Jay Archer is a park rancher who needs to evacuate a flood zone full of tourist. Nick Lau is a television weather man who has not foretold the bad weather and chose to spend a romantic weekend with his lover in an isolated cabin. But he was dumped soon after his arrival to the cabin and now is mourning and trying to get drunk. And he has no intention to leave the cabin.

At first Jay is all to leave Nick to his depression, but the flood caughts him to the cabin and very near to Nick. Nick all in all is a very handsome and cute guy, and Jay is not the type to deny a man, if he asks and is enough sober to understand what he is asking. So Jay and Nick spend a sexy weekend, but when the rain stops, Jay has to return to his work and Nick to his city... can they find a common path?

Out of the Storm is a sexy little story. Jay and Nick are two characters without inhibitions, and they have no problem to try the boundaries of sex. There is a bit of pleasure/pain game and D/S on both part. Nor Jay or Nick are totally dom or sub, but I think that Nick is the more fragile, he needs reassurance and a man near him who is enough independent to not rely on Nick for everything, but also enough self-conscious to leave sometime the upper hand to Nick.

This is a rather short book, less than 60 pages, and it also spans for only a weekend in Jay and Nick's life, but for me is very enjoyable, and the two characters are deeply enough to allow me to understand them and their reasons.

http://www.amberquill.com/AmberAllure/CalendarBoysApril.html

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In the beginning of the nineteenth century, Micah ia a young letter student from Harvard. He is almost near to graduate and his professors want for him to be published as a poet. But Micah is from a middle class wealthy family that doesn't see a scholar career like something worthy or important for one of their sons. Luckily for Micah he is only the fourth son, and so he manages till now to escape the pression from his family and pursues his love for poetry. A love that lures him to Wroxham, a little village hours far from Boston, where he hopes to meet Jefferson Dering, a poet he listened to a lecture at Harvard, and that he hopes could give him some good advice for his writing.

When he meets Jefferson, he finds a man who lives like an hermit in a little village where no one seems to be aware of the great poet they have among them. Jefferson seems to be eager to have a kindred spirit to talk, but soon both Jefferson, with awareness, and Micah, without awareness, realize that there is a lot more than only love for poetry between them. It's also a physical love. But Micah is a very innocent and naivee boy, he has never had sexual experience before, nor with women or men, and the first reaction is to run away for this too much strong feelings.

Then they start a mail correspondence, first like two friends that talk about a common interest and little by little turning in a love correspondence. But Micah has to take some decision and there is also something of not human that binds Jefferson to Wroxham, something that has his rutes in Jefferson's family.

The story is very long and it's peaceful and quiet, it flows like a placid river. It starts slow and continues with a almost straight course. But it's very beautiful and romantic. The paranormal event is only a second line aspect, and this is for sure an historical romance. Reading it I remember some biography I have read of poets who chose to live alone far from the so-said civil society, to enjoy the nature and the simple life of the country. In this case there is also the matter of homosexuality, and Jefferson chooses a self-imposed exile to avoid the consequences of a sexual scandal in the scholar Harvard community.

Almost all the story is setting in Jefferson's cottage, and in a very small village, and both Micah than Jefferson come from wealthy family who provide for them, and so they live in comfort. But more than the historical accuracy of the setting, it's the sensuality between the two men that draws me, the poetry that becomes love stimulation, the words that become sex toys...

Beautiful cover that enlights you in one of the sexual game they play... you should read it!

http://samhainpublishing.com/romance/a-hidden-beauty

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Miami's Perfect Weekend (Calendar Boys - January) by Jamie Craig

Tre is a Afro American professional football player who lives in Miami. But this year his team has not make the final and now he wants nothing but leave the city to not be around people who are waiting to see the big final game and blaming him cause their home team is not on the field. So when his flight is delayed and he is forced to spend a night in an hotel near the airport, he thinks to drink some beers to the hotel bar and hit the matress alone. And instead he meets Michael, a shy history professor who is in town to visit the family and who doesn't know nothing of football and the only thing he knows is that Tre is a very handsome and nice guy and surprisingly he has made a move on him.

Michael is thrilled. This gorgeous guy is willingly to spend an entire weekend with him and he seems also a very thoughtful man: what starts like a quickie in a bathroom, becomes an hot weekend where they have the chance not only to do a great sex but also to know better each other. But Monday Michael has to fly again home in Washington DC and Tre is a deep in the closet man, who can't outing without destroying his career.

I like this story. It's simple and tender. Tre is a very good next door guy, gentle and clever, not the usual stereotyped athlete character. Michael instead is the classical professor type, cute but shy, who sells himself short. But he is also a very sensual man, very open to sexuality and when naked in bed, not very shy: a really discovery I should say.

All in all this is a very enjoyable book, maybe a little short, less than 60 pages, but really well written.

P.S. another cover which doesn't much with the book, Michael is not at all like the man in it...

http://www.amberquill.com/AmberAllure/

Mine (Calendar Boys - February) by Jamie Craig

If you want a very erotic vampire gay romance, Mine by Jamie Craig will suit your taste. But mind you, you have not to be easily impressed from fresh blood and hard pleasure/pain games cause here you will find plenty of them.

Erik is an old and strong vampire who is hunting a man, Travis. Six months before Travis has kidnapped his mate, Joel, and now he is holding him like pet. But Joel is not a consensual pet in a Master/Pet contract, he is drugged and unable to fight against Travis. And so Erik is planning to seduce Travis, rescue Joel and kill Travis soon after. But during is plan, could happen that he, maybe, is a little fascinated by Travis, and by his clearly desire to be mastered.

