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After being attacked for standing up for equality, Travis “Rook” Rookford falls into a coma. At his bedside sits fellow student Leon Capper, there to keep his new hero company.

While home for Christmas with Ted and Edna, his foster parents, college student Austin Greenfield is surprised to meet Seth Barton, the son Edna gave up for adoption at birth.

Alex has always known his bipolar disorder made him too flawed for his boyhood hero, Everett.

The Yule festival of Twelfth Night is a time when servants are the masters and vice versa, and tension and humor fill the air.

Holidays are for lovers, just apparently not Ben Haggerty. Not this holiday. After his degree-seeking lover leaves humble blue-collar Ben, Ben spends the Yuletide miserable.

It’s only three days ’til Christmas.

When his young niece Bailey moves in, Cory knows he needs to end his casual fling with Ken.

Elliot and Shawn each want to buy the same one-of-a-kind item for Christmas—a very old and expensive antique bed—as a gift for their lovers.

Javier Torres was a sweet, plump, and very unpopular child. But over the years, he turned himself into a gorgeous gym god. The problem is he’s also become an egotistical snob.

For years, Mal has given Aidan a little piece of the world for special occasions in the form of unique rocks and fossils—until the year he gives Aidan a piece of the moon instead.

Ever since Martel Heller rolled his first dreadlock, his love life has been blessed. For seven years he’s had the luxury of cherry-picking the hottest men available.

Mark Vincent has had enough. After his old cover ops organization is disbanded, he’s relegated to the CIA, where his career is slowly being strangled to death by conspiracy and apathy.

One snowy, frustrating December evening, Greg prays for help finding a way to be both a good churchgoer and an out gay man.

Rance Crawford is an alpaca rancher, fiber mill owner, and self-proclaimed grumpy bastard.

Harry is desperately unhappy with his life. He hates his job, his apartment, and most especially, he hates the way he looks.