This is just a short light-hearted contemporary lesbian love story.Burned out of their cabin, his father murdered and every friend they had turning cold backs to the youngster, Essex Dorner fled Ohio for the west vowing to never help another without pay. Bounty hunter, hired gun for men no less brutal than those who killed his Pa, Essex worked across the frontier while all hope for the future withered and his innate goodness shriveled.Hungry and on the run, he knew there was no life for him worth living, no purpose to any that he had done and nothing to do but wait until he was the body being carved by buzzards and coyotes out amid dry prairie grasses. Looking for no more than a chance to swap eating for chores needed doing, he rode up to her house and heard a defiant voice that called from his depths a spirit he no longer recognized, a wish he had forgotten existed and a determination to do one good deed before he died.Facing a land hungry rancher willing to kill for water, Essex knew he could not let her be run off or murdered as his own father had been and so chambered a shell in his rifle and stepped from shadows hiding his body from them and his soul from himself. Second Helping is a Western Settler Saga short story featuring Marshall Adam Pike, a youngster first dispatched to find ranch land for his kin who grows into a man capable of taming the frontier whose exploits are chronicled beginning in Sand Hills Sioux.

When a road trip to Wyoming to find his biological father leaves rent boy Chance Matthews stranded and desperate, help comes from the last person he’d expect. His knight in shining armor is everything he could want and then some, but Chance knows a man like that would never want someone like him. That’s the stuff of fairy tales, and he stopped believing in those a long time ago.

The king is dead, and any plans that Nirithu, the insignificant youngest son of a warrior clan, had for his future are over. Instead, he has to look after his cousin Risokh, just freed after years spent as the king's prisoner. To protect Risokh from intrigues within their own clan, fanatical devotees of rival religious factions, and his own self-destructive impulses, Nirithu must find the truth of what happened years ago when the king first imprisoned Risokh, and how the king really died.As Risokh slowly begins to recover from his trauma, he becomes much more to Nirithu than an inconvenient responsibility—though Nirithu wonders if Risokh will ever be able to fully return his own growing attraction. In the meantime, Nirithu's search leads him into the study of forbidden sorcery and discovering family secrets he never wanted to know.

Print-maker Peter Marsham can't believe he owns a house of his own on Campion Square, and all from the sale of his artwork. Youngest son of an earl Cecil Montague has been banished to a boarding house on Campion Square by his father. They meet when Peter finds Cecil digging through a rubbish heap to rescue the remains of a pineapple, thinking he's in need of help, and ends up offering to let Cecil attempt to grow the pineapple in his spare room.Just as Peter and Cecil are beginning to sort out their feelings for each other, a series of thefts are reported in the square, and Cecil becomes a suspect. Now they must find a way to clear Cecil while keeping their secrets.a gay - M/M romance set in Regency England approx 80,000 words

He's in it to win it Until he falls under his neighbor's spell. Bram Larkspur's rugged, sexy looks belie his fear of all things horrifying. But as Casper Road's newest resident, he's excited to join the annual Halloween decorating contest. The competition is keen, especially from six-time champion, architect Zachary Glass. But when enigmatic Zachary sparks a prank war, it's game on—until one sizzling kiss turns these rivals into allies. Now only one thing scares Bram: how quickly he's losing his heart to Zachary.From Harlequin Special Edition: Believe in love. Overcome obstacles. Find happiness.Garnet RunBook 1: Better Than PeopleBook 2: Best Laid PlansBook 3: The Lights on Knockbridge LaneBook 4: The Rivals of Casper Road

Savannah Morrison is the new athletic trainer for the Moncton Ice Cats, a professional hockey team in the wilds of New Brunswick. It's a good thing she's got plenty of knowledge and grit, because as the only female trainer in the league, she has to work twice as hard to win the players' respect. The last thing on earth she would do is date one of them. Twelve year hockey veteran Garrick LeBlanc isn't ready to hang up his skates, particularly since he hasn't figured out what the hell he's planning to do next. He needs the new trainer to keep him fit to play, and she's got the skills to do it. Too bad he lost his mind and hit on her the day they met. Now she hates his guts and he's made an art of ignoring her. When the team is put up for sale, Garrick and Savannah have to work together to save their jobs and their team. Somewhere along the way, they discover Garrick isn't just a hockey player, Savannah isn't only passionate about her work, and just maybe they've got...