Cops, detectives, and anyone else involved in law enforcement have to be on guard all the time. Personal lives take a back burner and what they can have is somewhere between difficult and impossible. In this series, four men have taken a unique approach to these problems, not to mention they are gay, which makes everything even more complicated. They have secret get-togethers once a quarter, where they can relax and catch up with themselves and each other. One of the four gets to submit each time, having the other three's focus on him for an entire weekend. Since none of them submit easily (or would do so voluntarily, I suspect) they draw straws.

At the end of my review for the first book in this super hot series I mentioned my hope for a novel about the four men since I was curious about their unique relationship and wanted to find out more. Instead it looks as though there will be a mini-series, with one man the focus of each novella. In this second installment, it is Joe’s turn. He’s had it particularly rough lately, so he makes sure he draws the short straw—and they are off.

When the unexpected hits and Damon (their resident “geek”) has to reveal a secret he has kept, tempers flare and the guys’ emotions are all over the place. It becomes obvious pretty quickly that they are truly in love with each other as they pull together to help Damon as much as they can. I loved to see that side of them as it made them all a lot more real.

If you're looking for tough cops finding ways to decompress, if you enjoy stories with lots of man-on-man-on-man-on-man action, and if you're looking for a read that is hot and deeply touching as the men deal with a catastrophe of the personal kind, then you will probably like this novella. It promises much for the next volume in this series!


NOTE: This book was provided by Resplendence Publishing for the purpose of a review on Rainbow Book Reviews.
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