Stories

Elliot Reyes and Theo Marchetti can't stand each other, apparently. Then, one ordinary Thursday night, in a London office tower that's emptied out for the evening, the power goes, and the only two people left in the building find themselves trapped in a stalled lift between the eighth and ninth floors, in the dark, for hours. Just two men, one torch, and the slow, terrifying business of being seen.

When the body of Lukas von Keller, a third-year student at Veridien, a prestigious all-boys academy, is found at the bottom of a ravine on March 10th, 1986, life at the quiet elite institution is shaken to the core.

After months of investigation, authorities are ready to rule the death a suicide. Detective Whitlock, however, is not. A chance to solve the case, now a personal nightmare, presents itself when Marius Vassier, a local private eye known for his sharp instincts and impeccable fashion, approaches him with a plan.

An unorthodox plan.

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Kent Nakamura enlists in the United States Marine Corps, believing distance is the only way to protect the person he loves. Over the next thirteen years, war, brotherhood, sacrifice, and forbidden love shape him into a respected Marine leader, while the battlefield leaves behind wounds no one can see. As he struggles to find his place beyond the uniform, Kent must confront the invisible scars of war and discover what it truly means to keep living. Safe Distance is a prequel to Still Alive, Dumbass, but can be enjoyed as a standalone novel.

Tichý Muž (rhymes with rouge) sees moments from the future - brief glimpses just beyond the metaphorical horizon of time. It’s not enough for him to understand what it means, until one of those moments actually occurs.

Tichý Muž is Czech for Silent Man. See how I snuck that in there to get the “Unspoken” aspect of the anthology in? Otherwise, this story fits the “Horizon” topic.

An old friend returns as well.

Orphaned woodsman Oleg knows how to survive a northern winter, but not why his father marked him with a magical blue crescent. But when a wounded noble begs for shelter and armed riders recoil from Oleg's mark, a savage blizzard traps them together—until two more desperate boys appear beneath his cabin. Now four strangers must choose whom to trust as the hunters return, and Oleg must risk his home and his life for the boy who's making him want more than survival.

After a strange anticlimactic kidnapping, Axel Graysen is pulled into the tumultuous world of the Wook Family. Axel treats Jeha Wook’s gunshot wound and ends up treating the oddly large team of brothers who work for Jeha. The problem is that Jeha’s people seem like delinquents, and Jeha is the largest delinquent. Axel worries about keeping the man he likes from getting hurt again.

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.

They say the mountains always call you back. They never leave your heart.
But home isn't always a place. Sometimes it's the people who share our lives, the memories we carry, and the unexpected connections we make along the way.
As old friends return to Montana, two young cowboys discover that the heart has room for more than they ever imagined.
For family. For friendship. For the land they love.
And perhaps, for each other.

Back in high school, Tate and Richard were inseparable. They shared a bond so deep that neither of them quite understood why they always wanted to be by each other’s side.

Twenty years after graduation, they meet again at a high school reunion. Both are now grown men, shaped by time and life experiences. Yet the moment they see each other, they realize that the feelings they once shared have never truly faded. If anything, they are just as powerful as they were in their youth.

Despite the differences in their social status and the vastly different paths their lives have taken, neither can bring himself to let go of the other.

Hot young actors Brant Kimber and Sky Ford set the cinematic world on fire with their so-sexy-it-barely-avoided-an-X-rating movie Laying Low. Working together on this sexy and romantic movie caused these gorgeous and lovable men to fall in love, eventually to "come out" in Hollywood and get married. The unexpected success of this movie has led to a sequel, called Living Large, which questions if their love and deep bond will be strong enough to see them through a great challenge to their relationship. How solid is their love?