Someone to Love
Dennis Childres enjoys his freedom. He has his own house, works his own hours, and stars in taboo gay sex scenes for the company he and his best friend own. From the outside, Dennis has it all. But deep down, he isn't happy. Even tailored to his personal taste, the porn star's life is missing something ... or maybe someone. He wants a person to love and he's willing to search anywhere to find them. What Dennis doesn't know is that lurking in a strange corner of the internet, there is someone who loves him. Someone who would do anything for him. Even kill. Certain the adult film actor is the only one who can purge the evil from his soul, this stalker is poised to take his strange obsession from behind the computer and straight into Dennis' perfect world. Will the hopeless romantic discover the truth about his super fan in time or will his lustful quest to find the ideal man become a fight for his life? Reader Advisory: Someone to Love is a thrilling, action-packed adventure which contains graphic depictions of sex, abuse, drug use, and simulated incest.
Companion
Sly Spurgeon has spent his life trying to escape a dying planet. He's determined to drag his stubborn father along with him, but when his family's vices threaten to destroy any chance of a better life, Sly must take drastic measures. Fortunately, the very blood in his veins is as good as gold to the right people, but the cost might be too steep to stomach. Kahled Vauqeulin should be in the prime of his life, living large on a thriving world far removed from his people's planet of origin. Instead, he's dying from the only genetic disease known to homo nocturni. His only hope at combatting the disease is to find a donor with pure humanity in their veins. He might as well resign himself to death, given the odds. It's hardly the makings of an epic love story, but if things were different, Sly and Kahled would be perfect for each other.
Companion
Sly Spurgeon has spent his life trying to escape a dying planet. He's determined to drag his stubborn father along with him, but when his family's vices threaten to destroy any chance of a better life, Sly must take drastic measures. Fortunately, the very blood in his veins is as good as gold to the right people, but the cost might be too steep to stomach. Kahled Vauqeulin should be in the prime of his life, living large on a thriving world far removed from his people's planet of origin. Instead, he's dying from the only genetic disease known to homo nocturni. His only hope at combatting the disease is to find a donor with pure humanity in their veins. He might as well resign himself to death, given the odds. It's hardly the makings of an epic love story, but if things were different, Sly and Kahled would be perfect for each other.
Catboat Road
Mrs. Robinson, meet Holden Caulfield--if Holden were a smart, sexy teenage lesbian in love with her mother's best friend.For Candace "Ace" Ragsdale, Mrs. Forest is an irresistible force of nature: luscious, tantalizing--and maybe not completely out of reach.No one in her family is moored to social convention--but they've each learned to surf the wave of the unfamiliar and make the most of chaos. From Ace's womanizing-yet-worshipful brother to her elusive-yet-loving parents, we watch this well-meaning family weave its way into a rich tapestry of townspeople, often to comic effect.The backdrop is the Massachusetts seaside town of Horton, cut off from the world. On the surface, boats sway on their moorings, while below bubbles a primal brew of salt and sea life--much like the Ragsdales, a decidedly modern family whose humor and goodwill skim breezily above an ocean of smoldering emotions.Into this infinite chaos careens a rebel grandmother who shows up to help the family save the town windmill, whose mysterious energy whips up the coastal disturbances of a changing world. As this spectacle of public conflict and private anguish unfolds, we're fully on Ace's side as she pilots the turbulent waters of love, sex, and traditionally non-traditional small-town values.
Dead Woman’s Secret
Flynn Dalton just wants to marry her girlfriend, Genesis, go back to her construction job, and get on with her life. But first she has to defeat a revenge-crazed psychic succubus who is erasing people from existence.... Flynn is in a tough spot. The National Psychic Registry will exile Genesis for her use of dark magic if Flynn doesn't do their bidding... and Gen doesn't even know the Registry is using her for leverage. The only way for Flynn to get her life back-and protect Gen-is to find and kill Tempest Granfeld, the disembodied succubus removing Registry members from time. But no matter how hard Flynn works, she makes little progress. Using her abilities takes a mental and physical toll, and she's so tired that she can't keep an eye on Gen, who's struggling with her dark magic addiction. When Tempest sets her sights on Genesis, Flynn is pushed to her breaking point. Can she embrace her power once and for all and be the hero Gen needs? Dead Woman's Secret is the thrilling conclusion to Elle E. Ire's spine-tingling, immersive Nearly Departed trilogy. Fans of lesbian fiction, psychic problem-solvers, and badass heroines will lose themselves in this sexy, spooky paranormal adventure.
