Contemporary

Two men are brought together by a green pirate parrot at a Christmas work function. The one is a divorced high flying lawyer with a baby and the other is an acrobatic pirate performer. The link? They were best friends until they were nine and Luka's family moved away. Luka, the pirate just got out of a relationship and needs a place to crash, and Peter is sleep-deprived and desperate not to lose Luka again. The problem? Luka is gay and Peter is straight. Against the odds they come together and discover family isn’t made by blood but love. Can Christmas spirit and the love of family help them overcome their differences and rekindle the childish love they shared when they were young, and let it grow into something more?

If you come from Michigan with nothing but snow and ice at Christmas time, what do you expect in the heat of Florida in December, hot decorations and hot love? Gigi had given up on being happy when everything and everyone she cared for had been jerked out of her life, leaving her shattered. Three years later, she was transferred from Michigan to Florida. She ignored the handsome manager she had to work with. She ignored her co-workers who laughed through Thanksgiving while they looked forward to Christmas. Gigi grunted in disgust because they even decorated their silly palm trees since there weren’t many pine trees in front of the home in Sarasota. But fate always seemed to have a plan.

It’s the holiday season and the Haven Coffee House Boys area looking forward to a time of parties, gifts and good food. But their past comes back to haunt them in the worst way possible. It’s Christian’s favorite time of the year, the holiday season. He thinks it’s just the thing he and his friends need to pick them up from the funk they’ve been in the past few months. Now, they are all back together and it looks like the bad times are behind them. But the past has a way of catching up to you, whether or not you want it to, and it threatens the Haven Coffee House Boy’s dreams of a happy holiday. Will they be able to forget the former bad times? If not, will the holidays be doomed for failure?  

Tis the season—pine needles, sap and frozen limbs, yet these two can still feel the heat between them. Three years ago, Grant left for school, but he didn’t leave without regret. An attraction to his friend Wyatt that he’d never pursued has haunted him these past years. Finally, while home for the holiday break, he has a second chance when he runs into none other than Wyatt himself. Wyatt has always regretted the moment lost between him and Grant. When Grant starts working at Wyatt’s family Christmas tree farm, Wyatt can sense that the feelings between them have never dwindled in all the time that they were apart. A second chance is brought before them, but what will happen when Grant has to return to school?

Fighting for your heart’s desires is always worth the hardship. After injury forces Brendan Gateman to stop playing pro football, he falls back on his physical education and teaching degrees and begins coaching high school ball. Settling in a new town and hanging with his defensive coordinator, Dan Roper, Brendan finally feels like his life is back on track. His only regret is that the fear of losing not only his new life but his family forces him to remain deep in the closet. Still, he has two of the three things people always want out of life, and that’s enough for him. At least, that’s what he thinks until he meets paramedic Randy Coughlan. The out and proud man makes Brendan start rethinking his choices. When problems in Randy’s life force the man to make some tough choices, will Brendan’s insecurities make him walk away? Or will he step up and become the man he never thought possible but always wanted to be?  

How can you leave the best for last? When you’re not sure, which is which? I took a short break to supposedly catch up with old friends, relax, and unwind, but how wrong I was, on that score.  

You know it’s love when your one-night stand turns into more, more, more. Julie never thought her casual encounter with Tor would turn into anything but a distant memory. But when he tracks her down in the deserts of Wadi Rum she finds the balance of power shifts in her favor. Tor just wanted a holiday—not another complicated affair. But there’s something about Julie he can’t resist, even when a business crisis calls him home to Denmark. Will Tor follow his head, and go home to deal with his problems?  Or will he follow Julie into Egypt and an uncertain future?  

He is her guardian, but she’ll do anything within her power to protect him. His only duty is to keep her safe, but he can’t save her.   The Always Cambridge Series chronicles the life of Holly Cambridge through her tumultuous childhood and violent teen years and the consequences that stem from being the daughter of mob boss, Bill Cambridge. ~ Holly Cambridge is just a typical kid, or so she thinks, until one day, she takes a good look around and realizes her friends don’t have bodyguards dogging their every step. At the age of sixteen, Holly is assigned a new bodyguard, Randy Phillips. He is a tall, muscular, God-like force in the young, impressionable and lonely girl’s life. He is her friend, her confident, her conscience, and the older man she adores beyond reason. Randy Phillips is fully aware of his young charge’s adolescent crush on him. Although he is flattered by the adulation, he maintains a safe distance and professional demeanour until Holly is wounded in a rival family blood feud, and the course of both their lives is changed forever.

