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Total pages in book: 72
Estimated words: 66839 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 334(@200wpm)___ 267(@250wpm)___ 223(@300wpm)

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Read Online Books/Novels:	Whatever It Takes (Stonewall Investigations Blue Creek #3)
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Jason Quill I left the FBI because of a personal relationship that blew up in my face. He was the one and I let him go… pushed him away. I knew my brother—his best friend—had feelings for him, and I couldn’t get in the way of that. Now, I’m living in a small town and working for a detective agency trying to stop a serial killer before they strike again. I focused everything on my job and let my love life wither in the process. But the case is a hard one to crack and backup is called. That backup? Matthew Hale, FBI agent, behavioral analyst, and my first ever true love and real heartbreak. This was about to get very interesting. Matthew Hale I loved working for the FBI. It was a childhood dream come true, a job that took me all over the country and helped me make a positive difference in peoples’ lives. I felt fulfilled. Mostly. I was still missing something—someone. Jason Quill, a man I expected to stay in my past and who surprised me by showing up in my present after I accept a serial killer case in Blue Creek, New Hampshire. It was just like old times, and just as complicated. One thing I was certain of: we were going to figure this all out, whatever it took, once and for all. ___________ WHATEVER IT TAKES is the third and final book in the Stonewall Investigations: Blue Creek series. It's a full-length and steamy gay romance novel that can be read as a stand-alone.
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JASON QUILL

The Stonewall Investigations office was packed, the conference room barely big enough to fit all ten of us. Zane Holden, the owner of the Stonewall detective agency, waved at the camera as his face appeared on the projector. The room quickly hushed the scattered conversations as everyone focused on the boss, his lips held in a tight smile. He seemed like he needed a couple of good nights of sleep, and I didn’t judge him for that. I had no idea what he was dealing with in New York, but here in our picturesque little small town, Blue Creek, we were dealing with a bloodthirsty serial killer targeting queer people, which had led to many sleepless nights of my own.

“Morning, folks, and thank you all for setting aside your schedules to be here. This meeting is going to be a big one.” He clicked a button on his end, and his image shrank to the top corner, the rest of the screen replaced with a case file, a name typed across the center in big, bold letters:

The Pegasus.

“Beckham,” Zane said. “You’ve been working point on this case—thank you for that. Penny did a great job before you, and she wanted to say that all—and this is in her words—all you jerk-offs are the best and she misses you.” That got a laugh throughout the room. “Beck, I’m sure you’ve already met Jason Quill?”

Beckham Noble turned to me and gave me a dimple-forming grin. “I have, I have. I feel good about handing over the reins.”

Zane nodded, the screen changing to show a brief rundown of the three Pegasus victims. I had already been given most of this information yesterday, my first day on the job, but it was always good to give things a second, third, sometimes even a fourth glance. I learned that during my time working in the FBI, where I helped lock up five different serial killers in a three-year time span.

I didn’t do it alone, but… it didn’t matter. This one I’d be handling by myself, same as I’d done with all my recent cases. I’d left the FBI years ago, and I had no intention of ever going back. I worked as a freelance detective now and enjoyed the freedom it gave me, not having to deal with as much red tape and office politics.

And, well, other things that I’d rather not even think about. It was an ironclad promise I had made to myself, one I’d yet to break:

Never look back. Only ahead.

The promise helped me from steeping too long in what-ifs, which had the tendency to morph into thorny regrets, and I hated living with regrets.

“All right,” Zane began, opening up the file compiled on one of the victims. “Beckham, you want to take over?” A crystal-clear photograph of the man’s dead body took center stage. He’d been sat up against the headboard of his bed and had a knife impaled through his forehead, the hilt made of a spiraling white wood.

Beckham perked up in his chair, setting down the still-steaming coffee mug. He was a good-looking guy, always wearing colorful shirts that brought out the shine in his eyes. ”In the beginning, it was pretty clear we had a copycat killer on our hands. This was almost identical to the way the Unicorn would kill, except the scene was sloppier than most.”

The image changed, showing a bedroom that appeared to have housed a mini-tornado. There was broken glass glittering all over the floor, the dresser was knocked down, and the TV had been thrown against the wall. It was a disaster, and yet somehow, the killer managed to escape without leaving any DNA traces behind.

