Bøker av Jay Hogan

I am Mackenzie Country born and bred. Farming the high country runs in my blood, like my father, and his father, and my great grandfather before him. My future has been mapped out for me since the day I was born. Or at least it was, until Liam Skelton walks onto Lane Station, lights a fire in my heart, and turns my whole world upside down.Bossy, tatted, and out and proud, Liam is everything my father abhors.And I want him.Badly.But having a chance with Liam means risking everything. My family. My future. And my life in these mountains that I love. Still, the heart wants what it wants, and mine wants Liam.With so many things against us, maybe we don't have a chance.Maybe we'll crash and burn.Or maybe we'll find a way to have it all.

I broke the rules and fell in love with my best friend. Newsflash. He didn't feel the same. I had to stand by and watch him fall for someone else. Moving on hasn't been easy since we all live and work on the same high country sheep station, but I'm finally getting there. I'm building a new life, a new set of dreams, planning a different future, just me and my dogs. The last thing I need is Luke Nichols, the sexy, enigmatic, ex-husband of my nemesis, filling my head with a laundry list of cravings. Talk about complicated. Luke is only in Mackenzie Country for a few months and I'm not about to put my heart on the line again just for a little fun. But the more I'm around Luke, the harder it is to remember exactly why Luke and I are a bad idea, the worst idea. Things between us are about to go nuclear. Maybe I'm wrong.Maybe we can keep it simple.Maybe I can satisfy my cravings and hold on to my heart.And maybe pigs can fly.

When life drowns you in lemons, to hell with making lemonade. I wanted to burn the whole world. But eighteen months from the day my life was torn apart, I'm tired of the anger. Tired of the nightmares. Tired of putting one foot in front of the other just trying to survive. Three months on a high country sheep station in the middle of nowhere is exactly the reboot I need. A chance to break free. To breathe again. To find a way forward.I put my entire life on hold and head south to Mackenzie Country. But falling for the captivating young station boss was never part of the plan. Holden Miller might be smart and sexy and push all my dusty buttons, but we come from two different worlds. I'm not looking for a relationship. I'm not interested in love. I'm done with all that.But Holden doesn't care about my rules. Nestled safely in the arms of the spectacular Southern Alps, on an isolated sheep farm at the top of the world, Holden begins knitting my battered heart together one careful stitch at a time. And with every pass of the thread, every braid of the river on our doorstep, I catch a tantalising glimpse of something I'd almost given up on.Happiness, and maybe even love.If I have the courage to reach out and grab them.

Blurb:FOXED: To be thrown into a state of uncertainty-flustered, bamboozled, bewildered, puzzled, vexed. AKA, me. Jed Marshall. 55-year-old successful classic car mechanic; divorced, mostly closeted, and whose wholly inexperienced bisexuality has suddenly awakened after one smouldering look and said, 'Damn, who's the hottie?' Or words to that effect. Cue, Nash Collingwood. 53-year-old scarily smart high school principal; out, gay, confident, and sexy as hell. He's also my daughter's boss. So, not complicated at all, right? Nash could ignite a bonfire with a single sultry look, comes fully accessorised with a charm offensive Churchill would be proud of, an easy-going flattery that thrills my heart far too effortlessly, and an impressive track record with men many decades my junior. In short, Nash is everything I'm not, and everything I've avoided for roughly my entire life. He's the hot rod to my sensible family car, that is if you like your family cars with a few dents, creaky suspension, unexpected backfires, and a dodgy stick. The last thing I need is a relationship-especially with a man. I buried that pipe dream a long time ago and a little loneliness is a small price to pay. The festive season and long summer vacation are on our doorstep. I'm finally getting things right with my family who mean everything to me, and I don't want to mess that up. But Nash doesn't care about my awkward inexperience, or clumsy excuses, or any of my insecurities. Nash only sees me. He wants me. For the first time in years, I feel alive and sexy and a whole lot more than just a good father and grandfather. I should walk away, but the closer Nash and I become, the more he fills my grey world with colour, and the promise of a second chance at love I never thought possible.

New Zealand farm boy turns New York fashion model.Fairy tale? Maybe. But it hasn't been easy. A year in this crazy city, working my tail off just to survive in a ruthless industry where sex sells and boundaries are too readily crossed. A year and a reassuring ocean away from Hunter Donovan-a sexy, humiliating mistake that I'm not about to repeat. Distance is good. Distance is safe. But now Hunter is back. In New York. In my life. In all those treacherous feelings that haven't gone anywhere. But when my world suddenly crashes and I have to piece myself back together and fight for my career, will Hunter be there when I need him? Will we have what it takes to make it through this, together?

