Musician Sam Poe is having the worst week of his life. On the night he discovers his boyfriend destroyed Sam's trumpet in the name of art, Sam learns his beloved grandmother has died, too. He flies to Ohio to help take care of the funeral arrangements, but grief over his losses threatens to overwhelm him. It takes the devotion from a dog named Turquoise to help him get through it all.

Quentin Hacker hates that he's so attracted to his dead neighbor's grandson. Sam needs a friend, not a closeted man ten years his senior lusting after him. Loaning Turq to offer solace is the least he can do, at least until Sam decides to break up with his boyfriend and spend the summer in Ohio to re-evaluate where his life is going. Neither man anticipates the friendship that forms between them. Both end up wishing it could be even more ...



A four time EPPIE/EPIC eBook Award winner, Vivien Dean is an avowed geek—books, theater, film, you name it—who found her geek soulmate in a British expat with a propensity to dream. She spent two years rediscovering the world with him before he whisked her away to the UK to start a family. That was just the beginning of what has turned out to be her grandest adventure yet.

Vivien is a firm believer that love doesn't care about gender, so her titles include both het and GLBT, erotic and sweet, as well as a wide variety of genres. In 2006, she teamed up with fellow erotic romance writer, Pepper Espinoza, to write together as Jamie Craig for five years. Currently, she resides in Northern California with her husband and two children.

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