Description

It isn’t a second chance. It’s a roof. For six weeks.

Henry Cole has a duffel bag, a wedding ring in his coat pocket, a thirteen-year-old daughter who hasn’t answered his texts in six days, and, as of this afternoon, no house. Four months ago he finally told his wife the truth: he’s attracted to men, and he always has been. Tonight the apartment he rented has its ceiling on the floor, every hotel off the highway is full, and there is exactly one phone number left that his thumb still knows by heart.

Gabe Saunders hasn’t heard that voice in eighteen years. Not since a college stairwell, four words — I can’t do this — and a cold sheet. He’s forty now. He owns his building, restores old houses for a living, and is one of four architects bidding for the commission of his career. He makes up the guest room anyway. Then he writes the rules on a strip of tracing paper: You parent, I don’t. The past stays out of this house. Nobody plans past six weeks.

It’s a roof. That’s all. A galley kitchen thirty-eight inches wide. One plaster wall between two beds. A man who cooks by the gram and still can’t make a sound when he comes — and, lying awake on the other side of that wall, the man who taught him to be that quiet.

But Henry’s daughter is watching to find out who her father really is. His own father sits on the board that will decide Gabe’s future. And Gabe will not be anyone’s secret twice. If Henry wants more than six weeks, he’s going to have to say so out loud, with the lights on, in the one town where everybody knows his name.

A Safe Place to Land is a scorching, emotional MM second-chance romance with a newly out single dad, forced proximity, a found family worth fighting for, and a hard-won HEA.

Audiobook edition. For listeners 18+.