To Billy's lover, coach Harlan Brown, it was the shattering end to a dream love. Harlan, at 41, must somehow heal his heart, and find new purpose in life. In time, a second chance at love comes. Handsome, volatile, and passionate, Vince challenges Harlan's stoic and lonely heart in unimagined ways. Meanwhile, Harlan's ordeal with bias and bloodshed is not over.
Snipers often work in pairs, and the Montreal shooter evidently had a cohort who escaped arrest.
This mysterious stalker moves implacably into Harlan's world. And yet another stalker is moving into gay life - a disease that has no name. Fans of The Front Runner will find major new characters to intrigue them. There is Chino Cabrera, war veteran and Harlan's bodyguard - the one other man who stirs Harlan's heart, and leads him to an unsuspected vision of what real love is. And familiar characters, notably Betsy Heden - a spirited young lesbian athlete and mother, who fears what the stalker might do to the child she had with Billy Sive.