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The Hardest Thing by James Lear

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Also by James Lear:

The Sun Goes Down, June 2016
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The Hardest Thing, June 2013
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THE HARDEST THING
By: James Lear

A Dan Stagg Mystery
Cleis Press
June 2013
On Sale: June 11, 2013
Featuring: Dan Staff
288 pages
ISBN: 1573449296
EAN: 9781573449298
Kindle: B00ATLAUGY
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Mystery

Once a major in the U.S. Army, Dan Stagg fell afoul of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell. In his late 30s, tall, and muscular, Dan is prone to violence, always upholding what he views as justice. He’s offered a great deal of money to protect the young male “secretary” of a powerful real estate broker. The vain, shallow—but most of all hot—young man’s idea of protection includes sex. Dan quickly realizes something strange is going on: he’s being used as a shield for a much more sinister operation and must chose between easy money and sex or the ideals that he embodied in the Army. Why should he do the right thing—particularly when the army betrayed him? The Hardest Thing is a sexy gay mystery as only James Lear can write it: filled with lots of gay sexual encounters, romance, sweat, violence, and conspiracy.

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