Livres - Bibliographie

Michael

Il y a deux ans, j’ai fait une erreur, une grosse erreur, et puis j’en ai rajouté deux autres, juste pour faire bonne mesure. J’ai vraiment foiré ma vie, mais j’ai réussi à m’en sortir. J’ai eu de la chance.

Ensuite, j’ai eu la possibilité de prendre un nouveau départ. Deux ans à Auckland. Loin des ragots de Los Angeles, avec une nouvelle chance de respirer, et de reprendre ma vie en main.

Je l’ai saisie et j’ai instauré une série de règles auxquelles me tenir.

Je ne fais pas de relations de couple.

Je ne fais pas de promesses et d’engagements.

Je ne fais pas de rêves d’une maison remplie d’enfants.

Et je ne fais surtout pas dans l’arrogance et le snobisme de la part d’officiers du K9 beaux à tomber qui entrent dans mes urgences et bouleversent mon monde. Surtout pas.

Josh

La seule chose dont je suis sûr à propos du Dr Michael Oliver, c’est qu’il est arrogant et indigne de confiance, et que j’ai à peine survécu à un homme comme lui dans ma vie. Une seule fois a suffi amplement.

Cet homme est peut-être magnifique, mais ma fille de onze ans a ma priorité absolue et je ne veux pas risquer qu’elle soit blessée à nouveau. Je suis un père célibataire, un flic du K9 et le fils de parents fanatiques qui me cassent les pieds.

Je n’ai pas le temps de jouer.

Je n’ai pas le temps de prendre des risques.

Je n’ai pas le temps d’avoir d’autres complications dans ma vie.

Et je n’ai certainement pas le temps pour le Dr Michael Oliver, aussi sexy qu’il soit.

When a bookworm on borrowed time meets a younger, free-spirited chicken farmer, sparks and feathers fly…

Harrison Phillip Fletcher III isn’t supposed to be here. Not in Burlington, Vermont, not running Vino & Veritas, a quaint inclusive bookstore and wine bar, and definitely not still alive at forty-two. Also not supposed to be here? An unexpected delivery of chickens.

Finn Barnes knows chickens. The burly organic farmer knows all about rare breed poultry, but dealing with a hot, older bookseller is an entirely different matter. City slicker types like Harrison never end up staying in Vermont for the long-term.

They should steer clear of each other. But the flare of attraction is mutual. And somehow, amid book discussions and farm tours, they discover plenty in common. Now they’re stealing kisses in Finn’s barn, sneaking out like teens, and burning up the sheets.

What starts as a fling brings very real feelings for two lonely souls, but a future together seems as unlikely as chickens in a bookstore. Feathers may be flying, but learning to trust takes time neither may have. Can they take a leap of faith together before it’s too late?

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Featherbed is a stand-alone novel in Sarina Bowen’s True North world. This opposites attract, age gap romance features a low-angst, fluffy—and feathery—romp as a fish out of water discovers the home he never thought he’d find.

Drake Park has a complicated life. As a gay male midwife, he’s used to raising eyebrows. Add Crohn’s disease and things get interesting—or not, considering the sad state of his love life. Experience has taught Drake that most men are fair-weather sailors when it comes to handling his condition—gone for dust when things get rough. Staying healthy is a full-time job without adding in any heartbreak, so a little loneliness is a small price to pay. If he says it often enough he might even believe it. One thing for sure, the cop who arrested him isn’t about to change that.

Caleb Ashton does not have a complicated life. A senior detective with the Whangarei Police Department, he likes his job and is good at it. He works hard and plays hard, happy to enjoy as many men as he can while he’s still young enough—or at least he was. These days he feels adrift for the first time in his life, and the only thing sparking his interest—a certain prickly young midwife.

But can Drake find enough faith to risk opening his heart again? And does Caleb have what it takes to cope with the challenges Drake’s condition presents?

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2020 Lambda Literary Award Finalist in Gay Romance

When JUDAH MADDEN flees his tiny suffocating home-town in New Zealand, for the dream of international ballet stardom, he never intends coming back. Not to Painted Bay. Not to his family’s struggling mussel farm. Not to his jerk of a brother. Not with his entire life plan in shreds. And certainly not into the tempting arms of MORGAN WIPENE, the older, ruggedly handsome fisheries officer who seems determined to screw with Judah’s intention to wallow in peace.

But dreams are fickle things. Shatter them and it’s hard to pick up the pieces. Hard to believe. Hard to start again.

But the hardest thing of all? Finding the courage to trust in love and build a new dream where you least expected it.

ETHAN SHARPE is living every young Kiwi’s dream—seeing the world for a couple of years while deciding what to do with his life. Then he gets a call.

Two days later he’s back in New Zealand. Six months later his mother is dead, his fifteen-year-old brother is going off the rails and the café he’s inherited is failing. His life is a hot mess and the last thing he needs is another complication—like the man who just walked into his café, a much older…

sinfully hot…

EPIC complication.

TANNER CARPENTER’s time in Queenstown has an expiration date. He has a new branch of his business to get up and running, exorcise a few personal demons while he’s at it, and then head back to Auckland to get on with his life. He isn’t looking for a relationship especially with someone fifteen years his junior, but Ethan is gorgeous, troubled and in need of a friend. Tanner could be that for Ethan, right? He could brighten Ethan’s day for a while, help him out, maybe even offer some… stress relief, no strings attached.

It was a good plan, until it wasn’t.