Arthropoda

When a simple job turns into anything but.
Detective George Donovan doesn’t plan to stay in Charleston long. Skeptical and by-the-book, he’s on the fast track to the top and he won’t let anything derail his career. Especially not Andrew Hayes, his grumpy, awkward new partner – and not the chief’s secret order to find out how said partner solves even the most difficult cases. 

George and Andi can’t agree on anything except their mutual dislike, but when three dead girls turn up at a storage unit, they must put their differences aside before the suspected trafficking ring claims another victim. 

There is no crime without witnesses. Andi knows Geroge suspects his always-right ‘hunches’ point to corruption, but he doesn’t care. All that matters is catching a killer … and keeping his secret. But with leads on this sprawling conspiracy drying up, he has no choice. He just can’t let his partner find out how he’s getting the information. 

Andi’s on the verge of losing his life, his mind, and his career. He could take George down with him … 

If the violent criminals who are always one step ahead don’t get to them first. 

Arthropoda is the first book in the Andi Hayes Murder Mystery series. It's M/M, low on the romance (demisxual main character), and VERY slow-burn. It features the most unusal informants you can imagine, a detective determined to climb up the ladder, another detective who is more rabid hedgehog than human, and a case that seems hopeless. 

Eruca

The past always catches up!
When Detective George Donovan and his eccentric partner, Detective Andi Hayes need a break from their gruesome job, a hike seems like just the thing. 

Unfortunately, the job catches up with them, when they find three dead men in a lake. 

When the promising clues dry up, George and Andi turn once more to Andi’s geschenk – but this time, things aren’t so easy. Andi’s mysterious talents are growing stronger, making it harder to block out the barrage of information and taking a toll on his physical and mental health. The cryptic clues his tiny informants offer are even more bizarre than the case itself. And the more they discover about the victims, the more uncomfortable the investigation becomes. 

Torn between catching a killer and serving justice, between George’s career and Andi’s sanity, the detectives have their work cut out for them if they’re going to solve theses murders. 

Eruca is the second book in the Andi Hayes Murder Mystery series. It's M/M, low on the romance (demisexual character) and high on gruesome murder (seen through the senses of arthropods). The story includes a partnership that is steadily turning into more, a chief hounding our heroes, revenge that's not only cold but frozen solid, and the usual cast of creepy crawlers.

Apidae

No good deed – or good record of solving crimes – goes unpunished. 

Detectives Andi Hayes and George Donovan of the Charleston PD are on vacation. Or at least they are until they are called back for an emergency: find Chief Norris’s missing son. 

Fortunately, Andi’s insect spies lead him right to young Tyler Norris, who is safe and sound. 

Unfortunately, along with the chief’s son, they find twenty-five corpses, victims of a serial killer who has gone unnoticed for over a decade. 

Chief Norris promptly cancels Andi and George’s vacation and assigns them as lead detectives on the case. Physical evidence leads them to a mental health facility where some of the victims received treatment, but Andi’s geschenk – his usual secret weapon- fails him. Promising leads and shady suspects all turn out to be dead ends, and they’re running out of time. Because the killer isn’t going to stop at twenty-five victims – and Tyler Norris has just gone missing again … 

Apidae is the third book in the Andi Hayes Murder Mystery series. It's M/M, low on the romance (demisexual character) and high on the action . In this book the paranormal has a guest role, though, as Andi would say, Ghosts are just creepy crawlers of a different kind. The story has a HFN but the relationship is on-going.

Vespa Crabro

When duty – aka the office – calls, Detectives George Donovan and Andrew ‘Andi’ Hayes follow, albeit reluctantly. 

In Spartanburg, people are dying by arthropod, and the office sends Andi and George to investigate. At first, everything looks like coincidence and well within statistical probability but the deeper they dig, the blurrier and sinister everything becomes. And as if a chief hell-bent on protecting the reputation of his precinct and an FBI agent on the warpath weren’t enough, George’s mother has announced a family visit for George’s upcoming birthday. 

Andi and George don’t know what’s worse – a string of non-sensical murders with leads sizzling away faster than spittle on the hood of a car on a hot summer day or a mother in lioness mode determined to protect her ‘innocent’ cub – George – from an ‘evil’ menace – Andi. 

Finding their strength in each other might be the key to surviving both. 

