after his bigshot life in new york tragically falls apart james montgomery returns to his small hometown in south georgia a defeated and broken man all he has left is his mother to help him heal and regain his confidence before hes ready to get back out and reconquer the worldbut being bigcity gay in a small southern town has its own challenges in addition to coming to grips with what happened in new york his hometown of lawder throws its own curveballs at him james is confronted with a bitter enemy from his school days and frustratingly cant seem to avoid the guy his mother suddenly wants to expand the family the one guy james takes a liking to and starts dating has a lot of hangups about being gay and he watches almost helplessly as a new young bully starts to repeat the kind of abuse he suffered during his own school dayshere where he grew up the one place he should feel safe james feels maddeningly offbalance he starts to think that maybe going home was a bad idea after all maybe hed be better off moving on and really starting over completely from scratch maybe he should walk away from lawder just like he walked away from his life in new yorkbut maybe if hed give it a chance hed rethink everything he ever thought he wanted out of life and maybe what he thought was important isnt so important after all maybe he could have everything he never realized he wanted if he just looked around himself for a moment