Damon Suede

Some mistakes are worth making. Reclusive comic book artist Trip Spector spends his life doodling super-square, straitlaced superheroes, hiding from his fans, and crushing on his unattainable boss until he meets the dork of his dreams. Silas Goolsby is a rowdy FX makeup creator with a loveless love life and a secret streak of geek who yearns for unlikely rescues and a truly creative partnership. Against their better judgment, they fall victim to chemistry, and what starts as infatuation quickly grows tender and terrifying. With Silas’s help, Trip gambles his heart and his art on a rotten plan: sketching out Scratch, a "very graphic novel" that will either make his name or wreck his career. But even a smash can't save their world if Trip retreats into his mild-mannered rut, leaving Silas to grapple with betrayal and emotions he can't escape. What will it take for this dynamic duo to discover that heroes never play it safe?

This free ebook is volume three in a collection of short stories celebrating love, sex and romance between men. Note: These stories contain sexually explicit content and are intended for adult readers only. Mael Day – THREE MONTHS AND ELEVEN DAYS (First Time/College) Astrid Detlefsen – THE MUSE (Established Relationship) Sasha Devlin – STROKE OF MIDNIGHT (Werewolves/Vampires) Ryssa Edwards – SPINNER (Military) Tia Fielding – HAWK’S SPARROW (Werewolves) Rachel Haimowitz – JUNGLE HEAT (Military/Dub-con) Julie Lynn Hayes – PAVANE FOR A PROUD PRINCE (Fantasy/Magic) Valentina Heart – PLUG AND ENGAGE (BDSM/Friends to Lovers) Lissa Kasey and Xara X. Xanakas – SINK OR SWIM (Established Couple) A.J. Llewellyn – CROCODILE UNDIE (M/M/M/M) Clare London – SAY A LITTLE PRAYER (Paranormal/Angels) Belinda McBride – FREE TO FLY (BDSM) Summer Michaels – LUCKY BOY (Friends to Lovers) Bran Mydwynter – FRIDAY I'M IN LOVE (Geeks-Nerds/Humor) Cherie Noel - KISS AND TELL (Mild Kink) Lydia Nyx – MOON OVER MONTANA (Shifter/Cowboys) Devon Rhodes – HIS LAST RESORT (Coming Out) J. Rocci – JUST BREATHE OUT (First Time/College) RJ Scott – GOT YOUR SIX (Military/ Friends to Lovers) PD Singer – THE BOY NEXT DOOR (Friends to Lovers) Damon Suede – SEEDY BUSINESS (Sci-Fi) Ariel Tachna – YOU’RE IT (Friends to Lovers, M/M/M) Bryl R. Tyne – ALIPIO (Fantasy) Missy Welsh – YOU AND BILLION BLUE TILES (First Love) Cooper West – HENRI'S WAR (Diesel-Punk/Film Remix) Sara Winters – STARTING OVER (College/Athletes) Serena Yates – ZEPH’S AWAKENING (Rescue/ Age Difference)

Every future has dirty roots.Marooned in the galactic backwaters of the HardCell company, colonist Runt struggles to eke out an existence on a newly-terraformed tropical planetoid. Since his clone-wife died on entry, he’s been doing the work of two on his failing protein farm. Overworked and undersized, Runt’s dwindling hope of earning corporate citizenship has turned to fear of violent “retirement.”When an overdue crate of provisions crashes on his beach, Runt searches frantically for a replacement wife among the tools and food. Instead he gets Ox, a mute hulk who seems more like a corporate assassin than a simple offworld farmer.Shackwacky and near-starving, Runt has no choice but to work with his silent partner despite his mounting paranoia and the unsettling appeal of Ox’s genetically altered pheromones. Ox plays the part of the gentle giant well, but Runt’s still not convinced he hasn’t arrived with murder in mind.Between brutal desire and the seeds of a relationship, Runt’s fears and Ox’s inhuman past collide on a fertile world where hope and love just might have room to grow.

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Where there’s smoke, there’s fire... Since 9/11, Brooklyn firefighter Griff Muir has wrestled with impossible feelings for his best friend and partner at Ladder 181, Dante Anastagio. Unfortunately, Dante is strictly a ladies’ man, and the FDNY isn’t exactly gay-friendly. For ten years, Griff has hidden his heart in a half-life of public heroics and private anguish. Griff’s caution and Dante’s cockiness make them an unbeatable team. To protect his buddy, there’s nothing Griff wouldn’t do… until a nearly bankrupt Dante proposes the worst possible solution: HotHead.com, a gay porn website where uniformed hunks get down and dirty. And Dante wants them to appear there—together. Griff may have to guard his heart and live out his darkest fantasies on camera. Can he rescue the man he loves without wrecking their careers, their families, or their friendship?

Lickety Love won’t wait. Patch Hastle grew up in a hurry, ditching East Texas for NYC to make his name as a DJ and model without ever looking back. When his parents die unexpectedly, he heads home to unload the family farm ASAP and skedaddle. Except the will left Patch’s worst enemy in his father’s handsome best friend who made his high school years hell. Tucker Biggs is going nowhere. Twenty years past his rodeo days, he’s put down roots as the caretaker of the Hastle farm. He knows his buddy’s smartass son still hates his guts, but when Patch shows up growed-up, looking like sin in tight denim, Tucker turns his homecoming into a lesson about old dogs and new kinks. Patch and Tucker fool around, but they can’t fool themselves. Once the farm’s sold, they mean to call it quits and head off to separate sunsets. With the clock ticking, the city slicker and his down-home hick get roped into each other’s life. If they’re gonna last longer than spit on a griddle, they better figure out what matters—fast.

PENT Mix business with pleasure and take cover. Ruben Oso moves to Manhattan to start his life over as a low-rent bodyguard and stumbles into a gig in a swanky Park Avenue penthouse. What begins as executive protection turns personal working for a debonair zillionaire who makes Ruben question everything about himself. Watching over financial hotshot Andy Bauer puts Ruben in an impossible position. He knows zero about shady trading and his cocky boss lives barricaded in a glass tower with wall-to-wall secrets and hot-and-cold-running paranoia. Can the danger be real? Is Andy for real? What’s a bullet catcher to do? Ruben knows his emotions are out of control even as he races to untangle a high-priced conspiracy and his crazy feelings before somebody gets dead. If his suspicions are right, Andy will pay a price neither can afford, and Ruben may discover there’s no way to guard a heart.

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