The Wicked and the Willing
When the monster gets the girl, everyone will bleed.2023 Lambda Literary Award Winner, LGBTQ+ Speculative Fiction2023 Golden Crown Literary Award Winner, Paranormal/Occult/HorrorSingapore, 1927.Verity Edevane needs blood. And not just anyone's blood. She craves the sweet, salty rush from a young woman's veins, the heady swirl of desire mixed with fealty-such a rarity in this foreign colony. It's a lot to ask. But doesn't she deserve the best?Gean Choo needs money. Mrs. Edevane makes her an offer Gean Choo can't refuse. But who is her strange, alluring new mistress? What is she? And what will Gean Choo sacrifice to earn her love?Po Lam needs absolution. After decades of faithfully serving Mrs. Edevane, Po Lam can no longer excuse a life of bondage and murder. She needs a fresh start. A clean conscience. More than anything, she needs to save Gean Choo from a love that will destroy them all.***A destitute maidservant must choose whom to love: her vampire mistress, or the woman trying to save her life in The Wicked and the Willing, a sapphic historical gothic horror vampire novel. This novel contains two mutually exclusive endings, although most of the story is not interactive. Due to the mature content and dark themes, it is intended for adult readers only. It contains potentially disturbing scenes and an abusive romantic relationship between two women. Further content information is available from the author's website and inside the book.
Paint
How do you navigate your life when you can finally make your own decisions?As Tucker Peterson moves away from home for the first time to attend college in Orlando, this is a question he must ask himself. He still hasn't told his family he's gay, he has no idea what he wants to do with his life, and now that he can do whatever he wants, he hasn't the slightest clue what should come next.Tucker, with the help of his new assertive friend Kiara, must learn to balance his newfound freedom with school and a job, and if he meets a cute boy on the way, then that's just an added bonus. Paint is a story of self-discovery, of queerness outside the family-friendly safety net of a high school drama, and of drag queens when you need them the most.If you grew up enjoying coming of age stories like Stephen Chbosky's The Perks of Being a Wallflower and John Green's Looking For Alaska, then you will enjoy the similar themes expressed through a more adult and queer lens in Paint.
Never a Dull Murder
How do you solve a murder when you don't know what weapon was used or have a motive or witness? Solving the case of the death of the best sourdough bread baker in the state gets even more difficult when Anchorage Detective Arlie Biggar gets 'help' from the victim's friends... and an adorable bear cub! Come to summertime Alaska and discover some incredible new electronic gadgets developed by Arlie to help the good guys catch the murderer and counterfeiter... and find out if they're the same person! Fun clean excitement, this cozy mystery is suitable for all ages. Read as a stand-alone story or as Book Eight in the ARLIE UNDERCOVER series.
Blind Suspicion
Justice should never be rushed. Just when life with Tyler Falling takes shape and Alex Castle decides she is ready to be free of her controlling father, she learns that he has been killed. The news sends her world into a tailspin. When someone close to the Castle family leaks information that makes Alex look guilty, the police arrest her. Now out on bail, she scrambles to clear her name. Facing decades of imprisonment has Alex doubting the people she should trust the most--including Tyler. With pressure mounting, Alex fears it will drive Tyler back to the husband who still loves her. Will the actual killer be found before Alex loses her freedom, or will blind suspicion rule the day? Book two in the Falling Castles Series.
When Wren Came Out
How do you accept your child's authentic identity when it goes against everything you've always believed in?Traditional Army wife, Theresa Churchill, spent years shuffling her family from post to post. She was relieved when her husband retired and they finally put down roots in a picket-fence and apple pie Minnesota town.Theresa is thrilled to see her daughter, Wren, settling in and making friends, but, gradually, she begins to worry that Wren's feelings for her classmate go beyond friendship. An undeniable transformation is taking place that Theresa cannot ignore, forcing her to grapple with her own convictions and demanding that she navigate the widening divide between her conservative husband and queer child, threatening to tear her family apart piece by piece.Theresa must embark on a journey from fear and confusion to unconditional love acceptance, to find the courage she needs to give her child the freedom to love everyone needs and deserves.
Until It Shimmers
A part of Ned Baldwin has always known this day would come. That he would, at last, tell the truth to the people who mattered most to him. It is only when he moves to London, to figure out what, precisely, he wants to do with his life, that he manages to blurt it out in the immediate aftermath of a minor car crash. There is relief in the fact that it is done, even if badly done. Born and bred on the inside, Ned finds himself, for the first time, on the outside, alone, with many questions and few answers. When he looks back, he does so with a mix of anger and affection. And when he looks forward? He isn't sure. In the books he's read, there are rarely happy endings for people like him. Set in London's gritty gay scene at the end of the Thatcher era, Alec Scott's debut novel Until It Shimmers confronts faith, honour, and the pursuit of love. "A rich and satisfying debut"-Christopher Castellani, bestselling author of Leading Men
Hide and Seek
For museum curator Andrew Allison, the sleepy little Maine village of Safehaven has always lived up to its name-until now. Fleeing an abusive relationship, Andy has returned to Safehaven for a few weeks while he figures out the future and helps his elderly Uncle Cuthbert run his antiques shop. But when Andy arrives, he learns Uncle Cuthbert is in the hospital, critically injured, the victim of a late-night break-in. Worse, one of the first messages on the shop answering machine is from Marcus, Andy's ex, demanding to know Andy's whereabouts.Nor does the bad news stop there. It seems whoever broke into Time in a Bottle is still looking for that mysterious whatever. Something they didn't find the first time. Something they now believe Andy has. Something worth killing for?The good news is former bad boy Quinn Rafferty, Andy's high school crush, is back in town and interested in renewing their acquaintanceship. Quinn is not a man to run from things that go bump in the night, be they mysterious midnight prowlers or a relationship-shy fish-out-of-water museum curator. But Quinn has a few secrets of his own...
