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

She got quieter, over the phone: no doubt sitting on her old blue couch with a pile of textbooks and a mug of coffee and their grandmother’s hand-knitted blanket, more upright now and worried. Jason could picture her there, all tumbled black curls and the deep brown eyes he recognized in his own mirror every morning; he smiled, even as she asked again what was wrong.


Wrong? Right? He didn’t know anymore. His own secrets, his own fear, and Colby coming over in…sometime soon, he didn’t know how soon…and tomorrow’s scene, and Colby’s own secrets, that vulnerability lacing a core of steel, and Colby was going to try to help him but Jason couldn’t ask that of someone already trying so hard…


His pulse thumped in his ears. Allie had said something he’d missed.


He took a deep breath. “You were right. I’m not…it’s not okay. Allie, can I ask you something? As a lawyer?”


Chapter 38