I think the last line of the blurb for this books speaks absolute volumes about the story. Dan and Ian had a short love affair in college that ended when Ian took a job in Chicago and moved to take it. Dan felt abandoned and vulnerable-especially as he was still closeted. Still, he never forgot Ian and the closeness they shared. 
 Fifteen years pass. Dan is a police sergeant in the same town where he grew up. He's out, and lonely. He's had some rather serious relationships over the years, but none quite matches the intensity of his experiences with Ian. He often flips through Ian's social media in order to keep connected, without giving his interest away. When a particular trigger catches him unawares, Dan reaches out and learns that Ian's moving back to their college town-where Dan lives. 
 Ian asks for a ride from the airport, and Dan's confused but willing. They strike a spark, and it seems things will be going along as if they never left off...except. Except Dan's a suspicious cat. He's never sure that he's got the right read on things, and his cop's intuition continues to batter at his mind as he watches Ian-who has a shady direct sales business-outspend any reason. 
 I'm not saying that Dan's suspicions are unwarranted, it's just that he can't ever speak about them and lets them build up to a point that he reads as almost paranoid. Honestly, I was more than tempted to read ahead, because I was getting FREAKED OUT, for real. I'm not going to assure you that everything was just a misunderstanding, because that's all shades of gray, to be honest. Ian is a guy after a quick buck and he does get mixed up in somethings he should not. 
 Does that mean the end for Dan and Ian? Uh...sorta. For a bit. Dan has some real growing to do, and being honest is one of the steps he takes. I loved how passionate he was, and also Ian-who is NOT a bad guy-has so much love and compassion. These guys never really wanted to step away all those years ago, and coming together now is so right and sweet and terrifying all at once. There's a lot of sweetness in the book and that's what had me so nervous. You never want to watch good people get hurt, and-like Dan-I suspected severe hurt on the horizon. 
 I do appreciate the author's inclusion of a black MC, and I really enjoyed the flipped stereotype: Dan is a black cop suspecting his white boyfriend of criminal activity. I just wished I had a little more ethnicity to latch onto. Dan could have easily been a white guy. Apart from the cover photo if I hadn't been told he was black (on page 42) I would have never once suspected it. I'm not about stereotypes at all, I just want to have a better sense of the black community when I read about about black people. I have tons of black friends and I know that there are some specific community issues that could have been highlighted here to engage readers in a way that surpassed the romance. 
 That said, it's an interesting read, low angst, high suspense, with a second chance romance that really becomes a "three time's the charm" situation.