Stories

Life is filled with surprises. We are constantly reminded that we are at the mercy of the universe; from the people we meet, to the events that shape us, to the places we find ourselves in. If we are among the lucky ones we will find our place in the world, and someone to share it with, and life will be sweet. But even then, everything is subject to change, and we either roll with the flow, or find ourselves fighting against the tide, because you just never know what might come at you from out of the blue.

A note on this story: it is written in the dense, melancholy register of 19th-century Gothic fiction, and does not shy from grief, loneliness, or loss along its way to its ending.

For a hundred and fifty years, Jack has walked a county that has forgotten him, a farm boy who bartered his soul at a crossroads and paid twice over for it. Refused by Heaven, unclaimed by Hell, he has only a stolen coal to light his way, and windows he can watch but never touch.

Then he finds Julian's: nineteen, ill, certain no one would notice if he stopped waking. As October nears Halloween, the veil thins, and an old bargain comes due.

Ninety crew dead. Ten left. All men. The ship's held together with duct tape, the AI keeps suggesting they turn it off and on again, and the captain is a meteorologist who fought a can of ravioli with an axe and lost. They're lost in deep space, eating rat, and absolutely not qualified for this. But they're alive. For now.

February 2011. Tripoli is burning.

Special Envoy Will Carter is trapped in a collapsing palace, hunted by militias and running out of time. His husband Andrew is the only thing standing between him and execution—but the city is a warzone, and the hunters are closing in.

From the corridors of power in Ottawa to the burning streets of the Libyan capital, the Carters are about to discover that some wars are fought with bullets, and some are fought with everything you have.

Betrayed and exiled, Aethan Valorian, heir to the throne of the Cathesan Empire finds himself exiled on Kharon-IV, an inhospitable planet that holds many secrets beneath its shifting sands. Incarcerated in an industrial prison and forced to fight in arena matches, Aethan meets the volatile Bhal-Ghor, a gladiator who has been imprisoned for over two centuries. As secrets about the planet's past are unearthed, Aethan and Ghor must learn to set aside their differences and learn to trust one another in order to survive...assuming they don't kill each other first.

Hot young actors Brant Kimber and Sky Ford set the cinematic world on fire with their so-sexy-it-barely-avoided-an-X-rating movie Laying Low. Working together on this sexy and romantic movie caused these gorgeous and lovable men to fall in love, eventually to "come out" in Hollywood and get married. The unexpected success of this movie has led to a sequel, called Living Large, which questions if their love and deep bond will be strong enough to see them through a great challenge to their relationship. How solid is their love?

Sometimes life isn't what you expect. Finding the love of your life and keeping that love isn't always easy. Some roads are straight and smooth; others, not so much. This is the story about two boys navigating the road from boyhood to adulthood with all the potholes and speed bumps along the way.

The Montana sky is wide, coffee strong, and wounded souls are never turned away from Two Spirits Horse Ranch. When Jake finds a young stranger left for dead at the north gate, his promise to protect him draws the whole ranch into a fight against fear, memory, and the men who might return to finish what they started. Warm, funny, tender, and suspenseful, In the Barb is a Western romance about found family, survival, and the kind of love that begins as rescue but grows into home.