When Yanni Tomaras is kicked out of his family home, his parents’ final words are religious insults and an order to never come back. Homeless and eager, he’s lured in by Lance-charming externally, an bad predator underneath-who abuses Yanni until he discovers the courage to keep.

Yanni should feel free. But by enough time Spencer Cohen finds him, he’s resigned to becoming handed back to Lance as soon as again being caged by fear.

Starting college and a part-time job, Yanni begins to reclaim his about Yanni’s Tale lifestyle. But a appreciate for silent movies prospects him to Peter Hannikov, a man with a sort center but who’s double his age group. An unlikely companionship between them blooms into so much more. Neither man understands what he desires, at first. Finding out exactly what he needs can be Yanni’s story.

‘I’d spent years like a bird, caged with my wings clipped, tormented and beaten. I thought I’d escaped when I’d remaining my abuser, however in hindsight, I possibly could see that I was still caged, this time by dread and self-doubt. Spencer and Andrew, and Andrew’s parents, opened up the door to the cage that limited me. But it was Peter who trained me how to fly.’

Contains mature themes.