Fourteen years ago, on the banks of Craving's Creek, Ryde swore to his best friend Alistair he'd never be alone in the world. Though Alistair was destined for the priesthood, there was something beyond holy about the first kiss they shared.But a fun camping trip went horribly wrong when Alistair was involved in a horrific incident.Now, at age thirty-one, Ryde's life is a mess of alcohol and the painful imprint of his last look into Alistair's desperate eyes. Since the evil ...

Hopeless. Irresponsible. And more recently, thief. Jett can live with those epithets. After all, his father has insulted him since he was a kid. What he can't accept is losing this gift life has put on his bumpy path. Kaiden. The man who makes him want to try again.In the last few years, Kaiden went from vandal to city artist. After having spent his youth in foster care, he's developed an attraction for lost causes. That's why gorgeous, tattooed, and impossibly reckless Jett is one...

Easy-going Sebastien divides his time between working as a cleaning technician, caring for his widowed father, and running off to the park for soccer practice. Coasting through his existence, he's convinced he doesn't have much going for him.That isn't what his best friend Jack thinks. Quick-witted and passionate, Jack is fascinated by art and history, but the greatest book or painting could never compare to how he feels when he's alone with Sebastien.In the last five years...

To others, Liam Stokes is a confirmed bachelor, content with his job as a foreman and satisfied with his quiet life. Liam's friends and family don't suspect that under his calm surface a storm is gathering.Liam has had it with living a lie, but can't summon the courage to come out as gay until faith takes charge of that. One morning, his back gives out and Liam is forced into getting a massage.Inked and pierced, Kieran is a young massage therapist with a healing touch and a...

Derek O'Reilly was never good at reality. After twenty years of adulthood, he's disenchanted with his life but his husband, Chef Nick Lund, is still chasing success. Then a near-fatal motorcycle accident brings everything to a halt and opens a door to a time Derek thought he'd never experience again.As Derek sinks into a coma, his mind returns to the winter he first fell for Nick, the bad boy with arctic blue eyes. But in this coma-fantasy, Derek isn't a helpless child anymore. No ...

One thing Derek has always searched for is perfection. And in Nick's love, he thought he'd found it. But marriage is rarely perfect and Nick Lund isn't a myth, but a human being, faulted as anyone.With their relationship on the rocks, Derek faces loneliness and doubt, estranged from the man he's adored for most of his life. When he learns that he has a cousin living in the city, a young man named Myles he never knew existed, Derek seeks him out. The two men begin a beautiful friend...

A year has passed since Derek's motorcycle accident, but he still battles with brain injury symptoms. Forced to take a sick leave from work, Derek picks up painting to occupy his time. Through his art, he begins to rediscover his imagination and turns to his journal again.Meanwhile, a new business venture is on the horizon for Nick and he can't postpone his trip to Norway any longer. Concerned for Derek's safety, Nick convinces Derek that he needs someone to watch over him while he...

When fifteen-year-old Rian Mariso's family road trip to the East Coast turns into a summer of heartbreak and self-discovery, he never expects to be swept away -- literally -- by a storm and rescued by a beautiful merman with a sparkling silver tail shimmering beneath the waves.Now years later, Rian is a successful but closeted insurance salesman, haunted by memories of that secret kiss he shared with the merman whose sea blue eyes he never forgot. Though his friends pressure him, R...

Grounded and resilient, Hal has always considered himself to be an optimist, even after the great personal loss he's suffered in his life. When he meets Cory, a beautiful, charmingly annoying young man afflicted with an incurable illness, Hal believes he has what it takes to be Cory's companion. To be the one to make him laugh.But the challenge can be terrifying and Hal quickly finds support in his best friend Blair. Blair's wry sense of humor and caustic nature become Hal's safe h...

It's been eleven years since Nick ran off with David for the West Coast. And though his life resembles a blue dream, after more than a decade of bar tending in resorts and cruise ships, Nick is finally thinking of heading home. First, he needs to go see about David in Vancouver ...When he arrives, Nick finds a community of young men devastated by AIDS. Part of him wants to flee back to Montreal, but David is dying and Nick knows his place is by his best friend's side. In those four...

During Pride week, Wolfe learns the board is threatening to shut down the YBR community center. He won't let that happen, not while he's the director and responsible for everyone there. They tell him he's just a kid, but Wolfe needs to prove to everyone, especially the rich family he left behind, that he's strong enough to do the job, even after the assault he suffered back home.Smitten by the young man with the beautiful gray eyes standing at a booth on Pride Community Da...

Though his mother named him after a priest, there's nothing saintly about McGauran O'Dowd. He needs to escape the slums before he's forced into marrying his friend's sister and revealing the sin he's managed to hide so far.When McGauran gets hired as a logger by ruthless business man Gédéon Latendresse, people warn him -- the Latendresse family is cursed. Twenty years ago, Gédéon rode the witchin' canoe from the camps to the city to stop his brother's wedding. But that night, Gédéo...