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    By Clare London

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    In recovery after a serious car accident, Dan struggles with pain and depression until it becomes an ingrained part of his life. His most important support has come from his best friend and boyfriend Aaron, yet Dan knows he’s not giving as much as taking from the relationship.

    When he and Aaron are snowed in at a winter sports resort, Dan has to face up to both his physical and emotional restraints. Aaron is determined and devoted, and always willingly there for Dan, but Dan can see his weariness. Aaron wants Dan to accept his love fully, for them to become the best and most intimate of lovers. But how much longer will Aaron wait?

    It takes a particularly bitter Christmas -- and the weirdest of dreams -- to give Dan the courage to grasp what’s important to him, and find the way back to health and love.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJMS Books LLC
    Release dateDec 22, 2013
    ISBN9781611529944
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    Clare London

    Clare took the pen name London from the city where she lives, loves, and writes. A lone, brave female in a frenetic, testosterone-fuelled family home, she juggles her writing with the weekly wash, waiting for the far distant day when she can afford to give up her day job as an accountant. She’s written in many genres and across many settings, with novels and short stories published both online and in print. She says she likes variety in her writing while friends say she’s just fickle, but as long as both theories spawn good fiction, she’s happy. Most of her work features male/male romance and drama with a healthy serving of physical passion, as she enjoys both reading and writing about strong, sympathetic and sexy characters.Clare currently has several novels sulking at that tricky chapter 3 stage and plenty of other projects in mind . . . she just has to find out where she left them in that frenetic, testosterone-fuelled family home.All the details and free fiction are available at her website. Visit her today and say hello!Join up for her newsletter at http://bit.ly/2WpHlyK and receive a free short story!Clare also writes as Stella Shaw and launched her Love at the Haven series of rent boy romances in 2021.Website + blog: http://www.clarelondon.com / stellashawauthor.comFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/clarelondonTwitter: https://twitter.com/clare_londonGoodreads: http://bit.ly/2lNSfC2Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/author/clarelondonBookbub: https://www.bookbub.com/profile/clare-londonInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/clarelondon11/Quids&Quills: http://www.quidsandquills.com (accountancy for UK authors)

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      Nowhere to Hide - Clare London

      Nowhere to Hide

      By Clare London

      Published by JMS Books LLC

      Visit jms-books.com for more information.

      Copyright 2013 Clare London

      ISBN 9781611529944

      Cover Design: Written Ink Designs | written-ink.com

      Image(s) used under a Standard Royalty-Free License.

      All rights reserved.

      WARNING: This book is not transferable. It is for your own personal use. If it is sold, shared, or given away, it is an infringement of the copyright of this work and violators will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

      No portion of this book may be transmitted or reproduced in any form, or by any means, without permission in writing from the publisher, with the exception of brief excerpts used for the purposes of review.

      This book is for ADULT AUDIENCES ONLY. It contains substantial sexually explicit scenes and graphic language which may be considered offensive by some readers. Please store your files where they cannot be accessed by minors.

      This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are solely the product of the author’s imagination and/or are used fictitiously, though reference may be made to actual historical events or existing locations. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

      Published in the United States of America.

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      Nowhere to Hide

      By Clare London

      ’Tis the season to be merry, they say…or not, in my case.

      I’m not talking about the weather, because to be honest, I like the fresh, sharp cleanliness of the cold at Christmas. I like the way the wind snaps around my heels and buffets the collar of my thick coat. I like the way the moisture in the air freezes swiftly into icy beads on my skin and clothing. It all keeps me awake without the aid of caffeine, and it reminds me there’s a world out there that’s really alive—that is, neither cosy nor completely under anyone’s control.

      So my mood must be because of the holiday season arriving, accompanied by the usual social hysteria and overindulgence, like two hyperactive cousins on a holiday visit. That must be the reason that I’m withdrawing again—that the outside world seems particularly challenging. My mind is full of thoughts that depress me: sadness, frustration, the futility of struggling through this Christmas cracker joke called life while everyone else is grinning and hugging.

      To me, Christmas looms like a dark, grey cloud, like the memory of something hidden in the back of my mind, like the threat of a nightmare coming true. The season has never been good to me, though, has it? I grew up in a family that was way more dysfunctional than devoted, and we rarely celebrated it with anything except Mom’s drinks cupboard and my brother’s recurring criminal record. Dad left us one Christmas Eve; my dear Gran died on another holiday weekend. Basically I was pretty happy to leave home as soon as I could. Unfortunately I struggled to cope with being on my own, and I know I should have sought help sooner. That was a hell of a time. But when I reached rock bottom, I had enough sense left to cry out, and my friends came running. I

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