San Diego Hope

Chris Kearney is a surgeon working the Emergency Room at a large hospital near the bad part of the city. After operating on and losing a teenaged patient, he runs into Drew Hayden, an undercover vice cop. Connecting over a kid who tried to get out of gang lifestyle and still died, the two men check each other out. When they run into each other at the grocery store, they are more than happy to reconnect and pleased to find that neither of them had read the signals wrong.It's hard for a cop and a doctor, especially an undercover cop and an emergency room doctor, to find time to meet, date and do all the other things a burgeoning relationship requires, but somehow Chris and Drew manage. Their lives are full and sometimes difficult. Will they get through the traumas and troubles of the first year and a half of their relationship? And, when they get there, what will the other side look like? A.R. Moler is a chemistry professor at a community college, a homeschooling mom and an avid science fiction fan. She is a devotee of first hand research for her writing whenever possible and to this end has - learned to fire a handgun, been rappelling, ridden with both EMS and the police, flown a helicopter, bought a motorcycle and learned to ride it. She has traveled to nearly all the places where her stories are set and taken hundreds of photos for documentation. She has been writing since her high school years, but only recently has become published. Her website can be found at http://armoler.com In San Diego, police, medical care providers and firefighters all interact on a frequent basis. Sometimes that interaction leads to love.

Cop Drew Hayden and ER trauma surgeon Chris Kearney have it all, mostly. They are married, have a house with a fence and a yard that needs some attention. The thing that they don't have enough of is time for each other.Drew's career as an undercover cop working gangs and drugs is successful. So successful that Drew's about to go undercover for more than a month without being able to contact Chris at all during what may be a very dangerous operation.Chris is always wound very tightly. Without Drew's calm as a counterbalance, Chris is in danger of falling over. Then, after what is almost Chris's worst nightmare, Chris has to confront the reality of Drew's job. So does Drew; he can't ignore what his current job asks of Chris either. Can they change things enough to keep the most important thing--their love for each other? A.R. Moler is a chemistry professor at a community college, a homeschooling mom and an avid science fiction fan. She is a devotee of first hand research for her writing whenever possible and to this end has - learned to fire a handgun, been rappelling, ridden with both EMS and the police, flown a helicopter, bought a motorcycle and learned to ride it. She has traveled to nearly all the places where her stories are set and taken hundreds of photos for documentation. She has been writing since her high school years, but only recently has become published. Her website can be found at http://armoler.com In San Diego, police, medical care providers and firefighters all interact on a frequent basis. Sometimes that interaction leads to love.

EMT Ryan Lasakow fixes people. In the consequence, he's got a long history of interesting relationships, the kind that come with broken hearts. He's pretty resilient though and currently single. When Ryan runs into firefighter Will Edwards, downhearted after a particularly fruitless and difficult rescue, he can see that Will could use a friend.Will Edwards is the new guy in town. He used to live in San Diego but moved for his job to Boston. Sadly, Boston ended up full of tragedy when Will's fiance was killed in a car crash. Will had hoped that returning to San Diego would allow him to move on emotionally but that didn't quite work out as planned. On the other hand, Will's career is jogging along merrily. He's just lonely and not sure how to get through his grief and find a life outside of work.So what happens when a guy with a big heart runs into a sweet guy with sad past? Ryan is patient and compassionate but he deserves love as much as anyone else does. Can Will find his way past his grief to love again? A.R. Moler is a chemistry professor at a community college, a homeschooling mom and an avid science fiction fan. She is a devotee of first hand research for her writing whenever possible and to this end has - learned to fire a handgun, been rappelling, ridden with both EMS and the police, flown a helicopter, bought a motorcycle and learned to ride it. She has traveled to nearly all the places where her stories are set and taken hundreds of photos for documentation. She has been writing since her high school years, but only recently has become published. Her website can be found at http://armoler.com In San Diego, police, medical care providers and firefighters all interact on a frequent basis. Sometimes that interaction leads to love.