On the Ledge

<p>Shale Malloy was ready for something easier than a painful pathetic existence. Each time he failed to find a way out; he tried to live better. He wasn't very good at it. Not after being violently assaulted and left for dead. He survived but his boyfriend didn't</p><p>The wound his death left behind festered.</p><p>Sent off to college away from small-minded small-town folk his family didn't want the trouble he'd brought into their lives. He was on his own despite a whole new world of people and possibilities. His plans remained the same despite the distractions until they were derailed by his dead boyfriend and the new man in his life.</p><p>Living wasn't easy after so much loss but Shale had to learn to step off the ledge-with a little help.</p>