Contemporary

One woman... Two sexy men... After twenty years, is it too late for them to make all her sexy Santa wishes come true?

Two years ago a drunk driver ruined Tavia’s life. Her career as a model is over, her husband hasn’t slept with her for two years and she’s finally tired of waiting for him to return to their bed. On an outing in search of someone, anyone, who would find her attractive, she discovers that love really does overcome all obstacles.

Ciara has hated, and secretly wanted, Ross for years. When her sister strands her in a hedonist's cabin with him for a week with orders to "spread her wings" she doesn't know if it is a blessing or a curse. Can the atmosphere, and company help her overcome her inhibitions? Ross views Ciara's inexperience like a kid views a candy store. He didn't really like the idea of being stuck with Ciara for a week, but when she agrees to play out the fantasies he designs, he never wants the week to end. Sunday is fast approaching and Ross isn't sure he wants to let her go, but will Ciara want to be with him when the fun and games are over?

Max Logan, Middville’s high school bad boy, has been gone for ten years. He left after graduation on the back of a motorcycle and no one has seen or heard from him since. While gone he worked his way up the ranks until he owned his own construction company. Now he’s ready to come back and claim the woman he ran away from ten years ago. Fiona Kildare has had her heart broken enough times to know it’s better off locked away. Her first love, Max took off without even saying good-bye, then she married a jerk who thought that the marriage license was an excuse to use her as a punching bag. Divorcing him, after clocking him one with a frying pan, Fiona moves back to Middville to take care of her late parents’ run down bed and breakfast. The last thing she needs is Max to come storming back into her life, looking to pick up where he left off ten years ago. She’s learned a lot in those years, the hard way, and she knows better than to let the loner back into her heart.

Marshall Calletti has experienced many changes in his life. He's done his time and left his jaded past behind him, gone through therapy, started his own business and even bought a house with his new lover. Life would have been perfect if he could have stopped dreaming about Angelo, the man he'd almost killed over a decade ago, because in spite of all the changes, one thing had remained constant, his undying love for the enigmatic Angelo Farelli. But just as the evil, manipulative Hal Makin brought Marshall and Angelo together years ago, he was about to bring them together again when it is learned that Hal may be up for parole. Don't miss the explosive and emotional sequel to Arsenic and Rio.

Jade Hill liked his men submissive, and compliant, and his co-star Sandy, had been perfect in that respect, until he became fed up with Jade’s promiscuity and ran off with an actor in a supporting role. When Derrick Andrews gets called to audition for a role co-starring opposite the gorgeous and talented Jade Hill, he’s thrilled, until he meets his idol, who makes it painfully clear that he doesn’t approve of Derrick getting the role. In spite of Jade’s disapproval, Derrick gets the role, and discovers that Jade Hill is not easy to please. And Derrick is nothing like Sandy, who was willing to go along with anything, big, bad, Jade wanted. How often can two Alpha males butt heads before one of them surrenders?

When Marshall met Hal, it was a match made in hell. Hal is a first class con man and manipulator. Marshall is the perfect pawn, a young guy who has been abused all his life, with no self confidence. Hal is pure evil, and he recognizes gold when he sees it. Marshall is handsome, gay and desperate to be loved and accepted. Hal is a former resident of the detention center where Marshall is living. He knows the unscrupulous director, who is deeply in debt with the mob. When the director is asked to do the mob a favor, a job that will set Hal up for life, Hal recruits Marshall to help him carry out his diabolic scheme. When Marshall meets the handsome young owner of a coffee plantation, his job is to seduce him, and secure the plantation for the mob. Marshall doesn’t truly understand that Angelo will have to die. Marshall is completely unprepared for Angelo, and completely unprepared for love, something in his sad life, he has never known. Hal is in the background making sure Marshall doesn’t stray from the plan…a plan that will succeed only if Marshall kills the man he loves. Passion and despair reign as Arsenic and Rio sweeps the reader away to a coffee plantation high in the mountains of Brazil, and to the warm sands of Rio.

