Neil Bierker is a bit famous in New Halliday: he's the kid who jumped off the bypass when he was sixteen. At twenty-seven he’s a third grade teacher who manages his depression through running, boxing, and one night a week with Clem Robbins.He can keep everything else in his life together, as long as for a few hours every week it all falls away.Clem wants more than one night a week. The way he sees it, if one night’s good, wouldn’t more be better? But he’s had three years of...

Frazier Lane has wanted his roommate since the day they met—eight years ago. When Dom gets them jobs running a summer stock program in the sticks, Fraz thinks the time has come. He’ll kiss Dom, Dom will realize they’re meant to be, and they’ll live happily ever after.That’s how it’s supposed to go, anyway. Until they meet Pete.Pete’s a wild card. He knows nothing about theater, is totally in the closet, and is one of the nicest guys Fraz has ever met. Unfortunately, Dom see...

Justin Simos knows a few things for sure: he’s gay, he’s an unrepentant jerk, and he’s in love with his best friend—and his best friend’s girlfriend.Alex and Jamie aren’t like other people. They aren’t fazed by his moods. They laugh at his critical analysis of nineties cinema. They definitely want to have sex with him (…again), and Jamie wants a go at him with her favorite flogger. Despite the fact that they’re perfect together, they want him to join them.J...

What does it mean to have a family?Singer and Lisa Thurman did everything right for their entire childhood. Their mother wanted a perfect life, and they knew how to fit that vision.Then they grew up. Singer came out of the closet and Lisa joined a cult.Singer and his partner are adopting a son. Unfortunately, all that practice being the perfect child didn't prepare Singer to be a merely adequate father. Lisa's just trying to get through the day. After three...

"This is a delight." —Publishers WeeklyThis arrangement is either exactly what they need--or a total disasterOscar is a grouch.That’s a well-established fact among his tight-knit friend group, and they love him anyway.Jack is an ass.Jack, who’s always ready with a sly insult, who can’t have a conversation without arguing, and who Oscar may or may not have hooked up with on a strict no-commitment, one-time-only basis...

"This is a delight." —Publishers Weekly on The Hate ProjectA secret crush leads to a not-so-secret romance in this delightful romantic comedy from Kris RipperThere are three things you need to know about Preston "PK" Harrington the third:He’s a writer, toiling in obscurity as an editorial assistant at a New York City publishing house.He is not a cliché. No, really.He’s been secretly in lo...

Emerson Robinette only leaves his apartment to get laid and go to work. Having MS—and trying to pretend he doesn’t—makes everything more complicated, especially his fantasies of coming on strong and holding a guy down. Finding a partner who’ll explore that with him isn’t Emerson’s idea of a realistic goal.Until a chance meeting with a hipster on a bus makes him reconsider. Obie is happy, open-hearted, and warm; what’s more, he gets his kicks being physically dominated, spanked, and...

Just like Thelma and Louise, but with more boinking, and less dying at the end.Bored freelancer Doc has lousy taste in men. The most recent example steals his computer and ties him to his bed, which is where his bestie Rowe finds him. An hour later Doc’s riding shotgun in Bertha-the-ancient-vehicle on the way to Los Angeles, where Rowe’s about to start his Real Life As An Actor.Since life after Rowe leaves will be all diplomatic client emails and dying alo...

Jaq Cummings is a high school teacher who really wants a committed relationship—as long as it doesn’t keep her out late on school nights or interrupt Sunday mass with her dad. She is absolutely not about to fall for the hot-mess divorcée she hooks up with even if said hot mess pushes all her buttons. Jaq’s white knight days are over.But one hookup with Hannah becomes two, then coffee, then more incredibly hot sex. And unlike most of Jaq’s exes, Hannah’s not looking for someone to c...

Ed Masiello has been on testosterone for a year, is working his dream job as a reporter, and is finally starting to really feel like himself inside his skin. But the investigation of a murder case is starting to take over his life. Afraid he’s becoming obsessed, he goes to the local club to relax, and meets the flighty, whimsical Alisha.Alisha is a free spirit who’s tossed aside ambition for travel and adventure. Her approach to life is a far cry from Ed’s, and while Ed has always ...

You can build anything in Minecraft. With one exception: your life.Dillon Aldham loves being on his computer. He’s a little bit awkward and most of his relationships have been online. When a pipe explodes in his apartment, he holes up in the local bar for a few days waiting for repairs to be done. He figures the hot redheaded bartender is just being polite, but every now and then he thinks they might have a spark. (And Gage’s tone of command is pretty… evocative.)Gage Maher...

"[A] warmly appealing romance." —BookPage on The Love StudyAll Mason wants to do is fall in love, get married and live happily ever after.The hunt is beginning to wear him down…until he meets (slightly) famous fashion designer Diego. Everything sparks between them—the banter, the sex, the fiery eye contact across a crowded room.There's just one thing: Diego is already married and living his happily-ever-after, which luckil...