“It was clearly one of their first kills. The next one was not only cleaner, but the killer’s signature changed. There was the knife in the skull of our victim, Wendy Farstone, but that wasn’t all of the differences we found.”

Another crime scene photo faded in through the last. This one depicted a woman, looking almost peaceful as blood dried in crusted rivers down her face. Behind her, wings had been drawn, using the same blood that served as a mask.

“This was when the Pegasus was officially born,” Beckham continued. “They clearly wanted to differentiate themselves from the Unicorn, and they’ve done that. Not only with the wings, but with their MO, which also changed. The Unicorn only went after queer men, but our current killer opened up that target list from the start.”

Austin Romero, one of the native Blue Creek detectives, spoke up. “Sounds like we’re dealing with someone who doesn’t like sharing the spotlight.”

“Exactly right,” Beckham said, “so keep that in mind when we’re looking at suspect profiles. This person seems to be desperate not only to kill, but to be known for it. They’re definitely trying to send a message.” The screen faded to show the social media profile pages of a crooked-smiling man, a cigarette hanging out of his mouth in almost every picture.

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Ride the Wreck (Stonewall Investigations Blue Creek #2) Read Online Max Walker http://www.ilovenovels.com/ride-the-wreck-stonewall-investigations-blue-creek-2-read-online-max-walker Thu, 21 Oct 2021 00:11:48 +0000 http://www.booksnovels.com/ride-the-wreck-stonewall-investigations-blue-creek-2-read-online-max-walker Genre: M-M Romance, Romance Authors: Max Walker Series: Stonewall Investigations Blue Creek Series by Max Walker
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Total pages in book: 80
Estimated words: 73846 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 369(@200wpm)___ 295(@250wpm)___ 246(@300wpm)

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Elijah Roberts: I’m a grumpy ass drag queen who loves what I do and never wants to stop. Drag gives me an escape, a way to embody the star inside me. A way to be happy. Imagine how pissed I get when a stalker pushes me to quit drag after an extra spooky message is left on my mirror in red lipstick. Truly, my life couldn’t get any worse. Enter Ryan Diaz, a smoldering and perma-smiling detective at Stonewall Investigations. He offers to take my case, which isn’t the only thing I want him to take… What? I’m talking about my number. How else am I going to get him to come over and take my— Ryan Diaz: My life followed a simple routine: work, friends, time with dad on his farm, and getting my heart tied up by another smooth-talking guy who promised the world on a plate only to cosplay as Casper the douchy ghost a few days later. Predictable was fine. Boring, but fine. Everything changed the night I watched Elijah perform as Blue Divine. From then on, my life became anything but predictable. Electric. Exhilarating. Exciting. All because of Elijah Roberts. Finding him was the easy part. Now I needed to keep him safe from his stalker, help bring back his love for drag, and get him to continue spending every night with me until the end of time. Shouldn’t be too hard… right? ___________ RIDE THE WRECK is book two in the Stonewall Investigations: Blue Creek series. It's a full-length and steamy gay romance novel that can be read as a stand-alone.
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Ryan Diaz

Stonewall Investigations buzzed with an energy that rivaled the three espresso shots I asked for in my coffee this morning. The small offices were crammed with people, most of them familiar, a few of them new. The head of Stonewall sat at the head of the table—Zane Holden, a charming guy with a sharp smile and an even sharper mind. He flew in from New York and had this meeting called within hours of the news breaking: the Unicorn Killer had a copycat, and they were terrorizing the otherwise peaceful town of Blue Creek.

Never had a serial killer been loose anywhere in or near the town, making everyone feel a collective shiver run down their spines when the Unicorn was mentioned.

Zane himself had been responsible for putting the original Unicorn behind bars, so having him here was more than reassuring. It felt like the captain of the ship knew exactly how to navigate the treacherous waters ahead. Plus, he had brought a couple of detectives from the other Stonewall branches with him: Alejandro and Mark from New York, and Penny and Beckham from Miami. We sat around a round table in the meeting room. Austin Romero was also there; he was the other detective that called Blue Creek home, and someone who I quickly considered a good friend. The window was cracked open and let in some of the spring breeze that carried the scent of freshly mowed grass with it.

