Sun Sea And Small Town Secrets

FROM POPULAR AUTHOR OF LGBTQ+ ROMANCE S. J. COLES A Sun, Sea and... Story Small towns are full of secrets, some harder to keep than most. Sebastian Conway is a professional psychologist and accomplished criminal profiler, but when one of his patients is sentenced to life in prison for a crime she didn't commit, he simply cannot let it go. His borderline obsessive behaviour has embarrassed his boss and lover, Gerrard Wilson, and the relationship has come to a bitter end. Seb has now grudgingly taken Gerrard's advice and come to the small coastal town of Ruéier in the South of France to get some distance and clear his head—but he cannot sit by and do nothing. He has started writing a book he believes will address the failings in the case, but when he gets swept up in a local investigation into suspected drug trafficking, which is led by the enigmatic and strangely enticing Antoine Damboise, the book—and Seb's intentions to avoid active criminal cases—take a back seat. He knows it's a bad idea to get involved, but he can't seem to help himself. And when it seems Damboise is tempted to make their relationship more than professional, Seb finds it easier than ever to ignore his better judgment. But when a local drug dealer is murdered and Seb is implicated, everything gets a whole lot more complicated. Can the two men set aside their personal feelings long enough to figure out what's really going on before Seb ends up in prison? Or worse...

FROM POPULAR AUTHOR OF LGBTQIA ROMANCE S.J. COLES A Secret Santa story Jacob would move mountains to spend Christmas with someone special. A suspicious death and Park Ranger Cody Spencer will help him do just that. Special Agent Jacob Miles was looking forward to spending Christmas with someone special, but the job always gets in the way— or so his FBI agent ex keeps telling him. So, it' s looking like another lonely holiday at home. But first, he' s got to get to the bottom of a suspicious death in the picturesque mountain town of Silveridge, Colorado. A local drug dealer has been killed, and the local sheriff' s minimal investigation seems to suggest that something' s not quite right. Jacob isn' t thrilled to be sent undercover a week before Christmas to look into what he is sure is a case of country-cop incompetency, but then his local contact, Park Ranger Cody Spencer, has him looking at his trip, Christmas and the case in a whole new way. Can Jacob decide which matters more, the case or his heart, before the holiday is over and one— or both— are lost?

FROM EXCITING AUTHOR OF LGBTQIA+ ROMANCE S. J. COLES Book two in the Blood and Bonds series It' s not just fear keeping Tyler up at night... and that' s what frightens him. Tyler Lomax met Lucien, supposedly the oldest haemophile in existence, on a dark night in the depths of winter. Tyler was protesting against Baron Emory Von Magnusson taking possession of a human child. He thought he' d been doing the right thing— fighting against evil, against fear. Lucien had almost killed him for it. Now it' s months later, and Tyler hasn' t slept since. Tyler wants Lucien found. When the authorities fail him, he feels forced to take matters into his own hands. Tyler' s contact &‘ Damon' doesn' t call himself a &‘ vampire hunter' , but that is exactly what Tyler intends to pay him to be. What Tyler doesn' t bank on is having Lucien at his mercy, forcing him to confront what' s really consuming him. Tyler will not only have to face what he is feeling but finally open his mind to a perspective other than his own. He just has to pray that opening up to Lucien won' t bleed him dry before he realizes the truth.

FROM POPULAR AUTHOR OF LGBTQIA+ ROMANCE S. J. COLES Book four in the Once Upon a Holiday series “ Spending the night with you in a haunted house? That' ll absolutely make his Halloween.” Lukas Kowalski has worked hard for his independence. He emigrated to England to live and work in the White Hart pub in Littleton. He loves his job, the chance to paint and being at the heart of the community. But something is off. He' s not sleeping, and as Halloween approaches, it' s getting worse. Whether it' s the unexplained noises at night or something unseen ghosting inside himself, he can' t seem to put it to rest. Now paranormal investigator Ely Douglas has been hired to get to the bottom of what' s been going on at the White Hart. Lukas is expected to help the professor in any way he can. But Lukas is skeptical about the paranormal, not to mention haunted by his and Ely' s one-night stand earlier in the year. Forced together on a night when the veil between this world and the next is at its thinnest, the truths about the two men' s fears, love and lives will be revealed.

FROM EXCITING AUTHOR OF LGBTQIA ROMANCE FICTION S. J. COLES Book one in the Blood and Bonds series Jesse Truelove never felt a part of his own family. But can a vampire really give him a new one? With a criminal record, no steady job and a penchant for kink, Jesse Truelove has spent most of his life feeling like an outsider. He tells himself it doesn' t bother him, that he never needed human connections anyway. Now the Undying Baron, Emory Von Magnusson, a vampire— or, to use the modern term, &‘ haemophile' — has reclaimed his ancestral home north of Jesse' s hometown, and the human population isn' t sure how to react. Jesse knows a thing or two about what it' s like to be misjudged, so he keeps an open mind. But when a bungled break-in at Emory' s home brings them face-to-face, Jesse finds it' s much more than his mind that' s stimulated. However, building a relationship with an undead blood-drinker was never going to be straightforward, especially when that undead blood-drinker reveals he wants a family.

FROM POPULAR AUTHOR OF LGBTQIA ROMANCE S. J. COLES Book two in the Once Upon a Holiday series We' ll make it our Valentine' s— and the best show on Earth. Everyone believes movie star Charlie Kearney lives a charmed life, not least because he recently returned to his hometown of Littleton with enigmatic fashion designer Jacques Clement on his arm. Their whirlwind romance and high-profile engagement have kept Charlie trending on the socials for weeks, and his management company couldn' t be happier. But there' s just one problem. Charlie and Jacques aren' t engaged. They aren' t even in a relationship. Charlie needed someone to bring home for Christmas and had also hoped the news of their &‘ engagement' might tempt an old flame. Things haven' t quite gone according to plan. Now Charlie feels he has no choice but to ask Jacques to continue with the charade, even though his fake fiancé has a Valentine' s Day fashion show in Paris to prepare for. Jacques agrees to stay, but Charlie is now beginning to wonder if saving face is the only reason he' s so desperate to keep Jacques in Littleton.

FROM POPULAR AUTHOR OF LGBTQIA ROMANCE S. J. COLES The law is about how you represent the truth. Love is no different. Hilary Whyte believes that he has left his teenage troubles—and the person who embodied them—in the past. He has spent a decade building his career as a defense solicitor, believing that despite his troubled past, even the worst human beings deserve justice. Now he has a promotion on the horizon as well as a fairytale wedding to his film star fiancé. On paper, life couldn't be better. But now he is being made to represent Dom Gosford, the boy who made his adolescence a living hell, on a double murder charge, and Hilary can't be sure he is innocent. As the trial approaches, the two men are forced to travel a road of discovery, only to find that the truth of their connection goes much deeper than the question of who killed Lizzie and Dean Wood.

FROM EXCITING AUTHOR OF LGBTQIA+ ROMANCE S. J. COLES Book one in the Once Upon a Holiday series It' s your Christmas, Nick. Make it what you want it to be. Nick only agreed to return to Littleton for Christmas because Charlie, his movie-star ex, is throwing a Christmas Eve party. Charlie was the one who got away, and, regardless of what his old friend Seph says, Nick thinks he still has a shot. But things don' t go according to plan. Maybe it' s being back in his hometown, maybe it' s the time of year, but Nick is looking at Seph in a whole different way. Nick has to decide what he really wants for Christmas before he blows yet another chance at happiness.