Cherry on Top
There's always that one guy. You know the one, when you're around him, he makes your palms sweat. Your knees shake. And you mess up your words. For Tommy Golde, that's how Evan made him feel. Tommy's an attractive guy in his 20s who works at an ice cream parlor. He'd dated guys before, and he was pretty confident when talking to guys. But with Evan, it was different. Weirdly different. And around the time he started seeing Evan, Tommy felt he was being followed. And what was with the weird shadow that appeared out of nowhere? When it got to be too creepy, Tommy trusted his friends and co-worker to help him find out who was stalking him and why. But in the back of his mind, Tommy began to wonder if his trust was misplaced? Could one of the people he asked for help be the one behind it?
The Warmth of Our Closest Star
If Enzo were to list his problems, being sad would not be one of them any longer. Almost two years after his one perfect night in Montreal with Peter, he is still alone, but the future now holds promise. After starting a job, finding financial stability, and getting his life in order, he is ready to make his first trip to the U.S. His only concern is whether or not Peter has held him in the same regard as he has held Peter. Will their one night in Montreal two years prior translate to something more meaningful? When they meet at the Minneapolis airport, Enzo gets his answer. And his life finally begins. Over the next ten years, Enzo experiences love and heartbreak, sickness and health, wins and losses, extraordinary friendship, the world changing forever, and an unimaginable miracle he wouldn't have hoped for in his wildest dreams. In the end, he finds that the only question he has left is: What is a life without possibility?
First Consonants
Brian is an unremarkable child, until he isn't. As other children start to babble, adding to their vocabularies day by day, Brian grows quieter with age, stumbling over the words he needs to lead a normal life: He is a stutterer. This speech disorder defines his formative years, filled with prejudice and bullying, as he creates his own scales of right and wrong, both justified and unjustified. He uses his fists whenever words fail him. As he increasingly fills with rage after life-changing abuse at the hands of a priest who takes advantage of his vulnerability, he resorts to ever greater acts of violence, risking everything he has worked hard for in life. Brian's one hope for his redemption? Alaska. An elderly Brian moves to the Alaskan outback, and here he attempts to redeem himself and the world.
I LOVE The Way You HATE Me
During a random one night stand, in the final weeks of college. Teddy has a realization that he wants to settle down and have a boyfriend for the first time. He slowly starts to finally accept that his teen years are limited and that adulthood is quickly approaching. To his surprise, Teddy realizes that online dating is not as charming and simple as he thought it would be. He reluctantly learns how to cope with his conflicting feelings of love, while also facing the most challenging and unpredictable chapter of his life to date. . . his twenties.
Stonewall
"At Stonewall," Jack Fritscher wrote, "gay character changed." In June 1969, the legendary Stonewall Rebellion in New York's Greenwich Village began the national gay civil rights movement. Fritscher, one-time lover of Robert Mapplethorpe and early intimate of elegant Picasso biographer and "Vanity Fair" author John Richardson, is the highly acclaimed novelist, award-winning historian, and polished prose stylist. His best-selling "Some Dance to Remember: A Memoir-Novel of San Francisco 1970-1982" pairs perfectly with his nonfiction tour de force "Gay San Francisco" as "roots" landmarks in gay literature. "The Advocate" said that "Fritscher writes...wonderful books" and that he made "the Castro mythic." In his fiction collection celebrating Stonewall turning forty, Fritscher-turning seventy-unreels nine perfectly crafted stories introduced by literary critics Richard Labont矇 of A Different Light and by Mark Thompson of "The Advocate." Labont矇 "A sterling collection...perfectly catches our bitchy bravura." Thompson: "Hilarious, exquisite, empowering stories about how fabulous we are." Editor Mark Hemry selected the tales in this edition to show, first, how Stonewall affected gay culture (on the Gay Axis connecting Stonewall to San Francisco), and, second, how Fritscher in the West Coast school of writing helped build the national aftermath of the East Coast Stonewall. Among fellow authors such as Armistead Maupin, Edmund White, Felice Picano, and the pseudonymous Andrew Holleran, Fritscher is the eldest and the first published (1950s) and is the only lifelong magazine editor, journalist, and photographer. His truly distinctive contribution to GLBT literature has been his widening-precisely with his recurrent themes of humanism and eros-the liminal diversity of the gay literary canon in books such as his controversial memoir of his affair with the much-damned photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in "Mapplethorpe: Assault with a Deadly Camera." "Stonewall " surveys the fictive essence of his 50-year career capturing the