In college, Syndey Carlton and Ry Lee were in love and inseparable. Until a viral photograph outed Ry to his conservative parents, who swooped in and forced Ry to leave college without saying good-bye.
Heartbroken, Cart did his best to move on. He finished law school and even fell in love again-only to lose his husband to cancer. He's still reeling from that loss when Ry joins the same San Francisco law firm where Cart works. But any hope he'll finally learn the truth of Ry's disappearance is thwarted by Ry's impenetrable walls. It's clear this Ry is not the man he fell in love with. For Ry, returning to his home town comes with a lot of risks, and seeing Cart again is just the tip of the iceberg. The conversion camp his parents sent him to left him unable to look at another man, let alone one he still loves. But he's also two years away from being free of his parents' manipulations and living life on his own terms.