Zane stood by a TV screen hanging on the wall as he went through slides of evidence collected from the original Unicorn Killer. The pictures were gruesome, depicting the victims killed in the monster’s signature way: laid out on their bed in a pair of white briefs with a knife stuck through their foreheads, the hilt carved in smooth spirals to resemble a horn. The first killer had focused solely on gay men, but the copycat was already breaking that pattern. Wendy Farstone had been the woman who was murdered in Blue Creek, found in her bed with a horn impaled through her forehead. Wendy didn’t have a partner but had come out as bisexual, so it didn’t seem that gay men were this killer’s sole target.

There was another difference in the copycat. This killer seemed to have an artistic side, as wings had been painted onto the bedsheet around Wendy. They’d been drawn with great care, every line intentional, every curve perfect. There was even shading, adding a depth to one of the most macabre crime scenes I’d ever seen.

That was the slide Zane ended on, Wendy’s lifeless body flashing like a ghost as the screen blinked off.

Zane took his seat across from me, his chair creaking as he leaned forward. He had an air of command over him, his eyes locking in on each one of us. “We’re calling this killer the Pegasus. There are enough differences between this one and the Unicorn that I almost don’t even want to call them a copycat. Although they clearly drew inspiration from the Unicorn.”

“Fuck, I’m getting flashbacks,” Alex said, rubbing his eyebrows. His silver bracelet glinted against his tan skin.

“Why Blue Creek?” Penny asked. “Why come to this town, where it’s got to be way easier to stick out than being in a big city.”

“Because of this.” Zane motioned around him. “Because of us. I think whoever’s doing this is doing it because Stonewall opened up here. It’s a theory, at least.”

“A strong one,” Beckham said.

“It’s a possibility,” I said, jumping in. “But I think it also might be someone who has roots here, not a transplant. Like you said, Penny, transplants would stick out like sore thumbs here, but a local could blend in much easier.”

“Good point.” Zane nodded. “I’ve got an interview lined up with Wendy’s mom tomorrow, but I have to fly back to New York for some other cases at the end of the week. I’m putting Penny in charge of the Pegasus case here in Blue Creek. Her team is going to have Beckham, Mark, and Alex. Austin and Ryan, I want you focused on the cases here. Whoever needs help in Blue Creek, I want you guys on it. Obviously, keep an eye open for anything Pegasus related, but otherwise, keep your current clients and any new ones that might walk in.”

I nodded, noticing a flash of disappointment on Austin’s face. I didn’t mind being left off the main Pegasus team. So long as I was helping someone, I was happy.

We stayed in the meeting room for another three hours, throwing around whatever ideas and theories popped into our heads, hoping that one or two stuck. It was difficult as we still didn’t have much to go on, but there was a clear drive in the room to stop this before anyone else lost their lives. It would be difficult, no doubt about that, but I also had hope that the collective group of sharp minds in this room would be able to figure it out. I lived in a world colored with optimism—it was how I functioned, how I got through the day-to-day bullshit life tends to throw at you. I found that keeping my outlook tilted toward the positive makes for a much easier way of living—a happier one. There were definitely moments in my life that would have otherwise crushed me if it wasn’t for the unwavering hope that had been planted in my heart and tended to by my parents. Some people might find that endless positivity annoying or unrealistic, but that was fine. They could have that opinion as long as they didn’t piss on my rainbow.

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Love Me Again (Stonewall Investigations Blue Creek #1) Read Online Max Walker http://www.ilovenovels.com/love-me-again-stonewall-investigations-blue-creek-1-read-online-max-walker Sat, 03 Jul 2021 23:24:51 +0000 http://www.booksnovels.com/love-me-again-stonewall-investigations-blue-creek-1-read-online-max-walker Genre: Crime, M-M Romance, Romance, Suspense Authors: Max Walker Series: Stonewall Investigations Blue Creek Series by Max Walker
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Total pages in book: 79
Estimated words: 73754 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 369(@200wpm)___ 295(@250wpm)___ 246(@300wpm)

