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The year is 1980. Gay soldiers desiring to serve their country must do it with extreme caution. One step out of the closet and they risk a dishonorable discharge. Many forgo their social life to live their profession. First Lieutenant Brett Walker is but one example of such a person. Until one evening he spies a flier on the wall of the Berlin U-Bahn for a bar called Club David. For the first time in his twenty-six years, Brett chances a visit to a gay bar to see a drag queen show. His daring move sets in motion the events that will alter his life completely and forever. Not only are gay ...

The year is 1931. The Great Depression has not only ravaged the United States, but the rest of the world as well. Davi Fosco is a twenty-two year old recent graduate from the University of Florida. He is the son of a wealthy second generation Portuguese Brazilian family, controlled by a strict, yet loving patriarch. The last thing Davi wants in life is to marry, have a family and fall under the rules of the family business. He believes being a homosexual in 1931 poses problems where moving far away from home is the only solution. In 1928, Henry Ford creates a town called Fordlandia on the ...

Near the northeastern shores of Lake Michigan lies a wilderness dotted with small towns and farms doing their best to eke out a living with the short growing season the lands to the north provide. Where growing crops have limited success, dairy farms can flourish. AJ Clark and Zook James have been best friends since kindergarten. Both characters gave off a different vibe right from the start. By the time they reached high school, they had established a wall of protection that would last a lifetime. AJ is gay and Zook takes the steps to transition to a male. Right before AJ is about to ...

Sailor’s Island is a story that will take you on a journey from a mining town in Canada to a US Navy destroyer during the Second World War, and continue on with the survival of three men on a South Pacific island. Against the backdrop of war between nations, this is a story of the war that raged inside the minds of men born different than the majority of those men around them. Young Sailor Cook has finished high school and is on his way to the Annapolis Naval Academy in the fall of 2013. Sailor Cook is confused about his sexuality and isn’t sure being gay is compatible with a career as ...

In the middle of Texas lies a vast area of rolling hills covering over 31,000 square miles known as the Hill Country. It’s a place like no other in North America, complete with a variety of flora and fauna, luring the world’s most enthusiastic scientists to study the mysteries of the land. Charley Grant is a cowboy at heart. He’s recognized by many as the man able to work with horses not willing to trust their human partners. Yet Charley is not your everyday cowpoke raised in the Texas Panhandle. He’s a myrmecologist. A PHD candidate from Texas A & M University dedicating his life ...

Captain Casey Link embraces the coming of spring at JBER, Joint Base Elmendorf Richardson. The path he chose enabled him to cast off the dark shadows of his childhood and enjoy life with that someone special. To do the things he always assumed were not available to those taught to mistrust instead of love. Captain Nolan Kelly continues to be the newfound rock in Casey’s life. He swears to be there through thick and thin for as long as Casey needs him. Giving Casey a feeling he never believed possible before. As the Alaskan snow begins to melt, so too does the perfect world Casey thought ...

Berlin Book 6 Over and Out, carries the characters in West Berlin to the end of the 1980s with the Iron Curtain and the Berlin Wall crumbling all around them. As the communist world weakens, Lieutenant Sandy Spencer and Major Wade Bowden strengthen their feelings for one another in their very private lives. Unlike the Berlin Wall, both men realize the wall of the closet for gay soldiers shows no sign of weakening. Sandy pledges to protect Wade’s real identity so he may one day make general. In his words, “I’m making it my mission to help you get to the top, and to do it, we really ...

October 1988. Serving in any branch of the US military is still forbidden for gays. Those outed in uniform risk military prison terms and humiliation unimaginable to any straight man or women. Air Force Second Lieutenant Sandy Spencer is checked into the Templehof BOQ room 312. Almost ten years have passed since Brett Walker checked into the same room. Many aspects of life in the military and in West Berlin remain the same, only the characters have changed. Sandy chooses the Air Force as a stepping stone for a journalism career. His assignment to Air Force Network Berlin Radio as the OIC is...

Berlin Book 4 begins with the unraveling of Zach’s painful past. Other secrets are also let out of the bag. The whole crew learns about the mission only Mr. Martin and Zach previously shared in Berlin Book 3. The big secret is accompanied by the addition of a very unexpected crew member. The power of this knowledge leads the way to a new adventure for all members of the crew. An adventure previously never even considered. The story continues with the theme of men loving men, regardless of their sexual orientation. Each character must balance the pressures of American culture during the ...

The year is 1983. Berlin Book 3 takes place at ground zero in a world of espionage with the Iron Curtain. It’s a heart warming story of how men can love and respect men, regardless of the straight and gay boundaries created by society in the 80s. U.S. Army First Lieutenant Joe Green takes over where his best friend Brett Walker left off. Easy going Joe vows never to settle for anything less than the life his best friends Brett and Jakob made back in Texas. Joe works undercover for the CIA taking whatever Mr. Martin throws his way in strides. Then during a daring mission on the Berlin ...

