Stories

What if you hated yourself for being gay? What if you wanted to keep it locked away inside of you forever? Ethan is living the experience of that awful realization and hoping to one day overcome it. But what about a new friend by the name of Drew? If you think it's hard keeping your feelings a secret...imagine what it must be like for someone 'exposed'.

Chris is a troublemaker in highschool. But love changes everything, doesn't it?

Plumber’s apprentice Andrew Richardson finds himself in an unlikely battle of wits with a pretentious American pop star visiting London for the Brit Awards. The singer is unhappy because there’s no heating, but the boiler needs replacing and on Sundays, Andy goes to church.

Nick and Dave are off to college, but sadly not the same one. While Nick is attending Sapswell with all their friends from secondary school, Dave is commuting every day to Dorcrest Independent College. Staying together when you have to work to see each other every day is hard, especially when a new activity takes over much of Nick's spare time, namely his new rock band.

Brian, a successful VP of Technology, meets a young man during a vacation in New Orleans. After a brief affair, Brian returns to Boston, only to discover that the young man now has an entry-level position at his company. which makes things very complicated.

Fifteen-year-old Billy Roberts is caught in a war between his two best friends. Brett Reilly and Dustin Smith are desperate to find the love that they don't get at home, and they are willing to do anything to get it, even if they have to destroy each other. Meanwhile at home, Billy's relationship with his parents is being strained to the breaking point. In the end, someone will be broken.

"Tragic Genius" is the fourth and penultimate book in "The Trial", a series beginning with "Shadow Honor". In this book, we follow the early days of the Demon War, and focus on the stories of Neredos and Veil predominantly, but with many other familiar faces as well. What does it take to make a leader, and how do the horrors of war twist a person's mind? How do we fight for good, life, and peace in a world full of evil, death, and pain? This is the heart of what The Trial means.

***BE SURE TO READ PART ONE FIRST***

This is the second half of one story

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We return to Delaga House as our former Victorian noble, Nathan learns how to cope with the unexpected turns his marriage to Lord Rother in the country of Francine has taken.

Eli Cole is a high school junior who plays hockey, has tons of friends, get great grades, and does everything he's supposed to do. But when he meets Viz McCoy, everything changes. Viz is the complete opposite of Eli, he's shy and considered a loser, because of the way he dresses and the things he's into. The two become friends and find that they have more in common than anyone would have thought. But what trouble will come from the new found friendship?

Hyun Lee's sister is kidnapped by a shadowy organization, that then blackmails him to hack into mysterious bank accounts around the world. To save his sister, Hyun seeks out the Yun Family for help. Raphael Yun is a man plagued by a past he can't forget and a father who won't let him make his own choices. When he meets Hyun Lee, a man who'll do anything to save his little sister, everything changes.