Interstate transportation of stolen property calls for FBI intervention. Can the KCPD detective and the bureau agent break up the crime ring before anyone else is killed?
Detective Dean Cameron with the KCPD Property Crimes Department is investigating a rash of local business thefts. When the cases cross state lines, the FBI is brought into action. Dean welcomes sexy agent Matt Anderson’s help on the job, and before he’s decided if it’s a good idea, they wind up in bed. Sharing a desire that’s too hard to resist, the men fall into an intense physical relationship that both of them know can never last.
Impossible Relationships. Matt’s life is in Chicago and Dean’s in Kansas City. Neither of them wants a long distance love affair, but Dean can’t imagine not pursuing one. He’s head over heels, but Matt isn’t quite as convinced. When their most recent case takes a turn toward the deadly, what they want doesn’t seem to matter anymore. Racing against the clock, Dean is desperate to save Matt and see what can be salvaged of their relationship.
General Release Date: 7th November 2014
“Breathe! Hee hee, hoo hoo.” Detective Dean Cameron slapped the magnetic police light on top of his silver Escalade. As he started up the SUV, he glanced at his partner in the seat next to him.
Fear shone in her eyes as she clutched her very pregnant belly. “It’s too early!” Ava Barker grimaced as a contraction rocked her body.
“The doctor said you should be okay after thirty-six weeks. This is what? Thirty-seven?”
“Barely.” She ground out the word through gritted teeth.
“Well, judging by the amount of fluid you’ve lost, I doubt there’s any stopping this thing now.” He looked both ways before nosing the car into traffic and taking off.
“Sorry,” she mumbled through a groan.
“No worries, that’s what leather seats are for. I always knew they were practical for gunshot victims, but this is way better than that.” He punched a button on his steering wheel and the vehicle spoke to him.
“Say a command.”
“Call Brad’s cell,” he instructed the hands-free device, and glanced at Ava again. “Can you talk, or you want me to?”
Gasping, she shook her head.
“Remember your breathing.” He changed lanes and navigated around a corner.
The phone rang three times before it was answered. “Barker.”
“Brad, it’s Cameron. Ava’s water broke and we’re on our way to the hospital.”
“It’s too early!” he shouted back.
“Ready or not, it’s time to go, Daddy-o. We’re a couple minutes out. What’s your ETA?”
“Fifteen minutes if I push it.”
“Don’t break your neck, but get moving.”
Ava shot him a dirty look. “Hurry,” she groaned, and grabbed her stomach.
“I love you!” Brad called.
Dean glanced at Ava. Her face was contorted again. “She loves you too, man. See you in a few.” He disconnected the call. “I’m not going to get into this right now, but I can’t believe you waited until your contractions were so close together before you said anything.”
She scowled at him. “This is you, not getting into it?”
He smiled. “I guess. It’s a damn good thing your water broke or we might still be back there interviewing employees at the store.”
“It was a crime scene. I was supposed to say, ‘oh, excuse me, I think I might be in labor’?”
“Absolutely. Guess we should have gone over that part in all the pre-planning we did.”
“I guess.” She moaned. “God, Dean, it hurts.”
“Hang on, we’re almost there. When I called the captain he said he’d alert the ER. I’m sure they’ll have some nice pain meds to take the edge off.”
“They’d better.”
He grinned as he whipped into the emergency room’s circular drive and honked once. Two attendants wearing scrubs met them with a wheelchair and helped Ava from the SUV.
“I want drugs!” she yelled as they whisked her off.
“Good luck,” he shouted to their retreating forms.
“She’ll be fine,” a young nurse assured him from the doorway.
He nodded and as he parked, murmured, “I was talking to you.”
His partner was one strong woman. She’d advanced to the rank of detective quicker than most of the others he knew. There was no question Ava would be fine. He just hoped she wouldn’t leave a trail of nurses’ body parts between the entrance and the delivery room.
Inside the hospital, he was directed to the second floor birthing center waiting room.
“You can gown up and go in with her,” the nurse on duty there said.
He held up his hands. “No thank you. We work together, and some things you can’t un-see. Her husband will be here shortly.”
The woman chuckled. “Gotcha. It’s nice of you to bring her in.” Her gaze flickered to his left hand then back to his face in a matter of seconds. She smiled, a crinkly-eyed thing that even a gay man couldn’t miss for the flirting it was. Another bat of her lashes then she tucked a lock of brown hair behind one ear. “So, where do you work?”
“We’re cops. Detectives with the KCPD Property Crimes Division.”
Her eyes widened. “No fooling? Wow, how cool is that?”
Dean nodded. “Pretty cool.” He eyed the waiting room chairs longingly, wanting to slip away from the smitten woman without somehow being perceived as rude.
Brad Barker’s face appeared in the window of the locked door to the birthing unit. “Great, there’s her husband.” Dean motioned toward him.
The nurse buzzed Brad in and he dashed inside. “How is she?”
Dean shrugged. “I’m sure she’s fine, but I didn’t go in with her.”
Directing Brad to follow, the nurse said, “I’ll take you to her.” With one last smile at Dean, she led the nervous father away.
He took advantage of the distraction and found a corner to sit in. Several people arrived and kept the admitting nurse occupied. Relieved, he settled into the chair and pulled out his phone. After texting an update to his captain, he scrolled through some notes he’d made on their latest case.
Jenna Byrnes could use more cabinet space and more hours in a day. She'd fill the kitchen with gadgets her husband purchases off TV and let him cook for her to his heart's content. She'd breeze through the days adding hours of sleep, and more time for writing the hot, erotic romance she loves to read.
Jenna thinks everyone deserves a happy ending, and loves to provide as many of those as possible to her gay, lesbian and hetero characters. Her favourite quote, from a pro-gay billboard, is "Be careful who you hate. It may be someone you love."
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