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Bali, crown jewel of Indonesia..................... • Island of the Gods; land of a thousand temples • Peaceful Hindu enclave in world’s largest Muslim nation • Popular gay vacation spot • Very affordable beachside hotel rooms • Endless white sandy beaches & clear blue-green water • Designer label shopping at bargain basement prices • Millions of tourists spending billions of dollars each year Trouble in paradise? When Greg Simmons discovers his favorite uncle in LA never returned from Bali, he crosses the Pacific to find him. Greg launches his own investigation with the ...

Caught in a mid-life crisis, Hart flees his comfortable Chicago life seeking something better. His first stop is Prague in the Czech Republic. From a rooftop restaurant, Hart realizes he arrived in the City of a Hundred Spires without a plan. He strikes up a conversation with another hotel guest and Jaro quickly offers to be Hart’s tour guide. Only intending to stay in Prague two weeks, Hart’s young tour guide gives him a compelling reason to stay much longer. As the relationship between Hart and Jaro deepens, the empty spaces in their lives disappear. Will Jaro’s influential family, ...

When an innocent flirtation leads to steam room sex in a Phoenix gym, Kelly and Logan begin a journey neither intended. Kelly is a med student with movie star good looks who believes committed relationships are for losers. Logan is a former hedge fund manager seeking a new direction in life. A warning note on a car windshield is the first clue something is wrong. Graffiti and dead animals follow as the harassment escalates. Logan and Kelly are determined to unmask their stalker as the bond between them grows stronger. As friends, family, and former lovers are drawn into the stalker’s web,...

Several bar and bathhouse buddies form relationships which survive from the pre-AIDS era to the pre-Covid era. Their lives take heartbreaking twists as they build an innovative enterprise. Highly successful, their new venture enables them to make a difference in the lives of people around them. Follow Ryden, Cale, Marty, Byron, Trajan and Josh as they create a place where whores and heroes are equally welcome.

From closeted homosexual to openly gay man, Dylan’s odyssey spans two generations. Broke, unemployed, and forced to drop out of college, Dylan enlists in the Air Force during the Vietnam War. Along the way he falls in love, has his heart broken, and meets men who change his life forever. Who will Dylan marry when it finally becomes legal? The spotted drag queen? The veteran with the blond ponytail? The Chinese medical student? The drop-dead gorgeous high school classmate? Someone else?

A casual Palm Springs pool party chat leads to a whirlwind May-December romance. Mature, best-selling author Reid Hamilton is easily seduced by mixed race Tyler Covington. Even though Reid is wealthy, he’s convinced Ty is not after his money since Ty owns a successful restaurant. When Ty is approached by an investor group to franchise his elegant restaurant in China, Reid is supportive, but skeptical. Something goes terribly wrong during Ty’s first trip to China, and Reid is forced to examine many of his beliefs and choices in this interracial, intergenerational, international gay romance.

Frustrated with local romance opportunities, four retired gay friends in their sixties take their search overseas. All four find attractive single men in their thirties eager to relocate to the States. They quickly discover qualifying for the 90-day fiancé visa is just the first of many challenges they will face. Overcoming intergenerational, interracial relationship problems, all four couples tie the knot. They celebrate with a Mediterranean honeymoon cruise, forming lasting bonds as one secret after another tumbles out. Chinese-Filipino Jaybee Chen surfaces as the leader of the younger ...

We know what causes aging and how to slow it. Recent experiments prove aging can be reversed with a combination of existing drugs and additives. Once an anti-aging cocktail is approved for sale, will everyone want to turn their body clocks back? How far back will they choose to go? Will it be available to everyone? How much will it cost? When Brock and Adrian find each other after turning their biological clocks back several decades, they discover growing young again has both thrills and challenges.

With a delicate balance of power both inside and outside the United States, American progressives are elated when they take control of the White House and hold a razor thin margin in the Senate. During a fundraising trip, the first African-American female President is assassinated, thrusting her gay Vice President into the spotlight. Moments after being sworn in, the new President is informed an American ally is about to be invaded. Vastly outnumbered, the new President asks his advisers for options. The most junior officer in the room urges using a new weapon. When the President agrees, a ...

This collection of essays deals with the situated management of risk in a wide variety of organizational settings. The emphasis in these contributions is upon the variety of ways in which organizational actors, in combination with a range of material technologies and artifacts, such as safety reporting systems, risk maps, and key risk indicators, accomplish and make sense of the normal work of managing risk - riskwork.

