R. Cooper

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• Nov-2025
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Old by Outguard standards, forty-year-old Westin is considering retirement and hoping that the familiar comforts of Solace House will soothe the ache in his chest at the thought. Solace House is renowned for serving the finest wines and teas, providi...

• Aug-2025
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• Jul-2025
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The accused… well… the actual thief known as Agreeable needs to hide after his friends caused a bit of a ruckus in the market. Which is why he's in disguise in a stolen dress when he slips into a room at the inn that should have been empt...

• May-2025
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Tiiran is just trying to keep the Great Library running. The library has existed for centuries, but after decades of political upheaval, everyone in charge of the revered institution seems to have vanished, leaving only Tiiran and a handful of assist...

• Feb-2025
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A collection of previously posted side stories from the world of the Beings, featuring familiar beloved characters alongside some bright new faces. Watch Rennet the Imp and Little Wolf fret over their happily-ever-afters. Visit with smitten fairies, ...

• Dec-2024
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Lonely omega Nicodemus is approaching his first heat. A lowly and somewhat plain housekeeper in a small, uptight town, he is facing a long, bleak future alone or an even bleaker future with one of his few dull, disinterested suitors. The last thing h...

• Nov-2024
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Melis, the fledgling God of Desire in All Its Forms, is of course aware of the famously beautiful and famously unwed King Antero. Though the human king has been approached by many suitors, all have been intimidated by the strength of his remarkable h...

• Jul-2024
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Throughout the kingdom of Kaska and into the countries beyond, they gossip about the scandalous Fox, the beautiful commoner who went from singing in taverns to being court musician and the king's lover. But the king has grown distant and now seeks a ...

• May-2024
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Royal librarian Mattin is one of the so-called fae-blessed, which means a few times a year he experiences a heat. A sticky, uncomfortable business Mattin does his best to forget, which is easy to do with how busy he is. Unfortunately, ignoring his he...

• Dec-2023
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When Will's grumpy-on-the-outside, soft-on-the-inside (and incidentally very hot) neighbor and maybe friend asks for Will to be his fake boyfriend for a Christmas party thrown by his sisters, Will jumps at the chance. Will has been pining dramaticall...

• Dec-2023
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The mysterious figure known as the Wild Dog has risen up to crush and humiliate the Earls who control the North. Fen, son of a powerful Earl, has been sent to form an alliance to benefit his father's plans against the bold rebel. There are many kinds...

• Oct-2023
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Sent to take care of his grandmother during lockdown, twenty-eight-year-old Trevor is surprised at how quickly he takes to The Grandma Lifestyle, learning how to manage her household. His world has narrowed down to the tiny street where his grandma a...

• Sep-2023
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A collection of steampunk romance short stories and novellas from R. Cooper Let There Be LightSecret agent Hart spent years working alongside Karol, concealing his love for him. Then a mission gone wrong left Hart near death, and Karol quit the ...

• Apr-2023
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For nearly twenty years, noble families have torn the country apart battling for the throne. Until now, the Tialttyrin have avoided the chaos, since no other nobles will risk offending the mysterious, powerful fae by attacking their favorites. But as...

• Mar-2023
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To most people, Matt Del Prete is the charming, unambitious youngest son of a wine-growing dynasty, who sleeps around and is useless for anything practical. Matt has spent years creating that reputation to keep his controlling family from pushing him...

• Dec-2022
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Yule is the start of the new year, the midwinter festival for the solstice and the days afterward. Traditions are to burn logs and light candles to welcome the return of the sun, to celebrate with food and cheer and family, and to remember connection...

• Aug-2022
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Detective Ray Branigan protects his chosen city of Los Cerros. Whatever feelings he has on how he is treated as a werewolf in a police department of mostly humans, Ray keeps to himself for the sake of being what he is supposed to be and doing what he...

• Apr-2022
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Left on her own at a young age, Batch grew up in logging camps as a rough-and-tumble tomboy in men's clothing, and kept all her soft and tender impulses carefully hidden. Even her name is a joke to most, and she used to drink to keep herself from min...

• Jan-2022
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Those who come back from the mysterious place known as the Realm, if they come back, are changed. Some return haunted. Others with knowledge of themselves that they will not share, and the magic of the Realm at their disposal. The peculiari, as these...

• Aug-2021
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Everyone expects the king to rage at the suggestion that he find a new spouse to stand alongside--or better yet, replace--his beloved husband. Some might be planning on it, hoping to incite another conflict like what has plagued the country since the...

• Apr-2021
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For ten anxious years, the country of Ainle has had no chevetein to keep their many lesser cheves in check and maintain peace. Anyone can become the chevetein if it is the will of the Three, as the most powerful of the gods are known. But as the year...

• Feb-2021
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Ara is a festival for spring, for the return of clear skies, for beginnings. People dance, drink, and decorate themselves in blue capes or ribbons, or, for the more bold, with aras blooms, which leave behind a blue stain when crushed. A splash of thi...

• Nov-2020
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After a curse gone awry has turned him (more or less) into a cat, Melchior Duban's devoted assistant calls in Scarlett Waterhouse, Mel's rival in the mage-for-hire business, to help. Well, Mel thought they were rivals, or at least competitors, despit...

• Jun-2020
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A Being(s) in Love CollectionVery little is known about seers -- those individuals, both human and being, with the power to know both what could have been and what is yet to come. Seers prefer it that way. Some of them run from their visions. Others ...

• Nov-2019
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The Interplanetary Trade Coalition has not been welcomed with open arms by the Sha Empire. Isolated at the far edge of a distant system, the Sha are distrustful of outsiders, and previous I.P.T.C. diplomatic missions have ended with members imprisone...

