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

That was just Leo. He resolved with great resolve to ignore any more comments from that direction. He jogged over toward Colby’s trailer.


He heard Colby talking before he came around the corner. He knew it was Colby: accent evocative as a symphony, light and chattering in the way that’d become recognizable. Jason recalled initially cataloguing that never-ending flow of words as a distraction; the familiarity of it tugged at his bones now, listening.


He’d seen Colby speechless. He’d seen Colby forget a line, white-faced under makeup and intense lighting. He couldn’t like that. Wrong in some uncategorizable way. Not how the world ought to be.


Colby at the moment was saying to the world, or at least one piece of it, “…well, the fact that you’ve got this far is itself good, isn’t it? You were at least memorable.”


Jason paused. Someone’d been memorable? Having gotten far at something?


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