M/M, Science Fiction
Troy Iverson has fallen far because he kissed the wrong man -- from the flagship of the OriginCo Corporation to Heavenhawk IV -- and he isn't happy about it. So when he's chosen as the botanist on a survey mission, he tries to keep far away from energetic entomologist Kipp Vaughn who won't stop pestering him. There's something about the man that bugs Troy.
Troy wants to get his job done and return to the ship, but survey missions never run smoothly, and a storm strands the team in a cave. With injured people, alien bats on the attack, and more deadly storms brewing, Troy and Kipp must return to the shuttle and contact the ship. If they can't learn to work together, someone could die. But if Troy gets too comfortable around Kipp, he could lose everything this time.
M/M, Contemporary
Business has been good at Paul's Café in Madison, Wisconsin--until a few months before Christmas. When Nick opens Nick's Restaurant next door, Paul watches his customers leave for cheaper food and an owner who smiles more. With his livelihood at stake, Paul lashes out, trying to drive away Nick's customers, but Nick won't go easy, and escalating sabotage threatens to ruin the holidays for both of them.
Paul thinks all he wants for Christmas is to see Nick's Restaurant go under, but the more he tries to drive Nick away, the less he's sure he wants him to go. Nick is everything Paul secretly craves, but by the time he realizes Nick is all he really wants for the holidays, he might have ruined any chance for them to get together. And there might not be a present in the world that can fix that.
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F/F, Fantasy and Science Fiction
From a snowy landscape to among the stars themselves, these three F/F erotic romance stories bring together distant lovers and give them the fantasy endings they deserve.
In "Frost and Ice," ice queen Isolde confronts building tensions with a maligned ex-lover who is trying to turn up the heat in her kingdom.
Engineer-turned-entrepreneur Nessa is looking forward to finally meeting her long distance girlfriend Chantal in person on Europa. That is, if they can get through the "Unexpected Dilemmas" threatening to keep them forever apart.
And in "Orbits," Ruby isn't planning to run into her old flame Jen on the new orbital colony Raft, but neither is she planning to miss the chance to reconnect with the one woman she can't quite shake from her head...or her heart.
M/M, Science Fiction
It's lonely running a small transport ship across the galaxy when you're as old and as single as Connell Smyth. So when the dreams start up, Connell assumes they're his mind's way of working through what his life has become--until he discovers the man in his dreams might be much more than a figment of his neglected imagination. Connell can't quite believe it could be real, but he can't help becoming obsessed with this new lover on an unknown luscious planet.
Seventeen years ago, Wystan Kreeger's survey mission crash-landed on a hard-to-reach planet. Sole survivor Wystan turns desperate after his computer, the only companion he's had since, gives out. Even in the improbable event that the man in his dreams is real, he'll face the same risk from the planet's storm-charged atmosphere if he tries to track Wystan down, and he could end up just like Wystan's former crew. But finding each other across so many light-years can't be a mere coincidence. Now they must find a way to realize the happiness they've found in sleep during the light of the day.
M/M, Contemporary
Bradley Kim is just trying to make the time without his boyfriend Lance go by faster when he takes on an additional article for his small town newspaper. But the moment he meets Shay Wilton, amateur beekeeper, it's definitely not the honey that catches his eye.
Bradley is lonely, and Shay is everything Lance is not -- passionate, fun, and kind -- and soon Bradley's interview becomes something more intimate as Shay gives him a hands-on experience with the honey extraction.
Turning down Shay's advances shouldn't be so difficult, but Bradley won't let temptation lead him to cheating. Too bad Lance doesn't have similar scruples, and after a fiery revelation, Bradley finds himself suddenly single, with nothing standing between him and a certain beekeeper who might just be sweeter than honey.
M/M, Science Fiction
Wade Turner takes a drunk Jaxxon home after work hoping to get laid. What he gets instead is news that the world as they know it is ending--superbugs are sweeping the nation, leaving high death tolls in their wake, and the president has been assassinated. In this new storm of chaos everyone is referring to as the Apocalypse, Wade decides their chances are better if they stick together.
But when Jaxxon's ex dies in a hurricane and his daughter goes missing, Wade watches the man he loves slip into despair. Desperate to save his relationship, Wade leaves in the middle of the night on a dangerous journey to save Jaxxon's daughter--a child he's not sure is even still alive. If he can put this family back together, maybe there will still be something worth celebrating in the aftermath of the Apocalypse.
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M/M, Fantasy
Cade the Defiant. Cade the Determined. Cade the Defender of Ruldan. Ithrean, the Queen's Master Painter, knows every title the hero holds, despite not even living in the same nation as the man. There is little he wouldn't do to collect one more overseas paper on Cade, and he paints images of his obsession in his spare hours.
But news of the famed hero becoming the next ambassador throws the entire palace into chaos and sends Ithrean's world spinning out of control. His abusive ex, Master Chef Mizean, will do anything to ruin Ithrean's chance to snare Cade...if Ithrean's sudden inability to speak in Cade's presence doesn't do it for him.
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M/M, Science Fiction
Captain Archer Pfeil’s current assignment has been nothing but one long string of disasters. As if being dumped right before Christmas wasn’t enough, the mounting misfortunes indicate he’ll be out of a job by the end of his mission.
But it’s difficult to salvage the assignment with Ambassador Ilin a'dlen Jhex around, pushing all Archer’s buttons. He struggles to keep his distance from the out-of-bounds ambassador, but Jhex has other plans in mind….
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M/M, Steamwestern
Levi Branton has just invested in a new breed of horse that could really pull in money for him -- if he can transport them safely back to the ranch. But the train he's on is teeming with trouble, most of which surrounds the attractive and available Asa Eberhardt.
Can Levi let his guard down enough to fall for a man on the run, or will their indulgence lead to disaster?
M/M, Fantasy
Kithric, an aging dragon tamer, leads a solitary life atop his mountain, until the day he accidentally traps a dragon that is more than he seems. Expecting to be killed for capturing a dragon shifter, Kithric instead finds himself spared and left to deal with his continued solitude.
He finds he can’t be rid of Ylfrin the dragon shifter that easily, though, and as Ylfrin continues to return, bit by bit Kithric begins to fall for him and starts to value using what life he has left to the fullest. But before he and Ylfrin can explore their feelings, they must first confront dangers and corrupt forces encroaching from outside Kithric’s Mountain.
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