All books using the keywords: Wanda Walker

Justin’s back at it again, “it” being drinking a little too much, trying to cobble together rent this month, and having awkward sexual encounters with strangers. Justin’s newest conquest is a Russian-speaking, cigarette-smoking bad boy that’s just another flavor of Justin’s usual type: too cool for school and completely allergic to the commitment Justin secretly craves. However, just as Justin settles into the routine of his fast and casual lifestyle, he runs into Thad Farley: a sweet-natured boy from Alabama, a science whiz, an amateur musician, and an unabashed do-gooder. Together, they stumble into the strangest yet most sincere friendship that Justin has ever known, one that pits ...

Driving for Uber by day and sleeping with strangers by night, Justin Perkins is intimately familiar with desperation and idiocy. However, ignoring your best friend’s advice and falling for someone who has stated multiple times that he’s still hung up on his ex… well, that’s just Justin in a nutshell. Daniel “Peaches” Caudlin is neither rich nor hot, a Los Angeles anomaly. In fact, he’s about as average as average can be, but his soft-spoken demeanor and unassuming kindness is what draws Justin in, even as Peaches warns him that he is still pining over his ex– someone who actually is hot. Way hotter than Justin, in fact, and superior in nearly every way. So what does Justin do when eve ...

Justin never wanted a long-distance relationship, but when his boyfriend Thad Farley has to return to Alabama to care for his sick grandmother, Justin gets a crash course in negotiating their intimacy from afar. No matter the hiccups, Justin is determined to make this work, even when he finds out that his best friend has been sleeping with Justin’s ex-fling and the biological father Justin hasn’t seen or heard from since he was a toddler is suddenly interested in getting to know him. Justin finds himself needing Thad more than ever during a time when Thad seems increasingly distant, making an already fragile bond even more uncertain. But when the worst happens and Thad’s life is thrown i ...

For the first time in years, Zhas feels confident in his position as zhalja to Bazha Jabari, a man who is both his sponsor and his secret lover. With Jabari’s assistance, Zhas is able to achieve his dream of opening a shelter for retired zhaljas. During the process, Zhas comes across a desperate plea for help from a young zhalja suffering under the tyranny of a cruel sponsor. Just when Zhas thinks he’s in control of his life, everything he’s worked for quickly crumbles away, revealing the truth of Zhas’s helplessness in a world of rich men who see him as little more than a pretty face. Zhas isn’t sure how much longer he can stay silent in the face of so much injustice, and to become the ...

Zhas began life as Chikitum, a boy living in a remote tribe deep within the rainforest. But after half of his family is slaughtered, he is taken captive by slave traders and transported to Bhajar, the capital of the Hahnar Empire. It is there he’s sold to the Yhana School for Zhaljas and given the name Zhas. Here he learns what it means to be a zhalja for a man of wealth— to be his steward, entertainer, host, and most vocal advocate in business and politics. At the age of fifteen, Zhas must be “sponsored” by a man of high society, and the higher the better. Zhas's place in the glamorous world of Bhajar's most important people is cemented when he is sponsored by a man of wealth and influe ...