Homicide Detectives Nick Valenti and Sean O'Brian have been partners and best friends for six years. Unlike other men, they have no problems to express their friendship with physical nearness, touches, hugs and so on, to an extent where they are rumored to be gay. They aren't however. But something in the way Nick sees his partner has changed recently: after Sean was stabbed almost to death, Nick suddenly realizes that he feels more than friendship for Sean. But what's he gonna do about it when Sean is "incorrigibly straight"?Then Vice asks for assistance from the homicide department. A drug dealer is about to spread bad coke in the gay clubs in San Francisco. To unveil him, an undercover action is required in the drug lord's "gay" hotel, the RamJack. Nick and Sean are the only detectives suited for the job. They have to play gay, and they have to be convincing, or else they're done. This story had a number of wonderfully done love scenes, a bit of introspection, misunderstanding, conflict within and outside. A fine little best-friends-to-lovers story, a nice gay-for-you. But that's about it. The plot is awfully far fetched. Honestly, a "gay" club hotel with male-only staff, where they only cater to "daddy-boy-couples", where there are dungeons, and a little bit of BDSM, but behold! not to much of it, where customers hold blowjob- and jackoff-contests and where the thugs rape other thugs as punishment rather than simply killing them? It's supposed to be a realistic contemporary, but it's just an erotic fantasy novel. Make the villains vampires or demons, and the cops demon - hunters, and there you are. But as anerotic fantasy, its beautiful, and the love story is gripping. Recommended for everyone who likes himself a heartbreaking conflicted angsty lovestory and doesn't care overly much for realism or plausibility
