Diversity
2 Perfect
Zachary Foxx McMurray and Angus McMurray are happily married and enjoying their life in the small town of Scotland... South Dakota.Since their wedding at Niagara Falls, Zac has taken up freelance editing and proofreading, having left the bustling world of publishing in New York when he moved to the Midwestern plains to be with his soul mate. The work he's doing isn't fulfilling, but there's a passion project he wants to tackle-turning Gus' numerous short stories into a series of books for children on the autism spectrum. Angus is still making cabinets and carving statues from wood, but there's something very important to him that he believes would make their lives perfect-a family. Gus hasn't had the courage to broach the subject with Zac, but suddenly, an opportunity arises that makes it his primary focus. Take the journey with Zac and Gus as they try to achieve their goals while weathering the highs and lows along the way, all the while remembering the reason they were drawn to each other in the first place. With a lot of love, patience, and understanding, can they make their perfect life 2perfect?
A Brazilian Love Story
A love story of a person who finally becomes their true self and finds love that has all the ups and downs between 2 souls who are lost but stand together in the toughest time especially when it come to their love for their daughter, take a ride with micka as he goes through his first love and heartache from the very women he falls in love with.
A Collection of Brevities
Joey was one of the most accomplished pianists in the world during classical music's last grand heyday at the end of the 20th century. He lived a luxurious life, and his performances in the great concert halls were globally televised. He was known even to people who do not follow music. But at the height of his career, before age 50, he suddenly and without explanation retired from playing. This set off a chain of press speculation as to why this consummate artist fell silent. Joey's mother, Alta, was his only piano teacher, having given up her own career as an accomplished singer to further her son's talents. Living a privileged life with her emotionally distant oil-rich husband in Houston, Alta was unable to comprehend why her son gave up everything she ever wanted and could never have achieved. Now, a biographer is seeking both mother and son, sensing a potentially explosive story. Joey and Alta are avidly pouring their ideas into diaries in preparation for talking to him, hoping they can stave off any interviews. Ten years have passed since Joey's last piano recital in London, a night of storied history in classical music. He has since retired to Sydney, Australia, to rebuild his life in a place that looks and feels like home but is totally different-and distant. There he is raising a young son with Claire, the sister of his former partner, Ben, who fled the relationship at Joey's insistence. Through his diaries, Joey questions not only his relationships but his own artistry, which feels to him more an extension of his mother than something really his own. And through her diaries, Alta seeks meaning and purpose in the limbo she's locked into in Houston, caring for her own mother and husband. Still unable to understand her son's decisions, she makes an impromptu appearance in Australia to try to figure him out. Her arrival in the Antipodes ignites a chain of surprise events in both of their lives.
A First Harvest
A diplomat, a philosopher, and a poet start a revolution - then realise it might not be enough.Under the sparks of a revolution, a diplomat, a philosopher, and a poet join to save themselves from the ensuing flames of a city ignited in protest. Hunted by the authorities who are quenching the rebellion, all their lives balance on working together to survive.Ardelei, an unemployed diplomat mage, decides how to best use her potentially dangerous skills.Her cousin Rondei, a philosopher and radical pamphleteer, must sacrifice her son's freedom for her own. Meropat, a free spirit and mutual friend, has been spending their creative energies recklessly, unwittingly aiding the revolution with their incendiary words.Can the three work together to escape the inferno?
A Lich in Santa Barbara
A Sharper, More Lasting Pain
NINTH HOUSE and AN EDUCATION IN MALICE meets STRIXHAVEN in this claustrophobically tense sapphic fantasy dark academia novel...After their girlfriend's best friend is wounded in a monster attack, Simone Allard stumbles across a plot much deeper than they anticipated. As they work to find a cure to their own forming illness and find out the truth, one question remains: how was Nadia involved in this?Nadia DuPont doesn't know how much time she has or even what is ailing her, but it all gets more complex after meeting Simone on a field trip. As they both work to find a cure to her ailment, all Nadia is certain of is she's on the path to ruin.
A song like summer rain
A Truth Universally Acknowledged
Adam in the Morning
Adam in the Morning is about men and women who fought in the Stonewall riots in June and early July, 1969. They ask each other, "What's happening here?" They talk politics, they throw bricks and molotov cocktails at the cops, they get bloodied, and they read The Wretched of the Earth by Franz Fanon. They have sex. They lose their fear and understand their world has profoundly changed. They discuss big issues: What can we do to change our world? Am I strong enough? Are there enough of us? They are ready for the Revolution. Bo, the carpenter, thinks of starting a home for the street kids but also something even more dramatic, and Andrew, his partner, is starting a newspaper. Joseph, the actor, has fallen in love but can fight better than any of the rest of them. One of them says after the last night's riot, "It's as if we've got more space in the city." They are committed to their cause, to each other, to all of people on the street, and their eyes look to the future.
Almost Us
In the small, mountain-ringed town of Sterling, Pennsylvania, Ryan Mercer is the man everyone relies on-a steady, hardworking builder carrying the weight of a family name and a decade of quiet expectations. He has built a life that looks perfect from the outside, but it's a life defined by what he hides rather than what he holds.Then Evan Richards returns.Ten years ago, they were two teenagers in the dark of a high school auditorium, sharing a connection that could have changed everything until fear pulled them apart. Now an internationally acclaimed lighting designer, Evan is back to transform the town square for a high-stakes gala, and he needs Ryan's help to do it.As they work together under the watchful eyes of a town that doesn't forget, the static of the past begins to clear. Between the blueprints and the floodlights, Ryan is forced to choose: continue living the life he was assigned, or risk everything for the truth he's tried to bury.
