Romance, Novella

As if working for the ex who cheated on him wasn’t bad enough, now his boss wants Shai Zoabi to fly across the ocean to write a puff-piece on a gay former Olympian.

Shai has never been to America. He has never wanted to go to America, and he certainly doesn’t want to set foot in the searing hot Arizona desert. But what can he do? After all, this is his job.

He expects a lot of things to happen when he gets there too:

Like dying by dehydration in the Arizona heat.

Or ending up on the wrong side of someone’s gun.

Maybe even getting lost in the vast expanse of that absurdly large country, never to be heard from again.

What he doesn’t expect is Rafael Flores—the man who could convince mountains to move with a single smile.

What he doesn’t expect is for fourteen days to change everything he knows about himself, making it feel like he’s finally waking up.
 

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