Kirjahaku

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 businessman 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.

Three months have passed since Joey moved in with Rick. The trauma of Joey's past is never far from the surface but it's not stopping them from building a life together. Until the night Joey walks into his abuser in a restaurant and they are forced to face reality: Blake is still in control. Convinced he can never be free of the man who tortured him for so long, Joey prepares to run. When Blake attacks Maisie - the first real friend Joey's ever had - Joey wonders if he has what it takes to stand up to him at last. Book 2 of 3 TRIGGER WARNING: This book contains reference to repeated domestic sexual, physical, and mental abuse.

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.

Even the happiest news can't stop what is coming. Ben and Alex embark on a new stage of their life together and Ben, for the first time in his life, can't control what is happening around him. The news that he and Alex are going to be parents is overshadowed by his mother's illness.Will Ally live long enough to meet her granddaughter? Can Alex provide the strength Ben will need to get through the coming months?Book 3 of an ongoing series, featuring the same couple, Winds of Change deals with love, life, and death.

Hollywood celebrity, Rian Johns has a habit of leaving a mess behind him. Flamboyant, cocky, and intent on having a good time, after being caught by both the police and the media with his pants quite literally down, his studio sends him to cool off and sober up. He shouldn't be able to get in any trouble on the Oregon Coast. After the death of his son's mother, Mason Andrews came home to Cliffport to raise him. Owner of a small bar and grill, Mason has spent his time focused on his son and his business. Twelve years later, as he prepares for Jake to leave for college, the very last thing Mason Andrews needs or wants is any kind of trouble. Rian, it seems, has other plans.

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?

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?

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?

When it comes to love - what is really important?Drew has a history of making bad relationship choices. Until one day, at the pet store, he encounters an intriguing young man with a beautiful smile: Jesse.Neurodiverse Jesse loves pop culture and the animals he cares for in the store. Drew is a high school teacher who has written a book on American poetry and loves Shakespeare and classical music.How can their relationship survive when everyone around them constantly reminds them of the differences separating them?When one of Drew's bad choices from the past shows up, it sets in motion a confusing and heartbreaking chain of events that tests their relationship. How can Drew and Jesse prove to their friends and family that what brings them together is stronger than what sets them apart? Can they demonstrate that sometimes, when it comes to love, the most important thing in the world is a smile? Jesse's Smile is a standalone MM romance featuring a slight age gap, hurt/comfort, opposites who attract, and a very sweet young man finding love in a world that doesn't consider him worthy of it.

When rejection is all you've known, love can be hard to accept.Alex Davis knows there is no happy ever after for him and he's okay with that. He has his work, he has his brother, and he has the occasional hook up - and he never has to tell anyone about his past. When he meets Ben at a rock concert and agrees to go on a date with him, Alex assumes it will be just another casual hook up.He doesn't count on Ben's confidence or determination.He doesn't count on Ben falling in love with him - even when Alex tells him his secret.Most of all he doesn't count on falling in love with Ben.The Beach House is Book One in an ongoing series, featuring the same couple, with themes of hurt/comfort, rejection, and self-acceptance.TRIGGER WARNING: Mentions of attempted suicide.