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

Back inside. Dashing over to Will’s desk. Artistically bent over notations and timetables. He couldn’t not feel Jason’s presence at his back, behind the camera lens, exchanging friendly greetings with Laura and the crew.


Ready. Starting again. He contemplated messages, interceptions, secret languages. He scratched pen across paper.


He let Will’s need fill him up, saturate each thought, stretch through every crystalline moment of focused genius. That gifted naturalist’s mind would turn itself to spycraft and encryptions and the fates of nations, because among their fates lay the future of the man Will Crawford loved. Stephen and the Steadfastmoved around the seas in the grip of tides oceanic and political, and Will had a way to change those tides, to shift them for the better. He could not run away to serve on a ship’s deck and he was a terrible shot with a pistol, but this: this he could do.


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