When Gray Fox sets out by canoe to visit Elk Horn, his childhood friend and secret crush, mysterious forces strand him on a terrifying hunk of ebony rock known as Black Island. During the dark, cold night, a strangely androgynous being seduces the young virgin. In the midst of his passion, the creature shifts into a comely youth, shocking the naïve young man. He can hardly wait to tell Elk Horn about the experience. But does he dare?A story from the Dreamspinner Press 2016 Dail...

When vacationing Denver architect Roger Mackie rolls into a quaint old trading post in Montana's Bitterroot Mountain Range to gas up his car, it's the start of a life-changing journey. Lean, handsome Chippewa Johnny Two-Guns is looking for a ride. He's on a mission to recover some clan treasures. Roger is immediately smitten and drives Johnny all the way to Arizona.Although the two successfully build a friendship, Roger is unable to initiate the intimacy they both seem to desire. A...

When lighting technician Jarrod Gray watches from the catwalks as the star of Casa Verde College's first production of the year goes all the way with a girl, that star -- a football jock, no less -- comes looking for revenge and takes it in a way that surprises both of them. Rick's retribution confirms for Jarrod who he is but confuses the hell out of the jock.The following year, it's the set director who catches Jarrod's attention. Thereafter, he finds all different sorts to seduce...

In this anthology, best-selling gay romance author Mark Wildyr lets his imagination run away with him. Eighteen short stories span his eclectic tastes, ranging from light to dark, from humorous to the disastrous.You'll meet a transformed elf exiled from Odin's heaven, a World War II prisoner of way, a jealous killer, high school footballs players, vampires, ordinary insecure joes, and more.Steamy and suggestive, this anthology is a feast of tastes.

When Curt Huntinghawk, a twenty-two-year-old Northern Plains Indian, hooks up with the Colorados Rezagados, a group of Southwestern tribesmen contracted by the US Border Patrol to hunt drug runners along the Mexican border, he recognizes it's a necessary move to save himself from a life of alcoholism, but he has no idea he'll turn out to be one of the best at his new profession. Dangerous? Yeah, but it's as close to living the life of a warrior as he can find, and that restores his self-re...

Thirty-two-year-old mixed blood John Strobaw, known to the Sioux as Medicine Hair, returns to his Turtle Crick Farm after a six-year exile on the Pine Ridge Reservation. Grief-stricken at the loss of his mate and lover Matthew Brand, known as Shambling Bear, at the Battle of Wounded Knee, he struggles to become a farmer again while fighting an internal battle to let go of the past and face his future. Will that future be with his best friend Winter Bird or with Pretty Face, an outrageous f...

Take an irresponsible, hard-drinking womanizer and dump him into the middle of a logging crew, and it's a recipe for disaster.Charlie Blackbear is already a near-legend in his little corner of the world. The size of his package has been the subject of whispers since he was a lad and his sexual conquests the stuff of legends.When he wakes up drunk in a motel room with a man going down on him, he shrugs it off and goes right back to chasing women. Charlie accepts a job with a...

This anthology debuts twenty gay short stories by accomplished novelist Mark Wildyr.Among the stories is an altercation with an outlaw biker's club, a ghost haunting the dream world of an art restorer, and a soldier's unexpected bus ride of a lifetime. A protective guide dog leads his blind handler to the perfect human companion, and a western movie star introduces a young projectionist to a different kind of life. A tattoo artist strikes a bargain with a new client, a valet serves ...

In this anthology, Mark Wildyr introduces Gabacho, an itinerant Texas cowboy who likes to travel on horseback. Born Gary James Hawthorne and dubbed Gabacho when he ventures south of the border is a womanizer who is introduced to something different. And you know what? He sorta likes it.Across nineteen stories, Gabacho explores the ribald, the serious, the occult. At the core of each story is love -- hopeless love, successful love, love that fails. There are chance encounters and pl...

In this follow-up to Wildyr Tales, twenty-three gay romance stories introduce a wide variety of characters, some who have no idea who they are and have a ribald time in discovering the answer.You'll meet military gays, one who has paid a penalty for serving his country but carries on nonetheless. A young man told from early adolescence he is worthless struggles to disprove that to himself. An alien haunts a man's house and spies on his dalliances between the sheets. A dyin...

Young William "Wilum" Greyhorse carves small animals and toys for his younger sisters as a method of coping with alcoholic parents and physical abuse. With the growing estrangement from his family, he is shaken by the increasingly powerful feeling that he is different.The day he meets Jason Bedford in an Albuquerque park, the Native American youth's unexplained yearnings blaze into outright desire. Jason, a successful Anglo artist, likewise exposes him to a different, heretofore uni...

The August 1883 eruptions of Krakatoa took place half a world away from North America's Dakota Territory. Yet, John Strobaw's explanation to his Lakota kinsmen of the atmospheric anomalies caused by those cataclysmic explosions secured his reputation as a shaman. That plus his strange black scalp dotted with strands of his mother's yellow hair, earned him the name Medicine Hair.The Cut Hand saga continues as John and his mate, Matthew Brandt, struggle to bridge two worlds. Matthew,...