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A casual Palm Springs pool party chat leads to a whirlwind May-December romance. Mature, best-selling author Reid Hamilton is easily seduced by mixed race Tyler Covington. Even though Reid is wealthy, he’s convinced Ty is not after his money since Ty owns a successful restaurant. When Ty is approached by an investor group to franchise his elegant restaurant in China, Reid is supportive, but skeptical. Something goes terribly wrong during Ty’s first trip to China, and Reid is forced to examine many of his beliefs and choices in this interracial, intergenerational, international gay romance.

When Quinn takes on a new Incline Village landscaping client high above Lake Tahoe he has no idea how dramatically his life will change. Hired to transform a huge tract of bare land into a masterpiece, Quinn and his crew toil for months to finish the job. After working hard all week, Quinn bonds with his wealthy older client over dinner each Friday night. Turning obscure patents into cash cows, Reese looks forward to the Friday dinners with his landscaper. With extremely different lifestyles, Quinn and Reese find enough common ground to begin dating. Age and income differences disappear ...

When his mother enters an assisted living facility, Chase Nolan returns to his Iowa hometown to oversee her care. Chase quickly discovers he can’t trust his mother’s caregivers. As he seeks justice for the physical abuse his mother suffered, Chase creates a new family of choice to care for her. A chance meeting with a high school classmate reveals a mutual attraction. As Chase falls in love with Mike, he pursues his legal claim against River Oaks, and it becomes clear something is seriously wrong at the facility he trusted to care for his mother.

One morning Remick discovers a drug company startup receives approval for its cancer drug sending its stock price soaring. Remick quickly cashes in his shares, allowing him to pursue his dream. He quits his job as a management consultant and buys a condo in Vegas to minimize his tax burden in Missouri. Next, he self-publishes a novel he’s been working on for years and promotes it himself. His ebook becomes a bestseller while Remick gets a makeover in Beverly Hills. Success attracts attention from potential lovers, mainstream publishers, former clients, and domestic terrorists. Remick ...

Eric Price. Gay. Recovering alcoholic. Attractively packaged. Loyal. Extremely driven. Secretive. Former military officer who rises quickly to one of the top jobs in Corporate America. The reason for Eric’s obsession with power gradually becomes clear as he creates the most unique organization in the world. More than a coming-of-age romance, this story examines how luck, split-second decisions, and sheer willpower determine the trajectory of a person’s life. As Eric discovers a higher purpose, he also finds the two things he has sought his entire adult life.

Before beginning his winter home search in Palm Springs, aspiring snowbird Griffin visits a piano bar on Open Mic Night. Expecting nothing more than amateur entertainment, Griffin meets an attractive young singer and they spend the night together. Lucas reveals singing show tunes is just a distraction while he completes his doctorate, the first of many surprises. Quakes, litigious neighbors, a Malibu beach house, and a sick ex-lover bring Griffin and Lucas closer. Initially reluctant to make a long-term commitment, Griffin discovers compelling reasons to change his mind.

When two boys meet the first day of their high school senior year they navigate the obstacle course of gay romance, exams, parental expectations and peer acceptance. Helping each other overcome multiple challenges, they make it to graduation, but soon after they part ways. Decades later mutual need brings them together again. One needs the other to save his career. And one needs the other to save his life.

Four small town high school friends become two gay couples during their senior year. Leaving their homes behind, they share a New York City apartment while earning university degrees. After graduation, three of the group pursue music careers while the fourth becomes a newspaper reporter. Fully embracing all New York has to offer, they become fixtures in the party scene, blissfully unaware there might be a price to pay for their fun. Follow the foursome as some dreams come true while others wither and die.

Eddy is living the American dream. Young, sexy, healthy, and openly gay, Eddy has it all. Successful café operator in Kansas City’s Country Club Plaza, one of the Midwest’s premier retail areas. Trendy condo overlooking the Plaza. Adorable mixed race face. A body to die for. One of KC’s Thirty-Under-30. Eddy is in the many-friends-with-benefits stage of his life. When Eddy offers to help one of his customers find an old friend, he has no idea he’s about to lose everything he owns, but find everything he’s always wanted.

Several bar and bathhouse buddies form relationships which survive from the pre-AIDS era to the pre-Covid era. Their lives take heartbreaking twists as they build an innovative enterprise. Highly successful, their new venture enables them to make a difference in the lives of people around them. Follow Ryden, Cale, Marty, Byron, Trajan and Josh as they create a place where whores and heroes are equally welcome.

With a delicate balance of power both inside and outside the United States, American progressives are elated when they take control of the White House and hold a razor thin margin in the Senate. During a fundraising trip, the first African-American female President is assassinated, thrusting her gay Vice President into the spotlight. Moments after being sworn in, the new President is informed an American ally is about to be invaded. Vastly outnumbered, the new President asks his advisers for options. The most junior officer in the room urges using a new weapon. When the President agrees, a ...

We know what causes aging and how to slow it. Recent experiments prove aging can be reversed with a combination of existing drugs and additives. Once an anti-aging cocktail is approved for sale, will everyone want to turn their body clocks back? How far back will they choose to go? Will it be available to everyone? How much will it cost? When Brock and Adrian find each other after turning their biological clocks back several decades, they discover growing young again has both thrills and challenges.

From closeted homosexual to openly gay man, Dylan’s odyssey spans two generations. Broke, unemployed, and forced to drop out of college, Dylan enlists in the Air Force during the Vietnam War. Along the way he falls in love, has his heart broken, and meets men who change his life forever. Who will Dylan marry when it finally becomes legal? The spotted drag queen? The veteran with the blond ponytail? The Chinese medical student? The drop-dead gorgeous high school classmate? Someone else?

This collection of essays deals with the situated management of risk in a wide variety of organizational settings. The emphasis in these contributions is upon the variety of ways in which organizational actors, in combination with a range of material technologies and artifacts, such as safety reporting systems, risk maps, and key risk indicators, accomplish and make sense of the normal work of managing risk - riskwork.

Dalton dreads returning to the city he left 25 years earlier to see his sister one last time. After checking into his hotel he drives by all the old familiar places. Spotting a gay bar-restaurant near the college campus Dalton stops for dinner. Nearly deserted, the charming waiter explains most students have left for the summer. After some innocent flirting, Tate lets Dalton know he’s available to date. Deciding a night with Tate might be a good distraction they spend the night together. Neither realize how much their lives are about to change.

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MICHAEL POWER#1 Best Selling Author, CPA, Speaker, Marathoner & Entrepreneur Dad to Three Beautiful Daughters Michael has started multiple revenue-generating companies both in the U.S. and Europe. After hitting rock-bottom and being crippled by the mental and physical effects of fear, he strives to share his experiences and techniques on how he overcame that fear with others. He is the host of the Alpha Dad Project Podcast and has learned to conquer fear through examining it, learning from it, leaving the past behind, and adopting gratitude and a positive outlook for the future. He's also an ...

An engineered virus that attacks the brain leaks from a research lab and spreads quickly, causing infected people to go into psychotic rage. Before almost anyone knows what is happening, a well-armed America is terrorized by a pandemic of violence. Kanetha Wilson—friend of the first victim—is first to recognize that something is not as it seems. She inspires a small cadre of scientists and others into a breakneck, lonely, and lawless mission to identify and stop the murder plague.