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Devon Memorial #2
Conflict of Interest
Rule one of becoming a doctor: don't sleep with your supervisor. Rule two: definitely don't charge them for it.
Fresh out of a breakup and new to New York, Finn Hayes does something impulsive: when a guy at a bar mistakes him for an escort, he plays along. The stranger who takes the bait? Gorgeous, in control, and exactly the kind of distraction Finn needs. One unforgettable night, a hundred bucks on the nightstand, and they'll never see each other again.
Except Jesse Maddox is a senior surgeon at Devon Memorial Hospital—and Finn's new boss. Now they're stuck navigating morning rounds, life-and-death surgery and a searing attraction that no amount of clinical detachment can cure. With careers on the line, the smart move is to walk away. But when it comes to each other, Finn and Jesse are finding that the heart doesn't follow hospital protocol...
Conflict of Interest is a sizzling forbidden romance, where the tension between the sheets rivals the tension in the ER. If you love slow-burn chemistry, sharp banter, and a love story that's worth breaking every rule for, this book is for you!
Fresh out of a breakup and new to New York, Finn Hayes does something impulsive: when a guy at a bar mistakes him for an escort, he plays along. The stranger who takes the bait? Gorgeous, in control, and exactly the kind of distraction Finn needs. One unforgettable night, a hundred bucks on the nightstand, and they'll never see each other again.
Except Jesse Maddox is a senior surgeon at Devon Memorial Hospital—and Finn's new boss. Now they're stuck navigating morning rounds, life-and-death surgery and a searing attraction that no amount of clinical detachment can cure. With careers on the line, the smart move is to walk away. But when it comes to each other, Finn and Jesse are finding that the heart doesn't follow hospital protocol...
Conflict of Interest is a sizzling forbidden romance, where the tension between the sheets rivals the tension in the ER. If you love slow-burn chemistry, sharp banter, and a love story that's worth breaking every rule for, this book is for you!
272 pages, Kindle Edition
First published July 16, 2026
About the author
Zarah Detand
39 books525 followersWriter of M/M romances. Chaos monkey. Coffee snob. Cheese is her love language.
People in love with other people is her jam, with a particular penchant for snappy dialogue and a slow burn that is all the more satisfying once it finally catches fire. Playing with tropes of the famous-meets-non-famous variation? Bring it on! Fake relationships? Yes, please. All's fair as long as everyone gets their happy ending.
People in love with other people is her jam, with a particular penchant for snappy dialogue and a slow burn that is all the more satisfying once it finally catches fire. Playing with tropes of the famous-meets-non-famous variation? Bring it on! Fake relationships? Yes, please. All's fair as long as everyone gets their happy ending.
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July 23, 2026
4 Stars
This is the second M/M medical romance sequel that I’ve read this year with this title (the other by author C.G. Macington), and I’m sure to start confusing the two any minute now, so I need to rush out some thoughts before it all flutters away.
The good news is, I liked this one even more than the first of its name and even more than its series predecessor, Operation Boyfriend.
It’s a set-up I know I’ve loosely read before, somewhere (?!?!), with doctors Finn and Jesse meeting and hooking up in a club the night before Finn starts his residency at the same hospital where Jesse is one of the senior doctors, unbeknownst to either of them at the time.
The chemistry between these two was OFF THE CHARTS and I found the whole forbidden love aspect of their story very genuine, realistic and sizzling with tension of the inevitability kind.
I loved the whole progression of their romance, from the way they met (Oh my, YES!), to how they handled the realisation of their new, very problematic work situation, to how they strived to keep things professional and unbiased, and eventually, to their mutual recognition that their feelings for one another were actually well-worth making some huge changes in their individual lives in order to be together.
These two just fit perfectly together, personally and professionally. I had such a good time following their story through its rocky but satisfying highs and lows, with a conflict resolution that was both in character and deeply satisfying for me as a reader, giving this story that little extra emotional oomph that made me enjoy it even more than book one.
This story also had some great secondary characters and secondary story arcs that enhanced my engagement. Throw in some steamy sex scenes, all rife with both sexual and emotionally chemistry, and an added bonus of some tasty hurt-comfort and some high-stakes hospital scenes, and this story really did make for an entertaining medical romance.
***A special thanks to Storm Publishing and Zarah Detand (via Netgalley) for providing an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review.
This is the second M/M medical romance sequel that I’ve read this year with this title (the other by author C.G. Macington), and I’m sure to start confusing the two any minute now, so I need to rush out some thoughts before it all flutters away.
The good news is, I liked this one even more than the first of its name and even more than its series predecessor, Operation Boyfriend.
It’s a set-up I know I’ve loosely read before, somewhere (?!?!), with doctors Finn and Jesse meeting and hooking up in a club the night before Finn starts his residency at the same hospital where Jesse is one of the senior doctors, unbeknownst to either of them at the time.
The chemistry between these two was OFF THE CHARTS and I found the whole forbidden love aspect of their story very genuine, realistic and sizzling with tension of the inevitability kind.
I loved the whole progression of their romance, from the way they met (Oh my, YES!), to how they handled the realisation of their new, very problematic work situation, to how they strived to keep things professional and unbiased, and eventually, to their mutual recognition that their feelings for one another were actually well-worth making some huge changes in their individual lives in order to be together.
These two just fit perfectly together, personally and professionally. I had such a good time following their story through its rocky but satisfying highs and lows, with a conflict resolution that was both in character and deeply satisfying for me as a reader, giving this story that little extra emotional oomph that made me enjoy it even more than book one.
This story also had some great secondary characters and secondary story arcs that enhanced my engagement. Throw in some steamy sex scenes, all rife with both sexual and emotionally chemistry, and an added bonus of some tasty hurt-comfort and some high-stakes hospital scenes, and this story really did make for an entertaining medical romance.
***A special thanks to Storm Publishing and Zarah Detand (via Netgalley) for providing an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review.
July 17, 2026
4.25**** stars
I’m still a bit on the fence about wether I’m miffed by the lack of originality when it comes to the story setup or rather elated that someone finally wrote me a gay grey’s anatomy. thing is tho, i loved it either way. god yes, i really really did!
side note: i kinda wish i knew beforehand that there was another book. i would’ve read that first even if one doesn’t need to.
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Devon Memorial standalones
Book 1 - Operation Boyfriend - 3.5 stars
Book 2 - Conflict of Interest - 4.25 stars
Book 3 - Out of Practice - release 02/27
I’m still a bit on the fence about wether I’m miffed by the lack of originality when it comes to the story setup or rather elated that someone finally wrote me a gay grey’s anatomy. thing is tho, i loved it either way. god yes, i really really did!
side note: i kinda wish i knew beforehand that there was another book. i would’ve read that first even if one doesn’t need to.
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Devon Memorial standalones
Book 1 - Operation Boyfriend - 3.5 stars
Book 2 - Conflict of Interest - 4.25 stars
Book 3 - Out of Practice - release 02/27
June 7, 2026
Finn is days away from the next chapter of his life when he does something out of character—he plays along when a hot guy mistakes him for a prostitute. It's harmless fun...until he gets to his new role at the hospital and realizes that that hot guy is one of his supervisors. And also, neither of them really wants to leave the past in the past.
I had a bit of trepidation about this one, because "guy mistakes another for a prostitute" has so many possible ways to go wrong. The others of Detand's books that I've read have been delights, though, so I took the jump—and really, I should not have doubted. I'm very much enjoying the way Detand takes a look at the obvious route and says, in effect, "hmm, maybe not". The characters don't get it right all the time; they have minor misunderstandings and make decisions that don't always have a whole lot of common sense and take risks that they probably shouldn't. And at the same time...they have conversations as mature adults, and they take ownership of their actions, and they're good at (and passionate about) what they do without being unrealistic Wunderkinder. In short, they're people I would genuinely want to spend time with, which is both my favourite starting place for a romance novel and (let's be honest) though a depressingly low bar, one that many romance novels simply don't clear.
(Brief tangent: "Travis" is absolutely an evil-ex name in romance novels. Note that I'm talking specifically about romance novels—if your name is Travis, or your partner's name is Travis, or you named your kid Travis, that's great; I'm sure you or they are absolutely lovely. But in a romance novel? Absolutely a sign that they're not the end game.)
Altogether a satisfying read. I did note that the conflict had some similarities to that in Operation Boyfriend, but happily both the characters and the way the plot plays out are quite distinct. I'd happily read more in this series, and from Detand.
Thanks to the author and publisher for providing a review copy through NetGalley.
I had a bit of trepidation about this one, because "guy mistakes another for a prostitute" has so many possible ways to go wrong. The others of Detand's books that I've read have been delights, though, so I took the jump—and really, I should not have doubted. I'm very much enjoying the way Detand takes a look at the obvious route and says, in effect, "hmm, maybe not". The characters don't get it right all the time; they have minor misunderstandings and make decisions that don't always have a whole lot of common sense and take risks that they probably shouldn't. And at the same time...they have conversations as mature adults, and they take ownership of their actions, and they're good at (and passionate about) what they do without being unrealistic Wunderkinder. In short, they're people I would genuinely want to spend time with, which is both my favourite starting place for a romance novel and (let's be honest) though a depressingly low bar, one that many romance novels simply don't clear.
(Brief tangent: "Travis" is absolutely an evil-ex name in romance novels. Note that I'm talking specifically about romance novels—if your name is Travis, or your partner's name is Travis, or you named your kid Travis, that's great; I'm sure you or they are absolutely lovely. But in a romance novel? Absolutely a sign that they're not the end game.)