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Colin is smart, unassuming, likable, and dreams of becoming an Air Force pilot. Tony is an athletic, popular, gorgeous, fraternity boy, and the adopted son of extremely wealthy parents. When they meet in college in 1973, they become instant lovers. Colin will lose his chance to fly and Tony will lose his inheritance if anyone suspects they are gay, so they conceal the true nature of their relationship as students. They lose touch after graduation, but their paths cross frequently over the next four decades. As they each become professionally and financially successful, they survive a series...

MICHAEL POWER#1 Best Selling Author, CPA, Speaker, Marathoner & Entrepreneur Dad to Three Beautiful Daughters Michael has started multiple revenue-generating companies both in the U.S. and Europe. After hitting rock-bottom and being crippled by the mental and physical effects of fear, he strives to share his experiences and techniques on how he overcame that fear with others. He is the host of the Alpha Dad Project Podcast and has learned to conquer fear through examining it, learning from it, leaving the past behind, and adopting gratitude and a positive outlook for the future. He's also an ...

An engineered virus that attacks the brain leaks from a research lab and spreads quickly, causing infected people to go into psychotic rage. Before almost anyone knows what is happening, a well-armed America is terrorized by a pandemic of violence. Kanetha Wilson—friend of the first victim—is first to recognize that something is not as it seems. She inspires a small cadre of scientists and others into a breakneck, lonely, and lawless mission to identify and stop the murder plague.

Eddy is living the American dream. Young, sexy, healthy, and openly gay, Eddy has it all. Successful café operator in Kansas City’s Country Club Plaza, one of the Midwest’s premier retail areas. Trendy condo overlooking the Plaza. Adorable mixed race face. A body to die for. One of KC’s Thirty-Under-30. Eddy is in the many-friends-with-benefits stage of his life. When Eddy offers to help one of his customers find an old friend, he has no idea he’s about to lose everything he owns, but find everything he’s always wanted.

After selling his health and wellness apps to a tech giant, Ridley looks for homes in both cool and warm climates. He hopes to meet a man without toxic baggage, but one disappointing experience after another leaves him skeptical. Fairly quickly he meets a sexy realtor, a Somali personal shopper, a Thai-Latino erotic dancer, and a diminutive community college teacher. All are adorable with a variety of baggage. As Ridley gets to know them, it’s obvious only one has the right kind of baggage.

When he receives an invitation to work for a former professor, Reeve eagerly accepts, even though it means moving to a new city. Anxious to connect with the local queer community, Reeve attends Sunday service at the only LGBTQ church in town. A young man welcomes Reeve at the door, ushering him to a seat in the back. Minutes later, Reeve asks where the restroom is and the young man leads him up to a restroom next to the empty choir loft. As Reeve empties his bladder, they hear gunfire and screams from the congregation below. Surviving the brutal attack, Reeve and Dylan quickly bond as they ...

This novel is a sequel, continuing the story which began in Choices And Promises. Five years after a tragic incident left Alan with a heart and liver transplant, his heart fails and he needs another transplant. After visiting Alan at the hospital, Rob drives back to his hotel. Distracted and worried, Rob misses his exit, loses control of his car, wakes in a cornfield, unable to remember who he is. While Alan fights for his life, Rob fights to regain his identity as he helps a small town fight for survival. Selfless choices cost lives in this contemporary gay romantic adventure.

Seven partners own Over55, a Minneapolis firm that helps families find care for their aging loved ones: BURT, dapper, silver-haired, paternalistic founder and CEO. GEORGIA, Burt’s business partner and wife. ED, former computer company executive. MARK, handsome, talented sales executive. LOIS, Snow White’s evil twin. JOAN, poster girl for cosmetic dentistry & tough operations director. TROY, a man who adjusts facts to fit every situation. Long on sales and marketing talent, the company is short on administrative skills until Dylan Riley, a closeted gay man, joins the partners. Everything...

A single kind word brings two men together in Hawaii on Christmas Day. Pre-med Aden from Malibu and middle-aged entrepreneur Russ from Chicago are each spending Christmas alone. Their meeting on a nearly deserted Kauai beach leads to an exhilarating two weeks as they experience many firsts. First time spearfishing. First time saving a man’s life. First waterfall sex. First time falling in love, at least for young Aden. As they discuss their future, it becomes obvious one of them must relocate for them to be together. Before leaving Hawaii, both receive news making relocation nearly ...