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Finding Lisa
Finding Lisa is the story of Lisa Barnes Singleton and her year-long journey, beginning with finding her husband, Robert, in bed with her best friend, to realizing her true nature and potential, personally and professionally. Lisa's journey takes her from Connecticut to South Beach, and then back to New York City. She experiences the thrill of her first real orgasm, and the beauty of a loving and deeply passionate relationship with Gigi, the woman who owns the brownstone she moves into when she arrives in Manhattan. Lisa is also fighting to keep the integrity of the lingerie empire her father built years earlier intact. Despite Lisa's sexual confusion and difficult romantic entanglements that stand in their way, Gigi and Lisa find their way to developing a relationship based on honesty, respect, passion and love.
The Attorney
Attorney Sam Solomon is the most desired trick in the back room of the Music Box, his town's most notorious gay club—and very possibly the loneliest. Sam is tired of one-night stands, and although he likes the world to think he’s too tough for such romantic notions, he secretly longs for the love his friends Jeff and Craig seem to have found. Fortunately for him, he’s just helped set his friends up in business. They run The Male Room, a local Internet dating service for gay men, and Jeff has just the guy in mind for Sam.
Chris Kelly is the last person Sam expected. From his profile, Sam knows that Chris is strong, opinionated, and dominant... in fact, he’s a lot like Sam! Sam may very well have met his match; he just needs to concede that the man he’s falling in love with needs to be his partner in every sense of the word.
The Male Room
Craig just got fired from his dead-end job, and Jeff just got kicked out of his dead-end relationship. Frustrated with their unhappy lives, the two friends decide to let off some steam by going out to the Music Box, the town’s most notorious gay club. But after an unsatisfying night in the back room, Jeff decides there has to be something better for them out there, and he drags a reluctant Craig into starting a fledgling business called The Male Room, an online alternative for the gay dating scene in their area.
Jeff has another motive: Craig has picked up the pieces of Jeff's broken heart more times than he can count, and Jeff has loved him forever. The Male Room is Jeff’s last hope that helping others find love might lead Craig to the one perfect match right in front of him.
Waves of Fortune
Page Count: 240
m/m, contemporary, mystery
Jim Barton, a former hustler trying to escape a painful past, meets Greg Abel at a private Caribbean island resort. Despite significant differences in their ages and family backgrounds—Greg is heir to a technology fortune—sexual attraction draws them to one another and they become lovers. But those differences aren't the only problem when they discover Greg’s older brother has been murdered.
While Jim and Greg agree they are destined to be together, Jim wonders whether love truly exists, and Greg refuses to give himself completely until his brother’s murderer is discovered. They devise a way to flush out the killer, but when the plan goes wrong, it doesn't just mean the killer may go free—it might destroy Jim and Greg’s future.
Veiled Security
Page Count: 222
m/m, contemporary
Del Mathers and Joey Dixon have settled in the West Village of New York City, trying to launch their careers at a local and well-respected drag club. Del is balancing his devotion to his lover and his desire to perform on stage; his drag queen alter-ego, Venus, a bold and sultry chanteuse, exists to mask his identity because he's not out to his family. Joey, a gifted musician and lyricist, treasures Del as his inspiration, but he has his own frustrations and is hiding behind a series of conditions, throwing roadblocks into their uncertain path to complete and unconditional commitment.
As if dealing with a faltering relationship and Del's overbearing parents isn't enough, Del and Joey face danger when a group of homophobic vigilantes starts targeting the gay community. All it takes is a moment’s carelessness, and everything they have struggled to build could be destroyed.
Reviewer: Lilyraines
Review: Oct 24, 2009
Del Mathers and Joey Dixon have graduated from university and moved to New York City. Living there, Del tries to balance his love for Joey and his gift for performing with not being out to his family - and Venus, his stage persona, was created for that very reason. Joey, meaanwhile, has his own issues to deal with - one of which is that he wishes that Del - the inspiration
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