jeans, unbuttoned and riding low.


What had shocked Cam most about those particular photos was how happy he’d seemed in them, how confident he’d looked. He traced his fingers along the edges of the photos, mesmerized. He had a sudden longing to truly be the man in those photos, the bold dream version of himself rather than the worn-out version in his other life.


Chapter 9