David Michael

Los Angeles-The City of Angels-No star is out of reach and no dream is too big. It's the only place in the world where you can build a Dynasty with nothing but your dick and good looks. Preston is all that remains of the legacy built on the thrusting hips of his father. His older brothers had been Princes of Porn with the world at their feet-Until they fell in love and out of the industry. Mitch has resigned to the idea of being single forever. He can bang who he wants, when he wants, and never has to fight over who makes breakfast the next morning. The life of a bachelor suits him just fine. When the wedding of the century threatens their ways of life, Preston is forced to find a new balance while Mitch struggles to accept the lies he's been telling himself. Will they make it to "I do?" Or will the demands of their bodies destroy the last of the Dick Dynasty?

This compelling first novel by David Michael is set during the turbulent 20s and 30s in the docks area of St. John's, Newfoundland. It is a love story of two people from totally different cultures - Lebanese Maronite Christian and Polish Jewish - trying to make their way. They had to use their wits and ingenuity to survive obstacles ranging from bigamy to fraud, and how they triumphed is told with a depth of skill and compassion that engages the reader from start to finish. David Michael has made a dramatic debut into Canadian Literature with this, the first book of a trilogy.The international best-selling author, Wayne Johnston, said that Love Will Out is "... a uniquely captivating love story of a sort I've never read before."

In an effort to escape a lifetime of bad luck and worse decisions, Luke decided to take a giant risk and leave Los Hermanos in his past where they belonged. Unfortunately, Los Hermanos took the saying "blood in, blood out" VERY seriously.When his long lost foster sister and her new boyfriend show up at his hospital bed willing to commit felonies in an effort to get him out of his guarded hospital room, he suddenly finds himself burdened with the fact that his actions had now brought innocent people into a firefight that he had tried to avoid all together.As he struggles to push the only family he has left to a safe distance, a heavy sense of dread settles in around him and every instinct he has tells him that something far worse than Los Hermanos is coming.Pushing them away and sacrificing himself seems to be his only option, but Sarah and Makkar have other plans. For better or worse, they intend on being there to the very end.The very. Bitter. End.

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