Altogether a satisfying read. I did note that the conflict had some similarities to that in Operation Boyfriend, but happily both the characters and the way the plot plays out are quite distinct. I'd happily read more in this series, and from Detand.
Thanks to the author and publisher for providing a review copy through NetGalley.
October 6, 2026
It’s been a few days since I finished, so all I can say is …
I thoroughly enjoyed this.
I do have a soft spot for medical drama and romance, and this certainly offered a very good and well written helping.
I liked both, Finn and Jesse, the UST between them, the yearning and heart break, and I rooted for them all the way. I appreciated how the author treated the very real ‘conflict of interest’, keeping it realistic and interesting.
Only thing that was a bit dodgy, is the way Finn and Jesse’s secret is revealed. It was totally predictable and obvious, and I don’t think that either character would have been that careless, considering how much effort they made to keep their relationship to themselves.
This has been an entertaining, well written series so far. Looking forward to the next one.
I thoroughly enjoyed this.
I do have a soft spot for medical drama and romance, and this certainly offered a very good and well written helping.
I liked both, Finn and Jesse, the UST between them, the yearning and heart break, and I rooted for them all the way. I appreciated how the author treated the very real ‘conflict of interest’, keeping it realistic and interesting.
Only thing that was a bit dodgy, is the way Finn and Jesse’s secret is revealed. It was totally predictable and obvious, and I don’t think that either character would have been that careless, considering how much effort they made to keep their relationship to themselves.
This has been an entertaining, well written series so far. Looking forward to the next one.
Review of advance copy received from NetGalley
100% I kept thinking of The Pitt while reading this book! I liked it a lot; it was very sweet and low-angst overall. I didn't even mind that the relationship between Jesse and Finn was too intense for such a short time; I actually believed they had a future together.
My only tiny complaint is that I am not sure if I liked how the whole ethical dilemma got solved. I sort of wish it had gone in another direction, but I also think it made sense, even if it was not my No. 1 choice.
My only tiny complaint is that I am not sure if I liked how the whole ethical dilemma got solved. I sort of wish it had gone in another direction, but I also think it made sense, even if it was not my No. 1 choice.
August 21, 2026
I bounced hard off the first installment in this series -- any book in which a destination wedding, on a Cambodian island, over x-mas, with a bunch of nepo babies and tech bros is depicted as a fun holiday rather than a literal nightmare spawned by the engaged couple's diseased narcissistic minds is #NotForMe (also: in this economy?????) -- but this was cute. I'm a sucker for the setup, I liked the medical stuff (albeit taken with a huge grain of salt; this isn't Fearne Hill-style medical realism), and Finn and Jesse had a nice, easy, believable connection. Finn had a tendency to dwell too much on stupid shit said by his ex-boyfriends -- we never meet any of these exes, and he didn't seem too torn up over any of them, so it was hard to care too much about their comments except as a means to give Finn self-esteem issues -- and the way the eventual disaster went down was foreshadowed pretty obviously, but all in all: a fun, smexy read.
I got an ARC from the publisher via NetGalley and this is my honest review.
I got an ARC from the publisher via NetGalley and this is my honest review.
October 19, 2026
4.25 Silver Stars
with Golden Sparks
A fun, MM, Forbidden Medical Romance
Grey's Anatomy style: Early Seasons — Academic Era
Funny & Engaging.
Loved the characters—even the side characters caught my attention. The friendships, the jokes.
The ending felt right and left me happy & satisfied. (Honestly, the whole book did!)
The chemistry was scalding (in the best way). 🔥
And now I want to read book 1, because Tay deserves his own time in the spotlight.
This October, I was in the mood for contemporary MM medical romance, and this was my second read in the subgenre. (My First: Bedside Manner)
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Plot: ★★★★/5
Characters: ★★★★★/5
Premise: ★★★★/5
Written style: ★★★★/5
General idea: ★★★★(★)/5
with Golden Sparks
A fun, MM, Forbidden Medical Romance
Grey's Anatomy style: Early Seasons — Academic Era
Funny & Engaging.
Loved the characters—even the side characters caught my attention. The friendships, the jokes.
The ending felt right and left me happy & satisfied. (Honestly, the whole book did!)
The chemistry was scalding (in the best way). 🔥
And now I want to read book 1, because Tay deserves his own time in the spotlight.
This October, I was in the mood for contemporary MM medical romance, and this was my second read in the subgenre. (My First: Bedside Manner)
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Plot: ★★★★/5
Characters: ★★★★★/5
Premise: ★★★★/5
Written style: ★★★★/5
General idea: ★★★★(★)/5
July 19, 2026
I enjoyed it very much, even more than the first one in the series (I was so glad we got some glimpses of Tay and Dean here!).
Two guys meet in a bar, spend the night together, and go their separate ways. What could possibly go wrong? Well, they could meet again at the hospital where they both work. The catch? One has just started his residency, and the other is supposed to be supervising him. Talk about a perfect setup (giving total Grey's Anatomy vibes).
The internal conflict for both Finn and Jesse was done beautifully here. They navigate everything from ethical concerns and power imbalances to career choices and figuring out what they really want in life. I loved how, once they start realising their feelings are turning into "something more", they both try so hard to protect each other rather than blowing up their respective careers.
The dual POV works wonders here. You simply have to read it—it reads like an absolute breeze!
Thank you to the author, the publisher and NetGalley for an advanced copy.
Two guys meet in a bar, spend the night together, and go their separate ways. What could possibly go wrong? Well, they could meet again at the hospital where they both work. The catch? One has just started his residency, and the other is supposed to be supervising him. Talk about a perfect setup (giving total Grey's Anatomy vibes).
The internal conflict for both Finn and Jesse was done beautifully here. They navigate everything from ethical concerns and power imbalances to career choices and figuring out what they really want in life. I loved how, once they start realising their feelings are turning into "something more", they both try so hard to protect each other rather than blowing up their respective careers.
The dual POV works wonders here. You simply have to read it—it reads like an absolute breeze!
Thank you to the author, the publisher and NetGalley for an advanced copy.
August 2, 2026
3.75 stars
Believable romance, pleasant MCs. Nothing ground-breaking. Writing is smooth & accomplished, and I can see myself re-reading this. Detand is (Our Radiant Embers aside) a very reliable author & an auto-buy.
Believable romance, pleasant MCs. Nothing ground-breaking. Writing is smooth & accomplished, and I can see myself re-reading this. Detand is (Our Radiant Embers aside) a very reliable author & an auto-buy.
July 15, 2026
4.5 stars. I loved this book so much. I didn’t want to put it down, which is exceedingly rare for me in the last year or so.
The blurb doesn’t do this book justice. The basic premise is there: Guy new to city, starting a new job, has what is supposed to be a one night stand, but, oops, the hookup is his boss. Oh, and he pretends to be a sex worker.
But it’s so much more.
The banter between Jesse and Finn was next level. I love the way they bond over the work they both love and have a passion for.
This book was lower angst than I usually like, but the pining and yearning more than make up for it. There’s so much longing between these two men that it damn near killed me.
The writing is so beautiful. I found myself going back just to reread the way something was written.
The sentiment has been in other books, obviously, but the way Zara writes it, it feels different.
I highly recommend this book. It’s a beautiful love story that makes you feel and fall in love with the characters.
The blurb doesn’t do this book justice. The basic premise is there: Guy new to city, starting a new job, has what is supposed to be a one night stand, but, oops, the hookup is his boss. Oh, and he pretends to be a sex worker.
But it’s so much more.
The banter between Jesse and Finn was next level. I love the way they bond over the work they both love and have a passion for.
This book was lower angst than I usually like, but the pining and yearning more than make up for it. There’s so much longing between these two men that it damn near killed me.
The writing is so beautiful. I found myself going back just to reread the way something was written.
I’m in love with you.
The thought tasted bright and tart on my tongue, fresh and familiar at once, as if it had been living inside me for a while now. Not scary. Just inevitable, even if I didn’t know what to do with it.
The sentiment has been in other books, obviously, but the way Zara writes it, it feels different.
I kissed him like the world was ours, like gravity couldn’t hurt.
I highly recommend this book. It’s a beautiful love story that makes you feel and fall in love with the characters.
September 23, 2026
3+
Znowu całkiem przyzwoita książka w cyklu amerykańskim, ale tylko tyle.
Główny bohater - ten starszy lekarz (za diabła nie pamiętam imienia 😂) w warstwie zawodowej był zbyt podobny do swojego odpowiednika z tomu 1.
Momentami nagromadzenie medycznego słownictwa było zbyt duże - po polsku miałabym problemy, żeby przez to przebrnąć, a co dopiero po angielsku.
Epilog totalnie niesatysfakcjonujący...
Bez zaokrąglenia w górę.
Znowu całkiem przyzwoita książka w cyklu amerykańskim, ale tylko tyle.
Główny bohater - ten starszy lekarz (za diabła nie pamiętam imienia 😂) w warstwie zawodowej był zbyt podobny do swojego odpowiednika z tomu 1.
Momentami nagromadzenie medycznego słownictwa było zbyt duże - po polsku miałabym problemy, żeby przez to przebrnąć, a co dopiero po angielsku.
Epilog totalnie niesatysfakcjonujący...
Bez zaokrąglenia w górę.
July 20, 2026
4.25 stars
July 17, 2026
Thank you to Storm Publishing and author Zarah Detand, for providing me with the eARC of “Conflict of Interest”.
💭My Thoughts
The beginning of this book had me rolling. I need some art for what Finn looked like in the bar. Because I cannot picture him looking in such a way. I want that for my shelves to giggle at every time I look.
