This holiday season would have been just another lonely time of the year. Since then, he''s buried himself in his career so ''friends'' are really just acquaintances. Before this trip is over, both men will need all their specialized abilities and training to survive their romantic interlude turned WILD FIRE.Slippery When Wet - Sauna''s will never be the same after reading this teasing, erotic interlude.Designated Target - A soldier returns to his fallen commander''s hometown to tell his brother the truth about what happened in the field looking for forgiveness and finds love instead.Burn Card - A cop struggles to save himself before his lover kills his kidnapper.Rough Ride - James Justin''s family distanced themselves from him when they learned he was gay. Two ordinary men exploring their growing relationship in glorious, undisturbed beauty of nature. Nick Kirby would both like nothing better than to leave behind their high-pressure NY City lives for a just a few days in the peaceful wilds of Northern Ca. Jackson & Nick - Fireman Jackson Kain and ER physician Dr. Rough Ride is a brief holiday piece and South of the Border is scene that was originally part of the first draft of the novel Mexican Heat was deleted before publication. It also includes two short stories that are part of the worlds in my existing series, the Rough Series and Mexican Heat Series. These stories range from military men to computer nerd, tackling DADT to private fantasies, a kidnapping and an attempt to survive a natural disaster. The most recent title is Jackson & Nick from the Storming Love: Wild Fire Series in 2015. There are no new stories in this collection, just time-worn, in some cases award-winning, shorts. When she is not writing, Aven enjoys shopping, cooking, connecting with friends on social media, and watching any show that features Gordon Ramsay.Manlove is a single author collection of some of my short stories pulled together from other out-of-print anthologies.

Connectivity is Aven’s debut novel Waiting For Prince Harry and Chronicles of a Lincoln Park Fashionista (New Adult romantic comedy) will be published next year.Īven lives in Dallas with her family. So Aven got herself a job in television that allowed her to write at night.

She studied communications at a large Midwestern university, and after graduation, Aven worked as a reporter for a community newspaper, followed by a stint at a public relations agency.īut writing about city council meetings and restaurant franchises was not as much fun as writing for young women trying to figure out their careers and potential boyfriends. Aven Ellis has been writing fiction since she was sixteen.

Mexican Heat by Laura Baumbach