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Jake Riley is famous for all the wrong reasons. First came Love on Ice, the reality show where editing turned him into a national punchline in a sequined jersey. Then his self-produced hockey rap, “Puck Life,” went viral in the worst possible way. Now he’s hoping Thunder Bay, Ontario—a scrappy northern town with a fiercely loyal fanbase—might be...

He talks people off the ledge, but when the danger turns personal, he’s forced to face the one thing he’s never been able to handle—himself.

As a crisis counselor, Miles McCabe is calm under pressure, fluent in other people’s trauma, and pretty damn good at pretending he has his own life together.

Sarcasm helps. But when a chilling voicemail lands...

Preorder now - Release date July 16, 2025.

I didn’t know his name yet, but I knew the sound he made when he came.

Michael McCabe doesn’t take vacations—especially not after nearly losing his brother to a psychotic arsonist. But when an explosion rocks his enforced getaway in Tahiti, the off-duty SWAT officer is pulled into a crisis that smells like more than bad luck.

Alex Kessler came to...

Some fires can’t be contained. Some obsessions never burn out.

Firefighter Marcus McCabe knows fire. He knows its hunger, its unpredictability, the way it takes without mercy. But nothing has ever felt as dangerous as the man watching him from the flames.

When a series of arsons turns personal, Marcus is forced to work with James Reynolds, a...

Preorder Now - Release date June 18, 2025.

Silas Brewster has made peace with solitude. Running Tidal Grounds, Whistleport’s favorite coffee shop, he’s the guy with the perfect latte art, the best small-town gossip, and the occasional poem that lingers long after open mic night. Love? He’s long since retired from that game.

But love has a way of sneaking in through the back door. It...

After his first year at the University of Maine, Ziggy Knickerbocker returns to the small town of Whistleport, Maine, where he was once the hometown hockey hero. Now a literature major and aspiring poet, Ziggy is ready for a summer of reflection and a break from the pressures of college life. But when an unexpected heatwave strikes, the town’s...

NHL star Brooks Bennett is at the peak of his hockey career when his widower father experiences a life-threatening health crisis. As an only child, he decides to go out on top, leave hockey, and return to his lobstering hometown of Whistleport, Maine, to care for the man who inspired his hockey dreams.

When he arrives in Whistleport, Brooks is...

Holden Harlow is 25, perpetually sunny, and in search of beauty wherever he lands. A transplant from Portland, Oregon, he’s found a new life in Blue Harbor: a job working with Parker Williams on his blog Tales of Blue Harbor and the chance to care for his ailing grandfather. With a camera always at hand and a ritual of snapping three Polaroid...

Billionaire tech genius Ronan Gallagher is a master of algorithms, but a hopeless nerd in matters of the heart. When a mysterious safe-deposit box in Blue Harbor drags him away from his code, he doesn’t expect to meet Tyler, a charming history teacher and baseball coach. Tyler’s life has revolved around coaching and teaching, especially after...

When Rafe fled to the Lake Michigan coastal town of Blue Harbor, he was seeking a refuge from the toxic relationship that had left him emotionally shattered. Little did he know that amid the charming streets and soothing lake breeze, he would find not only healing but also an unexpected second chance at love.

Theo, a local artist grappling with...

Childhood best friends, gay Parker and straight Cole have always shared a close summertime bond in their Great Lakes coastal town, Blue Harbor. When a newly confident Parker returns home from his first year in college more handsome than ever, simmering attractions spark into something neither expected.

Seeking relief from nosy observers, Cole...

In 2024, Dylan Mercer is a rising star of professional hockey, adored by fans and unmatched on the ice. Yet beneath the glitz of his burgeoning career lies a truth Dylan fears could derail everything: he’s gay in a world where he fears coming out could mean the end of his career. After a tough game, Dylan’s discovery of a pair of vintage skates...

Looking for a new story, best friends Connor and Seth, investigative journalists with concealed identities, are drawn to Garfield Island’s hot new couples retreat “Love’s Lighthouse.” Posing as a committed couple, they aim to unravel the secrets of the retreat program. But, as the island’s rocky shores and moonlit dances weave their magic, the...

