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Now available: When It All Falls Down

Maybe Charlie should have waited until he graduated high school before coming out, because since that revelation there’s been a growing distance between him and his friends. Charlie’s tough, though. He doesn’t mind eating lunch alone or watching his former gang interact with their new best buddy. What he does mind is seeing Drew Lavoitt suffer the same fate.

Drew didn’t come out. As far as he, or anyone else knows, he’s straight. What Drew did is accidentally hit and kill a little girl. Now the boy who was voted Most Popular, and who Charlie has maybe had a crush on since eighth grade, faces financial ruin, expulsion, and the fear that if he’s not everything, he’s not enough.

Popularity, wealth, acclaim—these things are easily lost. In each other’s arms, Drew and Charlie find something that can’t be taken from them. Together the two build a foundation on which they can re-create their lives.

Available now on Amazon in paperwork on for Kindle, including Kindle Unlimited

Author Interview of Me!

Author Lexi Miles interviewed me for her blog. See the fun result here:

Coming Soon: Aftercare

Meet Aayan. His brother just got arrested for murdering his submissive. Aayan didn’t even know Syed was part of the BDSM scene, but he knows Syed didn’t murder anyone. Aayan needs to hire an attorney who’ll make sure his brother is found innocent, and he’s got the perfect man in mind.

 

Garrett is a high-powered defense attorney and a submissive himself. At least, he used to be. Since his husband and Dom died, he’s mostly just an empty shell. He handles routine cases. He keeps to himself. He drinks too much. He’s got no interest in defending a murder charge, and he’s got no interest in getting involved with someone who thinks BDSM is sick and wrong.

But Aayan awakens all the hungers that have lain dormant in Garrett for too long. Syed needs an attorney, Garrett needs to get laid, and Aayan needs to come to terms with the dueling desires Garrett raises in him: to protect and to crush; to love and to harm.

Aftercare is a M/M BDSM novel, coming this summer.

Stealing Serenity by Tami Veldura

Stealing Serenity tells the story of an art thief falling under the spell of a man who was only meant to be the means to his end. It’s a bondage story. There’s no sadomasochism and there’s very little that some people would define as sex (I’ve seen the complaining reviews!) but to me, this was sex personified, even though bondage isn’t usually my kink.

The sheer desire in this story was startling. The spell that falls over the main character is brilliantly woven.  The chemistry between the two characters leaps off the page. Best of all, the author painted this compelling picture without resorting to a single cliche or trope. Stealing Serenity doesn’t borrow its heat level from predictable phrases and scenarios guaranteed to push buttons. It builds its own heat from scratch and the result is scorching.

Owned

Liam should never have sassed his best friend Kurt’s father that way, not when he knows how discipline is handled in the Santino household. Now Liam’s got two problems: Mr. Santino’s belt and Kurt’s bare hand. Or rather, he’s got one problem: the fact that all this old-fashioned discipline is making him hornier than hell.

Kurt’s determined to make Liam stop perving on his dad. Liam just needs one more punishment. Can the two college students work out an arrangement that satisfies all their desires?

This short story (approximately 15,000 words) features lots of spankings with various implements and a HEA ending.

Omega Reclaimed

“Of course I smelled him—smelled him and was drawn to him. Rich, ripe, male omega—not far away and well into his heat. Unsatisfied heat. I laughed, realizing that in this moment, at least, the omega was the boss of the alpha. I needed to help him.”

Angel, an alpha who’s left the violent, strictly hierarchical rules of his pack to find success in the big city, and Leo, an omega on the run from his abusive alpha, are thrust together to satisfy Leo’s urgent heat-lust. But can a once-hurt omega ever trust an alpha to care for and protect him again? And can an alpha sensitive to social injustice learn to enjoy his naturally dominant nature?

Angel and Leo must both face the pasts they ran away from before the two can build a new future together. They may not be able to change the laws of nature, but they can change the language of love.

Omega Reclaimed is a MM alpha/omega shapeshifter novella.

For Real by Alexis Hall

For Real by Alexis Hall forges new ground in the M/M BDSM genre. There are no stereotypes here. As a romance alone, For Real is a beautiful read. In the BDSM arena, it’s playful, original, and seriously hot. On top of all that, this book is a literary masterpiece. The alternating POVs need no chapter headings for the reader to tell them apart. Each character has a unique, unmistakable voice.

You may not get all the literary and political references that are embedded in this book–I didn’t–but the story is understandable without getting them and the ones I did get added such dimension to the writing. After several re-readings, I’ve ended up looking up everything I didn’t get the first time. That’s how entrancing I found this writing.

Worth a read on every level!

Coming Soon: My Guys

What happens when Happily-Ever-After ends?

When Melissa’s husband tells her he doesn’t think they should be married anymore—never mind fourteen years of marriage and the baby they’re trying to conceive—she sets out on a journey to answer that question. On the road to becoming Lissie, a woman with a life outside of husband and home, she finds two younger men: Derek, a shy rock climber, and Nate, a polyamorous actor. With their help she explores the exciting, new worlds of climbing and theater, not to mention her own sexuality.

My Guys embraces a vision of women as fully actuated beings responsible for their own destiny as Lissie accepts her share of responsibility for the failure of her marriage and becomes more expansive, more active, more interesting, and more interested. She’s building a new life without Alex, but what’s she supposed to do about the fact that she still loves him?

Coming Soon: My Guys

What happens when Happily-Ever-After ends? When Melissa’s husband tells her he doesn’t think they should be married anymore—never mind fourteen years of marriage and the baby they’re trying to conceive—she sets out on a journey to answer that question. On the road to becoming Lissie, a woman with a life outside of husband and home, she finds two younger men: Derek, a shy rock climber, and Nate, a polyamorous actor. With their help she explores the exciting, new worlds of climbing and theater, not to mention her own sexuality. 

My Guys embraces a vision of women as fully actuated beings responsible for their own destiny as Lissie accepts her share of responsibility for the failure of her marriage and becomes more expansive, more active, more interesting, and more interested. She’s building a new life without Alex, but what’s she supposed to do about the fact that she still loves him?

Now Available: Three by Three: Threesomes, Three Ways

Three by Three, my collection of short stories about threesomes, is now available on Amazon Kindle.
There's more than one way to have a threesome. Three by Three features three very different threeways.

Assimilated: Callie didn’t intend to answer an online ad from two young men looking for a woman to share, but she did. Pax and Braylin couldn’t possibly want someone like her, average looking and past her prime, but they did. A threesome was only a fantasy, never meant to really happen. But it did.

The New Guy: Now that Elliott has finally admitted he’s gay, his roommate Mike is going to make sure he gets what he’s been longing for. That’s why he brought Gannon home. It’s not at all because he wants Gannon for himself.

Fixation: Tia’s feeling very Cinderella since giving up on her art career and moving across the country. Then Grant and Jeremy invite her to the ball. Then Grant and Jeremy invite her to their bed. But can Grant really share Jeremy with a woman? And what if Tia can’t resist the lure of Grant’s fixation?

Bonus Quickie: Dmitry and Adam are best friends, and if weren’t for Dmitry’s girlfriend, Sara, they’d never be anything more. But Sara has something more than a burning need to watch her boyfriend and his best friend together—she has a plan.

Approximately 36,000 words. Features explicit sex, including male-female and male-male pairings. Intended for mature audiences only.