Thaddeus "Tad" Meredith III will most likely never give a second thought to love and marriage. Escaping into the military from a rigid and controlling family had been his way of staying out of the limelight, once he had come out to his family. He remembers what happened, the disaster that had met his best friend when people in their circle discovered that he was gay. Even now, after two years out of the Navy, Tad is as cagey and mistrustful as he...