Elusive Relations

Quaid Valor and Aslan Doyle are rival detectives who work on opposite sides of the same building. That arrangement suits them. It lets both pretend a single night they spent together never happened.

Then Aslan catches a homicide and learns that one of the victims has a personal history with Quaid. A confrontation between the two men can no longer be avoided. Once word of the case gets around, Quaid pushes his way in, wanting answers for the victims' families and for himself.

He joins Aslan and Aslan's partner and finds more than he expected: secrets and lies stacked up in an investigation that hits close to home. Working beside Aslan also makes it harder to ignore how much he is drawn to him.

Aslan, a playboy who does not do repeats, keeps flirting with the grumpy detective from the MPU, and his own rules start to slip. One night becomes two, then three. Both men have to decide whether they want to stop, and whether Quaid is willing to risk his heart again.

The romance between two men runs alongside the police mystery. The book belongs to the Valor and Doyle Mysteries, an ongoing series about the same couple that is meant to be read in order. Each book solves its own central case, while some plot elements carry across the series.