<p><strong>Harlan Evans saved Ben's life, long before they met.&nbsp;Meeting him was more than Ben could hope for, and it might be about to ruin everything.</strong></p><p></p><p>Ben Quirke became a writer after reading No Man's Land, Harlan's controversial novel, written when he was only twenty and Ben was little more than a boy.&nbsp;When Ben meets the now-famous writer, the last thing he expects is for Harlan to give him more than a minute of his time.&nbsp;Never mind ask him to dinner. </p><p>A chance encounter, and a chance of a lifetime, for Harlan holds the rights to a book too hot to publish.&nbsp;Too hot for anyone, that is, except Ben and his pulp shop Baron Press.But the burly heroes and green-skinned girls of the dime-store book rack are light years away from Harlan's uptown life of martinis and bebop.&nbsp;And when Harlan's interest in him crosses into dangerous territory, how long can Ben stay afloat on the churning seas of sleaze?&nbsp;Or will the business he built from nothing be the thing that breaks his heart? </p><p></p><p>A gay midcentury romance about loss, legacy, and the inalienable right to read dirty books.</p>