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Nevada Cain Ranch is a gay romance story about two men falling in love while doing their best to cope with grief.  Can love conquer the dark cloud of PTSD?

A Story about a Gay Military Romance Overcoming the Dark Side of PTSD

The year is 1980. Gay soldiers desiring to serve their country must do it with extreme caution. One step out of the closet and they risk a dishonorable discharge. Many forgo their social life to live their profession. First Lieutenant Brett Walker is but one example of such a person. Until one evening he spies a flier on the wall of the Berlin U-Bahn for a bar called Club David. For the first time in his twenty-six years, Brett chances a visit to a gay bar to see a drag queen show. His daring move sets in motion the events that will alter his life completely and forever.

Berlin Book 2 finds Lieutenant Brett Walker and Agent Jakob Haas spending every day learning what it means to love one another with no prior experience to fall back on. Their world exists deep inside the confines of the closet. Neither dares to step outside until Brett finds the courage to open the door and see what could be in store for them on the other side.

Brett gets pulled deeper inside the dangerous world of the CIA much to the dislike of Jakob. “Brett, I don’t like any of this. I wish you weren’t involved with us at the agency. You’re not trained.” Brett finds guidance from an unlikely source. Mr. Martin is the Berlin CIA Director who knows of the advantages that come with young men self-taught since childhood to live a double life. Young men trained in keeping secrets. Mr Martin becomes the man to lean on while Jakob is away on his dangerous missions. He gives Brett the needed push in the right direction.

The year is 1983. Berlin Book 3 takes place at ground zero in a world of espionage with the Iron Curtain. It’s a heart warming story of how men can love and respect men, regardless of the straight and gay boundaries created by society in the 80s.

U.S. Army First Lieutenant Joe Green takes over where his best friend Brett Walker left off. Easy going Joe vows never to settle for anything less than the life his best friends Brett and Jakob made back in Texas. Joe works undercover for the CIA taking whatever Mr. Martin throws his way in strides. Then during a daring mission on the Berlin troop train, Army First Lieutenant Scott Baker crosses his path.

First Lieutenant Scott Baker arrives to West Berlin with his suitcase and a large shipment of emotional turmoil. Having any kind of a personal relationship is definitely not on his list of priorities. Scott’s only true wish in life is to make his loving father, Army Major Mark Baker proud. He sees his first command with the Berlin Duty Train as the perfect path in achieving his goal.

Berlin Book 4 begins with the unraveling of Zach’s painful past. Other secrets are also let out of the bag. The whole crew learns about the mission only Mr. Martin and Zach previously shared in Berlin Book 3. The big secret is accompanied by the addition of a very unexpected crew member. The power of this knowledge leads the way to a new adventure for all members of the crew. An adventure previously never even considered.

The story continues with the theme of men loving men, regardless of their sexual orientation. Each character must balance the pressures of American culture during the 80s against their own values and beliefs. Scott admits, “This is what I fear most about being gay. People I love hating me when they find out.”

Berlin Book 4 tells a story in the tradition of all the Berlin books with numerous dangerous missions for every character. Sometimes alone in a distant land or together in the underground world of East and West Berlin. Scott navigates his world with the ever present advice from his dad, Major Baker right up to the end. 

October 1988. Serving in any branch of the US military is still forbidden for gays. Those outed in uniform risk military prison terms and humiliation unimaginable to any straight man or women. Air Force Second Lieutenant Sandy Spencer is checked into the Templehof BOQ room 312. Almost ten years have passed since Brett Walker checked into the same room. Many aspects of life in the military and in West Berlin remain the same, only the characters have changed. Sandy chooses the Air Force as a stepping stone for a journalism career. His assignment to Air Force Network Berlin Radio as the OIC is a perfect fit with his plan. Four years and out.

Sandy has no fear of his homosexuality nor of the straight world that surrounds him. Not even in the military during the late 80s. His closet walls are narrow. Not so for Army Captain Wade Bowden, the Commander of Bravo Company. The tall handsome Captain with icy blue eyes unknowingly becomes the inspiration of the Brigade’s newest comic superhero, Capan Iceman. Friendship with Sandy is rocky at first until it develops into a relationship stifled by anxiety. Wade is torn between his attraction to Sandy and his ultimate goal to achieve the rank of general. The young Lieutenant tries his best to convince him he can do both.

