I am in love with Crane and Stephen! And, I am so glad that they admitted this state to each other.If anything this story was better than the first because the relationship between Crane and Stephen was established. Of course, it was not perfect, and for various reasons each man was afraid to rev...
Ack! I forgot to review this most charming of short stories!KJ Charles is an absolutely fabulous author. This story, with its wandering tattoo and smoking hot smexiness, is both witty (I actually laughed out loud, and more than once) and sweet. It also hints at a rather chilling potential plot po...
Fun, quick read - I burned through all three of these in about a day. Enjoyable romance - I do like when authors work to carry a relationship past the AND THEN THEY BANGED AND IT WAS HOTT stage of things. Loved the supporting characters, particularly Esther and Saint - I would read an entire se...
An enjoyable short story; the writing is absorbing, characters interesting and there is just enough story for the length. It feels like a teaser/introduction for a longer story and possibly a series, but at the same time its complete in itself and doesn't need more (though it would be nice). Th...
I liked this short(and free!) sequel to The Calder Ghost. The only problem I had with this story is why the author would have the only sex scene in the book as a result of one of the characters coming into some sort of contact with the spirit of a long dead person. It didn't really make any sense...
Wonderful holiday short story (free!) with Stephen, Crane, Merrick and Saint. Crane relates a fantastic anecdote from his and Merrick's time in China. Saint has a costume change and Stephen receives a romantic, meaningful gift. There is also a hot, paranormal scene.Great seasonal gift from KJ ...
Minachan and I finished making our alarmist phone calls to the remaining clients. We double-locked and chained the door, drank a lot of coffee, tried and failed to get to sleep. I had a bath, and around nine, when it was all going down in Shinjuku, we sat there and stared at the walls. Well, I di...
Its roses were bursting into bloom early thanks to the sultry, unseasonable April heat, about which it had been all too easy to forget inside Piper’s clammy walls. It was twilight now. The waning moon was up, the stars were coming out, and Day and Crane strolled through the shadowy grounds toward...
I could scarcely contain my relief at escaping the stifling heat. ‘What an odd man,’ I said. Simon nodded. ‘It seems a strange ambition, to pursue a collection without any pleasure in either the hunt or the beauty of the creatures he acquires.’ ‘Tha...
Harry was fingering an ivory button, cunningly carved, but he looked up when Julius spoke, that ready smile lighting his cheerful features. “I think that would have been difficult for my parents to arrange.” Julius laughed. “Nonsense. A little planning, a little care…” Harry grinned back. “Why fo...
His face hurt, and his wrists and ankles hurt, and his heart hurt most of all. He was such a damned fool. He might have saved Rickaby if he’d only acted; even if Rickaby had always been doomed, he would have had a better chance of saving Crane. They had no chance at all no...
They read Bleak House and Dombey and Son and The Old Curiosity Shop, which made Jonah cry, and laugh at himself through his tears. It was the most joyous time of Ben’s life. Then Jonah burned it all down. The end was already coming in September, tho...
The inquest had been relatively plain sailing. He, Miss Carruth and Miss Merton all testified that James Armstrong had been drinking too much and distressed about his friend’s departure. Curtis’s account, uncontested, told how a drunken James Armstrong had sprayed the empty folly with bullets, th...
The hopeless fantasies of the Spenceans were too painful, and even the thought of saying that he was walking away made him churn with guilt. He had not been to one of their meetings in more than a fortnight, and they had doubtless assumed he was another apostate. He might as well never go back. I...