Jesse was so smitten right away, I loved it! And the way he left his number and a “let me know how much extra I owe you” was hilarious. I just can’t get over him not realizing that Finn was joking.
I loved their dynamic together, the way Jesse takes care of Finn when he’s sick. Swoon worthy.
Their relationship went slow but the feelings went hard and fast.
❣️Tropes❣️
MM Romance
Contemporary
Yearning
Forbidden: Coworkers
Small Town to NYC to Small Town
🩵RATING🩵
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.25
Spice Level: 🌶️
Length: 325 Pages
Publisher: Storm Publishing
💭My Thoughts
The beginning of this book had me rolling. I need some art for what Finn looked like in the bar. Because I cannot picture him looking in such a way. I want that for my shelves to giggle at every time I look.
Jesse was so smitten right away, I loved it! And the way he left his number and a “let me know how much extra I owe you” was hilarious. I just can’t get over him not realizing that Finn was joking.
I loved their dynamic together, the way Jesse takes care of Finn when he’s sick. Swoon worthy.
Their relationship went slow but the feelings went hard and fast.
❣️Tropes❣️
MM Romance
Contemporary
Yearning
Forbidden: Coworkers
Small Town to NYC to Small Town
🩵RATING🩵
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.25
Spice Level: 🌶️
Length: 325 Pages
Publisher: Storm Publishing
August 3, 2026
Nice and light story
July 17, 2026
DNF @ 53%
Notes I took while reading:
Finn pretending to be an escort was funny at the start, but him choosing to continually go along with it well after was honestly cringe.
I liked that both Finn and Jesse were both civil and on the same page about their hookup when they discussed it. I do think they kind of made a bigger deal about it than they needed to, with how they mulled it over afterwards though. I mean, yeah they found each other hot, but ultimately it was just a one night stand with a stranger, surely they should've been able to chalk it up to casual sex and not let it interfere with their day to day interactions. There's something to be said about underlying attraction, but I wasn't really convinced that just sexual attraction to each other was a good enough reason for them to be thrown so off balance AFTER they'd already addressed it.
This story really suffered from the same issue I had in the first one, namely I couldn't understand WHY Finn and Jesse were so adamant on acting like they didn't know each other. I get not wanting to broadcast that they hooked up, I also understood not wanting to make it seem like the competition was unduly influenced by a perceived bias, but I didn't understand why they wanted to keep things strictly professional past that. On page 77, Jesse says that he'd be "fighting to keep every line between us sharp and professional" as if he also didn't mention an end-of-boot-camp social mixer earlier in the sentence (so were they supposed to not talk or form a camaraderie at the social party?). Finn echoes a similar sentiment on the next page where he says: "Three months of long hours, teaching moments and pretending I didn't know his laugh and the way he fucked." Were they not allowed to be friendly??? Like I said, not wanting to let people know they hooked up is fine, but the story goes well beyond that into telling us that any rapport and fraternization beyond that of a supervisor and and underling is profoundly inappropriate (when absolutely nothing said so). Hell, there's a literal post boot camp party that presumably is meant to foster interpersonal connections beyond just their professional identities, so why were they so focused on acting like they were complete strangers? Finn saying he needed to pretend to "not know his [Jesse's] laugh" really emphasized that problem for me.
Finn and Jesse getting hung up on each other after basically just existing in each other's spaces was not romantic. I didn't understand why both of them suddenly had strong sentimental feelings towards one another when all they'd done was hookup twice, and work together (where they did their darndest to act professional). Yes, there was that one time they both kept a baby alive through a power outage, but that single scene was not enough for me to believe that they'd both start to get hearts in their eyes for one another. Yes, it was a powerful and sentimental moment, but it wasn't really that personal or specific or unique to either of them. I needed a something like Finn offering Jesse something he was desperately missing in life and vice versa that wasn't just sex (because attractive people exist in the world) or shows of medical prowess (saving the baby was good, but it literally could've been anybody else doing that), particularly because they were both so adamant about not acting familiar towards each other, so I expected a stronger reason for them to find themselves breaking their self-imposed "professionalism".
Tay acting very casually towards Finn after Jesse had made him his mentor really underscored how WEIRD the entire situation was. Finn and Jesse needed to act like they didn't know each other, but Tay can get away with calling Finn "minion" and being generally colloquial with him? Why was that the case?
Ok, yeah, the reminder that there were hospital dating procedures just sealed the deal here for me. This is just a rehash of Tay and Dean's conflict from the first book where the story acts like dating someone in a higher position is a death sentence, but the reality is that it's not against the rules because there are actually guidelines around how to make them ok. Finn and Jesse constantly spew out "we can't be together because it's unprofessional, and I can't be objective" but Jesse literally moved off of being Finn's direct supervisor AND the hospital literally supported relationships between co-workers (and it's not like Finn and Jesse would even be trailblazing a romantic relationship with an authority differential, they just needed to follow Tay and Dean's lead).
I did NOT understand why they didn't just start dating when they both clearly wanted something more from each other.
TL;DR: Same deal as the first book. Melodramatic and nonsensical because Finn and Jesse act like they can't date each other because of work, but work literally says they can. 1.5 stars rounded up.
Notes I took while reading:
Finn pretending to be an escort was funny at the start, but him choosing to continually go along with it well after was honestly cringe.
I liked that both Finn and Jesse were both civil and on the same page about their hookup when they discussed it. I do think they kind of made a bigger deal about it than they needed to, with how they mulled it over afterwards though. I mean, yeah they found each other hot, but ultimately it was just a one night stand with a stranger, surely they should've been able to chalk it up to casual sex and not let it interfere with their day to day interactions. There's something to be said about underlying attraction, but I wasn't really convinced that just sexual attraction to each other was a good enough reason for them to be thrown so off balance AFTER they'd already addressed it.
This story really suffered from the same issue I had in the first one, namely I couldn't understand WHY Finn and Jesse were so adamant on acting like they didn't know each other. I get not wanting to broadcast that they hooked up, I also understood not wanting to make it seem like the competition was unduly influenced by a perceived bias, but I didn't understand why they wanted to keep things strictly professional past that. On page 77, Jesse says that he'd be "fighting to keep every line between us sharp and professional" as if he also didn't mention an end-of-boot-camp social mixer earlier in the sentence (so were they supposed to not talk or form a camaraderie at the social party?). Finn echoes a similar sentiment on the next page where he says: "Three months of long hours, teaching moments and pretending I didn't know his laugh and the way he fucked." Were they not allowed to be friendly??? Like I said, not wanting to let people know they hooked up is fine, but the story goes well beyond that into telling us that any rapport and fraternization beyond that of a supervisor and and underling is profoundly inappropriate (when absolutely nothing said so). Hell, there's a literal post boot camp party that presumably is meant to foster interpersonal connections beyond just their professional identities, so why were they so focused on acting like they were complete strangers? Finn saying he needed to pretend to "not know his [Jesse's] laugh" really emphasized that problem for me.
Finn and Jesse getting hung up on each other after basically just existing in each other's spaces was not romantic. I didn't understand why both of them suddenly had strong sentimental feelings towards one another when all they'd done was hookup twice, and work together (where they did their darndest to act professional). Yes, there was that one time they both kept a baby alive through a power outage, but that single scene was not enough for me to believe that they'd both start to get hearts in their eyes for one another. Yes, it was a powerful and sentimental moment, but it wasn't really that personal or specific or unique to either of them. I needed a something like Finn offering Jesse something he was desperately missing in life and vice versa that wasn't just sex (because attractive people exist in the world) or shows of medical prowess (saving the baby was good, but it literally could've been anybody else doing that), particularly because they were both so adamant about not acting familiar towards each other, so I expected a stronger reason for them to find themselves breaking their self-imposed "professionalism".
Tay acting very casually towards Finn after Jesse had made him his mentor really underscored how WEIRD the entire situation was. Finn and Jesse needed to act like they didn't know each other, but Tay can get away with calling Finn "minion" and being generally colloquial with him? Why was that the case?
Ok, yeah, the reminder that there were hospital dating procedures just sealed the deal here for me. This is just a rehash of Tay and Dean's conflict from the first book where the story acts like dating someone in a higher position is a death sentence, but the reality is that it's not against the rules because there are actually guidelines around how to make them ok. Finn and Jesse constantly spew out "we can't be together because it's unprofessional, and I can't be objective" but Jesse literally moved off of being Finn's direct supervisor AND the hospital literally supported relationships between co-workers (and it's not like Finn and Jesse would even be trailblazing a romantic relationship with an authority differential, they just needed to follow Tay and Dean's lead).
I did NOT understand why they didn't just start dating when they both clearly wanted something more from each other.
TL;DR: Same deal as the first book. Melodramatic and nonsensical because Finn and Jesse act like they can't date each other because of work, but work literally says they can. 1.5 stars rounded up.
Review of advance copy received from NetGalley
4-⭐
I've seen some titles from this author but never before tried any of them out, since I'm not a big contemporary fan. I read a book here and there but it's not my jam like speculative fiction (with romance) is. While I didn't have an epiphany, this was a lovely read, very smooth and entertaining. I will surely be back for more.
The beginning of this book is delicious: on a whim, Finn decides to play along and fake being an escort. And he ends up picking up Jesse, who later turns out to be his supervisor. This kind of 'oops I slept with my future boss' is an overused trope, but I loved it here, especially with the escort twist. As over-the-top this is, I didn't need to suspend my disbelief and I didn't think either of these guys were being weird. It was silly and entertaining, yet strangely plausible.
This pretty much holds up throughout the whole book. The guys are being mainly professional, nice people, but there's the pull they can't really resist. There's no stupid drama or third act breakups, just the crush that happened at the wrong time.
