The Long Watch: An M/M Military Romance (A City of Two Series) (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798184622149)

A STOLEN LOVE. A NAVY THAT DEMANDED SILENCE. A HEART FORCED TO CHOOSE.

Ensign Alex Ko has spent four years mastering the hardest lesson the Navy never puts in a manual: how to love Ensign Patrick McClellan without anyone ever finding out.

Four years of stolen weekends. Four years of a life built entirely behind locked doors. Four years of believing that if he just held the line long enough, discipline would be enough to keep them both safe - and together.

Then one ordinary Saturday, at a coffee shop three thousand miles from anywhere either of them is supposed to be, Alex finds out exactly how wrong he was. Patrick isn't alone.

The man Alex trusted with four years of survival built on secrets did the one thing Alex never calculated for. He stopped waiting.

What's left isn't just a broken heart. It's an entire chain of command Alex has to rebuild from zero - starting with himself.

He doesn't ask for rescue. But when it's Lieutenant Commander James Schoenwetter who finds him barely holding on, still standing only because the uniform won't let him fall apart in public, Alex learns there's a kind of love that doesn't ask you to disappear to be safe.

There's just one problem. Patrick isn't gone. And some ties, forged under fire, don't sever clean - no matter how badly Alex wants them to.

Now Alex is standing on the one battlefield the Navy never trained him for: the one where the enemy is his own heart, and there's no protocol for choosing between the man who taught him how to survive and the man who's teaching him how to live.

The Long Watch is Book 4 in the slow-burn A City of Two series - a story of duty, devastation, and the men brave enough to love each other in a military that told them not to exist. Set during Don't Ask, Don't Tell, this is forbidden love with real stakes: careers, honor, and hearts all on the line, and no easy answers waiting at the end of the watch.