Lee Self

Aiden is young, rich, and beautiful. Banking on his fellow gays' love for sex and drugs, he's become a self-made millionaire before most guys his age have finished college. But the glamor of the cars, boys, and clubs isn't there anymore, and he no longer feels the thrills he used to. When Luca steps in to his life and reminds him what passion feels like, he considers giving it all up to feel that fire again...even if he has to take on the city's biggest crime family to do it.

Several years ago, I was sitting at a sushi bar with a few friends of mine. They had brought along a new guy that had just moved in to town. His name was Aiden, he was in his mid-twenties, and very handsome. When he heard that I was a writer, he told me that he had a fantastic story to tell and needed someone to give him a voice on paper. A few days later, we met at a coffee shop and he handed me a stack of papers. "Read it," he said, and I did. I was amazed at the story that unfol