Kiss Me Quick is a collection of short and sweet stories from authors familiar and new, celebrating the season of love. He's deathly afraid of what will happen when his lover steps off the plane, and the first thing that greets him is the tabloid shots of Cassidy kissing someone else. Cassidy hasn't seen his lover Malcolm in two months, their drastically different schedules conspiring to keep them apart. The danger of being a star is that everybody watches, waiting for the star to fall. Then he hires a new worker for his office, a young, hard-working man with a sadness in his eyes that Malcolm aches to banish, hoping that in doing so he will be rid of his own loneliness as well.

He's wealthy, beautiful, successful, and completely miserable. Malcolm Osborne is a classic rags to riches story, a foster child who wound up with the perfect family and more money than he knows what to do with. But his careful, ordinary life began to fray with his new job, and the beautiful, charming boss who reminds him of all the things he tried to stop wanting. Determined to hold on to what remained of his family, Cassidy settled into an ordinary life, his dreams of fame reduced to occasional nights of singing at karaoke dives. Then his parents were killed in a tragic accident, leaving him to raise his two siblings. more Cassidy Monarch had dreams to sing, to be famous, to tour the world at the head of his own rock band. Cassidy Monarch had dreams to sing, to be famous, to tour the world at the head of his own rock band.

The Missing Butterfly by Megan Derr