Structural Damage

He spent twenty years building walls. It only took one man to tear them down.

Garrett Cole is a forty-two-year-old construction foreman who knows exactly who he is: divorced, disciplined, and emotionally hollow. He runs his job sites with an iron fist and keeps his head down. But when his best carpenter loses his apartment, Garrett does something entirely out of character and offers him his spare room.

Twenty-four-year-old Julian Reyes is everything Garrett is not. He's vibrant, openly gay, a...