Showing results by publisher "Audible Studios" in Romance

Ollie : Note à moi-même : ne jamais - jamais - faire son coming out à un parfait étranger dans des toilettes publiques. (Même si cet étranger est un adorable intello super mignon.) Ma famille est persuadée que je ne serai jamais heureux en restant dans le placard. Mon hargneux ex-petit ami ainsi que ma carrière en berne peuvent en témoigner. Alors un faux petit-ami me semblait être la solution parfaite pour que ma famille me fiche la paix. Et j'avais même trouvé le mec parfait. Peut-être que j'aurais dû commencer par lui demander son nom ?

L'un veut soigner sa réputation, l'autre cherche simplement à emmerder son père. Matt : Vous voulez connaître la manière la plus rapide de foutre en l'air une carrière de footballeur ? Se faire photographier dans une position compromettante dans un bar gay... Mon agent dit qu'il peut sauver mon image en faisant de moi l'ambassadeur LGBT du foot. Moi ? Je ferais tout pour retourner sur le terrain. Même prétendre avoir un petit ami sérieux...

Maddox: La raison pour laquelle je rentre rarement chez moi se résume en quatre mots : je suis un menteur. Ai-je (faussement) avoué être gay et fui à New York comme si j'avais le feu aux fesses pour éviter d'épouser mon amour de jeunesse ? Oui. Cinq ans plus tard – après une rencontre arrosée - me voilà invité à son mariage ! Foutu karma... Et bien sûr, je suis censé venir avec mon petit ami. Petit ami qui n'existe pas, soit dit en passant. Parce que je suis hétéro (vous suivez ?). Mais ça... je n'en suis plus si sûr.

L'amour de Clément et Seven dépasse l'entendement, il les brûle, il les consume, mais ce n'est pas le seul qui les torture. Les cauchemars du premier sont de plus en plus durs à supporter, les secrets du second rendent leur relation trop compliquée. Alors quand la vie s'en mêle et chamboule un peu plus leur quotidien, leur couple finit par ne plus tenir qu'à un fil. Sont- ils capables de surmonter les épreuves de leur existence ou la distance qui est de plus en plus pesante ? C'est la question qu'ils se posent, tout en sachant qu'ils ne s'imaginent plus l'un sans l'autre.

Keith is an 18-year-old high school student living in Harlem. He has a life plan that includes being the class valedictorian and going to Columbia University. His mother is a recovering drug addict and his family is broken in most meanings of the word, but he has remained unfazed by his surroundings. He meets two cousins, Jesse and Derrick, and his senior year is turned on its head as he finds himself in a love triangle that leads to the discovery of details from his past that his mother wanted to keep hidden forever.

Debut author Katharine Duckett reimagines the consequences of Shakespeare’s The Tempest, casting Miranda into a Milanese pit of vipers and building a queer love story that lifts off the page in whirlwinds of feeling.

In 1988, before her senior year of high school, Nina and her best friend spend the summer alone on Cape Cod. Nina has grown up with her ailing grandmother - and she yearns for the chance of a deeper connection. When she enrolls in an acting course, she soon finds romance with Sarah, one of the teaching assistants. Nina's own world revolves around Sarah, while the rest of the world moves urgently on. Nina's high school teacher does not take the end of their relationship well; her best friend feels abandoned; the AIDS epidemic rages; her fellow actors grow and hone their talents.

Enzo, o jovem protagonista deste romance, é o oposto dessa máxima. Ele não gosta de se apegar. Acha que relacionamentos fixos e duradouros são monótonos, e só se apaixona quando tem certeza de que não será correspondido. Assim se poupa de se tornar responsável pelos sentimentos de outra pessoa. Enzo só não contava com o aparecimento de Ian, namorado de uma amiga, com quem viverá uma experiência amorosa cujas consequências serão avassaladoras.

Sie teilen das gleiche Schicksal und sind doch ganz verschieden: Danny ist erfolgreich und unabhängig. Christina hingegen hat die letzten Jahre auf der Straße verbracht. Verzweifelt bemüht er sich, ihr zu zeigen, dass das Leben auch schöne Seiten hat. Hilft den beiden ihre Freundschaft, die Schatten der Vergangenheit endgültig abzuwerfen?

