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

“Well, as long as they said yes,” Jill said. “You’re leaving for England tomorrow, right?”


Jason’s stomach, hearing this for the first time, experienced a startling lurch of vertigo. He’d known Colby would be heading out before the rest of them, that’d been on the initial schedule, he’d just…


What? Not thought about it? Assumed those blue eyes would be at his side throughout tomorrow’s stunt? Throughout the entire process of filming? That wasn’t how moviemaking worked.


“I’m not,” Colby corrected calmly. “Day after tomorrow. I have that morning show interview to do, the one I had to reschedule a couple of months back, and then I’ll come over and be on set with you after that. I should be here most of the day.”


Jason’s stomach did another flip, but this time back into place.


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