What does it truly mean to be a man?From childhood dreams to the silent battles of adulthood, men navigate a world that often demands strength but rarely acknowledges their struggles. Behind the Mask unveils the unspoken truths of masculinity—the emotional burdens, societal pressures, financial struggles, heartbreaks, and the weight of expectations that many endure in silence.Through raw stories, deep psychological insights, and a global perspective, this book explores:...

Escape to Harbor Bay in this heartfelt small-town romance of second chances, community, and unexpected love.When corporate consultant Isla Chen's perfectly choreographed life comes crashing down in one night, she takes a spontaneous leap of faith: to purchase a floundering bookstore in coastal town Harbor Bay. She never anticipates ending up at the center of a fierce community battle to save its charm-filled past or falling for Caleb Morrison, the architect spearhe...

Allen is whisked away to another world after hugging a train a little too tight. He has the option to start fresh, go on an adventure, or maybe even settle down with his new elven family. Having been used as boasting material by his former family, he finds solace that this new one is different. However, this new world while full of potential, is hounded by the Church of Askvan which controls the world. What's worse Allen or rather Sol, has no real potential and is a target of the church an...

Some doors keep things out.This one remembers who walked away.When Nathan moves into his new apartment, the bedroom door is just another cheap panel of painted wood.Until it knocks—softly, deliberately, and only when he's alone.At first, he blames the pipes. The neighbors. His nerves.But the knocks have a pattern …a rhythm he hasn't used since childhood …the same rhythm he used to knock on his parents' door the night his father died.

She was sold to the military by her own brother. Two years of hell. One earned rank. And enough trust in the institution that trained her to walk into a commanding officer's tent unarmed. She was wrong to.When the Colonel makes his vile intentions clear, Private Marianne Silvers has no weapon, a 103-degree fever, and nowhere to run. She fights back anyway. It costs her everything—until a blood-red summoning circle tears open beneath her feet, and her world disappears.She wa...

First published in 1984, The Social Life of Britain’s Five-Year-Olds follows the first five years of life of 13,135 children in England, Scotland, and Wales, who were born during the week 5–11 April 1970. It is concerned with the structure within which the children’s lives are organised, and with the extent and nature of social inequality. The researchers cover three broad areas of crucial importance to five-year-olds: the family, pre-school education and day care, and the employm...

Second edition 2024 - no new content has been addedBlurb:My name is A. Voyeur. I work as a special security guard in a private sex club for gay men. My job is to sit behind a small, mirrored window and watch what goes on in different rooms to ensure the well-being and safety of all the members. This includes anything from cross-dressing, role-play, vanilla anal sex and blowjobs, to full-on BDSM.Basically, I get to watch men have sex for a l...

** Please note this is an LGBT romance. Please read the categories in which books are placed before downloading, thank you.**It was just an ordinary day for Alex Harper at Harper's Antiquities, until Callum Winters walked in with a watch."It was my Grandfather's. I was hoping you could tell me something about it."A love story of two couples, generations apart.

This 20,000-word story is told in drabbles: each chapter consisting of only 100 words.Sebastian Gilman meets a guy on a dance floor every Friday night. He knows nothing about him, not even his name, only to find one day this familiar stranger turns up on his building site and they need to work together.Ryland Keller knows better than to get involved. Alone and half a country away from home, he revels in isolation until a handsome man in a gay bar turns his world up...

Resigned to living a sexless, loveless life, Doctor Nathan Tierney knows something is missing. In a rash decision, he leaves his life-consuming job at Mass General Hospital, Boston, to be the small-town doctor in Belfast, Maine. With the job comes a house, and with the house comes a handyman-painter.Trent Jamieson, a nomadic artist, and his dog Bentley, are offered free accommodation for the few weeks he fixes up the hospital-owned house. Nathan is transfixed by this free-spirited,...

Cameron Fletcher and Lucas Hensley are advertising executives who have Sixty Five Hours to pull together the campaign of their careers. Sixty Five Hours to get along. Sixty Five Hours to not kill each other. Sixty Five Hours to fall in love.

Blind Faith - Book TwoSix months after we last met Carter Reece and Isaac Brannigan, they're still very much in love. Moving in together, moving forward, life for these two is great until some life-changing events occur.Isaac has a frightening setback and Carter's world starts to unravel. Things become even more complicated and start to change for both men when Isaac's new colleague enters the picture. As Isaac struggles for what he really wants, i...