character, dialogue, and nuance of the gay culture whose emotional curves he loves. Willie Walker, founder of the GLBT Historical Society of San Francisco, has observed: "Fritscher is a prolific writer who since the late 1960s has helped document the gay world and the changes it has undergone." Guided by a rather good sense of gaydar in this new collection, Fritscher celebrates gay "drama" and diversity and "brilliant gay voices" in these nine tales scanning the curvature of the gay Earth--from the 1906 earthquake in "Meet Me in San Francisco" through the 1969 Stonewall rebellion up to gay marriage in "Mrs. Dalloway Went That-A-Way." Recommended for public and academic libraries, and for special collections of gay literature and GLBT studies, as well as for coffee-house, commute, vacation, and bedside reading. "'Stonewall' is pitch-perfect." Thomas Long, editor, "Harrington Gay Men's Fiction Quarterly," University of Connecticut
Looks May Deceive You
Love survives death, or so the story goes. Ivan Kristaski believed he was nothing more than an ordinary man in an ordinary world. His biggest worries were his boyfriend, Markus; his best friend, Miriam; and her son, Daniel. But when it comes down to the wire and secrets are revealed, he is plunged into a world unlike any other.
The Rector's Wedding
Rev. Lucy Bartlett's life couldn't be more perfect. She's turned around her crumbling church. She's finishing her doctorate and publishing her first book. Best of all, she is engaged to marry her soulmate, Dr. Liz Stolz.Once a world-famous opera singer, Lucy has been coaching the church's transgender music director, who hopes to relaunch her career as a natural alto. When Denise lands an audition with a major orchestra, she knows that the conductor is only using her to lure Lucy into performing again. To show her support, Lucy agrees to do the concert, but after the triumphant performance, she is inundated with offers for singing engagements. The temptation to restart her musical career throws everything in Lucy's life in doubt-her faith, her future as a pastor, her fulfilling life in Hobbs, even her marriage to the woman she loves.
Sleeping Underwater
Niles Townsend is a private detective, and a struggling survivor of supernatural violence. With his eye on retirement, he takes one final case, recovering a box of stolen mementos for architectural Wunderkind Carter Bennet. In short order, Niles falls in love with his new client, that new client is kidnapped, and violence and the supernatural are back on the menu. So much for retirement.With the help of an assassin, the search for Carter leads Niles to an immigrant gang from rogue nation Sel Souris and their illicit trade in a drug made from ground beetles found only on their island. Niles is unaware that his past lives link him to the colonial history of Sel Souris, and that he was instrumental in the destruction of their island's numinous and strange magic. Of this magic, only the beetles remain as a hopeful flicker.Sleeping Underwater explores the legacy of trauma, tracing scars travelling down one life into the next. Niles Townsend is about to learn that some mysteries can never be understood, and that love, even illegal love, is powerful enough to reach inside and heal, no matter how far we've withdrawn from the world.In addition to the original text of the novel, this special Souria Edition Hardcover contains an extra twenty thousand words of supplementary material including a new introduction and an exploration of the mysterious island of Sel Souris in the form of notes, dreams and an extensive travelogue.
Bite Club
Welcome to West Hollywood. The Creative City. Liberal and welcoming. Free from discrimination and hatred. A safe place to live if you're gay. But West Hollywood isn't safe anymore... Someone in town has a macabre passion for beautiful young men. Healthy, gym-toned male bodies keep turning up, tortured, drained of blood, missing parts and quite, quite dead. Someone is using the Creative City as a canvas of gruesome, sadistic creativity. Someone is using West Hollywood as a warped psychotic playground. Someone... or some thing. WeHo City Coroner Becky O'Brien is helpless to stop the accumulation of gym-toned corpses. At the end of her investigative rope, Becky calls upon the aid of an old college friend, Christopher Driscoll, who is an expert on serial killers. Rushing to her aid, Chris arrives in WeHo with his quirky boyfriend Troy in tow. Prowling the dark alleys and cruisy bars of WeHo in search of the psychotic fiend, the trio soon realizes that something possibly not human has taken up residence in Boys' Town--something with an insatiable hunger for the flesh and blood of hot young men. Following the trail of mangled corpses, Becky has another realization -- nothing is what it seems. Even her old friend Chris has secrets...dark secrets.Accompanied by the compulsively orderly Sheriff's Captain, Clive Anderson, and West Hollywood's irritable and outrageous octogenarian City Manager, Pamela Burman, Becky soon discovers the ominous truth behind the creature stalking West Hollywood's pristine streets. Sexy, scary, and very, very funny, Bite Club is a macabre black comedy that'll have you screaming bloody murder.
