Angelique Jurd

Twenty six year old Jesse Peterson knows he's not stupid, but nobody else seems to know that. They just see a good looking young man whose smile seems to be the brightest thing about him. So, when the store's newest customer, buying supplies for his kitten, asks Jesse out, he has trouble understanding why. Drew Oliver isn't most people. A high school teacher with a history of bad relationship choices, Drew is patient, loving, and doesn't care that Jesse is different. He just cares about being able to make Jesse smile as often as he can. Everyone seems to have an opinion about the differences between Drew and Jesse, few notice the things they share. Can their relationship survive the scrutiny and judgement passed by everyone around them? And when one of Drew's bad choices shows up, will love be enough to help them survive the aftermath? So, when the store's newest customer, buying supplies for his kitten, asks him out, Jesse has trouble understanding why. Jesse knows he's not stupid, but nobody else seems to know that. They just see a good-looking young man whose smile seems to be the brightest thing about him. Drew Oliver isn't other people. A high school teacher with a history of bad relationship choices, Drew is patient, loving, and doesn't care that Jesse is different. He just cares about being able to make him smile as often as he can. Everyone seems to have an opinion about the differences between Drew and Jesse, few notice the things they share. Can their relationship survive the scrutiny and judgement passed by everyone around them? And when one of Drew's bad choices shows up, will love be enough to help them survive the aftermath?

Jesse's Smile

After escaping an abusive eight year relationship, Joey Harkin is rebuilding his life. He keeps a low profile, does his job, and each day things get a little better. Until the day he reports his team leader to the department manager and he finds himself summoned to the Managing Director's office. Rick Southwell has a good life. He's a successful business man with a close circle of friends and when he needs something more ... stimulating... there's always the boys at the club. All of them willing to act out whatever scene Daddy Rick asks for. He has no interest in anything deep or permanent. Until the night he has to rescue Joey Harkin - the man Rick has just promoted - from being beaten up. As Rick begins to unravel Joey's story, it doesn't take long for his natural instincts surface and he wants just one thing: to protect and care for Joey. Getting Joey to trust him turns out to be the easy part. Getting Joey to let go of his fear and embrace his new life is much more challenging. TRIGGER WARNING: This book contains reference to repeated domestic abuse, both physical and mental.

Joey

For over a year now, it's been the same thing. At six o'clock every night Connor starts watching the door for him. Like clockwork, every night the guy with the sad eyes comes into the bar, orders a single drink, and leaves again. He never speaks. Never smiles. Just drinks and leaves. Until the night he orders a second drink and Connor finally gets him to speak. After the brief conversation, Connor is more intrigued than ever - but it's not until a chance meeting after work one evening that he even learns the guy's name. Two years ago, a fire left Lucas with emotional and physical scars he is still receiving treatment for. A year ago, his partner, unable to cope with the aftermath of the event, left him. Battling nightmares, depression, and guilt, Lucas is turning more and more to vodka for company. Until he drops his pizza order and the guy who steps in to help him is the cute bar tender who has been serving his drinks for the past year. Can Connor understand the true horror of what happened to Lucas? Can Lucas accept Connor's feelings and start looking to the future instead of the past? Recovery is a stand-alone contemporary gay romance. (Originally published as individual short stories - Phoenix, Dove, and, Eagles - Recovery compiles all three stories and expands the story with new material to a full-length novel.)

Recovery

Just months after breaking up with his boyfriend, Noah Jenkins inherits his grandfather's farm and he decides it's time for a change of scenery. He packs his bags, buys a dog, and moves onto the property. When his Labrador puppy Daisy gets hurt he meets local vet Hunter Ross and life starts to look interesting again. Hunter Ross has always lived in small, conservative Newton, in rural Illinois. At 39 he's never been in love and never had a lover and may have neglected to tell anyone he's close to that he's gay. It's never been a problem - until Daisy, Yellow and her owner Noah show up. Is Noah's love enough for Hunter to risk everything? Does Hunter have the strength to make the hardest choices he'll ever make and survive?

Daisy, Yellow

Can Joey let go of his fear and trust Rick to lead him to a life of love and acceptance?After Blake's arrest, Joey struggles to make peace with his past. Building a life with Rick turns out to be more challenging than either of them expected. They hope a trip will help them find the balance they both need, but they are about to discover that healing the scars from the past is not as simple as packing a bag. In order to come together, Joey and Rick must redefine not just what it means to be in a Daddy/Boy relationship but what that means for them. The problem is that it might require something that Joey is terrified to give again: trust. Book 3 of 3TRIGGER WARNING: This book contains reference to repeated sexual, physical, and mental abuse

(Joey - Part 3)

Trust

The Beach House is the first installment in The San Capistrano Series, following the story of a chance meeting between pediatraic nurse, Alex Davis, and lawyer, Ben Larsen, at a rock concert. Alex is a shy, quiet man who keeps to himself, the product of a judgemental and abusive upbringing. At a concert he meets Ben. Confident and comfortable with his life, Ben has only ever known unconditional acceptance in his family. When Ben asks him out, Alex assumes it will be like every date he's had: casual and unimportant. He doesn't count on falling in love. Will Ben be enough to help Alex turn his back on a lifetime of rejection and accept that he can be happy?

