After the Storm Breaks
Photographer Isaiah Cole came to Mississippi to document what Hurricane Katrina left behind. He didn't expect Boone Whitaker—angry, beautiful, and fighting a truth he's not ready to face.
A fender-bender becomes a collision of two worlds: New York sophistication and small-town expectations, openness and denial, a man comfortable in his identity and another terrified of his own desires. When their attraction ignites into something neither can ignore, Boone must choose: keep hiding or risk everything for a chance at real love. But in a place where being different means being other, where family approval comes with conditions, and where the past refuses to stay buried, choosing authenticity might cost Boone the only home he's ever known.
From the wreckage of Katrina's aftermath to the promise of new beginnings, this is a story about the courage to rebuild—not just communities, but lives, families, and hearts.
"St John refuses to offer easy answers, instead giving us the messy, complicated truth of two men
learning to love themselves before they can fully love each other."
— Lambda Review