Vespa crabro is the fourth book in the Andi Hayes Murder Mystery series. It’s M/M, low on the romance (demisexual main character) and high on the murder, with a healthy dash of family drama, ghosts and, of course, enough creepy crawlers to make the hair on your nape stand up. It does have an HFN, depending on one’s definition of a happy ending for a story with multiple dead people in it. The main characters are reasonably happy, so that counts, yes? 

A Dom and His Writer

Life is perfect for Richard and Dean. Richard is a wealthy and successful businessman who also owns a BDSM club, and Dean is a best-selling author and sub to Richard. They’re young, happy, and in love. The future is bright…. 

Until tragedy strikes and an accident claims Dean’s beloved sister. Dean finds himself the guardian of a three-month-old infant, and soon he’s trading in his leather fetish gear for diapers and drool bibs. But little Emily is all that remains of his family, so how can he abandon her? 

It’s not what Richard signed up for. As much as he tries to be supportive, he never wanted kids and misses having his partner to himself. Suddenly the life he imagined for them is gone, and he’s not sure their relationship can survive the upheaval. But fate isn’t through with Dean, and when misfortune strikes again, will he be able to turn to the man he loves? A final crisis will determine if they can pull together as a family or must face facts and part ways. 

A Dom and His Artist

Sometimes the perfect man can be found in the most unexpected place…. 

Martin Carmichael owns a security firm and is part owner of Club Whisper. He’s a Dom in search of the right guy, and when his car breaks down on a lonely stretch of road, he thinks he might have found him. 

Artist Collin Malloy is talented, easygoing, but somewhat insecure. Still, he has a big heart and is quick to offer help when he sees Martin in need. To thank him, Martin invites Collin to dinner, where the attraction between them becomes harder to resist. 

But what will become of their budding relationship when Martin reveals that he likes his men bound, submissive, and in pain? Is it something Collin can accept… and possibly enjoy exploring? Even if he can, Collin has a secret of his own—a secret he doesn’t even realize he’s keeping. 

A Dom and His Warrior

Leeland Drake and Jonathan White are a committed BDSM couple and have just moved in together. Leeland has only one year left in college, and everything seems perfect…. until Leeland’s uncle asks him to stand in for an injured UFC fighter. 

Leeland wants to help his uncle, but he remembers all too well from his years competing in martial arts how strenuous life as an athlete can be. He doesn’t want to risk his relationship with Jonathan. After some discussion, they decide Leeland will go pro for a year. 

As if the training and the strict diet weren’t bad enough, the pressure skyrockets when Leeland encounters homophobic fighter Noah Adams – especially when they end up facing each other in the championship. 

Between the bigoted rants of his opponent, the scrutiny of the media, the pressure from his sponsor, and a fire in his uncle’s gym, Leeland is on the verge of breaking down. Only Jonathan’s support and love keep him focused enough to set foot in the octagon once more – and maybe even walk away a winner. 

A Dom and His Gentleman

Silver fox Curtis is everything baker Andrew could want in a sub, and their chemistry is off the charts. But as a wealthy and successful gallery owner, Curtis intimidates Andrew and challenges his dominant nature. Can Andrew get used to a sub with a much higher social status? 

British noble Curtis Morris has all but given up on finding his perfect Dom when he walks into a bakery and meets Andrew Granger – smoldering hot, new to Miami, into the lifestyle and with kinks that align perfectly with Curtis’s own. 

Andrew grew up poor and doesn’t know if he can handle a sub with so much more money, even if he’s insanely attracted to Curtis. To make matters worse, Curtis’s preferred club, Whisper, is far beyond Andrew’s financial means. Still, Andrew doesn’t want to lose Curtis to his own hang-ups, not when Curtis is far from the elitist snob Andrew expected. But Andrew keeps messing up, and with Curtis’s rich ex visiting with the hopes of winning him back, he and Curtis will need all the help they can get to make their romance of opposites work out. 

Demon's Wish

 Finding love is hard—especially when you’re a demon and your potential mate is your sacrifice… 

Sammy is content with running his bookshop and leading a book club consisting solely of paranormal creatures. Despite the persistence of his friends, he has resolved himself to a life without romance, since he doesn’t think anybody could find him and his tendency to spill useless knowledge whenever he gets nervous attractive. 

