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Jamel James is in love with his husband, for better, for worse...Since their initial encounter, the two military veterans have been through a few storms, such as Connor's step out of the closet to stand up to his family. As a couple, they have built close friendships, family ties, and a community in their New England town. Through it all, their bond is still strong and their intimacy still undeniably hot.Now a married, domesticated couple with a ten year anniversary on the horizon, Jamel and Connor must navigate dueling work schedules, communication issues, and family drama awhile trying to maintain the fire they once had. But when tragedy strikes Jamel's life, the aftermath could affect their happy life and change things between them. Is the perfect match they worked hard for no longer perfect?

Eurydice is dead, and there's no rest in the Afterlife. The place is a college filled with classes like Hauntings, Controlled Baking Disasters, and Threads of Fate. When Eurydice was alive, she tried to find her voice in her music, in romance, and in her friends. While creating a suite of destruction that eventually led her to, well, being dead. Now, here among the shades (and newer, more ghostly, friends), Eurydice has to come to terms with the life she left behind: mostly in the enfant terrible boyfriend who put her here. The infamous Orpheus. Clever and brutal and hilarious, Jordan Kurella's novella is a mythic read. A finalist for the Nebula Award for Novella!

Piety, compassion, lust, love... Feelings all the more potent when you are a Catholic priest confined to your hospital bed by an AIDS diagnosis, being comforted by the seminarian you sexually abused as an adolescent. It's Holy Week 1987. The priest is Fr. Linus Fitzgerald, and the young seminarian is Orlando Rosario. Both are shocked and shaken as they reflect on their desires and dreams, secrets and sins, hopes and faith, and the paths that brought them together. In Homo Novus, Gerard Cabrera illuminates with deep empathy and stark emotional honesty the journey these two men take separately and together - a journey that began with a violation of trust and leads them to places - sacred and profane - that they never imagined.

On his way to meet friends at Winter Carnival in Quebec City, Brian wrecks his car in a snowstorm. The incident precipitates a collision of cultures - Brian's gay secular world - and the conservative Muslim one of the garage owners in Sherbrooke. One of the owners agrees to drive Brian to Quebec City only to get stranded with him as the winter storm intensifies. Later in the week, the owner's handsome nephew, Omar, delivers Brian's car. Omar and Brian experience instant attraction, setting in motion a chain reaction of erotically charged passion, self-discovery, and international intrigue linking Quebec, Morocco, and Boston. Can Brian and Omar cross personal and cultural borders or will they remain entrenched in vastly different worlds, repeating history? Enjoy this fast-paced plot and richly textured narrative.

Marek und Philipp erwartet eines Nachts in einer Unterführung eine böse Überraschung: Nach einer Party werden sie von zwei aggressiven und brutalen Männern angegriffen. Bei den Handgreiflichkeiten versucht sich Marek zu wehren und verletzt einen der Angreifer so stark, dass er dabei ums Leben kommt. Eine eindeutige Notwehrsituation, so scheint es zu Beginn. Doch eines Morgens steht die Polizei vor der Wohnungstür von Marek und Philipp. Es liegt ein Haftbefehl vor. Marek wird in U-Haft gebracht, wo er einsam und isoliert seine Tagebücher schreibt und über seine Ängste und Hoffnung sinniert. Er hat keine Ahnung, wie lange er bleiben muss - und ob auf ihn eine große Freiheitsstrafe wartet. Er ahnt nicht, dass ein sadistischer Gefängniswärter es auf ihn abgesehen hat und dass sich sein Freund in eine heiße Affäre stürzt. Obwohl Philipp die Avancen seines griechischen Ex-Liebhabers Stavros nicht abschlagen kann, kontaktiert er verzweifelt die gemeinsame Freundin Viola, um für Marek zu kämpfen. Sie ist eine junge Anwältin und bekannt für ihre Schlagfertigkeit. Fest entschlossen und davon überzeugt, Mareks Unschuld zu beweisen, tüftelt sie eine Verteidigungsstrategie aus. Während sie zielstrebig und ehrgeizig versucht, Marek aus der U-Haft zu boxen, lenkt sich Philipp immer öfter mit seinem ehemaligen Lover Stavros ab, betäubt im Sex seine Sorgen - und aus dem lodernden Erotikfeuer entwickelt sich ein ernsthaftes Liebesverhältnis, zumindest aus der Sicht des Lovers. Während die beiden erotische Stunden miteinander verbringen, dringt mitten in der Nacht ein bösartiger Gefängniswärter in Mareks Zelle, von dem er massiv erniedrigt wird. Mareks Psyche ist bereits angeknackst und Philipps Affäre entwickelt sich zu einem immer intensiveren Verhältnis, aus dem er sich selbst kaum mehr herauswinden kann. Als Viola bemerkt, dass Philipp seinen Freund betrügt, wird sie zornig. Umso entschlossener und tatkräftiger arbeitet sie daran, Marek endlich aus der U-Haft herauszuholen und wartet auf eine alles entscheidende Zeugenaussage, die das Blatt wenden könnte...

After his exciting debut in The Combat Zone, detective-for-hire Cody Harper finds himself in the sights of Rodney Jessup, a pious reverend turned failed presidential candidate. Despite Jessup's involvement with the Combat Zone killer, Cody finds himself unable to refuse the job: he must discover who has been threatening Jessup and his family… or die trying.<BR><BR>As his investigation heats up in New York City and gets ever more dangerous, Cody meets Tony Vargas, Jessup's bodyguard, and the two realize an immediate connection that is more than just physical. With the help of Tony and Desdemona, Cody's gorgeous cross-dressing persona, Cody intends to close this case quickly and throw the perpetrator in prison. But can things really be that easy? Or is there much more to this case than meets the beautifully mascaraed eye?

A Bottled Up Story Tyler O'Connor, a successful antiques dealer, meets aspiring artist Mark Burke when Mark's mother decides to sell some of her antiques collection. Tyler is enchanted by the quiet, reserved artist and works up the courage to ask Mark to dinner. Despite the date's success and their mutual attraction, Mark's happiness takes a blow when his mother learns that he is gay and throws him out of the house. Unsure of where to go, Mark shows up on Tyler's doorstep and finds shelter. Tyler's encouragement and support help kick-start Mark's career, especially when Mark finds that Tyler inspires him in the bedroom as well as the studio. But they're daunted when bad memories of the past, struggles in the present, and fear for the future strain Mark and Tyler's budding relationship. As the old saying goes, the best revenge is living well-and in this case-loving well, and with that in mind, Mark and Tyler go in search of happily ever after.

Jay Starre offers up a raunchy, non-stop feast of lusty medieval adventures in his new book Erotic Tales of the Knights Templar. A prolific wizard of the gay erotic short story, Starre has written twenty tales of nasty Knights in the middle ages as they battle and debauch their way through the Latin Kingdom of the thirteenth century Holy Land. Every page sizzles with unabashed hot gay eroticism. The erotic tales are intertwined with a back story of bondage, respect, discipline and servitude. No holds barred, these tales brim with brave and masculine Knights all in search of lusty love within their brotherhood of Knights Templar. Exotic and erotic secrets of the mysterious Order are revealed as their Master, Sir Guy, leads his randy Knights through the battlefield of dungeons, initiations, bondage in captivity, and eventual victory through the power of discipline and submission. The Knights are rich in character development, and once you have read Erotic Tales of the Knights Templar, you will feel as if you know all of them personally and want to feel them in person! A must read for anyone who likes their history laced with sexual adventure. Jay Starre is a master of the genre.