Heidi Hart

One of the things I love about the Beyond series, now that we're in the middle of it and have a better sense of the series-wide plots and the post-apocalyptic world-building and the politics of the Sectors, is not so much the romances between the couples (and threesomes) that are the focus of each individual book, but the friendships among the O'Kane clan. There's been a lot of emphasis in prior books about the sisterhood among the O'Kane women, but this book has some lovely scenes about brotherhood -- the bond between men, how they earn each other's trust and respect, how they 'nut up' and make things right when they err (with the women in their lives and with the men), just generally how to make friends and, more importantly, how to be a friend.