For the last year, Jay Warren has struggled to find the nerve to tell his wife heโs gay. Every time he gets the chance, though, he freezes up. Heโs ashamed of hiding it all this time and he doesnโt want to hurt her, and the guilt has been almost unbearable.
When his wife dies suddenly, Jayโs conscience threatens to eat him alive.
Funeral director Scott Lawson deals with the bereaved every day, and heโs all too familiar with the inside of the closet. He offers Jay some much-needed compassion and understanding, and from that connection comes a friendship that quicklyโperhaps too quicklyโturns into something more.
But are grief, guilt, and loneliness the only things tying them together? Or will Scott get fed up with being used as an emotional crutch before Jay realizes what he has?
This 78,000 word novel was previously published.