Finding Absolution: Van Duggins makes the trip from Oahu to Wyoming for the annual Cattle Valley Days celebration. He expects to be bored out of his mind without an ocean in sight. What he didn't expect was to meet a man who would change his life forever. Jon Porter returned home after college to help his ailing grandpa take care of the family farm. He doesn't begrudge giving up his chosen career to help the man who raised him, but his situation has been hard on his love life. How can two men find common ground when one makes a living in the soil and the other in the surf? Fingerprints & Muddy Feet: At the age of eighteen, Nate Gills was forced out of his family for being gay. With hush money in his pocket and anger in his heart, Nate fled Washington DC for Chicago to start a new life. Although he eventually found love with two wonderful men, he buried his feelings of abandonment behind a facade of confidence. When a horrific accident takes the lives of his younger brother and sister-in-law, Nate is forced to revisit the emotions he'd worked so hard to bury. In a twist of fate, Nate is named guardian of a niece and nephew he's never met, putting him into direct conflict with the father who shunned him so many years earlier."