When constantly surrounded by violence, corruption and immorality, how do you keep from becoming the very thing that you abhor? The Always Cambridge Series chronicles the life of Holly Cambridge through her tumultuous childhood, violent teen years into adulthood, and the consequences that stem from being the daughter of mob boss, Bill Cambridge. ~ Holly Cambridge barely recognizes herself anymore. Pretending to be another person is beginning to wear thin. Disguised as Randi Yates, she entangles herself into the perilous life of the irresistible Victor Mayhue. But day by day, she falls more desperately and impossibly in love with her natural enemy. Together they explore a highly sexual, dark and dangerous relationship. The lines between right and wrong and good and evil, begin to blur. And while attempting to shield and protect Victor from the Feds and even his own family, Holly loses sight of her original goal. Victor understands her more than anyone she’s ever met. Essentially they have lived the same life. He is her other half. But once he discovers who she really is and what she’s done, there will be no going back. Victor Mayhue is not a second chance kind of guy. And in the end, one of them will be forced to face their true nature.  

When a couple plans a weekend getaway, everything that can go wrong does.     A romantic weekend getaway to a secluded cabin in the woods has unexpected results when everything that can go wrong does.

A pair of desperate bisexual shapeshifting water spirits put Jerry McLane in touch with his true nature.     Unemployed, broke, and squatting in a repossessed house, Jerry thinks he’s as far down as he can get. Then he’s attracted to the new couple next door. Their pale skin, dark eyes, and flowing hair stir his mind with fantasies of sex involving both the woman and the man. Driven to them by hunger and loneliness, he quickly finds himself initiated into new levels of awareness and sexuality. Much deeper change lies ahead for his mind and body. The shapeshifting underwater quest they lead him on is more erotic than any encounter he ever believed possible and more dangerous than any challenge he has ever faced. Only by losing his deepest identity can he find the courage he needs if he and his new lovers are to survive.

Fighting a despair that is eroding her will to live, Kate flees to another city. There, she desperately seeks the answers she needs to restore her former life of sensuality and her joy in her submissiveness. She is drawn into the eye of an emotional storm when she meets an intriguing man online. Miles is everything she had searched for in a Master, but nothing that perfect could be so simple…

New to the leather scene, a young man finds more than one master, but continues to search for a lover.     Obsessed by leather, Tyrone finally summons the courage to come out as a bottom. Eager to gain experience, he undergoes his initiation into the world of BDSM at the hands of several masters. One of these top men, the rough-edged Spike, stimulates and satisfies Tyrone beyond his wildest imaginings. But when Tyrone hopes for more from their relationship, the emotionally aloof Spike backs off—and introduces Tyrone to his friend, the wealthy and sophisticated Master Leopold. Loaned out to Master Leopold as a substitute slave, Tyrone discovers that he has the potential to be a top as well as a bottom. But, still in thrall to Spike, Tyrone wrestles with the question, “Is it possible for two men to be involved in a master-slave relationship, and still love each other?

Can Sally get enough time on her own to report to her headquarters and foil the criminals?     To discover who committed two murders on his watch, Detective Inspector Bob Crane instructs Detective Sergeant Sally Jones to go undercover into the seedy club of the suspect, criminal gang boss Jack Stewart. Changing her appearance and dying her hair blond, she hopes to attract the attention of Stewart. He likes Sally’s new look and, although suspicious of her motives, sets her up to be his companion in return for her sexual favours. Stewart’s henchman, karate expert Lau Chang, on instructions from Stewart, constantly watches her. He has mesmerising eyes that Sally finds difficult to cope with or resist. Sally discovers that Stewart and his gang are planning a bank raid involving the use of weapons. Sally is desperate to contact her headquarters to pass on details of the raid, but the ever-watchful Chang and the suspicious Stewart thwart her at every turn.

Whoever said business and pleasure don’t mix has never been to New Orleans. Chad Curtiss, a thirty-five year old private equity investor, is a ruthless businessman. He believes it’s a dog-eat-dog world and doesn’t understand people not driven by the desire to acquire their own happiness. Life’s about personal responsibility and making the right choices. Chad travels to New Orleans on occasion for business and while there, he likes to visit The Men’s Room. The hottest gay club in the city has the hunkiest dancers, the cutest bartenders and the kind of service a man like Chad knows he deserves. While at the bar, he runs into young Richard Foster, a desk clerk from the hotel where he’s staying. He has no intention of becoming involved, but there’s something about the kid Chad can’t dismiss, and that something just might change his entire outlook on life.

Miles Diamond and his pals are back! This time their adventures lead them to the jungles of Mexico in search of hidden treasure. Miles falls afoul of a toaster and promptly loses all the proceeds from the missing twin caper. He goes to look for work and discovers nefarious doings afoot at the Seattle Art Museum. Undaunted by multiple attempts on his life and with his pals Rudy and Jackson in tow, he sets out for Mexico to unravel the mystery surrounding the small clay figurine known as The Demon of Death.

Many a dream can be realised with a little forethought The characters in this quartet of stories are intelligent, sensitive and literary. They are also supremely voyeuristic and open-minded.

Sometimes a secret agenda isn't such a bad thing…