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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Rainbows over Goa is a story of blending cultures and attitudes about being gay in India and Australia. It’s a story of different men from different worlds finding common ground for love. The setting is a Bollywood film shoot in the tourist town of Colva Beach, Goa. 1998 between Mumbai, India and Sydney, Australia, two little boys meet and become not only brothers in a blended family but best friends for life. One always has the other’s back. Jump to 2019 and both boys have their own careers. Kane Pinto, a prominent lawyer and Mish Pinto, a journalist and writer for a travel magazine. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Daisy the fly is a permanent resident of Whitmore Elementary School located in a small town along the shores of Lake Michigan. She lives in classroom 217 with many of her creature friends like Fuchi the cockroach. Daisy makes it her number one priority to take care of all the children in her classroom every year, knowing the challenges are always placing her and her friends in unchartered waters. Her biggest challenge becomes solving the problem with the classroom bully, who together with his bullying friends create chaos for all the boys and girls. Daisy decides she will not stand by and ...

JBER, Joint Base Elmendorf Richardson, Anchorage Alaska. Gays are finally allowed to legally marry. To serve openly in the Armed Forces. The Secretary of Defense is soon to open the doors to transgendered persons as well. Yet not all opt to serve and be out at the same time. Much like in the professional sports world, American gay fighter pilots fly their jets with their personal lives kept secret. Captain Nolan Kelly is one of these men. He flys the world’s most advanced aircraft, the F22 Raptor. The entire fighter squadron knows he’s the best, yet none of them know he’s gay. 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 ...

Forbidden Space is a place where two innocent young men must face the challenges of their world to become an epic love story told to those for many years to come. Emerald is a planet several galaxies away from Earth where the inhabitants arrived to escape the inevitable doom of their home planet from volcanic activity. The colonists choosing Emerald as their new home signed on to a charter of zero technology. They were unhappy with the way civilization developed on Earth and believed a fresh start would alter the path of social and political development they were so dissatisfied with. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Situated in the northern section of the Texas Hill Country lies the small town of Marble Falls, cut in half by the Texas Colorado River. In March of 2021, not long after the insurrection on the United States democracy, the tranquil town is hit with the after shocks of hate and hypocrisy set in stone from the previous four years. The top alt-right groups in the nation expand their membership deep into the ranks of Marble Falls High School. Students are cheated out of their normal teenage life by the Covid 19 Pandemic. Many are forced to attend classes at home via Zoom, others are made to ...

Grayson Dwyer grew up on a fruit farm in the Northern Territory of Australia near Darwin, only a few kilometers east of Humpty Doo. He loved working on the farm with his dad. Tragedy struck the family with the death of his father when he was only seventeen. To help make ends meet, he began riding bulls for the Australian Professional Bull Riders. He was so good, that his wins in Australia lead him to Las Vegas where he won the world PBR title and a three million US dollar prize. Life is good for Grayson until a few years after his big win. He was found next to a dead body in a hotel room in...

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 ...