FLAREMy own fashion label. The shiny new sign above the door means everything. My dream. My life. Worth every gruelling hour I''ve spent making it happen. Nothing can stop me now. Not the fear. Not the nightmares. Not my sad excuse for a love life. And certainly not Beckett Northcott, the sexy English professor who wouldn''t know a fitted shirt if it slapped him in the face and who has flannel down to an art form. I don''t date for a very good reason, and yet Beck makes me want to break every damn one of my rules. But with my debut at Fashion Week looming, my business in trouble, and Beckett Northcott peeling open my terrified heart to a future I''ve never imagined, the threads of my carefully woven life are unravelling at the seams. I could walk away. Or I could take a chance that Beck and I might just have what it takes to fashion a new life, together. A fresh design from a new cloth. 

Riassunto: Michael:Due anni fa ho commesso un grave errore. Poi ne ho aggiunti un altro paio giusto per non farmi mancare nulla. Mi sono rovinato la vita, ma sono sopravvissuto. Ora ho l''opportunit├á di ricominciare da capo. Due anni in Nuova Zelanda, lontano dai pettegolezzi di Los Angeles, un''occasione per respirare, per ricostruire la mia vita. Ma porter├▓ con me una nuova serie di regole.Niente relazioni.Niente impegno.Niente steccati bianchi.E soprattutto niente agenti del K9 arroganti e sexy che entrano nel mio pronto soccorso e sconvolgono il mio mondo. Josh:Una cosa ├¿ certa: il dottor Michael Oliver ├¿ arrogante e inaffidabile, e sono sopravvissuto a malapena all''ultimo uomo come lui. Pu├▓ anche essere stupendo, ma ├¿ mia figlia la mia priorit├á. Non rischier├▓ che venga ferita di nuovo. Sono un padre single, un agente del K9 e figlio di genitori rompicoglioni.Non ho tempo per i giochetti.Non ho tempo per correre rischi.Non ho tempo per altre complicazioni nella mia vita.E di sicuro non ho tempo per l''esasperante dottor Michael Oliver, per quanto dannatamente sexy sia.

Karma. You reap what you sow, and KANE MARTIN isn''t looking for forgiveness.But the arrival of ABE TYLER in Painted Bay has Kane dreaming of the impossible. The sexy, silver fox choreographer is determined to pull Kane out from the shadows, but Abe''s career isn''t about to shift to Painted Bay, and Kane''s life is in neat little boxes for a reason. A past he isn''t proud of.A family he''s walked away from.A job he doesn''t deserve.A secret he''s ashamed of. But life''s dance can make for unexpected partners and learning to trust and keep up with the footwork is the name of the game. Two steps forward, one step back.It takes two to tango.

There's a wedding in the air at Auckland Med, but Reuben wonders if they'll survive the stress long enough to say, 'I do'. Cam is directing the entire operation with his combat eyeliner in place, whilst the wedding party is doing its best to ignore him. The pressure is mounting and the cracks are beginning to show. There's a bachelor party to survive.The paparazzi to outrun.A wedding outfit to confirm.A rugby game to win.A jerk of a father to cope with.A stunning opportunity to consider.A relationship to untangle.And a shocking event that could derail everything. With the universe conspiring against them, Reuben and Cam will have to summon every scrap of belief they have in each other to make it to their vows.

Blurb: When JUDAH MADDEN flees his tiny suffocating home town in New Zealand for the dream of international ballet stardom, he never intends coming back. Not to Painted Bay. Not to his family's struggling mussel farm. Not to his jerk of a brother. Not with his entire life plan in shreds. And certainly not into the tempting arms of MORGAN WIPENE, the older, ruggedly handsome fisheries officer who seems determined to screw with Judah's intention to wallow in peace. But dreams are fickle things. Shatter them and it's hard to pick up the pieces. Hard to believe. Hard to start again. And the hardest thing of all? Finding the courage to trust in love and build a new dream where you least expected to find it.

Blurb: I don''t like labels and I''m happy that way, but it''s taken a long time to get here. A jerk of a father, too many bullies to name, and a string of dipshit boyfriends whose interest in me rarely made it past the skirts I sometimes wear. Suffice to say, my faith in men runs a little thin. The last thing I need is a gruff, opinionated, fiery, closeted, Paralympian jock messing with my hard-won peace. Miller Harrison is a wrinkle in my life I could definitely do without. I have a job that I love at Auckland Med., a boss who understands me, and a group of friends who accept me as I am.  I should walk away. But Miller knows a thing or two about living life against the grain, and that hope I thought I''d buried a long time ago, is threatening to surface.  

