Stories

What do you do when you are deep in the closet but you meet the man of your dreams? Do you take the chance and risk the consequences?

***Winner of the 2013 Readers Choice Awards for the Best Story by a Promising Author ***

Please note: I'm no longer a Promising/Signature Author! I don't want readers to think I'm misleading them.

Story: The city is full of all kinds of people. Being a bartender, Asher Burkhart has seen them all. At least he thinks has until Michael Waters shows up.

Connor Owens is a violinist, a college freshman, and an extreme introvert . . . but when he reluctantly takes a job tutoring for the athletic department, he meets someone who just might be the ticket out of his self-imposed prison.

Derek is the perfect boy.

His school is perfect. His family is perfect. Everything in his life is perfect.

Everything except Charlie.

Charlie's whole life has been a series of accidents. He often joked that if it wasn't for bad luck he wouldn't be here. But now that everything is changing again in his life what will this accident bring to him?

Poor Man's Son is the eleventh story in the CAP Saga. The story takes place in 2000, with Gathan Hayes and Will Schluter as our narrators. Many of the characters in this story were introduced in “Chronicles of an Academic Predator,” “1968,” “The Land Whore,” “Be Rad,” “Man in Motion,” “A Summer Love,” “If It Fits,” “Bloodlines,” “The Box,” and "Millennium."

This is a story about Chet Little, first introduced in Cards on the Table... a popular character, he deserves his own story. This is a companion piece to Cards on the Table, but the story stands alone. Reading COTT first would be helpful, but is not necessary. It begins after chapter 16 of Cards on the Table. Many readers expressed an interest in Chet having his own voice, so here it is. I hope it pleases you.

What do you do when you simply don't fit into your world? Shawn Martoni never did. A past of turmoil and misfortune kept a solid foothold from ever forming.

But what if there was another world under our own? Someplace where all that's left of the creatures long since forgotten might live. Would Shawn find his place there or simply find another form of the underworld?

***NOMINATED FOR BEST HERO/VILLAIN IN THE 2013 READERS CHOICE AWARDS***

The Funny Thing Is, things always change when you get older. Cooper, Kyle, Spencer, and Sebastian are all older, but barely any wiser. When a blast from Cooper's past returns to threaten his status quo, how will react? How will he balance the quest for true love with his new status as a family man.
Contains spoilers for The List.

Jed Stone suffers in silence, damaged and poisoned from his fight with the rogue wolf. But he puts on a smile and does his duty, making sure his Timber Pack mates are safe.

Buzz Hinske belongs to a traditional lycan pack. Challenges and violence seem to be their way of life.

When they come together at the annual Lycan Conclave, Jed is elated at finding his destined mate. Unfortunately, Buzz has already been promised to another...