No one knows how many married men live their lives hiding a secret.
Men who have chosen a traditional life, who have concealed their sexuality, who have tried in vain to ignore the pulls and tugs inside them, who have never allowed themselves to explore their attraction to other men. Perhaps you married one of them. Perhaps he lives next door. Perhaps he’s your father, your brother, your cousin or your best friend. Perhaps you are him.
Five Married Men is a story about men who have found themselves in this situation, their lives and their emotions; five happily married men who finally decide to act on their urges. The reader sees inside their minds, sees how this dilemma affects their lives and the women they are married to.
An Excerpt from chapter 11:
In a room high above the city, a small island of space and time, five men plan to give themselves over to the mysteries ingrained in them before leaving the womb. In their hearts they had become brothers-within the privacy of four walls they were five nervous men on the threshold of an age-old fantasy. Together in secrecy they would explore the compatibility of their minds and bodies, knowing very little of each other, yet more than the rest of the world would ever know.
The first to arrive, Tim rented the room. One by one they dialed his cell phone from the lobby, and he let them in when they knocked on the door. The last to arrive, James took a chair near the window that overlooked the downtown skyline. They sat around the room in skittish knots, the world that would condemn them locked beyond a bolted door. They were a collection of sweaty palms and bodies comprised of identical poetry, of minds filled with doubt and adventure; five men standing shoulder- to-shoulder, trying to cast off their guilt on a road with no clear horizon.
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