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Je comptais les mois jusqu’à la fin de mon déploiement, passant mes journées à travailler sur des véhicules militaires et mes nuits à jouer à des jeux vidéo pour me distraire, jusqu’à ce que je puisse oublier le sergent-chef Garrett Reid.

C’est à ce moment-là que je l’ai rencontré : Kai Bannon, un compagnon de jeu qui possédait une célèbre chaîne de streaming.

Je n’aurais jamais pensé devenir obsédé par quelqu’un, encore moins un ancien roval. Et je n’aurais jamais pensé qu'il pourrait me remarquer moi ; un gars connu pour son honnêteté brutale et son air renfrogné. Je n’avais pas prévu que notre amitié en ligne pourrait se transformer en quelque chose qui me garderait éveillé la nuit ; d'heures de discussion en sessions coquines via webcams interposées.

Mais c’est arrivé. Et maintenant, je ne peux plus arrêter de penser à lui. Dans mon esprit, notre premier rendez-vous irl est parfait. Il m'embrasse, me ramène chez lui et c'est le début du grand amour. Sauf que, comme la plupart des choses dans ma vie, rien ne se passe comme prévu.

Michael Rodriguez et Nunzio Medici sont amis depuis vingt ans. Pour échapper à leurs familles désunies et au sinistre quartier de leur enfance, South Jamaica, dans le Queens, ils deviennent tous deux enseignants à Brooklyn, dans une école, où les gays sont bien accueillis, aussi bien parmi les élèves que dans le corps professoral.

Ils croyaient avoir tout partagé jusqu’à ce qu’une rencontre inattendue, suivie d’une nuit torride à trois, change la nature de leur amitié. Depuis lors, l’atmosphère entre eux est alourdie de tension sexuelle. Michael ne peut oublier la sensation des mains de son meilleur ami sur lui. Malheureusement, les problèmes s’accumulent dans sa vie, aussi bien à l’école que chez lui, aussi cherche-t-il de plus en plus une échappatoire dans le sexe explosif qu’il a découvert avec Nunzio. Mais la situation ne tarde pas à dérailler.

Lorsque Michael voit le monde se désagréger autour de lui, il sombre dans la tragédie et les complications diverses jusqu’au jour où il réalise avoir un choix à faire : se laisser aspirer par cette spirale d’autodestruction ou accepter ses véritables sentiments envers celui qui le soutient depuis deux décennies.

In a post-apocalyptic future, the Agency works behind the scenes to take down opposition groups that threaten the current government. Their goals justify all means, even when it comes to their own agents.

Sin is the Agency's most efficient killer. His fighting skills and talent at assassination have led to him being described as a living weapon. However, he is also known to go off on unauthorized killing sprees, and his assigned partners have all wound up dead.

Boyd is not afraid to die. When his mother, a high-ranking Agency official, volunteers him to be Sin's newest partner, he does not refuse. In fact, his life has been such an endless cycle of apathy and despair that he'd welcome death.

In the newly revised Director's Cut of Evenfall, the first volume follows these two cast-offs as they go from strangers to partners who can only rely on each other while avoiding death, imprisonment, and dehumanization by the Agency that employs them.

The rules of the game don’t apply off the field in this first Barons novel.

New York Barons tight end Gavin Brawley is suspended from the team and on house arrest after a video of him brawling goes viral. Gavin already has a reputation as a jerk with a temper on and off the field—which doesn’t help him once he finds himself on the wrong side of the law. And while he’s been successful professionally, he’s never been lucky when it comes to love.

Noah Monroe is a recent college grad looking for a job—any job—to pay off his mounting student debt. Working as Gavin’s personal assistant/babysitter seems like easy money. But Noah isn’t prepared for the electrifying tension between him and the football player. He’s not sure if he’d rather argue with Gavin or tackle him to the floor. But both men know the score, and neither is sure what will happen once Gavin's timeout is over…

Growing up the outcast in an infamous family of psychics, Nate Black never learned how to control his empath abilities. Then after five years without contact, his estranged twin turns up dead in New York City. The claim of suicide doesn’t ring true, especially when a mysterious vision tells Nate it was murder. Now his long-hated gift is his only tool to investigate.

