When his boyfriend of 3 years dumps him, Zach runs off to Provincetown, MA on a whim because he saw an ad for it in OUT Magazine. It was supposed to be a way to help get over the heartbreak of being dumped while also proving that he didn't need to rely on his ex to shield him from the world. Zach is very out-of-place in P-town. He has the wrong clothes, the wrong hair, and the wrong attitude. Fortunately, he has the luck to land a spur-of-the-moment cancellation for a condo run by a couple of guys who know how to get him started off on the right foot. 
 When Zach runs into Van, Van happens to be hiding from fans of his alter ego, the porn star Hart Throb. Zach has no clue who Van is, which is very appealing to Van, who is tired of people only seeing him as Hart and not looking at him for himself. (This is a situation Van chose to put himself in to keep his heart from being abused and broken again.) Though each is thunderstruck by the other, the moment slips past them both. 
 Zach's fairy godfather, that being the condo owner, Gary, takes him shopping and out to some of the regular parties, showing him around what P-town can be. Zach has been holding himself in check because of his past. Now is the time to let loose and be wild, and so he does. When Van sees the newly made-over Zach, he's less than thrilled because it seems P-town has eaten the unique man he saw and regurgitated just another manwhore. But Zach realizes that's not really who he is; he's still trying to rediscover himself. 
 Eventually Zach and Van run into each other again. For their own reasons, each is wary of getting too involved with the other. When they do head out together along with their mutual friends, they agree that it is NOT a date. And because of that, they get comfortable with each other in ways they probably wouldn't have otherwise. They bare themselves in unexpected ways. For Zach, this stirs his muse and he finally begins to write again. For Van, he opens his heart in a way he figured he never would again. But this is just a vacation for Zach, and they both know it, so when the good times have been had, one of them hurts the other to drive a wedge between them, because it's easier to leave when the emotion involved is hate, not love (or the fear of losing it yet again). 
 There are a couple of tropes at play in this story, the typical "vacation" Townie vs. visitor trope ("My vacation is over and now I must leave. This sucks. What does that mean for us?") and the average Joe vs. the sex-worker trope ("I don't know if my jealousy can deal with him having sex with other men.") I've read several of these before, but the combination of the two works well together in this story. (view spoiler)[I also rather liked Zach writing his ending to their tale, putting the words and emotions into Van's own mouth, essentially, before Van himself said them. It did its job in the end. (hide spoiler)] The overall tone is sweet, and I really enjoyed the read, finishing the story in one day. 
 I look forward to reading other stories in the Provincetown series and more by this author.