Kirjahaku

Joshua Hannes, the concierge of the Vivaldi Central Park Hotel prides himself on fulfilling every impossible request. Tickets to a sold-out show? A purple dye job for a purse dog? A last-minute table at a premier hotspot? No problem.But the penthouse guest wants what? Self-made billionaire Craig Ridley's in New York on business, but at the end of the day, he wants to relax with someone interesting. The concierge should be able to supply an entertaining companion. Just for a little conversation. Dinner and a card game, not sex.Craig didn't expect the concierge to personally volunteer to be a rental friend, and he really didn't expect to get attached. How can a paid service ever turn real?A billion reasons why they shouldn't be together. A billion and one reasons why they should.

Every night ski patrol Mark McAvoy relives the avalanche that took a life on his watch. Emotionally fragile and single by choice, he's aghast at his friends' taking charge of his social life. At least hosting a potluck will provide him with a good meal.Invited to the potluck on a whim, Allan Tengerdie catches Mark's eye-and taste buds. This cuddly chef could be perfect for a lonely, hungry skier. Too bad Allan falls better than he skis. When Allan's injured and risks losing his catering company, he's afraid to ask too much of a man he barely knows.Mark wants to help but has his own problems. Was the avalanche a tragic accident or cold-blooded murder? His role in the inquiry leaves Mark in trouble at work, at the mercy of the law, and with too much time on his hands. If he clings tightly to Allan, will they be swept away together?

Jake Landon thinks a second ranger season in the Colorado Rockies with his hyper-competent lover Kurt Carlson is close enough to heaven, and a national forest big enough to be his closet. City life, school-and the luxuries of electricity and running water-can wait, maybe forever, as long as Jake doesn't have to come out. He doesn't plan on Kurt's vision of his future being as narrow and direct as the single track roads through the woods."Your future, your fear, and me," Kurt tells Jake. "You can have two of the three, so choose wisely." Jake may have no choices left after they stumble on armed men guarding a beautiful but deadly crop that doesn't belong among the pines and spruces. Angry men with guns are only one danger in the Colorado wilderness, and Jake's reluctance to come out is now his smallest problem.Kurt's skills and Jake's quick wits may not be enough to get them out of this mess-how much of the blood shed on the mountain will be theirs?

Why did Kurt Carlson become a forest ranger?Long before he met Jake, Kurt climbed the monoliths of Yosemite with his best friend, Benji. But after a storm traps them halfway up the face of El Capitan, Kurt has to accept that their friendship isn't what he thought.Why did Jake Landon become a forest ranger?A trip with his college friends to a hot springs resort should be fun, not disastrous. But for a man who's still deep in the closet, everything that can go wrong does go wrong.Everything leads to two men alone in the wilderness in this prequel to Fire on the Mountain.