When the ferry captain, Jack Larson, locks eyes with a familiar passenger aboard the Garfield Island ferry, his heart skips a beat. It’s Alex Bennett, the love he’d never forgotten after a heart-wrenching breakup five years earlier.

As fate would have it, Alex is back on the island for a writers’ retreat, and the magnetic pull between them is...

Martin Robertson and Andrew, “the Animal,” Anderson had been friends since childhood until Martin accidentally caught the bouquet at a mutual friend’s wedding. A fateful slow dance together suddenly made them think there could be more. Unfortunately, Martin has been hurt badly in the past and it is a sharp barrier to intimacy for the pair.

As...

40-year-old Nathan Woodhouse’s life has been on pause since his beloved wife, Gayle, died nine months ago in a plane crash. In the aftermath he still grapples with his bisexuality that he’d hidden away since his teen years. To say goodbye to Garfield Island where Gayle grew up, Nathan visits her burial site and old friends and family.

In a...

Under the glowing Christmas lights of Yuletide Valley, a romance as magical as the holiday season itself is sparking between two strangers brought together by fate - and their peculiar last names.

Raised under the glowing lights of Yuletide Valley, grumpy Chris Kringelheimer, now an L.A. resident, wants nothing to do with the Santa legacy left...

Baseball pitcher Buck Grimshaw was on top of the world. At least it looked that way from an outside view. He was enjoying his best season yet, and he had plans to marry. Suddenly, the roof caved in. His pitching fell apart, and his lover walked out. Buck wanted to disappear from the entire world until Evergreen Canyon called him back.

Vince...

Les and Sly embark on separate holiday road trips from Phoenix back home to Chicago. Neither knows that the magic of the season will intervene to make them lovers by the time the parallel journeys are over.

Both Les and Sly are still aching from recent breakups, and they vow to avoid romantic entanglements for the foreseeable future. Fate has...

After a regrettable one-night stand, Logan seeks solace in the quiet routine of his morning. But while brushing his teeth, he’s confronted by a stranger’s reflection in his bathroom mirror: Ben. He’s a playful, mischievous ghost tethered to the apartment building where Logan resides.

Ben has made an annual Halloween tradition out of choosing a...

Five years ago on Halloween, Jake Harmon’s partner, Dylan, perished when he wrapped his car around a steadfast maple tree. Each year, Jake makes a week-long pilgrimage to Dylan’s hometown of Port Timothy, Maine, hoping to ease some of the pain.

On his fifth annual trip, Jake finds his bed and breakfast host, Patrick O’Hare, impossibly...

Honorary Sanderson brother, Marco Abrams, reunites with Ryder Thompson in a “second chance for the ages” as Marco sees it.

Marco, best friend of Matthew Sanderson, broke off a whirlwind New York City relationship with Ryder at the top of the Empire State Building before returning home to Madison, Wisconsin. When he finds out Ryder will be...

Matthew, the youngest of four brothers in the Sanderson clan, feels invisible in a family of local celebrities. Known only as “the tall, skinny one,” Matthew’s the brainiest of the bunch and signs on to help conduct a research project led by a tyrannical, but well-known, professor as a short track to fame and fortune in his field.

Soon, Matthew...

Honorary Sanderson brother, Pete Larson, can count the number of men who’ve made him feel something—down there—on one hand. Now, the first one who made him feel that way, top-flight jazz trumpeter Logan Weber, is back in town, and Pete can’t get him out of his mind. Logan is into Pete, too, but neither one has a place in their lives for romance....

Jared Sanderson has spent his life wanting to be a hero. That’s why he became a cop. It was a life that kept him busy and organized without any worry about long-term romantic relationships. Those were best left to his three brothers. Life was simple until Jared nipped his old high school friend, Quinn, at the Fun Run finish line.

Quinn Martin...

Noah Sanderson is the oldest brother in a family of four - three gay, and one straight - living in the small town of Lincolnport. He’s about to have his younger brother’s wedding, the 10th anniversary of his parents’ tragic death, and the return to town of his first love, Callum, collide in what feels like a terrifying recipe for disaster. All...

