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

And now they were doing it. Himself and Jason. And he wanted to change the ending.


He laughed at himself and his own hubris, briefly. He petted the window again, thanking it for being there. He looked over at the door.


Why not, he thought. Why not, if you’re already thinking about things you can change; likely he’ll have changed his mind and it won’t matter anyway, but what the hell.


He located his room key, ran a hand through his hair—annoyingly, not long enough for a decent full bun, but long enough to be full of mischief—and picked up a towel, and went out.


He hadn’t expected Colby right away. That liquid luminous voice had said later. Okay. That was fine. That gave him a chance to prepare.


As if he could prepare. There was no universe in which Jason Mirelli knew what to do when beautiful wounded movie-star Colby Kent invited himself over and offered to help. Jason gazed at a suitcase, a shoe, a comb, and despaired.


Chapter 37