• Oct-2019
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Tat never expected a future. A lower-caste Luudi who left her planet and made a new home with a group of idealistic humans, she spends her time looking out for new family and working in secret to rescue refugees from a neighboring country. She is con...

• Sep-2019
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Riley has a problem. He's fallen for Eli, his adorable teddy bear of a roommate, but can't express himself when said teddy bear is around. Eli is a responsible adult who makes risotto, worries too much, and falls asleep on the couch while watching th...

• Mar-2019
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Jamie "Izzy" Islington is an ace, femme, neuroatypical college junior with anxiety, an interest in coding and poetry, and difficulty identifying his own emotions. He's had no interest in romantic love until very recently, when he realized he has a cr...

• Dec-2018
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Clematis attracts attention whether he wants it or not, and in response, he's turned himself into the ideal fairy, or, at least, what humans think is the ideal fairy. He works hard to embody every fairy stereotype. He can be a sulky prince or a submi...

• Oct-2018
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Emery Elward returned to Trinity Creek with no intention of doing anything but repairing the farmhouse he grew up in, starting a business, and tending to the graveyard linked to his family's property. He has no interest in renewing past friendships. ...

• Jun-2018
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Jerry Candelario, known as Potts to almost everyone, has spent his entire adult life focused on raising his siblings and his niece. But the home he fought hard to make feels empty since everyone has grown up and moved out, and his precious baby niece...

• May-2018
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A much-needed program to prevent and reverse disease, and discover a path to sustainable, long-term health from an acclaimed international doctor and star of the BBC program Doctor in the House.

How to Make Disease Disappear is Dr. Rangan Ch...

• Dec-2017
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Once a year, the town of Ravenscroft celebrates the winter solstice by watching the Oak King symbolically slay the Holly King to ensure the death of winter. To most people, it's a pagan ritual that has lost all meaning in the modern world, harmless f...

• Nov-2017
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Socially anxious Vincent has resigned himself to spending Thanksgiving alone this year, just him, the parade, and some pie. The last thing he expects is Cory, the handsome neighbor he's been daydreaming about, to knock on his door with a holiday cris...

• Oct-2017
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Casper Silverbell is a grumpity elf, and with good reason. As an accountant at the North Pole, he gets no respect from most of the creative elves who don't see his job as important. The only joys in his life are his pet polar bears, his love of fine ...

• Sep-2017
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Years ago, Martin Dyer nearly died in the woods outside Everlasting. A beautiful, inhuman creature saved his life, but Martin has done his best to forget it ever happened. He spends his time in a haze of weed as he avoids his emotionally abusive moth...

• Jul-2017
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To the other firefighters in Montgomery, Javier is a quietly heroic figure with a reputation for staying calm and doing what needs to be done. To the small town gossips, he's some kind of mysterious ladies' man, despite how he hasn't dated anyone in ...

• Feb-2017
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Sami is twenty-seven and happy to live at home with his family, even if he is a little lonely and dissatisfied with his job at a nursing home. Caring for people is what Sami does. Unfortunately, putting his loved ones first is also part of the reason...

• Dec-2016
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A Being(s) in Love Story

In the nineteenth century, the dragon Dìzhèn put the small coastal town of Everlasting under her protection. Her family was supposed to carry on the tradition, but all of Dìzhèn the Great's heirs even...

• Jun-2016
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Grad student David is in love with Tulip, a kind and unusually quiet fairy. David is happy to be Tulip's friend, but never risks more because he doesn't believe a fairy could love him, and Tulip has never tried to "keep him" -- as fairies refer to re...

• Jun-2016
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To help out his sister, Scott moved to the small town of Montgomery, where there isn't much to do and no one for him to date. Well, there's one other openly gay man in town -- Henry 'Cole' Porter, a widower who runs the school library, but after one ...

• Feb-2016
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His heart stolen by a powerful pari's magic, a young prince's veins slowly fill with ice. That is what the stories say. Three years have passed since, and all efforts to saveKisinhave failed. He won't survive another winter. To save the prince's life...

• Jan-2016
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Hiding away in a tiny town among the coastal redwoods, Chico Silva is trying to recover from an emotionally abusive relationship. Chico is talented, sweet, and devoted to his family, but his ex spent years convincing him that meant nothing, then dump...

• Oct-2015
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A powerful witch, Piotr Russell has resigned himself to loneliness, because ordinary humans can't know what he is, and other witches are intimidated by his abilities. Generations of Russells have lived and died with only their familiars at their side...

• Sep-2015
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A Being(s) in Love CollectionMagical creatures known as beings emerged from hiding amid the destruction of the First World War. Since then they've lived on the margins of the human world as misunderstood objects of fear and desire. Some are beautiful...

• May-2015
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For five years, Timothy Dirus has lived on the run, in fear of his family. Kept away from other werewolves by his uncle, Tim knows almost nothing about his own kind except that alpha werewolves only want to control and dominate a scrawny wolf like hi...

• Mar-2015
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After graduating college, Zeki Janowitz returns to his hometown of Wolf's Paw before beginning his career as a consulting wizard. But he has no plans to stay. Wolf's Paw, a werewolf refuge, shuns human magic and a very human Zeki. Despite that, Zeki ...

• Feb-2015
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Jeremy is a grad student with a quick mind and insatiable thirst for knowledge--and he's currently most curious about is the infamously strict librarian at the small private library attached to his university. He has a weakness for devastatingly clev...

• Jul-2014
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Two years into the Civil War, it is a bloody stalemate -- exactly the sort of situation for a brilliant, ruthless visionary with ideas on modernizing spycraft to take advantage of. With an eye to not just winning the war, but to the future of the cou...

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James Morgan is the marshal of a small town in the Old West, troubled by his past and haunted by feelings for a roving, storytelling gambler named Matt Dixon. It's a dangerous time and place to be interested in men, and Morgan has spent too long deny...

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