I’ll do anything not to marry the girl my parents want me to.

Including marrying her brother in a drunken panic.

I’m not gay, but I can fake it long enough to get our parents off my back, right?

Cue hiding out for the next two years, but nothing is that simple, because I’m offered a spot on the US National team.
Now we have to fake it for the entire world as the poster boys of gay fencers while Colin makes me doubt everything I think I am.

I’m not prepared for all the ways I depend on Colin. Or the place he’s filling in my life.
But I can’t keep this up.

I’m slipping on a national stage.

And he’s going to press every button until I snap, ruining this for us both.

A Devil of Vitality always draws first blood.

Berga Obsidian is only good for one thing.

As the Butcher of the Brumal mafia, Berga spends his days between the university and his lab, constantly caught up in one experiment or another. Everyone knows his name, and everyone fears him, but very few get close enough to learn who he really is. Even fewer actually want to. He's spent his entire life trying to make up for a mistake made as a child and is haunted by literal ghosts of the past dressed in pink tulle. Locking himself away periodically to protect himself and those around him has become second nature, that is until one mix-up with a Royal changes everything.

Madden Odell can do no wrong.

He comes from a prestigious and powerful family and is best friends with the Imperial Prince. By day, he trains at the military academy, keeping up appearances, and by night he runs the illegal street races down at the Docks. He's never wanted for anything for longer than a minute before it's his, that is until Berga strolls in and shakes up his world. Technically, they've known each other for years, but they've never been close. One night of rough and twisted debauchery and suddenly Madden is desperate to change that. By any means necessary.

But Berga is far from what he seems, with an unexpected past trauma and a strong fear of abandonment. The two of them also come from different sides of the same coin. Berga is part of the Satellite, a group created to protect the head of the mafia, whereas Madden's position with the prince means he stands with the Imperial family. Even if they can somehow work through their differences and learn to rely on one another, will their leaders ever allow their relationship to strengthen?

Or will the two of them have to choose? The life they've always known, or each other?

Wren:
These days I’m a keeper: I keep to myself, keep busy, and keep my head down.

Until him.

Sutton Holland. Annoying, arrogant, spoiled man-child extraordinaire.

And he’s not even trying to hide any of it.

He says he’s shallow.

That he’s blunt to the point of offensive.

That I shouldn’t like him.

So I don’t.

At first.

But then I accidentally get to know him.

And the more I see, the more I start to suspect that maybe he’s not so arrogant, spoiled, and shallow after all.

That maybe he’s just a really good liar.

And that maybe—maybe—he’s everything I never knew I was looking for.

MATEO
Have you ever had to sit by and watch the love of your life meet the love of his life?Have you had to sit there and pretend you were oh-so okay with it? Because, you know, you were supposed to have moved on by now.

Yeah right.

I am drowning and spiralling, living my life so deeply in the closet I can hardly see for all the fear and internalised hangups. My career as a top model is right within my grasp too if only I can see past my family’s judgement and disapproval and reach for it.

And then Jamie steps into my life in the most dramatic of ways, the sexy paramedic from the town next door who is about to shake things up for me in ways I never saw coming. He’s pretty much perfect in every way and I can’t fight the allure we both seem to have for each other, the one that makes me break all my rules.

But can I ever shake my heartache to let Jamie capture my heart and give him the love he deserves? He keeps telling me I’m worth it. But I don’t know if I can believe him.

The moment I catch sight of the new coach, a spark ignites. Do we risk it all with a secret affair?

Jonah
I’m minding my own business when he struts into our locker room.

His confidence and sex appeal in his fitted suit and million-dollar smile are undeniable.

After picking my jaw off the floor, I collect myself. I need to find out more about him.

Do I follow him around? Yes. Do I make a fool of myself? Maybe.

While celebrating a win at the gay bar, my temper flares when I see him with another man. Do I dare take a chance?

Ryan
The first day at my new coaching job, he’s there. A winger whose dark hair and light blue eyes have me stumbling over my first words to the team.

Personal relations with players aren’t allowed. But he plays offense and I coach defense, so does it count?

Everywhere I go, he’s there. Tempting me.

My resolve is crumbling and I’m struggling to keep my distance.

When he catches me at a gay bar in a compromising position, it’s game over. Can we keep this hidden?

A dirty secret in the library. An enemy to help keep it hidden.
 

Dane used to like staying late at the library. Not only is it a quiet place, allowing him to concentrate on his studies, but the third-floor men’s restroom harbors a dirty secret that makes this his favorite spot.
 

Until Ty, a new temp, starts working at the library. Dane can’t stand him. He’s of no help when Dane can’t find a specific book. He’s overly attentive when it comes to noise, to such an extent that he’s the one disturbing everyone with it, and all in all—what business got a jock like him in a library anyway?
 

But things change when a chance encounter offers an opportunity Dane couldn’t have imagined and finds hard to resist.