Hitching from his tiny Texas town, Nate is picked up by Trent, a gorgeous engineer who thrives on sarcasm and skepticism. The heat that sparks between them is instant and intense, and Nate ends up trusting Trent with his secrets—something he’s never done before. But once they arrive in the city, the secrets multiply when Nate discovers an underground supernatural community, more missing psychics, and frightening information about his own talent.

Nate is left questioning his connection with Trent. Are their feelings real, or are they being propelled by abilities Nate didn’t realize he had? His fear of his power grows, but Nate must overcome it to find his brother’s killer and trust himself with Trent’s heart.

In near-future Chicago, virtual reality is an escape from the grit and grime of everyday life.

Lucky Amonte will be paying off his VR gaming system forever, but it’s worth it to experience his dirtiest fantasies with anonymous strangers in the Drift. After work and in the game, he’s LuckyStrike—the androgynous, chubby fashionisto who fiercely rocks big hoop earrings and flashy ensembles. He also craves rough sex, a little humiliation and dominance, and he’s finally found the perfect virtual partner in sexy, mysterious Bishop.

Jamie Bishop spent most of his twenties incarcerated for protecting someone he loved. Now he’s stuck in a thankless job delivering pizzas and passing coded messages for his shady boss. Life isn’t kind to ex-felons, but in the Drift, he’s simply Bishop. Clean-cut and average. No prison tats. No brawny, intimidating physique. And there, he has Lucky, whose desires align perfectly with his own.

When their fantasy and real lives collide, Bishop is forced to decide—either play it safe and keep a low profile or make a move and find out whether their virtual chemistry is more than just a game. But drawing Lucky into his world could put both their lives on the line.

Content warning: This book contains some breath control play and a scene portraying characters who consensually act out a fantasy of a nonconsensual situation.

Jeremy has been isolated and adrift since the death of his brother. Most people just see him as the skinny emo kid who wears eyeliner and plays drums. No one gets him. Nobody tries. He thought the indie rock band Stygian would become his anchor, but—lost in their own problems—they’re far from the family he sought.

Still, hoping to get close to Kennedy, the band's enigmatic guitarist, he follows Stygian to northern Louisiana for a summer retreat. They had planned to spend six weeks focusing on new music but things go awry as soon as they arrive at the long-deserted Caroway mansion. Tempers flare, sexual tension boils over into frustration, and Jeremy turns away from the band to find a friend in his eerily beautiful landlord Hunter Caroway.

Kennedy suspects there’s something off about the creepy mansion and its mysterious owners, but Jeremy thinks he's finally found somewhere he fits. It isn’t until Kennedy forces the Caroway’s secrets into the light that Jeremy realizes belonging sometimes comes with a price

Gordon Frost is a survivor. He outlived all of his friends after bombs decimated the hardscrabble neighborhood he grew up in, and he made it through the orphanages and crime-ridden slums that followed. With few prospects for the future, Gordon carved out a niche for himself in the expanding drug trade of Lexington, PA. It’s not pretty, but it's his, and it beats the skin trade he was involved with before. But a classic case of being in the wrong place at the wrong time results in a brush with death, going by the name of Adam. Afterward, the life that once seemed good enough isn't quite the same.

Adam Blake is an assassin on the brink of being terminated by the very organization that controls him. He completed his mission, but not without being seen. With his secrets in danger of being exposed by Gordon, Adam knows he should kill the smart-mouthed redhead, but finds himself intrigued by the troublesome civilian instead.

When Gordon’s knack for finding trouble combines with the dangerous consequences of Adam’s indecision, their worlds intertwine in an explosive way.

January 27, 2027 - One day around the world.

Weeks after the last page of the In the Company of Shadows series, seven stories show glimpses of the lives of fifteen characters, scattered across the globe. In Ireland, an unexpected reunion takes a terrible turn. In Australia, the tides are changing while those involved never stop watching. In Mexico, fear brings uncertainty into a once strong relationship. And in the United States, worlds are about to collide.

1/27 answers the important question: What happens next?