Independence Daze — Bruce K. Beck

INDEPENDENCE DAZE is the third in Bruce K Beck's Holiday Novella Series.  Narrator Jerry Darnley has been nursing a broken heart for years, so he is slow to consider a new romance.  Slow until he meets a very cute, very energized young guy named Seth Greenly, who upends all of Jerry's polite notions of dating and sex. Jerry might be able to just enjoy his new fling, except that he has also entered into a quiet, more traditional courtship with a deeply attractive man—Connie Randolph—who offers Jerry true love and stability.  Let the games begin!  The setting is the contemporary New York City landscape in June—Gay Pride Month—leading to the Fourth of July and all the decisions that go along with independence. With a lot of help from his best friend from work, Lucinda Watson, Jerry navigates his heart and the ins and outs of love and lust.  When he finally decides on his future, it is because Jerry has experienced all his possibilities for a complete life.  Readers who fell in love with the characters from Book Two, MY EASTER MIRACLE, will be delighted to catch up with them and even the heroes of Book One, A BUCKSKIN CHRISTMAS.  New readers will simply be charmed by Jerry's dilemma and pleased to make new friends.