Touch-Me-Not

by Josh Thomas

Georgia Rose hides. She hides because she knows everything about people before they ever open their mouth and because grocery stores and movie theaters sound like excruciating rock concerts inside her head. She hides from the world, her friends, and any chance of love. Now she is being driven from her hiding place by someone who knows her secret. A menacing creature from her past, one with immense powers of his own, threatens to destroy her protected world and the trusted few who reside in it. As Georgia discovers, however, she is not alone. Others are watching and have a vested interest in her safety. As her current world unravels, a new world, filled with rare and exotic individuals, unfolds before her. Georgia races across the Rocky Mountains and into the Colorado flatlands. As she travels above ground and under water, through a brutal fight for survival and a desperate chance at love, her safety and future depends on her ability to do the most difficult of all-trust others.

362 pages, Paperback

First published November 21, 2013

About the author

Smalltown boy, native of Basketball Land. Became a cityboy in New York, Charlotte, Cincinnati, Columbus and Indianapolis. Literary heroes: Jane Austen, Joseph Hansen; diehard fan of the Purdue Boilermakers.

Former editor of Gaybeat, Ohio's Gay Newspaper. Three-time GLPA award-winner, including Best Investigative Reporter in America. Co-founder of AIDS Volunteers of Cincinnati, one of the world's first AIDS organizations, 1983.