Rookie police officer Sean Patton’s world is turned upside down when he’s shot while out on a domestic dist28ce call. Sean is saved by his ballistic vest but is still injured, emotionally and physically. To make matters worse, he has to hide his sexuality.<br><br>His girlfriend, an attorney seven years his senior, is his saving grace, nursing him with good deeds and plenty of loving. He also enjoys the attentions of his best friend Jeremy, who was his lover college. And things are further complicated by his sexy and muscled captain, who admits to being bisexual, too.<br><br>Unfortunately in 1970s America, being anything other than straight is not on the menu. What’s a new officer to do? Will he lose his girlfriend when she discovers he’s attracted to men, too?

Officer Needs Assistance

Then, the train dream. As always, Christian sat on a crushed-velvet bench watching his mother scream in terror. She wouldn’t look at him, and he couldn’t move his arms to reach out for her.


The train hurtled through a barren landscape—a brutal, lifeless desert strewn with boulders, forever derelict on the barren ground. Each time the train rocked dangerously to one side, a sickening tension ran down his spine and into his gut. Through the forward window, he could see steam billowing. Moving shapes in the car in front of him resolved into pirates. His mother continued to scream, consumed in utter panic. Christian could do nothing to help her, and the guilt of his sins and the shame of his impotence consumed him with agony.


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