Cuba, 1952. Twenty-year-old Ernesto Ruiz is determined to save his family's cigar business by exporting directly to the American market, but he'll need to learn about American customs and lifestyles first. That's why he takes a part-time job at an American guest house. Hank Mannix, a beefcake magazine model, enjoys his carefree life in Havana, where new men come and go every week. But his immediate attraction to the new gardener is different. He's drawn to the young man in a way he's never experienced before. A fateful encounter in the garden results in a misunderstanding that upends both their lives. As they begin to acknowledge the true depth of their feelings for each other, they must navigate through a city and country on the brink of revolution. Ernesto and Hank strive to secure their own happiness in a world where the future is uncertain, and their love is forbidden. With vivid historical detail and memorable characters, Havana Bay is a captivating story of love and revolution in a time of change.

Havana Bay - Tides of Change, #3

Life is good for eighteen-year-old Franklin. He lives on the spectrum, structuring and organizing his days, avoiding messy situations and ambiguity. But what he really wants is a boyfriend. Twenty-one-year-old Patrick has a past he can't seem to shake, and a sexual identity that's hard to describe-or maybe it's just evolving. When a manmade virus sweeps the globe, killing nearly everyone, the two young men find themselves thrust together, dependent on each other for survival. As they begin to rebuild their world, their feelings for each other deepen. But Franklin needs definition and clarity, and Patrick's identity as asexual-or demisexual, or grey ace?-isn't helping. These two men will need to look beyond their labels if they are going to find love at the end of the world.

Franklin in Paradise - Paradise, #1

In 1939, the world tumbles toward war and the lives of two young men will be forever changed. James Brennan grew up in the poorest of Dublin's tenements, turning adversity to advantage wherever he could. But he's nearly a man now-with a good education at that-and wants more from life than what he can get as a day laborer, or following his father into the factory. Otto Werner is the privileged son of a German diplomat stationed in Dublin. Otto is destined for great things in the new Europe sure to arise after Germany's victory in the war. But he's a lonely young man, living in Ireland with only his father for company, cut off from friends and family back home. The two teens meet by chance, and each sees in the other a means to advance his own interests. But they quickly become friends, and then-surprisingly, dangerously-more. As the globe spirals deeper into chaos, the love between the young men deepens; but their world is not a hospitable place for forbidden love. As war comes closer and closer to home, everything they believe-about themselves, about each other, about the world around them-will be shattered. Will their love for each other survive the pull toward destruction in a world gone mad?

Dublin Bay - Tides of Change, #1

It's 1947, and New York City is awaiting the construction of the new United Nations building, the FBI is actively pursuing Communists and Soviet spies as the Cold War begins to build, and homosexual men have even more reasons to hide who they are. Uptight FBI Agent Arthur Mason is so deep in the closet he doesn't even realize he's in one. Clueless about his own sexuality, he's surprised at his reaction to both Hans Schmidt and his twin sister, Ada. Under pressure from work, Mason investigates Hans and his boarders, including the highly suspicious Hank Mannix, a known member of the Communist Party. Though Mason can't seem to locate Ada, he can't stop thinking about Hans and keeps going back to visit. Hans Schmidt is a cross-dressing German immigrant running a boarding house for "a certain type of man, " and he wants nothing to do with Agent Mason and his ill-fitting suits and bad haircut. Until he begins to see Mason more as a man and less as a government official. Hans enjoys dressing as a woman from time to time, and once his feelings for Arthur begin to change, he realizes he needs to share his Ada persona if they are to have a future together. Secrets on both sides must be revealed and cherished beliefs challenged if these two men are to find the love and happiness they deserve. This story can be read on its own; however, characters from book one, Dublin Bay, play a prominent role as secondary characters, so it's recommended to read that first.

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