One thing you can say of Carol Lynne is that she has amazingly original plots for so short stories.

Tortured Souls, less than 80 pages, is the story of Bram, a security specialist, former abused child, who falls in love of Declan, a doctor. Declan has lost six years before his partner, a man he met in one of his foster house and which whom he grew together. But when they were barely twenty years old, Scott developed a mental disability due to a brain cancer, and he tortured and raped Declan before killing himself. So now Declan is veru cautious in his lovers choice.

This is the sixth book in the Men in Love series, and when it starts Bram is trying to forget Declan. But he has not much success and so he returns back in Oklahoma and to Declan. But Bram's past is not buried as he thinks.

As in all Carol Lynne's books, there is a lot of sex between gorgeous men, and unlikely matches which seem to work wonderfully: around Bram and Declan gravitate not one but not less than two threesome, both working without problems. Only in the Fantasy Land America by Carol Lynne this is possible, but maybe this is also the reason why we like her books. And kudos to her to have a fervid imagination and always come out with new idea.