Priority One by Stephani Hecht will thrill the fans who have been flocking to the author’s stand-alone novellas, which feature a shared cast of hot gay men who work as firefighters and paramedics associated with Saint Michael’s Hospital in Flint, Michigan. A writer just can’t beat the dramatic potential involved in emergency work, but so few writers have the requisite medical background, or if they do, they’re not talented enough to blend it into the fiction and make it accessible to us readers. This author, however, has talent and knowledge to spare, which makes for a dynamite combination.

The story unfolds in the alternating viewpoints of twenty year-old paramedic Dylan, who is new to Flint, and Kaleb, who has been working in Flint as a firefighter for ten years. Dylan immediately engages the readers’ sympathy on his first day on the job when he trips over an accident victim lying on the ground, and does a highly embarrassing face-plant. Even worse, he does it in front of stud-muffin Kaleb, who finds it amusing. The two meet up again in a gay bar where Kaleb smugly goes about convincing Dylan to come home with him and lose his virginity. However, the tables are turned when Dylan treats the encounter as no more than a pleasurable diversion. Kaleb finds himself falling for Dylan and pursues him, determined to win his heart and uncover the mystery of his tragic past.

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