The Return

<p>The Austin Trilogy: Book Two</p><p>Music. Topher Manning rarely thinks about anything else, but his day job as a mechanic doesn't exactly mesh with his rock star ambitions. Unless he can find a way to unlock all the songs in his head, his band will soon be on the fast track to obscurity. </p>
<p>Then the South by Southwest music festival and a broken-down car drop New York critic Stanton Porter into his life. Stanton offers Topher a ticket to the Bruce Springsteen concert, where a hesitant kiss and phantom vibrations from Topher's cell phone kick off a love story that promises to transcend ordinary possibility.</p><p><img alt="Rainbow Award Winner" height="175" src="http://i638.photobucket.com/albums/uu102/dreamspinnerpress/Award%20banners/WinnerMD.jpg" style="margin: 6px;" title="Rainbow Award Winner" width="175">
Winner in the 2013 Rainbow Awards.
Third: Best Gay Contemporary General Fiction</p>