The unique, colorful island of Key West plays an important part in this story. The town's physical beauty and population of creative people help shape and define the three main characters.

The men, Felix, a seasoned fishing captain and poker player, and Jamie, a young radio disc jockey and aspiring writer, are best friends, two men who love each other like brothers. At first glance they seem very different, but they think alike, and in many ways, they are alike, men who have learned how to bounce all their ideas, all their beliefs, their conquests, their every good and vital thing, off one another.

One day these friends find themselves in love with the same woman, Rachael, a woman so vibrant, so special, that she is adored by almost everyone who knows her. This woman truly possesses the Heat, and everyone feels it when they are around her. And these two men, Felix and Jamie, outside the routine of their daily lives, are slaves to the Heat, to the magic of flirtation, to those silent communications that move like lightening between two like-minded people.

Flaco, a Key West Conch, and Buffy, an Australian nurse, bring a breath of fresh air to the group, and a smile to the face of Felix. Getting to know Felix, Jamie and Rachael and all their friends, hanging out at the local bars, fishing the nearshore waters, throwing the biggest backyard island party of the year, you will get a sense of what its like to live and work year round in Key West.

Excerpts from "The Heat" page 111

    It was the heat of her when she sat close to him in the hotel lobby that he remembered, the smell of her body, the promises they silently made to each other, the probing depth of her eyes into his, the sweet holding back of emotions, the uncertainty, the real world fact that they may never have the heat between them again like it was now, this moving, tantalizing hurt of heat that he was feeling again after so long, so many years in the past, and here it was again and it was going to be gone, and then it was gone with her, but what was left was the indelible memory of her and for two days he was breathless and would shake his head when he was alone and say her name and would relive the one night they were together, and in those moments he was happy and felt alive and not wanting for any adventure beyond more of her