Stories

The Montana sky is wide, coffee strong, and wounded souls are never turned away from Two Spirits Horse Ranch. When Jake finds a young stranger left for dead at the north gate, his promise to protect him draws the whole ranch into a fight against fear, memory, and the men who might return to finish what they started. Warm, funny, tender, and suspenseful, In the Barb is a Western romance about found family, survival, and the kind of love that begins as rescue but grows into home.

L & L Investigations is a detective firm run by Lars Wrede, middle-aged and of Dutch-Swedish origin, together with his younger partner Lennart Torstensson. The firm is based in Stockholm but Lars in particular has strong links with the Netherlands from his youth. By coincidence they get a job to find out the truth behind a mysterious death in the Dutch university town Leiden. This brings them in contact with various aspects of Dutch society, including the experiences of gay young men.

Sometimes life isn't what you expect. Finding the love of your life and keeping that love isn't always easy. Some roads are straight and smooth; others, not so much. This is the story about two boys navigating the road from boyhood to adulthood with all the potholes and speed bumps along the way.

Nearly divorced and miserable, twenty-five-year-old Wyatt Whitaker is a self-destructive force to be reckoned with. Fresh out of vet school, he’s already stretched thin between building his practice, helping his little brother cope with PTSD, and an inability to say no to anything that needs saving.

Taking in a gay nineteen-year-old-runaway he nearly ran over in a rainstorm shouldn’t complicate any of that.

Right?

When Jamie and Connor find themselves stranded on a deserted island, they have to learn to put their rivalry aside and work together to overcome the challenges of the island and the primal urges of being young, red-blooded American men. Hate, lust, danger, and survival come together to forge a relationship that just might save their young lives.

Marcus Valerius Pulcher, a Roman noble raised on music rather than war, is sent to Germania’s raw frontier under the ambitious governor Varus. There he meets Ingomar, a Cherusci warrior, and finds something neither of them has words for, something a cithara, a hidden grove, and two empires’ worth of duty were never meant to allow.

But peace on this frontier is a fragile, borrowed thing. Warnings go unheeded. Confidence curdles into catastrophe. And as history’s most infamous ambush gathers in the forest ahead, Marcus and Ingomar must decide what love is actually worth paying for.

Kurtis West’s parents discover he's gay. Who he thinks is his father, really isn't. He's kicked out by his supposed father and after a search aided by the few clues given him by his mother, finds out his real father is in the army. Is a newly promoted Major going to welcome Kurtis?

In which a formerly dead alchemist does no work to solve his own mysterious resurrection, instead too busy falling in love with the eldritch entity stalking him.

Ten years before the fall of the Ming Dynasty, five-year-old Crown Prince Zhu Cilang awakens with memories of death, and the destruction awaiting his family and his nation.

Within the prince’s young body also lives Ai, an artificial intelligence carrying the knowledge of a future humanity destined to collapse 450 years later beneath the weight of humanity’s greed, division, and selfishness.

Bound together by a shared body and an impossible second chance, Zhu Cilang and Ai must charter a new path for the world around them.

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Succeeding in a career he never saw coming, college dropout Ace, has proven he truly doesn't need a man. Especially since every other man failed to fulfill him the way his college bully did. Ace didn't just leave college five years ago - he left the country. So how could Leo be here now?

Leo's only committed relationship has been to a popstar who's broken his fantasy, getting engaged right in front of him. But it’s fine… Leo’s happily ever after has been reserved for the one who got away back in college, anyway. Ace in Shibari has to be a sign from the universe it's time they tied up the loose ends of their situationship, right?