According to legend, when two people kiss on Brazen Bridge in the woods near Crystal Lake, their hearts are united for eternity. College student Tony kissed apprentice forest ranger Jude on the bridge on a dare. They both felt something magical, but afterward, they followed their separate life paths. Eight years later, Tony has returned to the...

Jackson’s life is going nowhere but downhill - his best friend has died, he walked out of his job, and the end of his first novel is nowhere in sight. He meets Cane, the potential man of his dreams, but unfortunately, Cane is straight, he’s sworn off relationships, and the love of Cane’s life isn’t even human - it’s a B&B called the Crystal...

Travis Kent is the average Joe of Willow Springs. Great friends, a steady job, and–well, he made peace with a lacking love life a long time ago. Everything changes when Travis is the victim of theft and the very new, very young police chief shows up at his door. Eli Rogers left the big city and his past behind. He may be young, but he’s...

Mitch Aiken serves up authentic small-town comfort food in Willow Springs’ South Main diner. Willow Springs is the kind of town where you hunt mushrooms in May while trying to avoid poison ivy. Mitch dominates the local food scene until young upstart Tanner Gentry arrives from Chicago to prove small-town foodies are aching for a contemporary...

“He had a slightly lopsided smile and a small scar on his forehead from a childhood accident. He was the man who shattered my soul into a thousand pieces.” Ten years later, Kenneth is back with his entrancing crooked smile. Can Daniel open his vulnerable heart enough to allow a second chance?

Daniel Cummings, the co-owner of the Match Made...

Finn Weston is an accidental TV action star. After an astonishing rise to the top, he has everything, except a partner who knows the real Finn and not only his onscreen alter ego. Finn wants his first man, and he wants a perfect one, handsome, intelligent, and sexy, who’s also culturally out of touch. The Match Made matchmaking service has found...

From the outside, self-described computer programming geek Blake Moss is a straight, happy-go-lucky partner in the rising gay matchmaking company, Match Made. On the inside, the facade he’s built since a traumatic breakup nearly a decade ago is starting to crack.

Hunter Schultz, former football jock, is still licking his wounds only months after...

Hot-shot lawyer Hank Donovan and motorcycle maintenance man Lucas Dean were hopelessly mismatched until a lakeside kiss, a death in the family, and a little girl named Jasmine turned their world upside down.

Lucas Dean, owner of Cycle Shift, a motorcycle maintenance and second-hand shop, wants a match who’s as much of a free-spirit as he is, and...

Is winning everything when it comes to your heart?

Jamie Matheson, one of five Matheson brothers, is the only one left who hasn’t found his perfect life partner, and the future prospects don’t look good. Still, he’s a Matheson, and he can’t let his doubts show. He charges into his company’s annual advertising campaign competition with bravado to...

Benji needs a new home, and Jax needs a new hero.

For southern California native Benji Matheson, moving to Boston for graduate school was a great idea on paper. He joined one of the most prestigious academic departments in the world of artificial intelligence and robotics. Unfortunately, that meant abandoning his large family and living in a...

In the most unlikely of places, a party in Manhattan, Tate found his cowboy, the hero of his dreams—at least it was a handsome man dressed up as a cowboy. Unfortunately, Tate’s lasso failed, the cowboy escaped, and he found out that forever would require a second chance.

Tate, the second son of the large Matheson clan, moved to New York City from...

For Mason Matheson, being first-born into a large, prosperous family meant the responsibility to compete to be first in many ways. When Kyle Greene, a childhood friend of Mason and his family, decides its time to broaden his horizons and experiment with men, Mason is determined to be Kyle’s “first.”

Mason began the week shoehorned into a minivan...

In their battle against post-retirement weight gain, a former football star and a former hockey star meet in a hush-hush counseling group for celebrities.

The third time’s a charm. It has to be when you get a second try at a second chance.

Baseball brought Andy and Zane together for the first time eight years ago in San Antonio, Texas. Neither played the game, but instead, they cheered for the big league RoadRunners dancing on top of the dugout and shooting T-Shirts into the crowd. After two...

