Vanessa North: 12 books

Desire blurs into romance, friendship into sex, innocence into wonder. Does one end where the other begins? From acclaimed novelist Vanessa North, The Short Strokes is a collection of short stories, flash, and novellas exploring intimacy, affection, and eroticism between friends, lovers—even strangers. This collection contains a mix of new and previously published material.

Tabloid scandals have driven TV star Ryan Hertzog to North Carolina's Outer Banks, where he's hiding out doing summer stock at his cousin's seaside theater. When a hookup with local handyman Trey Donovan results in Ryan being photographed butt naked, he vows to keep his pants on and his hands off...

Eddie Russell is many things: A wealthy pillar of the community. An outrageous flirt. A doting best friend. A masochist with a kink for brawling with his bedmates. But he is definitely not a man who invites intimacy. His friends are close but few, his lovers rarer still. When Eddie runs his...

Lake Lovelace is famous for its wakeboarding competition and the local athletes who dominate it. Legends of the sport and stars of the future share the glory and everyone celebrates. Whether on the water or around town, the men and women of Lake Lovelace collide, clash, and ultimately find love under...

Love is coming into season. Connor Graham is a city boy - a celebrated fashion photographer in New York. When his uncle's death drags him back to the family blueberry farm, all he wants to do is sell it as quickly as he can. Until he meets his uncle's tenant farmer. Jed Jones, shy and...

Knowing he's loved can make any man fly. Fifteen years ago, Ben Warren was a wakeboarding champion, king of big air, ballsy tricks, and boned grabs. Until a career-ending injury left him broken in ways he still has no hope of fixing. Now he takes his thrills where he can get them, and tries...

By day, Natalie Marshall is the Thorns Ladies' Social Club's perfect concierge: resourceful, observant, immaculate. But she turns her phone off when the night concierge arrives, and then she's Nat: the raunchy lead singer of Vertical Smile—notorious for lewd lyrics and sexually-charged performances. Rebecca...

Recently divorced Tina Durham is trying to be self-sufficient, but her personal-training career is floundering, her closest friends are swept up in new relationships, and her washing machine has just flooded her kitchen. It's enough to make a girl cry. Instead, she calls a plumbing service,...

Ten years ago, best friends and soccer buddies Nick Hana and Kevin Dorsey were inseparable—until Kevin put the moves on virginal Nick on the eve of their college graduation. Not wanting to be just another notch in Kevin's bedpost, Nick turned him down and "lost" his new phone number. A...

Jeffrey Kuyper was a once-in-a-generation talent and I was his muse. Jeffrey's death shocked the art world and upended my life. His last portrait is an intimate reminder of our final weeks together. Now it's up for auction and I want it more than anything. When a cold-mannered man in a dark suit outbids me, I'll agree to anything to buy it from him--even a weekend in his bed.

Recluse Andrew Eccleston wants revenge on the man who destroyed his face twenty years ago, Winnie Wexford--a vindictive state senator not above a smear campaign against Andrew. Andrew's grateful for the help of his erstwhile brother-in-law, David, until the help turns up in the form of PR guru Levi...

Kaitlyn He's her best friend. Her business partner. The one person in her life she shouldn't want to see naked. Until she sees him in bondage for a charity calendar photoshoot. That changes everything. Gordon He's loved her for years. She's the only person he trusts with his secret desires....