Vivien Dean
21) 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...
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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...
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At forty-three, Jay McGhee doesn't know how much longer he'll be able to withstand the physical rigors necessary for active duty in the Roseville, Indiana Fire Department, but that doesn't mean he's willing to be put out to pasture just yet. For most of his adult life, he's had to place his needs on the back burner, including the fact that he's a gay man in a small rural community. His career is not going to take the same route.
When twenty-seven-year-old...
24) 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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When his boss's twenty-year-old son announced he wanted to be more than friends, Tim Kammerling told him no. He wasn't ready to have a relationship with someone more than ten years younger than him. Devin knew he couldn't stick around Napa and honor the status quo, however. He left town, and the two became long distance friends instead.
A lot can happen in eighteen years. Letters are sent. Calls get made.
Lives are changed.
26) The Low Between
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It was supposed to be simple.
All struggling actor Carlo Baresi had to do was pick a man up, drive him to the location he specified, then report where he'd taken him. The only problem is, the man isn't who he says he is ... and they both know it.
Bookstore owner Joe Donnelly has a reputation for helping those in need, but this plan has been a bad one from the second he stepped in. Discovering someone has switched out the driver is one more complication...
27) Flesh and Kisses
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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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Insomniac Sean Diaz spends his nights riding the subway around Manhattan, ignoring the people he might encounter, getting lost in the rhythms of the train so he's exhausted enough to sleep once he gets home. A hallucination about his dead high school boyfriend turns it into an obsession, but when Sean sees him a second time, he nearly falls apart.
That's how Judah Morey finds him. Concern prompts conversation, which in turn sparks friendship. When...
29) Dare to Venture
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Though Bret has been in love with Andreas since they were in college, he swore nobody would ever find out. Andreas doesn't do relationships, and the last thing Bret wanted was to make things awkward within their group of friends. Now, two of their quartet are getting married. On what is supposed to be a final nostalgic fling, Bret and Andreas come face to face without the others. Will they walk away, or will Bret finally have the nerve to tell Andreas...
30) Forgotten Faces
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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...
31) 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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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...
33) 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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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...
35) Savage Estate
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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...
36) A Flight in Ice
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Life hasn't turned out like Connor McClure hoped. His relationship is over, he lost his friends in the break-up, and nothing makes him happy anymore. All he wants is to hide from the world, but the only place available to him is his parents' home in the rural Michigan community he abandoned thirteen years ago. Since they're in Florida for the winter, he'll have the whole house to himself.
Except he doesn't. In their absence, the McClures asked a...
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Throughout his career, actor John Paravati has stuck with what he told the gossip rags -- he's been in like, in lust, even in respect once or twice, but never love. All he's ever cared about is performing. If he's stuck now doing commercials for cruise lines, at least it's better than shilling adult diapers. But Hollywood pretends, and John is a master. Because once upon a time, he loved two things more than anything -- his best friend Frank and the...
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Four-years ago, Mathias Larsen broke siring laws to save a lover's life.
Four-months ago, that lover turned on him, leaving him for dead.
Now Mathias has followed her path of death to Las Vegas, straight to the last vampire who wants to see him: his sire. The man he left for a woman who stabbed him in the back.
Edmund has found love again with a nightclub owner, the very human Darby Bell. He doesn't want to believe Mathias's warnings, but a murder...
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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...