James Hamilton is forty-one, exhausted by a collapsing IT project, a house sale, and a relationship he knows is already over. Then a forgotten personal ad leads him to Gabriel Shui: steady, funny, cautious, and impossible to stop thinking about.

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What begins in late-1990s Los Angeles becomes a decades-long story of building a life together. James and Gabriel are not perfect men. Their love endures because they learn to be honest with each other, forgive, and keep choosing the life they have built.