I'm not as ambitious as these guys and I strongly disagree with having to choose between a career and a relationship, there's always a way. But I wasn't mad about the hesitation here, because their thing was very new and there was a lot at stake. Though I'm not feeling 'forbidden' either. (Forbidden is more about being a priest in love with a demon, or just anyone with their uncle, basically.)
I did experience some irritation about the doctors pulling 24h shifts as a regular thing and especially being at work when they were clearly sick, which was just waved away with "we've all been there" har har. Otherwise I found the medical setting mildly interesting. Possibly the most implausible thing was how there weren't dead patients everywhere to tear Finn apart, but then again, they were working in pediatrics so maybe it's just better that the book didn't go there.
I also felt just a bit impatient towards the end, but then the story wrapped up quite fast, and it was quite lovely too. Not a 400 page slog through too many details and repetition, no. This one held my attention almost throughout even without evil sorcerers, so: well done! The book had a surprisingly realistic feel with still having plenty of humour, and many lovable supporting characters. I'll have another.
My thanks to the author, Storm Publishing, and NetGalley for the ARC.
I've seen some titles from this author but never before tried any of them out, since I'm not a big contemporary fan. I read a book here and there but it's not my jam like speculative fiction (with romance) is. While I didn't have an epiphany, this was a lovely read, very smooth and entertaining. I will surely be back for more.
The beginning of this book is delicious: on a whim, Finn decides to play along and fake being an escort. And he ends up picking up Jesse, who later turns out to be his supervisor. This kind of 'oops I slept with my future boss' is an overused trope, but I loved it here, especially with the escort twist. As over-the-top this is, I didn't need to suspend my disbelief and I didn't think either of these guys were being weird. It was silly and entertaining, yet strangely plausible.
This pretty much holds up throughout the whole book. The guys are being mainly professional, nice people, but there's the pull they can't really resist. There's no stupid drama or third act breakups, just the crush that happened at the wrong time.
I'm not as ambitious as these guys and I strongly disagree with having to choose between a career and a relationship, there's always a way. But I wasn't mad about the hesitation here, because their thing was very new and there was a lot at stake. Though I'm not feeling 'forbidden' either. (Forbidden is more about being a priest in love with a demon, or just anyone with their uncle, basically.)
I did experience some irritation about the doctors pulling 24h shifts as a regular thing and especially being at work when they were clearly sick, which was just waved away with "we've all been there" har har. Otherwise I found the medical setting mildly interesting. Possibly the most implausible thing was how there weren't dead patients everywhere to tear Finn apart, but then again, they were working in pediatrics so maybe it's just better that the book didn't go there.
I also felt just a bit impatient towards the end, but then the story wrapped up quite fast, and it was quite lovely too. Not a 400 page slog through too many details and repetition, no. This one held my attention almost throughout even without evil sorcerers, so: well done! The book had a surprisingly realistic feel with still having plenty of humour, and many lovable supporting characters. I'll have another.
My thanks to the author, Storm Publishing, and NetGalley for the ARC.
August 10, 2026
Finished this a week a go and forgot to wrote my thoughts down here. Hope I still remember 😅
I thought Finn and Jesse had a LOT of chemistry; even when they had to press it down due to the situation that Jesse is Finn's supervisor and potential of power abuse since Jesse is part of the committe that judge Finn's performance. Their chemistry can't be denied though, I felt it even from the first chapter when Jesse thought Finn was a hooker.
The tension (of not wanting to break the rules but clearly there are FEELINGS) was well maintained throughout. Although because of this - because they didn't want to break the rules - I felt that the connection through talking was not as strong as some Detand's previous books.
I mean, Dean and Tay from Operation Boyfriend learned from each other because of their fake relatioship. But here, it was postponed since Finn and Jesse tried to keep their distance inside and outside the hospital - to keep it professional. So I missed those moments here.
Although, once Finn and Jesse tried to give it a go - a more personal relationship I mean - by being careful about it, the connection flowed through nicely.
I still enjoyed it so much. Detand has been a solid author for me in the past couple of years ❤️
I thought Finn and Jesse had a LOT of chemistry; even when they had to press it down due to the situation that Jesse is Finn's supervisor and potential of power abuse since Jesse is part of the committe that judge Finn's performance. Their chemistry can't be denied though, I felt it even from the first chapter when Jesse thought Finn was a hooker.
The tension (of not wanting to break the rules but clearly there are FEELINGS) was well maintained throughout. Although because of this - because they didn't want to break the rules - I felt that the connection through talking was not as strong as some Detand's previous books.
I mean, Dean and Tay from Operation Boyfriend learned from each other because of their fake relatioship. But here, it was postponed since Finn and Jesse tried to keep their distance inside and outside the hospital - to keep it professional. So I missed those moments here.
Although, once Finn and Jesse tried to give it a go - a more personal relationship I mean - by being careful about it, the connection flowed through nicely.
I still enjoyed it so much. Detand has been a solid author for me in the past couple of years ❤️
July 10, 2026
A Tenderness with Consequences
In “Conflict of Interest,” Zarah Detand makes professional competence the most intimate language two ambitious men can share.
By Demetris Papadimitropoulos | July 9th, 2026
Desire’s first problem in “Conflict of Interest” is not that it is forbidden. It is that it leaves a paper trail. Zarah Detand begins with a premise romance readers can spot from across the bar – a bar-lit miscalculation, a stranger with excellent cheekbones and ruinous timing, a misunderstanding far too useful to correct – and then gives it a hospital hierarchy, a reporting line, and a title that is not just flirting. Finn Hayes arrives in New York newly dumped, newly credentialed, and raw enough to mistake performance for confidence. When a man at a bar assumes he is an escort, Finn plays along. The stranger is Jesse Maddox, controlled, amused, and exactly the kind of lapse that should vanish by dawn. Instead, Jesse leaves money on the nightstand, Finn keeps the number, and Devon Memorial, sorting machine for surgical aspiration and coffee that tastes faintly of compliance, delivers the punch line with a badge clip: Jesse is a senior pediatric surgery fellow. Finn is a first-year general surgery resident. Romance has walked into HR, and HR has found a chair.
Even before Devon appears, Detand is watching what a role costs once someone believes it. Finn’s first-night persona is not a naughty costume so much as confidence stitched together under neon. Travis, the ex whose insults still cling, has accused him of being married to his ambitions, too absorbed in medicine to be worth the drive. Finn’s counterargument is not wisdom. It is eyeliner, silk, mezcal, and a reckless little audition for desirability. Jesse, meanwhile, thinks he is purchasing clarity: one controlled transgression, no aftermath, no need to be known. Both men are wrong, though in useful ways. The lie that begins as flirtation becomes a reportable fact, then an emotional one. Mistaken identity, here, is not a trick the plot plays and then forgets. It is the first version of the book’s real trouble: being misread can be thrilling, but being correctly seen may be worse.
Much of “Conflict of Interest” could have stopped at its first-night pleasures: fast banter, open-door heat, a good first kiss, a morning-after mortification polished until it gleams. Detand is after the aftershock. The premise does its deeper work once Finn and Jesse have to stand beside each other in navy scrubs and pretend the hotel room has evaporated. They meet on rooftops and in workrooms, at boot camp and on rounds, inside the forced closeness of hospital life. Jesse may help evaluate Finn; Finn must prove himself in a system where everyone is already exhausted, credentialed, hungry, and watching. The sex keeps its charge. The more dangerous current runs through the evaluation form. Who scores whom? Whose opportunity looks bought? Who can plausibly claim neutrality once the body remembers what the policy cannot allow?
Especially in its first half, the novel has the brisk confidence of a good workplace romance with a pager clipped to its belt. It knows where to put a door that should not open, a stairwell that should not be climbed, a note tucked where only the right person will find it. Finn wins a surgical boot-camp competition that grants him a pediatric rotation and a possible place near the Jackson twins’ separation surgery, the book’s largest surgical test. Jesse, caught between want and evaluative authority, tries to compensate for bias without creating a new one. He scores Finn conservatively. Finn wins anyway. That “anyway” matters. One of Detand’s shrewder choices is refusing to make Finn merely the beloved exception. He is gifted, anxious, overprepared, funny, impatient, and sometimes half-dead on his feet. He earns things. He also benefits from proximity to someone who wants him. Detand lets both facts stand, which is harder – and more interesting – than acquitting everyone by chemistry.
The sentences live near pulse, sweat, and scrub fabric. Finn’s narration arrives in quick pivots and comic self-interruptions, as if embarrassment were keeping time. He jokes because shame needs somewhere to go. Jesse’s chapters are more controlled, but the control develops stress fractures. A swallowed tenderness here. A clinical observation turning intimate there. A thought about fairness interrupted by the memory of a mouth, a hand, a shoulder under shower water. Detand’s prose is built less for stillness than for recoil: desire flares, judgment snaps back, want finds another opening. The diction moves from scrub-pocket practical to barroom-bright – sutures, bourbon, blood, peanut butter, bad coffee, lemon bars. The sentences hum in the gap between public polish and private static.
Rotating between Finn and Jesse in first person, Detand does not need trapdoor architecture. She needs the same events to wound differently. Finn believes desire is temporary and ambition makes him disposable. Jesse believes self-command is morality and wanting Finn may make him dangerous. In one chapter, restraint feels like rejection; in the next, it looks like protection. That asymmetry gives the romance much of its ache. The design is familiar, yes, but it earns its scrubs. Prohibition and proximity do the work. A bar becomes a hotel; a hotel becomes a workplace; a workplace becomes a system of glances, evaluations, food, illness, surgical crisis, and finally consequence.