David works in a prison teaching prisoners to read. His step father is the warden and they live just outside the electrified fence. David usually doesn’t see prisoners in a sexual way until Elliot Law is incarcerated at the Maximum security facility and assigned to him as his assistant. Elliot Law is a murderer, at least that’s what his file says, and David knows he should fight this attraction he has for him. But Elliot Law claims that he’s been framed for a murder he didn’t commit, and suddenly, incredible circumstances allow Law to escape. He takes David as a hostage, insisting that David help him prove his innocence. David is at the same time terrified of him, and drawn to him. To David, Elliot Law is a murderer with the face of an angel, and the heart of a monster…or is he?

Terry Donaldson can’t wait to turn eighteen in a few weeks so that he can graduate and leave Norwich, the small town in Ontario he lives in. Since junior high, he’s been teased, and called, “Terry, the Fairy,” by his classmates. His best friend, Eve, more intelligent than the guys in her class, and slightly overweight is also a social outcast, and Terry’s only friend. But life is about to change drastically for Terry when the gorgeous Adrian Vincent turns up in town. Nicknamed “The Flash” by his fans, Vincent is the star hockey player for The Rockets, and rumored to have been born in Norwich. When he asks Terry to help him fix up his grandfathers old farm, they become fast friends, and Terry finds acceptance and love. But, Terry’s happiness is to be short lived when Adrian announces that he is leaving to play hockey again, and to reunite with his lover.

In these four stories of love, centred around higher education, young men learn more than just the subject of matter at hand. In Ethical Promise, Mark falls hard for his teacher, who he must be content to admire from afar. In Big Bang, a teaching assistant conducts a study group for Physics and finds out that the students know more than he does. The Upside of Fear gives Simon a challenging roommate who enjoys parading around naked, and A Lingering Song finds a bad boy rocker doing penance, while meeting up with a guy who shares a past with him he would have never imagined. Higher Education had never been so hot!

Note to Readers: This book was previously published with another publisher. Frank Melina was the hottest photographer in the fashion world, until someone tried to kill him and ended up scarring his face. Danny Verdi is at the top of his career, but he's getting older and his popularity is waning. When his manager talks Frank into photographing him in Italy, Danny knows his career will benefit. Danny is repulsed by Frank's face but addicted to the sex. When the shoot is over however, Danny leaves Frank behind. Frank comes back out of hiding, a changed man, and begins photographing other male models. Danny still wants Frank, but the only problem is, Frank doesn't want Danny anymore.

Des had led a life of sacrifice, forsaking love to raise his orphaned niece, and he never regretted it for one moment. Then one Christmas, his sixteen year old niece Kelsey decides she wants a real Christmas tree. When Kelsey encounters her teenage crush, the handsome Victor Moore, who plays a vampire in her favorite television series, she gets very excited. But Kelsey isn’t the only one who is excited by Victor Moore. Kelsey’s Present is a heartwarming tale about family love, love at first sight, and the wonder of holiday magic.

Patrick’s best friend, Josh, offered to take Patrick home to spend the summer. With a job in a restaurant and free room and board with Josh’s father on the ranch, it seemed like a pleasant alternative to the city. Patrick had been warned that there probably wouldn’t be a lot of hot young men around for the picking, but Josh never prepared him for Dakota. Dakota was all Patrick could have wanted in a man and more. A big strong, cowboy with a smooth charm that would have melted butter, the heat between them was electric, and when the big Wyoming sky grew dark there would be no use denying the secret desires Patrick harboured for his best friend’s father. But is passion enough when Dakota’s dark past is still very much a source of bitterness for Josh, and a young man’s best friend, falls hopelessly in love with his father?

Cupid drops in on D.J. Manly for Valentine's day and hands over four truly inspired love stories. Don’t miss these love stories that throw a host of the most unlikely characters together for a great ride to true love. Discover love that is inspired by Cupid himself…like the Irish cop who arrests a suspected male prostitute on the coldest night of the year… and takes him home…or the vampire slayer who believes the only good vampire is a dead one…until he douses Antonio with holy water in a cemetery. Meet Stan, who is nursing a broken heart and under deadline to write a sequel to his novel…and his gorgeous and annoying neighbor upstairs who likes to play his music LOUD. And finally, Rory and Levon, enemies on opposite sides of an age old war, trapped together on a deserted space station. Impossible odds but true love will never be denied.

