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Lovers and Liches
by G. D. PenmanKorgulg Skulltaker is a swarthy half-orc barbarian with a hunger for battle and a lust to match. Lady Leithianel Stormsong is a beautiful elven wizard of great power and wit. Both are on an epic quest to destroy the evil Lich Voldridas and save the world from his tyranny.Their players, Greg and Gabriel, have been friends since they were teenagers, but while they have the bravery to explore dark dungeons and slay terrible dragons at their friend’s dining room table, they can’t muster up the courage to tell one another how they feel.Every week for the last decade, they have gathered with their friends to play games of adventure and magic together, without ever letting their real fantasies come to life. But all of that could change with just a roll of the dice.
Lover's Cross
by J. M. SnyderAfter a bad car accident, Jory's lover Peter assures him he's doing fine. But when Jory attends a get-well party at the house of a coworker, he's surprised when no one asks him howPeteris doing. More disconcerting, Peter's gold cross necklace is missing, and Jory suffers from headaches whenever his best friend Bruce brings up the accident.Where is the cross? And why does Bruce keep asking Jory to remember what happened to his lover?
Lovers & Fighters
by Nash SummersScott Halleck and Julian Reeves are polar opposites in almost every way. Scott, a modern arts curator at a museum in Chicago, relishes the finer things in life. Julian is a strange photographer whose hair color changes as frequently as his mood. As far as Scott can see, Julian is an erratic know-it-all who lives his life one day to the next. To Julian, Scott is an uptight, too-coiffed perfectionist. As the two men continue to run into each other, their dislike grows, but beneath that animosity, a fire is beginning to spark. Scott is baffled when he realizes he is falling for Julian, a man who burns hotter than a wildfire. Scott will have to decide, for the first time in his life, if he'll let the flames take over.
Lovers from Different Eras
by Casper GrahamChase Crayford and Simon Lobb are boyfriends who accidentally travel to the year 3022. The United States of America is no longer the same country it was a thousand years ago. Asteroids have changed many things. Instead of cities or towns, there are safe zones, checkpoints, and wastelands overrun with dangerous mutated plants.The two men must survive long enough to return to where they’ve come from. Fortunately, they receive help from Brody Fisher, Mason Kirk, and Troy Whittemore, three hunters who work for the Search and Rescue Association.Feelings develop and blossom among them, but Simon and Chase can’t remain in the future. At least not indefinitely. The situation becomes even more complicated when they discover some plants have evolved further, making them much more dangerous.Can they successfully deal with the plants while they fight for their love and relationship?
Lovers In The Present Afternoon
by Kathleen FlemingSet against the backgrop of the Vietnam era; two women fall in love and must make choices.
Lovers' Legends: The Gay Greek Myths
by Andrew CalimachFirst comprehensive uncensored collection of homosexual Greek myths in years. Lucians Different Loves, an unabashed debate on gay vs. straight love, frames richly illustrated stories of Hercules, Orpheus, Narcissus, others. Presents positive and negative aspects of Greek male love within historical/cultural context. Carefully documented, suitable for classes in gender studies / history / religion. Notes, bibliography, glossary, map. Study guide forthcoming.
Lovers, Losers, and You (Sunshine and Happiness #2)
by Skylar M. CatesSunshine and Happiness: Book TwoHow can you lose one dream and still find another? Owen King is a lonely history teacher who wants to be braver. So when Owen learns about the deceased brother he never met, he breaks free of his safety net and risks answers. Despite his loving, adopted family, Owen wonders if there are missing pieces inside of him. Visiting the seaside town of Ocean Vista, where his brother lived and died, will be no vacation. Andrew Teagan wants to be a winner. After being dumped by his last boyfriend, Andrew is through letting others dictate his life. To prove that dreams are possible, he's going after his ambitions full force. Having signed on for a cooking reality show, Andrew's ready to make his small café into a sizzling success. When Andrew aids Owen on the beach, what starts off as an act of kindness turns into a hot temptation. But can a sweet budding romance survive when the time comes for Owen to leave town? Both men must learn to trust each other if their love will conquer the miles between them.