There are plenty of firsts for a big league baseball player. There’s the first time up to bat. There’s the first time you hit a home run, and there’s the first time you go to bed with a man.

Eric’s team, the Charlotte Yellowjackets, has experienced the coming out of two players and a coach all in one season. Romance fever has gripped the fans,...

“Never have sex with the boss!” Chase’s sister Celia shouted the words with the extra emphasis only personal experience could provide. Fortunately, Chase’s situation was different. He was saying goodbye to the minor leagues, and he was unlikely to see his manager regularly ever again, much less play baseball for him. The opportunity to go to bed...

It was the summer that changed my life forever.

When I somehow won the golden ticket to a summer spent working for world-famous author Thomas Albertson, I expected him to be a boss and possibly even become my mentor, I didn’t expect he’d become my Master. I didn’t expect the skeletons rattling in his closet either.

I’m Joel Buckley, I’m a Ph.D....

Jordi never felt his heart soar until he stumbled upon the performance of a figure skater dressed all in black wowing crowds in Chicago on a magical day after Christmas. Their first meeting ended with a kiss that turned Jordi’s world upside down causing him to question everything about his attractions to both women and men. Was it obsession?...

Speed skating, hockey, and romance.

James no longer believed in miracles. Particularly not on the ice. Not after a family tragedy in the midst of an ice storm. Then an elegant, nameless vision skated past him and challenged him to a race. They raced two times splitting the victories, and then four thousand miles of land and ocean put a gaping...

“Seriously, he’s a keeper. Trust me on that.”

25-year-old Daniel has two primary concerns in life. They are acting and writing, in that order. Until he lands a role kissing brawny, burly local Milwaukee theater veteran Stanley onstage. It causes a sensation and leads to sold-out audiences for the show. Daniel is soon known as the straight guy...

“We could pretend I’m your husband.”

Alex only needed a place to crash for two or at the most three weeks while he licked his wounds from the end of a bad relationship and found a full-time job to get back on his feet. Liam was more than generous offering room and board in exchange for regular dog walking and home maintenance.

It all seemed so...

Trent Derringer grew up trained to be a baseball warrior. Obsessed with the game by the age of six, he escaped the troubled world around him by focusing on bat, glove, and ball. Trent was a knight leading his team into battle -- bold, valiant, gallant, and single.

Then he met sports reporter Drew Early. Trent’s manager instructed him in rule #1...

Can a May-December romance provide a young teacher with a solution to his bad luck dating crass and shallow men his own age? And if so, how can he find the man that stirs his heart, body, and mind?

For second-year high school math teacher Jordan Vaughan, that man might just be Marshall Easterling, the 46-year-old left fielder for gay softball...

“You know, I waited for you.”

Lowell Baker is convinced that life is random at best, and good things rarely triumph in the end, but that doesn’t mean that life excludes exhilarating moments, like the one when Sven literally knocked him off his feet and landed sprawled across his body face-to-face and almost mouth-to-mouth. Those moments just...

As he stood on third base, leaning toward home, ready to score, Reggie Wolf couldn’t believe what he heard from the third baseman. “After the game…you and me alone…drinks.” Reggie wasn’t a stranger to first dates. He had a long dating history from humorous to nearly catastrophic. But none were ever as ruggedly handsome as Connor.

For Connor Ryan,...

At last - A never-before-released novella Making Magic completes The League series box set.

Four previously published novels and one never before released novella tell the story of the Soft Serves, a gay recreational softball team battling for the championship each season while teammates find love. The League details the stories of five...

The Pitchers and Catchers series complete in one box set. Three novels and two novellas tell the stories of Eric Steiner, Theo Bachman, and their fellow baseball couples. All of the books are individual romance stories filled with baseball, humor, and steamy scenes. Everyone comes together in the final novella for the wedding of the century. Don...

Daniel only needed to take a break from writing his song. He didn’t plan to meet the man who would change his life forever. Onstage at a local street festival, Greg, the lead vocalist in a local rock band, was mesmerizing. Daniel knew they were destined to meet if he could only get past his own stumbling insecurity.

Dating was a success, but...