Worth Keeping: The Triad's Son (The Chosen Family Universe)

Danny Monroe has been carrying things quietly since he was six years old.His father's baseball. His mother's rings. The careful okays he says when he means something else entirely. The specific discipline of a boy who learned too young that carrying things quietly was what you did when the people who loved you needed you to be okay.When his mother dies and leaves him in the care of three men — a CEO, a bank president, and a senior vice president who adopted him because nobody else was available — Danny does what he has always done. He performs okayness. He says yes in a courtroom because it is the only answer available. He goes to school in Massachusetts because the man who chose him also chose the best boarding school in New England without asking Danny what he wanted. He waits, patiently and alone, for someone to notice.Someone does.Worth Keeping is the story of Danny Monroe finding his place in the world — and the story of three men who thought they knew what fatherhood required until a plate of Christmas cookies, a letter to Santa, and a seventy-three year old woman who said exactly what nobody wanted to hear showed them everything they had been getting wrong.Readers of The Triad Arc — Hearts Over Numbers, All Hands on Deck, and Built to Last — will recognize the world of Temple Bank, the penthouse on the Upper East Side, and the three men at the center of it all. But this story belongs to the boy they chose. You do not need to have read the Triad Arc to fall in love with Danny Monroe. But if you have, you already know these men are worth knowing.Worth Keeping is the first book in The Chosen Son Arc, a spin-off series set in The Chosen Family Universe. It is a story about grief and belonging and the quiet courage it takes to believe you are worth keeping — even when nobody told you so. Part of the Chosen Family Universe — an interconnected saga of gay, straight, bisexual, and polyamorous love stories where family is chosen, bonds cross generations, and no story ever truly ends. New to the Chosen Family Universe? Two great starting points await — follow the Holiday Narrative beginning with Love Grants Both Their Quests, or discover the Temple Bank Narrative beginning with Hearts Over Numbers. Both paths lead deeper into a world where love is chosen and family is built to last. However, this book — Worth Keeping — is a complete story in itself and will give you a deeply satisfying read entirely on its own. Read more