Eighteen years ago, Henry Cole broke Gabe Saunders’s heart. Now he needs a place to stay.
At thirty-eight, Henry is starting over. His marriage is ending, his thirteen-year-old daughter barely speaks to him, and the apartment that was supposed to be their fresh start has a collapsed ceiling. The last man he should call is the first man he ever loved.
Gabe answers anyway.
At forty, the architect has built a life that works: a restoration studio, a house full of things he fixed himself, and no room for the man who walked away without an explanation. He offers Henry and his daughter two bedrooms, six weeks, and rules written in black ink.
The past stays out.
Nobody gets comfortable.
Nobody plans past six weeks.
But shared dinners become lingering looks. Thin walls make forgetting impossible. And the man Henry never stopped wanting is suddenly close enough to touch.
As his daughter begins to find her feet in Gabe’s studio, Henry catches glimpses of a life he never let himself imagine. A home that holds all of him. A man he can love without leaving before morning.
Then small-town gossip and his father’s interference threaten the biggest commission of Gabe’s career. Henry knows how to make the trouble disappear.
He also knows exactly what hiding would cost them.
This time, asking Gabe to let him stay won’t be enough. Henry has to prove he can stop running.
A Safe Place to Land is a high-heat, standalone MM romance featuring reunited first loves, forced proximity, a single dad learning to live openly, a guarded architect, found family, and a hard-won happily ever after.
