

The bond they form is stronger than either expected or wanted.

But a non-date of hot sex and takeout food with Noel? He can squeeze that in. His two jobs, in a deli and as a stripper, leave him no time for a social life. Shane has big-time debts to repay, especially to the brother who sacrificed nearly everything for him.

But he can’t get the encounter out of his mind. When a night-shift call brings him face to thonged butt with a hired stripper whose girl-party gig went terribly wrong, Noel takes pity on the guy and lets him go. That doesn’t stop him from wanting one, though. Officer Noel Carlson isn’t out to anyone in small-town Stratton, Pennsylvania, only to distant friends and family, so a relationship is out of the question. Lies are the chains that keep you weighed down at rock bottom.
