Where the Pines Kiss the Sky
Sometimes life leads you back to where it all began because home is where the heart can truly mend.
Elias Lake is facing a personal and professional crisis. The world famous star of countless action movies has been outed on social media. By an ex-lover with a poisonous ax to grind. His life and reputation as ‘The World’s Only Remaining Manly Man’ – the studio’s PR words not his – is now hiding in his mansion in the LA hills, trying to sort out where to go now. The media is camped outside his gates, the studio heads are up in arms, and his legion of fans are ready to fire up the torches and grab their pitchforks.
With his world burning down around him he tucks tail and heads home, to a small island that hugs the rocky coast of Maine. There Elias Lake can return to being plain old Elias Kesside, the son of an innkeeper, who spent his youth pretending to be a famed local pirate or swimming in the choppy waters of Kesside Bay. Hiding isn’t as easy as the beleaguered movie star had hoped though, and when the press find him he ducks into a small pottery shop near the inn to shake off the paparazzi. There he meets Gibson Vale, the upbeat and attractive older ceramist who owns the shop. What starts out as a duck-and-cover moment turns into a friendship that quickly grows into something strong, vibrant, and healing for both men.
Where the Pines Kiss the Sky is a slow burn, age gap, small town M/M romance starring two men who are looking for new beginnings, a tiny coastal town filled with well-meaning but incredibly nosy natives, rough seas, rocky coasts, sailboats under summery sunsets, and a happy-ever-after.
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Where the Pines Kiss the Sky (Love’s Journeys #1)
Sometimes life leads you back to where it all began because home is where the heart can truly mend.
Elias Lake is facing a personal and professional crisis. The world famous star of countless action movies has been outed on social media. By an ex-lover with a poisonous ax to grind. His life and reputation as ‘The World’s Only Remaining Manly Man’ – the studio’s PR words not his – is now hiding in his mansion in the LA hills, trying to sort out where to go now. The media is camped outside his gates, the studio heads are up in arms, and his legion of fans are ready to fire up the torches and grab their pitchforks.
With his world burning down around him he tucks tail and heads home, to a small island that hugs the rocky coast of Maine. There Elias Lake can return to being plain old Elias Kesside, the son of an innkeeper, who spent his youth pretending to be a famed local pirate or swimming in the choppy waters of Kesside Bay. Hiding isn’t as easy as the beleaguered movie star had hoped though, and when the press find him he ducks into a small pottery shop near the inn to shake off the paparazzi. There he meets Gibson Vale, the upbeat and attractive older ceramist who owns the shop. What starts out as a duck-and-cover moment turns into a friendship that quickly grows into something strong, vibrant, and healing for both men.
Where the Pines Kiss the Sky is a slow burn, age gap, small town M/M romance starring two men who are looking for new beginnings, a tiny coastal town filled with well-meaning but incredibly nosy natives, rough seas, rocky coasts, sailboats under summery sunsets, and a happy-ever-after.
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Reflections of Cypress (Love’s Journeys 2)
When you’re forced to walk a different path, the detour just might be what your heart required all along.
Arlo Bonetti has enjoyed a life of unparalleled luxury. As the sole heir to a global olive oil empire, he’s traveled the world, indulged in every pleasure, and never known a day of responsibility. While he revels in his lavish lifestyle, his father is less than pleased. Amidst a series of scandals, the latest being the most outrageous in Arlo’s eventful life, his father decides to intervene. Taking control of Arlo’s trust fund, he issues an ultimatum: he has a year to grow up, or he’ll lose access to the family’s immense fortune. To make sure Arlo follows through, he’s dispatched to Italy, the heart of the Bonetti legacy, to manage one of their renowned olive farms.
Surly doesn’t even begin to describe Arlo’s mood when he lands in Florence to report to his great-aunt, the matriarch of the family and the only person his father feels can whip the spoiled, truculent young man into shape. It’s there, in the city of the Renaissance, that Arlo meets Donvino Marini, the grandson of his great-aunt’s housekeeper. The two young men come from vastly different backgrounds: one is a millionaire’s son and the other a poor athlete with dreams of making the Italian rowing team. Arlo is instantly charmed by the beautiful, affable rower and what starts off as a flirtation soon turns into something much deeper, something that will change Arlo’s world in ways he couldn’t have imagined.
Reflections of Cypress is an opposites attract, rich man/poor man M/M romance with two young men from different walks of life, a city of flowers, an oil mill brimming with scenic countryside views, family and friends that are not averse to pushing two souls together in the name of romanza, one distinguished feline, swaying cypress trees, lush heady nights, and a happily-ever-after.
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Reflections of Cypress (Love’s Journey #2)
When you’re forced to walk a different path, the detour just might be what your heart required all along.
