Meet two men who need each other’s help but don’t realize it until it’s almost too late.<br><br>Noah is gay and terrified someone might find out. So much so that when he was blackmailed with pictures of himself with another man, instead of coming clean, he left his SEAL team without a word.<br><br>The other man is openly gay Mason, a former Marine and now part of the FBI’s Joint Terrorist Task force. It takes eight years after their first meeting in the desert for a chance event bring the two men together again. Now Noah must decide if he’s ready to accept who he is or if it’s easier to cut and run. Can they navigate the obstacles in their path to build a relationship? And why does the thought of that scare them more than investigating a group of terrorists?

In His Sights

Twenty hours earlier, Mason’s phone had rung. His boss had called to ask Mason—well, actually, orderMason—to come to his office for a meeting. Mason remembered stepping out of his truck. At that time, he’d expected the meeting to suck. But deep down he had held onto the tiny, as in a newborn flea, bit of hope his boss planned to tell him the powers that be had given some more thought to what Mason had told them, and they finally seemed to think he was right. His optimism had died when he’d walked into his boss’s office, and his boss addressed him by his full title, and not simply Carlyle. Right then Mason had known the meeting wasn’t going to end well. The tightness in his stomach had extended to his chest when he’d spotted his boss’s boss, Associate Deputy Director Chandler, perched in the corner.


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