In the blackout crisis involving Baby Sloan, the novel’s quiet strength comes into focus: competence as intimacy. Finn and Jesse do not become convincing because they are good in bed, though the record is not thin. They become convincing because they see each other work. Finn runs blood through a failing hospital system and arrives where Jesse is fighting to keep a child alive. Equipment fails; hierarchy narrows to instruction, breath, and steadiness; the men function together before they can honestly name what they are to each other. Later, the Jackson twins’ surgery gives Finn’s ambition another shape: not résumé hunger, but awe before difficult work, willingness to be one part of a larger effort. Jesse’s excellence, in turn, becomes less icy. He is not merely the hot supervisor. He is a man who knows that care is not softer because it is precise.
Public risk is where the romance becomes tenderer and more dangerous. Again and again, Devon turns the lovers’ chronology into the hallway version. Finn and Jesse may know the sequence: the first night, the attempt at distance, the transfer of supervision to Tay Carter, the careful avoidance of a direct evaluation line. The institution will know something simpler: fellow, intern, opportunity, secrecy. Detand is at her sharpest inside that reduction. Novak, the senior surgeon who eventually confronts them, is not a villain dragged in to punish pleasure. She is the book’s sternest adult at Devon, which in romance is a thankless but necessary specialty. She recognizes that nuance exists and that institutions rarely preserve it kindly. Her warning gives the novel its cleanest cut: some stories become accusations simply by being told in the wrong room.
A romance still gets to choose mercy, and “Conflict of Interest” chooses it with open eyes. Novak is stern without becoming punitive. Tay sees more than he says. The people around Finn and Jesse keep showing up with candor, snacks, and inconvenient accuracy. Ashwick Presbyterian appears as the road not taken, then the road that may have been waiting all along: less glittering than Devon, more livable, kinder to the lungs. That is pleasure with a bill attached, though the bill is suspiciously well addressed. Jesse pays for choosing Finn, but the bill arrives with a forwarding address to a better life. One need not begrudge the leniency to notice the smoothing. The novel takes its reporting-line problem seriously enough to sting, but not so seriously that it will deny the reader a garden.
Pleasure is part of the craft, not a garnish sprinkled after the serious ingredients. The dialogue is often funny in the way self-defense is funny: Finn says the bright thing before the vulnerable thing can escape; Jesse deadpans because sincerity has no sterile field. The erotic scenes are explicit, but their function changes as the book goes on. The first night is performance. The second is relapse. The later domestic scenes are exposure. Sex changes the room in which character has to speak. Still, the hottest moments may be the most ordinary: coffee remembered, lemon bars brought, a fever noticed, a coat given, a phone set aside. In this book, attention keeps taking off its gloves.
Among nearby shelves, “Boyfriend Material” by Alexis Hall comes to mind for comic self-sabotage and voicey embarrassment; “Heated Rivalry” by Rachel Reid for private intensity inside an overcredentialed, under-rested world. Neither quite finds this book’s address. Detand’s conflict is more clinically specific: not simply public image, nor only romantic panic, but evaluation. That changes the air pressure in every room Finn and Jesse enter. Jesse’s attraction to Finn threatens the legitimacy of Finn’s achievements and Jesse’s judgment. The question is not whether love can survive exposure. It is whether love itself has distorted the evidence.
Detand’s answer cuts both ways. Yes, Jesse is biased. No, Finn is not undeserving. Yes, the institution is right to care about the reporting line. No, the institution is not the only authority on what happened between them. Detand is at her sharpest when she lets contradictory truths sit at the same table and refuses to make anyone pay the whole bill. The book does not treat policy as prudery, or policy as wisdom. It treats policy as necessary and insufficient. That is a tricky little surgery for a high-heat romance, because the genre asks us to root for the lovers while the title asks us to audit them. For most of the book, Detand manages both: the reader wants them caught only in the romantic sense, then winces when actual consequence arrives.
I remain least persuaded when the kindness scaffolding becomes too sturdy. Shane is a good friend; Neil is a good roommate; Tay is a good supervisor; Novak is a good authority figure, even when she is delivering bad news. The kindness keeps the book from turning punitive, and thank heaven – nobody came to a romance for a disciplinary hearing with no snacks. But it also limits how far the novel will follow its own trouble. A harsher, stranger book might have let the institutional damage remain uglier. This one prefers mending without pretending the tear was imaginary. That mercy is not quite evasion; it is the book’s temperament, its bedside manner. “Conflict of Interest” believes adults can make a mess, name the mess, absorb a cost, and still be allowed pancakes.
Maybe the most revealing thing about the book is that its real prize is not Devon. At the beginning, Devon Memorial gleams with impossible standards and a surgical halo. For Finn, it proves he belongs among the best. For Jesse, it is the logical culmination of years of discipline. By the end, Devon remains impressive, but it has lost its moral authority. Jesse’s possible attending post no longer looks like destiny; it looks like a life that may have required him to become smaller in every way except professional stature. Ashwick does not mean he has failed. It means he has stopped mistaking prestige for oxygen.
In the end, the book’s real subject is ambition as both vocation and hiding place. Finn’s wound is the fear that serious work has made him unlovable. Jesse’s wound is the fear that love will expose the loneliness underneath all his seriousness. Their romance works because neither man is asked to become less committed to medicine. Finn does not have to become breezy. Jesse does not have to become mediocre. What changes is the story they tell about excellence. Work can be calling, craft, service, even joy. It cannot be the whole shelter. Eventually the roof leaks.
The hospital scenes notice more than the couple: Finn treating fever as an inconvenience to be scheduled around, Jesse mistaking self-denial for discipline, Devon turning hunger and brilliance into a single professional blur. “Conflict of Interest” does not need to lecture about medicine to understand exhaustion dressed up as devotion. Its criticism of high-pressure institutions is modest but felt. They teach people to confuse being needed with being known. Devon gives Finn and Jesse a vocation, a language, a standard. It also gives them several excellent ways to disappear.
Readers who want the forbidden romance to remain fantasy without forms attached may find the policy machinery sobering. Readers who want the supervisor/subordinate problem handled with maximal severity may find the ending too merciful. That divide is built into the premise. The novel’s pleasure is inseparable from its discomfort. It asks the reader to enjoy a relationship that should not happen, then asks that same reader to understand exactly why it should not happen. I admired the book most when it held both sensations at once – the thrill and the paperwork, the kiss and the evaluation form, the rooftop and the reportable fact.
On balance, “Conflict of Interest” earns 82/100, or 4/5 stars. That score fits a novel more attentive to its compromised setup than the blurb’s wink might suggest, and more moving when it links desire to work than when it lets consequence soften into romance’s leniency. Its excellence is mainly emotional and entertaining, with enough thematic seriousness to give the heat a spine. Not every stitch holds equally. But it knows where the pulse is, and it keeps two fingers there.
Perhaps romance is allowed to be merciful because it knows consequence is not the final god. “Conflict of Interest” understands the cost of Finn and Jesse’s choices, then lets the cost become part of a better design. The epilogue is not wrapping paper. It is the book’s last piece of evidence. Friends gather. Coffee is poured. A home begins to form around two people who once knew each other only as mistake and risk. Phones go into a basket. Birds return to the yard. The garden is not yet what it will be, but someone has thought to plant milkweed and goldenrod, which is to say: the life after ambition may still require tending, but at least it has chosen sunlight.
In “Conflict of Interest,” Zarah Detand makes professional competence the most intimate language two ambitious men can share.
By Demetris Papadimitropoulos | July 9th, 2026
Desire’s first problem in “Conflict of Interest” is not that it is forbidden. It is that it leaves a paper trail. Zarah Detand begins with a premise romance readers can spot from across the bar – a bar-lit miscalculation, a stranger with excellent cheekbones and ruinous timing, a misunderstanding far too useful to correct – and then gives it a hospital hierarchy, a reporting line, and a title that is not just flirting. Finn Hayes arrives in New York newly dumped, newly credentialed, and raw enough to mistake performance for confidence. When a man at a bar assumes he is an escort, Finn plays along. The stranger is Jesse Maddox, controlled, amused, and exactly the kind of lapse that should vanish by dawn. Instead, Jesse leaves money on the nightstand, Finn keeps the number, and Devon Memorial, sorting machine for surgical aspiration and coffee that tastes faintly of compliance, delivers the punch line with a badge clip: Jesse is a senior pediatric surgery fellow. Finn is a first-year general surgery resident. Romance has walked into HR, and HR has found a chair.
Even before Devon appears, Detand is watching what a role costs once someone believes it. Finn’s first-night persona is not a naughty costume so much as confidence stitched together under neon. Travis, the ex whose insults still cling, has accused him of being married to his ambitions, too absorbed in medicine to be worth the drive. Finn’s counterargument is not wisdom. It is eyeliner, silk, mezcal, and a reckless little audition for desirability. Jesse, meanwhile, thinks he is purchasing clarity: one controlled transgression, no aftermath, no need to be known. Both men are wrong, though in useful ways. The lie that begins as flirtation becomes a reportable fact, then an emotional one. Mistaken identity, here, is not a trick the plot plays and then forgets. It is the first version of the book’s real trouble: being misread can be thrilling, but being correctly seen may be worse.
