Author: juliamcbryant
James used to dream of being a jockey. Now he’s head-over-heels for his gorgeous new boss. James: I’m in love, but there are three problems. He owns the stable I ride for. He just inherited like, a billion dollars. I’ve had my heart stomped on before. Maddox inherits a stable full of some of the best racehorses on the East Coast, and I discover my former boss’s son is hot… gay… … racehorses on the East Coast, and I discover my former boss’s son is hot… gay… persistant… and comes with a raging case of ADHD. Maddox has always been…
Quinn: I finally inherited my farm – but I have panic attacks when I try to deal with the financial side of it. Ellis’s solution sounds simple: marry me and deal with the money himself. We all hate it, and he swore he’d never pick between Amory and me: Amory who’s about to start a national tour, and even more cut out our relationship. He thinks he has no choice but to say yes. I’m always the weak … yes. I’m always the weak one. I’m always the broken one. Amory tells me to toughen up … and Daddy tell…
After his mother died, sweet, sheltered Mason Pinckney spent a homeschooled childhood on the sea islands off the coast of Carolina without a TV or exposure to pop culture. After moving Savannah and making friends, a night of drinking ends up with what’s supposed to be a one-night stand. Mason doesn’t recognize Zane Smith, a recent Oscar nominee for Best Actor. He doesn’t care about fame. Zane’s … Zane’s floored he’s found the only person in America who doesn’t swoon over him on sight. Zane’s closeted for career reasons. The paparazzi’s stalking. Hollywood’s gossiping. Both Zane and Mason — and…
They were all rich brats, all from monied families, all connected to everyone, to everything, to the warm center of American politics and wealth. They’d had saltwater pools and au pairs and fast cars; they grew up trilingual and vacationed in places so exclusive most people couldn’t name them. And Brenton Tucker, son of the long-time North Carolina senator, and Reid Wells, son of his … chief-of-staff, enjoyed it all together, from their childhood in Sidwell Friends to their graduation from Phillips Exeter. But in retrospect, when you borrow-not-steal film equipment, when you’re nabbed with drugs in your pocket, and…
After 2 years, 7 months, and 5 days, Jax Littleton broke up with Henry Culliver on graduation day. Henry’s still mourning Jax a year and a half later when he meets Easter Bennett, a redheaded painter who he finds catching fireflies. But Easter’s never kept a guy around for more than one lunar cycle. Henry’s determined to teach her that a relationship can be more than sex. He put Jax together. Why … Why not Easter?Then Jax comes back to town. Easter doesn’t want to lose Henry. So: package deal. You date Henry, you date me. But the reality of…
Audie’s finally escaped the hell of his parents’ homophobic home in Charleston to build a real, lasting romance with Calhoun in Savannah. But Charleston suddenly shows up on his doorstep when the couple are forced into playing parents to Audie’s gay cousin, beaten bloody and disowned for his sexuality. Audie has to confront his demons head-on — with a misbehaving, committed hedonist of a cousin … cousin in tow. Calhoun’s tired of acting like the mean dad. Audie’s breaking into pieces. For the sake of Audie’s cousin, their relationship — and some very unwelcome news from Audie’s father — they…
Wills and Crispin have been best friends since kindergarten and lovers since eleventh grade. They’ve had to hide their relationship from their upper-class Savannah parents all through high school. Now, as Wills heads off to the University of Georgia for law school, and Crispin stays in Savannah to become a carpenter like his father, Wills decides he can’t stand a long distance relationship — no … no matter how much it hurts them.But after a momentous Christmas break, they decide to try. Two teens are trying to negotiate growing up, growing together, and growing a relationship. It’s hard work, the…
Father Robinson Arthur hasn’t believed anything in years. He’s going through the mindless pray-work-teach routine, faithful to his vows, when 18-year-old Bastian McCarthy swaggers onto his swim team. God help him, Father Rob develops a crippling crush for the bisexual brat, who torments him during Confession, makes the nuns cry, and sleeps with half the girls. But Bastian finally proclaims that … that not only does he have a daddy kink, he wants a daddy — and that daddy’s Rob. Rob doesn’t know Bastian’s smartass exterior hides a life-destroying secret, a secret that’s eating Bastian from the inside out. Both…
Ellis, Quinn, and Amory have a happy daddy-boy-boy relationship. It took them a long time to get there — and they’re still healing from their journeys. Quinn used sex to cover up his deep well of loneliness. Ellis had lost himself. Amory had his home and his god ripped away. This collection of short, impressionistic vignettes tells the story of how they got there. Told in McBryant’s lyrical, … lyrical, almost dream-like prose, Remember All the Things You Don’t Want to Forget shows how small events in Quinn, Ellis, and Amory’s lives — and sometimes not-so-small-events — shaped them, and…
The Rutledge family Christmas always sucks, but Quinn has his beloved cousins, Delia and Baylor: all three same-age, look-alike blond partners in crime who always have each other’s backs, whether it’s saving Baylor from Grandfather’s ire or telling off the roving gang of brats. Baylor once chopped off her hair to make Quinn feel better. Delia punched people in the face for him. Quinn picked Delia … Delia up from parties at 3 am. They’re tight as tight can be. Quinn, Ellis, and Amory are all settled in for the Hallmark family Christmas before the boys leave for the Culliver…