Mystery - Stories

The first time Niran Shin meets him, Kaleo Rana is having a meltdown of epic proportions. Breaking glass shelves with a baseball bat after a terrible breakup. Niran Shin loves Kaleo’s vibrant personality, but their worlds seem too far apart. Niran is on a path of vengeance and has no desire to pull Kaleo into his world. Then, a villain asks Niran for a favor that places Kaleo’s life in danger, and Niran has no choice but to pull Kaleo into his world. A world haunted by an unknown, vicious villain who threatens their future together. Will Kaleo ever choose him? And what will it cost him?

A CSIS operative witnesses a suicide on a Toronto subway platform. He tries to stop it. He fails. Now everyone wants what the dead man was carrying—and they think Andrew Carter has it. Caught between a corrupt RCMP officer, a ruthless Conservative fixer, and the desperate operatives of a Liberal leadership contender, Andrew must find the truth before the evidence he's doesn't have destroys everything his fiancé Will has sacrificed to rebuild. The wedding is in three weeks. The shadows won't let go. Someone is going to get burned.

When the body of Lukas von Keller, a third-year student at Veridien, a prestigious all-boys academy, is found at the bottom of a ravine on March 10th, 1986, life at the quiet elite institution is shaken to the core.

After months of investigation, authorities are ready to rule the death a suicide. Detective Whitlock, however, is not. A chance to solve the case, now a personal nightmare, presents itself when Marius Vassier, a local private eye known for his sharp instincts and impeccable fashion, approaches him with a plan.

An unorthodox plan.

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L & L Investigations is a detective firm run by Lars Wrede, middle-aged and of Dutch-Swedish origin, together with his younger partner Lennart Torstensson. The firm is based in Stockholm but Lars in particular has strong links with the Netherlands from his youth. By coincidence they get a job to find out the truth behind a mysterious death in the Dutch university town Leiden. This brings them in contact with various aspects of Dutch society, including the experiences of gay young men.

Jacob continues his journey to form new bonds with his brothers while struggling to find his place after awakening to a brand new world. Will newfound friendships be broken? Will his first real love be lost? Those are the heart-wrenching questions Jacob must face with the ever-present fear of losing himself to light and shadow.

At Westmore College, getting into Phi Delta Mu can change your life. For Will Mercer, it could mean friends, connections, and the free room he desperately needs. He just didn’t expect it to feel this damn good. Suddenly he’s caught between Derek, a jock he can’t stop fantasizing about; Benjy, a shy fellow outsider; and Duncan, the rugged older house dad whose past is an enigma.

Will came looking for a place to belong. But beneath the frat’s horny games lurks something far more secretive.

THE FRAT DAD is an M/M college erotic romance packed with frat-boy exhibitionism, sexual awakening, and forbidden desire.

Ex-Military recluse Hank runs his isolated farm with measured violence and tactical clarity. When Jesse, a 22-year-old, stumbles into Hank’s world, the "math" of the farm changes forever. Jesse is more than a stray; and his dark past is about to catch up with him.

Hank doesn't offer pity; he offers an absolute, grounding ownership. But while trying to protect the boy, he realizes he can’t hold the line alone and calls in favors.

The debt is about to be paid in lead and spent fury.

Noah Wayward has built a fragile life with his boyfriend Shane, held together by prescription pills, emotional walls, and the careful suppression of a traumatic past. But when Noah's estranged older brother Joshua, freshly released from prison, appears without warning, the equilibrium shatters triggering something primal in Noah. Something that's been waiting, silently, patiently, for a way out...

Half-elf ex-cop Flynn O'Briain is losing a war on a cellular level. His human DNA and Elven heritage are tearing each other apart.

When a murdered PI leaves Flynn a blueprint for a corporate energy project that uses magical beings as batteries, he and Poitr are pulled into a conspiracy that reaches from the streets of LA to the highest levels of power. The clock is ticking. Flynn's body is failing. And the only cure is in the hands of the woman they're trying to stop.