The Chicago streets are no place to be homeless on your eighteenth birthday. The summer sun burns with sweaty humidity, and the winter wind drives stinging sleet. Brandon, thrown out of his father's house for being gay, must find a way to survive, alone, in this strange new world. Or not completely alone: because those who live on the street form a sort of community, untrustworthy and always shifting, but better than nothing. And the men who pay to touch his body, taste his skin, are a source of pleasure and profit. But it's Cray, the mysterious and troubled freight-jumper, who makes survival worthwhile. With Cray by his side, in his arms, he can not only survive but thrive on the hard cracked streets of Chicago.
But survival is rarely so simple, and never so romantic, because Cray has some cracks of his own, and those city streets are stalked by a killer with a hatred for rentboys like Brandon. He must find a way to use his wit and sexuality as a weapon, or succumb to the forces that want to grind him down and wash him away in the cold lakeshore rain.
This novel contains all four parts of the Sleeping Rough series in one volume.
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The Chicago streets are no place to be homeless on your eighteenth birthday. The summer sun burns with sweaty humidity, and the winter wind drives stinging sleet. Brandon, thrown out of his father's house for being gay, must find a way to survive, alone, in this strange new world. Or not completely alone: because those who live on the street form a sort of community, untrustworthy and always shifting, but better than nothing. And the men who pay to touch his body, taste his skin, are a source of pleasure and profit. But it's Cray, the mysterious and troubled freight-jumper, who makes survival worthwhile. With Cray by his side, in his arms, he can not only survive but thrive on the hard cracked streets of Chicago. But survival is rarely so simple, and never so romantic, because Cray has some cracks of his own, and those city streets are stalked by a killer with a hatred for rentboys like Brandon. He must find a way to use his wit and sexuality as a weapon, or succumb to the forces that want to grind him down and wash him away in the cold lakeshore rain. This novel contains all four parts of the Sleeping Rough series in one volume.