Rough Terrain

Navy SEAL Renzo Bianchi has had a soft spot for Canaan Finley for a while. Canaan makes a good smoothie, and he is the first man in a long time to wake Renzo's interest. So when Canaan asks him to play a fake boyfriend, Renzo agrees, expecting nothing beyond a fling.

The lie began when Canaan invented a hot Italian SEAL boyfriend to save face. His friends then demanded to meet the man, and Renzo is the one who inspired the invention. That puts the two of them on a camping trip in the woods, a setting Canaan is badly suited to, since he is not outdoorsy at all.

The trip goes wrong when a flash flood cuts them off from the rest of the group. Alone in the wilderness, Renzo and Canaan have to work out a plan to survive, and doing it together turns out to be far more charged than either expects.

This is a contemporary male/male romance built on a fake relationship that starts to feel real. The tone mixes comedy with heat, and the action moves between a survival scenario in the wild and the trouble that being a couple brings once they are back in the real world. It is the seventh book in the Out of Uniform series.