Yet a Stranger
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5.0 • 2 Ratings
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Publisher Description
When Auggie Lopez returns to Wroxall College, he's determined that his second year will be different from the chaos he faced as a freshman. He's living in the Sigma Sigma house, he's got a good group of friends, and his social media presence is growing. Meeting a hot older guy on move-in day is just the cherry on top. All he has to do now is avoid getting dragged into another murder.
That last part, though, turns out to be easier said than done, especially when Auggie's ex-roommate, Orlando, asks for help. Orlando's brother Cal has gone missing, and Orlando wants Auggie to find him.
Auggie knows he'll need help, but recruiting his friend—and crush—Theo is not as straightforward as he expects. While Auggie was gone for the summer, Theo has started dating someone, and neither Theo nor Auggie knows how to handle the shift in their relationship.
Finding Orlando's brother dead only makes their situation more complicated. Although the police are quick to write off the homicide as a drug deal gone wrong, Auggie and Theo aren't so sure, and Orlando begs them to keep investigating. To learn the truth, Auggie and Theo will have to untangle a web of lies while keeping each other safe from a killer who is determined to stop them.
As Auggie and Theo dig deeper, they realize that Cal was a stranger even to the people who thought they knew him. And Auggie and Theo both begin to fear that they are also strangers to each other.
Customer Reviews
You'll always get more from a sophomore.
After spending the summer with his family in California, Auggie Lopez, who is now out and proud, is ready to take his social media audience through his sophomore year Wroxall Campus in Wahredua, Missouri. His older brother Fer is as protective as ever, and struggles to hold their dysfunctional family together, or at least stave off disaster until he gets his little brother through college.
Professor Theo Stratford’s life has not gotten any easier. His relationship with the still-closeted Howard Cartwright, his late husband’s former partner in the Wahredua PD, is not something he is completely happy with. But between his own classes, teaching and visiting his disabled daughter, his grief over losing his husband, Theo just isn’t ready to deal with it, one way or another. It doesn’t help that he is struggling with a growing dependence on pills to get him through his day.
The last thing either of these men need is another investigation, but his friend Orlando’s brother is missing, and Auggie doesn’t know who else to turn to for help. Theo was hoping their separation during summer months might have helped he and Auggie get over their attraction to each other, but as they search for Cal while fending off attacks from a corrupt police detective, their feelings for each other only grow.
But it’s impossible.
Is it? Theo is a teacher, Auggie is a student, but they need each other if they’re going to catch a potential murderer.