DETECTIVE MARK KNIGHT has a serious problem—one that comes in the form of Auckland Med’s brand-new forensic pathologist. Six feet of delicious blond-haired, scary smart, stern and disapproving hotness—DR EDWARD R NEWTON.The man is miles out of Mark’s league; completely opposite in almost every way, and shockingly immune to Mark’s flirtations. Mark should just let him go. But the alluring doctor has taken residence in Mark’s brain and is messing with his life’s plan—in particular Mark’s determination to skirt attachments and all the self-absorbed drama that goes with them.Mark has spent two years watching his friends drop like flies to the white picket virus, only to suddenly find himself hankering for a hammer and some white paint. Edward, however, doesn’t want a bar of Mark’s roguish charm.But it’s not like Mark can avoid the sexy pathologist—death brings them together on a regular basis. So when a string of murders threatens both their lives and sends them into hiding, something has to give. 

ETHAN SHARPE is living every young Kiwi’s dream—seeing the world for a couple of years while deciding what to do with his life, no rush. Then he gets a call.Two days later he’s back in New Zealand. Six months later his mother is dead, his fifteen-year-old brother is going off the rails and the café he’s inherited is failing. His life is a hot mess and the last thing he needs is another complication—like the man who just walked into his café—a much older…sinfully hot…EPIC complication.TANNER CARPENTER’s time in Queenstown has an expiration date. He has a new branch of his business to get up and running, exorcise a few personal demons while he’s at it, and then head back to Auckland to get on with his life. He isn’t looking for a relationship especially with someone fifteen years his junior, but Ethan is gorgeous, troubled and in need of a friend. Tanner could be that for Ethan, right? He could brighten Ethan’s day for a few months, help him out where possible, and maybe offer some… stress relief, no strings attached.It was a good plan, until it wasn’t.

What if you've worked your whole life for a dream, to play rugby for the most successful sports team on the planet, the New Zealand All Blacks?What if that dream is so close you can smell it?What if you meet someone?What if you fall in love?What if your dream will cost the man who's stolen your heart?And what if the dream changes? Reuben Taylor has a choice to make.Cameron Wano is that choice. Reuben Taylor has a chance at rugby greatness, to play for the New Zealand All Blacks. But Reuben is gay and still in the closet. He needs that All Black position to live his dream, but also to ensure he can provide for his nephew who is likely on the spectrum. Reuben's brother is struggling as a  parent, and Reuben's dad is a viscious homophobe. Reuben just needs to keep his head down till he gets in the team and secures that position, then maybe, just maybe, he can come out.But Reuben hasn't counted on falling for out and proud, Cameron Wano. Cameron is everything Reuben wants and now he has a choice to make.

DRAKE PARK has a complicated life. As a gay male midwife, he's used to raising eyebrows. Add Crohn's disease and things get interesting—or not, considering the sad state of his love life. Experience has taught Drake that most men are fair weather sailors when it comes to handling his condition—gone for dust when things get rough. Staying healthy is a fulltime job without adding in any hearbreak, so a little loneliness is a small price to pay. If he says it often enough he might even believe it. One thing for sure, the cop who arrested him isn't about to change that.CALEB ASHTON does not have a complicated life. A senior detective with the Whangarei Police Deapartment, he likes his job and is good at it. He works hard and plays hard, happy to enjoy as many men as he can while he's still young enough—or at least he was. These days he feels adrift for the first time in his life, and the only thing sparking his interest—a certain prickly young midwife.But can Drake find enough faith to risk opening his heart again? And does Caleb have what it takes to cope with the challenges Drake's condition presents?

Michael:Two years ago, I made a mistake, a big one. Then I added a couple more just for good measure. I screwed up my life, but I survived. Now I have the opportunity for a fresh start. Two years in New Zealand. Away from the LA gossip, a chance to breathe, to rebuild my life. But I'm taking a new set of rules with me.I don't do relationships.I don't do commitment.I don't do white picket fences.And I especially don't do arrogant, holier-than-thou, smoking hot K9 officers who walk into my ER and rock my world. Josh:One thing for certain, Dr. Michael Oliver is an arrogant, untrustworthy player, and I barely survived the last one of those. He might be gorgeous, but my daughter takes number one priority. I won't risk her being hurt, again. I'm a solo Dad, a K9 cop, and a son to pain-in-the-arse parents.I don't have time for games.I dont' have time for taking chances.I don't have time for more complications in my life.And I sure as hell don't have time for the infuriating Dr. Michael Oliver, however damn sexy he is.