Kaden had little time to live his own life as a high school English teacher in Wausau. His obsession with giving his students a better opportunity to succeed in life had brought him to the brink of a physical and emotional breakdown. So when an old college friend invited him to spend the summer in the countryside near Wittenberg, Kaden couldn't say yes fast enough. Not long after arriving, he meets a mysterious stranger in a bar. The chiseled and masculine Avery exudes country. He gushes beauty. It's an attraction Kaden cannot deny, but he quickly trades one obsession for another when he can't find Avery the next day. What's worse, everyone acts like they don't know who he is. Kaden knows the village harbors a terrible secret, and his quiet summer turns into a blazing adventure as he tries to find the man who only appears under the cover of darkness. The world he knew to be true will be turned upside down as his search takes him to places both fantastic and cursed. The endgame will be beyond Kaden's imagining, but are he and his mystery man in the cowboy hat are meant to live happily ever after?