It's always summer in William J. Mann's provocative, sexy bestsellers about life in Provincetown, Massachusetts, where the clubs are hot, the bodies are hotter, and the search for love and sex is always in season. Now he returns to the extraordinary story started in The Men from the Boys and continued in Where the Boys Are, as three friends face their greatest challenges yet.
Men Who Love Men
Fantasy is as real as you want to make it. And reality can be every bit as fantastic as you want it to be. It's your choice.
For Jeff O'Brien, life has finally fallen into place. He's now a bestselling author, living in Provincetown full-time with Lloyd Griffith, his longtime lover and soon-to-be legal husband. Forty has nothing on Jeff and Lloyd--they're the still-sexy poster boys for settled, contented domesticity. They seem to have everything, in fact--even a foster son, Jeff's 10-year-old nephew, whom they're helping to raise. And so, from near and far, friends are converging on Provincetown for the wedding of Jeff and Lloyd...but can these two famously non-monogamous freethinkers with their roving eyes really agree to "forsake all others?"
Meanwhile their best friend Henry Weiner, escort-turned-erotic energy worker, wonders if he'll ever find what Jeff and Lloyd have with each other. Thirtysomething, no longer the muscle boy of his twenties, Henry's searching for that one special someone--though he's just about ready to give up when a meeting at Tea Dance changes everything.
Enter Luke West. Dangerously young, boyishly handsome, with a seductive charm and a rich fantasy life, Luke tells everyone he's come to P-Town to find himself both personally and as a writer. But his real agenda may possibly be very different--and far less innocent. Once he's worked his way into Jeff and Lloyd's lives, Luke find his presence arousing intense feelings in all the men around him: desire, longing, recognition, need, compassion--and suspicion.
For as much as Henry desires Luke, he's been around long enough to know that the new boy isn't what he appears to be. Even as he succumbs to his charms, again and again, Henry's determined to reveal the secrets Luke is hiding. But what he learns only forces him to confront his own loneliness and his seemingly never-ending search for true love.
Behind the heady beach days and party nights of summer, Jeff, Lloyd, and Henry will face their futures alone and together, closing the door on some chapters of their lives while opening others to new love and hope.
With Men Who Love Men, William J. Mann tackles the big questions of contemporary gay life, delivering a beautiful, thoughtful book about love, sex, commitment, friendship, and fantasy, about the lives we engineer and the joyful surprises that happen when we least expect them.
