Solitude & Sea Glass by T. D. McKinney & Terry Wylis
This is the classical high emotional story, maybe not much realistic, but for sure romantic. Holland is a former baby actor who spent all his childhood and youth in front of a camera. He had not a normal life, and he believed his image was the only thing that counted. Holland was also gay, and he knew that, but gay was not something that matched good with his clean-face image and so he repressed his feelings. Out of his teenager years he had finally the courage to play the role of a gay kid struggling and winning, but the consequences was a mad fan who scarred Holland for life. I don’t know, but maybe that was a sign for Holland that coming out was a mistake, that there was no place in the world for a scarred actor whose only worth was his beauty, or maybe everything was too much for him to bear… Holland decided to retire like an hermit in an Maine island and managed his money from afar.
15 years later Ruby, a young personal assistant is sent to help Holland for the summer. Ruby is interested in the charity foundations Holland can finance, but it doesn’t hurt that he had a crush for the actor when he was a teenager. Only that, the man he finds is not the one he expected. It’s not Ruby, young and penniless, who succumbs to the handsome actor, it’s Holland who is like a virgin maid in front of temptation: not only Holland has had not human touch in 15 years, but he has always denied to himself the man touch he craved. Ruby is young, pretty and like fresh balm on Holland wounds.
Thanks also to a storm that isolates them for some days, Holland and Ruby tighten a bond that is almost visceral, it’s not only love, it’s need: Holland needs Ruby and he is totally open to emotions without any shield. Holland who was so good in hiding his feelings when he was a young man, now as an adult he seems unable to do that. Holland cries, asks for help, pleads for love; and Ruby is there, open arms for him. But the paradise can last only some days, and both Holland than Ruby have to go back to their lives: Ruby the one he left only some months before, Holland to the one he abandoned 15 years before.
At this point the story shift on romance; but you all know that this is not a bad thing for me. Probably the resolution is even too romantic, the acceptance maybe unrealistic, but it’s nice to dream of a perfect ending for a good love story, the type of ending that usually you have for heterosexual romance, and that I hope there will be for same sex relationship.
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