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Tate "Talker" Walker has spent most of his life hiding his scars under a bright punk facade, and until he sat next to Brian Cooper on a bus, it worked.

Tate Walker's past is too painful to just disappear, even if his dream boy, Brian Cooper, is there to hold his hand.

Sequel to 'Talker's Redemption' When you get past the basics of survival, what next?

Chase Summers: golden boy, beautiful girlfriend, good friends and a promising future. Nobody knows the real Chase.

The year is 1987. The boys wear pink Izod shirts, the girls wear big hair, everyone has a stash box, and AIDS is just an ugly rumor rumbling like a thunderstorm from the cities.

Heroes fall. Peter first came to the tiny backwater of Daisy, California, as a child, and he was sure of one thing: his cousin Michael would take care of him.

Dawson Barnes recognizes his world is very small and very charmed.

Ten years ago David Worral had plans to go to college and the potential for a beautiful future in front of him.

Ryan’s entire life changed the night Scott surprised him in a bathroom at a party.

Since Hank Calder’s 4-year-old niece, Josie, came to live with him, his life has been plenty dramatic, thank you, and the last thing he needs is a swishy, flaming twinkie to complicate things.

In a perfect moment of cold November sunshine, pudgy accountant Kit Allen realizes Jesse, his new office assistant, is everything he's ever dreamed about in a man.

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

Short-listed for the 2003 Red Maple Award and Arthur Ellis Award for best Juvenile Book, commended for the 2003 Canadian Children’s Book Centre Our Choice Selection Shelby Belgarden isn’t exactly

Short-listed for the 2005 Snow Willow Award and for the 2006 Manitoba Young Readers’ Choice Award Cole Fennety doesn’t know it, but he is about to have the strangest summer of his life.

"No one pays much attention to you if you don't have much to say, so there was no way I could have predicted what would happen when I stopped talking altogether." When his teacher an