Letters Book Two
Perry and Chad met in the beginning of Perry’s journey while he searched for love and a new life without his deceased husband, Jack.
Chad, sensing he was not the one, encouraged Perry to continue his search for love and the two parted ways.
Does another chance meeting add up to love for Perry and Chad?
Lucas Jenson, a twenty-year-old residing in Beaufort, South Carolina, hung his heart on the chance for love with Perry.
The young man from the wrong side of the tracks found it difficult to imagine a life with the multi-millionaire.
The differences in their lives seemed too great to overcome.
With a heavy heart, Lucas gave up on love.
Love had never been something he could count on.
Afraid he would be left first, he told Perry he will not join him in New York.
Nothing about Perry and Lucas’s journey has been easy, but now they both have choices to make.
Does Perry consider that Chad is the man he should have chosen?
Does Lucas regret letting Perry go? What about Clint?
Is Clint in love with Lucas? What circumstances ultimately put Clint’s life at risk over his devotion to Lucas?
And finally, what about Jack? Do dead men really tell no tales? Not exactly. Jack cannot speak, but he still has plenty to say as the story comes to the ultimate conclusion.
The Bird Catcher
Happily married, Seattle furniture designer, Ben, comes home early from work on his thirtieth birthday. After finding his husband of twelve years already celebrating in the shower with the party planner, Ben decides he needs a fresh start.
Logan, a twenty-five-year-old residing in Idaho, is trying to escape from an emotionally abusive relationship. Can Logan break the bonds that keep him tethered to his abuser or will Coach fulfill his threats to never let Logan go?
Seabrook is a quaint, idyllic beach-front town on the coast of Washington state with less than three hundred full-time residents. The tiny dot on the map seems like the perfect place to escape the pain by offering a fresh start.
Yet as the saying goes, we can run, but we can’t escape our past. What awaits the two men as they begin their separate journeys?
Join Ben and Logan when they both choose Seabrook as their hideaway destination only to discover new challenges. With fate playing with their lives, they struggle against the loss of love. Yet, in Seabrook, their chance to find real love might be possible if they can outrun their past.
The Ranch
Josh West left the family ranch at eighteen, swearing to never return to Cody, Wyoming again.
After the untimely death of his parents ten years later, he leaves the mess of his soon-to-be-ex behind in Seattle and returns to the ranch as the now fourth-generation owner to handle the sale of the land.
Connor Price, fresh out of foster care at the age of eighteen, arrived on West ranch as a new ranch hand two weeks before Josh left for Seattle and college. Their brief two-week-long encounter has been on Connor’s mind and in his heart ever since.
Seth Gering, the only child of neighboring ranchers, grew up the best of friends with Josh until their boyhood friendship evolved into a different kind of love. Much has changed in the ten years since Josh left and their years-long relationship ended, including inheriting his own family’s ranch.
What happens on West ranch when the prodigal son returns? Will Connor finally share his decade-long feelings with Josh? Does Seth still love Josh, or is it that Josh has something he desires more than love? Will Josh rekindle things with either man? Can he find true love with boys that are now men?
Join this cast of characters looking to get down and dirty as Josh navigates his past and attempts to decide the direction of his future.
Landon Alexander
Eight years ago, Landon Alexander’s father was imprisoned for committing an unspeakable crime, and Landon is still picking up the pieces of his shattered life.
With his mother a shell of her previous self and the family business in peril, Landon’s in over his head as he attempts to restore the legacy he was born into.
He needs a qualified construction manager to handle that side of the business while he concentrates on saving it.
Owen Reed suffers a devastating loss at the sudden death of his husband.
To add to his pain, his adoptive father picks blood over skill and chooses his unfit brother to run the family empire.
Owen makes a move away from Montana to Portland, Oregon, to interview for a construction manager position and to begin anew.
A chance encounter the night before his interview has Owen questioning his vow to never fall in love again.
But when he shows up for the job interview he discovers the person from the one-night stand is also the owner of the company he hopes to work for.
The two men find themselves at a crossroads.
Landon the playboy has never been in love. Owen believes he’s already had his great love. Can these two men find their way to each other? Or is their love affair doomed from the start?
