Download or read book Saffron Alley written by A.J. Demas and published by Sexton's Cottage Books. This book was released on 2021-02-16 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A month ago, eunuch sword-dancer and spy Varazda collided with ex-soldier Damiskos at a seaside villa during a dizzying week of intrigue, assassinations, and a fake love affair that—maybe—turned real. Now Varazda is back home in Boukos, at the center of a family and community he dearly loves, and Damiskos is coming to visit. Things aren’t going according to plan. Varazda’s family members suspect Damiskos’s motives. Varazda grapples with his own desires. Add in a horrible goose, a potentially lethal sculpture, and yet another assassination plot, and any man other than Dami would be boarding a ship straight back to Pheme. It’s going to take all of Damiskos’s patience, and all of Varazda’s strength, to make this new relationship work. After all that, solving one more murder shouldn’t be too hard. Saffron Alley is the second book in the Sword Dance trilogy, the continuation of Dami and Varazda’s story from Sword Dance. It crosses over with One Night in Boukos, but you don’t have to have read that book to enjoy this one.
Download or read book One Night in Boukos written by A.J. Demas and published by Sexton's Cottage Books. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a night when the whole city is looking for love, two foreigners find it in the last place they expected. The riotous Psobion festival is about to begin in the city of Boukos, and the ambassador from the straightlaced kingdom of Zash has gone missing. Ex-soldier Marzana, captain of the embassy guard, and the ambassador’s secretary, the shrewd and urbane eunuch Bedar, are the only two who know. Marzana still nurses the pain of an old heartbreak, and Bedar has too much on his plate to think of romance. Neither of them could imagine finding love in this strange, foreign city. But as they search desperately for their employer through the streets and taverns and brothels of Boukos, they find unexpected help from two of the locals: a beautiful widowed shopkeeper and a teenage prostitute. Before the Zashians learn what became of their ambassador, they will have to deal with foreign bureaucracy, strange food, stranger local customs, and murderers. And they may lose their hearts in the process. One Night in Boukos is a standalone romance featuring two couples, one m/f and one m/m. Dive into a fresh, new, imaginary world of love and intrigue!
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Download or read book The House of the Red Balconies written by A.J. Demas and published by Sexton's Cottage Books. This book was released on 2024-06-24 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hylas has come to the island of Tykanos to build an aqueduct. He is not interested in the island’s main attraction: the pleasure houses where polished courtesans both female and male offer tea and elegant conversation. Until he finds himself renting a room in one of the tea houses and meeting his neighbour, the courtesan Zo. Over breakfasts in Zo’s garden, the two men strike up a friendship that transforms the isolation of their lives. But Hylas’s aqueduct project is threatened by bureaucratic delays, and Zo needs to secure a rich patron to help support his failing house. Just when they have begun to hope that they have found a home together, will the world force them apart?
Download or read book Strong Wine written by A.J. Demas and published by Sexton's Cottage Books. This book was released on 2021-10-14 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Retired soldier Damiskos and his lover Varazda have been living together in Boukos for a month, and their future is beginning to look bright. Then Damiskos receives a letter summoning him home to Pheme—where his parents are deeply in debt, his brother is being hunted by loan sharks, and an unwanted arranged marriage looms. And that’s before Damiskos is charged with murder. Fortunately, he’s not alone. Old friends are back in Pheme. And Varazda—eunuch, sword-dancer, and spy—has solved mysteries before. But saving his lover from execution and from marriage will take time, and with only days until Dami’s trial, time is running out. Strong Wine is the third book in the Sword Dance trilogy, the conclusion of Dami and Varazda’s story from Sword Dance and Saffron Alley. This time with fake fortunetellers, real courtroom drama, and … fertilizer?
Download or read book Honey and Pepper written by A.J. Demas and published by Sexton's Cottage Books. This book was released on 2022-03-31 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Newly freed from slavery, Nikias is making a life for himself in the bustling city of Pheme, working at a snack stand, drinking with a group of anti-slavery radicals, and pining for the beautiful law clerk next door. When he sees his crush attacked in the street by an outraged ex-client, it seems it’s finally Nikias’s chance to be the hero. Kallion doesn’t need a rescue. What he really needs is a skewer of octopus fritters (with extra sauce) and a friend. Nikias can supply both, and maybe, with the help of Nikias’s skill in the kitchen and Kallion’s excellent collection of wine, they can fight past their misunderstandings and the disasters of their pasts to something deeper. But when civil unrest roils the city and old threats resurface, the trust these two have built will be tested. And they’d both better hope that Kallion’s vicious former master will just stay dead. Honey & Pepper is a standalone m/m romance and also the first book in the When in Pheme series set in an imaginary ancient world.
