Stories that
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Robert’s hatred for Asher has hardened into a plan. Asher is now the lover of retired fraud investigator and amateur sleuth Riley Dice, and Robert enters the hospital determined to finish what he started. Before he can escape, Robert is stabbed to death in the act of murder.

Warren and Rebecca’s marriage is intertwined with Rebecca’s gay brother, Paul. When serious illness changes the shape of their lives, the hold the three characters have on one another takes on mythic proportions. Love, Blitz suggests, can stretch beyond reason—and beyond the grave.

When a gay passenger disappears, everyone aboard the ship becomes part of the search. Is he dead, injured, or drugged—and what does the answer reveal about the possessive hold Daniel has on Matt? Gordon, Matt, and Daniel are pulled through a mystery that is as emotionally volatile as it is difficult to escape.

Chronic pandemics and vaccine side effects have reshaped humanity. Hermaphrodites, naturally immune to deadly viruses, are positioned to replace homo sapiens. The mixed Winward family—some single-gendered, some hermaphrodites, some content and some not—becomes a lens for the struggle to make identity and family coexist.

Riley, an asexual retired fraud investigator, finds Ned, Millie, and Conner dead inside Waverly Place. The caregiver Asher becomes the prime suspect, but the investigation grows stranger with help from Felix, The Cat—the feline witness behind the Sofa Investigators podcast. As Riley searches for Asher, he also discovers a suppressed sexuality and an unexpected love.

Wade becomes a mathematician and convinces himself humor is frivolous—until he is trapped in an elevator for four hours with another man. Brenda goes in the opposite direction, chasing world-class comedy until she is kidnapped and left in a cellar. Their separate adventures circle back to the therapeutic value of expressing the full range of human emotion.

Josh, a gay HIV-positive man, needs a kidney from his homophobic brother Ben. But Ben’s son is also a match. The question of who will donate becomes inseparable from a revelation that changes the meaning of acceptance and transformation for both brothers.

Lynn Pinchas is fifty, gay, and unprepared when Mark appears and says he is Lynn’s son. A missing father, an adoption trail, a prostitute mother, and DNA testing make the claim impossible to dismiss. Just when the mystery seems solved, a secret held by Lynn’s dead mother changes the story again.

Elle and Patrick, a straight couple, and Corey and Noah, a gay couple, are changed when Patrick and Noah—both living with dementia—form a sexual relationship at the same memory-care facility. As their spouses navigate Alzheimer’s, a new bond forms between Elle and Corey while Corey also faces the possible loss of an adopted son serving in Afghanistan.