The Virtuous Ones
Twenty-First Century Mad MenPure Creative, the hottest new ad agency in New York City, has set its sights on rap superstar Markus in hopes of cinching one of the most profitable collaborations ever: turning his viral music video depicting acts of generosity in poor communities into an ad campaign for its most lucrative client.Account lead Ella begins to crumble under work stress and past traumas, mishandling the make-or-break client. Her boss Link sees the campaign as his shot at doing good, even as he wrestles with imposter syndrome. And just as production ramps up, Markus' unseemly private life threatens to ignite a PR firestorm around Pure's idealized image.In this Swiftian, often comical narrative, author Christopher Stoddard satirizes the ad industry's most insidious ploy today: branded content that promotes progressive social values for the unadulterated goal of pure profit. Buckle up for a hilarious, unsettling look at the hollow virtue signaling behind modern marketing.
Stronger Than Longing
Return to small-town Chesapeake and fall in love with the single-dad bad boy who keeps breaking hearts, and the adorable geek who can't help but fall head over heels for his brother's best friend.Taran's always been the reliable one. Safe. Which is why he keeps getting dumped by the assholes he dates. And after the latest round of "too boring," he's ready to drink his blues away. That's until Silas King shows up​​-the gorgeous guy he'd swooned over through high school.Silas wants one more night of distraction before his new reality sets in, and he sets his sights on Taran, his friend's little brother who's looking sexier than ever. It's not like he can get in any more trouble than he's already found himself in.After Taran and Silas spend one unforgettable night together, feelings emerge, ones quickly stamped out when Silas confesses why he's back in town. He's returned to meet his three-month-old daughter. With that chaos in his life, Silas can't pursue anything further with Taran, and having longed for Silas his whole damn life, Taran isn't sure he'll survive the aftermath. Yet the more they try to avoid their connection, the more they keep colliding... until the passion between them detonates.
Urban Gothic
For more than five decades, with relentless candor, biting wit, and striking imagery, Bruce Benderson's fiction has celebrated the warped beauty of our megalopolises, including their clashes between the classes and their subcultures of sex and drugs. Oppressed but flamboyant, the voices of his subterranean worlds have become just too intense to be ignored. Now, for the first time, all his short texts, including 21 never before published, appear together in the same volume. This is the complete and definitive Bruce Benderson reader.Benderson's most well-known book, The Romanian: Story of an Obsession, was awarded the prestigious Prix de Flore in its French edition. Other publications include the essay collection Sex and Isolation, the short story collection Pretending to Say No, and the novels Pacific Agony and User.
Different Dress
On a mainstream cross-country music tour, Jaime Esperanza is in charge of managing both stage and stars. The headliner, Lacey Leigh Jaxon, is a fast-living, heavy-drinking prima donna with intimacy problems. She's had a brief fling with Jaime, then dumped her for a series of new bandmates. Jaime's heart is still wounded.When Lacey Leigh steamrolls yet another opening act, the desperate tour manager brings on board a Minnesota folk-singer named Kip Galvin who wrote one of Lacey's biggest hits. Kip is talented and friendly with a pleasant stage presence. A friendship springs up between Jaime and Kip-but what about Lacey Leigh?It's a honky-tonk, bluesy, pop EXPLOSION of emotion as these three women duke it out. Who will win Jaime's heart and soul?"Noted for her powerful characterization, authentic detail, and heart-clenching stories, Lake twangs another successful chord with Different Dress. Not one to skimp on realism, she gained an invitation for a walk-through on the Indigo Girls' tour bus and sound stage. Because of this drive for truth, Different Dress resonates not only with an entertaining story, but also with accurate descriptions of behind-the-scenes activities of a cross-country music tour. The book will delight all readers, but with its concert stage settings and original song lyrics, it will especially electrify those who are music lovers." JUST ABOUT WRITE.com
How to Get a Girlfriend (When You're a Terrifying Monster)
Life is tough when you're an eldritch abomination.Trillin isn't technically a person. She's a tiny breakaway piece of consciousness from the all-devouring Endless, doomed to eventually rejoin it. But when a human witch stumbles into her world, Trillin suddenly has a new reason to figure out individuality-one shape-shifting tentacle at a time.Sian is sure important magical discoveries are just around the corner, if she can just get her portals to work reliably. Reaching the dimension of the Endless without being eaten on sight is a dream come true, and Sian is determined to explore every bit of it. For science, of course, not for the strangely adorable life-form who keeps popping up and trying to... flirt?But Trillin's world can be a dangerous place, and keeping Sian safe might risk drawing the attention of the Endless itself-which will swallow Trillin up along with all her dreams of humanity. Together, can this unlikely duo escape the Endless, figure out the optimum number of appendages, and maybe even find love?How to Get a Girlfriend (When You're a Terrifying Monster) is a sweet F/F romance between a witch scientist and a shape-shifting Cthulhu monster. HEA guaranteed!