Love’s Cabers Tossed
by Ari MckayAt the Coastal Carolina Highland Games, baker Martin Fletcher receives an unexpected visitor in the form of Fergus, Lyall McLannan's escaped sheltie. When Fergus accidentally causes Martin to sprain his ankle, Lyall comes to the rescue, helping Martin run his booth at the Games. Unfortunately, Lyall doesn't know a thing about baking, but he manages to avoid both disaster and Martin's wrath by attracting patrons with his and Fergus's showmanship. Martin accepts Lyall's invitation to stay in his RV during the fair, getting to know the lawyer-turned-Highlander he's watched from afar. Martin is captivated by Lyall's charm... and the tantalizing view of him in a kilt. Entranced by Martin's dedication to his work and love for Fergus, Lyall sets out to woo him with starlight and bagpipe music, because he's discovered opposites can attract and love can be found in the most unexpected circumstances.
Love's Chances
by Thomas Grant BrusoT.J. Alton is shy and reticent, living alone with a rescue cat after his parents' death a year earlier. He rarely strays from his usual daily routine of work and home and back again.Then he meets Devon Ryder, an outgoing, colorful, and ruggedly handsome man, with his own long list of emotional baggage. After a month of chatting online, the two men decide to meet in real life, and their first date is at a local Great Escape theme park in upstate New York.As they discover more about each other through conversation and food, a connection is made. But will T.J.'s fears of large crowds and intimacy drive him back to isolation, away from the social circle of life, and the idea of starting a new relationship with someone special?
Love's Home Box Set
by Iyana JennaSometimes you need a break, to get away somewhere, but in the end you always return to a place you call home. The saying goes, “Home is where the heart is.” It doesn’t matter if it’s big or small, pretty or shabby, what matters is it’s your Love’s Home.This box set features five of Iyana Jenna’s best-selling gay contemporary romance stories. A homeless PA finds a home in an actor’s life. An abduction almost steals a man from his loving boyfriend. A love triangle nearly ruins everything. A sex slave is rescued by an unlikely savior. A young man discovers a new home after he loses everything.These best-selling romances by Iyana Jenna are available as single ebooks, but are published exclusively in one box set.Contains the stories:A Home for Jesse:Jesse is a homeless personal assistant. Trey is an actor with a TV series of his own. Can Jesse see past the fact that Trey offers him a roof over his head and accept the actor as his lover?A Single Black Rose:As an actor, Sean was used to getting flowers. But bouquet after bouquet that came to him with a single black one in the middle might prove to be dangerous. Especially when it had something to do with an obsessed fan that would do anything to get him.Misunderstandings:Insecure and jealous, an Indie movie actor, Parker Williams knows he can’t be with his boyfriend, a Blockbuster star, Declan Griffin, anymore, especially when Parker finds out that Declan gets closer to his co-star, Ryan Dexter. So Parker leaves Declan, who doesn’t quite grasp what Parker’s problem is.Will and Pleasure:Jake Welther preferred to stay with his mother when their parents got divorced. He was surprised when he was taken to his father's house when Welther Sr. passed away. Jake never thought he’d get anything from the will. Jake's father left his four sons not the house or the money. It was a young man. His name was Luke.Ya Like That?:Evan lost everything, money, house, and family, after his father screwed them up. Then millionaire Brian Donaghue offers him a job he can’t refuse. Or can he?
Love's Next Meeting: The Forgotten History of Homosexuality and the Left in American Culture
by Aaron LeckliderHow queerness and radical politics intersected—earlier than you thought. Well before Stonewall, a broad cross section of sexual dissidents took advantage of their space on the margins of American society to throw themselves into leftist campaigns. Sensitive already to sexual marginalization, they also saw how class inequality was exacerbated by the Great Depression, witnessing the terrible bread lines and bread riots of the era. They participated in radical labor organizing, sympathized like many with the early prewar Soviet Union, contributed to the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War, opposed US police and state harassment, fought racial discrimination, and aligned themselves with the dispossessed. Whether they were themselves straight, gay, or otherwise queer, they brought sexual dissidence and radicalism into conversation at the height of the Left's influence on American culture. Combining rich archival research with inventive analysis of art and literature, Love’s Next Meeting explores the relationship between homosexuality and the Left in American culture between 1920 and 1960. Aaron S. Lecklider uncovers a lively cast of individuals and dynamic expressive works, revealing remarkably progressive engagement with homosexuality among radicals, workers, and the poor. Leftists connected sexual dissidence with radical gender politics, antiracism, and challenges to censorship and obscenity laws through the 1920s and 1930s. In the process, a wide array of activists, organizers, artists, and writers laid the foundation for a radical movement through which homosexual lives and experiences were given shape and new political identities were forged. Love's Next Meeting cuts to the heart of some of the biggest questions in American history: questions about socialism, about sexuality, about the supposed clash still making headlines today between leftist politics and identity politics. What emerges is a dramatic, sexually vibrant story of the shared struggles for liberation across the twentieth century.