Suddenly, Last Summer
I professed my love for Jordy when I was seventeen. He was leaving for his last year of medical school after working another summer at my family’s Banks Lake resort in the Pacific Northwest.
Desperate for him to know how I felt even though he was my older brother’s best friend, and fearing that he wouldn’t return after that summer, I decided to take the plunge and admit my feelings while I had the chance.
As the adult in the situation, Jordy wisely chose to discount my confession as simply a teenage crush. But my last spoken words to him were that I’d wait patiently for him.
And I always kept my promises.
JORDY HALL
I’d been away from my small hometown for nearly five years. Life and a stressful medical residency had kept me busy, but I finally returned to fulfill my best-man duties for my best friend’s upcoming wedding.
His younger brother, Trey, was a sweet, sensitive kid when I left years ago. The shy, lean teenager who’d tearfully professed his love for me my last summer there had grown into a sexy, confident man. I was intrigued by what I saw, though I probably should have walked away again.
Had he actually waited for me to return? Did I hope he had? He was nine years my junior and my best friend’s little brother. But he could be so much more.
After five long years, it was suddenly last summer.
Rescue Me, Daddy
TIM MILLER
My life in Valentine, Nebraska, wasn’t easy. At just nineteen, I found myself homeless and jobless with no prospects on the horizon. A life of abuse crushed people, but I still h
ad space in my heart for love. With the support and guidance of an elderly widower, my life finally began to turn around.
Being young and gay in a small town brought challenges but I had goals for my life, one of which was to be loved. The arrival of a world famous author to our small community turned my world upside down. What did I have to offer a man like Davis? I have nothing but my heart. I hope it’s enough.
DAVIS HILL
After the end of my five-year relationship in Malibu, I was desperate for change.
Even though my career was successful, I could still use an infusion of ideas for my next book.
So I did the unthinkable and decided to randomly stick a pin in a map and relocate.
My friends may have labeled me insane, but I couldn’t resist the temptation.
A fresh start in a new town offered the chance to distract myself while I heal from the pain of a failed relationship.
Coming to the rescue of Tim on the very first day we met, was the beginning of one story I hadn’t expected.
I had relocated to find a great story, but hadn’t expected to discover my own love story.
Could a small town in the middle of nowhere offer a new beginning for both my heart and my career?
Little did I know that small towns could have dark secrets that could threaten to shatter my heart.
Take Me With You
The tropical storms that roll into The Low Country of South Carolina are fierce. High destructive winds pummel the coastlines and rivers along the Atlantic, blowing debris and wreaking havoc. Storm surges crash up the river, depositing all sorts of rubble along the river’s shores.
The morning after one such storm, Bo Dawson, a 20 year old born on the wrong side of the tracks, discovers that a body has washed up on the shore in front of his fishing shack.
With the area suffering from the devastation of the tropical storm, Bo is forced to care for the unconscious stranger.
The stranger who doesn’t remember who he is or where he’s from.
For five weeks these two navigate the turbulent surprises delivered by life and brewing storms. But what happens when Hayes starts to regain his memory? What happens when he doesn’t want to go back to his other life?
The Butler
A twenty-one year old college student has the rug pulled out from under him when his professor boyfriend abruptly ends their relationship, replacing him with an even younger teacher’s assistant.
A year after his heartbreak, Deklyn Dalton is still at a loss as to how he can move forward when an unusual job offer, one he’s not qualified to perform, comes his way due to the connections of a friend.
Thirty-nine year old billionaire, Lincoln Carrington, fresh off of losing the love of his life to a best friend and employee, is headed to his mega yacht to heal from the devastation brought on by the betrayal he recently suffered.
One man is a desperate college graduate who happens to land a two week job as a butler in a world of wealth and opulence. The man he is to serve is surrounded by the successes of his wealth but lacks the one thing he desires the most: true love.
The butler and the billionaire are on a collision course in this tale from the high seas. Can two broken men from different stations in life find their way to love or are some arrangements doomed to fail before they even begin?
The Butler originally appeared as a novella in the anthology, Cruising, released in 2022. This update is the full length novel with twice the content and an epilogue conclusion not to be missed.