Axel and Ryan work together at Trattoria Louisa. One night they share a moment once work is done.

Aldo Spiker is just a guy who sells books—or so he pretends. Having inherited more from his fortune-telling mother than simply her shop, the Cajun bookseller is drawn into a mystery when Tommy Roget shows up at closing time one night. With the h...

Noah Armstrong is a physics student. Jerry Gresham is a fraternity guy. Although they are socially worlds apart, they each enjoy playing basketball. One night they discover they have more in common than just hoops.

Action-film star Jeff Woltors and Pulitzer-nominated director Robert Jamieson hooked up when they were in college. That fling ended badly and has colored their lives and love affairs for years. Brought together during their alma mater's annual su...

Tech blogger, Jake Landon, is on a mini-vacation. Having escaped San Francisco for the quiet Russian River, Jake seeks nothing more than a relaxed three-day-weekend getaway. Stetson-wearing horseman, Chet Hairston, is an old hand at stallion break...

Ad rep Andrew MacMurray has come to Scotland in pursuit of a million-dollar publicity contract. Riding the train from Edinburgh to Aberdeen, Andrew encounters a local businessman with an unusual way of passing the time. Scotsman Brian Stuart is a...

No·vi·ti·ate (nō-vish'ē-it,-āt') n. The period of being a novice. Ten stories, ten waypoints, ten steps along a path. The stories collected in Novitiate represent the first leg of C.C. Williams' journey from a sometime storytel...