Love’s Opening Night
by Jeff AdamsCan an onstage love story lead to a real-life romance? Jeremy Steele is a veteran Broadway performer. For his latest role, he's dancing alongside a man he's fantasized about for years, TV star Ty Beaumont. Jeremy knows better than to get involved with a castmate, but when Ty has trouble learning the complicated choreography, Jeremy offers to lend a hand. When a rehearsal kiss turns into something more, Jeremy can't help but wonder what a celebrity like Ty could ever see in a Broadway chorus boy like him. Will a relationship with his crush make it past previews, or can it become a long-running hit?
Love's Refraction
by Jillian DeriPopular wisdom might suggest that jealousy is an inevitable outcome of non-monogamous relationships. In Love's Refraction, Jillian Deri explores the distinctive question of how and why polyamorists - people who practice consensual non-monogamy - manage jealousy. Her focus is on the polyamorist concept of "compersion" - taking pleasure in a lover's other romantic and sexual encounters.By discussing the experiences of queer, lesbian, and bisexual polyamorous women, Deri highlights the social and structural context that surrounds jealousy. Her analysis, making use of the sociology of emotion and feminist intersectionality theory, shows how polyamory challenges traditional emotional and sexual norms.Clear and concise, Love's Refraction speaks to both the academic and the polyamorous community. Deri lets her interviewees speak for themselves, linking academic theory and personal experiences in a sophisticated, engaging, and accessible way.
Love's Tethered Heart
by C. L. EttaTwo years ago Mico and his partner suffered a savage gay bashing that left Mico a quadriplegic—and ended his dreams of traveling the world as an archaeologist. Abandoned by the man he loved, he lives in isolation, tethered to his bed by the machines keeping him alive, with only his caretakers and immediate family as companions. Assigned to interview Mico and uncover the story behind his assault and his refusal to identify his attackers, journalist Danny is unprepared for his reaction to the fragile enigmatic man. Mico is afraid to let Danny into his life, and Danny is unsure how to change his mind. Mico is also keeping secrets, and he isn’t the only one. Danny is determined to protect Mico, and he’s determined to show Mico that their feelings for each other can thrive amidst the mechanics of Mico’s existence. If you enjoy romantic tales of heartbreak turned to hope, the life-affirming story of Danny and Mico will make you believe in the possibility of love for everyone—no matter what obstacles they face.
Lovesick
by Marina FordFriday, 23 January The cat funeral. Yeah, that happened today. I went and participated in—aided and abetted?—a cat funeral. London life is tough on idealists. In an ideal world, after years of flirtation, Leo would be cosily settled down with Jack, his long-time crush. In an ideal world, Jack wouldn’t now be engaged to a woman. And in an ideal world, Leo would move on. When handsome new neighbour Alex moves in opposite Leo, an opportunity to do so presents itself. But Alex is working class, poorer than Leo, and probably straight. While Jack’s engagement unravels, and Leo’s friendship with Alex deepens, will Leo manage to find happiness with the right man? Or will he succumb to his enemies: self-doubt, family expectations, and pride? Told in diary form, this is both the story of a love triangle in London and the chronicle of a man’s struggles to confront his self-image and overcome his insecurity.
Lovesick Gods (Lovesick #1)
by Amanda MeuwissenHeroes aren't meant to act like their villains -- or fall in love with them.The elements touch everyone on Earth -- Fire, Water, even Light -- but every so often someone becomes more attuned to their elemental leaning and develops true power. When an evil Elemental known as Thanatos arrived in Olympus City, it saw the rise of its first hero -- Zeus.But the death toll caused by defeating Thanatos changed Zeus, who by day is young detective Danny Grant. It's been six months since Thanatos terrorized the city at the start of Lovesick Gods. Danny should be used to his duty behind the mask, but the recent past haunts him. His girlfriend left him, he snaps at the barest provocation, his life feels empty -- he needs an outlet, any outlet to pull him out of his depression. Enter notorious thief Malcolm Cho, the Ice Elemental Prometheus. There was a time when Danny welcomed a fight with Cho, filled with colorful banter and casual flirtations that were a relief compared to Thanatos. Even as a criminal, Cho had recognized the threat Thanatos posed and promised to help Danny stop him, but the day Danny needed Cho, he never showed. Cho was the reason so many people died that day -- including Danny's mother.Danny decides to teach the man a lesson and fan the fire of their attraction into something more. At worst, he'll get some no-strings-attached sex out of the deal and finally blow off steam; at best, he'll get Cho to fall in love with him and then break his heart to spite him. Danny doesn't expect to fall for Cho in the process, and he certainly can't predict the much darker threat on the horizon.