Berlin Book 6 Over and Out, carries the characters in West Berlin to the end of the 1980s with the Iron Curtain and the Berlin Wall crumbling all around them.

As the communist world weakens, Lieutenant Sandy Spencer and Major Wade Bowden strengthen their feelings for one another in their very private lives. Unlike the Berlin Wall, both men realize the wall of the closet for gay soldiers shows no sign of weakening.

Sandy pledges to protect Wade’s real identity so he may one day make general. In his words, “I’m making it my mission to help you get to the top, and to do it, we really need to stay deep in the closet.”

Meanwhile as elements of the Iron Curtain threaten Sandy and his friends, keeping everyone safe becomes Capan Iceman’s biggest task.

Book 6 ends the journey with nearly ten years of characters coming together in a world made smaller by time, patience, love and patriotism.

JBER, Joint Base Elmendorf Richardson, Anchorage Alaska. Gays are finally allowed to legally marry. To serve openly in the Armed Forces. The Secretary of Defense is soon to open the doors to transgendered persons as well. Yet not all opt to serve and be out at the same time. Much like in the professional sports world, American gay fighter pilots fly their jets with their personal lives kept secret. Captain Nolan Kelly is one of these men. He flys the world’s most advanced aircraft, the F22 Raptor. The entire fighter squadron knows he’s the best, yet none of them know he’s gay.

The military hospital environment is different from that of the fighter squadron. Gay military members assigned to the medical career field marry, live in base housing and enjoy a relative harassment free existence. Captain Casey Link is an Air Force registered nurse assigned to the hospital flight surgeon. He chooses to live in the closet for reasons other than fear of discrimination. The challenges of his difficult childhood dominate every corner of his adult life.

Captain Casey Link embraces the coming of spring at JBER, Joint Base Elmendorf Richardson. The path he chose enabled him to cast off the dark shadows of his childhood and enjoy life with that someone special. To do the things he always assumed were not available to those taught to mistrust instead of love.

Captain Nolan Kelly continues to be the newfound rock in Casey’s life. He swears to be there through thick and thin for as long as Casey needs him. Giving Casey a feeling he never believed possible before.

As the Alaskan snow begins to melt, so too does the perfect world Casey thought he settled into. It takes a war zone to lead him to the conclusion he’ll want to live with for the rest of his life.

Continue on with the characters of Delta Hotel as they navigate through life’s challenges, both big and small. Get a final glimpse inside their lives as they manage to weave the straight and gay world into one.

In the middle of Texas lies a vast area of rolling hills covering over 31,000 square miles known as the Hill Country. It’s a place like no other in North America, complete with a variety of flora and fauna, luring the world’s most enthusiastic scientists to study the mysteries of the land.

Charley Grant is a cowboy at heart. He’s recognized by many as the man able to work with horses not willing to trust their human partners. Yet Charley is not your everyday cowpoke raised in the Texas Panhandle. He’s a myrmecologist. A PHD candidate from Texas A & M University dedicating his life to the study of the Solenopsis invicta, the invasive fire ants.

Twenty-one year old Bryar and his twin brother Tommy run Purgatory Ranch in the Texas Hill Country just outside of San Marcos. With over three hundred acres to manage, finding a dead body isn’t all that unusual. That is until the facts begin to unravel.

Bryar is two minutes older than his twin brother. The other difference is Tommy has downs syndrome. Bryar promises his parents at their grave to take care of his brother. He lets nothing get in his way.

With the discovery of the dead body, the two brothers are forced to coordinate with the San Marcos PD investigating the crime.

In this second book from the Texas Hill Country Mystery Novels, the author provides the reader with an escape to far off places, sometimes in combat zones like Bagram Airbase, Afghanistan. Enjoy a story of relationship building in the midst a mystery with an unpredictable ending.

Trever Ryan and Fritz Carter live close by outside of town on a one hundred acre ranch once used for raising cattle. Best friends since kindergarten, the boys grow up to reach high school and encounter a stumbling block in their friendship due to Trever coming out during the school’s Christmas recital in his junior year. 

Fritz, the high school quarterback, fears for his reputation having a close friend who is gay and out of the closet. Circumstances bring the two boys together during their senior year along with a small group of friends to help the Marble Falls’ Chief of the Criminal Investigation Division, Trever’s father, get the killer behind bars.

