An epic motion picture! A gay Napoleonic War love story! Ballrooms and battles at sea! Romantic happy endings on the silver screen! And a film that’ll change everything for its stars ... Jason Mirelli can’t play adrenaline-fueled action heroes forever. He’s getting older, plus the action star parts have grown a little thinner since he came out as bisexual. This role could finally let him be seen as a serious dramatic actor, and he needs it to go well -- for his career, and because he’s fallen in love with the story and the chance to tell it. The first problem? He’ll be playing a ship’s captain ... and he hasn’t exactly mentioned his fear of water. The second problem? His co-star: award-winning, overly talkative, annoyingly adorable -- and openly gay – box office idol Colby Kent. Colby’s always loved the novel this film’s based on, and he leapt at the chance to adapt it, now that he has the money and reputation to make it happen. But scars and secrets from his past make filming a love story difficult ... until Jason takes his hand and wakes up all his buried desires. Jason could be everything Colby’s ever wanted: generous and kind, a fantastic partner on set, not to mention those heroic muscles. But Colby just can’t take that chance ... or can he? As their characters fall in love and fight a war, Colby and Jason find themselves falling, too ... and facing the return of their own past demons. But together they just might win ... and write their own love story.

Seaworthy

Bagels turned up twenty minutes later, accompanied by a fantastical variety of possible toppings. Four of them involved cinnamon in assorted ways: with and without raisins, with nuts, and so on. Colby only took one.


But he eyed the other three, along with memories involving flavors and preferences, and noticed an odd reluctant glow inside his chest, tucked up under his breastbone, someplace he hadn’t noticed had been cold; now it felt warm, rather like cinnamon.3: Day 3, Morning to Evening


That odd cinnamon-warm glow was persistent, Colby concluded. Staying in place with great tenacity. Stubborn. The extremely strange part was how long it lasted: straight through the morning and his first scenes on the cabin interior set, surrounded by the oaken glow of wood and an old-fashioned inkwell.


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