Lovesick Titans (Lovesick #2)
by Amanda MeuwissenMalcom Cho is in over his head, wrapped up in a love affair with his superhero nemesis Zeus, who most people in Olympus City only know as Detective Danny Grant.Lovesick Titans begins where Lovesick Gods left off, after a heist gone wrong that ended with a museum guard dead and Mal and Danny beaten and exhausted from their fight with the new threat in town, Cassidy Ludgate -- Hades. Unaware that Ludgate’s true motivation is revenge for the death of his father at Zeus’s hands, Mal wants only to keep Danny close, while Danny races to solve the cases surrounding Ludgate to stop him from whatever he has planned for them next.What Mal doesn’t know is that Danny didn’t pursue him with the purest of intentions but sought to break his heart in retaliation for not being there when he needed him in the fight against Thanatos. Even though Danny no longer seeks that end, the lies between them loom like a shadow about to descend upon them both. And Hades has only begun to toy with them ...
Loving a Warrior: A Navy Seal Gay Romance (Loving a Warrior #1)
by Melanie HansenBUD/S: six months of the most intense training there is. It’s survival of the toughest, and Matt Knytych is determined to come out the other side a navy SEAL.Distraction is life or death. And just the sight of former marine Shane Hovland is enough to shake Matt’s concentration.Shane came to BUD/S training ready to prove himself—again. Semper Fi is forever, but he needs a new start. Not this dangerous heat with a man he barely knows.Everything they’ve ever wanted is riding on a thin, punishing line. And they’ll have to fight for more than just each other if they want to make it through intact.After all, the only easy day was yesterday. This book is approximately 77,300 wordsOne-click with confidence. This title is part of the Carina Press Romance Promise: all the romance you’re looking for with an HEA/HFN. It’s a promise!
Loving an Absentminded Astrophysicist
by Tn TarrantAt twenty-three, Dr. Liam McGregor is a well-respected astrophysicist, astrobiologist, and geologist. With no family, few friends, and no romantic prospects, he's used to being alone. Focusing on his various scientific projects and taking care of his decidedly unusual cat help keep the loneliness at bay. Jareth Manning is starting life over--new town, new job--after the loss of his husband. The last thing he expects is for the most absentminded, and beautiful, man he's ever seen to take up residence in his heart. Nor did he expect to find himself a willingly humble slave to Her Imperial Highness, Empress the Cat. But Jareth has learned that love doesn't come around often and to hold on to it when it does. Jareth is willing to be patient if Liam is willing to take a risk after being burned before. They just have to survive Liam's past returning. Eight years after Liam and Jareth marry, they want a child. Things don't go well when they try to adopt, with terrible accusations thrown at Jareth. After recovering, they proceed with a private adoption, bringing home a beautiful little girl, Carinae. Then things get ugly, endangering not only Liam's life, but Carinae's.
Loving and Loathing Vegas (2015 Advent Calendar - Sleigh Ride Ser.)
by Lex ChaseJackson has loved Vegas since God created Man--literally. As demonic incubi hailing from the Seventh Circle of Hell, Jackson and Vegas have never been anything more than roommates. Now living among humans, they run Eaven, a TripAdvisor-recommended detour-worthy diner famous for its devilishly decadent pies. Business is dead on the holidays, and Jackson will gleefully stab himself with a spatula if he has to clean spotless pots and pans one more time.For fun--or torture--Vegas makes him a bet that should Jackson win, they take a much-needed vacation. Should he lose, he's doomed to clean out grease traps for all eternity. When the challenge is to fall in love with other people by Christmas, it proves Vegas isn't the least bit interested. But when they find an abandoned baby in the trash, she could be the Christmas miracle to warm Jackson's cynical heart.A story from the Dreamspinner Press 2015 Advent Calendar package "Sleigh Ride".