Berlin Book 2 finds Lieutenant Brett Walker and Agent Jakob Haas spending every day learning what it means to love one another with no prior experience to fall back on. Their world exists deep inside the confines of the closet. Neither dares to step outside until Brett finds the courage to open the door and see what could be in store for them on the other side. Brett gets pulled deeper inside the dangerous world of the CIA much to the dislike of Jakob. “Brett, I don’t like any of this. I wish you weren’t involved with us at the agency. You’re not trained.” Brett finds guidance ...

Present day, army sergeant and member of the elite Green Berets witnesses a war crime while on a secret mission in Syria. What Sergeant Callaghan saw would change his life forever. On the run from a US government deep in the throes of a far-right dictatorship, now civilian Kade Callaghan takes his dad’s truck and camper trailer from Massachusetts all the way to the farthest corner of the nation to hide out until better accommodations can be made by his father. A father who is a retired Marine general with far-reaching connections across the globe. Kade pulls his trailer on a campsite at ...

Twenty-one year old Bryar and his twin brother Tommy run Purgatory Ranch in the Texas Hill Country just outside of San Marcos. With over three hundred acres to manage, finding a dead body isn’t all that unusual. That is until the facts begin to unravel.Bryar is two minutes older than his twin brother. The other difference is Tommy has downs syndrome. Bryar promises his parents at their grave to take care of his brother. He lets nothing get in his way.With the discovery of the dead body, the two brothers are forced to coordinate with the San Marcos PD investigating the crime.In this second...

All goes well for first Lieutenant Finnegan Walsh in his assignment at Minot AFB in North Dakota with Public Affairs. He spends quality time with his best friend, First Lieutenant Diego Moreno, assigned to Base Security Forces. Finn is content with the peaceful existence at the far north base until one day he stumbles across a poster in the men’s locker room at the McAdoo Fitness Center from a local white supremacist group setting up headquarters in the small town of Glenburn only a few miles north of the base. The journalist in Finn leads him to an unauthorized investigation where he ...

The first one hundred days of President Dolus Moore’s presidency turned out to be the chaos half of the nation’s voters expected it to be. But for the LGBTQ community, it was nothing less than a nightmare. In book two of Sergeant Callaghan, Captain Fitz Turner is trying his best to move on with his life after the man who mysteriously entered his world one cold day in November on the side of the road left as suddenly as he appeared. Fitz enters into a relationship with the forest ranger, Grady Higgs. Grady is a young, handsome, kind and shy man who finds everything about the Alaskan ...

U.S. Marine Corporal Cody William Cain is serving his third tour in the Gulf Wars. Gay Cody Will realizes if he wants to serve his country, he must do it while living in the closet. Only his best friend Lance Corporal Patrick Condron shares his secret. Although Cody Will sees the similarities with the landscape of Afghanistan and his home on a cattle ranch in Fallon Nevada, he realized, “People are trying to kill us out here.” Cody Will rarely asks God for anything. Then he learns, be careful what you pray for, it might come true. Sean Condron is Patrick’s little brother. Can he help ...

Eight years after the publication of Nevada Cain Ranch arrives Jon Swank’s new novel, Nevada Maso Ranch. Set on a horse ranch in the Washoe Valley of Northern Nevada, comes another story of trust and love overcoming the hardships of returning veterans from the Middle East wars. Jordy Jensen leaves active duty from his last assignment serving as an Air Force nurse at the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany. Mason Couper left active duty with the Marines two years before Jordy. Jordy showed up to his ranch while attempting to help Dusty the horse free his foot from a wire fence ...

More than a thousand years in the future, Earth suffered losses from both natural disasters and debilitating pandemics. Earth’s population has dwindled, yet man’s ability to survive with the advent of technology is at the core of humanities survival. Tobit Willows, a young botanist, is selected from a pool of the Earth Command’s scientists as the mission commander on a cargo ship to a distant galaxy. His task is to deliver plants and people to Planet Emerald, then to return to Earth and continue his research. Captain Dag Maxz is selected as the pilot on the cargo ship. The organizers ...

In this fourth installment of the Texas Hill Country Mystery Series, meet Trever Ryan and his childhood companion, Fritz Carter. The two characters, along with their lifelong friends, take the journey into early adulthood with all the expected challenges of leaving their pre-adult lives behind them. A normal path to take while beginning their careers. However, this group of close friends must deal with a murderous plot to keep them from moving forward. A plot that began during their high school years with a far-right group intent on spreading their ideology and winning the battle of the ...

Destiny meets the Gold Rush town of Virginia City when two different men from two very different worlds lock eyes at a San Francisco train station in the year of 1875. Adventure ensues as JJ Becker and Magnus Keller join forces in search of Bobby BO Wong in a land hostile to any man or woman from China. Raven’s Gold is a story about a true hidden power to bring two men together and allow them to fall in love against all the odds of the 19th Century. Join the multiple characters in a journey through the Gold Rush lands of Northern Nevada as they solve the mysteries in their lives and ...