num_pages: 223
description: Looking to the future begins with forgiving the past. Barrett McCall once lived like there was no tomorrow. Now the reformed party animal savors each day as a gift. His short order cook job at Dixies Cup pays the rent and hes content with his soberif solitarylife. When a fire leaves him homeless Dixies offer to let him move into her basement apartment puts him on a collision course with her nephew art teacher Schuyler Rhodes. The heat between them crackles but in Schuylers eyes Barrett recognizes the same demons he exorcised long ago. Dixies kind-hearted offer couldnt come at a worse time for Schuyler. Its the anniversary of his teenage cousin Mattys drowning. Everyone believes it was an accident but Schuyler knows the truthand so does the culprit. For fifteen years that truth has burned a hole in his souland now it keeps Barrett at arms length. One lingering kiss melts away the barriers between them but when the other witness to Mattys death shows up in town Schuyler is forced into a confrontation that could cost him Barretts loveand possibly his own life.Warning: Contains a hot man-on-man romance between a slightly uptight art teacher and a free-spirited tattoo-artist-turned-line-cook a bucket of guilt sprinkled on top of past regrets and the improper use of bamboo kabob skewers.
language: English
title: Color of Grace
publisher: Samhain Publishing, Ltd.