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

Which was good. Their secret, him and his shower. No one had to know. Not Colby himself. Not anyone on set. Not anyone who’d be there tomorrow, when Jason would be diving into the tank and grabbing a fellow actor, because he couldmake that dive. He’d gotten back into the water.


He could do it again. Biggest hurdle: overcome.


Yeah. He could do this. He might not ever enjoy it as much as he once had, but he could work around it, now: things could go wrong, and he’d never forget, but things could also go right. Water might mean danger, but might also mean Colby Kent splashing him and laughing in moonlight.


A minute later, scrubbing shampoo through his own hair, he stopped in place. The shampoo slid down over his eyebrow.


He must have. Surely he would’ve. Hadn’t he?


He reviewed all his failed sentences, while shampoo ran along the back of his neck.


Chapter 46