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.

Maki waited years to learn what dragon spirit the fates had gifted him with. Unfortunately for him, things didn't go exactly as he'd always planned.

Jordan Bricks has just been involved in a serious accident. Pulled from the wreckage and rushed to the hospital...he was clinically dead...for six minutes. After being revived by doctors, Jordan is thankful to be alive. But it appears that death has not relinquished its hold on him just yet. Are they illusions, these horrible things he sees lurking in the shadows? Or is the truth about what happens to us after we die...more terrifying than we ever could have imagined?

Sergeant Liam Jacks has made a life for himself on the cargo vessel the Santa Claus to escape the memories on civil unrest on Alpha Centauri.

Life should be simple enough, but one mysterious passenger can unravel the quiet in ways he hadn't imagined.

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Bear's sick of picking the wrong man. He works in a friend's bar, though, so the offers to hop into bed, or the nearest surface, come nightly. Kameron doesn't ask him to go to bed though.

Garret Lars was a clone designed and created to command troops. When the war ended suddenly, political manipulation landed him in a geisha house. He's not there long before the truth sets him free.

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?

Vega-5 is the place where dreams do come true, even the ones you didn’t know you had. It said so, right on the brochure. Bernat Arnad had little hope of his own dreams coming true but there was hope, and that was something to hold on to even if he did have to learn to let go first.

Erron Murfin is the newest crew member on board the Santa Claus, piecing his life back together with the help of the crew and the chef, Gamin, a long time family friend.

Sometimes starting over is easy. Other times the past and secrets of others make it much more difficult. Erron simply wants to belong. Shouldn't that make it simple?

Sam is an up-and-coming figure skater, while Brett is a brazen hockey player. They get along about as well as fire and ice; but will there be sparks between them?