After declaring their love for each other on Christmas Day, Simon Peters and Mark Smith settle down to a cosy life of domestic togetherness. A new year brings new joys and challenges. Sam, a neighbour boy comes to stay for a few days and adopts Simon and Mark as honorary dads. A promotion at work gives Simon more responsibility. Mark finds employment at the local café. The purchase of a car allows the couple to get out and about to explore the Yorkshire countryside. Snuggle up in an easy chair and toast your toes in front of the fire as you read Simon and Mark’s continuing romantic adventures.

Fireside Romance Book 2: Burning Brighter

No, I met a shifty-looking man with a long beard in the street and he packed for me. He told me that if I heard any ticking noises coming from the case, not to worry about it,I thought. “Yes, I packed the case myself.” I said aloud.


She asked a few more dumb questions, and took my suitcase. She did the same things for Mark and Sam. I’d told Mark not to pack a tube of lube; I didn’t mind us taking condoms, but I’d had visions of a burley customs officer x-raying our cases and finding some KY. Hopefully we’d be able to buy what we needed over there. Mark had laughed at my caution.


We had plenty of time to potter around the airport. Sam thought he saw someone famous from the telly, but I told him not to make a fuss, as they wouldn’t appreciate being accosted at five a.m. 


Sam shrugged. “I don’t like the character he plays anyway.” 


Chapter 46