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Beneath The Scrubs #2
The Anatomy of Us
What do you do when your best mate is also your business partner and your favorite bedtime buddy?
Take him on the ultimate Australian adventure, of course!
Ten days of sun, surf, and rolling around in the sheets until we can't walk straight... When the guy who always has my back is also a convenient booty call, it’s normal to want to spoil him a little, right?
At least, that was the plan.
What I get instead is well-intentioned cockblocking (cheers, Mum), unsettling Armin trivia, and watching him charm the pants off girls who aren’t me.
Not that I care.
We're just two straight dudes who occasionally enjoy a bit of horizontal mambo. It's not like he's mine to lose sleep over.
And I wouldn't be losing sleep, if we could just get some damn alone time to cash in on this friends-with-benefits deal. Uphold our gentlemen's agreement. Clear up this cloud of lust over my head.
Everyone knows blue balls are the enemy of logical thought and sensible decisions.
So why is Armin so calm, collected, and couldn’t-care-less?
I'm not jealous. I'm just... curious.
*****
THE ANATOMY OF US is Book 2 of the Beneath The Scrubs 3-part series.
For more context, check out the series blurb
What do you do when seven years invested into med school feels like an awful mistake and the entire year of residency is a groundhog day of sleepy horror?
When brand new doctor Channing Quinlan can’t take another minute of this hellish existence, he turns to his best friend via proximity, Armin Valencia, to propose a move out to the countryside. What’s not to love about being in the middle of nowhere, population not-a-lot, to do family medicine?
Because rural doctors work nine to five.
Rural doctors get to enjoy the great outdoors on weekends.
Rural doctors make bank and have tons of work life balance.
The only thing these two rural doctors have to worry about is finding girls under the age of 85 to date and have sexy times with.
Until that happens, at least they have each other as convenient, very straight, extra handsome bed warmers.
This arrangement works out amazingly well until Channing invites Armin on a holiday back home to Australia.
All of a sudden, they’re surrounded by an abundance of hot, sun-kissed girls, way too much alcohol, and a language that does a terrible job of pretending to be English, that Armin simply can’t get his head around.
What could possibly go wrong?
Take him on the ultimate Australian adventure, of course!
Ten days of sun, surf, and rolling around in the sheets until we can't walk straight... When the guy who always has my back is also a convenient booty call, it’s normal to want to spoil him a little, right?
At least, that was the plan.
What I get instead is well-intentioned cockblocking (cheers, Mum), unsettling Armin trivia, and watching him charm the pants off girls who aren’t me.
Not that I care.
We're just two straight dudes who occasionally enjoy a bit of horizontal mambo. It's not like he's mine to lose sleep over.
And I wouldn't be losing sleep, if we could just get some damn alone time to cash in on this friends-with-benefits deal. Uphold our gentlemen's agreement. Clear up this cloud of lust over my head.
Everyone knows blue balls are the enemy of logical thought and sensible decisions.
So why is Armin so calm, collected, and couldn’t-care-less?
I'm not jealous. I'm just... curious.
*****
THE ANATOMY OF US is Book 2 of the Beneath The Scrubs 3-part series.
For more context, check out the series blurb
What do you do when seven years invested into med school feels like an awful mistake and the entire year of residency is a groundhog day of sleepy horror?
When brand new doctor Channing Quinlan can’t take another minute of this hellish existence, he turns to his best friend via proximity, Armin Valencia, to propose a move out to the countryside. What’s not to love about being in the middle of nowhere, population not-a-lot, to do family medicine?
Because rural doctors work nine to five.
Rural doctors get to enjoy the great outdoors on weekends.
Rural doctors make bank and have tons of work life balance.
The only thing these two rural doctors have to worry about is finding girls under the age of 85 to date and have sexy times with.
Until that happens, at least they have each other as convenient, very straight, extra handsome bed warmers.
This arrangement works out amazingly well until Channing invites Armin on a holiday back home to Australia.
All of a sudden, they’re surrounded by an abundance of hot, sun-kissed girls, way too much alcohol, and a language that does a terrible job of pretending to be English, that Armin simply can’t get his head around.
