Ryan
Happy New Year to me. My best friend just got engaged to my twin brother, leaving me feeling more alone than ever. I'm stuck at the vineyard for the New Year's party, surrounded by happy couples and tragically without a date. My lack of midnight kissing partners changes when a gorgeous man with glossy pink lips gives me the most toe-curling, lust-inducing kiss of my entire life. I've never met a man so stunning as Darian.
Darian
It's painfully apparent I've fallen for a straight guy, but after the way Ryan Kingston kissed me on New Year's Eve, I couldn't let him walk away. He's never been with a man before, much less a man like me who likes pretty silk shirts and fruit-flavored lip gloss, but he's taking it all in stride and so am I. Between ice cream dates, shopping trips, and exploration between the sheets, he's pretty good at convincing me that maybe we could be the real thing.
But my dreams are bigger than the vineyard, bigger than him. And when the opportunity of a lifetime lands in my lap, I can't turn it down. It doesn't matter that the job of my dreams will put an entire country between us. I know, sooner or later, Ryan is going to remember he's straight and call things off between us.
Except… he doesn't. In fact, Ryan is telling me something I never expected to hear. He isn't straight anymore, and now he wants to be my boyfriend...for keeps.