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Derek Thompson is a senior and a wrestler, and has a secret. He’s gay. Scott Thayer is a new student who’s just moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts from Iowa. On the first day of school Derek and Scott meet, and their lives change in an instant. As Derek and Scott discover the things they have in common, they enter into one of the closest, most loving relationships either of them has ever experienced. When unexpected circumstances threaten to tear them apart, they both have to make a decision. Do they protect their secret and separate? Or fight for what they want...each other.

In deepest space the ruthless Federation lays waste to one rebel colony after another, leaving comrades-in-arms Van Orskey and Tayn Kassik without family, without a home, and without hope. With nothing left but each other, they run contraband and smuggle fugitives from the safety of their ship, the Cormorant - with the occasional clandestine mission for the rival Coalition thrown in. Their heists have not gone unnoticed, though even the bounty on their heads doesn’t prevent them from being a thorn in the enemy’s side at every opportunity. Pissing them off? Big mistake.

Jonah Beecham is a down-on-his-luck cowboy, stuck in Vegas with no money, no job, no friends, and Christmas rapidly approaching. Although he’d been promised a job as a bullfighter, the job falls through, and he’ll be sleeping in his truck for Christmas. In a fit of desperation, he drops a coin in an old-fashioned slot machine and wins enough to put gas in his truck...plus a little something extra. Rather than press his luck, he decides to leave the casino, but the universe isn’t done with him yet.

Dean Murphy hates Christmas a little more each year. His job as a pharmacy manager requires him to festoon his store with seasonal cheer, but his distaste for the lurid commercialism is only topped by his irritation with the syrupy sentimentalism. Being alone sucks, but he’s managed just fine without friends or family for years. Why should December 25 be any different?

Caleb Wells, orphaned in Virginia during the Civil War at the age of 15, is invited to live with his great uncle in a remote cabin high in the Rocky Mountains. Caleb learns to fur trap and pan for gold from his reclusive uncle. Tragically the uncle dies of fever and Caleb finds himself living alone in his uncle’s homestead. An early blizzard of historical proportions forces four lost men on their way to San Francisco to seek asylum in Caleb’s cabin.

Jace Garrison was a musical prodigy at Juilliard ready to take the world by storm. Everything he could ever want out of life was unfolding right before his eyes, until everything came crashing down at once. With his muse gone, along with everything he loved, will Jace find the courage to move on?

Since Tyler Hayward was three years old he has been pushed into sports...He even committed the ultimate betrayal of the one he loved to present himself as "normal"...as life throws him a another curve when a car runs a red light and he is forced to fight for everything he has ever known. Graham Conner has been watching Tyler for the last couple of weeks and has decided that there's more to the baseball player than what the tabloids report. Taking him home to his ranch, the kinky cowboy shows Tyler that baseball isn't everything life has to offer.

Zaiden Moore was late for lunch, no big deal. Except the new cook took one look at his red hair and blue eyes and ran out of the room. What's a man who loves to grow produce and grains going to do? Run after him, of course...Elliot Fisher promised to be open to love if it came his way. Somehow he didn't think the promise included not one, but two handsome, huge, gorgeous men who keep kissing him every time he turns around.

Xavi Diaz is on the run from his family. They want to send him to a retreat to "cure" his gayness. Hiding out at his grandfather's best friend's ranch, he meets Trace Griffin. When Trace offers him a job, he's determined to not only speak to the man, but to get up close and personal...Can an extremely shy man, raised in a very religious family, take on a bad boy who likes living on the edge? Does he even want to? Watch Trace break through Xavi's walls of protection and watch Xavi teach Trace patience.

Former drug trafficker Richmond “Lucky” Lucklighter “died” in the line of duty while working off a 10-year sentence in service to the Southeastern Narcotics Bureau, only to be reborn as Simon “Lucky” Harrison. The newbie he trained, former marine Bo Schollenberger, is now his partner on (and maybe off) the job. It’s hard to tell when Lucky doesn’t understand relationships or have a clue what any sane human is doing in his bed. Bo’s nice to have around, sure, but there’s none of that picking-out-china-together crap for Lucky.