An Offer Fae Can't Refuse
Welcome to the FamilyGrief is a vicious thing. Mal would know, it's been his constant companion for the last four years. After losing the love of his life-Sage Nocturna-Mal did the only sensible thing, he got revenge. The trouble is, one got away. And he can't rest until he's found her.Mox would follow her twin brother-Mal-into the darkest depths, but what she can't do is take away his pain. Not that she hasn't tried. So when she stumbles upon Sage, her only thought is she has to tell Mal.Aidan "Corey" Corwin wasted no time in seizing the opportunity for a quick exit. All she had to do was save Sage, take their money, and start a bakery in a different gang's territory. It sounded easy enough.Death is a transient condition, Sage Nocturna has learned. They've also learned that if someone is trying to kill you, the best thing to do is stay dead. But Sage has never been able to turn down a friend in need, and with their anti-iron medication running low, they're left with only one option: return to Eventide.But that return will upend Eventide's Court of Families, and maybe, just maybe, Sage will find once and for all that you can't run from Family.
Attic.doc
In January 2010, after a traumatic event, Nara flees Kamakura, Japan, for a communal Victorian on the Oakland/Berkeley border. In a Word doc, she tracks the half-truths she's telling her new roommates, Lily and Asha, along with her field notes on their queerdo hippunk vibes.In February, Nara accidentally tosses Lily's sourdough starter. In March, Nara crushes on Asha. In April, she escapes all the drama, isolating in the attic. In May, when the house hosts a naked party, Nara falls hard for the new butch next door.But come June, Nara's past catches up with her. Then, in July, tragedy strikes. Can Nara reassemble her house of cards before year's end?A thriller-turned-love story that delves deeply into death, Attic.doc details the divide between self-delusion and authenticity, the dangerous decisions we make to survive our trauma, the fine line between codependence and selflessness, and the liberating power of letting go.
Baker Thief
Adèle has only one goal: catch the purple-haired thief who broke into her home and stole her exocore, thus proving herself to her new police team. Little does she know, her thief is also the local baker.Claire owns the Croissant-toi, but while her days are filled with pastries and customers, her nights are dedicated to stealing exocores. These new red gems are heralded as the energy of the future, but she knows the truth: they are made of witches’ souls.When her twin—a powerful witch and prime exocore material—disappears, Claire redoubles in her efforts to investigate. She keeps running into Adèle, however, and whether or not she can save her sister might depend on their conflicted, unstable, but deepening relationship.---------------BAKER THIEF is the first in a fantasy series meant to reframe romance tropes within non-romantic relationship and centering aromantic characters. Those who love enemies-to-lovers and superheroes should enjoy the story!
Beautiful and Terrible Things
Between Masks
Two heirs. Two histories. One collision they can't escape.Noah Wellin, 22, was raised inside the rigid world of New York old money-polite, controlled, sculpted by the expectations of Phillips Exeter Academy and later Yale, where refinement is mandatory and emotion is optional. Atlas Sterlins, 26, heir to another Manhattan dynasty, shaped by the same elite pipeline-Phillips Exeter, Yale, and a Stanford MBA-institutions that produce leaders, not lovers; men trained to win, not feel.They come from the same elite orbit:private academies, Upper East Side galas, family alliances, and a social scene where image is everything.Their connection was always there-quiet, tense, dangerous-but they never crossed the line.Until a major partnership forces their families' companies to work together.Suddenly Noah and Atlas are in constant proximity:late-night meetings, travel, deadlines, the pressure of legacy closing in.What they buried for years ignites-slow, sharp, impossible to control.Attraction deepens.Jealousy surfaces.Distance becomes impossible.This is not a gentle love story.This is the unraveling of two men who were never taught how to feel-only how to hide.Between Masks explores:slow-burn M/M tensionobsession-driven intimacyNew York old-money dynamicshigh-pressure corporate power playsjealousy and emotional volatilityidentity conflict and awakeningtwo powerful heirs losing control of the lives they were trained to perfectTold in real time-every shift in energy, every stolen moment, every night where the mask cracks and the truth pushes through-this is the story of desire becoming undeniable and changing everything.Two New York heirs.Years of restraint.One moment that shatters the distance between them.
Bi or not bi ?
Habitué à ce que rien ni personne ne lui résiste, Nys gère d'une main de maître son club privé le Gay Power. Son assurance vacille néanmoins le jour où Sandro en pousse la porte par hasard. Son tempérament de fonceur prend aussitôt le dessus. Ce mec lui plaît. Il le veut. Mais, comment le convaincre ? Quel est le meilleur atout de séduction pour conquérir ce pompier... persuasion ou romantisme ?
Blue Aloes
Bluewell University - The Pain You Give
Bluewell University - The Pain You Give
Bluewell University - The Trust You Need
Bonded By Darkness
For twenty years there's been peace in the Nightworld - a different dimension without humans, where werewolves, vampires and magic users live by strict rules and borders. Until the night the last werewolf prince, Connor Moon, is taken captive by the rebellious vampire, Kieran Vorrigan - on orders of the cruel vampire king, Lazarus, who wants the throne all to himself. Once Connor learns that Kieran is just another prisoner as Lazarus' chosen heir, they find common ground and team up against their mutual threat. Along with witch princess Esmeralda and Connor's little wolf pack, they band together to stop the tyrant from executing his plans.As the stakes get higher, the instant connection between Connor and Kieran grows stronger. But can their forbidden love prevail, in a world filled with darkness and prejudice, or will it cause a war that may kill them and destroy the whole Nightworld?
Born This Way