Two In, Two Out (Heroes 2) by G.A. Hauser

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After the story about the two lifeguards, G.A. Hauser continues in her dream men imaginary with two “hot” firemen, pun intended.

Blake and Hunter are fellow firemen and friends. It’s a joyous bartering between them, an innocent teasing. At least this is what both men believe: Blake and Hunter are so much in the closet that they don’t have the courage to come out neither to each other.

Hunter was burnt in the past, when he was with the San Diego FD he decided to be open with his sexuality and he was ostracized for that so much that, in the end, he decided to move out and be transferred in Los Angeles. He fantasized that Los Angeles was better, more gay friendly, but it’s not, and so Hunter is again in the closet. Worst, he has the hot for his fellow fireman Blake, that is also a very nice man, accepting Hunter’s teasing always with a smile but never letting go if he reciprocates.

Blake has long known that he is gay, but he fears the judgment of friends and family. From a very religious family, he has a bit the complex of “sin”: even if he is all right with his sexuality, I feel that he has some guilty feelings. Blake is basically a very nice man, good cook and family man, but due to his stubbornly intent on staying firmly in the closet, he is denying himself the joy of an open relationship.

It’s not helping them that around them seem to popping out gay men everywhere: Tanner and Josh, the two lifeguards who are protagonist of the previous book in the series, and Mickey and Jeff, who will be in the next one. Plus some other men that will be probably in other books in the series, if the author will continue it. G.A. Hauser is continuing with a spin off of her famous Los Angeles soap-opera whose main characters were Mark and Steve, also them, male model and former cop, two epitome of Gay Romance fantasies.

Blake and Hunter are a bit less faulty than her previous characters, they preserve the effrontery that is a trademark of G.A. Hauser, and like before, they are also high emotional and not scared to show their feelings, even with tears if necessary, but this time they are more aware that they are not living in a soap-opera, that it’s not easy to be an out man in a macho man field, that not only it’s not easy, but even dangerous. There is a bit a real life that intrudes in the romance, but after all, again, the romance is stronger.

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Amazon Kindle: Two In - Two Out

Series: Heroes
1) Man to Man: http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/891687.html
2) Two In, Two Out

Reading List:

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Comments

[annabirmingham.livejournal.com]

I read this a couple of weeks ago and really enjoyed it. The teasing between the two men and some of inner dialogue is hilarious!
I didn't know it was part 2 of a series, so I'll have to go back and read part 1 now!!
Anna x

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

Very much so. This one is almost in parallel with the previous story, Tanner and Joel's, and it is already out also the third one, Mickey and Jeff's story. Elisa