Scott Bailey

Pete is a gay man from Philadelphia whose fear of intimacy leads him to getting involved with married men. His father Ron, and his soon-to-be step mom, Pamela, are on him to find someone who's actually available and to settle down. Instead, he finds a man named Jack who is fifteen years into a perfect marriage with two beautiful children ...

Several characters who are each at critical stages of their lives are strangely impelled towards an uncharted lake in the middle of the desert where they all have the opportunity to save each other.