Sailor’s Island is a story that will take you on a journey from a mining town in Canada to a US Navy destroyer during the Second World War, and continue on with the survival of three men on a South Pacific island. Against the backdrop of war between nations, this is a story of the war that raged inside the minds of men born different than the majority of those men around them.

Young Sailor Cook has finished high school and is on his way to the Annapolis Naval Academy in the fall of 2013.

Sailor Cook is confused about his sexuality and isn’t sure being gay is compatible with a career as an officer in the United States Navy.

   The year is 1931. The Great Depression has not only ravaged the United States, but the rest of the world as well. Davi Fosco is a twenty-two year old recent graduate from the University of Florida. He is the son of a wealthy second generation Portuguese Brazilian family, controlled by a strict, yet loving patriarch. The last thing Davi wants in life is to marry, have a family and fall under the rules of the family business. He believes being a homosexual in 1931 poses problems where moving far away from home is the only solution.

Rainbows over Goa is a story of blending cultures and attitudes about being gay in India and Australia. It’s a story of different men  from different worlds finding common ground for love. The setting is a Bollywood film shoot in the tourist town of Colva Beach, Goa.

1998 between Mumbai, India and Sydney, Australia, two little boys meet and become not only brothers in a blended family but best friends for life. One always has the other’s back. Jump to  2019 and both boys have their own careers. Kane Pinto, a prominent lawyer and Mish Pinto, a journalist and writer for a travel magazine.

Kane takes over the family law firm in Mumbai. Mish ends up joining him as a writer for the magazine Finding India. Kane sends Mish to the family bungalow in Raia, Goa to see how many repairs it will need to please their beloved grandfather. It only takes a week for Mish to end up coaching the handsome Bollywood Star, Billy Singh, on the basics of the Australian English accent.

More than a thousand years in the future, Earth suffered losses from both natural disasters and debilitating pandemics. Earth’s population has dwindled, yet man’s ability to survive with the advent of technology is at the core of humanities survival.

Tobit Willows, a young botanist, is selected from a pool of the Earth Command’s scientists as the mission commander on a cargo ship to a distant galaxy. His task is to deliver plants and people to Planet Emerald, then to return to Earth and continue his research. Captain Dag Maxz is selected as the pilot on the cargo ship. The organizers of the mission believe the two men’s character profiles are suited for the twenty-six months long journey to Emerald and back.

Tobit isn’t so convinced he and the pilot share a social compatibility profile.

Forbidden Space is a place where two innocent young men must face the challenges of their world to become an epic love story told to those for many years to come.

Emerald is a planet several galaxies away from Earth where the inhabitants arrived to escape the inevitable doom of their home planet from volcanic activity. The colonists choosing Emerald as their new home signed on to a charter of zero technology. They were unhappy with the way civilization developed on Earth and believed a fresh start would alter the path of social and political development they were so dissatisfied with. Starting over for them meant a world free from a lifestyle dominated by the advancements of technology and one governed by a fair and democratic form of government to lead them forward.

Not all goes as planned. A group of self-interested individuals set themselves up as the ruling family. A society is born under the principles of autocratic rule instead of the society they had hoped for.

Meet Vlad Kozlov: A two-year-old child left in a Russian orphanage by the babysitter at the end of the Cold War. He lived there until the age of five when his maternal aunt discovered him and took him to live with her in Tel Aviv and later back to Russia.  Vlad Kozlov grows up to be a Russian man destined to live the life of a lonely spy.

Meet Logan MacDonald: A recent graduate from St. Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia. Logan wins a large grant from the LGBTQ organization, Born Free, to choose any project and make the world a better place.

     All goes well for first Lieutenant Finnegan Walsh in his assignment at Minot AFB in North Dakota with Public Affairs. He spends quality time with his best friend, First Lieutenant Diego Moreno, assigned to Base Security Forces. Finn is content with the peaceful existence at the far north base until one day he stumbles across a poster in the men’s locker room at the McAdoo Fitness Center from a local white supremacist group setting up headquarters in the small town of Glenburn only a few miles north of the base.

The journalist in Finn leads him to an unauthorized investigation where he discovers a military veteran at the root of the problem. Together with Diego, and another unexpected ally, they end up exposing a growing social cancer among the otherwise peaceful communities of North Dakota.