Fenn Houghton and his significant other, Todd are quickly going broke. That's the bad news. But they find half a million dollars; that's the good news. It belongs to a drug lord who will do anything he can to get it back. Bad news again. Fenn's sister, Adele doesn't know what's worse, learning of her husband's cheating ways, or learning who he's cheating with, and for how long. A young boy is sent to live with his grandparents in hopes that he will give up his criminal ways, but no one knows of his grandparents' all too criminal past and occasionally risky present; and while two girls deal...

Well, when last we left off Noah Riley was being held at gunpoint in Fenn Houghton's house over some money that he had stolen, only he hadn't stolen it and it was drug money anyway. Not that they were really doing drugs. Well, they were, but the drugs were being done at a party for a pornstar and Todd, Fenn's significant other was filming it. That's because Fenn and Todd were running out of money and Fenn's sister was finding out that her husband was not only cheating on her, but had a secret family, with her secret sister. See, Adele had a sister she never knew about who turned out to be her...

THE CITY OF ROSSFORD The night of the gang rape, Chay got the call, and all the days around that time people would shake their heads and say, "Things like this don't happen in Rossford. Things like this never happen." So begins the fourth Rossford novel. Nearly ten years have passed since Fenn Houghton and his lover Todd made off with Ed Callan's money, and on the night we return to Rossford it is haunted by an attack on an innocent, young girl. In a story darker that the previous triptych, while old characters and old joys remain, a new darkness and new people come into the story of Rossford...

"But you're leaving me. For him." Dylan shook his head. "It isn't like that. It's not him." "Then, I don't..." "I'm not leaving. I'm just not your boyfriend. And it's because we don't work. Not really. And we shouldn't work. It shouldn't be an issue...".. Dylan said, fighting it and pulling away. "I am too young to be this old... "It's about...how if I keep this up I'll be a senior citizen at thirty." Dylan Mesda is fifteen years old, and caught between two loves and an almost uncontrollable sexuality. But he is not the only one going through changes. Between Paul and Noah, long settled into...

"When it happened, all those years ago, when I knew what I had done I felt so sick. So dirty. There are moments now, years later, when the day is bright and everything seems so beautiful, and then I slip into that darkness. I'm in that day again where I did what I did. I want to die. So that's why I'm careful with us. That's why I walked away tonight and won't come back until after midnight. That's why I keep my distance, always try to check my emotions, my lust. That's why I always whisper, 'Are you okay? Are you alright?' when we make love. That's why we can be friends, friends who sleep in...

Fenn said, "You have a great musical gift and it comes from Tom. You think of him as a very sweet, very dear man, and he is. But he once composed an entire score in his head on a train ride. That's the thing about geniuses, they rarely know they are." Dylan asked his father, "Have you ever told Dad that?" "It wouldn't sound right. Tom has always had a hard time believing in his own brilliance. He never believed it when I told him how great he was. But... if he wasn't what I said he was, then why would I have loved him?" To come to the end, you must go to the beginning, and so the last...

We begin where we left off, at a Christmas Eve party full of presents. Tom now has a son, and Fenn has... a lot of explaining to do. Bryant, after years of lovelessness now finds the beginnings of love with Chad North though Claire Anderson may have something to say about it. Noah, to the surprise of Danasia, and everyone else, admits that a new arrival, his old friend James, is the love of his life and the one thing that could make him blush. In the conclusion of the Triptych, all must be resolved. Some relationships will be consummated, while others end, some virgins will be unvirgined and...