A Hard Place — Erin O'Quinn

Nevada game warden Shawn Murphy is a man of principle, an experienced agent who sets out to do his job in the rugged Paiute Mountain range. Sent to track down a poacher, Shawn eventually discovers the perp--a falconer, illegally shooting wildlife for his bird.

Dylan Morgan--a hippie-looking man with long, lustrous hair--has lost his falcon and is hurt. In helping Dylan overcome his injury, Shawn begins to learn how to see the wildness and hunger in himself and the other man as well.

Soon, in a remote cabin, the two men begin to develop a relationship. The falconer explores Shawn's strange tattoos--a stag beetle and a howling wildcat--and Shawn tries to understand the nature of falconry, and of the unique man who trains the wild birds.

Can these two men, hungry, yet never satisfied, find closure in each other's arms, especially when sudden peril in the pitiless desert puts them between a rock and a hard place?