Much of “Conflict of Interest” could have stopped at its first-night pleasures: fast banter, open-door heat, a good first kiss, a morning-after mortification polished until it gleams. Detand is after the aftershock. The premise does its deeper work once Finn and Jesse have to stand beside each other in navy scrubs and pretend the hotel room has evaporated. They meet on rooftops and in workrooms, at boot camp and on rounds, inside the forced closeness of hospital life. Jesse may help evaluate Finn; Finn must prove himself in a system where everyone is already exhausted, credentialed, hungry, and watching. The sex keeps its charge. The more dangerous current runs through the evaluation form. Who scores whom? Whose opportunity looks bought? Who can plausibly claim neutrality once the body remembers what the policy cannot allow?
Especially in its first half, the novel has the brisk confidence of a good workplace romance with a pager clipped to its belt. It knows where to put a door that should not open, a stairwell that should not be climbed, a note tucked where only the right person will find it. Finn wins a surgical boot-camp competition that grants him a pediatric rotation and a possible place near the Jackson twins’ separation surgery, the book’s largest surgical test. Jesse, caught between want and evaluative authority, tries to compensate for bias without creating a new one. He scores Finn conservatively. Finn wins anyway. That “anyway” matters. One of Detand’s shrewder choices is refusing to make Finn merely the beloved exception. He is gifted, anxious, overprepared, funny, impatient, and sometimes half-dead on his feet. He earns things. He also benefits from proximity to someone who wants him. Detand lets both facts stand, which is harder – and more interesting – than acquitting everyone by chemistry.
The sentences live near pulse, sweat, and scrub fabric. Finn’s narration arrives in quick pivots and comic self-interruptions, as if embarrassment were keeping time. He jokes because shame needs somewhere to go. Jesse’s chapters are more controlled, but the control develops stress fractures. A swallowed tenderness here. A clinical observation turning intimate there. A thought about fairness interrupted by the memory of a mouth, a hand, a shoulder under shower water. Detand’s prose is built less for stillness than for recoil: desire flares, judgment snaps back, want finds another opening. The diction moves from scrub-pocket practical to barroom-bright – sutures, bourbon, blood, peanut butter, bad coffee, lemon bars. The sentences hum in the gap between public polish and private static.
Rotating between Finn and Jesse in first person, Detand does not need trapdoor architecture. She needs the same events to wound differently. Finn believes desire is temporary and ambition makes him disposable. Jesse believes self-command is morality and wanting Finn may make him dangerous. In one chapter, restraint feels like rejection; in the next, it looks like protection. That asymmetry gives the romance much of its ache. The design is familiar, yes, but it earns its scrubs. Prohibition and proximity do the work. A bar becomes a hotel; a hotel becomes a workplace; a workplace becomes a system of glances, evaluations, food, illness, surgical crisis, and finally consequence.
In the blackout crisis involving Baby Sloan, the novel’s quiet strength comes into focus: competence as intimacy. Finn and Jesse do not become convincing because they are good in bed, though the record is not thin. They become convincing because they see each other work. Finn runs blood through a failing hospital system and arrives where Jesse is fighting to keep a child alive. Equipment fails; hierarchy narrows to instruction, breath, and steadiness; the men function together before they can honestly name what they are to each other. Later, the Jackson twins’ surgery gives Finn’s ambition another shape: not résumé hunger, but awe before difficult work, willingness to be one part of a larger effort. Jesse’s excellence, in turn, becomes less icy. He is not merely the hot supervisor. He is a man who knows that care is not softer because it is precise.
Public risk is where the romance becomes tenderer and more dangerous. Again and again, Devon turns the lovers’ chronology into the hallway version. Finn and Jesse may know the sequence: the first night, the attempt at distance, the transfer of supervision to Tay Carter, the careful avoidance of a direct evaluation line. The institution will know something simpler: fellow, intern, opportunity, secrecy. Detand is at her sharpest inside that reduction. Novak, the senior surgeon who eventually confronts them, is not a villain dragged in to punish pleasure. She is the book’s sternest adult at Devon, which in romance is a thankless but necessary specialty. She recognizes that nuance exists and that institutions rarely preserve it kindly. Her warning gives the novel its cleanest cut: some stories become accusations simply by being told in the wrong room.
A romance still gets to choose mercy, and “Conflict of Interest” chooses it with open eyes. Novak is stern without becoming punitive. Tay sees more than he says. The people around Finn and Jesse keep showing up with candor, snacks, and inconvenient accuracy. Ashwick Presbyterian appears as the road not taken, then the road that may have been waiting all along: less glittering than Devon, more livable, kinder to the lungs. That is pleasure with a bill attached, though the bill is suspiciously well addressed. Jesse pays for choosing Finn, but the bill arrives with a forwarding address to a better life. One need not begrudge the leniency to notice the smoothing. The novel takes its reporting-line problem seriously enough to sting, but not so seriously that it will deny the reader a garden.
Pleasure is part of the craft, not a garnish sprinkled after the serious ingredients. The dialogue is often funny in the way self-defense is funny: Finn says the bright thing before the vulnerable thing can escape; Jesse deadpans because sincerity has no sterile field. The erotic scenes are explicit, but their function changes as the book goes on. The first night is performance. The second is relapse. The later domestic scenes are exposure. Sex changes the room in which character has to speak. Still, the hottest moments may be the most ordinary: coffee remembered, lemon bars brought, a fever noticed, a coat given, a phone set aside. In this book, attention keeps taking off its gloves.
Among nearby shelves, “Boyfriend Material” by Alexis Hall comes to mind for comic self-sabotage and voicey embarrassment; “Heated Rivalry” by Rachel Reid for private intensity inside an overcredentialed, under-rested world. Neither quite finds this book’s address. Detand’s conflict is more clinically specific: not simply public image, nor only romantic panic, but evaluation. That changes the air pressure in every room Finn and Jesse enter. Jesse’s attraction to Finn threatens the legitimacy of Finn’s achievements and Jesse’s judgment. The question is not whether love can survive exposure. It is whether love itself has distorted the evidence.
Detand’s answer cuts both ways. Yes, Jesse is biased. No, Finn is not undeserving. Yes, the institution is right to care about the reporting line. No, the institution is not the only authority on what happened between them. Detand is at her sharpest when she lets contradictory truths sit at the same table and refuses to make anyone pay the whole bill. The book does not treat policy as prudery, or policy as wisdom. It treats policy as necessary and insufficient. That is a tricky little surgery for a high-heat romance, because the genre asks us to root for the lovers while the title asks us to audit them. For most of the book, Detand manages both: the reader wants them caught only in the romantic sense, then winces when actual consequence arrives.
I remain least persuaded when the kindness scaffolding becomes too sturdy. Shane is a good friend; Neil is a good roommate; Tay is a good supervisor; Novak is a good authority figure, even when she is delivering bad news. The kindness keeps the book from turning punitive, and thank heaven – nobody came to a romance for a disciplinary hearing with no snacks. But it also limits how far the novel will follow its own trouble. A harsher, stranger book might have let the institutional damage remain uglier. This one prefers mending without pretending the tear was imaginary. That mercy is not quite evasion; it is the book’s temperament, its bedside manner. “Conflict of Interest” believes adults can make a mess, name the mess, absorb a cost, and still be allowed pancakes.
Maybe the most revealing thing about the book is that its real prize is not Devon. At the beginning, Devon Memorial gleams with impossible standards and a surgical halo. For Finn, it proves he belongs among the best. For Jesse, it is the logical culmination of years of discipline. By the end, Devon remains impressive, but it has lost its moral authority. Jesse’s possible attending post no longer looks like destiny; it looks like a life that may have required him to become smaller in every way except professional stature. Ashwick does not mean he has failed. It means he has stopped mistaking prestige for oxygen.
In the end, the book’s real subject is ambition as both vocation and hiding place. Finn’s wound is the fear that serious work has made him unlovable. Jesse’s wound is the fear that love will expose the loneliness underneath all his seriousness. Their romance works because neither man is asked to become less committed to medicine. Finn does not have to become breezy. Jesse does not have to become mediocre. What changes is the story they tell about excellence. Work can be calling, craft, service, even joy. It cannot be the whole shelter. Eventually the roof leaks.
The hospital scenes notice more than the couple: Finn treating fever as an inconvenience to be scheduled around, Jesse mistaking self-denial for discipline, Devon turning hunger and brilliance into a single professional blur. “Conflict of Interest” does not need to lecture about medicine to understand exhaustion dressed up as devotion. Its criticism of high-pressure institutions is modest but felt. They teach people to confuse being needed with being known. Devon gives Finn and Jesse a vocation, a language, a standard. It also gives them several excellent ways to disappear.
Readers who want the forbidden romance to remain fantasy without forms attached may find the policy machinery sobering. Readers who want the supervisor/subordinate problem handled with maximal severity may find the ending too merciful. That divide is built into the premise. The novel’s pleasure is inseparable from its discomfort. It asks the reader to enjoy a relationship that should not happen, then asks that same reader to understand exactly why it should not happen. I admired the book most when it held both sensations at once – the thrill and the paperwork, the kiss and the evaluation form, the rooftop and the reportable fact.
On balance, “Conflict of Interest” earns 82/100, or 4/5 stars. That score fits a novel more attentive to its compromised setup than the blurb’s wink might suggest, and more moving when it links desire to work than when it lets consequence soften into romance’s leniency. Its excellence is mainly emotional and entertaining, with enough thematic seriousness to give the heat a spine. Not every stitch holds equally. But it knows where the pulse is, and it keeps two fingers there.
Perhaps romance is allowed to be merciful because it knows consequence is not the final god. “Conflict of Interest” understands the cost of Finn and Jesse’s choices, then lets the cost become part of a better design. The epilogue is not wrapping paper. It is the book’s last piece of evidence. Friends gather. Coffee is poured. A home begins to form around two people who once knew each other only as mistake and risk. Phones go into a basket. Birds return to the yard. The garden is not yet what it will be, but someone has thought to plant milkweed and goldenrod, which is to say: the life after ambition may still require tending, but at least it has chosen sunlight.
