A year ago, Rafael Vasquez fell for his ultimate porn crush, Jean Locke Holmes. Since then, the two have moved in together and film viral content, all while Raf navigates what it means to love a man the world still fantasizes about.Now a major studio has invited them to a lavish villa in the Virgin Islands to star in its newest venture: DILF Island—an XXX-rated reality show. Twelve gay porn stars, Twinks vs. Daddies. One mansion. Cash prize. Two weeks of nonstop filming. And absolu...

Summer is coming, school is almost out, and Deeks Bogart just wants to make it through one more year in his tiny Southern town. Being one of the only Black students is hard enough—being secretly gay is even harder. But when local teens start dying in brutal, supernatural ways, Deeks realizes he's not the only one hiding dangerous secrets.Whispers of Bloody Mary stalk the halls and mirrors of O'Khata Lake High. Victims share one thing in common: they were a...

For Rafael, the hits keep coming—losing his job, quarantine lockdown, bills piling up, and now…dumped by his boyfriend.When a bad day seems only destined to get worse, something finally goes right. Retired porn legend Jean Locke Holmes stops by the used bookstore where Rafael managed to pick up a few hours. This is a man Rafael idolizes and has had many dirty fantasies about. Shockingly, Holmes seems to take a liking to Rafael. Sparks soon fly between the two men.But sparks...

Anyone who grew up in the small town of Normal has heard of old Milholland Place. Crispin Galloway certainly has. He's lived next door to the haunted house for years.It's now 1997 and a new family is renting the creepy old house. Crispin isn't putting money on them sticking around for very long. Nobody who rents the Milholland Place ever does. He certainly has no intention of going over there himself. After all, he's got enough on his mind, what with having a sexual awakening and c...

Dating a porn star comes with certain expectations, especially when one's relationship remains somewhat in the limelight. More than once, Rafael Vásquez has been asked via social media if his porn legend hunk of a boyfriend, Jean Locke Holmes, will ever come out of retirement. Holmes seems content to live out a life of leisure with Raf, however, focusing on their relationship and the occasional baffling murder case that comes their way.That is, until a chance encounter with Holmes'...

It's a brand-new day for Rafael Vásquez. Sure, his ex-boyfriend tried to kill him, but all of that led to an extraordinary new life with his porn crush—and amateur sleuth—Jean Locke Holmes.When word trickles down of a week-long Halloween party at the newest gay bathhouse in the Castro, it's not long before Holmes smells something odd about. Their room at the bathhouse is vandalized. Raf finds himself shedding far more than his inhibitions when he is hired to replace a dancer who di...

Fifty years is a long time to spend without a home, but Liam Barthélémy still looks hardly a day over twenty-one. Liam is one of the faer—beings of the forest known as "fair folk".Liam makes his money doing what he does best: using his body to tempt mortals away from their wallets. Beguiling as any knavish sprite, he uses a mixture of temptation and glamour to pry lonely tourists away from their cash. Then, he lures the men to his bed for a night of unbridled passion in order to st...

Yamada Jiro is a twenty-one year old Japanese-American who, on a whim, travels with his best friend, Dexter, to his father's native country of Japan. After a mishap with their hotel reservations––and losing their money and luggage––Jiro finds himself facing uncertainty and the unknown when Dexter is kidnapped by an urban legend.Armed with a cell phone app, which he got from a man dressed in purple at a game center, Jiro must seek out and banish the restless spirits that have been p...

At the end, when the last star dies and the cold begins to seep in, what will be the totality of our accomplishments? What will have been the point? And will anyone notice that we're gone? If the true terror at the center of cosmic horror is the vast indifference the universe has for us, does that mean the closest thing we have to any sort of compassionate connection is . . . our cats? Ah, we may be doomed.But, in the interim, perhaps there may still be some spark that can illumina...

Technology for modifying the genotypes and phenotypes of insects and other arthropods has steadily progressed with the development of more precise and powerful methods, most prominently transgenic modification. For many insect pests, there is now almost unlimited ability to modify phenotypes to benefit human health and agriculture. Precise DNA modifications and gene drive have the power to make wild-type populations less harmful in ways that could never have been performed with previous tr...