Tripping Over The Edge Of Night

<p>Going home had never felt so wrong.</p><p> </p><p>When Derrick received the phone call informing him of his mother's death it felt like the bottom had dropped out of his entire world. Gone was every hope and ideal he'd left home with replaced with the bitter realization that he'd run out of time run out of plans and was desperately close to running out of give-a-damn.</p><p>It doesn't help to come face to face with his older brother Ray who'd spent much of his childhood either ignoring him ditching him or complaining about his very existence. It's enough to send him right back on the road again or at least it would have been were it not for a house a cat named Slash and Mason his best friend-with-benefits now the head librarian in town and hot as sin.</p><p> </p><p>It was hard enough leaving Mace in the first place but a second time well he didn't think he had it in him to be so heartless. Twelve years ago he'd slipped away under the cover of darkness without even a single goodbye. Now standing on the edge of night looking down at the tiny town he'd fled Derrick is left with one burning question:</p><p> </p><p>Can the door to the past ever be closed enough to allow space for the future?</p>