Safe And Sound

Twenty years after losing his hearing and being convicted of a crime he didn't commit, Regan Moulin is certain of exactly two things: One, that life will always be full of pain, and two, he will always be in love with his childhood best friend, Isaac McKinnon. It doesn't matter that circumstance tore them apart, or that he hasn't spoken to Isaac since they were nineteen. He still loves him. He's just learned how to survive without him.
But a few weeks into winter, a familiar face rolls into town-one that threatens to completely disrupt Regan's life by offering him the cruelest thing he can possibly think of: Hope. Isaac thrived exactly the way Regan expected him to, and he wasn't supposed to show back up in their crappy little hometown with open arms, and a heart that still aches for Regan. He wasn't supposed to still want him. He wasn't supposed to be the only thing in the world that can still make Regan feel safe and sound.
But here he is, with all their childhood promises of forever cupped gently between both hands, and for the first time in Regan's life, within reach.