Dresalantion is a demon prince and slightly—make that majorly—annoyed when somebody persistently tries to summon him. He finally decides to show up and put the fear of Dresalantion into his summoners but finds himself rescuing their sacrifice instead. 

Sammy intrigues him from the get-go, and when Dre realizes that Sammy can get him the manga he’s been hunting for months—not to mention that he refuses a wish he offered him—the sexy demon decides to get to know this fascinating man better. Much better. 

Demon's Game

For a demon, finding a mate is a difficult, anxiety-inducing process. Or he might just accidentally bite his gaming buddy during a bout of experimental sex and bam—mate found!

During a book club meeting Barion  meets Jon again, the zombie who lives in Sammy’s basement, and the two bond over their mutual love of PC games.

After some friendly—and oh so subtle—prodding from friends and family, Barion and Jon decide to explore the potential of their relationship. As it turns out, exploring quickly turns into more and suddenly Jon and Barion are summoned to New Orleans for Barion to meet the family - all of them, alive and dead. 

They quickly realize that something is wrong there, and it turns out Jon's Grann has been challenged by a voodoo priest who practices the blackest of magic. Barion will do his best to save the day, Grann—and his relationship.

Demon's Dance

 Declan and Troy have been waiting for their mate patiently and with dignity… Hell, scratch that. They’ve been waiting forever—and nothing will stop them from keeping him.

When the only two uber alphas currently in existence finally find their gorgeous, submissive omega mate, life has to be perfect—right? Well, one out of three ain’t that bad, and Declan and Troy never wanted a submissive omega anyway.

Finding the right mating gift to impress their royal mate turns out to be a bit of a challenge, but the way they see it, that’s just an opportunity to show how perfectly suitable they are to be Alerion’s mates. If only the damn street tom would stop trying to make minced meat out of their arms.

Alerion is beyond happy to have found his mates—yes, mates, plural! He’s not entirely sure how to woo the two werewolf alphas, but for a demon who knows every dance in existence, nothing is impossible. Getting rid of all the doe-eyed, helpless and completely submissive omegas suddenly popping up in Beaconville like a rash after a rendezvous with poison ivy and claiming they need protection from the two uber alphas turns out to be a bit more complicated.

Between well-meaning friends and family and an interfering Shifter Council, their mating dance is anything but boring. 

Demon's Test

 When everything depends on a test, love will bring in the crucial points.

Quirion has been a proud hoarder of books his entire long life. When he got not-so-subtly bullied into accepting an assistant four years ago—it was his own decision, yes, and the pleading looks from his brother-in-law had nothing to do with it, damn him and his cuteness—he’d thought it would be a martyrdom he just had to endure. Now, four years later, his library seems lonely on the days Milo isn’t there. Grudgingly Quirion has come to the realization that he wants Milo to be more than just a friend and employee. The only question is how to proceed.

Milo has been Quirion’s assistant for four years, relying on the demon’s help to navigate the more difficult aspects of college life. For almost as long, he has known that, to him, Quirion is the perfect man. But the demon is so much older and wiser than him—Milo doesn’t stand a snowball’s chance in hell to ever get him. And when funding for his research is taken from him unexpectedly, he needs Quirion to help him once again with a test that can make or break his career.

Can these two scientists find a way into each other’s arms or are they doomed to study alone? 

Ein Dom und sein Schriftsteller

 Für Richard und Dean ist das Leben perfekt. Richard ist ein reicher, erfolgreicher Geschäftsmann, dem auch ein BDSM-Club gehört. Dean ist ein Bestseller-Autor und Richards Sub. Sie sind jung, glücklich und verliebt. Die Zukunft sieht rosig aus … Bis das Schicksal zuschlägt und Deans geliebte Schwester bei einem Unfall stirbt. Auf einmal ist Dean für ein drei Monate altes Baby verantwortlich und schon bald tauscht er seine lederne Fetisch-Kleidung gegen Windeln und Lätzchen ein. Aber die kleine Emily ist alles, was von seiner Familie noch übrig ist, wie kann er sie also im Stich lassen? So hat Richard sich das nicht vorgestellt. So sehr er auch versucht, Dean zu unterstützen, hat er doch nie Kinder gewollt und vermisst es, seinen Partner für sich selbst zu haben. Mit einem Mal ist das Leben, das er sich für sie beide erträumt hat, vorbei und er ist sich nicht sicher, ob ihre Beziehung diese Komplikation verkraften kann. 