Again
The fast, furry, and furious! A lynx shifter, pursued by a cryptid trophy hunter. A wolf shifter desperate to rescue a lover who's not just his fated mate-but his one true pairing across past lives. And a love that transcends time.Lynx shifter Noah Wilson narrowly escaped being captured by the Huntsman. While recuperating in Fox Hollow, he meets his fated mate, wolf shifter Drew Lowe.Noah has to return to Canada to finish filming his TV projects, so he and Drew visit when they can and come up with creative solutions to their long-distance relationship. Noah and Drew are sure they're meant for each other and start making plans.Drew's dreams make him wonder if he and Noah are more than fated mates-could they be a true pairing, destined to find each other lifetime after lifetime? Then Noah accidentally records a murder, and the killer is on his trail. Can he elude a master tracker and reach the safety of Fox Hollow, or will he and Drew have to wait to find happiness in another life?Again is a thrill-packed MM shifter romance adventure full of sexy shifters, hurt/comfort, one true pairing, reincarnation, sincere psychics, hunky mechanics, first responders, a sexy wildlife photographer, found family, and fated mates.
Wandering Stragglers
Xiao Wei is lost, in more ways than one. A member of China's "Forgotten Generation," survivor of Mao's Cultural Revolution, he finds himself at a Central Committee Meeting one year after the Tiananmen Square massacre. There, he meets Ming. Both married men with children, they struggle with living double lives. Suppressing their homosexuality due to social pressure, forced into marriages neither wants, they long for true love and freedom. Can they escape China, flee overseas?Set against the backdrop of the Cultural Revolution, the collapse of apartheid in South Africa, the never-ending global tides of immigration, and Canada's paradoxical attitude toward newcomers, Xiao Wei's story is one of love, loss, and perseverance in the face of incredible adversity.Wandering Stragglers reflects immigrants and refugees' romantic and sometimes unrealistic dreams, internal struggles, and mixed feelings about their native land and new home.
Annie on a Bun
Annie Freckle is doing her best to be a productive and efficient worker among workers while living her life as a recovering alcoholic. Working as a barista in a busy downtown caf矇, and as an accounting clerk for a quirky bookstore owner, Annie has her fair share of diverse characters that circle her wagon of life. It isn't until she signs up with Guardian Services--a monthly membership of fairy godmothers--that Annie's white bread life begins to take off in an adventure of self-examination and the pursuit of happiness. Follow Annie as she musters her innermost self to develop spiritually and emotionally, all while discovering a love interest she never dreamed would melt her butter.
The Child Riddler
Despite the angry scars she carries from her childhood training, Zoe Lorel has reached a good place in her life. She has her dream job as an elite operative in an international spy agency and she's found her one true love. Her world is mostly perfect--until she is sent to abduct a nine-year-old girl. The girl is the only one who knows the riddle that holds the code to unleash the most lethal weapon on earth--the first ever "invisibility" nanoweapon, a cloaking spider bot. But Zoe's agency isn't the only one after the child. And when enemies reveal the invisibility weapon's existence to underground arms dealers, every government and terrorist organization in the world want to find that little girl. Zoe races to save not only the child she has grown to care about, but also herself. The agency prescribed pills--the ones that transform her into the icy killer she must become to survive--are beginning to threaten her engagement to the one person who brings her happiness. Can she protect the young girl and still protect the one thing she cares more about than anything else?
The Parsley Knight
Newly knighted and green as anything, Ainsley looks forward to his first quest, not just for the independence it will bring but for the coin as well. He's not sure what he'll find on his journey but he didn't anticipate friendly witches, baby dragons, or a curious crow that brings him trinkets.Not sure if the crow is an ill omen, Ainsley tries to keep his distance but can't resist tossing the bird a few crumbs. The crow returns the favor one day when Ainsley is in danger, revealing his true nature as Rue, a semi-exiled member of the dazzling and dangerous fairy court.After an attack, Rue brings him to Otherworld to recover and as Ainsley regains his health, their attraction grows. Being home is no easy feat and Rue is dragged back into court life as Ainsley longs for home. The men have to make a choice between two worlds when neither of those worlds feels exactly like home.
Dimmed Lights
Finale to the story of GRiD-self-titled the gayest boyband in history. A steamy romance between a star and his bodyguard.---Signed to LBR Entertainment when he was only sixteen, Chris was pretty much raised by his bandmates who he considers his extended family. His position as the cute but mischievous maknae of GRiD seems secure until a car-crash leaves him scarred for life and facing charges of assault. Trying to cope with the PTSD that keeps him up at night, Chris turns to alcohol and isolates himself from his bandmates.As if things weren't complicated enough, Chris is assigned a hot new bodyguard-one he has some history with already. Is Joe still the same stand-offish fuckboy Chris once found in his bed for one night only, or can there be more between the two?
