Mature - Stories

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.

Begin Again starts with one coffee. That had been the whole plan.

Evan wasn't looking for complicated. He had enough of it—a life he'd never settled into, a house in Wicklow he didn't know what to do with, and a habit of leaving before anyone could ask him to stay.

Then he meets Cian, an Irish arborist who is steady, direct, and clear about what he wants.

One night becomes another morning, a spare shirt, and a man who won't pretend this is less than it is. The sex is easy. Letting Cian see him afterward isn't.

Evan knows how to leave before anyone matters. Cian knows how much of that he'll tolerate.

Brian, Gordon, Toby, Russ et all are doing their damnedest to live their best lives. But fate has a habit of throwing them curved balls whether it is accusations of having naked orgies at work, more naked photos, teenage relationship difficulties and one pissed off drag queen, or simply trying to buy a new house that will suit their Found Family (or should that be Chosen Family?)

Two ruined men—one a disgraced aristocrat, the other a madman fleeing Bedlam—forge an unlikely alliance in 1748 London. To survive, they must navigate a world of gambling dens, back-alley degradation, and highway robbery. But when their partnership deepens into something more dangerous than any heist, they’ll discover that survival is cheaper than love—and far less costly. A gritty historical romance about redemption, resilience, and finding family in the darkest places.

Owen has never met his best friend.

For four years Xavier has been a voice in his headset. Xavier knows about the dog Owen lost at nine. He knows which voice Owen uses when he's lying about being fine.

Xavier lives two thousand miles away. That's what Owen believes.

At midnight, when a man appears under the tree across the street and won't leave, Owen calls the one person who always picks up.

Xavier tells him to breathe and stay away from the window, and promises he's safe.

Xavier means every word.

He's lying about almost everything else.

When a repressed mountain biker meets a confident, hairy dominant rider on the trails, long-buried desires explode into intense passion and emotional awakening.

When my best friend asks me to help her boyfriend experiment sexually, I'm not on board. Obviously. They say your college years should be the time to have fun and do stupid stuff. Live, laugh, love and all.

But that always seemed too careless for me. Sue me for being cautious! Unlike others, I do think about the consequences.

I will do my best to resist. Even if his magnetic eyes make me lose my sense of self-control. It's going to be the hardest thing to deal with in my life, but I'll fight it. Because it's my heart I'm trying to protect.

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?

Meet the Harding boys: Matt and his big brother Justin, their hunky dad Richard, and their fun-loving uncle Patrick.

When Matt gives his father a lavish vacation, it's meant to bring them closer -- but a secret plan to indulge a forbidden curiosity unsettles everything. An old passion reawakens in Richard, soon ensnaring Justin and Patrick too.

Sons collide with fathers, uncles with nephews, and brothers with each other. As the Harding men circle the same questions, the past simmers beneath the surface, threatening to redraw the boundaries of family, loyalty, and lust.

Oliver's marriage ends and his job disappears on the same Tuesday. So he flies to France, straps on a pack, and starts walking. Somewhere in the French Alps he meets Julien, a man carrying his own weight, and the two of them figure out—slowly, carefully—whether they've got room for each other.

Two grown men, a lot of hills, and the slow business of letting someone in.