Little did Pete Kenyon know that on the day of his father's funeral, he would get a call to find a missing hiker and meet the love of his life. Of course, trust doesn't come easy for an abused kid who grew up in a drug den. Then there's the puzzle of his uncle's threats to stay away from the house and land he just inherited.

Killian Desmond’s dreams died in a flash of pain and the scream of twisted metal. He lost it all the night a tour bus sailed off a mountainside, sending his band - with his brother - to their deaths. Killian is dead, too, if the papers are to be believed, and living a half-life of odd jobs, rodeo rides, and pick-up gigs. The road that once meant freedom is now Killy’s exile. No strings, no ties, no names for the one-night stands. Answering a tribute band’s ad thrusts him face-to-face with his past and into the arms of the one man who just might understand.

Broadway dancer Jez Bouchet hasn’t been mistaken for straight since he was gay-bashed at 17. After getting a lucrative job offer in Hollywood, he uproots his life in New York and drives to Los Angeles. His brother, who is the best friend of California firefighter Hayden Hurst, arranges for him to crash at Hayden’s place. The attraction between Hayden and Jez is unexpected but fiery, and they succumb before they’re even sure they like each other. But Jez hates Hayden’s homophobic friends, and Hayden knows Jez is too flamboyant for him to fly under the radar.

Punk's not dead, but it's time to redefine life. Devlin Waters thought he'd have music forever. But the tragic death of his best friend ended the 20-year run of his punk band, Negative Impression. Unable to process the loss, Devlin distances himself from everyone and everything that reminds him of the band. But 41 is too young to curl up and wait for the end. In a search for a second career, he finds himself at university with a bunch of kids young enough to be...his kids. His sexy archeology professor, however, makes Devlin think about life beyond his grief....

Commission Captain and special operative Sevan Vasil has enough problems without the strange dreams that seem to be his mind’s version of a cruel joke. No woman could be that perfect...except perhaps his fated mate. No human or alien alive would dare answer a lion-shifter’s call. Not with the state of unrest and anti-supernatural movement in the universe. When the raven-haired beauty who invaded his dreams appears on his communication screen, he knows everything is changing, and maybe destiny is on his side. And just maybe, she is his mate.

It had been a long time since Tara Phillips had slept with a man, but a passionate night full of adventurous sex was just what she needed. And it was just what she got when she met the smooth and handsome property developer, Brenton Morgan, while on vacation in California. It was supposed to be a holiday fling, which was why Brenton never revealed his secret shape-shifting lion side to her. However, what was meant to be just one night would become much, much more nine months later, and life as they knew it would never be the same again....

Scotsman Derek Maclaine has fallen in love with his adopted West Virginia home and its burly native son, Matt Taylor. But a local mining company's recent efforts to destroy the land spell an end to all that Matt holds dear. Derek happens to be an immortal, a creature of the night, a vampire who does not know satiety. After many years without equal, Derek believes stopping a corporation of weak men will be easy. But Alpha Coal employs more than thugs: they are literally demonic.

Beta werewolf Quin Abbot knew it was his turn to go up the mountain and mate with the second in command of the dragon clan. A deal had been struck for peace, and he had to keep it. He never thought he would feel an instant attraction to a man who was chosen for him, and he's pleased. His future husband is his true mate, and couldn't be any happier. But then he discovers the man he's standing in front of him is not his future husband at all.

Conner Abbot is about to have his first, and possibly his only, child with the love of his life, high dragon Aris Macleod. The problem is that Aris is a dragon and Conner is an omega werewolf who already has a bad heart. If he shifts into his wolf while pregnant, he could possibly die. He might even die just from carrying the hatchling at all, but it's a risk he's willing to take, and one that his mate is having a hard time accepting.

A new exhibit will soon be opening at the Foxworth Museum of Fine Art. In the dark hours of the night, the graveyard shift security guards, charged to oversee the exhibition as it nears completion, seem to have trouble staying longer than one night. 28-year-old Brinton Martone, eager for work, finds himself hired by the handsome Dawson Plumber to keep watch over the mysterious collection of priceless master works. Brint suddenly finds himself at the center of a sexual awakening beyond his imagination!