Faeted Under Fire
A human cop, a paranormal agent, and nine missing kids. Prejudice aside, they have to work together if they want to stop number ten.Tristan James didn't know he had a latent paranormal gene in his body until he was attacked on the job as an officer with Tampa PD and killed. As a phoenix shifter, he rose from the ashes and came back stronger than ever. Unfortunately, he was no longer human, this meant no job, no home, no friends. New purpose finds him with the help of a paranormal federal agency offering him a job. He has to put his own learned hatreds aside and accept the paranormals he was now one of.Maddox Smith loved his job with the Paranormal Investigative Services. He knew what it was like to have no one looking out for you and that's what made him a good agent. Someone is taking paranormal kids and he has no leads. When a recently turned human is booted from the police and brought to P.I.S. and partnered with him, Maddox wants nothing to do with him. What had the humans ever done for their kind?Can they forget their biases and solve the case before there's a tenth?
The River District
An alien evil threatens the fun-loving, dual-gendered inhabitants of Merculian. Marlo can feel it. Young people are getting sick from alien party drugs, a valuable antique painting is stolen, celebrated dancer Eulio is receiving menacing notes from a stalker and a body is discovered in the Pleasure Gardens. Meanwhile super star Triani's young sibling Rio falls for a mysterious Merculian youth with ties to the notorious River District. Even the dancers are having problems and during rehearsals for the new production of The Night Bird one of them has a serious accident. Then on opening night, Eulio disappears. Marlo and the Regulators work franticly to find him and in the process discover dark secrets linking to the ruthless Terran criminal and his gang who have taken possession of the River District. But can Marlo or Beny and the secret government group he has joined act quickly enough to save their beloved city?
The Ghost Who Saved Us
Brock is content with his successful construction business in the small town of Prairie Brook. The local dating pool for a gay man is basically a puddle, but he's mostly happy with his life. However, Brock's easy, somewhat lonely life is in for a shake-up when he comes face-to-face with a man he's never quite forgotten.Calder ran from Prairie Brook several years ago. At the time, he convinced himself he was running toward a fabulous job and bright future. Now, after wasting years of his life at a job that went nowhere-and spending years getting to know himself better-Calder can admit he'd been running from unwanted feelings and a man he never truly pushed from his mind.Brock and Calder both bid on a job at the rumored-to-be-haunted Prairie Brook Mansion only to find themselves smack dab in the middle of a tragic, romantic ghost story and their own second chance romance.*The Ghost Who Saved Us is a steamy, second chance, M/M Halloween romance with a pain in the ass ghost, a basement that defines creepy, and a satisfying love story-or two.*
Dungeon Master
I wasn't looking for love in a coffee shop, just a new gaming group, but then Martin walked in and changed everything for me. Slinging coffee is never boring. When a new customer catches my eye, I do what comes naturally and flirt with him. To my delight, Martin flirts back. He soon becomes the perfect distraction from my gaming group pressuring me into DMing our next D&D campaign.Then I overhear Martin designing his dream dungeon, and I just know he's everything I'm looking for in a man. What could be better than a hot summer fling with my very own personal DM? There's just one problem, I should maybe have checked which type of adventure Martin meant when I asked him out for a date.Dungeon Master is an M/M romance. It's a spinoff from Table Topped, but it stands alone.
A Master Plan of my Love Life
Anthony falls in love. His story throws a bright shaft of light on the miss-trusts, the family secrets and the lies, whilst dealing with his mom's mental illness, her cancer, and his errant father. Imelda, Anthony's mom, persistently interferes with his stagnant love life; she's relentless in her task to have a grandchild. A devoted son who plans his life in detail, navigates his career and personal life, and propels towards a future with James amid family turbulence. He is determined to evolve into family life, facing many trials and tribulations. Anthony and James collaborate, hoping to realize their dreams of a family.This heart-warming, romantic story is set in Victoria, Vancouver Island, where the scenery is spectacular, the people are friendly, and the wildlife is diverse. It's a place of love, laughter, tears, and a little bit of magic.
A Master Plan of my Love Life
Anthony falls in love. His story throws a bright shaft of light on the miss-trusts, the family secrets and the lies, whilst dealing with his mom's mental illness, her cancer, and his errant father. Imelda, Anthony's mom, persistently interferes with his stagnant love life; she's relentless in her task to have a grandchild. A devoted son who plans his life in detail, navigates his career and personal life, and propels towards a future with James amid family turbulence. He is determined to evolve into family life, facing many trials and tribulations. Anthony and James collaborate, hoping to realize their dreams of a family.This heart-warming, romantic story is set in Victoria, Vancouver Island, where the scenery is spectacular, the people are friendly, and the wildlife is diverse. It's a place of love, laughter, tears, and a little bit of magic.
