Vanessa North

By day, Natalie Marshall is the Thorns Ladies’ Social Club’s perfect concierge: resourceful, observant, immaculate. But she turns her phone off when the night concierge arrives, and then she’s Nat: the raunchy lead singer of Vertical Smile....

American Heavy Metal is Tiffani Ellis’ sanctuary, or at least it was before her dad died. Being in charge means her own dreams are firmly on the back burner. The last thing she needs is the man who broke her heart showing up at her shop with a car he doesn’t deserve to touch....

Tanner Ellis left American Heavy Metal in her rearview mirror. She didn’t see the beauty behind the grease stains and polished chrome until it was too late. Now she’s back, determined to save her father’s legacy and bring the South’s premier classic-car shop into the new century....

Jeffrey Kuyper was a once-in-a-generation talent and I was his muse. Jeffrey's death shocked the art world and upended my life....

Jed sees Connor. Connor hears Jed. The time they share is idyllic, but with the farm sale pending, even their sanctuary is a source of tension....

Tommy Nguyen and Felix Pearce have a perfect relationship. A perfect working relationship. Tommy's the star of a hit kids' TV show, and Felix is the cameraman who makes sure he always looks good....

Jacks Williams is Ritchie Ford’s one great love. Their life as the rhythm section of the band Vertical Smile is perfect—only upstaged by the one they share as lovers. Until one night Jacks locks himself in the bathroom and slices his arms open, shattering everything Ritchie knows....

Ten years ago, best friends and soccer buddies Nick Hana and Kevin Dorsey were inseparable—until Kevin put the moves on virginal Nick on the eve of their college graduation. Not wanting to be just another notch in Kevin’s bedpost, Nick turned him down and “lost” his new phone number....

Tabloid scandals have driven TV star Ryan Hertzog to North Carolina’s Outer Banks, where he’s hiding out doing summer stock at his cousin’s seaside theater. When a hookup with handyman Trey Donovan results in Ryan being photographed butt naked, he vows to keep his pants on and his hands off Trey....

Eddie Russell is many things: A wealthy pillar of the community. An outrageous flirt. A doting best friend. A masochist with a kink for brawling with his bedmates. But he is definitely not a man who invites intimacy. His friends are close but few, his lovers rarer still....

Recently divorced Tina Durham is trying to be self-sufficient, but her personal-training career is floundering, her closest friends are swept up in new relationships, and her washing machine has just flooded her kitchen. It’s enough to make a girl cry....

Two men at odds with themselves and each other embark on what should be a simple team-building exercise, but nothing goes as planned....