The Libertine

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Adam, an assassin for the Dutch Army, has specific instructions to infiltrate the pirate ship The Libertine at any cost and ensure the pirates will be defenseless when the army attacks. Using his body and his seductive charm, Adam captures the attention of Captain Blair. With the battle of Willemstad days away, and The Libertine's weapon expert suddenly murdered, Adam is placed aboard the ship to assure their arsenal can outlast the Dutch Army. As the battle draws closer, the Quartermaster Gregor, who has an agenda of his own, befriends Adam. Their friendship quickly develops into something more. Playing a three-way game of fire, Adam has only a few hours to decide what to do. Assassinate the Captain and Gregor and return to the army a hero? Or betray the army for the love of Gregor, a man he doesn't know and isn't sure he can trust?

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Originally from Detroit, William Holden now lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with his partner of eighteen years. He has a Master's in Library and Information Science from Florida State University. Over the past decade, he had focused his work on collecting, and preserving, GLBT history and is a volunteer archivist at Boston's History Project. William has been writing for over fifteen years, accumulating more than seventy published short stories in the genres of erotica, romance, fantasy, and horror. He is an award-winning author of such titles as A Twist of Grimm (Lambda Literary Award Finalist) and Words to Die By (Second Place in the Rainbow Book Awards for Best Horror and Finalist for the American Library Association's Foreward Book Award for Best Horror). Secret Societies and its sequel, The Thief Taker, were both finalists for the Lambda Literary Award. His forthcoming horror novel Crimson Souls is based on the 1920 purge of homosexual students at Harvard. William has also written encyclopedia articles on the history of gay and lesbian fiction and has authored five bibliographies for the GLBT Round Table for the American Library Association. For more information, visit williamholdenwrites.com.

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