Bücher von John Inman

Ashley James and Tucker Lee have been friends for years. They are city boys but long for life on the open trail. During a three-hundred-mile hike from the Southern California desert to the mountains around Big Bear Lake, they make some pretty amazing discoveries.One of those discoveries is love. A love that has been bubbling below the surface for a very long time.But love isn't all they find. They also stumble upon a war-a war being waged by Mother Nature and fought tooth and claw around an epidemic of microbes and fury.With every creature in sight turning against them, can they survive this battle and still hold on to each other? Or will the most horrifying virus known to man lay waste to more than just wildlife this time?Will it destroy Ash and Tucker too?

Danny Sims is in over his head, torn between his abusive lover, Joshua, and Jay Holtsclaw, the bartender up the street, who offers Danny the one thing he never gets at home: understanding.When Joshua threatens to get rid of Danny's terrier, Danny knows he has to act fast. Afraid of what Joshua will do to the dog and afraid of what Joshua will do to himif he tries to leave, Danny does the only thing he can do.He runs.But Danny isn't a complete fool. He has enough sense to run into the arms of the man who actually cares for him-the man he's beginning to trust.Just as their lives together are starting to fall into place, Danny and Jay learn how vengeful Joshua can be.And how dangerous.

Wyeth Becker is a quiet man. Staid, serious, calm. A librarian. When he meets preschool teacher Deeze Long, he discovers joy for the first time in his life. With joy comes laughter, excitement, and a new way to look at the world through the eyes of the kindest, most loving man he has ever met.When tragedy strikes and Deeze loses his joy, it is Wyeth who helps him find it again. It is Wyeth, the man who never truly understood happiness, who pays that gift back. Giving all he can of himself to the man who changed his life. Restoring in Deeze what he now so desperately needs.But the road of their relationship doesn't end there. The joys and sorrows of life are never-ending. As they set out to weather the highs and lows together, Wyeth and Deeze hang on to the one thing that makes all the tears and laughter worthwhile.Love.For only through love can life be truly savored at all.

It's not easy breaking into show biz. Especially when you aren't exactly loaded with talent. But Malcolm Fox won't let a little thing like that hold him back.Actually, it isn't the show-business part of his life that bothers him as much as the romantic part-or the lack thereof. At twenty-six, Malcolm has never been in love. He lives in San Diego with his roommate, Beth, another struggling actor, and each of them is just as unsuccessful as the other. While Malcolm toddles off to this audition and that, he ponders the lack of excitement in his life. The lack of purpose. The lack of a man.Then Beth's brother moves in.Freshly imported from Missouri of all places, Cory Williams is a towering hunk of muscles and innocence, and Malcolm is gobsmacked by the sexiness of his new roomie from the start. When infatuation enters the picture, Malcolm knows he'sreallyin trouble. After all, Cory isstraight!At least, that's the general consensus.

A vingt-six ans, les jours de Gordon sont comptes. Du moins, il espere qu'ils le sont. Lasse de la culpabilite et des regrets qui decoulent d'un horrible accident de voiture, deux ans auparavant, dans lequel un homme a perdu la vie, il se reveille chaque matin avec des pensees suicidaires. Alors que la loi l'oblige a travailler pour expier ses peches, sa redemption personnelle est beaucoup plus difficile a trouver. Puis Minus - un simple sans-abri qui a sa propre croix porter - sauve Gordon d'un terrible destin. Une nuit, non seulement Gordon trouve une lumire suivre, et peut-tre mme un but sa vie, mais aussi la possibilit que l'amour l'attende au bout du tunnel.Il n'aurait jamais imagin qu'il dcouvrirait un moyen de se pardonner et, qu'en le faisant, il ouvrirait suffisamment son cA ur pour gagner l'acceptation et l'amour de la personne qu'il a le plus blesse.

A Belladonna Arms NovelShiloh Smart is alone and looking for a fresh start. Convinced he's finished with love forever, he signs a lease at the Belladonna Arms, a tacky, run-down apartment building situated high on a hill in downtown San Diego.Determined to turn his back on romance, Shiloh works hard at carving out a life for himself where love doesn't stand a chance and staying single is all that matters.Then his drag queen landlord's nephew, Ben Moss, moves in. Thanks to a rumor Ben has heard since childhood of a fifty-year-old crime and a fortune in stolen money, he sets out to find the loot supposedly hidden decades ago in his uncle's apartment building.The minute Ben spots a kilted Shiloh toddling off to work at the Scottish restaurant up the street where he waits tables, he falls hard and fast for the aloof young redhead. Even a hidden treasure can't compete in Ben's eyes with the beautiful waiter with the fiery copper hair.But even while he diligently works to break down Shiloh's defenses, Ben doesn't give up his quest for buried treasure. Soon, as their friendship deepens, the two young men join forces in a search for the stolen cash.As the treasure hunt gathers steam and all the tenants get involved, Ben and Shiloh come to realize the greatest treasure isn't buried in the Belladonna Arms at all. It's buried far deeper-in each other's hearts!

Robert Johnny just turned thirty, and his life is pretty much in the toilet. His writing career is on the skids. His love life is nonexistent. A stalker is driving him crazy. And his cat is a pain in the ass.Then Robert orders a chimichanga platter at a neighborhood restaurant, and his life changes-just like that.Dario Martinez isn't having such a great existence either. He needs money for college. His shoes are falling apart. His boyfriend's a dick. And he has a crap job as a busboy.Then a stranger orders a chimichanga platter, and suddenly life isn't quite as depressing.But it's the book in the busboy's back pocket that really gets the ball rolling. For both our heroes. That and the black eye and the forgotten bowl of guacamole. Who knew true love could be so easily ignited or that the flames would spread so quickly?But when Robert's stalker gets dangerous, our two heroes find a lot more to occupy their time than falling in love. Staying alive might become the new game plan.