Shifting between the corporate business life of modern, urban society and the mysteriously dark nightlife upon the streets of gay Phoenix, Andrew Wolter's debut novel explores the diverse circumstances of four men whose lives are about to drastically change after giving in to their own individual longings.The Rules of Temptation confronts dark themes--a corporate businessman whose life is changed by infidelity, a man obsessed by a reluctant love who is driven into a dangerous downward spiral of drugs and sadomasochism, a young runaway who has no other choice but to turn to the world of male prostitution, and a war veteran who has slipped into a world of insanity and government conspiracies--but it is also a novel of hope and survival.The modern setting initiates a rollercoaster ride from the professional, corporate world of glass and stucco towers to a dark underground of the city nightlife to the after-hour streets where the survival of derelicts and hustlers hangs by a thread.Within the vast city of Phoenix, the lives of four men are about to clash with one another. The consequences that follow will launch them all into a world of betrayal, obsession, and even murder