Jack TarkingtonтАЩs life is in the toilet. He was supposed to be spending his junior year studying someplace cool like Paris or Rome. Instead, after taking out his anger on the campus тАЬgolden boyтАЭ, whose dad ripped off his parents, Jack is facing possible expulsion.
Sure, itтАЩs all his own fault, but coming back to the small Iowa town he thought heтАЩd escaped, after crowing about his admission to a prestigious school, has been a humbling experience.
When he runs into Miguel, Jack braces for backlash over the way he lorded it over his old friend and flame. Instead, Miguel offers him friendshipтАФand a job at his growing farm-to-table store and caf├й.
Against the odds, both guys bond over broken dreams and find common ground in music. But when JackтАЩs college gives him a second chance, heтАЩs torn between achieving a dream that will take him far from home, and a love that strikes a chord heтАЩll never find anywhere else.
Warning: This book contains a humbled guy whoтАЩs on the brink of losing it all, a determined entrepreneur who seems to have it all together, apologies issued through banjo-picking duets, and two lovers who can play each otherтАЩs bodies like virtuosos
THIS EDITION IS A RE-RELEASE OF A PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED VERSION. MINOR CHANGES ONLY HAVE BEEN MADE.┬аAmy Jo Cousins writes contemporary romance and erotica about smart people finding their own best kind of smexy. She lives in Chicago with her son, where she tweets too much, sometimes runs really far, and waits for the Cubs to win the World Series again. Amy Jo is represented by┬аCourtney Miller-Callihan┬аof Handspun Literary Agency.