Surviving Cyril

When Robin Matheson's husband is killed in Afghanistan, she feels completely alone in her grief. If there's even one small silver lining to Tav's death, it's the fact that she'll never again have to talk to his best friend - a 500-pound "forever alone" hacker. That's what she thinks, anyway, until her three-year-old decides Cyril is now his best buddy, and Robin can't bear to take anything else away from her son.

Once upon a time, hacktivist Cyril Blanchard’s passionate letters won the heart of the woman he loved. Unfortunately, he let his best friend take the credit - and the girl. Robin discovered the truth years too late, after a hacking exploit gone south left her husband dead and Cyril in prison. Now he’s out, and Robin says she’s prepared to give him a second chance. Unlikely. Cyril may be pretty on paper, but in real life, he’s a belligerent, foul-mouthed neckbeard whose only coping mechanism is binge-eating his way back to 500 pounds.