A decade after leaving his tiny hometown on the path to pro football, Rhys Kensington comes back to Cherryvale the hard way: jobless, in the middle of a divorce, and staying with his parents.
The misery eases only when he reconnects with Kendall, his younger brother's childhood best friend and the family's honorary third son, whose old crush is still obvious and cheerfully impossible to ignore.
Rhys has always thought of himself as straight, yet Kendall's attention becomes addictive, and every excuse to remain near him makes the question of real feelings harder to dismiss.
Ten years apart have not changed Kendall at all; Rhys has been his dream boyfriend since childhood, and seeing that pride so beaten down only makes him more intent on building it back up.
What grows between the grumpy, much larger jock and the smaller, sunnier man who loves indulging him is no longer easy to call simple friendship.
