In the silent film era, deaf actor Gilbert Wilton's handsome and expressive face is all he needs to be a star. As talkies start taking over the film industry, though, Gilbert's long-time partner and director leaves him. At the apex of heartbreak and a career going up in flames, Gilbert returns home one night to find his house being burgled--by his childhood best friend.Even after decades apart, Quill Phillips is as untrustworthy (and attractive) as ever. When Quill offers to do any...

Odelia Aster runs her confectionery store with pride, even though profits are now practically non-existent. The hundred-year-old store has been in Odelia's family from the invention of steamboats to the exile of magical creatures. She would do anything to protect her store and its famous candy geode recipe from the bandits now raiding the kingdom.Five years ago, Odelia married a nice noblewoman to keep the shop from going under. She cares for her wife, but it's hard to feel there i...

When librarian Tala Mendoza's best online friend quits talking to her after a disastrous mission in their favorite mafia-themed MMORPG, she's desperate to fix the rift between them. There's not much she can do when the woman she knows as DallasGlow ignores her messages. Their years-long friendship looks to be truly over until the day Tala helps a gorgeous patron at work—and recognizes the avatar in the game she's playing.---The (Virtual) Bodyguard is a complete, st...

At the height of his fame, Hollywood star Ike Irving abruptly abandoned his radio show, his home, and his loved ones. For five years, the English gentleman avoided the world, leaving the press and his friends with no answers for his disappearance. It's only in 1946, after the war has ended, that Ike returns to Hollywood. He plans to revive his radio program and recklessly hopes to reunite with the man he loves, his former radio partner.Sidney Lewis is an American actor best known f...

For 55-year-old Phil Hutton, finding a new boyfriend is tough, especially since he’s still hurting from his ex leaving him for a younger man. Online dating has been a soul-crushing experience for the restaurant owner. Too many meat-haters interested in microbreweries or something called geocaching. His matches in the multiplayer for his favorite video game have been equally sucky too.One night, he encounters a newbie who is so helpless, Phil can’t help showing him the ropes. It doe...

Colette Bell and Joni Remington live in different countries, but they "met" in a MMORPG. After a long and friendly online-only friendship, the women start to think about more than playing games together. When Colette finds herself with a free weekend away from her kids and work responsibilities, Joni suggests something fun for them to do. That afternoon, thousands of miles apart, their friendship levels up.---Longing is a sapphic erotic short story.

At thirty-five, Vincent Ezell has settled into a routine. The nonbinary bartender sleeps during the day, serves drinks at night, contemplates the mysterious pendant his biological parents left him in between, and (most importantly) avoids dating coworkers. It's isolating, but anything is better than getting ghosted again—at least, he clings to this belief until his hot new coworker melts the walls guarding his fragile heart.Kit Clayton has broken ties with his morally bankrupt fami...

As a nineteen-year-old, Sorrel Jones had hooked up with the hottest, most unforgettable woman twenty years their senior, but she hadn't been interested in a relationship with someone so young. Six years later, when they find Eileen Bowers's online dating profile, they are quick to message her in an attempt to finally win her heart. The only thing that seems to be on Eileen's mind is buying a new couch, but it doesn't take long to figure out that shopping is foreplay for the older woman see...

Harrison Hamilton rarely takes risks in his everyday life. Raising a kid by himself has required him to be extra careful at his construction job and with his heart. But with his child off at university, only two hamsters to keep him company at home, and Valentine’s Day looming around the corner, the lonely Canadian dad is ready to take a risk in the world of online dating.When he matches with a ludicrously attractive guy named Lazlo who is eager to go out with him, Harrison can har...

It was Sadie Reynolds’s dream to leave her small town behind and drink in the exciting life that New York City offered with her best friend at her side. Now it’s 1932, Sadie’s rich and has a career in radio, and she’s miserable. She’s married to a cheating comedian, the wealthy elite of Fifth Avenue think she’s a gold digger, and Clara Prescott has been dead for nine years.As Christmas draws near, Sadie prepares for another year of pretending to be someone she’s not. Her plans get ...

Mollie Bennett plans every detail of her life, but somewhere along the way, life stopped following her plans. Recently divorced and left to raise her young son alone, nothing about her forties is the way she thought it would be. And her unplanned life becomes more unpredictable when she discovers the hot, single dad next door is actually a demon.Nuit is blunt with a bad habit of talking over people and lets his son run around without a coat in subzero temperatures. Total opposite o...

As a single mother working two jobs, Heidi Murphy can barely keep her head above water on the best of days. When her full-time job fires her and her kids get in trouble at school, Heidi begins to drown in stress. She needs help--and help arrives in the form of a QR code that summons an unexpected visitor.Heidi’s world gets turned upside down when she meets Drystan, a demon from another realm. Upside down in this case, however, is for the better since Drystan is supposed to bring he...