"When button-down biracial lawmaker Cassidy Uematsu meets hardscrabble fry cook Buford “Jax” Jackson, it’s lust at first sight. They’re only too happy to jump into the sack, and when Jax loses his condom mid-getting-to-know-you, Cassidy urges him forward, damn the consequences. What’s the worst that can happen?
After a couple weeks of morning sickness and a few months gaining weight, Cassidy learns an unfathomable secret about the men in his family that he’s pretty sure he was happier not knowing. Jax is a fan of Cassidy’s rapidly rounding belly, and of the sexy “Dude Mama” roleplay it inspires.
But the night he feels a kick inside Cassidy’s growing belly, Jax hightails it, certain at least one of them has lost his damn mind. A pregnant dude? That’s impossible. As the ninth month since the condom mishap approaches, Cassidy sure hopes he’s right."
Cassidy Uematsu was the first openly gay Republican of Japanese ancestry to be elected to the Colorado House of Representatives before age thirty-five. All these things were true about him, but until he’d read that description of himself in the free weekly newspaper that covered Denver clubs, trends, and politics, he wouldn’t have thought there was such a specific legislative niche waiting to be filled. He was also of Norwegian ancestry—he didn’t speak Norwegian, but his mom had lived in Oslo until she was a teenager, and growing up he’d understood well enough to know when he was in big trouble—but that hadn’t yet warranted a mention. Presumably, the young gay Norwegians had long since stormed the State house. Whatever. Cassidy wasn’t afraid to play the diversity game. He knew he ‘looked