Kris Ripper

"There are three things you need to know about Preston "PK" Harrington the third: 1) He's a writer, toiling in obscurity as an editorial assistant at a New York City publishing house. 2) He is not a cliché. No, really. 3) He's been secretly in love with his best friend, Art, since they once drunkenly kissed in college. When Art moves in with PK following a bad breakup, PK hopes this will be the moment when Art finally sees him as more than a friend....

"Jack, who's always ready with a sly insult, who can't have a conversation without arguing, and who Oscar may or may not have hooked up with on a strict no-commitment, one-time-only basis...When Oscar is fired...he somehow ends up working for Jack...The house is an archaeological dig of love and dysfunction, and while Oscar thought he was prepared, he wasn't. It's impossible to delve so deeply into someone's past without coming to understand them...

You can build anything in Minecraft. With one exception: your life. Dillon Aldham loves being on his computer. He's a little bit awkward and most of his relationships have been online. When a pipe explodes in his apartment, he holes up in the local bar for a few days waiting for repairs to be done. He figures the hot redheaded bartender is just being polite, but every now and then he thinks they might have a spark. (And Gage's tone of command is...

Rocky Fitzgerald is embroiled in another murder investigation and this time it's totally not her fault. Well. Mostly not her fault. Ish. Yes, she did spontaneously adopt two kittens, and yes, their original foster mom was coincidentally murdered the next day, but Rocky doesn't plan to get involved. Why would she? She's got her life coaching clients, and her Insta-fame to maintain, and oh yeah, also her not-romance with her oldest friend-slash-frenemy...

Henry Hofstadter doesn't date. When he needs to get laid, he drives out of town, does the deed, and goes home. Maybe ten years ago he'd have mocked a guy who preferred canine company to another man's, but these days his mutt Coco is his best friend and the highlight of his week is hanging out with his nephew. He doesn't believe in happy endings. And no fairy tale ever began Once upon a time, an arrogant jackass blew me in the storeroom of a lousy...

One moment, the future is wide open. In the next, everything goes dark. When Beccs loses a pregnancy, everything freezes. The past is irrelevant. The future has vanished. All she can do is go numb, even if it means she can't make any decisions about where to go from here, even if she can barely look at her best friend. Adam has no idea what to do. Is he supposed to pretend he isn't wrecked by the miscarriage? Because he is. Is he supposed to pretend...

Neil Bierker is a bit famous in New Halliday: he's the kid who jumped off the bypass when he was sixteen. At twenty-seven he's a third grade teacher who manages his depression through running, boxing, and one night a week with Clem Robbins. He can keep everything else in his life together, as long as for a few hours every week it all falls away. Clem wants more than one night a week. The way he sees it, if one night's good, wouldn't more be better?...

Justin Simos knows a few things for sure: he's gay, he's an unrepentant jerk, and he's in love with his best friend, and his best friend's girlfriend. Alex and Jamie aren't like other people. They aren't fazed by his moods. They laugh at his critical analysis of nineties cinema. They definitely want to have sex with him (... again), and Jamie wants a go at him with her favorite flogger. Despite the fact that they're perfect together, they want him...

What does it mean to have a family? Singer and Lisa Thurman did everything right for their entire childhood. Their mother wanted a perfect life, and they knew how to fit that vision. Then they grew up. Singer came out of the closet and Lisa joined a cult. Singer and his partner are adopting a son. Unfortunately, all that practice being the perfect child didn't prepare Singer to be a merely adequate father. Lisa's just trying to get through the day....

Evan spends New Year's at the beach house because he doesn't have anywhere else to go and the boss has assured him that the family's not that scary, which turns out to be only sort of true. But Lucy's going to be there. And ever since he met Lucy three years ago, she's been on his mind…and in his fantasies. Between Lucy, Nick (whom Evan privately calls "the blond god"), and his girlfriend Cait, Evan's New Year's is unlike any holiday he's ever...