This story is based on my husband's experiences when he was a boy, as well as the lifestyle he and I have lived since our marriage in 2000. It is mostly true, although some parts are due to my "artistic license."
Three high school freshmen share a room on a field trip to Washington DC. Two of them are gay, one of them is (mostly) straight, and they have the room all to themselves for two nights.
A middle-aged man is caught stealing underwear from a young airman who lives in his townhouse complex. The punishment is something the man is willing to accept!
Noah is frustrated, horny and gay. He misses his best friend, Jonathan, and Jonathan's father, who secretly got oral from Noah and nearly took his virginity. But they moved at the beginning of summer, and now Noah's alone. Until he calls his cousin in Chicago and gets permission to fly up. He gets more than he hoped for, including the loss of his virginity.
Building collapses are usually a tragedy for everyone, but when the Miami condo of a man, Peter Stroud, going from one new identify, Matthew Finney, to yet another one, Terrence Sinclair, while on the escape from being caught indulging in his fetish for fourteen-year-old boys, comes down in a deep pile of rubble, he, presumed to be under the pile, is given an opportunity to escape to Italy and to try again, with his fetish having been extended.
We follow in this first book the adventures of Ben, architect. He is seriously searching a new spiritual balance after the loss of his partner. The Circle adopting him, has a rather physical interpretation of mental healing.