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In post WW II Germany, the aristocratic Von Ornstein family has fallen on hard times. Countess Von Ornstein can't maintain her castle, but things begin to look up with the arrival of a handsome, young footman who apparently can do anything, and will, to gain his goal of becoming a member of the family. Konrad (York), an opportunist in Lederhosen, descends upon the 100-year-old Bavarian castle and proceeds to infiltrate everyone's bedroom. He becomes...

Sky needs breathing room. Keeping a photographer on a short leash is, in her opinion, an act of cruelty. Fleeing Florida and landing in Hokkaido might just be the act that saves her sanity, even if it dooms her romantically. Yuki wishes to leave Japan. Not forever, but to at least travel the world for a while with a lover at her side. The hard part is figuring out how a being of ice and snow can survive outside of Hokkaido's winters. Nyssa needs to...

Isabel meets Derek at exactly the wrong time… or is it exactly right? A slow burn, hurt-comfort bisexual romance.Freelance editor Isabel needs a refund on this sucky year. Her blackmailing ex-boyfriend is threatening to tell her bigoted family she's bisexual, and she's running on fumes trying to meet his demands. Sadly, she hasn't invented time travel to un-make the mistake of trusting her ex that created this mess.Derek is an out bisexual man with...

Mayson and Renée are best friends. Two women who've known each other for a lifetime and are as different as they are close. Mayson is a free-spirited and out lesbian, and very much desired in her Southern California queer community. Renée, straight and sheltered, is just getting out of a difficult divorce and searching for an escape from her pain.While Mayson slips in and out of affairs, taking pleasure where it bites the sweetest, Renée steps...

A fledgling vampire needs a seasoned mentor to help him hone his homicidal instincts. The scent of blood is both an incentive for murder, and a potent aphrodisiac…opposites attract.In the present, rock star Raiden and his reluctant sidekick, celebrity actor Gabriel Colin, encounter various challenges while attempting to conceal their criminal activities. Their shared proclivities provide fodder for the potential formation of a bond beyond necessity.Stalking...

In 1986, two boys cross paths at Griffwood Manor, a rehabilitation center for troubled youth. While their bond grows, something is watching. Lurking. Waiting. 20 years later, Sonya Frost, a lost girl who found trouble, is enrolled in Griffwood Manor, now under new management. She thought it would be easy. She thought she found the place to change herself for the better with the help of the nuns. However, one of the sisters is different. One of them...

The Wild Claw Pack had called for their sister packs to join them. The war against Ettore was ramping up and they needed all the allies they could get. Despite having the gods on their side, they would still need army members. Fenris was ready. He was itching for this war to come to an end. He hated Ettore, just like everyone else in the Wild Claw Pack. He wanted to see that bastard rotting in hell. Boyd and Estesius were the head alphas of the...

A gay guy with the most accurate gaydar meets someone whom he can't see through; a straight guy who loses memory thinks he is gay and firmly believes that he has a boyfriend; a sad man who loses his husband encounters some unexplainable phenomenon, which makes him believe that his dead husband comes back in a peculiar way… This is a collection of ten individual stories with certain connections at the end. It tells tales that are queer and bizarre,...

A gay couple meeting after their nightshift on the rooftop of their workplace, a genderfluid teen getting their first experience of make-up, a trans woman receiving her new birth certificate, a gay man protecting a young man from a creep, a bi woman coming home to her ace husband after a 'night out', an intersex demiguy meeting his old college friend after a decade apart, a nonbinary person falling sick and being nursed by their friend... This collection...

"If he could keep Avery's eyes on him, just for a few moments, he'd give up everything he had." It's a deal he didn't mean to take. It's a deal he had no intention of making, but Avery realizes that being the kept man of millionaire Alejandro Santos isn't too good to be true. He will, in fact, have every material thing he could ever want. The only catch is Alejandro's single rule: be there when Alejandro asks for him. Oh, and there's one other...