July 19, 2026
5🌟.
So, so good! Exactly the kind of rom-com I'd eat up and enjoy and never get bored of. Zarah Detand is quickly becoming one of my favorite authors ever.
I love that they don't let the conflict fester for too long. Even the first one involving the sex worker/not sex worker (that was hilarious lol). I'm surprised Jesse actually forgives Finn for that 🤣
Next, the progress of their relationship also just makes me so happy. They're both just in love with each other I'm 🥺🥺🥺
So, so good! Exactly the kind of rom-com I'd eat up and enjoy and never get bored of. Zarah Detand is quickly becoming one of my favorite authors ever.
I love that they don't let the conflict fester for too long. Even the first one involving the sex worker/not sex worker (that was hilarious lol). I'm surprised Jesse actually forgives Finn for that 🤣
Next, the progress of their relationship also just makes me so happy. They're both just in love with each other I'm 🥺🥺🥺
July 23, 2026
4.25 stars⭐️
The romantic tension and anticipation in this book made my chest feel ALL FUNNY 🥹🤗. Both MC’s are not only extremely likeable, but are reasonable and sound decision makers. I know that might not sound incredibly romantic or sexy, but my lord, after reading about 5 billion (slight exaggeration) books with LIs whose behaviour makes me go HUH???/🤔/🫣, it’s really relaxing to read about two really good people, pining, having really hot sex, respecting each other’s autonomy/ambitions, and falling in love (not necessarily in that order). Don’t get me wrong, I’m also a big Alessandra Hazard fan (so reasonable is not always my bag 😂), but I had a very nice time reading about Finn and Jesse falling in love and would do it again ☺️💕.
The romantic tension and anticipation in this book made my chest feel ALL FUNNY 🥹🤗. Both MC’s are not only extremely likeable, but are reasonable and sound decision makers. I know that might not sound incredibly romantic or sexy, but my lord, after reading about 5 billion (slight exaggeration) books with LIs whose behaviour makes me go HUH???/🤔/🫣, it’s really relaxing to read about two really good people, pining, having really hot sex, respecting each other’s autonomy/ambitions, and falling in love (not necessarily in that order). Don’t get me wrong, I’m also a big Alessandra Hazard fan (so reasonable is not always my bag 😂), but I had a very nice time reading about Finn and Jesse falling in love and would do it again ☺️💕.
August 16, 2026
Compelling Characters!
These two physicians are admirable in this slow burn, complicated romance. The hospital situation, the proximity of the two who try to avoid and deny attraction to avoid the HR reprimands and/or hospital procedural responses increase the tension.
Hard not to like Finn Hayes, son of a small town GP, the sort of doctor who knows all in his community and has for generations. Unlike his father, Finn seeks more and has ventured from a small town life to New York where he has been accepted into an icon of a hospital, known for its prestigious program, physicians, and procedures. While Finn is excited, he is nervous, never having experienced anything comparable to New York, he feels anonymous and free to experience and embrace the gay community he has never known. Within a small bar not far from the cheap hotel he is residing before meeting fellow roommates in a modest housing complex closer to the hospital, Finn feels free enough to flirt and mingle attracting many unwanted and undesirable men.
There at the bar is Jesse, an off duty senior resident of the very hospital where Finn will begin his further training post
Medical school. Jesse had observed Finn from afar while at the bar. Attractive, quick witted, and captivating, Finn captures Jesse. Jesse feels so drawn to him, he does the unthinkable. Believing Finn is an escort, since Finn had rejected one aggressive man threatening to alert his handlers, Jesse inquired about Finn’s availability. The two are drawn together and spend time experiencing something more, more than they had expected, had ever experienced, and had ever hoped for.
Unfortunately, the next morning, much as in the first episode of a Grey’s Anatomy series, Finn discovers among his instructors on his first rotation is Jesse. Jesse, the elder, more experienced, ever professional, seasoned and respected surgeon aspiring for a full time position upon his soon to be completed post residency is Finn’s superior.
Like Finn, Jesse is from elsewhere, a small town boy from wooded and rural community. New York has never felt like home even within this place where he has spent years. With Finn, Jesse discovers conflicts, because Finn’s warmth, wit, earnestness, and skills impress and move him. As a supervisor, in the hierarchy of command, in which he will evaluate Finn, Jesse tries to maintain a distance to remain objective. Realizing he cannot remain objective about Finn, Jesse transfers his responsibility for teaching and evaluation to another peer. And Jesse and Finn both agree to accept their experience as a once only, all the while increasingly watching and wanting each other.
The hospital challenges and procedures capture attention and hold interest. Who knew the hospital day-to-day routines could be so captivating? Fire and the smoldering, slowly burning romance.
These two physicians are admirable in this slow burn, complicated romance. The hospital situation, the proximity of the two who try to avoid and deny attraction to avoid the HR reprimands and/or hospital procedural responses increase the tension.
Hard not to like Finn Hayes, son of a small town GP, the sort of doctor who knows all in his community and has for generations. Unlike his father, Finn seeks more and has ventured from a small town life to New York where he has been accepted into an icon of a hospital, known for its prestigious program, physicians, and procedures. While Finn is excited, he is nervous, never having experienced anything comparable to New York, he feels anonymous and free to experience and embrace the gay community he has never known. Within a small bar not far from the cheap hotel he is residing before meeting fellow roommates in a modest housing complex closer to the hospital, Finn feels free enough to flirt and mingle attracting many unwanted and undesirable men.
There at the bar is Jesse, an off duty senior resident of the very hospital where Finn will begin his further training post
Medical school. Jesse had observed Finn from afar while at the bar. Attractive, quick witted, and captivating, Finn captures Jesse. Jesse feels so drawn to him, he does the unthinkable. Believing Finn is an escort, since Finn had rejected one aggressive man threatening to alert his handlers, Jesse inquired about Finn’s availability. The two are drawn together and spend time experiencing something more, more than they had expected, had ever experienced, and had ever hoped for.
Unfortunately, the next morning, much as in the first episode of a Grey’s Anatomy series, Finn discovers among his instructors on his first rotation is Jesse. Jesse, the elder, more experienced, ever professional, seasoned and respected surgeon aspiring for a full time position upon his soon to be completed post residency is Finn’s superior.
Like Finn, Jesse is from elsewhere, a small town boy from wooded and rural community. New York has never felt like home even within this place where he has spent years. With Finn, Jesse discovers conflicts, because Finn’s warmth, wit, earnestness, and skills impress and move him. As a supervisor, in the hierarchy of command, in which he will evaluate Finn, Jesse tries to maintain a distance to remain objective. Realizing he cannot remain objective about Finn, Jesse transfers his responsibility for teaching and evaluation to another peer. And Jesse and Finn both agree to accept their experience as a once only, all the while increasingly watching and wanting each other.
The hospital challenges and procedures capture attention and hold interest. Who knew the hospital day-to-day routines could be so captivating? Fire and the smoldering, slowly burning romance.
June 14, 2026
What a great surprise this book was!
I don’t think the cover or summary does justice to this book, and that’s saying something. I expected your average, every day romance I would have swooned over and binge read, and I was met with a more mature, gripping read that had me feeling like I was in an episode of Chicago Med and kept me on the edge of my seat throughout it all.
I cannot express how much I LOVE when characters have a certain job for a reason, and not just to fill some blurb on an imaginary bingo card. The fact that both Jesse and Finn were doctors matters to the story, its central to the plot, and the scenes in the hospital felt real and raw and possibly(?) written by someone who has experienced life as an intern and has gone through the horrors that are hospital living.
And I loved that. I loved that the story did not revolve around the romance but about Finn’s life as an intern and Jesse’s life as a resident and mentor, I loved that the medical cases were followed through and that we felt every bit of tension within the hospital throughout the story. I cannot praise the amount of medical talk and information enough, that was delivered without the reader ever feeling lost or less than, and I am looking forward to reading anything else that might be published in this series!
Thank you Storm Publishing and Netgalley for the advanced copy in exchange for an honest review!
5 ⭐️
I don’t think the cover or summary does justice to this book, and that’s saying something. I expected your average, every day romance I would have swooned over and binge read, and I was met with a more mature, gripping read that had me feeling like I was in an episode of Chicago Med and kept me on the edge of my seat throughout it all.
I cannot express how much I LOVE when characters have a certain job for a reason, and not just to fill some blurb on an imaginary bingo card. The fact that both Jesse and Finn were doctors matters to the story, its central to the plot, and the scenes in the hospital felt real and raw and possibly(?) written by someone who has experienced life as an intern and has gone through the horrors that are hospital living.
And I loved that. I loved that the story did not revolve around the romance but about Finn’s life as an intern and Jesse’s life as a resident and mentor, I loved that the medical cases were followed through and that we felt every bit of tension within the hospital throughout the story. I cannot praise the amount of medical talk and information enough, that was delivered without the reader ever feeling lost or less than, and I am looking forward to reading anything else that might be published in this series!
Thank you Storm Publishing and Netgalley for the advanced copy in exchange for an honest review!
5 ⭐️
July 21, 2026
Rule one of becoming a doctor: don't sleep with your supervisor. Rule two: definitely don't charge him for it.
Fresh out of a breakup and new to New York, Finn Hayes does something impulsive: when a guy at a bar mistakes him for an escort, he plays along. The stranger who takes the bait? Gorgeous, in control, and exactly the kind of distraction Finn needs. One unforgettable night, a hundred bucks on the nightstand, and they'll never see each other again.