Note to Readers: This book was previously published with another publisher. When a female impersonator and owner of a drag club is murdered, his will specifies that his estranged son, Michael, will have to co-manage the club for a specific period of time, or forfeit his inheritance. Anthony, the son of his heart, who he took in off the street, has always loathed Michael for rejecting his father's advances. When Anthony learns Michael is coming for the will reading, his opinion of the man as a gold-digger, is confirmed. Michael, on the other hand, has no idea who Anthony is. One look at the gorgeous young man, and he assumes the worst. It's no better when he learns that Anthony had been taken in by his father and his father's late lover. Anthony can be nothing more than a manipulative whore, his father's much younger lover. The only thing hotter than their hatred is their lust. And Michael's father has assured that they will have to work together.

Steven Connors came to the Evan’s Estate at the age of six. He was the son of the housekeeper, and he and Darren Evan grew up together, like brothers. But time was against them, and as they matured, their love for one another changed into something else. Steven knew that he and Darren could never be together. But then Steven makes the ultimate sacrifice and they are separated for years, only to be brought back together again under very different circumstances. Can the hurts and scars of the past ever heal?

Ryan is the love of Darcy’s life. He’s come a long way in learning how to give up control and trust, but he’s still holding onto the security of keeping his own place, which bothers Ryan. When Darcy’s brother Martin comes to visit, Darcy’s natural instinct is to bring his brother to his old apartment, instead of to the home he shares with Ryan. Ryan is hurt by this, thinking Darcy doesn’t really consider them life partners. Ryan is well aware that Darcy’s life circumstances have made him a natural Dom, and it’s for that reason, he’s reluctant to do any kind of sexual role play with him which would give Darcy the taste to dominate; although secretly, Ryan craves submission. When Ryan’s ex lover reappears, it rekindles his addiction, an addiction that went too far in the past. In his attempt to ensure that Darcy learns to trust, Ryan neglects his own sexual needs, which leads to circumstances which threaten to tear Ryan and Darcy apart for good.

The Posers is a series of two separate stories about love at first sight and playing roles. In ‘Jackie’, Jackson agrees to help his best friend get through a family holiday by posing as his girlfriend, and then meets the man on his dreams. In “Mercy” a former porn star agrees to help someone make their ex jealous by posing as someone’s boyfriend and finds he’s the odd man out. Both Jackie, and Mercy discover that true love accepts nothing less than the truth, and honesty begins with oneself.

Note to Readers: This book was previously published with another publisher. Zach Freeman is a cop with a single obsession. Lee Hastings is a free wheeling, high class prostitute who thinks his life is just fine until Zachary comes along and threatens to turn it upside down. Zach doesn’t care about Lee’s life or anything else for that matter. He wants to nail the guy who was involved in the death of a little girl, a guy who is one of Lee Hastings’ clients. Lee Hastings is about to be given a choice…help Zach put his client away, or face the consequences. Lee realises that the hard drinking, uncompromising Zach Freeman has the power to ruin his life…he also knows that this gorgeous, rough and tough detective is a little too sexy for words, and that he might lose more than just his lucrative career in the bargain.

Lance has never known love, and he scoffs at its existence. The only thing that matters to him is security, and that's why he makes contracts with wealthy men. They keep him in luxury and he fulfils their hearts desire. Lance is presently in need of a new client, and he sets his sights on the billionaire, Jackson Scott. And all goes smoothly until Jackson's personal assistant, the enigmatic Tobias Naso, decides to throw a wrench into the wheel. Tobias would leave Jackson's employment in a heartbeat if it wasn't for the fact that he is helping his sister to support their grandmother in a very expensive care facility. Jackson is demanding and possessive and Tobias hardly has a life. Lance Cooper is just another thorn in his side, a scheming con man after Jackson's fortune. He makes it plain to Lance from the beginning that he doesn't approve, but when Jackson insists Tobias join them for a little recreational activity in the bedroom, things really start to get complicated.