Sand Sea and Sizzle Author:Christiane France From best-selling author Christiane France come three tales of passion and mystery, romance and secrets. — On Days Like These: When burned-out mystery writer Mark Salvatore asks to borrow the old family home near Genoa, Italy, for some much needed R&R, he envisions a blissful summer enjoying the warm sun, hanging ou... more »t with the villagers, eating homemade Italian food, and drinking the local wine. Instead, Mark arrives to find the house has been trashed, and there's a naked man asleep in the bedroom. And just hours earlier, Mark heard news of a bank robbery where the thieves got away with the loot.
Immediately, Mark's creative processes go into high gear when it comes to the sexy stranger, Tony Wheeler. What if the man is using an alias? What if he's one of the thieves, hiding out in the hills until the heat is off? And what will Mark do when his fierce attraction to the mystery man starts to get the best of him?
The Club At Cool Harbor: A year ago, all private investigator Gabe Muller needed to complete his perfect life was the perfect man. Then he met fellow P.I., Raz Reynolds, the man of his dreams. The attraction was mutual, and they made a date for dinner at Raz's house. When Gabe arrived, he found Raz on the patio having sex with another man. Although literally caught with his pants down, Raz tried to explain that things weren't at all the way they looked, but Gabe wasn't buying it. Hurt and disillusioned, he cut off all contact with Raz.
Now, the security firm for which Gabe works is hired by the owner of a new all gay males' resort at Cool Harbor to stop the leak of highly sensitive, personal information about members' leisure-time activities. Posing as a waiter, Gabe arrives to investigate and immediately runs into Raz, also there undercover. Although Gabe is working for the owner and Raz for one of the club members, their goal is the same. For this reason, Gabe suggests they temporarily put personal differences aside and share information.
For Raz, it's the perfect opportunity to try to convince Gabe what he thought he saw a year earlier wasn't at all what it seemed. When Gabe learns the truth, will he believe Raz, forgive him, and give the man another chance?
Once Upon A Secret: The last thing Luke Fiorelli wants to do, being a member of a close-knit immigrant family living in the Italian neighborhood of a small town, is embarrass or upset them by openly declaring his sexuality. Moving to the big city isn't an option for a variety of reasons. So, by convincing himself that his father would kill him if he ever found out about Luke's sexuality, and satisfying his needs with the occasional weekend trip out of town, Luke has never had a problem keeping that part of his life a deep, dark secret.
That is, until he meets handsome and openly gay Travis Barrington III. The attraction between the two men is strong and instantaneous, and suddenly Luke is scrambling to invent even more excuses to keep his secret.
Travis, however, knows all about secrets and the harm they can do, but can he convince Luke to accept that and step out into the light?« less