Magnus Kroft is chosen to attend an exclusive boarding school called the Institute established to develop the various talents of exceptional high school students. A serious student of ballet, Magnus is hopeful about escaping the oppressive, bullying high school environment of his Gulf Coast hometown to concentrate on his true love of dance. At the institute, Magnus quickly makes a new set of friends, friends he quickly learns share the same secret that he has been hiding--all are gay-or at least gay-ish as his friend Tommie would say. The Institute is high school with a twist-- a place where...

Parker White has just begun a well-deserved vacation from the stress of his job as special agent assigned to the Washington, D.C. office of the FBI ? stress that is intensified by his being the first, openly gay agent hired under the new federal antidiscrimination guidelines. He drives up into Rocky Mountain National Park outside Estes Park, Colorado for an acclimating view and shot of single-malt Scotch to start things off right. After parking his Range Rover near an off-road overlook, he hears rifle shots and scrambles over the terrain to investigate their origin. There he has his first run...

Noah had longed for adventure all his life, and he wasn't about to let a stodgy history professor do him out of the story of his life with his complaining and heel-dragging. Robert had seen more than he cared to of adventure in his years in the European theater for the CIA. Now he had a nicely boring career as a news agency historical fact researcher, a brownstone full of family antiques, and a quiet, dignified life. He wasn't about to let Noah Taylor, with his campy, fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants ways, blow it for him. Robert Tate, 36, with a background of culture and family wealth, seems to...

A new resurgence in the Irish Republican Army or IRA, funded in part by Al Qaeda and other fundamentalist Muslim interests, has risen to new heights of terrorist attacks in London and other parts of the British Commonwealty. What happens when the Royal family and most of the members of the House of Lords and the House of Commons are killed in one, momumental act of horror? Who will succeed to the Throne? Who will command the armed forces, British Intelligence services and Scotland Yard? Did the Prime Minister survive and can he pull the country back to order? Dennis Perkins, the Prime...

Throughout any journey of transformation, comes a passage through darkness, sometimes many passages. It is through these dark passes we illuminate our selves as feeling humans. It's where we find our hearts' ability to transform our thoughts of good or bad into expressions of love for our experience on earth. For it is in a dark room where a candle illuminates the brightest. In this book, I invite you to engage with me in the emotions of the human experience.