Into the Mountains — P.D. Singer

Why did Kurt Carlson become a forest ranger?Long before he met Jake, Kurt climbed the monoliths of Yosemite with his best friend, Benji. But after a storm traps them halfway up the face of El Capitan, Kurt has to accept that their friendship isn't what he thought.Why did Jake Landon become a forest ranger?A trip with his college friends to a hot springs resort should be fun, not disastrous. But for a man who's still deep in the closet, everything that can go wrong does go wrong.Everything leads to two men alone in the wilderness in this prequel to Fire on the Mountain.