Stories

Dade is no one's victim. He refuses to acknowledge the truth, that he needs someone who can help him. Of course, the last person he ever expected to find that in was an alien light years from everything he'd ever known.

They both have secrets they want to hide. Chris isn't out and his break-up with a waitress at the restaurant his father owns, and he's interning at, results in a lot of pain for someone else. He has to take care of Niel as much as he has to hide how much he wants him. There's something about him that draws Chris in. But Niel's hiding too, from some very bad ... people. Will he have the courage to tell Chris everything and will Chris still want him afterward?

Marc is a man with a dangerous problem. When his brother won't give up trying to help him will he accept that help?

Brandon is everything to me. The choice I face is unbearable.

This story continues a few months after we left Nat and Marc in Double Down, now told from Nat's point of view. He's a private eye with a busy business, one at times boring. This newest case though...

I endured years of experiments at the hands of sadistic aliens. Barely eighteen, I've been rescued from the tiny cell and the years of enforced sensory deprivation. Lost, with no family or friends I can remember or would turn to if I could, I'm alone in the universe... except for the humans who saved me. The Captain. Zeke. Doc. A crew of misfit Rangers, a ragtag bunch operating just this side of legal--and often on the other side when circumstances are right--are not the kind to help someone “like me” recover. Captain wants to send me away, but I can't leave. No one else can touch me.

He's it for me, the strength I can't function without.

Tarenna has a rich history, one of vast technological achievements and yet the natives now live in the wilds of the swamps. The leaders of the Trialedes must take action when invaders take over and try to find an ancient artifact, one that could spell the doom of the entire galaxy.

Miah's stake has to be a success; he has something to prove--to himself, to his family, and to all the people who thought he'd fail. But can he find the will to keep going when everything sees to be going wrong around him?

After a summer apart, Kiron and John face new challenges at school. Getting closer shouldn't be a problem, but Kiron has some very real fears. Will someone come between them, or will they find a way to work things out together?

Sudal is the only verl in his clan. He has the honor of fulfilling a sacred duty for his people. No one cares if he wants actually wants that honor. Sudal will do his duty, but on the eve of adulthood he takes one stolen flight soaring alone through the freedom of the sky. One moment for himself can't hurt before he faces the scrutiny of the clan as they witness his success or failure... but do the gods feel the same way?