First, Do No Harm
Aspen Knight
Rated: 5.00 of 5 stars
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· Steam/Spice level: 4 of 5
Explicit open door [?]
· 1 rating · 313 pages · Published: 01 Oct 2025
Nathan Keating doesn't tolerate recklessness. Doesn't tolerate deviation from protocol. And he definitely doesn't tolerate the cocky new trauma surgeon who walks into his OR on day one and saves a patient by breaking every rule in the book.
Eric knows he should keep his head down. Follow orders. Prove he's not the arrogant disaster his last hospital claimed he was. But watching Keating work—precise, controlled, untouchable—makes him want to crack that ice-cold exterior and find the man underneath.
Nate knows he should fire Eric. The man is chaos in scrubs. But when a mass casualty event forces them to work side by side for forty-eight hours straight, something shifts. Eric sees past his walls. Challenges him. Makes him remember what it's like to feel something other than fear.
What starts as professional rivalry becomes late-night conversations. Stolen glances across the OR. The kind of tension that can't be ignored.
But Nate is Eric's boss. Coming out could cost them both their careers. And Nate has spent twenty years building walls for a reason—vulnerability destroyed him once before.
When Eric refuses to back down, when he looks Nate in the eye and says "I see you," everything Nate thought he knew about himself begins to crumble.
First, Do No Harm is a high-stakes medical romance about two surgeons who have to choose between the careers they've built and the love they never saw coming. Featuring a grumpy chief of surgery learning to be vulnerable, a sunshine trauma surgeon who refuses to give up, steamy scenes, hospital politics, and an HEA that's worth every risk.
Perfect for fans of emotional MM romance, enemies-to-lovers, age gap, workplace romance, and stories where falling in love means risking everything.
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