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AUSTIN ROMERO: No one’s fast enough to outrun grief. Trust me, I’ve tried. I ran away from the city and took a job as the lead detective back in my old home town of Blue Creek, New Hampshire. I expected to bump into past ghosts, but I never expected those ghosts to reopen old wounds. The biggest ghost of them all: Charlie Marsh. The man who pushed me out of this town in the first place. He was also the man who had stolen my heart when we were teens, and who now couldn’t even remember a single day we had spent together. Which makes it exceptionally awkward when he becomes my first client. CHARLIE MARSH: An accident stole seven years of my memories, robbing me of experiences, lessons, people. It robbed me of my first love. I couldn’t remember who Austin even was, much less when and where we shared our first kiss. So when I bumped into the most jaw-droppingly handsome man I’d ever seen, I had no idea we already shared an entire galaxy’s worth of history between us. Second chances aren’t always easy, and this one only gets more complicated after finding out that my ‘accident’ wasn’t an accident at all, and it seems like someone wants to finish the job. Good thing I’ve got a hot detective’s number on speed-dial.
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Austin Romero

Small towns were always my shit. I loved them. I wore an easy smile as I walked up to the brick-faced and ivy-covered building that would be the home for Stonewall’s new offices. The spring sun shone brightly on the pavement, drying it up from the sprinkling a couple of lazy gray clouds had dumped. Squirrels clattered up a nearby tree as I walked past, carrying a box labeled “Office Supplies.” There was a kind of magic to tiny places with the same handful of faces waving “good morning” and “good evening,” and I was happy to be back in it. I would have likely stayed in Blue Creek, New Hampshire, my entire life, finding the rhythm of this town as comforting as being back in the womb. It wasn’t the place I was born and raised, but it was the town that had formed me into the man I was today, and at one point I had found myself thinking I’d stay here forever.

Things didn’t work out that way, though. After a tumultuous time in my early twenties, I ended up leaving this picturesque town for a different kind of city beat: NYC.

Not many people waved at you in the city, and if they did, it was because you either dropped your wallet or they had a petition that needed to be signed. Still, I loved the city just as much as I loved Blue Creek. I found a special kind of magic in both.

I also found a special kind of soul in the city. He had made every day special, every day even more magical than the last. I fell in love, feeling like I had finally found my other half after losing one once before. I didn’t ever want to let Dean go. That thought had been the driving force behind me buying a ring; I wanted to tie us together for the rest of our lives.

Unfortunately, only a part of my wish came true.

Dean had been with me for his entire life, but only because his life had been cut tragically short. A hit-and-run. From one minute to the next, my world had collapsed in on itself. The call had implanted a black hole directly inside my chest. My days had become as dark as my midnights, darker even. I couldn’t laugh at even the funniest joke, and my conversations had all been clipped down to three-word replies. Grief consumed me. Ate me alive. Sucked away all the magic I had thought was permanently mine.

So I ran. Same way I ran from Blue Creek, I ran from New York. I couldn’t get on a train or walk past a park or down any city street without conjuring up a memory of Dean and me. The ghosts followed me everywhere I went.

When Zane Holden, the founder of Stonewall Investigations, told me he wanted to expand into smaller towns, I jumped at the chance, offering my childhood home as an option. Zane didn’t take longer than a few hours to agree, and by the next week, I had my bags packed and my apartment keys turned in.

Which was how I ended up back in Blue Creek, standing in front of Barks, Birds, and Booze with the Stonewall Investigations sign added just above it. The pet store had been here since I was a kid, but the addition of an alcohol section must have been new.

“Need help, Austin?”

Darien Bay popped up next to me, smiling and holding a box of his own. He’d worked at the New York offices as Zane’s assistant before Zane gave him the offer to come and manage the new office. He was hesitant about moving away from the city; he’d been born and raised in the Bronx, but after a short visit and plenty of reassurances from me, he decided to take the leap. I completely understood his concern as a Black gay guy moving into a town that had a similar population as six city blocks, but I promised him that he’d find no trouble with the people in Blue Creek. The town prided itself in how welcoming it was, even being reflected in the town’s slogan: “Blue Creek: A town for everyone, by everyone.”

And if anyone did give Darien shit, then they’d be answering to my fist.

“I’m good,” I said, nodding toward the building. “Little different than the Stonewall on Eleventh and Waverly, huh?” Our offices were located on the second floor of the pet store. There were stairs on the outside of the building that led up to an entrance, but I enjoyed walking through the pet store, where another set of stairs could be found. I’d already made friends with the spicy manager, Shelly, and her even spicier cockatoo, Houston.

“Just a little bit,” Darien said with a laugh. “I’m loving it, though. Honestly more than I thought I would. I’ve already hiked about ten different trails.”

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