Six years as mayor. Forty-one years as someone else.
Jack Devlin has never missed a council meeting. He shakes hands at the hardware store, approves drainage projects, cuts ribbons, and drives a Tahoe with a badge on the plates. Cedar Falls printed his face on campaign signs and booster T-shirts. His wife Beth leaves the light on and doesn’t ask where he goes. She never has.
He drives two hours east on Highway 86, past gas stations where nobody knows his name, to an address with no signage on a side street with no lights. His guide, Luca, doesn’t care about his reelection chances. Luca cares about the handshake Jack can still feel three days later. the one from the fire chief at Tuesday’s council meeting, where a thumb slid across his palm and his whole body answered.
For forty-one years, Jack held the grip. Tonight, he lets go.
EX/CHANGED is a dark, explicit MM first time romance featuring a straight-to-gay awakening, anonymous guided encounter, and a small-town mayor who discovers that the man underneath the title was always someone worth being. Book 21 in The Back Room series. Standalone. 18+.
Content Note: Explicit MM scenes, first-time gay experience, institutional setting, and a politician who finally stops running for office and starts running toward himself. No fade to black.
