I didn't know if I'd ever see him again.

Adam Kane. My best friend, stepbrother... and the guy I fell for when I was eighteen.

Three and a half years ago, Adam had a choice to make.

Spoiler alert—he didn't choose me.

He left me after our high school graduation and took my heart with him.

Now he's back, living with me and my teammates, and the real kicker? He wants to be friends again. Brothers. He wants things to go back to the way they were before. Before he broke me.

Before he broke us.

My happy-go-lucky facade is slipping, and the person I keep caged beneath the surface is starting to become visible through the cracks.

I shouldn't be allowing him back into my life. It's too risky. But I can't push him away. Consequences be damned, I find myself doing the opposite, unable to resist taking everything I've ever wanted.

I've waited long enough. Now that he's within reach, I'm not letting him get away a second time.

I'm making him mine again.

And I'll do whatever it takes to keep him.

Paxton Walsh has a comfortable life, which wasn’t always the case. But ever since he left his tumultuous life on the West Coast, trading it for a new beginning on the East Coast, things have settled. He can thank himself for the change, but also his boss and friend, Colton Gates. Their relationship is…a bit too codependent and close for most people to understand, but it works perfectly for them. So what if thoughts can be conveyed with a glance? That doesn’t really mean anything. Or at least not what other people think.

But now a threat from Pax’s past is back, shattering that hard-won peace. With Pax in danger and needing protection, Colton immediately steps up and takes him in. Without distance, though, without retreating to separate homes, both men have to be honest about their feelings. The truth is, Pax was hurt, body and soul, and if he reaches for Colton and finds they can’t be more, he’ll lose everything. If Colton does the same and it doesn’t work, he’ll lose Pax, his best friend and the person who knows him better than anyone. With both of them terrified of the what-ifs, it might be too hard to have faith and jump. If only they could both be brave.

Calix Valimir doesn’t know what’s going on anymore.

He thought he understood this dark attraction between him and the doctor, but it turns out he didn’t understand a thing. Not only is Aodhan not who he thought he was, with every torturous touch and forced embrace, Cal is starting to realize he might not have known himself very well either.

Aodhan Solace is done playing nice.

He hates that game anyway. There’s a different one he’d much rather be playing, and once he’s enticed the detective enough to ensnare him, he wastes no more time on pretend. Aodhan has a devilish nature and all of the appetites that come along with it, but he’s certain Calix can handle all that he and Mercy. Even if the detective believes otherwise.

Titus Mercer controls the board.

He always has, always will. His brief past with Calix set him on a path of yearning that first led him to Aodhan before circling back to the one who started it all. As a Connect, a being that must collect life partners and complete a pod before their hundredth birthday, Titus is rather single-minded when it comes to getting what he wants.

And what he wants is Aodhan and Calix.

Forever.

No matter what it takes or how depraved he has to become to have them.

Rhett Ouston loves his job as the captain of the Milvus team. He was born for the world of covert ops, secret missions, and tactical training.
 
And the best part? He gets to do it all with the love of his life by his side—Milvus team medic Jay Lin.
 
But then two new men are added to his team, along with doubts and secrets, and everything goes sideways.
 
Thrown into the deep end in a country they shouldn’t be in, with no help from HQ, Rhett doesn’t know who to trust. And when the mission they’re on to stop a global terrorism deal goes to hell, tensions and trust within his team implode.
 
“Trust your instincts,” Jay tells him. “They’ve never failed you yet.”
 
So Rhett digs in, determined to do the one thing he knows how. He’s going to make this team work even if it kills him.
 
And it very well might.

Sometimes what happens anonymously in a dingy, pay by the hour motel room shows up a month later to reveal himself as your new coach…

I have rules. Very important rules. No real names, no strings, no seeing each other again. It’s always worked out well for me, and it’s the only thing that keeps me focused as I try to climb my way into professional hockey after nearly torching my career.

I should have been king of the ice in the paraprofessional league, but instead, I let my anger and bitterness get to me. Now I’m forced to claw my way back into relevance, starting with a community team.

That would be fine if the one amazing, anonymous night I had with a total stranger didn’t end up being the Wolves’ new coach. And even that might have been tolerable if Hugo wasn’t on my father’s payroll.

But he is.

And to make matters worse, I still want him. My bad attitude and attempt to drive him away doesn’t faze him at all, and the more I push, the more he pulls me back into the last place I want to be: his orbit.

All I want is to join the PPHL and prove to myself that I’m a worthy player on my own merit.

Lust wasn’t on the table. And neither was love.

But the closer I get to Hugo, the more I realize that I’m not sure I want to do this without him…and the more I realize I’m not sure if I can.

Nate meets a stranger at a party, and in the span of seventeen minutes, his life changes.

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Marcos meets a stranger at a party and wonders if the universe is laughing at him. His life has become a seemingly endless stream of bad days. Everything is a struggle, from his friendship with Max, to the simple act of changing in the locker room after a baseball game. Stress and anxiety sit so heavy on his shoulders, he can barely function under the weight of it. Starting a relationship is the very last thing he wants or feels he deserves. Particularly when Nate— beautiful, gregarious, and kind Nate— could have anybody he wanted.

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If there is one thing Marcos knows, it’s this: Nate deserves someone far better than him.

But despite his best efforts to keep him away, Nate persists. He knows what he wants. He wants Marcos. He wants to coax him out of his shell, take him horseback riding, and treat him right. Seventeen minutes isn’t enough for Nate and Marcos.