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Widowed omega Quinn Collins loves his son, H. J., more than life, so it kills him that some days H. J. is barely hanging on due to an inherited illness. Quinn devotes most of his time to keeping H. J. healthy, and any leftover energy goes to his art. As far as Quinn is concerned, this is his life now - lonely and stressful, but safe. Rookie fireman "King" Kingston is an alpha working at the Cherry Hollow firehouse. Freshly trained and ready for action, he throws himself into helping at the station. While assisting with a blood drive, he catches sight - and smell - of Quinn.

Alpha Nathan Garnet is cocky - and he knows it. Wealthy and successful, he prides himself on his conquests. But when one smart mouthed omega tells him no, Nathan can’t keep himself from being intrigued...or from the thrill of the chase. If something bad has happened to a person in a relationship, it’s happened to Damon Bishop. Damon desperately wants to be loved, but growing up a bit of an ugly duckling has left him with less than stellar self-esteem.

Jack is a down-on-his-luck retired NYPD detective who is living in a flophouse and going through a nasty divorce. He's distraught over his missing daughter and suicidal. He gets asked to look into the unsolved murder of his childhood friend. Jack's investigation takes him to the dark side of the local skin clubs, and he butts heads with the local crime boss, who has a bigger secret to hide.

"Readers of Brooklyn Noir will recall that its contents were labeled by neighborhood - Bay Ridge, Canarsie, Greenpoint, etc. We have chosen the same principle here, and the book's contents do a good job of covering the island, from C.J. Sullivan's Inwood and Charles Ardai's Upper East Side, to Justin Scott's Chelsea and Carol Lea Benjamin's Greenwich Village."

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