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Gerry Burnie Books

A bittersweet story of love, obsession, treachery, murder, and finally solace under the northern lights of big sky country, Saskatchewan.

Sheldon Cartwright is a young, handsome and gifted politician with a beautiful wife and two charming children. His career in ascendance as well, and given all this the sky seems the only limit to this talented, blue-eyed lad from rural Ontario.

However, Cartwright also has a hidden past that one day bursts onto the front page of a tabloid newspaper with the display of his nude photograph. Moreover, the inside story alleges that he was once a high-end, male prostitute with a male lover—a hulking and psychopathically obsessive killer—who has recently been declared murdered when a body is found in his burned-out apartment.

Enter a homophobic cop who is willing to go to any lengths to tie Cartwright into the crime, and the stage is set for a political downfall in spite of Cartwright’s valiant efforts to salvage it.