The Beach House

Two years have passed since Ben and Alex met at a rock concert and fell in love. Living together in the city and regularly visiting Polly and Ally at the Beach House, the pair have no idea their happy life is about to be turned upside with both a happy event and devastating news. When Ben is shot by a client's abusive spouse, Alex is forced to find strength nobody knew he had.Book 2 of a continuing series.

Tides of Love

Picking up immediately after Tides of Love, Winds of Change follows Ben and Alex as they face Allie's illness and embark on a new stage of their life together. For the first time in his life Ben can't control what is happening in his life. Can Alex provide the strength he'll need to get through the coming months?

Winds of Change

Ben and Alex have been happily married for six years, living in the beach house left to them by Ben's mother Allie. Their two daughters, Ally and Lucy, help Ben's grandmother Polly keep both men on their toes. Life seems perfect. When Alex's mother turns up, however, she opens old wounds and reveals things Alex never wanted Ben to know. Can their relationship - and their family - survive Janice's hatred of her son? Can Alex?

Stormy Seas

The court case is over. Alex and Ben can concentrate on healing the wounds inflicted by Alex's mother, Janice. As they find their way back to a normal family life Alex begins to experience life in ways he never has before. When he takes up a role in a free clinic, he encounters a teenage boy who has been neglected and rejected by his parents. Will Alex be able to cope when he and Ben decide to take the boy in? Will the new family member help him take the last steps into the lightness of being loved?

Scattered Shells

Life is good in San Capistrano. Alex is happy and recovering after the drama of the last few years. Ben has settled into a contented life with his law practice, his family, and scotch. Ally and Lucy are growing up too fast and foster son Jamie seems settled in his new life with them and his boyfriend Leo. Nobody is prepared for what is around the corner. How will the family cope when they're once more thrust into turmoil? And how will Alex cope with what may be the biggest challenge he has faced so far?

(The San Capistrano Series Book 6)

Safe Haven

Joey Harkin keeps a low profile. He goes to work each day, keeps to himself and makes sure nobody notices him. It's the only way he can be sure the man who has tortured him for eight years won't find him. The only way he can be sure he'll be safe. Everything is calm in Joey's life, until he's summoned to the Managing Director's office.Rick Southwell is a successful man. Smart, attractive, wealthy. He has a close circle of friends and when he needs something more ... stimulating... there's always The Club. There is no shortage of men there willing to act out whatever scene Daddy Rick asks for. He has no interest in anything deep or permanent. Until the night he has to rescue Joey Harkin - the man he has just promoted - from being beaten up.Bit by bit, Rick learns Joey's story. Day by day his desire to protect and care for Joey grows stronger. Little by little, he falls in love. Getting Joey to trust him turns out to be the easy part. Getting Joey to let go of his fear and embrace his new life is much more challenging.Joey: The Complete Unabridged Story brings together the Joey's Story trilogy, newly edited and expanded, with never before released material. It is a stand-alone novel of more than 100,000 words featuring age-gap, mild kink, and hurt comfort themes.TRIGGER WARNING: This book contains reference to domestic abuse, both physical and mental.

The Complete Unabridged Story

What if the thing you want doesn’t make you weird? What if it makes you unique? What if, for the right person, it makes you perfect? Bailey Richards is more than a shy, awkward, virgin who has never been on a date and who trips over his own feet. Sam Thurston owns an adult toy shop that has trouble shaking off its skeevy image. Together, they'll find out what. After stumbling onto an interesting form of play online, Bailey needs to know more. To explore. Unfortunately that means he needs to buy a … thing. He can’t even say the word in his head without blushing. He needs to buy a tail. Ponies need tails right? Bailey has found the one he wants and oh how he wants it. The trouble is, not only is the glorious rainbow tail for a unicorn, it’s also been out of Bailey's price range … until now. After working in construction most of his life, Sam Thurston bought The Pleasure Palace six months ago with a plan to revive it as something a little more upmarket. It has, however, been more challenging than he expected. Even coming up with a better name than The Pleasure Palace has been problematic. As if trying to get the shop to finally show a profit while finding a name that doesn’t make him cringe when he answers the phone isn’t hard enough, he keeps getting distracted. There's a young man who comes in regularly to look at one piece of merchandise: the rainbow tail on display at the back of the store. Having checked his ID, Sam knows he’s twenty-five and that his name is Bailey. He also knows that with his long blond hair, deep blue eyes, and fine features, he may be the most beautiful man Sam has ever seen... or wanted.

Pet Me

Pascal Hare, Holder of the Basket, has a reputation. Everyone in Edelweiss Grove knows he likes to party and have fun. He especially likes sexy fun – and has his own internet channel for his little clips. Despite being the best Holder of the Basket in memory, Pascal’s antics don’t appeal to everyone. Like his father for example, who is determined to put an end to his behavior. Pascal doesn’t care what his father wants – he’s far too distracted by the arrival of the new chocolatier from Paris. Michel Griotte is a master chocolatier who has come to help Pascal shake up his Special Day. Amused by Pascal’s behavior, Michel soon finds himself attracted to the naughty Fae and caught up in all kinds of sexy mischief. Will Pascal’s father finally accept his son or is there something more sinister afoot in The Grove?

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