Neil Daltonโs foundation is already cracking. Grief, guilt, and PTSD have ruled his life since a terrible crime tore his world apart last year, and heโs dreading a holiday visit with the family he simultaneously needs and resents. Then someone from his past shows up and rattles that shaky foundation right out from under him.
First a war nearly destroyed Jeremy Kelley, then his family threw him out when he needed them the most. Now heโs barely holding on emotionally. He spends his last dollar to get to Chicago and prays his former best friend wonโt leave him out in the cold.
Neil and Jeremy spend the holidays with Neilโs family in their hometown of Omaha. They struggle to deal with families, flashbacks... and feelings that havenโt even begun to fade since their last failed attempt at more than friends. As they try to repair their fractured psyches and rebuild damaged bridges, they rely on each other more than ever, but they canโt deny the mutual attraction thatโs existed since before they were both emotionally battered and scarred. If they couldnโt make it work back then, how in the world can they pull it off now?
This book was previously published and has been lightly revised.