Stories

Nico Bosch has a problem. For reasons he hasn't figured out, monsters are appearing in his adopted town. He's been able to keep the body count down, but where are these things coming from and how can he make them stop? Then there's also the problem of his parents, who want him dead more or less. Then there's the happier problem of Conor, who didn't seem like he wanted more but....

Oh, and there's the dragon.

Ludo has a nice life. A lovely wife and son, an attractive modern house, and a good job, idyllic really. But his wife is restless and spends too much time at work; Ludo finds himself getting too close to Arthur, the father of one of his son’s friends. Then his wife’s job takes a sinister turn, casting everything else into the shade.

Time heals most wounds and emotional duct tape does the rest. After a difficult beginning and an emotional rollercoaster ride through the highs and lows of falling in love, and learning to forgive and move forward, Sam and Ben have decided to bind their lives forever on one special day. Through their eyes and those of their loved ones, it's an exploration of what it means to love, and be loved in return.

Hubris tells the story of Crowe, a young practitioner on a great journey to free his people from enslavement. Along the way he encounters Barghast, an eight-foot tall wolfman, the lycan who has left his clan in the desert for a life in the North. Separated by culture and language but linked together by the beginnings of an unbreakable bond, the two lost souls journey through a war-savaged landscape in hopes of breaking a tragic cycle that has played out since the beginning of time.

Former Delta Operative, Sam Trammel’s entire world has just collapsed and with no other option, he returns to Florida to bury his twin and his past. Ben Santiago is an Episcopal priest, a man with a checkered past, and a close friend of Sam's family. After a chance meeting brings them together, the two men navigate the tangled web of regret and forgiveness as friendship turns into love despite the obstacle of Sam's PTSD, and his reluctance to move toward Ben instead of away. Family and new friendships help Sam to rebuild and realize that sometimes the path to healing and finding home, is by confronting your past head-on.

Somewhere between parenting his little half-brothers, supporting his ailing grandfather in the family business and constantly arguing with his twin brother, Cedric has forgotten himself.

Riley needs money. To help his mom with the debts his dad left behind, to pay for his brother's life-saving therapy, to pay his own debts. But despite working two jobs and putting in long hours, it's never enough.

After a disastrous blind date, Cedric turns up on Riley's doorstep with an interesting offer in his pocket. It could actually be a win-win situation, were it not for a total of six constantly intrusive brothers…

Successful, but romantically repressed computer programmer, Liam Bailey would've blown a homeless man for a taste of stale after spending almost a week chasing down his energetic young nephew. Instead, after his gorgeous neighbor Gabriel Morgan, sexy dad of two--who Liam would've sworn under oath and death by fire ants was straight as an arrow--turns up on his doorstep bearing sugary gifts and a few extra surprises. Suddenly "straight" makes about as much sense as a diagonal and Liam needs to decide if he should try a diagonal life, or just keep swimming so he doesn't end up getting in too deep...

Nathan Harris is an angry loner, who just wants to be left alone, until an interaction with Corey Andrews leads them both alone together in school suspension. The two soon learn they have more in common then either of them realized.

Benjamin is aging out of the foster care system, with no family and no home he strikes to move out on his own. he strikes an unlikely friendship with Josh. Can Benjamin learn to trust, learn to love, and can Josh break through the trauma and distrust and work together towards salvaging their road to redemption

Someone buys a house and receives a belated letter from the son of the previous owner. He is a Navy Seal, wounded and recuperating, unaware as he sent it that his parent has passed away. An unexpected friendship forms..