Square One

by Dale Chase

When Noah Dahl ends an eight-year Hollywood relationship with actor Reece Landreth, he heads north to the family home he inherited years before, intending to make a new start. What he doesn’t anticipate is finding his boyhood crush Glenn Wager has also returned.


Though Noah suffers from his breakup, he finds Glenn suffering far more from difficult circumstances surrounding the death of his mother. As Noah’s boyhood feelings return, he must acknowledge that twenty-four years have passed and work at approaching the troubled Glenn as a man, not a boy.


But Noah quickly finds obstacles in his way, namely Glenn himself. Can the two ever fully reunite and possibly build a life together?

69 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 12, 2019

About the author

Dale Chase has been writing gay male erotica for sixteen years with over 150 stories published in magazines and anthologies, including translation into Italian and German. Her second novel "TAKEDOWN: Taming John Wesley Hardin" will be published by Lethe Press in November 2013. Her first novel "WYATT: Doc Holliday"s Account of an Intimate Friendship" was published in 2012. Two e-collections followed in 2013: "Crack Shot: Western Erotica: and "A Private Business: Victorian Erotica," all from Bold Strokes Books. Dale's novellas "Lonely as God" and "The Man I Know" have recently been published by Wilde City Press. Dale continues to write old western erotica.

Reviews

[Brievon · Rating 2 out of 5]

This story started out well. It is very well written and the author was good at evoking emotions right from the start. My heart ached for Noah when Reece told him another man was moving in. What I didn't like was the characters. They were all very self absorbed. And I really don't like cheating. I especially didn't like that Noah hid his cheating from Glenn. I would have empathized with Noah more if he came clean with Glenn and told him that Reece came back and they had sex. I was ready to give this story 4 stars because it was so well written but the egocentricity of all the characters and Noah's poor choices just left me feeling disappointed at the end.

[SJ · Rating 4 out of 5]

Such a unique plot and interesting characters!

[Ali · Rating 2 out of 5]

A Scattered Thoughts and Rogue Words Review An Alisa Review:

Rating: 2 stars out of 5

This story was not for me. It started out alright though it was strange how Noah just casually and calmly left his relationship without even talking about it. I didn’t really get the connection to Glenn or how it all started so quick.

I felt that Noah just seems to jump into any relationship and 2 days after meeting Glenn again he offers for him to move in. My biggest pet peeve was the cheating, I mean, seriously, who sleeps with their ex just because of an argument? And then he basically hides it and never brings it up, umm no. There was no connection to the characters or really the story either.

The cover art by Written Ink Designs is okay but I didn’t feel it had any connection to the story.