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Books By M.D. Wiselka
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Character Identities: Bisexual
Summary: The Tragic Downfall of Various Delightful Jacks by M.D. Wiselka Genre: Speculative Fiction, Contemporary Gay Romance (M/M) To save the life of his fiancée, 25-year-old chef Jack Macrae throws himself in the path of an out-of-control delivery van. His life is over—but his troubles have only just begun. As Jack takes temporary possession of the bodies of a succession of men named Jack, all who’ve met untimely deaths like himself, he acquires a host of problems not his own. How do you make a life out of the borrowed scraps of several others? Jack is determined to find out—or die trying.
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Character Identities: Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian
Summary: The Other Tommy by M.D. Wiselka Genre: Young Adult Bad boy Tommy Caputo has only ever been good at one thing—making a mess of his life. At fifteen, he ran away from home. At seventeen, he broke the heart of the only girl who ever loved him. At eighteen, he plunged a stolen Aston Martin over a steep seaside cliff at Big Sur, killing himself and the unfortunate girl who tagged along for the ride. But it isn’t too late for Tommy to make amends. At least, so Judah Rhodes thinks, when he takes the place of the dead boy, assuming Tommy’s life in the hope of righting the mistakes he’s made in his own.
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Summary: To save the five culling worlds from his evil master, Seker, Owen Adler was forced to sacrifice himself, leaving his beloved husband, Jacek Tarasek, to survive alone on an alien planet. Haunted by dreams of his late husband, Jacek continues on toward a distant island—and, perhaps, the salvation he seeks. During a fierce lightning storm, Jacek tumbles down a sinkhole and wakes to finds himself the captive of a strange man in the thrall of an even stranger god. In this seeming Eden, Jacek might at last find contentment—if only he can put the past behind him. But the past has a way of finding him, no matter where he hides from it. In a botched escape attempt from his paradise prison, Jacek falls under the power of an old enemy, determined to take everything from Jacek, including the precious treasure he believes he’s lost. Abundance of Light is the fourth and final book in The Dark Brethren Series, but can be enjoyed as a stand-alone story.
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Summary: After a half century of self-imposed exile, a seventy-four-year-old Jacek Tarasek returns to Warsaw, Poland to revisit the places of his youth—and grieve once more for his long lost love, Owen Adler. But what Jacek believes to be the last act of his long life is only the beginning of a new chapter—one in which Owen is to play a vital role. Within a few days of Jacek’s arrival in Warsaw, a twenty-four-year-old Owen Adler appears, drawn from a time but a few hours before his death in 1939 by the bearer Acheron for some sinister purpose of his own. When Owen begins to lose his memory of his past life, Jacek questions whether Owen’s detour to the future was a blessing or a bane. Then, in the blink of an eye, Owen is taken from him, and Jacek is whisked away from Warsaw. He wakes to find himself imprisoned in his own sickly teenaged body, borrowed, he presumes, by Acheron, who has marooned him in a primeval wilderness far from home in both space and time. Jacek soon discovers this seemingly untouched Eden has a dark past that may destroy not only his dream of future happiness with Owen, but every living soul on the world he left behind. The great Lord and Master Seker holds Owen captive in His Everlasting City, an impregnable fortress with walls of stone and spell that no mere mortal man can breach. The greatest danger, however, is not the many snares laid for unwanted visitors, but what lies within the Temple at the heart of this benighted City of Death. There Jacek will face an enemy that he may be powerless against—his own dark heart. Coming of Day is the third book in The Dark Brethren Series, but can be enjoyed as a stand-alone story.
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Character Identities: Gay
Summary: When his beloved wife of forty years abruptly leaves him for a far younger man, fifty-eight-year-old Mark Etson attempts to pick up the pieces of his shattered life and move on. Wanting to reconnect with his siblings, from whom he has been long estranged, Mark travels to London for the Christmas holiday, but too much time has passed. He soon realizes that his dream of reconciliation with his family is just that--a dream. Unwilling to return home to Toronto, Mark moves on to Paris—a place he once planned to visit with a dear friend. Twenty-six-year-old Ashley Wilkes came to Paris eight years before with a friend, intent on making a life for himself far from the family who disowned him. He soon learned, however, the high cost of living in a foreign capital. With no friend except the one he came with, Ashley was forced to make a life for himself the only way he could. Knowing that he can't go on this way forever, or even for much longer, Ashley plans his escape. When a chance encounter with a Canadian businessman offers him a means of making some quick cash, he jumps at the chance. It's only when he starts to care about Mark that things get complicated.
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Summary: One hundred and fifty years have passed since his crossing, but the bearer, a man once known as Owen Adler, has yet to find a way of restoring himself to the life he lost and the man he loves. When his great Lord and Master, Seker, offers him his freedom in exchange for his aid in punishing a disobedient servant, Owen, believing he has nothing to lose and everything to gain, seizes the opportunity. An Elder bearer called Melek, exiled a century before for an act of treachery, will soon return to his exalted place in Seker’s court. Before he does, Seker wishes Melek to be humbled before his brethren lords for his crime. Since the real Melek is most unwilling to endure this, Owen, in that exalted lord’s guise, will appear before the Lords of the Hour the humble penitent. In the ninety days remaining him before his official return to Seker’s court, Melek must prove himself worthy of his office or voluntarily return to exile for another century. To secure his freedom, Owen must survive the ninety days in Melek’s guise without being exposed a fraud. No easy task, now he can count among his many enemies the offended Lord Melek, a ruthless and vindictive monster who’ll stop at nothing to punish Owen and the ones he loves. To outwit the devilish fiend that would take his life, Owen must become a devil himself. Even if he succeeds in at last wresting his freedom from his cunning master, will he ever again be the man he was, when last he held his beloved Jacek in his arms?
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Character Identities: Bisexual, Gay, Straight
Summary: Summer. 1939. Germany and Poland on the verge of war. Since childhood, twenty-four-year-old Owen Linet has been plagued by bad dreams, or rather the same bad dream, of a man called Hector, who claims to be dead. Hector possesses a strange black cloak on which is stitched a series of golden symbols—“Words” that Hector, their “bearer”, claims have miraculous powers when spoken. Hector gifts a Word to Owen—one that he claims can not only take life, but also restore it. Twenty-two-year-old Polish partisan, Jacek Tarasek, is ordered to follow a suspicious foreigner, a British artist named Owen Linet, who closely resembles a man from Jacek’s past—someone Jacek would just as soon forget. Jacek’s worst fears are soon realized when he learns that Owen is not only his avowed enemy, but something infinitely worse—a devil in human form, with the power to take life with a mere word. When Jacek can’t bring himself to destroy the man with whom he is falling deeply in love, he is forced to confront his flawed understanding of good and evil. Beautiful to Behold is the first book in The Dark Brethren Series, but can be enjoyed as a stand-alone story.
