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For his twenty-fifth birthday, Alec Savage gets the gift of a lifetime the chance to meet his father for the very first time. What he finds upon his arrival in Washington, DC, however, is not what he expects. A smashed window. An empty house. A scrawled note with his name and a phone number on it. Panicked, he dials the number and talks to an uncle he never knew he had, one who insists Alec is in danger if he stays in the house. That's when everything...
2) Threshold
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Sutter is a vampire on the run. After barely escaping the hunter sent after him, he makes it all the way to Oregon before the approaching sunrise forces him to stop. He only intends to rest until dusk, but that plan falls apart when he's found passed out on the bathroom floor.
Ex-Marine Max Rowell hasn't had a purpose in life since coming home from the Gulf. Drifting through the days, he discovers an unconscious guy who looks like an angel but has...
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For three years, playwright Spencer Szabo has been sitting on the best work of his career -- a show about the life and death of C-list fifties actor, Kip Palmer. His actress neighbor deems it wonderful. His agent calls it unmarketable. Then hotshot director Mick Darby rolls into New York and practically begs Spencer to let him put Dead Man's Curve onstage where it belongs. Mick's passion is contagious, but Spencer quickly discovers they share more...
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After spending high school in the closet, the last thing Jett Walker wants is to go to his thirty year class reunion. Then the one person he was never able to resist decides to attend - punk rocker Trev Chambers.
Trev was the epitome of everything Jett wanted to be, and now he's reuniting the band he made famous for a final blowout concert. Though nobody back home knows he's gay, Jett decides to go. He needs closure. One weekend of pretending he's...
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Some call him the Angel of Death, but Caleb knows better. He doesn't kill. He erases life. Centuries ago, the Higher Powers created him to walk the terrestrial plane, eradicating those from existence who have either earned punishment or asked for dissolution. No attachments, no commitments, no problems.
His latest assignment should have been as easy as the rest. But the second he gets invited into Leandro Warnell's remote Alaskan cabin, Caleb knows...
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For divorced dad Alex Tunney, the Christmas choir concert seems like the perfect time to show his son he's ready to work on their relationship. Arriving late isn't his fault, but the last thing he expects is for Jake to take off without a word once the concert's over. He's not the only abandoned father, though. Marty Osterberg waits for his daughter, and when they discover the teenagers have left together, they team up to find them.
Of course, Alex...
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From the moment he finds The Naked Remedy, Noah Booker is enthralled. Not only because the blog owner is gorgeous or that the nude photos are hot, but because Fisher uses his platform to face his fears about a crippling accident, as well as the aftermath of putting his life back together.
Noah isn't brave. He copes with his shyness by staying in his comfort zone. At twenty-six, he still hasn't come out or left his conservative hometown. Finding the...
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A Phantom Fixers Story. With love and ghosts, the challenge is figuring out what's real. Software engineer Cruz Guthrie needs money for his sister's cancer treatments. He needs it so badly he's willing to stand in for a ghost hunter friend and investigate a millionaire's supposed specters. It should be an easy gig-after all, nobody thinks the haunting is real. Neurological researcher Brody Weber is furious that Cruz would take advantage of Brody's...
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Detective Brady Lindstrom deals in death, and not just because he's a homicide cop with the slaughter of a century to solve. Ten years ago, vampires murdered his lover. Ever since, he's looked over his shoulder, ready for vampires to strike again. Or maybe just the one he loved.
Exhausted and angry about the needless deaths he has to investigate, Brady worries the killers he's looking for aren't even human. Those fears are compounded by an unexpected...
10) Walk Among Us
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As an artist in NYC, Calvin Shumacher finally has the life he's always wanted. In fact, only one thing can get him to come back to Illinois - his father's funeral. All he wants is to bury his dad and hightail it back to New York, but a sniper at the graveyard puts those plans on indefinite hold.
So does Matthew Soto. The gorgeous gunman who speaks of monsters wearing human faces. And predicts there won't be a body for police to find.
Calvin doesn't...
