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

He eased a step further inside. Not too far. No pressure. “I got your email. Bought the first book in that series, so thanks. Also your cupcake delivery happened about half an hour after you left. I saved you one.” He held it out. Cinnamon dulce de leche. In a disposable coffee-cup for ease of transportation. Slightly squashed. Not too badly so. “You didn’t have to do anything else.”


“Oh, yes, I did, I promised.” Colby bounced back his direction, waved an envelope at him, paused to pull on the other boot. “It’s for your sister really, not for you. I meant to ask you what she’d want, but then I thought, well, you’d be busy all afternoon, but I’m leaving tomorrow, but you’ll be here another week and you’ll likely see her, I would, if my sister were in town, if I had a sister—” He finally stopped to breathe. Jason traded cupcake for envelope, bemusedly.


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