A story from Boughs of Evergreen: A Holiday AnthologyHOMME FOR THE HOLIDAYSby JONATHAN PENNCade Bishop is finally on the mend from a traumatic event that happened almost five years ago. That healing didn't really start until last April, when he met Alan Troxler.Alan has problems of his own, but he's noticed over the last eight months that the more time he shares with Cade, the more easily he's able to put his troubles to rest.They're traveling togethe...

Beaten Track authors present fourteen short summer reads filled with friendship, romance and, of course, enough heat to make your ice lolly dribble.Summer Bigger Than Others takes you away to your own private island of diverse stories that will make your summer days sweet, sizzling and sexy.From relaxing on a sandy beach or hiking in the great outdoors, to nights at the opera or days at the strawberry farm, an adrenaline-shooting roller coaster rush awaits.Make this...

Charlie Perkins grew up in the middle of nowhere. His mom, the local Drama teacher, instilled in him a lifelong love of musical theater. He sings and dances, but he gave up his childhood dreams of performing professionally and got his nursing degree before moving to New York City to work in home health care.Nate Sonntag is a serious businessman. He gives his all to the success of the import/export company he inherited from his father. Working all those extra hours is also a conveni...

Paul and Asher have been together for fifteen years. They're still in love, but each is beginning to have doubts about what their future holds. Paul comes up with the brilliant idea that a week in Hawaii is the sure-fire way to reignite their dwindling spark. He's mapped out every last detail of their romantic tropical getaway. Now, if only the universe would stop screwing with his plans...Part of "Summer Bigger Than Others - A Summer Anthology" from Beaten Track Publishing.

Bobby Greenwell is a bag boy in a natural-foods grocery. He tends to be a bit timid, but Cameron Lowell, his burly construction-worker boyfriend, has been teaching him how to be more assertive.Cam is laid up with both legs in casts due to a workplace accident, and Bobby is his sole caregiver.When a homophobic skinhead breaks into their house and threatens Cam's life, all hell breaks loose. Bobby defies everything he's ever known about himself to confront the thug and hang o...

What happens when you get everything you've worked for, only to discover it's not what you really want?Dan O'Leary worked night and day to finish law school, join a top firm, and make partner all before the age of thirty-five. He's found a man who swept him off his feet, and his best friend of twenty years has his back.His growing discontent with his job has Dan considering a change, but a series of betrayals, professional and personal, lead Dan to reconsider his whole life...

A sense of duty brings a soldier home… but a passionate cowboy makes him want to stay. Love can heal the deepest wounds in this M/M cowboy and military enemies-to-lovers romance.After his brother’s tragic death, Tripp has to leave the army and return to New Mexico to take care of his mother while his father is in prison for arson. Seeking work at the J-Bar Ranch, Tripp is immediately drawn to injured cowboy Lucho Reyes, whose foot was accidentally crushed by a resc...

On the surface, Ben seems to have it all: money, influence, good looks. He smiles and jokes in all the right places, but it’s all a façade. Inside he’s a wreck, and it’s only getting worse. With his Congressman father using Ben’s recent kidnapping for his own political agenda, and Ben still struggling to get over the only guy he’s ever loved, he feels like he’s losing his grip on reality and he’s quickly spiraling out of control.Then he meets Dante, an enigma of a man with as much ...

It's all fun and games until someone puts his heart out....After being outed to his hockey team and then changing schools, Jock figures he’s due for something good—like the sex he missed out on in the closet. Toby, the hot grad student he meets at a frat party, seems like a great place to start, and their night together is an awesome introduction to the fine art of hooking up.Toby’s heart takes a bruising after the near-perfect experience with Jock leads to . . . n...

A former Marine with a past buried in blood. A forest ranger with questions that could get him killed. When the hunt begins, survival means striking first.Former Marine Recon Mackenzie "Mac" Jackson has spent years burying his past—missions erased, ghosts locked away, secrets never to be spoken. But when his old Fire Team is targeted for elimination, the past refuses to stay dead.A dangerous shift in political alliances has made one mission a liability—one ...

In TOO LATE, 15-year-old Greg is in a teen sex offenders’ facility because of an assault on his stepsister. He hates the professionals who try to help him and can’t wait to go home. When he enters a room for a meeting, his mother is there crying. Her partner, whom Greg calls Step Dude, sits at her side. They have come to tell Greg they don’t want him back. It’s too late to be good, they say. Greg comes to the crippling realization of what he has become: the father he has both hated and fea...

From subway to Broadway to happily ever after. Love in all its thrill, hilarity, and uncertainty has never been so compulsively readable as in this “fresh, modern” (Entertainment Weekly) romance from the New York Times bestselling authors of The Unhoneymooners and Love and Other Words.Marriages of convenience are so*...inconvenient.*For months Holland Bakker has invented excuses to descend into the subway station near her...