Dr. Mackenzie Taylor has been happy with his life thus far. He's got a successful career, a great group of friends, a terrific home on the California coast and a sexy younger lover. Mack's just turned forty-five though, and thinks its time to settle down and start the family he's always wanted. He doesn't want to spend his weekends rushing out to his lover's country hide away or waiting around for Lex to arrive in Newport Beach. He doesn't want to wake up alone, eat take out meals or drink with his friends in local bars.
Mack's boyfriend of two years though, is a reclusive writer of growing fame nearly twenty years his junior. While Mack has had his chance to sow his wild oats and be the life of the party, Lex has stayed close to home and lived a pretty sedate lifestyle despite his glamorous career and eccentric wardrobe.
A long distance relationship has suited both men for the past two years, but things are changing, and they aren't managing to spend much time together. Mack's discovering a new insecurity that has come with age, and Lex is discovering that success in his chosen career comes at a price.
Autorentext
Somewhere in a small town in up-state New York are a librarian and a second grade teacher to whom I owe my life. That might be a touch dramatic, but it's nevertheless one hundred percent true.
Because they taught me the joy of reading, of escaping into worlds crafted of words.
Have you ever been nine years old and sure of nothing so much as that you don't belong? Looked at the world from behind glasses, and wondered why you don't fit?
Then turn the page and see... there you are, running from Injun Joe in a dark graveyard; there you are fencing with Athos; there you are...beneath the deep blue sea- marveling at exotic creatures with Captain Nemo.
I found myself between the pages of books, and that is why I write now, it's why I taught English and literature for so many years, and it's why my house contains more pounds of books than furniture.
If I'd had my way, I'd have been a fencer...or a starship captain, or a lawyer, or a detective solving crimes. But instead, I am a writer, and that's the best thing in the world to be if you ask me, because as a writer, I can be all those things and more.
If I hadn't learned to value the stories between the pages, who knows what would have happened? Certainly not college...teaching...or writing.