In Process - Stories

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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Noah Lindholm and Jackson Lemaire have spent six years trying to beat each other during hockey games. Now they're expected to play on the same line for the Philadelphia Bobcats, and neither is happy about it.

At first, everything is a battle: practices, power plays, stubborn personalities and a locker room determined to tease them into getting along. But somewhere between a children's hospital visit, team barbecues, delayed flights and countless hours on the ice, rivalry gives way to something quieter. Neither notices that conversations last longer, silences grow easier, or that they're becoming each other's first choice for company.

In the final tale of Zafiro, he is trapped with voices controlling his head. A familiar face joins him in the Icebox and his mother is doing all she can to help her child.

Meanwhile, a new enemy is sneaking about the shadows that is threatening what remaining family he has left on earth!

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.

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?

Marcus Reed came to Snow Pine to disappear. Then he meets the Calloway brothers. Ryan is kind, steady, and gentle in a way Marcus has never experienced before. But Cameron Calloway is the exact opposite. Wild. Reckless. Infuriatingly magnetic. The older brother carries anger like a second skin, pushing everyone away before they can leave him first. Falling for both of them was never supposed to happen. But in a town like Snow Pine, secrets don't stay buried for long. And choosing one brother could mean losing them both.

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.