Chad is a twenty-three-year-old art student bartending his way through senior year at a Dupont Circle gay bar. His last two relationships ended with one man in rehab and one in federal prison. He’s sworn off men.
Then a nervous stranger walks in—bearish, broad-shouldered, dad bod, blushing at everything and looking at Chad like he hung the moon.
Hank is forty, closeted, and visiting a gay bar for the very first time. He’s also a Republican United States Senator from Georgia. Falling for a sharp-tongued bartender who sees right through him is the bravest and most reckless thing he’s ever done.
Between stolen dinners and late-night phone calls, they build a world they can’t bear to lose.
When a photograph exposes their relationship weeks before a pivotal election, they face an impossible choice: protect the careful lives they’ve built, or fight for the messy, terrifying, extraordinary love they’ve found.