Except Jesse Maddox is a senior surgeon at Devon Memorial Hospital—and Finn's new boss. Now they're stuck navigating morning rounds, life-and-death surgery and a searing attraction that no amount of clinical detachment can cure. With careers on the line, the smart move is to walk away. But when it comes to each other, Finn and Jesse are finding that the heart doesn't follow hospital protocol...
MM forbidden romance
Workplace romance
Mistaken identity
Open-door spice
Forced proximity
Small-town boy in the big city
The author delivered the most exquisite slow burn. This was beautiful and funny, the writing was so engaging and pulled in from the start. I listened to this and just OMG, the narrator gave it all the feels. Loved it 💗
Finn and Jesse made me giggle, their banter was awesome and I listened with the biggest smile.
I’d definitely recommend this book to anyone who loves the above tropes 🥰
Fresh out of a breakup and new to New York, Finn Hayes does something impulsive: when a guy at a bar mistakes him for an escort, he plays along. The stranger who takes the bait? Gorgeous, in control, and exactly the kind of distraction Finn needs. One unforgettable night, a hundred bucks on the nightstand, and they'll never see each other again.
Except Jesse Maddox is a senior surgeon at Devon Memorial Hospital—and Finn's new boss. Now they're stuck navigating morning rounds, life-and-death surgery and a searing attraction that no amount of clinical detachment can cure. With careers on the line, the smart move is to walk away. But when it comes to each other, Finn and Jesse are finding that the heart doesn't follow hospital protocol...
MM forbidden romance
Workplace romance
Mistaken identity
Open-door spice
Forced proximity
Small-town boy in the big city
The author delivered the most exquisite slow burn. This was beautiful and funny, the writing was so engaging and pulled in from the start. I listened to this and just OMG, the narrator gave it all the feels. Loved it 💗
Finn and Jesse made me giggle, their banter was awesome and I listened with the biggest smile.
I’d definitely recommend this book to anyone who loves the above tropes 🥰
July 21, 2026
Although this book is a standalone, I think it is better to read after book #1 in the series (Operation Boyfriend) as Tay, a main character from book #1, has a significant presence in Conflict of Interest. I really liked this book. The premise is that Jesse, a senior pediatric surgery fellow, picks up Finn at a bar and they have a one-night stand. Then it turns out that Finn is a first year resident at Jesse's hospital. Through circumstances, Finn and Jesse end up on the same team. They vow to be professional but can't stop thinking about each other and a slip up occurs. Eventually, they are found out and there is fallout but it's a romance, so it all works out in the end!
Conflict of Interest had the poetic writing and great banter that I find characteristic of Zarah Detand's work. The main conflict (power imbalance in the medical workplace) was the same as in book #1 but ramped up as the main characters worked on the same team, with Jesse being Finn's direct supervisor. As must occur in book with this premise, one of them had to pay the price but I found the resolution believable due to hints in the book before everything implodes. I always love it when main characters are willing to sacrifice themselves for the one they love and this occurs in the book. I do wish there had been more depiction of Jesse and Finn getting to know each other better. There was a lot of chemistry and mutual respect for their medical skills but they fell in love pretty quickly. Nevertheless, I really enjoyed this book and recommend it!
Conflict of Interest had the poetic writing and great banter that I find characteristic of Zarah Detand's work. The main conflict (power imbalance in the medical workplace) was the same as in book #1 but ramped up as the main characters worked on the same team, with Jesse being Finn's direct supervisor. As must occur in book with this premise, one of them had to pay the price but I found the resolution believable due to hints in the book before everything implodes. I always love it when main characters are willing to sacrifice themselves for the one they love and this occurs in the book. I do wish there had been more depiction of Jesse and Finn getting to know each other better. There was a lot of chemistry and mutual respect for their medical skills but they fell in love pretty quickly. Nevertheless, I really enjoyed this book and recommend it!
October 11, 2026
This is a book that takes both the romance and the setting seriously, giving a solid hospital love story that doesn’t cut corners. And while the setup is cute — and I loved the sex worker roleplay — it also addresses the power disparity between the two men, and I can’t tell you how happy I was when Jesse stepped back from being Finn’s direct supervisor even though he didn’t intend to pick up their potential romance. He knew he couldn’t be unbiased, and acted like an adult.
For some people that might be a bit of a deal breaker; there is no miscommunication for the sake of shenanigans. When Finn and Jesse have questions, they ask them. When things come up, they talk about it. And when it’s time to work, they both behave in a professional manner.
All that said, this book is super quick and there isn’t really much time spent on the angst. I had hoped for a bit more yearning than I got, but I still enjoyed my time with this book. Well worth the read if you want a quick, no-angst romance about adults who happen to be doctors. Thank you so very much to Net Galley and the publisher for the ARC.
For some people that might be a bit of a deal breaker; there is no miscommunication for the sake of shenanigans. When Finn and Jesse have questions, they ask them. When things come up, they talk about it. And when it’s time to work, they both behave in a professional manner.
All that said, this book is super quick and there isn’t really much time spent on the angst. I had hoped for a bit more yearning than I got, but I still enjoyed my time with this book. Well worth the read if you want a quick, no-angst romance about adults who happen to be doctors. Thank you so very much to Net Galley and the publisher for the ARC.
June 5, 2026
╰┈➤ « Not like I planned it. Just….He was there. We locked eyes. And the rest is history. »
ㅤꨄ︎ medical field
ㅤꨄ︎ forbidden romance
ㅤꨄ︎workplace relationship
This is my second book from the author, and once again I loved it!!
Finn plays along when a stranger mistakes him for a hooker at a bar, but the next day he discovered than in fact the stranger is his boss…. What a funny way to begin your first intern year, isn’t it ?
I really couldn’t put this book down when I started it…Finn and Jesse were really so perfect for each other ! Both coming from smaller towns and in the same field so they understood the hard work they need to put, the hours, the high pressure….
I really enjoy it being a slow burn, with them getting to know each other, but still with tension (and sometimes given in).
I didn’t know this was a second book in a serie but I’ll definitely read the first one, and I’m glad I could read this as a standalone!
Thank you to Netgalley for this ARC.
ㅤꨄ︎ medical field
ㅤꨄ︎ forbidden romance
ㅤꨄ︎workplace relationship
This is my second book from the author, and once again I loved it!!
Finn plays along when a stranger mistakes him for a hooker at a bar, but the next day he discovered than in fact the stranger is his boss…. What a funny way to begin your first intern year, isn’t it ?
I really couldn’t put this book down when I started it…Finn and Jesse were really so perfect for each other ! Both coming from smaller towns and in the same field so they understood the hard work they need to put, the hours, the high pressure….
I really enjoy it being a slow burn, with them getting to know each other, but still with tension (and sometimes given in).
I didn’t know this was a second book in a serie but I’ll definitely read the first one, and I’m glad I could read this as a standalone!
Thank you to Netgalley for this ARC.
June 30, 2026
Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the ARC in exchange for an honest review.
This was SO cute!! Seriously, I had such a great time with this one.
The meet cute (or maybe meet disaster?) had me laughing right from the start. The confusion surrounding their one-night stand was absolutely hilarious and hooked me immediately. I couldn’t wait to see how they were going to untangle that mess.
Then things got a little more complicated with the supervisor/intern dynamic, which added some genuine tension and made me wonder how they were ever going to make it work. And once the sneaking around started? I was completely invested. I was grinning, kicking my feet, and rooting for these two the entire time.
The chemistry was fantastic, the spice was spicy, and underneath all the fun and tension was a genuinely sweet romance that left me smiling by the end.
If you’re looking for a romance that’s funny, hot, swoony, and guaranteed to leave you feeling happy, definitely pick this one up. I absolutely recommend it!
This was SO cute!! Seriously, I had such a great time with this one.
The meet cute (or maybe meet disaster?) had me laughing right from the start. The confusion surrounding their one-night stand was absolutely hilarious and hooked me immediately. I couldn’t wait to see how they were going to untangle that mess.
Then things got a little more complicated with the supervisor/intern dynamic, which added some genuine tension and made me wonder how they were ever going to make it work. And once the sneaking around started? I was completely invested. I was grinning, kicking my feet, and rooting for these two the entire time.
The chemistry was fantastic, the spice was spicy, and underneath all the fun and tension was a genuinely sweet romance that left me smiling by the end.
If you’re looking for a romance that’s funny, hot, swoony, and guaranteed to leave you feeling happy, definitely pick this one up. I absolutely recommend it!
October 11, 2026
Rule one of becoming a doctor: don't sleep with your supervisor. Rule two: definitely don't charge him for it.
This had me hooked and I just devoured this book.
I really enjoyed how grown up the characters handled their feelings and relations.
If you enjoyed the show Grey's anatomy this is the book for you. It's medical, there's complicated feelings and spice.
Thank you to NetGalley, the Publisher and the author for the eARC.
This had me hooked and I just devoured this book.
I really enjoyed how grown up the characters handled their feelings and relations.
If you enjoyed the show Grey's anatomy this is the book for you. It's medical, there's complicated feelings and spice.
Thank you to NetGalley, the Publisher and the author for the eARC.
October 21, 2026
Romanttista lomahömppää Lontoonreissulle. Stressantuneiden urheilijoiden sijaan stressaantuneitä lääkäreitä. Homous ei lääkäripiireissä ole ongelma, mutta tällä kertaa palikoita rattaisiin lyövät erikoistruvan lääkärin ja ja opintoja ohjaavan lääkärin virka-asemat. Oi voi.
Did Not Finish
July 17, 2026DNF @ 16% - Not for me.
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