Christopher Clarke

Stripped of his military pension when he was outed thirty years earlier, Henry now works as a cleaner. When he meets a young ex-soldier, Jake, he learns he may be able to have his pension reinstated. Suffering from PTSD, Henry is not sure he has the strength to fight another battle, but when his former boyfriend Benji needs a place to live, the three men learn how to live, love, and be a team.

Bertha is an IT specialist, a high-flyer in everything in her life but love.

Hugh and Struan’s happy world as a couple in their tenth year together is turned upside down when Struan’s mother dies and they take in his father.

Tortu is a successful IT consultant, loves his job, and works hard. But then he is laid off and can't find another job. He loses his home, his dignity. He begs on the streets of Middlesbrough for months until his friend, Gary, saves him and gives him the money to go live with his uncle, Hugo, in Noyers, France. There he meets Lucas, a local farmer, himself transplanted to the country when his father hands him the keys to a farm. The two men fall in love. But things are not great, as Tortu, has to go home due to the immigration restrictions.

Daryl Pearson lives with his grandmother in Coventry. Abandoned there by his mother when he was a baby, he is lost and searching for his father. When a box arrives from his mother he finds more than he could hope for inside it. Adam is trying to juggle recapturing past successes and dealing with his friend's marital problems. Ominous dreams signal that there are other things at work, and love, music and fate combine to reveal the truth.

Vince Carver is a seventy-five year old man living alone in a sleepy village by the sea. Recently he had a heart attack and now has a district nurse come to see him once a week. He decides to take in a lodger.

A master jewel thief in 21st century Los Angeles targets the illegal emerald smuggling operations of a highly-connected crime syndicate. During what he believes to be a routine heist, cat burglar Harry Maxwell discovers that his target, notorious criminal Sanchez Boon is also the target of a police raid. In attempting to evade both the law and Boon's well-armed men, Harry meets Pandora Grimes, one of dozens of young women Boon kidnapped to work in his factory. When Boon sets a group of social deviants free and hijacks a space transport ship and its crew, only Harry and Pandora's cunning can save the hundreds of innocent people aboard.

Joe Caxon is part of a gay men's community group. He decides to launch a retreat for gay men, inviting others to join him. Three other gay men join the group. Four strangers. Four different lives. Four different expectations.