Fin MacAuliffe had always been less than masculine, never truly confident enough to be himself. He'd long known he was gay - he'd just never shared it with anyone, not even his own free-thinking, liberal parents. Sure, they knew. Yet they never quite gave up on linking him to some respectable girl with good genes and a generous bank account. Fin's own account was nothing to be ashamed of, but even with all of the advantages, the only true thing he longed for was companionship.

In The Boomerang Kid, Maura Ostryder is coming into her own, professionally and privately, as she begins her 51st year. Maura has always been the master of her own life and has reared her son, Kai (named for the Hawaiian word for sea) to be the same way. But now a grown Kai has come home, having fled emotional attachments to both a young man and a young woman, bringing with him his addiction to painkillers.

In The Good Neighbor, Rory Fallon is walking his dog along the streets of the exclusive Venetian Vistas neighborhood when he notices activity at the house next door. New neighbors have arrived in the form of Austin and Meg Harden, along with their two children. Before long, the Hardens and Rory and his partner Bruno have formed a strange, sometimes symbiotic relationship, bringing up questions of love and marriage, trust and temptation.

As Hayden and Josh journey through rituals - and intimacies - that will knit their souls for life, passion and anger flares, revealing a powerful secret. In a different world, they might have been friends. Now, face to face after five years, the bitterness in Hayden’s eyes fills Josh with regret for what could have been - should have been.

Faithless is a work of experimental fiction weaving through various scenes and memories of being in love, out of love, and abused by love as told and experienced by Grace, a troubled 20-something-year-old struggling with her identity as a bisexual Korean-American. Everything is recounted as experienced - in fragments.

Tales of love and lust in contemporary gay culture, Best Gay Romance 2014 is a Valentine to listeners and a wonderful reminder of how love can begin - at the grocery store, the gym, the library, or even on the world wide web. Real romances with relatable characters, each of the stories in this collection represents a facet of the oh-so-human heart.

Retired Army Staff Sergeant Lee Winters is trying hard to adjust to civilian life. She was released from duty after a bomb in Ramadi injured her and killed her troops, the only people she ever considered her family. Living day-to-day with the knowledge that she was the only one left alive, she hits rock bottom, and an old army buddy persuades her into taking a bodyguard job.

When Barbara Phillips arrives in Bluefield, Virginia, to begin her medical residency, she thinks she is headed for an uneventful few years filled with work in an obscure little town where no one knows her...which is exactly what she wants. Everything changes when she enters Nicky’s diner and begins a journey that will last a lifetime as she falls in love against her better judgment and best-laid plans. The free-spirited Nicky later attends the 1963 March on Washington and impulsively and anonymously sleeps with a man in hopes of getting pregnant and starting a family with Barbara.

The white-collar life Jonathan Powell created for himself is gone. Standing outside Wentworth prison after serving his five-year sentence, he knows he has to start over. No more hooking up with Dominant women so he can enjoy the challenge of screwing up their minds. But who knew his last target would be a psychopathic killer who tried to off two cops? No, it wasn't the game that was the problem. He just made some key mistakes. Mistakes he won't make again. Then Mistress Dona shows up to give him a ride from the prison into his new life, and his resolve goes out the window.

Lorsque sa mère rencontre Jon, Howie intègre la famille Emington et découvre son nouveau pseudo demi-frère, Louis. Plus âgé de quatre ans, il le fascine. Au fil des années, Howie comprend mieux cette fascination pour celui qu’il ne veut pas qu’on appelle « son frère ».

À l’aube de la quarantaine, l'inspecteur Walsh se voit confier une affaire particulièrement sordide. Un tueur rôde parmi la communauté étudiante de l'université jésuite de Seattle. Il y rencontre un ami de son fils, un jeune modèle de nu dont l'apparence évoque celle des victimes. Andy, un artiste qui finance ses études par divers petits boulots, est fasciné par ce flic divorcé. Il met tout en œuvre pour séduire le ténébreux et distant Reese Walsh. Mais des éléments troublants autour des meurtres compromettent ses ambitions.