Author: declanrhodes
Adam Kennedy is a hockey goalie with unusual raw talent and Nate Slater is his player-coach with past professional experience. Adam is gay and Nate is straight. Their lives are about to change. Minor-league hockey star forward Nate Slater knew he was on the edge of fame until tragedy struck. A three-player ambush ended his playing career, and he retreated from his beloved game disillusioned about … disillusioned about human beings and life in general. To nobody’s surprise, he couldn’t stay away for long and he grabbed hold of the comeback ladder on the lowest rung, player-coach for a team…
“He had a slightly lopsided smile and a small scar on his forehead from a childhood accident. He was the man who shattered my soul into a thousand pieces.” Ten years later, Kenneth is back with his entrancing crooked smile. Can Daniel open his vulnerable heart enough to allow a second chance?Daniel Cummings, the co-owner of the Match Made matchmaking service, finally has a chance at a new … new romance. Unfortunately, his new dating partner lacks commitment, and the man Daniel dated ten years ago stubbornly refuses to leave his heart. When Kenneth, the ex, returns, Daniel’s heart, patched…
Finn Weston is an accidental TV action star. After an astonishing rise to the top, he has everything, except a partner who knows the real Finn and not only his onscreen alter ego. Finn wants his first man, and he wants a perfect one, handsome, intelligent, and sexy, who’s also culturally out of touch. The Match Made matchmaking service has found him.Alex Ramsey is a zookeeper fleeing liars and … liars and cheats to take refuge in the guileless lives of animals. He doesn’t have much free time, but what there is he spends alone curled up in a classic…
From the outside, self-described computer programming geek Blake Moss is a straight, happy-go-lucky partner in the rising gay matchmaking company, Match Made. On the inside, the facade he’s built since a traumatic breakup nearly a decade ago is starting to crack.Hunter Schultz, former football jock, is still licking his wounds only months after walking out on his incompatible boyfriend, Robert. … boyfriend, Robert. Devotion to his job as head of the city’s LGBTQ+ youth center helps him make it through the rough patches.The CinderFella charity auction sponsored by Match Made and benefiting the youth center brings Blake and Hunter together…
Hot-shot lawyer Hank Donovan and motorcycle maintenance man Lucas Dean were hopelessly mismatched until a lakeside kiss, a death in the family, and a little girl named Jasmine turned their world upside down.Lucas Dean, owner of Cycle Shift, a motorcycle maintenance and second-hand shop, wants a match who’s as much of a free-spirit as he is, and someday he wants to be a father. His business … business partner, Jerry, thinks Match Made is the perfect way to find the dream partner.Hank Donovan, one of the hottest names on the local legal scene, is lonely, although he’s the last to…
Is winning everything when it comes to your heart?Jamie Matheson, one of five Matheson brothers, is the only one left who hasn’t found his perfect life partner, and the future prospects don’t look good. Still, he’s a Matheson, and he can’t let his doubts show. He charges into his company’s annual advertising campaign competition with bravado to spare and winning on his mind. When the company … When the company randomly selects Angelo, an unknown junior member of the art department, as his partner for the event, Jamie doesn’t realize how quickly the choice will change his life.Angelo Moretti is…
In the most unlikely of places, a party in Manhattan, Tate found his cowboy, the hero of his dreams—at least it was a handsome man dressed up as a cowboy. Unfortunately, Tate’s lasso failed, the cowboy escaped, and he found out that forever would require a second chance.Tate, the second son of the large Matheson clan, moved to New York City from his native Los Angeles to head up the East Coast … East Coast branch of the family business Matheson and Greene. A fan of cowboys from his early childhood, Tate fell hard when he saw a vision out…
For Mason Matheson, being first-born into a large, prosperous family meant the responsibility to compete to be first in many ways. When Kyle Greene, a childhood friend of Mason and his family, decides its time to broaden his horizons and experiment with men, Mason is determined to be Kyle’s “first.” Mason began the week shoehorned into a minivan with his four adult brothers and one sister on the … minivan with his four adult brothers and one sister on the way to Kyle’s mountain ski lodge for a vacation week. Matheson and Greene, the company founded by the elder generation…
In their battle against post-retirement weight gain, a former football star and a former hockey star meet in a hush-hush counseling group for celebrities. Soon retired pro football player Gabe Finch is working on trash-talking his way into Logan Peterson’s heart. Logan was an ice hockey star. Selected as league most valuable player in four different seasons, he retired after fifteen years as an … retired after fifteen years as an eventual shoo-in for the Hall of Fame. Then he took a break. It was his time to let down and enjoy life. He didn’t know that the good times…