Loving before Loving: A Marriage in Black and White
by Joan Steinau LesterCommitted to the struggle for civil rights, in the late 1950s Joan Steinau marched and protested as a white ally and young woman coming to terms with her own racism. She fell in love and married a fellow activist, the Black writer Julius Lester, establishing a partnership that was long and multifaceted but not free of the politics of race and gender. As the women’s movement dawned, feminism helped Lester find her voice, her pansexuality, and the courage to be herself. Braiding intellectual, personal, and political history, Lester tells the story of a writer and activist fighting for love and justice before, during, and after the Supreme Court’s 1967 decision striking down bans on interracial marriage in Loving v. Virginia. She describes her own shifts in consciousness, from an activist climbing police barricades by day and reading and writing late into the night to a woman navigating the coming-out process in midlife, before finding the publishing success she had dreamed of. Speaking candidly about every facet of her life, Lester illuminates her journey to fulfillment and healing.
Loving Big Brother: Surveillance Culture and Performance Space
by John McGrathIn Loving Big Brother the author tackles head on the overstated claims of the crime-prevention and anti-terrorism lobbies. But he also argues that we desire and enjoy surveillance, and that, if we can understand why this is, we may transform the effect it has on our lives. This book looks at a wide range of performance and visual artists, at popular TV shows and movies, and at our day-to-day encounters with surveillance, rooting its arguments in an accessible reading of cultural theory. Constant scrutiny by surveillance cameras is usually seen as - at best - an invasion of privacy, and at worst an infringement of human rights. But in this radical new account of the uses of surveillance in art, performance and popular culture, John E McGrath sets out a surprizing alternative: a world where we have much to gain from the experience of being watched. This iconoclastic book develops a notion of surveillance space - somewhere beyond the public and the private, somewhere we will all soon live. It's a place we're just beginning to understand.
Loving Blitz (North Pole City Tales #4)
by Charlie CochetNorth Pole City Tales: Book FourFrom North Pole City to Winter Wonderland, preparations are underway after a royal announcement sweeps everyone into a frenzy of festivity. At the heart of the celebration are the city's most beloved elf pilots, the Rein Dears. Once the Big Flight is behind them, the pilots prepare for the royal event. Assigned a special task of finding an Elska rose, Cupid and Blitzen are unaware of how their friendship is about to change forever. Yet not all that glitters is gold. The sweet, angelic Cupid hides a dark secret, one that threatens to destroy his Rein Dear status, his friends, and the elf who's captured his heart. It's up to Blitzen to help Cupid see the light in the darkness and show him that together they can mend broken hearts.
Loving Clarke: Storia d'amore lesbica, Sindrome di Asperger (Romanzo lesbico #1)
by Kyrian MaloneClarke Nollan, 17 anni, torna al liceo Providence in California. Clarke è mentalmente diversa, e le sue numerose consultazioni a Providence in diversi studi psichiatrici compromettono il suo rapporto sia con i suoi compagni che con il corpo docente. Immersa nella sua immaginazione, la sua percezione del mondo reale è distorta, tradotta dai suoi filtri emozionali. A causa delle sue reazioni e riflessioni incomprensibili, Clarke continua a ricevere diagnosi errate e a essere sottoposta a trattamenti inadeguati. Considerata bipolare, lunatica, schizofrenica da specialisti incompetenti, il suo vero essere è sepolto nel suo profondo, annientato da farmaci inutili. Eppure, una volta arrivata al Providence High, Clarke spera che le cose possano cambiare. C'è questa ragazza, Alycia Chase, e la sua insegnante di lettere, Regina Queen, le uniche persone in grado di capirla...
Loving Cowboys
by Gerald LopezHandsome thirty-year-old construction worker Cody Larke has just lost his loving cowboy father to cancer. Having given up his job to care for his father, and not having many relatives in the area, he decides to follow his pop’s advice -- Cody uses his last bit of cash to buy a bus ticket to work for some old cowboy buddies of his father’s who were like a band of brothers.Jace Bingham had worked alongside Cody’s father for years and considered him family. From the few times he met Jace when he was younger, Cody remembers him as perfect, blond, with a particularly memorable cowboy strut. As he grew older, Cody compared every man he ever dated to the handsome Jace. Will he now get the chance to make his ideal cowboy his own?