Simon Peters and his partner Mark Smith face a number of challenging life events in the fourth and final volume of this heart-warming saga. Because of his time working on the streets after being kicked out of home by his father, Mark worries he may have contracted HIV. Despite knowing the lack of treatment options if he were to test positive -- this is the late 1980’s before the age of retro-viral drugs -- Mark is determined to know his fate. Things become complicated when Mark receives a letter from his father wanting to re-establish contact. Roy entering their lives presents further challenges, ones which ultimately threaten Simon and Mark’s continued happiness. Gay teens Sam and Billy play an increasingly important part in Simon and Mark’s lives, often regarding the older men as surrogate fathers/big brothers. Can this unconventional family pull together and become stronger, despite all the world has thrown at them?

Fireside Romance Book 4: Glowing Embers

“Please. The course is getting a bit harder now, and it’s difficult to concentrate so late in the evenings. Mind you, the lecturer is pretty dull, too.”


“That makes a big difference.” I remembered the lecturers I’d had at university. One or two had had the personality of dead sheep.


Mark got out of the bath, dried himself, and went into the bedroom. I followed, my gaze firmly glued to his beautiful behind.


“You staring at my bum?” Mark asked over his shoulder.


“Yes.” I admitted. “You got a problem with that?”


He gave me a beautiful smile. “No, not at all, but you promised me a massage and the oil is still in the bathroom.”


I blushed and returned to the bathroom and the medicine cabinet.


Mark was lying naked on his stomach waiting for me when I re-entered the bedroom, a towel spread beneath him. He really did have a beautiful behind. Heck, everything about him was beautiful.


“My shoulders feel really tight,” he said, twisting his head to face me.


Chapter 15