It takes a tough man to wear lace well…and an even tougher man to get close to him.I don't know if Levi understands how deep my love of lace goes. He's tough, but what if he's not willing to put up with the constant harassment that comes with dating a guy who wants to wear a skirt?He deserves to know all of me.I deserve to live as the true me.I just hope I don't have to choose between Lace and Levi.

As a teenager, Ira Bedford fled a troubled home life and people who didn’t understand his penchant for feminine things. In the city, he fell in with Cedric, who found him work as an underage stripper. It took him years to escape Cedric’s influence and try to build a life of his own.Now, he just wants to be left alone to create his art. But Cedric’s on-going harassment means Ira had to drop out of art school, is squatting in a friend’s apartment, and is still relying on his allure a...

One dancer. One cleaner. Two very different worlds.If Conrad isn't good enough to be a principal dancer, at least he makes a stellar teacher, stern with the kids coming through his studio, but chatty with anyone else who stands still too long.Dusty likes the quiet spaces between words. Since a brutal beating as a teenager, he's content to go unnoticed, reconciled to his broken brain and a dance career lost before it ever began. Cleaning Conrad's studio is p...

Beauty is only skin deep, but some marks—and what they represent—are impossible to escape.Eric resents his comfortable college life and the restrictions his family's expectations put on him. Dwayne, his best friend Angel's cousin, is a pierced and tattooed ex-con trying to rebuild his life. Eric sees only the tattoos and the way Dwayne's upbringing have dictated his future. It takes a surprising revelation from Angel to force Eric to see past Dwayne's defenses to the generous heart...

A Bluewater Bay NovelAfter losing a rigged cooking show competition—and a potential lover—to another baker, Frederic Jackson packs up his considerable baggage and moves to Bluewater Bay. He uses the network’s hush money to buy a new bakery where he hopes the small town’s revitalized economy will let him start anew.Blaire Caruthers never wanted to work for his father at Caruthers Industries. He should have known that fixing the company’s show results was a m...

They knew being famous would be one hell of a ride. They didn't know it might be a ride into hell.Singer Coby Kennedy and his drummer twin, Bruce, have steered their band, Patchwork Heaven, to the top of the country charts, bucking difficult band members and personal demons along the way. As cowboys do.The top of the heap makes them an easy target, though. Trouble starts with anonymous letters, but quickly escalates to sinister gifts and wanton destruction ...

Who needs a love life when there's so much work to do?Nothing is getting in the way of this tiny house build.Not my tiny budget.Not my tiny stockpile of supplies.Not the tiny question of legality concerning the practice of sneaking materials out of the dumpster on my neighbour's construction site.Not the tiny snowflakes threatening to fall sooner than I am prepared for them.Definitely not Cullen, the not-so-tiny foreman on the construction si...

Frederic was never cut out to be a reality TV star.After losing a rigged cooking show competition, and a potential lover, to another baker, Frederic Jackson wants the anonymity of small town life and his own bakery. He's packed his considerable baggage and moved to Bluewater Bay, using the network's hush money over the show's fixed results to rebuild his simple dream.Blaire Caruthers knew working for his father was a bad idea, manipulating the outcome of th...

Until now, Drew and Garrett have been playing at dominance, but things have to change. Drew is already losing himself to the implacable will of his new Master and they have yet to make anything official. That's what this weekend is supposed to be about—Garrett making Drew his—unless the memories from Garrett's past are too strong to let him meet Drew's ultimatum of the real thing or nothing at all.

When Sunny retires to the northern Ontario wilderness to mourn his parents' deaths, he's hoping the change of scenery will afford him some peace and quiet.His hopes are soon spectacularly dashed.In self-imposed exile, dragon Emile runs across the Fold between his dimension and Sunny's—and right into Sunny's arms. Centuries out of touch with human culture, bright, beautiful Emile incinerates any hope Sunny had for an ordinary existence. With dryads and water sprites coming t...

Off Stage: Sets One & TwoThe grunge band Firefly was Trevor "Damian" Learner and Lenny Stevens's dream since they were boys growing up in rural Ontario. They found the right people to live the dream with them, even landed the best representation in the business, but the higher their star rose, the harder it became to ignore their issues.Now, needing guidance beyond what each other and their bandmates can offer, Damian and Lenny must let go of a rel...

A Wings of Faith short storyIn a world without hope that kills what it can't understand, a solitary priest who has lost all he ever loved may be the last man to still believe in Angels. In the end, his belief may be all that can safeguard the fate of two Angel lovers—and restore his own faith in the power of love.