Grumpy and Sunshine Romance - Stories

Elliot Reyes and Theo Marchetti can't stand each other, apparently. Then, one ordinary Thursday night, in a London office tower that's emptied out for the evening, the power goes, and the only two people left in the building find themselves trapped in a stalled lift between the eighth and ninth floors, in the dark, for hours. Just two men, one torch, and the slow, terrifying business of being seen.

Nearly divorced and miserable, twenty-five-year-old Wyatt Whitaker is a self-destructive force to be reckoned with. Fresh out of vet school, he’s already stretched thin between building his practice, helping his little brother cope with PTSD, and an inability to say no to anything that needs saving.

Taking in a gay nineteen-year-old-runaway he nearly ran over in a rainstorm shouldn’t complicate any of that.

Right?

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.

Fresh out of his master’s, openly gay Marc dives into a high-pressure Munich consultancy and straight into the orbit of his cold, closeted boss, Frank. When a “running group” becomes their private ritual, breathless runs, heated glances, and charged locker-room moments ignite a tension neither of them can outrun.

At a high-stakes Easter swim meet, sunshiney GWU swimmer Austin gradually breaks through the icy rivalry of Georgetown star Petr, turning competition into a steamy romance.

A 34-year-old straight sales rep moves to Hamburg, joins a top amateur handball team, and finds way more than he bargained for: sweaty games, intense locker-room vibes, and a captain who knows exactly how to shake up his world.

An ambitious writer competing for a prestigious fellowship encounters a handsome himbo drifter determined to help him — whether he likes it or not.

A shy young British curler at the Milano-Cortina Olympics hooks up with a mysterious, massively built German bobsledder after finding his anonymous profile on Grindr.

A gruff gym regular takes a clueless new member under his wing, their intense physical training session escalating into a steamy locker room encounter.

Ahh Granny's got a plan for her little Alley Cat.

Alvin must navigate the diabolical machinations of a woman hell bent on getting him out of his rut.
The trouble is, it involves a certain gardener named Tabby, while dodging the attention of the Higgins Clan and navigating the web of twisted games that spans the entire town.

Will he survive with his bachelordom intact, or is he doomed to a happily ever after fate half baked into a Hallmark nightmare?