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On a scale of one to ten, DJ Joe Salinas considers himself a four, five on a good day. Actor/part-time stripper Fess Kedley is definitely a nine, however, and Joe's pretty sure that slides into a ten as soon as the clothes come off. So when the outgoing Fess recognizes a shy Joe from his midnight radio show at a bachelorette party and proceeds to ask him out, Joe turns Fess down, convinced the man's either crazy or stupid. The only problem is, Fess...
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Nothing has ever excited Tylen Merodine more than being invited by the Regent himself to celebrate the first solar eclipse in his planet's recorded history. It's the party of the millennium, and if he has to restrain his normal exuberant instincts to fit in, that's what he'll do to be a part of it. His good intentions vanish, however, the moment he's presented to the Regent. Because there, in a gilded cage, playing music unlike anything Tylen's ever...
13) What We May Be
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Fashion is Jared Harvey's life. Once a top model, now an aspiring designer, he never expects to be attracted to a man who wouldn't know his Versace from his Valentino. But Rick Paulson makes him rethink everything he's ever assumed he wanted in a man.
Rick's generous, built like a brick house, and best of all, hungry to let Jared take control. Together, they ignite passions in each other neither wants to extinguish. So what if Rick doesn't care...
14) A Simple Charm
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In 1934, life in Brookburn, Indiana, is quiet, simple, and peaceful, but young dreamer Levi Beckerman yearns for more. When the carnival shows up for the Fourth of July, he's entranced by its many temptations. None is more seductive than the charismatic barker, Sebastian Gustineau.
Seb's been a part of the carnival for almost a decade. Once, it provided him the escape he needed from a life he thought he didn't want, but now, he craves things it can...
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Sir Tanash, the greatest knight Tasora has ever known, has one quest -- to rescue his king's only son. Fifteen years ago, Princy Liseny was kidnapped, and in the time since, Tasora has crumbled. By bringing the prince home, Tanash hopes to return the kingdom to its former glory.
As captive in a rival land, Liseny has spent most of his life locked away from the world, brought out as the ultimate prize while his real home is slowly destroyed. Escape...
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When they graduated from high school in 1962, best friends and secret lovers Jim McCutcheon and Ronnie Mayer had high expectations for the rest of their lives. Six years later, both are back in the small Nebraska town they called home, and worse, no longer together. Once the golden boy, Jim now works on his grandfather's farm, away from the town's disappointment he didn't end up at NASA. Ronnie lives in his parents' basement, recovering from the blast...
17) Interlude
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Onstage, AJ Mobley is smart, clever, and commands attention. Offstage, he's shy and lost to everything but his music. The reason for the difference? Tyrone Dahl.
For the past two years, AJ and Tyrone have been the star attraction at the Reno bar, Heat Wave. Their dueling pianos act is fast and funny, but their camaraderie isn't just under the spotlight. They're best friends away from the show, too. An opportunity to take their act to Las Vegas...
18) Outlined in Ink
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Six years ago, Jarrett Kessel helped his best friend's little brother deal with his family's rejection when he came out. He saw potential in the tempestuous teenager. Talent. Then, they both moved on with their lives.
Now, the FBI needs Jarrett's help. Sketch artist Eli Locke is their only lead in finding a killer, but he's nowhere to be found. Though the Feds are convinced Jarrett is the best way to lure him out, he's not so sure. Until they show...
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Tate D'Angelo always thought he knew who his father was: beloved doctor, devoted husband and father ... Everyone at the funeral shared the same glowing stories of a kind soul. So when his father's old college buddy, Randy, approaches him after the service, Tate expects to hear echoes of the same.
Instead, he gets a lifetime's worth of letters that tell a different tale and cause him to view his father - and his family - in a whole new light.
The...
20) Penny Candles
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In the year 2184, the US is divided. Half the country has moved on with the rest of the world, while in middle America, the survivors of the terrorist biological attack that split the country struggle just to stay alive. Though a century has passed, few people brave going behind the borders meant to contain the danger. Even the privatized military is reluctant to do so.
But that doesn't stop recently discharged Sullivan Eberle. Only one thing drives...
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