Disgraced cop Doyle McCann and former undercover cop Kord Verlangen are forced to partner on a cold case which they must solve or lose their jobs. Doyle is gay and out; Kord says he's straight. Both harbor secrets they never want revealed.<br><br>The case, involving a series of gay bashings two years earlier, takes them through the underbelly of Philadelphia's gay nightlife, and Doyle has reason to believe the Mafia may also be involved.<br><br>Following years' old leads is hard enough. But working together proves even more difficult as the sexual tension between Doyle and Kord rises and begins to overwhelm their focus. As they come closer to solving the case, their team is split down the middle, threatening to destroy any chance for them to keep their jobs. What will it take to get them working again and keep them on track?

Family Bashings

Alexa Pulaski walked past him and said, her voice low, “This sucks, McCann. The captain is a shit.”


Doyle felt that Pulaski wasn’t just speaking for herself and, in this whole mess, that made him feel at least something good had happened.


Then, placing the box under one arm, he turned back to look at the office where he’d worked for so long. The room was silent but no longer as cold as it had been. He turned around and took the old wooden stairs down to the first floor and left it all behind.


For a long time, Doyle stood in the station house doorway, as if he were looking for the right way to proceed. Peering at the parking lot, memories came flooding back. He’d headed out for more assignments than he could remember from this parking lot. He’d ridden on those assignments with two partners before Kord. It was here that he’d returned when those assignments were over, including the one that ended in the Incident.


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