Neil DaltonтАЩs foundation is already cracking. Grief, guilt, and PTSD have ruled his life since a terrible crime tore his world apart last year, and heтАЩs 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 heтАЩs barely holding on emotionally. He spends his last dollar to get to Chicago and prays his former best friend wonтАЩt leave him out in the cold.
Neil and Jeremy spend the holidays with NeilтАЩs family in their hometown of Omaha. They struggle to deal with families, flashbacks... and feelings that havenтАЩt 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 canтАЩt deny the mutual attraction thatтАЩs existed since before they were both emotionally battered and scarred. If they couldnтАЩt 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.