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Many people know how Odin gained wisdom -- the loss of an eye, and hanging on the tree of life for nine days and nights. But the gaining of knowledge and wisdom aren't all pain and sacrifice. What if Odin did more while hanging from Yggdrasil than just receive visions of the world?
Sequel to The Nutcracker P is for Penne Alla Vodka and Garth Morgan and Tony Luciano are determined not to let the horrors of the Pulse nightclub shootings prevent them from celebrating their eighteen-month anniversary with the next dish on their A-Z list of pasta dishes. Garth knows he'll be eating ziti on his wedding day, but before then he has one other important question to ask Tony, one that affects not just his life but also that of Adam, Garth's ten-year-old son. Will dessert be as sweet as Garth hopes, or will Tony's answer leave a bad taste in his mouth? Note: This short story was originally published in the charity collection, Love Is Proud.Mostra libro
Varon Cambeul has made it to the top: Royal Magician of the Kingdom of Lothia, at the right hand of the king, who is his lover. He has always kept the promise he made to his mother and his apprenticeship master: he has used his magic for good. This promise is tested when the king asks him to make a curse that will be cured by the king so everyone will love him. Helping the king is using his magic for good, right? But is Varon doing this because he has fallen in love with the king? What about those who will suffer from the curse and slowly be transformed into ghosts, people like Theo and Russell in the town where the curse is released? Can Varon undo this great wrong? Can he save Theo and Russell and the others as they turn invisible? How can he love someone who is not doing good?Mostra libro
Brook's alpha-centric family doesn't respect him. He'll only succeed his father as CEO if he takes an alpha mate. But an alpha is the last thing he wants. A paid mate seems like the ideal solution. The alpha can run interference with Brook's family, but Brook will be in charge. When he hires Dimitri, a rough-around-the-edges criminal who's deep in debt and desperate enough to take any job, Brook expects a transactional relationship. One night together to form the mate bond. Simple. Dimitri's never been with another man, but how bad can it be? Even if Brook is a snobby rich dude, like his family. Only he isn't. He's funny, honorable, open-minded, and surprisingly vulnerable . . . and an unexpectedly willing lover. Dimitri's protective instincts are as aroused as his body. Brook can't help responding to Dimitri's kindness, humor, and ability to take charge in bed and out—something that's never appealed to Brook until now. And that makes things anything but simple. It's supposed to be a means to an end. A mutually beneficial arrangement. But for this to be anything more, they'll have to expose their family secrets and admit their real feelings . . . Contains mature themes.Mostra libro
Seth Conrad is not your typical high school librarian. By day, he's quiet, introverted, and moderately popular with the students. However, to supplement his meager salary, he delves into a world of sexually ushering gay virgins into their own world of authenticity. While his services are memorable, they aren't cheap. Each weekend experience starts at a steep price with no commitment afterwards. Laced with spicy scenes and passionate lovemaking, travel with Seth as he experiences his own psychosexual liberation to realize he deserves the possibility of a happily ever after. Trigger warning: mention of suicide.Mostra libro
When recent college graduate Mark decides to visit to Europe to see the culture, a friend gives him a letter of introduction to an elderly man in Paris who "might be worth visiting." During their visit, the Parisian reads Mark a letter from a friend about a heart-breaking romantic gay encounter in a tiny Balkan town. Years have passed and the letter writer can't find the town or person again, and has been haunted by this loss ever since. The letter remains with Mark even after he returns home. It opens his eyes to sights and people he wouldn't normally pay attention to. Can the new life lessons he's learned help him in his own search for lasting love?Mostra libro
Somewhere Beyond the Sea is the hugely-anticipated sequel to TJ Klune's The House in the Cerulean Sea, one of the best-loved and best-selling fantasy novels of the past decade. Download a FREE sneak peek today!A magical house. A secret past. A summons that could change everything.Arthur Parnassus lives a good life built on the ashes of a bad one.He’s the master of a strange orphanage on a distant and peculiar island, and he hopes to soon be the adoptive father to the six dangerous and magical children who live there.Arthur works hard and loves with his whole heart so none of the children ever feel the neglect and pain that he once felt as an orphan on that very same island so long ago. He is not alone: joining him is the love of his life, Linus Baker, a former caseworker in the Department In Charge of Magical Youth. And there's the island's sprite, Zoe Chapelwhite, and her girlfriend, Mayor Helen Webb. Together, they will do anything to protect the children.But when Arthur is summoned to make a public statement about his dark past, he finds himself at the helm of a fight for the future that his family, and all magical people, deserve.And when a new magical child hopes to join them on their island home—one who finds power in calling himself monster, a name that Arthur worked so hard to protect his children from—Arthur knows they’re at a breaking point: their family will either grow stronger than ever or fall apart.Welcome back to Marsyas Island. This is Arthur’s story.Somewhere Beyond the Sea is a story of resistance, lovingly told, about the daunting experience of fighting for the life you want to live and doing the work to keep it.Mostra libro
