You never forget your first love. No matter how hard you try. The whole Marines thing didn’t work out so well for Benito Quintana, but one dishonorable discharge and a few alcohol-soaked years later, things are looking up. He’s almost a year sober. He has a new job in a new town where no one knows his history of failure, so he can start fresh. He’s totally got this. When Michael Washington caught his best Benito with his tongue down some guy’s throat, his brain short-circuited and everything he thought he knew about himself went right out the window. Benny ran away to the Marines before they had a chance to talk. Mikey’s world crumbled again when the death of his wife forced him to drop out of law school to raise his infant daughter. Now he’s ready to give in to his long-suppressed desires. What better place than the Pride Masquerade Party for an anonymous hookup? It isn’t until the masks come off that Mikey realizes he’s screwed in more ways than one.