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  Making Up for Lost Time

  Mychael Black

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  Chris Buckner hasn't seen or heard from Nick Stewart in a decade. When Nick returns to town, Chris isn't sure what to think. He certainly doesn't know if having dinner with his former friend is a good idea, but what does he have to lose?
  Nick Stewart has kept a secret for many years, and now he's ready to come clean. But how will the one man who really deserves to hear it react? 
  Note: This short story was originally published in the charity collection, Love Is Proud.

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  Harbored

  P.E. Graham

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  When rugby star Jesse Brannon buys the house of his dreams in the small coastal town he grew up in, the sea calls to him. While diving through the reefs and kelp forest of the private bay, he comes across something unexpected -- an injured merman. His late mother always told him there were mermaids in the water, but Jesse never thought she really meant it.
  As Jesse does his best to help the lonely, injured merman recover, he finds himself falling in love. The two of them grow closer, learn how to communicate, and overcome their differences in anatomy, but the impossibility of a future together starts to weigh on Jesse. Time is running out and Jesse will have to leave the house by the bay as soon as the new season starts. Will his new mate understand and wait for him, or will he lose him forever?

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  Beneath a Yankee Sky

  J.M. Snyder

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  Brance Brenneman is used to harsh conditions -- the eldest son of a stern Amish preacher, Brance was bit by a werecat as a young boy, and managed to keep his secret from his family until he was old enough to leave them and their religion behind. Years later, when the nation is divided by the American Civil War, Brance finds himself enlisted in the Union army. By sheer chance, he meets Caleb Chilson, a Confederate soldier who bears his same shapeshifting burden.
  Together they leave the war behind to forge a new life in the wilderness of Pennsylvania. But trappers near their camp are hunting bobcats, and they don't much care if Brance and Caleb are only in the fur part of the time. Brance finds his peaceful existence shattered, and he has to fight to defend the life -- and the bobcat, the man -- he's come to love.

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  The Flayed Man - A Novel

  Chloe Lauter

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  A complex mother-daughter relationship is taken to a new level in this fresh and propulsive novel of family curses, blood-thirsty ghouls, and budding romance set against the Mojave Desert and Las VegasEllis Karsten spends nights working triage in the ER and days having the same conversation with her mom. The early onset dementia is exhausting, but the real challenge is their curse—Ellis's family must feed daily on blood, or risk becoming mindless, skinless killing machines. When Ellis's uncle, who supplies their blood, vanishes, she takes it upon herself to find a new source, aided by a prickly paramedic who's equal parts unpredictable and intoxicating. But as Ellis fights to balance her bloodthirsty nature with a new relationship, her mom's impossible demands transform into panicked warnings that a fabled monster, "The Flayed Man," is stalking them.As she traverses the desert in search of blood, Ellis risks her safety and her family's secret, until it becomes clear that her mom is right: something ancient and hungry is hunting them, and it has come for her mom. Blood hunger begins to overtake Ellis, transforming her body into something ghoulish and frightening—exactly what The Flayed Man wants. In the end, she must decide who to trust, what she's willing to sacrifice, and whether she is worthy of a life, and love, beyond her curse—or if she's going to succumb to instinct and ravage the world.

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  George (An M M Coming of age...

  Anna T. Pope

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  "When you are a kid and you think about what your life is going to be, when you imagine what you'll become and the person you are going to marry, you don't wish for just good, no, you wish for more. And, sure, you don't always get that, after all, you grow up and find out that nothing, not even 'just good' comes as easily as you have expected it to, but still, that one person, that 'the one' should make you feel extraordinary, even if your life is anything but." 
  Summary: 
  When love shatters, what remains? 
  George’s world crumbles the day his husband walks away, leaving him with a broken heart and a son to raise. He pours himself into his art, convinced that love is nothing more than a beautiful illusion—one he will never fall for again. 
  But fate has other plans. 
  When a man from his past unexpectedly reappears, old memories and unresolved emotions resurface, challenging the walls George has built around his heart. 
  Told through two intertwining timelines, past and present, 'George' is a poignant exploration of love, loss, and the question that lingers: Can we ever truly begin again?

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  Redouble

  Feral Sephrian

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  Thorn is less than pleased to see Dylan at their first major fencing tournament of the semester. He and Dylan had had a brief but hot and passionate fling after the championships half a year ago, but then Dylan cut Thorn out of his life with no explanation and they haven't seen each other since. A fencing tournament is a good place to vent frustrations -- it's one of the few places where it's okay to stab your ex with a sword -- but Thorn doesn't just want to vent, he wants answers.
  However, when Dylan does apologize and give his side of the story, it doesn't make Thorn feel better. If anything, he's even more conflicted between accepting Dylan's excuses so they can be together again, or holding firm to protect his wounded pride and giving Dylan the same cold shoulder Thorn received months ago. But as they meet as rivals on the fencing strip, can Thorn really retreat from this chance to rekindle what they had before? Or will he lunge for this opportunity to see where it takes them?

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