Flophouse

A Flophouse Story One bootstrap act of integrity cost Henry Worrall everything-military career, family, and the secret boyfriend who kept Henry trapped for eleven years. Desperate, Henry shows up on his brother's doorstep and is offered a place to live and a job as a handyman in a flophouse for young porn stars. Lance Luna's past gave him reasons for being in porn, but as he continues his residency at a local hospital, they now feel more like excuses. He's got the money to move out of the flophouse and live his own life-but who needs privacy when you're taking care of a bunch of young men who think working penises make them adults? Lance worries Henry won't fit in, but Henry's got a soft spot for lost young men and a way of helping them. Just as Lance and Henry find a rhythm as den mothers, a murder and the ghosts of Henry's abusive past intrude. Lance knows Henry's not capable of murder, but is he capable of caring for Lance's heart?

As a young detective, Sean Kryzynski expected violence on the job, not to get stabbed coming back from lunch. Add an angsty bedside breakup, and by the time he gets home from the hospital, he's over everything, including his irritating, hot-as-balls nurse, Billy No-Last-Name with the big, cynical brown eyes. Billy's whole porn-model flophouse is experiencing a wave of altruism and adulting-people getting real jobs and going to shrinks and doing good works. Billy opts in too-he wants to be a good guy-but his assignment is taking care of the world's most exasperating, headstrong patient. At least bunking with Sean means Billy has his own spare bedroom and some peace and quiet to do classwork. The porn model and the policeman seem to have no common ground, but Billy's experience herding his younger siblings helps him manage Sean with unexpected empathy-a skill Sean has been working on too, because he wants to be a good cop. Eventually they chip away at the walls around each other's hearts and discover a real connection. If not for their incompatible day jobs and inconvenient pasts, they might even be falling in love….