What could possibly go wrong?
152 pages, Kindle Edition
Published May 7, 2024
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August 28, 2024
The boys are headed down under! Eeeee! 🥹 The second book in this series provides a really clear look into Channing's developing feelings for Armin and vice versa (both develop and come to realisations in very different ways, by the way). It dips a bit into their background and why they are/are becoming so important to each other. I’ll never have enough words in my vocabulary to express how Dixon manages to do what I'm deciding (today) to call “causal romance” so well... Well, maybe I'll have enough words to express it after continuous readings of Dixon romance books for years to come... (This is a plea to keep me fed, please ♥️). Dixon has this way of writing what feels to me like absolute, pure, natural, and unhurried to discover itself, love. Love that is as casual as it is desperate for attention, which is a beautiful mix that I have found only she can provide and you absolutely need in your life if you love romance, easy yet complicated friendships, and erotic fiction. This story is two friends just accepting and loving each other for exactly who they are while they try to figure out what that means for them (and also try to figure out that they do, in fact, have feelings for each other). It’s the best ever, because while they attempt to come to the realisation that there are real feelings involved, you get to sit back and enjoy all the sexy fun they get up to in the meantime! Dixon’s work is very dear to me; she is my favourite author, and I really don’t recommend things lightly, but I would recommend her work 100 times over without hesitation. It’s hard to get into just how special her stories are in reviews (because I don’t want to spoil anything; it’s such a pleasure to read her work that you need to experience it without spoilers). All I can say is that there is clearly love, hard work, and thought written into these stories, and it would really be a shame to miss out on them. I love these two guys and their adventures in not only Australia, but each other. 💘
September 6, 2024
Second instalment of Min and Chan.
Feeling are conflicted and neither of them have realised their feelings for one another. They are used to just having each other, they haven't had to voice aloud what it all means. Things are getting conflicted and with Chan's friends getting closer it puts a strain on them.
Feeling are conflicted and neither of them have realised their feelings for one another. They are used to just having each other, they haven't had to voice aloud what it all means. Things are getting conflicted and with Chan's friends getting closer it puts a strain on them.
October 21, 2024
I am definitely the target audience for the type of humour going on here. Channing kept taking me OUT 😭😭😭😭😭😭 I had to stop reading a few times because I really couldn’t stop laughing 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 and please Channing reminds me of a dog with separation anxiety humping on Armin’s legs sometimes 😂 they’re adorable! And Armin is the sweetest and soooo thoughtful!!! I CAN SEE THEIR RELATIONSHIP CHANGING SLOWLY AND I AM SO HERE FOR IT!!!! I’m so invested on this story please🥰🥰🥰🥰
Also! I got confused with some Aussie slang but the Glossary at the end is heaven sent. And I don’t like glossaries in general (war flashbacks from English class back in middle school) but even the Glossary is fun???? What the hell???? I read the entirety of it just because the explanations were so funny😭 I adore the author’s writing style
SO FAR I AM DEFINITELY LOVING THE STORY OF THESE TWO!!!! I need to get my hands on the third book as soon as I can!!! Although I have the feeling I’m going to miss them when I finish reading the series🥲
Also! I got confused with some Aussie slang but the Glossary at the end is heaven sent. And I don’t like glossaries in general (war flashbacks from English class back in middle school) but even the Glossary is fun???? What the hell???? I read the entirety of it just because the explanations were so funny😭 I adore the author’s writing style
SO FAR I AM DEFINITELY LOVING THE STORY OF THESE TWO!!!! I need to get my hands on the third book as soon as I can!!! Although I have the feeling I’m going to miss them when I finish reading the series🥲
June 15, 2026
I liked this one better than the first book in the series, mostly because it was longer but also because it showed more of the characters personalities and we got to know them more.
The tension between these two men is getting good!!! The jealousy, the denial…I’m living for it!
Now onto the next book ❤️
The tension between these two men is getting good!!! The jealousy, the denial…I’m living for it!
Now onto the next book ❤️
May 30, 2025
I tried, I really did. Chan is just too whiny for me 😭
May 29, 2026
I got the needy MC2 trope, I love it
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