A chance encounter on the streets of San Francisco changes the lives of Matt, a successful businessman from Boston, and T.J., a young homeless man forced to live on the street.

Though from two very different backgrounds, both men seek the same thing: love, companionship, and a sense of belonging. Matt is already in a relationship but it hasn't been going anywhere for years, and T.J. has his own relationship demons, too.

Will their differences prove greater than their similarities, or will they find a way to work through their doubts and hesitations to find a second chance at love?

Originally from Detroit, William Holden now lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with his partner of eighteen years. He has a Master's in Library and Information Science from Florida State University. Over the past decade, he had focused his work on collecting, and preserving, GLBT history and is a volunteer archivist at Boston's History Project.

William has been writing for over fifteen years, accumulating more than seventy published short stories in the genres of erotica, romance, fantasy, and horror. He is an award-winning author of such titles as A Twist of Grimm (Lambda Literary Award Finalist) and Words to Die By (Second Place in the Rainbow Book Awards for Best Horror and Finalist for the American Library Association's Foreward Book Award for Best Horror). Secret Societies and its sequel, The Thief Taker, were both finalists for the Lambda Literary Award. His forthcoming horror novel Crimson Souls is based on the 1920 purge of homosexual students at Harvard.

William has also written encyclopedia articles on the history of gay and lesbian fiction and has authored five bibliographies for the GLBT Round Table for the American Library Association.

For more information, visit williamholdenwrites.com.