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It's 1951, and US Air Force Captain Brian Flynn hails from Roswell, New Mexico. He's twenty-six, queer, and back in the closet thanks to his homophobic father. And he's deeply tired of alien jokes. But Brian has bigger worries than his hometown's recent extraterrestrial reputation. Brian's the new security director at a top-secret atomic energy research facility in the sage-dusted plains of Idaho. His job is simple: keep any plutonium from walking...
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The Prayer and her crew have been lost in space for four years. Thomas is lonely and homesick; Zachery is angry and mutinous; Rick is just terrified. And all of them are really in need of some hands-on time with their captain.The only thing holding them together is their captain, an aloof, sharp-tongued man whose methods of keeping up morale are unconventional, but extremely effective. But now the captain has a choice to make: do they continue their...
3) Second Level
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The path to true love is never easy, especially when you are on opposite sides of the world's greatest theological debate.
It's Halloween, and the Demon of Masturbation Dom, for short has come to Earth to collect sins and souls for his boss. But a representative from the Interfering Angel Network Ian has been sent to put a crimp in his plans. Frankly, though, the two seem less interested in sins and souls than in the three bottles of tequila they...
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Born to a single mother in Dust Bowl-era Nebraska, Roy Manger learns to deny his true self from an early age. The rural Midwest is no place for a boy who wears girls' clothes for fun-let alone for one who suffers gruesome hallucinations. It is only when he leaves home that he can embrace his true identity, spending his days as Roy and his nights as Raina, working as an escort in a ritzy Chicago bordello. But after a run-in with the law, Roy is torn...
5) In the Twist
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Twelve dead children. An ex-priest with the faith to move mountains. A hunter out of the depths of legend. Together, they must find a way to overcome their pasts and become something entirely new if they are to defeat an ancient evil.David Shaughnessy was content in his life as a police detective in Armata, California. It lacked the visceral, sick thrill that came with exorcising demons, but it was better for him, saner. Until the night he got called...
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After losing his husband, David, to a tragic accident the previous year, Russ doesn't feel much like celebrating the upcoming holidays. When his daughter unexpectedly asks for one of David's cookie recipes, Russ makes a decision that lands him in a baking class. After a few mishaps with an inept partner, Russ is ready to give up, but then the teacher, Amos, offers private lessons to help him recreate David's smorgasbord of holiday treats. Somewhere...
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Daniel Wu is an elementary school teacher with a big heart and a collection of snow globes to match his travels. The small town he has settled in, however, feels like it could be home. All that's missing is someone special and a family to call his own. Resigned to spending the holidays alone, Daniel finishes work on the last day of school, only to stumble upon one his students, Abby Weber, who needs a ride home. Jeffrey Weber, single father and recent...
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What could possibly go wrong when buying an old Victorian property by the seaside to remodel and run as a hotel. Plenty when the ghostly inhabitants from past generations want their say…Marjorie, Stanley, and the apple of their eyes their camp son Christopher, buy a leaky wreck, transforming it into a 1970s house of wonders. Marjorie's Bejam inspired cuisine soon puts their seaside guesthouse on the tourist map. The utterly vile Marjorie's ambitions...
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The captain's luck is finally changing. After four years of being lost in space, his starship, The Prayer, has found an inhabitable planet to land on. The whole crew and his lovers Thomas, Rick, and Zachery in particular are happy to set foot on terra firma again, not least because the planet comes with plenty of trees to hide behind for those...intimate occasions. But the fertile landscape hides a secret. When the captain finds himself abducted by...
10) IM
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One by one, he's killing them. Lurking in the digital underworld of Men4HookUpNow.com, he lures, seduces, charms, reaching out through instant messages to the unwary. They invite him over. He's just another trick. Harmless. They're dead wrong.
When the first bloody body surfaces, openly gay Chicago Police Department detective Ed Comparetto is called in to investigate. Sickened by the butchered mess of one of his brothers left on display in a bathtub,...
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In the summer of 1780, on the tiny island of Merryapple, burly fisherman Robin Shipp lives a simple, quiet life in a bustling harbor town where most of the residents dislike him due to the actions of his father. With a hurricane approaching, he nonetheless convinces the villagers to take shelter in the one place big enough to hold them all-the ancient, labyrinthine tavern named the Moth & Moon. While trapped with his neighbors during the raging storm,...
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Once people die, they're not meant to wake up. For college student Beck Murray, this doesn't quite sink in until he's sitting in a stranger's apartment, reading his own obituary. He has no memory of how he died or how he happened to wake up-all Beck knows is that he's been dead for six months, and now, incredibly, is not. He assumes his biggest challenge will be explaining himself to his family and friends. This proves not to be the case as, one by...
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The locals call it the Death House, but Carol and Marco designed the New Life House as a home for kids to live, safely removed from the stigmas and judgments of the outside world. Seventeen-year-old Tyler arrives on the doorstep, hoping that he's finally found a safe place to die. His arrival causes the other kids to question the futures they've been promised, and Carol and Marco must convince them there is life after diagnosis. Even through struggles...
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The scent of his own blood shakes away the disbelief of the gunman entering the city council room. Todd remembers that smell and can't deny that he is once more the target of a gunman's bullet.Healing from his physical wounds is the easy part, grounded in gratitude for his very survival. Rebuilding his life will be the hard part. But he is reminded he is luckier than others whenever he thinks of his friend Rick.After the first time he was shot, Todd...
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Things should be going great for Matt Glenn. His business as a security consultant is thriving and he's rekindled his relationship with sexy detective Jordan Cobbers. But the pressures of work are driving Matt and Jordan ever further apart. Luckily Matt's old flame, Ben, is on hand to make thing right. But tragedy strikes, and Matt is in danger of having everything ripped from his world, including his sanity. When he loses his heart, how far must...
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Confessions of a Gay Curmudgeon recounts the adventures of Viktor, a fifty-year-old gay man in New York City trying to get back into the land of the living after the breakup of a twelve-year relationship. Complaining into his digital diary, Viktor wrestles with negotiating the dating scene, dealing with new corporate bosses, and his friends' stories of sexual misadventures and taking him to places to meet eligible new partners who he doesn't find...
17) The Seed
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Ed Perez wants the simple things in life: a mass of riches through any means possible, a new and mysterious mistress, and unquestioning adoration from the mainstream media. Since he's the new U.S. president, that shouldn't be a big thing to ask for...Or, it wouldn't be if people stopped getting in the way of his ruthless schemes. A wronged head of security; a beautiful Brazilian woman hiding a tragic secret; and a rich CEO pulling Ed's strings behind...
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Having welcomed an alien into his crew and his bed, the captain has more than enough to worry about without the looming threat of a birthday he'd rather forget. It's just as well that his ship develops a catastrophic malfunction and crash lands before anyone can ask him how old he's turning. But his good luck only lasts so long; when he and his men follow Rux to an abandoned city in search of replacement parts so they can effect repairs, one disaster...
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Expectations are never realistic. Outcomes often fail to meet objectives. Wishes rarely come true.None of that has ever stopped Abram Hoffman from meeting every goal he's ever set. In a world full of constants his pace per mile, daily caloric intake, number of isolated bicep curls the balance of Abe's delicately crafted life topples when his childhood best friend Cassie Montgomery unexpectedly moves back home with her new boyfriend, Jared, whose lingering...
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The only way for Matt to be with Jordan is to put his life back on tracks. And if it requires physical injuries, Matt is ready to pay that price. One price he isn't ready to pay, though, is other people's mistakes. And as his past catches up with him, a lot of such people are ganging up on him, including cops.
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