80% Done with Straight Girls
The third book in Marie Santora's search for true love finds her big Italian family still serving the up the fun, Italian style: Loud, lusty, and volatile--overflowing with lots of love and laughter. What's funny about losing everything you love? Plenty, if you're a member of the Santora family. Marie Santora has always suffered from an enormous case of good luck/bad luck when it comes to women, and the past six years have been no exception. When Marie's love life hits the skids--again--her irrepressible sister Lisa begins to wonder if this is the time that her sister's loss is too great for even their eccentric Italian family to heal. To help Marie escape the painful memories, Lisa ditches her gay campground for a family lake house, and Marie vows to be done with straight girls once and for all. But just as the Santora clan descends upon Marie to help, a surprise house call changes her good luck to bad luck once again, putting Mari's willpower to the ultimate test. The family motto has always been Either you're IN, or you're OUT! and this newest family crisis means the Santora's are ALL IN--even though Marie wants them out!
Berlin Garden of Erotic Delights
Set among the glittering clubs and grimy side streets of 1920s Berlin (with detours to Italy and Paris), these charming, witty, and erotic tales capture the trials and triumphs of early twentieth-century gay life without apology or shame. Granand, the pen name for theater director and author Erich Ritter von Busse, lost his battle against bigoted censors but won a shining place in literary history with this pathbreaking volume. Instead of hewing to the villain/victim dichotomy that haunts the representation of LGBTQIA+ life to this day, these stories reveal the complexities of the human heart with verve and compassion.
Reforged
Since time immemorial the warriors of the Paladin Order have harnessed arcane powers to protect their rulers. For Balen, who has given up his chance at love and fought his way to the top of the Paladin Order, there can be no greater honor than to serve his king. But when assassins annihilate the royal family, Balen suddenly finds himself sworn to serve the very man he abandoned. Now with their nation threatened by enemies both within and outside the kingdom, Balen must fight hidden traitors and unnatural assassins, while also contending with the biting wit and dangerous charm of young King Zavrius. To save themselves and their nation they will have to put aside their past and reforge that trust they lost so long ago.
Underneath the Quiet
Maureen and Bertha Callahan are competitive sisters in a dysfunctional family in 1932 Riverside, California, whose relationship is made even more complex by Maureen's unique perspective and behaviors (guided by what today might be called autism). Into their world, launches handsome Cuthbert, the disgraced scion of a wealthy New York family. Though he becomes part of the Callahan social circle when he begins a painting of the family house, Cuthbert is ever more entangled in it when he finds love with a young man who has been riding the rails from San Antonio, Texas. Though Underneath the Quiet hurtles toward a culminating grand party, a rifle, and a double murder, Mark Albro has not written just a twisty family drama but an exploration of life on the autism spectrum, a historical novel about sometimes surprising social norms, and a love letter to a vanishing Southern California, where wonderful orange groves are being replaced by cookie-cutter tract houses.
Stone's Homefront
A bomb at a factory. A new case. Morgan will do anything to stop her world from spinning out of control. With Mr. Jimmy's case still on her plate, Agent Morgan Stone isn't sure she wants to take on a second. Focusing on Jimmy's young victims, she has little interest in a bomb that goes off in Chicago. With an end to restricted duty in sight after last winter, Morgan finds herself thrust into a new case she doesn't want. She has no option but to liaison with Detective Fiona Wexford and potentially ruin the tentative friendship they've been building. With her career, love life, and friendships crumbling around her, Morgan wonders, does she still have what it takes to stop a mad bomber?
Underneath the Quiet
Maureen and Bertha Callahan are competitive sisters in a dysfunctional family in 1932 Riverside, California, whose relationship is made even more complex by Maureen's unique perspective and behaviors (guided by what today might be called autism). Into their world, launches handsome Cuthbert, the disgraced scion of a wealthy New York family. Though he becomes part of the Callahan social circle when he begins a painting of the family house, Cuthbert is ever more entangled in it when he finds love with a young man who has been riding the rails from San Antonio, Texas. Though Underneath the Quiet hurtles toward a culminating grand party, a rifle, and a double murder, Mark Albro has not written just a twisty family drama but an exploration of life on the autism spectrum, a historical novel about sometimes surprising social norms, and a love letter to a vanishing Southern California, where wonderful orange groves are being replaced by cookie-cutter tract houses.
A Champion for Tinker Creek
Master mechanic Lyle James built a successful but lonely life in Tinker Creek after rescuing his dad's auto repair shop until an international development firm conspires with local officials to condemn the shop and steal his land.Jose "Manny" Porter has come home to take a reporting job at the South Georgia Record, a regional newspaper where his father is publisher and editor-in-chief. As the son of a driven Anglo father and Cuban exile mother, Manny knows all about how competing parental expectations can chill efforts to even find sex--much less love.After a night of passion, Lyle and Manny are thrown together in a fight to save Lyle's business. Their struggles may lead to more than either expected for their community and their lives.
