Gavin Mitchel hat sich mit einem einsamen, unerfüllten Liebesleben abgefunden. Sein erstes Treffen mit Ryker Hudson ist zufällig und sehr erotisch. Ihr zweites Treffen, ebenfalls ungeplant, ist hochgradig peinlich und doch kommen die beiden nicht voneinander los. Große Hindernisse stehen ihnen im Weg, dabei ist ein vierzehnjähriger Altersunterschied nur eines ihrer Probleme. Gemeinsam müssen Ryker und Gavin die Kraft finden, die Schwierigkeiten zu überwinden, oder sich von ihrem neu gefundenen, gemeinsamen Glück verabschieden.
Liebe, Geborgenheit und Fürsorge waren für Griffin Fremdwörter, bis er durch seine neuen Pflegeeltern und Quincy ihre Bedeutung erfahren hat. Als der verängstigte und schmächtige Griffin bei ihnen einzieht, wird Quincys Welt auf den Kopf gestellt. Trotz einem holprigen Start werden die beiden schon bald unzertrennliche Freunde. Die Pubertät offenbart jedoch eine unerwartete Anziehung zwischen den beiden, die während der Highschool immer intensiver wird. Ist es die ungezwungene Collegezeit wert, zehn Jahre Freundschaft aufs Spiel zu setzen oder besteht sogar die Chance auf etwas viel Besseres?
Sommer, Sonne und Luxus - so sieht Reids Leben in Kalifornien aus, bis er die Pferderanch Pine Ridge seines Großvaters in South Dakota erbt. Bevor er das Anwesen verkaufen kann, muss er allerdings drei Monate lang die Cowboyhölle ertragen. Die Ranch ist Walkers ganzes Leben. Umso bemühter ist der Vorarbeiter, Reid von seinen kaltherzigen Verkaufsplänen abzubringen. Die plötzliche Zuneigung zu Walker, dem Land und sogar den Pferden kommt für Reid völlig überraschend. Doch dann bedroht eine Serie von Anschlägen die Ranch und alle, die dort leben. Soll Reid also doch verkaufen, damit nicht noch mehr passiert? Muss er zurück nach Kalifornien, auch wenn sich sein Herz jetzt auf der Pine Ridge Ranch und in Walkers Armen zu Hause fühlt?
Der Mechaniker Micah und der ungeoutete Lehrer Cole lernen sich über eine Dating-App kennen. Zwischen den beiden knistert es heftig, obwohl ihnen einige Hindernisse im Weg stehen. Finden sie eine gemeinsame Antwort auf die Frage, was wichtiger ist: Seiner Berufung nachzugehen, oder die wahre Liebe zu finden? Als homophobe Hetze und Hass in Gewalt umschlägt, stehen sie mit dem Rücken zur Wand. Eine Geschichte über Mut, Selbstfindung und das Wagnis, sein Herz zu öffnen.
Upon the dramatic landscape of the Isle of Wales there have been born many creatures and beings of legend. This lushly illustrated guide delves into the dragons, beasts, fair folk, and spirits of Wales. Tales become blended and one with history, and this history meets illustration with C.C.J. Ellis' rich renderings of these creatures. Detail and colour lift these beings off the page and bring this compendium to life. Now available worldwide, this new edition includes a Welsh language guide so that each of the creatures might be known by their original Welsh names. You may have heard of the Red Dragon (Ddraig Goch) featured on the national flag of Wales, but have you heard of the Water Leaper (Llamhigyn Y Dŵr) or of the Mary White (Mari Lwyd)? C.C.J. aims to re-introduce the beasts of Welsh myth and legend to the world and bring a touch of Wales to your shelves. Part of the Wool of Bat series focused on the preservation and promotion of folklore and oral history from around the world.
An award-winning beer worth killing for. Can DCI Oldroyd find the killer before last orders? Steeped in a history of award-winning Yorkshire ale, the town of Markham boasts not one but two breweries. Richard Foster runs one; his sister, Emily, along with her partner, Janice, runs the other. And not without some resentment. The unwelcome return of the town's former bad boy, Brendan Scholes, threatens to ignite the sibling rivalry further. Scholes claims to have found the long-lost secret recipe to the beer that made Richard and Emily's father famous, and he wants money. But it isn't long before Scholes' body is found floating in a fermentation tank at one of the breweries, his head caved in by a hammer. DCI Oldroyd and Andy Carter are called in to investigate the murder, and there's no shortage of suspects. As rumours of the possible existence of a recipe for the famous beer spread against a backdrop of growing homophobia and misogyny, tempers run high. With Markham's beer industry at stake, a killer on the loose and the town's residents out for blood, Oldroyd needs to solve the murder before someone else is killed...
Winter, snow, murder--and a centuries-dead suspect. In the chilly depths of a Yorkshire winter, a well-liked rector is found bludgeoned to death in her own church. With no sign of a murder weapon, local superstition quickly pins the blame on the ghost of a medieval monk believed to haunt the building... Well accustomed to unusual murder investigations, DCI Jim Oldroyd takes on the case, along with his assistant, Sergeant Andy Carter, but they are hampered at every turn by the deepening snow and the threat of the supernatural. Even as possible motives and opportunities begin to reveal themselves, Oldroyd struggles to find a better suspect than the hooded phantom. Has Oldroyd really found himself in the midst of a Gothic ghost story or is there a very real killer at large? Spectre or otherwise, it soon becomes apparent that the murderer is not yet finished. And, for Oldroyd, it's about to become personal...
A murdered crime writer. An idyllic Yorkshire town. Can DCI Oldroyd separate fact from fiction? A famous writer is found murdered at the Victorian baths in the Yorkshire town of Harrogate. In a crime worthy of one of his novels, Damian Penrose, who was appearing at the town's crime writing festival, has been ruthlessly strangled. But with no trace of the murderer and no apparent means of escape, how did the killer simply vanish from the scene of the crime? There's only one mind capable of unlocking this mystery: DCI Jim Oldroyd. But as he and his team quickly discover, while Penrose was popular with the reading public, he had made plenty of enemies. Feuds over money, accusations of plagiarism, a string of affairs...His route to the top left a trail of embittered rivals--and suspects. But which of them was willing to commit murder? When Penrose's shocking death proves to be just the first of many, it becomes clear to Oldroyd that he is dealing with a calculating criminal hell-bent on revenge. He must find and bring them to justice. Before the truth becomes more chilling than fiction...
