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

Will would leap on board the Steadfastand pick up a pistol and defend his lover, if he could. Since he couldn’t, he’d find another way. And if even that failed, he’d write their love into history, and keep Stephen alive for the world to know. Determination, and a refusal to give up, a choice to not give in, to never let the war and the silence and the untold story win.


Colby, hand resting over window-glass and distant sparks of light, shivered a little.


I’m not, he thought. I’m not him, I’m not that strong, I’m not—


He would have to be. Because he’d ended up here. Picking up that story, a story he’d loved for so long.


And he wanted this, he would throw his heart and soul into this, because Will and Stephen deserved no less, and maybe Colby Kent wasn’t strong enough but he’d give them everything anyway, everything he could, all that he could, the same way Jason would, because Jason loved them too—


Chapter 58