Five middle-age, happily married men, having realized they will not live forever, form a secret bond and give in to their inner demons.
What causes a man to risk his career and a marriage of twenty years? What comes into the world with him, inside him, that steals his thoughts and inspires risks that others can’t comprehend? David Westin knows. He knows the power of a man’s hand on the arm of another man. He has lain awake at night, staring at the ceiling long enough to realize this haunting need won’t allow him to go to his grave wondering what might have been. When the day comes that his best friend reveals a lifelong secret, their destiny is uprooted and cast to the wind.
Together, they enter a world of discovery, of physical adventure neither of them could have imagined, of elation and joy, of heartache and deception and tears. Come to know what sets them apart from the general brotherhood of man, the inner voice that compels like minded men to open a door they can never close. Touch the soul of this lawyer and contractor and understand why they gave themselves to their urges.
Most men would have difficulty talking about this novel; though many, alone in quiet contemplation would feel its effect as deeply as the marrow of their bones. When guided by the chemistry they were born with, they are among those who secretly feel like the fortunate few. They recognize the magic and the mystery of being a man in harmony with the poetry of his body.
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It was a room high above the city, an island of space and time where five men planned to give themselves over to the mysteries ingrained in the womb. In their hearts they had become brothers—within the privacy of four walls they would be five nervous men on the threshold of an age-old fantasy. Together in secrecy they would explore the compatibility of their minds and bodies, knowing very little of each other, yet more than the rest of the world would ever know.
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