Books like The eternal flame by Anthony Reid

After a suspicious fire claims her father, Nicola is hospitalised in England and suddenly finds herself on a mission to California with her aunt's stepson, the powerful director Blake Anderson, who’s reluctant to help her recover.

Ashley Webster travels west to clear her brother’s name, forging a marriage‑of‑necessity with a former Confederate soldier while confronting love, danger, and the hardships of frontier life.

A story of passion and betrayal between a Cheyenne warrior and a Southern belle caught in the crossfire of the American West and the clash of cultures.

An enigmatic former copy of the coastal saga, "Into the Flame" follows Doug Black, a mysterious cop who can transform into a cougar, as he searches for kin and a woman whose love may unlock his destiny.

After being left at the altar, then becoming engaged to the notorious outlaw Rasmus Pierce, Marian Ames is happy to come to Minneapolis where no one knows her scandalous history. Losing herself in exciting work with needy children at a local mission, Marian finds herself drawn to fellow worker Everett Star, a widower whose embittered spirit brightens only in the presence of his daughter. Yet what is it in Everett's past that makes him fear Marian? And what tragedy has left his little daughter so withdrawn? As Rasmus Pierce's trial begins, Marian and Everett come to a crossroads. Can they rekindle the flame of their love for each other—and God—despite the swirling winds of shame?

When she first heard the rumble of falling rocks, Miranda found it hard to believe that she - a first-rate cave explorer - could have been caught in a landslide. But when the dust cleared she discovered she was trapped in a dark cavern with Rogue McCalren as her sole hope for survival. That rude rancher had been a thorn in her side from the beginning of their search for her father, but now he was her only link with the outside and her single reason for wanting to live. For the warmth of his rich smooth voice enveloped her and kept the cold at bay, sparking in her a longing for the touch of his heated caress and the feel of his burning lips on hers.

Juliana Roessler seeks refuge from a winter storm and finds love with the rugged Sate Margruder in his backwoods cabin.

In 1973, when all the arguments were presented to the American Psychiatric Association both for and against the idea of homosexuality as pathology, it was the personal disclosures of gay men that had the most influence. Listening to their stories of frustration in treatment - and their newfound happiness through acceptance of a gay identity - the American Psychiatric Association voted to omit homosexuality as a diagnostic category. Now, twenty years later, Dr. Joseph Nicolosi presents the opposite kind of personal testimony. This testimony is from homosexual men who have tried to accept a gay identity but were dissatisfied, and then benefited from psychotherapy to help free them of homosexuality. While each client has his unique story. Nicolosi has chosen eight men as representative of the personalities he has encountered in the twelve years during which he has treated over 200 homosexual clients. These men are engaged in a "two-front war"--An internal assault against their own unwanted desires, and an external battle against a popular culture that does not understand or value their struggle. In their own words, we hear these men's struggles to develop healthy, non-erotic male friendships. We hear of their fear and anger toward the men in their lives, and their strained relationships with the fathers they never understood. Nicolosi contends that every man possesses aspects of these clients: the frailty of Albert, the integrity of Charlie, the rage of Dan, the narcissism of Steve, and the ambivalence of Roger, to list some of them. Some readers of this book may be surprised by the directive style of Dr. Nicolosi's therapeutic intervention. In part, this is due to the editorial synthesis of the transcript. More importantly, however, reparative therapy does require a more involved therapist - a benevolent provocateur who departs from the tradition of uninvolved, opaque analyst to become a salient male presence. The therapist must balance active challenge with warm encouragement to follow the father-son model. This is an essential principle of reparative therapy.

A curated anthology of LGBTQ poetry from 1950 to the present, featuring American voices from the gay and lesbian communities.