Arlo Bonetti has enjoyed a life of unparalleled luxury. As the sole heir to a global olive oil empire, he’s traveled the world, indulged in every pleasure, and never known a day of responsibility. While he revels in his lavish lifestyle, his father is less than pleased. Amidst a series of scandals, the latest being the most outrageous in Arlo’s eventful life, his father decides to intervene. Taking control of Arlo’s trust fund, he issues an ultimatum: he has a year to grow up, or he’ll lose access to the family’s immense fortune. To make sure Arlo follows through, he’s dispatched to Italy, the heart of the Bonetti legacy, to manage one of their renowned olive farms.
Surly doesn’t even begin to describe Arlo’s mood when he lands in Florence to report to his great-aunt, the matriarch of the family and the only person his father feels can whip the spoiled, truculent young man into shape. It’s there, in the city of the Renaissance, that Arlo meets Donvino Marini, the grandson of his great-aunt’s housekeeper. The two young men come from vastly different backgrounds: one is a millionaire’s son and the other a poor athlete with dreams of making the Italian rowing team. Arlo is instantly charmed by the beautiful, affable rower and what starts off as a flirtation soon turns into something much deeper, something that will change Arlo’s world in ways he couldn’t have imagined.
Reflections of Cypress is an opposites attract, rich man/poor man M/M romance with two young men from different walks of life, a city of flowers, an oil mill brimming with scenic countryside views, family and friends that are not averse to pushing two souls together in the name of romanza, one distinguished feline, swaying cypress trees, lush heady nights, and a happily-ever-after.
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Mornings by the Linden Tree (Love’s Journey’s #3)
When you think you have everything you need, fate will show you all you never knew you were missing.
Wesley Barlowe has it all. He’s a highly successful divorce attorney at one of Boston’s most prestigious law firms. His name is on the rosters of many elite clubs, his clothes are from famed designers, and his historic duplex overlooks Boston Common. His lovers are few and far between by choice, his car is a sporty hybrid, and his bourbon is always aged in white oak barrels. There are no surprises in Wesley’s tightly structured life. Until his estranged sister dies, leaving her three-year-old daughter in his custody. With no other family to pass the child off to, Wesley has no other option but to take his niece into his home.
Instead of spending his days in court and his nights at home studying briefs while sipping on triple mash twenty-year-old whiskey, he now finds himself joining single-parent online groups, waffling about how to handle temper tantrums, and how to entertain a rambunctious preschooler. During a particularly rough morning, she spies a musician on the Common singing to a small group of children. At his wit’s end, he carries his niece across the street and discovers that not only do the children seated on rainbow blankets adore the handsome, funny, and charming performer, but Wesley does too. There is something incredibly calming and warm about Lennon Cole and his silly songs. Something that will show the workaholic that there is more to life than litigations, courtroom wins, and million-dollar settlements.
Mornings by the Linden Tree is a slow burn, age gap, rich man/poor man, single father, biracial MM romance with two incredibly different men, a city along a famous harbor, a precocious child, a housekeeper with plenty of sage advice, songs about frogs in baseball caps, an indecent amount of clam chowder, evenings spent slow dancing with the baby monitor on, and a wicked awesome happy ending.
*Content Warning: This story has references to loss of a family member and substance abuse*
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Under the Shade of the Sycamore (Love’s Journeys #4)
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When you think you’ve finally found your place in the world, something unexpected has a way of stitching itself into the seams.
Kinder Graham is on the brink of everything he’s ever wanted. A self-taught designer, his sharp eye, daring silhouettes, and relentless ambition have earned him a coveted invitation to showcase his work on an exclusive fashion reality show in Paris. It’s the opportunity of a lifetime—the kind that launches careers and rewrites futures. Armed with talent, nerves, and a suitcase full of dreams, Kinder arrives in France determined to prove he belongs among legends. If he can survive the tutelage of Claude Barrons…
A household name in haute couture, Claude is as enigmatic as he is brilliant—an icon whose designs have shaped decades of fashion and whose reputation is as meticulously curated as his collections. Draped in quiet confidence and effortless elegance, he commands every room he enters… always with a tiny, impeccably groomed dog nestled in a sling at his hip, peering out at the world like it owns it. To Kinder, Claude is everything he both admires and fears: experienced, untouchable, and wholly out of reach. But as erratic production shoots stretch into late nights and the pressure of the show mounts, Kinder begins to see beyond the legend. Beneath Claude’s cool exterior lies a man who understands creation, sacrifice, and the lonely cost of brilliance. Between whispered critiques, shared sketches, and quiet moments stolen along the Seine, admiration turns into something far more dangerous—and far more irresistible.
Under the Shade of the Sycamore is an age gap, slow burn, mentor/mentee, opposites-attract MM romance set against the glittering backdrop of Paris fashion. It features a rising American designer with everything to prove, a legendary French icon with nothing left to lose, a very opinionated dog with impeccable taste, late nights in candlelit ateliers, espresso-fueled mornings, tension threaded through every glance, and a breathtaking runway where more than one heart is on display… all leading to a beautifully tailored happily ever after.
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