This could be a short story, less than 60 pages, but it's well developed and very enthralling. My friends know that I'm not fond of pleasure/pain game, but this one is really alluring. Even if Travis is since the beginning the bad boy, slowly I began to feel for him and to cheer for Erik to not kill him. And even if Joel in the first part of the tale is not a main character, he takes the scene in the second and last part. Travis instead is for all the tale the real Master, and he plays very good his role: usually in a romance, the captive never suffers before his savior manages to free him, but here poor Joel has to pass throught some not really enjoyable experience... unless you are not into the scene, and so maybe, it's what you'd like!

http://www.amberquill.com/AmberAllure/CalendarBoysFebruary.html

Kiss Me (Calendar Boys - March) by Jamie Craig

Alejandro is a porn star, no hiding in that. He is also very good at it and one of the most sought bottom in the market. But even if Alejandro likes sex and has no problem to turn it into a profession, in private life he is almost a "normal" guy, who wants a quite steady relationship.

Six months before he laid his eyes on Mal, a young and promising photographer. But for how impossible is to believe, Alejandro must find the courage to ask Mal a date, cause he fears that Mal sees him only like the "porn star" and not like a guy. And told be thruth, Mal "sees" Alejandro like a porn star, like the star of all his wet dreams, and when Alejandro asks him out, he can't believe it.

But the first and the second dates, for how much pleasant and nice they are, don't end as you would expected: Alejandro wants to wait, to "test" Mal and his real interest in him. Then when Mal passes the test, it's time to Alejandro to prove his interest in him: and it's really tender and sexy to see Alejandro, who every day and more times a day makes sex for work, be jelaous and very possessive with Mal, that, let we say, it's the "average" guy, someone who probably you don't look twice in a club full of men.

It's obvious that the main character of this story is Alejandro: he is the object of Mal's fantasies and the director of their story, but also Mal has a very lovely role; Mal accepts Alejandro for what he is, and don't put a tantrum when Alejandro has to do his work: in the end it's only sex, and what they have together could be love...

A very interesting story, I loved to read of Alejandro and how he faces his day-to-day "work"; don't know if it's a realistic attitude, and problaby the porn movie market is not so nice and "clear", but nevertheless, Alejandro is a quite original character, and I feel his moves and actions enough "realistic".

P.S. the cover is not so bad, but for what I have read, it doesn't "fit" Alejandro's character...

http://www.amberquill.com/AmberAllure/CalendarBoysMarch.html

http://www.amazon.com/Calendar-Boys-Vol-I-January-March/dp/1602729387/

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Another surprise. I have read Master of Obsidianan by Jamie Craig (who is really two person, Pepper Espinoza and Vivien Dean) and when I have bought Brindisi Bedfellows I was thinking to buy something similar: sex, drama and more sex. Good for me, but instead I have found something different.

Brindisi Bedfellows is a contemporary tale about two men and their quest for love. Christian has a some years relationship with Andrew and the eve of their departure for a long time desired holiday in Italy, Andrew announces to Christian that he has decided to return with his ex, and never forgotten, wife. As excuse, Andrew said, he has never hidden to Christian that he is still in love with her.

So Christian ends in a pub, trying to forget himself in alcohol and Trip, Andrew's best friend, and fuck buddy, behind Christian's back, comes along. Alcohol or loneliness make Christian asks Trip to go in Italy with him. And not only as friend. Three weeks of sun and sex and then again in London and everything is out. Cause Christian doesn't really like Trip and Trip, fashion photographer, can be interested in a white collar as Christian. But maybe Trip is not so vain as appears and Christian not so prim and proper...

The discovery of this novel is the sex. There is a lot of sex, but I find it not for free. It's warm and cosy. It's like a blanket in winter. Christian and Trip make love and then slip on dream kissing each other like two teens. They awake together and prefer to cuddle in the sheet instead of giving a mindless blowjob. Sex is hot but it's also comforting and caring.

Christian and Trip are at the opposite in life but on the same level during love. There is not a top or bottom (and not only as sex position). Maybe I have a soft spot for Trip, I think he can be easily wonded than Christian, but he also the first person to admit his feelings.

Brindisi Bedfellows is a novel that will leave you with peaceful feelings and a better perspective on life: you haven't to go far to find true love.

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Jess works since two year for Gideon, a four hundreds years old vampire. Gideon was a rogue vampire until forty years before he falls in love for a woman, Mary, who teaches him to do a better person, and to puts his skill on the site of justice. Working for the Gideon Investigation allows Jess to be near this vampire he adores since he was fifteen years old. But Gideon has never shown an intereste on him until one night, during an investigation, when he suddenly corners Jamie in an alley and mades love to him in an passionate and violent way. Now Jess and Gideon are involved in a vicious case but also in a steamy relationship, where Gideon will free his most darker desires.

Jess is an interesting character: willing to leave the strong hold to Gideon, he is not at all frightened from the scary past of Gideon. He trusts completely Gideon, and knows the vampire will not allow to nobody to hurt him. Gideon on the other side, is wildly attracted from Jess, but he will do anything to destroy the friendship between them. Only an uncontrollable situation will free his desires and from that moment on, Jess will be his and his only. He will protect him and will mastered his body and soul in every way.

An interesting vampire tale where the vampire character, Gideon, is not so perfect like most of the vampire hero we know. He is dark and complex, he is not always controlled, and his dark nature could put Jess in dangerous situation, but he likes that, he likes the thrill of fear.

http://www.amberquill.com/AmberHeat/

http://www.amazon.com/Master-Obsidian-Jamie-Craig/dp/1602729905