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Captain Xavier Hobbs, a decommissioned combat engineer, was chronically lonely in the Army. But once he is back to being a civilian, with no family and nothing to ground him, he drifts. All he wants is a real home, a real life, and love - but that is easy to wish for and hard to make happen. When he meets Andrew Landry, a high school English teacher, Xavier thinks he has found everything he has ever wanted, maybe even someone he can trust with his scars - the ones on his mind and body. Andrew’s quick wit and outgoing personality reel Xavier in slowly but surely.

Alpha Nathan Garnet is cocky - and he knows it. Wealthy and successful, he prides himself on his conquests. But when one smart mouthed omega tells him no, Nathan can’t keep himself from being intrigued...or from the thrill of the chase. If something bad has happened to a person in a relationship, it’s happened to Damon Bishop. Damon desperately wants to be loved, but growing up a bit of an ugly duckling has left him with less than stellar self-esteem.

Jack is a down-on-his-luck retired NYPD detective who is living in a flophouse and going through a nasty divorce. He's distraught over his missing daughter and suicidal. He gets asked to look into the unsolved murder of his childhood friend. Jack's investigation takes him to the dark side of the local skin clubs, and he butts heads with the local crime boss, who has a bigger secret to hide.

My favorite line in my favorite song about Dallas goes like this: Dallas is a rich man with a death wish in his eyes / A steel and concrete soul in a warm heart and love disguise... The narrator of Jimmie Dale Gilmore's perfect tune Dallas" is coming to town as a broke dreamer with the bright lights of the big city on his mind. He's just seen the Dallas cityscape through the window of his seat on a DC-9 at night. Is he just beginning his quest?

A 2023 MICHIGAN NOTABLE BOOK A beautiful and gripping psychological novel about a mother and daughter who, after a lifetime on the run from a dark and dangerous past, land in a small Michigan town that may hold the key to ending their fugitive lifestyle. For Blue Lake’s entire life, she and...