Musician Sam Poe is having the worst week of his life. On the night he discovers his boyfriend destroyed Sam's trumpet in the name of art, Sam learns his beloved grandmother has died, too. He flies to Ohio to help take care of the funeral arrangements, but grief over his losses threatens to overwhelm him. It takes the devotion from a dog named Turquoise to help him get through it all. Quentin Hacker hates that he's so attracted to his dead neighbor's grandson. Sam needs a friend, not a closeted man ten years his senior lusting after him. Loaning Turq to offer solace is the least he can do, at least until Sam decides to break up with his boyfriend and spend the summer in Ohio to re-evaluate where his life is going. Neither man anticipates the friendship that forms between them. Both end up wishing it could be even more ...
