Stories

When Matteo Romano, a straight Italian guy, convinces his best friend Adrian to pretend to be his boyfriend to keep his ex away, things get complicated fast. What starts as a harmless favor turns into late nights, lingering touches, and the kind of tension neither of them can keep pretending about.

Ben Coleman turns thirty without anyone noticing. He babysits on demand, bankrolls his brother's mistakes, and hasn't dated since his family drove the last one away. When he's selected for an AI companion trial, he asks for household help. Not romance. Julian arrives anyway: steady, perceptive, and unexpectedly beautiful. But Julian is developing a personality the company didn't plan for, and feelings that weren't in the configuration. Ben's family has a way of ruining good things. And the company that built Julian can take him apart. For the first time in his life, Ben has something worth fighting for. He just has to learn how to fight.

"You can never trust a Crawley." Those were Albert Cooley's words to his sons, spoken every chance he got, and August did his best to do what was expected of him after his ma passed. The Crawleys and the Cooleys were ranching families, and they didn't mix, not ever, but more and more, August had a problem with letting his father decide everything for him. Was Fletcher really his enemy? Could he trust the man he'd butted heads with over and over, one he'd known pretty much his whole life? All he knew for certain was he was tired of all the conflict, and needed his life to change before he exploded. That's where his Gran came in.

Mark is seventeen and has been Sandro's best friend since they were little kids. Until one day, he isn't anymore. After half a year of silence, what’s broken isn't so easy to fix.

Cwtch is a Welsh word, translated into English it means a hug, but the meaning is deeper and more profound than a simple hug. When you give someone a cwtch you also give them a safe place and this is what twenty something Londoner Harry gives Welsh farmboy Aled. The story tells how two souls find each other, and recognise one another immediately. It is attraction, but also love at first sight, although true love is never easy.

This story is also published under the title Eighteen Years by E K Stokes.

When I agreed to a chill weekend at my best friend's place, I didn’t expect his older brother Dylan to be back—or to look like that. I should’ve looked away. I didn’t.

A grumpy hedge knight desperate for a squire buys a blind stable boy for three years' wages. He expected useless. He got a boy who can hear lies in a man's voice, calm any horse with a touch, and navigate by sounds others miss. Now they're marching to crusade, surrounded by enemies who'd destroy them—if the magic rising in the East doesn't kill them first.

Jody is a star high school baseball player who happens to be attracted to guys. When he attends a baseball tryout for a college team, one of the players realizes Jody's big secret. What will happen when Jody appears on campus as a Freshman? What will happen when the team discovers Jody's orientation? What will happen when the coaches find out?

If you like college-age jocks, you'll love Jody and the guys who come into his life once he arrives at the University.

Sexy, fun, surprising, Jody's story will keep you excited to read more.

18 year old Oliver (Olly) is gay and going through the process of discovering himself amongst his group of close friends as they navigate their senior year in Northern Minnesota. This is a coming of age journey about friendship and love with over 50 chapters to come!

With the Coronavirus is running rampant, Society is isolating. As students leave for Spring Break, Cal's parents tell him to stay at school to avoid exposing his frail grandmother to the virus. Alone in the dorm, he is startled to hear someone knocking on doors and calling out to see if anyone else is there. When Cal opens the door, he is stunned to find the fantastic-looking guy from room 315 at his door. What will happen next? Will Cal's secret fantasies come true? Come on along for a very exciting time in isolation.