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"Some people search their whole lives to find love. He just wants to avoid it. Teddy Spenser spends his days selling design ideas to higher-ups, living or dying on each new pitch. Stodgy engineer types like Romeo Blue, his nemesis, if you can call someone who barely talks to you a nemesis, are a necessary evil. A cute necessary evil. Working together is bad enough, but when their boss puts them both on a new high-stakes project, 'working together'...
2) Standby
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Tom's day has not gone well. He bombed the job interview in San Francisco and missed his flight connection back to Iowa. Now he's stuck at the Minneapolis airport, on standby for an early morning plane home. But things begin to look up when a handsome man named Rafael strikes up a conversation. Rafael says he used to fly but, having made mistakes, was grounded. Now he has to be content with watching jets take off. What at first seems to be a short...
3) Stranded
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STRANDED DEFINITION: adjective •(of a boat, sailor, or sea creature) left aground on a shore. "a stranded whale" •left without the means to move from somewhere. "he offers a lift to a stranded commuter" ###The boys in this collection of short stories have most definitely been left STRANDED! They've been shipwrecked and abandoned. Marooned and cast away. And left helpless and high and dry. But you should never underestimate the tenacity of the...
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Whether you like your angels and demons naughty or nice... Whether you like them angelic or demonic, we have a story for you. Our authors have tuned up their harp strings, and let loose their inner demons. We have demons with inner angels itching to be let loose. And angels teetering on the brink. We have dark. We have light. We have angst. And forbidden love.We have happy endings and not so happy endings... We have the stories OF HEAVEN AND HELL....
5) Housekeeping
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Nicky's weary of risking everything on love when he starts cleaning Spencer's house. The two become friends, but will they find love?
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This winter, Jude Bloch can't decide what bothers him more-the crowds of people or the holiday revelry. Even meeting handsome chef Mac Appel fails to cheer him up because Jude knows the most he could hope for is a one-night stand. But one night turns into two and then more. Maybe Mac can bring some warmth into Jude's holiday season.
7) The Border
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John and Thomas are soldiers on opposite sides of a long war. They carry the war in their souls, but they might find peace in each other.
8) Brute
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Brute leads a lonely life in a world where magic is commonplace. He is seven and a half feet of ugly, and of disreputable descent. No one, including Brute, expects him to be more than a laborer. But heroes come in all shapes and sizes, and when he is maimed while rescuing a prince, Brute's life changes abruptly. He is summoned to serve at the palace in Tellomer as a guard for a single prisoner. It sounds easy but turns out to be the challenge of his...
9) Alaska
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Marco promises to someday rescue Scott and take him to Alaska. As the years pass, they treasure the time, but will they ever get there?
10) Violet's Present
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When Matt's Great-great-aunt Violet dies, she leaves him a precious gift: a photo album he loved as a child. Then Matt starts having dreams-very good dreams-about Joseph, one of the men in the pictures from the 1940s. One morning when Matt wakes up, the bruises are still there. Could there be more to Violet's present than he thought?
11) Venetian Masks
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Jeff Dawkins's last partner left him with a mortgage he can't afford and nonrefundable tickets for a month's vacation in Europe. Despite a reluctance to travel, Jeff decides to go on the trip anyway. After all, he's already paid for it. He packs a Kindle loaded with gay romance novels and arrives in Venice full of trepidation. There he meets the handsome and charming expat Cleve Prieto, who offers to serve as his tour guide. Jeff has serious misgivings-he...
12) Motel. Pool
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Tag Manning feels hopeless and empty, and has hit the open road. At an isolated spot on Route 66, he picks up the ghost of Jack Dayton.
13) Buried Bones
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Werewolves don't have a how-to manual-nor do men embarking on a new life together. It's been a few weeks since Dylan Warner wolfed out and killed Andy, the crazed werewolf who originally turned him and later tried to murder Chris Nock. Architect Dylan and handyman Chris are still refurbishing Dylan's old house as they work out the structure of their relationship. They come from very different backgrounds, and neither has had a long-term lover before,...
15) The Tin Box
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William Lyon's past forced him to become someone he isn't. Conflicted and unable to maintain the charade, he separates from his wife and takes a job as caretaker at a former mental hospital. Jelley's Valley State Insane Asylum was the largest mental hospital in California for well over a century, but it now stands empty. William thinks the decrepit institution is the perfect place to finish his dissertation and wait for his divorce to become final....
16) Grown-up
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Austin needs someone to mentor him into maturity. Who better to teach him how to be a grown-up than Ben, his father's office manager?
17) Rattlesnake
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Sparks fly between drifter Jimmy and bartender Shane, but when the open road continues to call, will Jimmy go?
18) Sin Palabras
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Travis Miller tiene un empleo como operario de mecanizado, un gato llamado Elwood, y una patética vida amorosa. Lo único positivo en su existencia es el atractivo guitarrista que se encuentra a veces, al regresar a casa del trabajo. Pero cuando finalmente reúne valor para hablar con el hombre, descubre que Drew Clifford, antiguo novelista, sufre afasia: Drew puede entender todo lo que dice Travis, pero es incapaz de hablar o escribir. Estos dos...
19) The Pillar
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Bound by the constraints of law and class in 15th century Bosnia, Faris and Boro must overcome powerful foes to protect their happiness.
20) Speechless
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Travis Miller has a machining job, a cat named Elwood, and a pathetic love life. The one bright spot in his existence is the handsome guitar player he sometimes passes on his way home from work. But when he finally gathers the courage to speak to the man, Travis learns that former novelist Drew Clifton suffers from aphasia: Drew can understand everything Travis says, but he is unable to speak or write. The two lonely men form a friendship that soon...
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