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Hugo Burrows has life under control. He has a decent job, a long-term relationship and a flat in Canary Wharf. It's all under control. It's just becoming a little problematic trying to hold everything together. Keeping the bruises on his skin hidden away. A smile plastered on his face. Controlling the calories he allows himself to consume. And now his boss is on his back with too many questions, and the grumpy French head chef keeps staring at him like he's a freak or something. Everything is under control. It has to be. Benjamin Desjardins may be the head chef at the Clouds Hotel, but he definitely hasn't got anything under control. His relationship with his best friend is crumbling, and simply turning up for work seems to automatically cause never-ending chaotic disasters. Yet there is something about the new concierge that has crawled straight under his prickly skin. Ben doesn't need more complications in his life. In fact, the last thing he needs is to inconveniently, and reluctantly...fall in love. SKIN AND BONES can be read as a standalone but is best enjoyed if read after TASTE. Reader Advisory. This book deals the following topics: eating disorders, OCD, domestic violence and sexual assault, characters falling somewhere on the ace/grey spectrum. Please look yourself and take care if these topics could upset you.The book has high angst but low steam due to the above topics.

Being an actor is not the glamorous life Connor Telford expected. Now he lives in a budget hotel, spending all his time working...or working out. He's on friendlier terms with the catering team on set than he is with his co-stars, and his mum keeps telling him to get a real job.A real job. Con kind of agrees. He plays Detective Cass Powell in the multi award-winning show White Noise, making the audience swoon at his character's skills and charm. Detective Powell has his life all figured out. And when you play someone whose life is picture perfect? It's easy to see that your own life is anything but.Con doesn't even know how to live a normal life anymore. Date? He's not been on one for years. At least not one not set up by his agent as a promotional stunt. There's just no time to think when your brain is constantly fried. Work. Gym. Sleep. Gym. Work.Then he meets Matthew Winston.

Andreas Mitchell is single, stupid and bored, and should honestly have a good long think about the number of bad life choices he has made lately. Instead, he heads straight for the one guy he knows will become his biggest mistake yet. Luca Germano makes no choices at all. Instead, he lives quietly in the background and prefers the safety of his own hand to risking his heart. And someone as pretty and fearless as Andreas Mitchell is the last person on earth he should let into his life.Especially at Christmas. If you'd told me I could thoroughly enjoy an insta-love romance featuring a relationship cemented over a few days, I'da called you bonkers. Color me humbled by this Christmas gift. 'Ship of Fools' by Sophia Soames is both charming and believable. She has created two men who could only have developed true intimacy in a rush. (Amazon review) A wonderfully steamy story of two people who find exactly what they need. (Goodreads review.) Ohhh Mmmyyyy PHOEBE! This was an absolute train wreck of over the top, this is so crazy it could totally happen in real life, gay Romance. I loved every whacked-out moment of it! (Goodreads review.) This is a work of fantasy and fiction. This story contains descriptions of sexual role play and consensual violence, and elements of mild BDSM, which are not intended to be taken seriously or imitate reallife. Please read with caution if these themes might trigger or upset you. This book is written and edited using British English.

It's always been a thing, the gag joke gift Pontus Andreassen's so-called friends present him with for Valentine's Day. Not that people care much about Valentine's Day in Denmark these days, and anyway, all of them are now grown up and sensible and mature and... adult. Pontus hates that word. He hates it almost as much as he hates going out and meeting other human beings and engaging in socialising, conversation and mutual masturbation. Until the day he gets gifted a cleaner, and his quiet Friday turns into the Valentine's date from hell. Louis Ramsdahl-Soto's grandmother would probably have whipped his third-generation Chilean immigrant arse if she knew that he has turned her famous recipe for Pastel de Choclo into some Scandinavian vegan delicacy. She would have whipped his arse for a lot of things, he knows that. The problem is that Louis seems to lack that vital gene to get his life in order. Instead he has moved back home to his parents and started up his own company, which is going well, if only his clients would remember to pay him, and if he could sometimes remember to put his meagre earnings in the bank. He's a little bit of a disaster, but at least he's good at what he does. Until he meets Pontus Andreassen.

"It's only words." Charlie would have said. "Words don't define you. You are just what you are, and you can't help who you fall in love with." Not that Charlie is in love with me. Not the way my heart has decided that he's the only thing allowed in that big cavity in my chest where my feelings hang out."I'm in love with Charlie," I say to the mirror instead. "I'm in love with him, and I don't know what to do with all that." This thing with Charlie? It has to end. I can't go on like this. I just... "Get a grip, Daniel." I say to the face in the mirror. "Get a flipping grip." This thing with Charlie is set in the same universe as Ship of Fools and Custard and Kisses. The Chistleworth books are all standalones and can be read in any order. This book is written and edited in British English.

Meet Lukas Myrtengren, Mentor Teacher in Biology and Maths at Östra Real Senior School in Stockholm. This isn't how his life is supposed to turn out. In your late thirties you are supposed to have your life figured out, right? Somehow, Lukas has lost his compass, his life spinning aimlessly out of control. He still gets up in the morning and goes to work every day without fail, making sure his students pass his classes and that his schedule is right on track. His love life is a shambles, his head is a mess, but he is trying to sort it all out. Honestly. He can't keep living like this.Meet Tom Andersson. Emergency room doctor and single dad. He has no idea how he has managed to mess up parenthood this bad. He tries too hard, has no patience and can't even hold a normal conversation with the seventeen-year-old son he loves to the point of insanity. Tom knows that he is drifting out to sea without a paddle, he just doesn't know how to stop it. Meet me, Max Andersson. Seventeen. Gay AF. An emotional wreck with no future, no skills and no clue. All I know is that I am in love. Helplessly. Desperately. And, unrequited, of course. What else can you expect from a loser like myself? It's not like my life is going to get better. The truth is, I'm just another disaster waiting to happen. A ticking time-bomb full of stupidity. That's just the way it is.Welcome to Open Water.

Oskar Høiland hides from life. It just makes things easier that way, not having to face all the fears and drama of living. He avoids other people, because Oskar has grown up fearing the snide remarks and the quick glances that strip him of the tiny scraps of confidence he still has left. He is just going to keep existing. Work hard to complete his medical degree and perhaps watch a few more series on Netflix in peace and quiet over Christmas. Erik Nøst Hansen should be an almost fully-fledged adult. He should be able to sort out the mess that festers in his head and stop lying. It's just hard. And it's bloody terrifying to even acknowledge the thoughts that swirl around in his head at night when he can't sleep. He also needs to figure out how to talk to the boy downstairs. The one with the golden curls and the crooked smile. The boy who is completely monopolising Erik's messed-up heart. A story of falling in love and being brave. A Christmas tale with a difference, set in the university dorms of central Oslo, where lies are uncovered, snowflakes are falling all over the place, and beds are made to lie in. There is a slightly unconventional family. A mess of animal onesies. Too much food and a very Merry Christmas. Second Edition, fully re edited with no added content.

In the weeks leading up to his best friend's wedding, twenty-three-year-old Harry Thunder truly hits rock bottom. Existing in a haze of vodka and self-destruction, there's more to Harry's obnoxious behaviour than meets the eye. But life, as he knows it, is about to change, and not even Harry can stop the tsunami of feelings when he finally realises that he's allowed to be happy. That he's just as loveable as people like...Owen Cartwright. Owen is large and loud and calls everyone babes, while Harry can't even string a coherent sentence together, let alone get through the day without life punching him in the face. But perhaps sometimes being exactly who you are can be why people fall in love with you.Even if you're not gay. At all.