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

Colby, clinging to Stephen’s desk, felt tears prickling his own eyes, unplanned. He was thinking for no clear reason of Jason Mirelli’s hand beside his on a movie-set ship’s railing, and the way Jason had understood without an explanation, and the taste of cinnamon.


Ironically, the way the screenplay and the historical-fiction novel were both written, Will would be the one to outlive Stephen. That ship lost at sea. Will’s writing, a tale penned in the aftermath, surviving long enough to tell their story. A searing commentary on war and loss and pain and the presence of two men loving each other amid it all. Floods of anguished compassionate tears from so many readers, including Colby himself.


Right now he found himself angry at that story. Right now he wanted it to end differently. He wanted Will and Stephen to be happy


Chapter 24