When nowhere is safe in the world you know, you have to hide... or start making a new one.Robert is eleven when his best friend dies and he learns that if he wants to survive in the world he has to be 'normal'. He buries his feelings, his awful childhood memories, and his suspicion that he is gay. Even when he falls in love with Johnny, he pretends it isn't happening, and buries those feelings too, choosing safety in the closet, a career as a lawyer, a wife and kids, and suburban happy ever after... Until Johnny returns needing help, and then disappears, and Robert's façade begins to crack in heartbreaking and dreadful circumstances.Only one other person saw what happened that night, and after being arrested for drunk and disorderly, he vanishes.Trying to keep his secret and himself safe isn't Robert's only priority. He wants justice too. But when the police force is corrupt from the top down, justice isn't merely elusive, it's an impossibility. Or so it...