Download or read book The Tenants of 7C written by Alice Degan and published by Sexton's Cottage Books. This book was released on 2023-05-09 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a back alley in Toronto’s Kensington Market, above the Heaven & Earth Bakery, there’s an apartment with a room for rent. The rent is negotiable. The location varies. Humans need not apply. Clare is human. Definitely human. But she’s got a job to do—staging fake vampire hunts for high-paying tourists with Stake, Inc.—and the young tenants of apartment 7C are weird enough that one of them might be a good candidate for the gig. Clare has already sourced the fake blood. But if magic is real, and so are the bakery’s otherworldly customers … Clare is in deeper than she knows. And it’s not just her soul at stake.
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Download or read book The Siege of 7C written by Alice Degan and published by Sexton's Cottage Books. This book was released on 2023-05-09 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When you live in an apartment where the rooms move around, with a faun and a yokai as roommates, fantasy role-playing games aren’t as exciting as they used to be. But a solid knowledge of the game manuals may come in handy when confronted with a flock of otherworldly pigeons. Better that than feeding them magical cake, anyway. Nick, Takehiko, and Yiannis, the tenants of 7C, return in a second adventure. This time with 100% more disgusting avian peril.
Download or read book Ordinary World written by Alice Degan and published by Sexton's Cottage Books. This book was released on 2023-08-21 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cristina’s time has almost come. When Rose has her baby and her vampire assistant gets to run the bakery, things are going to change. It’s just too bad that Takehiko won’t cooperate with her perfectly reasonable plan for a supply of fresh blood, and her best romantic prospect in decades was a figment of her imagination. Wasn’t he?
Download or read book Ivy vs Elm written by Alice Degan and published by Sexton's Cottage Books. This book was released on 2023-05-17 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a fairy enforcer challenges him at an arcade game, Nick anticipates an easy win. He doesn’t expect to end up inside the game himself, running for his life from carnivorous vines and wooden thugs. There’s also a dragon who bears him a grudge for some reason, a guy who wants to prove he’s the Alpha of the neighbourhood, and a question everyone seems to want answered: “What happened to Catalogue Number 519?” It’s all a bit much for a part-time wolf to take.
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Download or read book Sword Dance written by A.J. Demas and published by Sexton's Cottage Books. This book was released on 2019-07-31 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five years ago, Damiskos’s brilliant military career was cut short, leaving him with a permanent disability and scars that are not all physical. Adrift and still grieving, he tries to find meaning in an unsatisfying job. Work takes him to the remote seaside villa of an old friend, where, among an odd assortment of guests, he meets the eunuch sword-dancer Varazda. Enigmatic and beautiful but distinctly prickly, Varazda is the antithesis of the straightforward and serious Damiskos. Yet as they keep getting in each other’s way at the villa, their mutual dislike is complicated by a spark of undeniable attraction. Then the villa’s guests begin to reveal their true characters and motives—no one here is what they seem—and Damiskos finds himself at the centre of a bizarre web of espionage, theft, and assassination. Varazda may need Damiskos’s help, but not as much as Damiskos, finally awakening to a new sense of life and purpose, needs Varazda. Sword Dance is the first book in the Sword Dance trilogy, an m/nb romance set in an imaginary ancient world, with murderous philosophy students, sex acts named after fruit, and love blossoming in the midst of mayhem.
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Download or read book Midsummer Under the Hill written by Alice Degan and published by Sexton's Cottage Books. This book was released on 2023-05-09 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rose White opened the Heaven and Earth Bakery to cater to Toronto’s underground population of supernatural Others, and business is good. It is Midsummer’s Eve, and as usual she has a catering contract for the Sidhe ball. Travelling with her to the festivities—with strict instructions not to eat the food—are Nick, her werewolf delivery boy, Cristina, her vampire assistant baker, and John, their entirely human case worker from the Office of Other Affairs. None of them is remotely prepared for what awaits them.
Download or read book 7C Goes Down written by Alice Degan and published by Sexton's Cottage Books. This book was released on 2023-05-09 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brianna thought she was just doing a good turn, helping out a (very cute) elf knight who was attacked in the parking lot behind the dumpsters. She had no idea it would end with her mother being challenged to a duel. Fortunately, Nick, the werewolf delivery boy from Heaven & Earth Bakery, arrives to save the day. Sort of.
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