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When James was a kid, he aspired to be a superhero’s sidekick. He’s never enjoyed being the boss. Not while working for the Powertools and not in his love life. Fortunately, his husband and wife are far better at assuming control than he is. With each of his spouses stepping up to be the foreman of their own crews, James is left wondering what there is for a cute, hyper-organized former construction worker to do in Middletown. Sure, he could play house husband for his spouses, and the rest of their sometimes lovers, while taking care of their ever-expanding family.

As the last lone wolf of The Divemaster, Tosin Ellis doesn’t plan on partnering up anytime soon. Then his friend Archer commissions an engagement ring for his fiancée…. Jeweler Kahori Akama is sensual, intriguing, and happy to accept Tosin’s help sourcing the black pearls she uses in her popular pieces. As their relationship goes from professional to personal, Tosin also learns Kahori’s family is threatened by someone intent on ruining her business to lay claim to its valuable property.

When her mentor is killed in a lab fire, all his notes destroyed with him, marine biologist Sabine Reynolds is determined to finish his work—a cure for an aggressive form of cancer. She needs a specific coral to continue. To find it, she boards The Divemaster to search the waters around Hawaii.

Ben has lived through hell. He only survived captivity and torture by the brutes who’d been attempting to develop Sex Offender, a potent aphrodisiac used as a date rape drug, because of the guy he met—and fell in lust with—in the drug lord’s dungeons.

Archer Banks relishes his carefree lifestyle. Together with friends and fellow divemasters Miguel Torres and Tosin Ellis, he travels the world, SCUBA diving by day, entertaining lonely female tourists by night. Until his father dies, instantly transforming Archer from a beach bum to a billionaire by shackling him with an enormous, undesired inheritance.

Konstantin is determined to get even with his Russian mafia kingpin ex-boyfriend, Levin. The jerk sidelined him, banishing him to unlikely babysitters for safekeeping—a den of foreign agents trying to take down the entire operation.

Dave knows where he’s needed most is back home, helping his wife rebuild her business—and her dreams—which burned to the ground while they were partying with friends. Resentment could be the final nail in the crew’s coffin if they can’t find a way to move forward together. Because in addition to their careers, the Powertools’ intimate bond is in jeopardy. It’s up to them to find a way to strengthen it, even if it means grinding away at the past in order to prepare for a bright future.

An accident on the Hot Rods construction site draws Mike to Middletown. Not to assume his role as foreman, but to help his best friend, Joe, learn the ropes. It’s his turn to be caught off balance when his wife delivers shocking news. The rest of the Powertools crew join them to attend a wedding at their friends’ motorcycle garage, Hot Rides. The night could change everything—both personally and professionally. Because while celebrating their friends’ new commitment, it’s nearly impossible to deny the strength of their own complicated bonds or the fact that they’re evolving.

Joe has it all–a gorgeous wife, two amazing children, four best friends who are also sometimes lovers, and a booming construction business. He never expected to face some sort of midlife crisis. But somehow, he finds himself longing for even more.