"I won't date a wrench monkey."

Ritter Lehman, Miami's most successful orthopedic surgeon, keeps scaring away potential boyfriends. He's just a bit... intense. He has the career. He has the millions. He has the hard body. He deserves the best.

"I've never been in love."

Joshua, the willowy and deeply closeted sweet young man who fixes Ritter's Porsche, doesn't know enough of Ritter's reputation to be scared away. He's not so much scared of Ritter as he's scared of being gay. He already sacrificed college to run his father's car shop, and he's ready to sacrifice his gay identity in order to keep his parents happy -- until he meets Ritter, the out-and-proud gay alpha male.

"No one's turned me down."

When Ritter wants something, he gets it. Joshua catches his eye and Ritter is so thirsty that he embarrasses himself, but Joshua makes him work for his love. It's never been like this for Ritter. Every other man just followed Ritter to bed after a ride in his Porsche, a peek at his six-pack, and a tour of his South Beach palace, but Joshua is making Ritter prove his love.

"Am I another notch on your scalpel?"

Ritter won't admit to his billionaire ex-boyfriend that he's dating Joshua, and Joshua doesn't want to be anybody's shameful secret. Meanwhile, Joshua's parents aren't happy with Joshua's own secret.

The Mechanic and the Surgeon is a gay romance with good humor, hot sex, a confused millennial, a lecherous surgeon, and a feel-good HEA.