![]() ![]() Book 13 in the Straight Guys series, but it can be read as a stand-alone. This book contains explicit MM content, hurt/comfort, codependency, an emotionally stunted control freak who doesn’t know how to express his affections in a healthy way-and a man who loves him anyway. Can he trust a heartless, manipulative sociopath? Can he stop craving him after he returns to his normal life? When the family visit turns into a nightmare of betrayal, kidnapping, and murder, Jordan has to rely on Damiano to keep his sanity. ![]() But he can’t seem to stay away, fascinated with the man despite his better judgment. That someone is probably Damiano Conte, a cold, ruthless bastard who has no right to be so hot.Įveryone says Damiano is a sociopath with no capacity for real emotion. Someone in his boss’s mafioso family wants to murder them.ģ. He’s there as bait: Jordan has to pose as his boss’s real boyfriend, who looks a lot like Jordan.Ģ. He’ll get paid handsomely for his trouble. When his boss asks him to accompany him to Italy for a family wedding, Jordan agrees. Jordan Gates isn’t easily flustered-or easily scared. ![]()
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![]() ![]() This time of year when I turn up the thermostat, I think of Mom, who was always turning up the thermostat, and how when Dad would catch her he launched into, “They call me Heat-Miser,” prancing and bellowing that whole ridiculous song.Īnd when I think of Dad at this time of year, I think of a Christmas gift he gave Mom once, a huge, colorfully wrapped box, which she opened only to find inside another wrapped box, and Dad laughed as she opened that box to find another wrapped box, and then another, and so on, boxes inside boxes (everything from Dad was always a joke, a big laugh, an absurd story, a ridiculous reenactment, an outlandish flattery (as I grew older, I made attempts at heartfelt conversation with the man, but these only set him to searching for more ludicrous diversions (what I mean is, Dad was like that big delightfully wrapped box: when I tried to peel it open, I found inside another gaudy box, and inside that box another box, etc. ![]() It's the 40th anniversary of "The Year Without a Santa Claus," so for this new edition of Salon's two-sentence fiction series, we asked our acclaimed novelists to include Heat-Miser and Cold-Miser. ![]() ![]() ![]() (Summary by Wikipedia)Cast:Bernardo: Ernst PattynamaFrancisco, Cornelius, Gentleman, Danes, Osric: Martin GeesonHoratio: Robert HoffmanMarcellus: KristingjClaudius, Second Clown: Elizabeth KlettVoltimand: David LawrenceLaertes: Nathanial W.C. The play vividly portrays both true and feigned madness – from overwhelming grief to seething rage – and explores themes of treachery, revenge, incest, and moral corruption. Set in the Kingdom of Denmark, the play dramatizes the revenge Prince Hamlet exacts on his uncle Claudius for murdering King Hamlet, Claudius's brother and Prince Hamlet's father, and then succeeding to the throne and taking as his wife Gertrude, the old king's widow and Prince Hamlet's mother. The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. ![]() |