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I offer digital or physical copies for the 4 books below.
Unfortunately at this time I can only ship physical books within the US, Canada, Europe, UK* and Australia**.
*I can ship from UK to Ireland. **I can ship from Australia to New Zealand.
THE MAN I LOVE (Book 1 of the Fish Tales, Contemporary)
The Man I Love follows Erik “Fish” Fiskare's emotional journey to salvage relationships destroyed in the wake of a college shooting. Fish is drawn to the world of theater but prefers backstage to center stage. The spotlight of his heart is focused on Daisy Bianco, a beautiful and talented dancer. Their unique love becomes the hub of a tight-knit circle of friends, all bound by creativity and artistry. But when one of their own brings a gun into the theater, the story is forever changed.
This award-winning novel explores love, sexuality and trauma. It reflects on what it means to be a man, a son and a leader. A soul mate, a partner and a lover. What it means to live the truth of who you are and what you feel. What it means to fight for what you love.
AN EXALTATION OF LARKS (Book 1 of Venery, Family Saga)
Grand Prize winner in the 2017 Writer’s Digest Awards
The paths of a married couple and a male escort cross in Suanne Laqueur’s novel about the business of sex and the price of love.
Alex Penda fled the Chilean coup of 1973 and arrived alone in America, where he was fostered by the Lark family. His wife, Valerie Lark, has been fiercely protective of Alex her entire life, sheltering his emotional scars from the world. Javier Landes was thrown out of his house as a teenager, and began selling himself to survive.
Alex, Val and Jav meet first in their twenties, with a sudden attraction each finds strange and compelling. They meet again in their forties and discover their physical connection is still strong and their life experiences are oddly similar. Across three decades and two continents, Laqueur explores the unpredictability of sexual attraction, how friendships are forged, how family ties are torn and mended, and how love's downfall can turn to exaltation.
A SMALL HOTEL (Family saga, historical WW2 fiction. Same family as The Man I Love, but fifty years prior. No plot points cross. Can be read as a standalone.)
It’s the summer of 1941. Europe is at war, but New York's Thousand Islands are at the height of the tourist season. Kennet Fiskare, son of a hotel proprietor, is having the summer of a lifetime, having fallen deeply in love with a Swedish-Brazilian guest named Astrid Virtanen. But the affair is cut short and the young lovers permanently parted, first by Astrid’s family obligations, then by America’s entry into the war.
The rigors of military life help dull his heartache, but when Kennet’s battalion reaches France, he is thrown into the crucible of combat. As his unit crosses Europe, Kennet falls into a different kind of love: the intense camaraderie between soldiers. Sustained by these friendships, Kennet both witnesses and commits the unthinkable atrocities of warfare, altering his view of the world and himself. To the point where a second chance with Astrid in peacetime might be the most terrifying and consequential battle he’s ever fought.
THE VOYAGES OF TRUEBLOOD CAY (Fantasy. “Metafiction”: this is the book a character in Venery is writing during the series, but it can absolutely be read as a standalone.)
Pelippé Trueblood is on the voyage of a lifetime and hosting a temperamental, half-man half-horse onboard his ship. He just might end up killing his difficult guest. Or kissing him.
Trueblood is descended from giants and poised to be one of the world's great mariners. Raised by his father on the mighty ship Cay, he's chosen at nineteen for a perilous voyage predicted in ancient prophecy: find the lost Tree of Life and anchor her branches back to the sky. Young and unseasoned, Trueblood fears the gods may have picked the wrong man for the job. Worse, scripture demands he be accompanied by the beautiful, brooding Fen il-Kheir. Nothing in Trueblood's life at sea has prepared him for this dangerous new crew member, nor the feelings he plants in Trueblood's heart.
Fen is a kheiron--a creature with the ability to shift between man and horse. With his dark past, his distrust of humans and his contempt for prophecy, Fen proves a reluctant passenger who could jeopardize not only the voyage, but the very future of the world. As the journey progresses, Fen finds himself more and more drawn to the Cay's charismatic commander, bringing the kheiron closer to everything his human nature longs for, and everything the beast in him fears.
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