Ein Dom und sein Künstler

 
Manchmal findet man den perfekten Mann dort, wo man ihn am wenigsten erwartet…

Martin Carmichael besitzt eine Security Firma und ist Miteigentümer des Club Whisper. Er ist ein Dom auf der Suche nach dem richtigen Mann und als sein Auto an einer einsamen Straße den Dienst quittiert, denkt er, dass er ihn vielleicht gefunden hat.  Der Künstler Collin Malloy ist talentiert und unbekümmert, aber etwas unsicher. Dennoch hat er ein großes Herz und bietet sofort seine Hilfe an, als er sieht, dass Martin sie braucht. Um sich zu bedanken, lädt Martin Collin zum Abendessen ein, wo die Anziehungskraft zwischen den beiden immer unwiderstehlicher wird. Aber was wird aus ihrer aufkeimenden Beziehung, wenn Martin enthüllt, dass er seine Männer gefesselt, unterwürfig und leidend mag? Ist das etwas, das Collin akzeptieren kann – und vielleicht sogar erforschen möchte? 

Ein Dom und sein Krieger

 Leeland Drake und Jonathan White sind ein festes BDSM-Paar und gerade zusammengezogen. Leeland hat nur noch ein Jahr auf dem College vor sich und alles scheint perfekt zu sein … bis Leelands Onkel ihn bittet, für einen verletzten UFC Kämpfer den Ersatzmann zu spielen. Leeland will seinem Onkel helfen, aber er erinnert sich von seinen Jahren der Wettkämpfe im Kampfsport nur zu gut daran, wie anstrengend das Leben als Athlet sein kann. Er will seine Beziehung zu Jonathan nicht riskieren.  Nach einigen Diskussionen entscheiden sie, dass Leeland für ein Jahr lang Profi sein wird. Als ob das Training und die strikte Diät nicht schon genug wären, erhöht sich der Druck ins Unendliche, als Leeland auf den homophoben Kämpfer Noah Adams trifft – vor allem, als sie sich im Kampf um den Gürtel des Champions gegenüberstehen. Die widerlichen verbalen Angriffe seines Gegners, die Aufmerksamkeit der Medien, der Druck von seinem Sponsor und ein Feuer im Fitnessstudio seines Onkels setzen Leeland so zu, dass er kurz vor dem Zusammenbruch steht.  Nur Jonathans Unterstützung und Liebe helfen ihm, seinen Fokus zu bewahren und noch einmal das Oktagon zu betreten – und vielleicht als Sieger wieder 

Ein Dom und sein Gentleman

Der Silberfuchs Curtis ist alles, was der Bäcker Andrew sich von einem Sub wünscht und die Chemie zwischen ihnen geht durch die Decke. Aber als reicher und erfolgreicher Galeriebesitzer schüchtert Curtis Andrew ein und fordert seine dominante Natur heraus. Kann Andrew sich an einen Sub gewöhnen, der einen deutlich höheren sozialen Status hat als er selbst?

Der britische Adelige Curtis Morris hat es schon aufgegeben, seinen perfekten Dom zu finden, als er eine Bäckerei betritt und Andrew Granger kennenlernt – unglaublich heiß, neu in Miami, Teil des Lifestyles und mit Kinks, die perfekt zu denen von Curtis passen.

Andrew ist in Armut aufgewachsen und weiß nicht, ob er mit einem Sub klarkommt, der so viel mehr Geld hat, auch wenn er sich wahnsinnig zu Curtis hingezogen fühlt. Um es noch schlimmer zu machen, ist der Club, den Curtis bevorzugt, Whisper, weit außerhalb von Andrews finanziellen Mitteln. Dennoch will Andrew Curtis nicht an seine eigenen Vorurteile verlieren, weil Curtis nichts von dem elitären Snob hat, den Andrew erwartet hat. Aber Andrew macht immer wieder Fehler und als Curtis’ reicher Ex zu Besuch kommt, in der Hoffnung, ihn wieder für sich zu gewinnen, werden er und Curtis alle Hilfe brauchen, die sie bekommen können, um ihre Romanze zwischen Gegensätzen zu einem glücklichen Ende zu bringen.