Thorns

Overview: How can love between two men possibly be responsible for a horse’s death during the Kentucky Derby? Reporter Will Yeats wants to know the truth. How can love between two men possibly be responsible for a horse{u2019}s death during the Kentucky Derby? Reporter Will Yeats wants to know the truth. Seventeen years ago, a love affair between a jockey and a horse trainer and a tragic accident on the racetrack scandalized the horseracing world. But Nic Pithiviers and Louis Meerow seem to have no desire to set the record straight: they refuse the interview and send attorney Francis LeBon to question Will{u2019}s motives. Francis has a special place in his heart for Nic and Louis, who taught him to take pride in himself as a gay man, and he{u2019}ll stop at nothing to protect them from a gossipmongering reporter. However, Francis doesn{u2019}t expect the reporter{u2019}s honesty and genuine determination to exonerate two men falsely accused{u2026} or the growing attraction to Will he feels. While visiting with Nic and Louis at their horse training center in France, Will uncovers a web of intrigue, secrets, and old lies, and he unwittingly sets a series of perilous events into motion that not only threaten to destroy his budding relationship with Francis, but Nic and Louis{u2019}s decades-long commitment as well Will sets off perilous events that threaten his budding relationship with Francis and Nic and Louis{u2019}s decades-long commitment