WINNER, IPPY BOOK AWARDS, LGBTQ+ FICTION WINNER, 2023 BEST INDIE BOOK AWARD, LGBTQ2 FICTION SHORT LIST, VCU CABELL FIRST NOVELIST AWARD ON LAMBDA LITERARY REVIEW'S SEPTEMBER MOST ANTICIPATED LIST ONE OF QUEER FORTY'S BEST PRIDE READS FOR SUMMER 2023! Three gay men in pre-Stonewall New York City find their fates thrown together in the police raid of a Village bar. Roger Moorhouse is a Wall Street banker and Westchester family man with a preciously guarded secret. As the shouting begins and flashlights blaze in his face, the life he's carefully curated over the years-a fancy new office overlooking lower Broadway, a house in Beechmont Woods, his wife and children-is about to come crashing down around him. Columbia literature professor Julian Prince lives a comparatively uncloseted life when he finds his first committed relationship tested to its limits. How could he explain to Gus, a fearless young artist, that he couldn't stay with him that weekend because the woman who was still technically Julian's ...