Next of Kin

Next of Kin

Pages

137

Rating

3.87

Year

2026

Description

Nick: I've always been the playboy of my friend group — the guy who's never been without a boyfriend or girlfriend or at least a regular hookup since high school. But lately, casual isn't doing it for me. It's a fact that becomes abundantly clear when I can't get it up for a hot guy I met at a coffee shop and invited back to my place. He's gracious and leaves without making a big deal of it, even offering me a rain check — which I don't take. When I hear the police sirens about a half hour after he left, I don't think anything of it except to wonder if they can find my missing libido.

Aaron: After my brother, Zack, is found in an alley, everything becomes about finding his killer. Unfortunately, neither the police nor my family have any idea what Zack was doing in that part of San Francisco. I have a suspicion, but with Zack's phone missing, the police don't know where to look. At a loss about what to do, but needing to do something, Zack's best friend and I start handing out flyers, trying to find someone who saw Zack or knew where he'd been. It's a long shot, but miraculously, someone calls to say he might have been the last person to see Zack alive.

Meeting under the most unlikely of circumstances, Nick and Aaron find a connection neither of them anticipated — a connection that leads them into each other's arms and each other's hearts.