β Scribed by Z.A. Maxfield
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Jumping Off Places; LGBT erotic contemporary romance Length β Novella (Anthology) MLR Press Peter Hsu is going home on compassionate leave for a final visit with his dying mother. His job is in question because heβs made the mistake of trusting the wrong man, someone with an agenda, who threatens to go to his commanding officer with a secretly recorded video tape of him committing βhomosexual actsβ unless Peter is willing to pay. Heβs up for re-enlistment, so he can choose to bag his career rather than fight, but itβs not his nature to be intimidated. On top of that, his mother is succumbing to cancer after a long fight. He arrives home angry, numb with shock and grief, and looking toward an uncertain future. Peter immediately resents his motherβs caregiver, a handsome Jamaican man named Robin. Robin has all the patience and compassion that Peter lacks, making him feel replaced and resentful. But heβs also experiencing the pull of a strong attraction to Robin, whoβs intelligence, sunny disposition, loyalty, and gentle, loving care of Shelley Hsu βnot to mention his smoking hot bodyβ tie Peter in knots he canβt begin to untangle. Peter has some tough choices and a hard life ahead if he makes the wrong ones. But Robin wants to stand by him and support him, whatever he chooses. Peter Hsu has a job where heβs required to routinely jumps out of airplanes, but can he take an equally β or possibly moreβ frightening leap of faith for love?
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