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1) Joys R Us
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Reece is a practical, orderly man, a financial analyst who considers most holiday events wasteful. But his sister coerces him into standing in line overnight for this year's must-have toy. Supplies prove smaller than expected, and Reece gets trampled in the resulting stampede. Toy store manager Angel tends to Reece's wounds. When Angel discovers Reece's cynical attitude, he invites Reece to spend Christmas Eve with him. Over the course of the day,...
2) Bread Crumbs
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With their band on the brink of stardom, Johnny Gehrings is cast out by his stepmother and half brothers because he's not pretty enough for social media. He takes some solace when Zimri Hayes quits the band too-beautiful Zimri, who is Johnny's secret heart's desire.A job at a grocery store and a part-time music gig at a drag club pay the bills, but Johnny is still emotionally adrift, a wanderer abandoned in the forest. And when Zimri is offered a...
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Alone in a new town, psychology professor Shawn Daly has resigned himself to a quiet, solitary Christmas. Then he nearly runs over a stray dog. She's not seriously injured-but it turns out she has other plans for Shawn's winter break. And that cute guy down the block with the friendly Newfoundland dog? Turns out he's a big part of those plans.Dogs may bring shedding fur and a heap of responsibilities. But they may also be just the right thing to give...
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Miles Thorsen's adopted family is… unusual. But that's not why he fled after graduating from college. Now, after ten years of restless wandering, he returns home for the winter holiday celebration. The solstice is a time of change, and perhaps it's time for Miles to face who he is, who he loves… and who he'll become.
5) Firestones
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Born with a deformed foot and abandoned as a young child, Brand spent his youth in indentured servitude to a mediocre wizard. Now Brand is grown, but with no other prospects to support himself, he remains in his master's employ, doing small chores and selling firestones on the bleak streets of Greynox. Until one bitterly cold day.In this dark take on a classic fairy tale, Brand encounters the most sinister of magics. With his firestones gone, can...
6) Treasure
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Julian Massey has always been sickly. When the young man's parents send him to the seaside town of Urchin Cove to recuperate, he finds himself stranded in a tiny cabin with only the quirky local inhabitants for company. Then a storm blows through, and he finds an unexpected discovery washed up on the beach: an unconscious man.After stealing a treasure, Kit Archer is taken prisoner by a ruthless pirate, Captain Booth. When a storm hits the pirate ship,...
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Captured young and enslaved by the Romans, Sabbio died while building Diocletian's palace. For seventeen hundred years he has haunted the city of Split, watching and listening as people pass through the old palace; but he is always alone. One afternoon he spies a handsome but sad man at a café, and Sabbio is intrigued.Eight months earlier, landscaper Mason Gould's husband was randomly murdered. In an attempt to comfort him, friends and family take...
8) Regifted
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It's December, and although Chrys Carvalho loves his home among the trees in the California Sierras, he's a little lonely. While trying to find a new owner for a motorcycle-gifted by Chrys to his late husband-he meets handsome rancher Monroe Ogden. Monroe would dearly love to own the bike, but it's out of his budget. In the spirit of the holidays, Chrys offers the motorcycle as a gift-and gets a new friend in return.When friendship turns to something...
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Created out of clay to protect the citizens of Mala Lubovnya from persecution, the golem is strong but desperately lonely. He is confined to an attic, and his only joy comes from listening to the evening prayers and watching a stonemason work across the street. Then the golem meets the mason-Jakob-who gives him the name Emet and becomes Emet's friend. But Jakob is caught between his faith and his attraction to men, while Emet knows he may eventually...
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Very little is merry in a private dick's world.Private detective Nick Bozic works the mean streets of 1950s Portland, Oregon, shadowing unfaithful spouses and nabbing thieving employees. He may be lonely, but at least he's not crooked. Despite the festive season, Christmas simply means less dough in his pocket.With the holiday only a few days away, a regular client drops a new case on him: yet another being has come through the Rift and needs help...
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It's finals week during Tony McNeil's second year in law school, and he's struggling to keep up. Frankly, he'd rather be cooking. Then he meets first-year student Eddie Cohen-Fernandez, who's heartsick over missing his family's annual Festivus celebration. Tony can use his culinary skills to lift Eddie's spirits, but finding long-term happiness? That just might require a Festivus miracle.
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Dom is an aging house-android, toiling away for the cruel and ungrateful owners of an inn. He secretly dreams of freedom, friendship, and love. When an inn guest offers him the chance to attend a grand masquerade ball, Dom jumps at the opportunity. For a few precious hours he enjoys a level of independence he had never imagined-and the company of a handsome and kind prince of industry.Until the clock strikes midnight.
13) Gravemound
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Grimm in spaaaaace!In this retelling of a classic fairy tale, Phineas Coleman is stranded on a planet far from home and must find a way to support himself in this new land. A selfish local man offers to help him with a livelihood if Phin will promise to protect him from a soul-reaper. Three nights alone while watching over a gravemound sounds like a terrifying chore-until Phin receives some unexpected assistance.
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This collection contains the fourth and fifth Bureau novellas.CHAINEDAn agent for the Bureau of Trans-Species Affairs? That's the best job in the world. And it's enough for Terry Brandt, who doesn't need personal relationships complicating his life. His newest assignment puts him undercover, investigating a Hollywood agent who may have some evil tricks up his sleeve.Edge is not the man he appears to be. Although he's a member of the Hollywood agent's...
15) The Dance
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After several deaths and near-deaths, chemist and introvert Bram Tillman wishes the last year would unhappen. Then a beautiful man shows up at his door, warning him that more danger lies ahead. Daniel Royer promises to use vodou ceremonies to help Bram discover what's trying to kill him. But while Bram feels a growing attraction to Daniel, vodou spirits change Bram in unexpected ways.
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August Hayling went west following the discovery of gold in California. While most prospectors were hoping to strike it rich, August was more interested in a place big enough to let him get lost. Sitting alone in a saloon, he is approached by a peculiar man named Georgios Cappadocia, who offers August a fortune in gold if August will come along and help him fetch it. August soon learns that his strange new employer is engaged in some kind of ancient...
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A sickly man seeks recovery in a seaside cottage. A temple slave tends a man due to be sacrificed. A soldier releases a genie. In seven fantasy short stories and novellas, men find passion with other men in the most unexpected places, and even the gravest circumstances may open the door to hope and love.This anthology includes two brand-new short stories. In "The Sacrifice," Rylo is a temple slave tasked with comforting a man who is scheduled to be...
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This collection contains the ninth and tenth Bureau novellas.CAUGHTArt Gundersen did not make it as an agent with the Bureau of Trans-Species Affairs. But when Chief Townsend orders him out of the lab and into the mountains of northern California to collect evidence from a murder scene, Art's happy to go. He looks forward to tromping around in the wilderness-and finds he enjoys the company of the forest technician who discovered the hiker's corpse...
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This collection contains the first three Bureau novellas: CorruptionOnce a proud demon of the night sky who carried nightmares to humans, Tenrael has spent decades in captivity as the star attraction of a traveling carnival. He exists in miserable servitude to men who plunk down ten dollars to fulfill their dark desires.Charles Grimes is half human, half...something else. For 15 years he's worked for the Bureau of Trans-Species Affairs, ridding the...
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Bennet's just an ordinary office worker from Modesto… until the moon is full.And being a werewolf is stressful. It interferes with Bennet's work schedule and wreaks havoc with his love life. As if that wasn't bad enough, things get more complicated when he accidentally bites a very handsome dental technician named Mario.Will Bennet and Mario have a howling good time together, or will things just get hairy? They'll find out during the next full moon!...
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