[close] Award-winning and best-selling author M. L. Rhodes takes you on a journey with two very different couples who discover a passion and love that will change their lives forever. Couplings, which combines her two gay novellas The Professor's Secret Passion and Souls Deep, both previously available only in electronic format, is for readers who like their man-love stories emotional, adventurous, detailed, and sinfully hot! Included are the tales......The Professor's Secret Passion (Professor Aidan Sheridan has secretly fantasized about his grad student, Nathan Turner, for two long years. And now Nathan's hinting he's ready to take their relationship to a more intimate level. Although Aidan longs to claim Nate as his lover, he's afraid of the consequences should he give into his desire. But when Nate suspects Aidan's hiding his real feelings, he takes matters into his own hands, and their long pent-up passion explodes into a night of erotic intensity).......Souls Deep (Griffin Jacobs psychic abilities have become a threat to his politically powerful family. When their hired assassins finally track him down, his life is saved by a mysterious man named Jarrah. Griffin senses a dangerous undercurrent in his rescuer, as if he's not quite human. Yet Griffin's inexplicably drawn to him. Jarrah stirs an erotic, soul-deep desire in Griffin that goes against everything he's ever believed about himself. But can he follows his heart and give himself over, body and soul, to a creature of the night?) [close]