L.A.P.D Rookie Jake Bennett is recovering from recent tragedies, and work and his relationship with his girlfriend are going better than ever, but then Jake's career suddenly turns toward disaster, and overnight he finds himself ruined and exiled! Starting over in a new city, Jake soon transforms himself into a private investigator - but the shadows of the past still haunt and hunt him. Blood Will Out: Back in LA after their disaster-vacation in Palm Springs, rookie cop Jake Bennett and his waitress girlfriend Debbie Cantrell try to pick up the pieces of their lives and their relationship. But Jake's job as a cop and his family life soon derail things even further. Now some powerful people have taken an interest in Jake Bennett, with serious consequences. Now suddenly he's swimming with the sharks-- and there's no exit from the tank. Presumed Dead: Exiled, humiliated and almost flat broke, Jake Bennett arrives in the city of San Francisco feeling as low as a man can get. Slowly he claws his way up from the gutter, and fights to build a new life for himself. But his past always returns to haunt him, and sinister figures threaten to derail his new life. Can Jake Bennett battle back from the crushing disaster he experienced in Los Angeles, become a private investigator, and finally find his missing father, too?

The final story in the Jake Bennett series opens with Jake in rehab, one misstep away from prison. Counseling points the PI toward his family past, forcing Jake to meet his long-lost father in his search for answers. The arrival of Henry, a fling Jake had months ago, complicates Bennett’s life even further. Can he put the pieces of his life together, or will it all shatter and fall to the ground? Welcome to the thundering climax of the Jake Bennett Adventures! First, let's begin with what this book is NOT: • It is not one of those wretched romance novels where two "gay" men whine and cry and mope and obsess about their feelings and never have sex. • It is not a Delayed F--k. • It is not a Coming Out story about two teens who've never been touched. • It is not about homophobia. • It is not about gay bashing. • It is not about religion vs. reality. • It is not about the torture of living in the closet. Instead, this novel is the story of two men who have already come out, and who have already had sex, and no one in their world has a problem with that. Unfortunately, one of them, our hero Jake Bennett, has a big problem with alcohol. He's been using it more and more to cope with the unfair treatment he received from powerful people, back when he was a cop in LA. He's been using it to cope with his feelings of terror and despair, brought on by the mysterious disappearance of his girlfriend, Debbie Cantrell. And he's been using alcohol to help him forget some of the shady things he and his former associate, Rachel, have been doing since he became a private eye in San Francisco. This ocean of scotch, predictably, lands Jake in big trouble— court ordered rehab, to be exact. One step away from six months in jail, Jake finally wakes up to the fact that he's got a big problem. It is the unexpected reappearance of Debbie that enables Jake to come to grips with this problem, and finally participate in the treatment the judge has ordered for him. As he opens up to his counselor, Dr. Wagner, Jake begins to understand that his repressed childhood memories have driven his actions in ways he doesn't understand. Meanwhile, Henry English, a young man Jake had sex with a few times earlier in the year, has moved to San Francisco. Henry is determined to help Jake overcome his problems, and as they work together, it becomes plain that Henry has another agenda. With Henry's help, Jake sets out to find and talk to his long-lost father. The stories that the private eye uncovers are not at all what he expected: and, upon closer inspection, they don't add up, either. Now Jake has the information he needs to understand his past traumas. As his new family gathers to take a trip together to Mexico, it seems that everything is falling in place for Jake…

Follow the adventures of Jake Bennett, a small-town boy who moves to Los Angeles in search of love and adventure. What he gets instead is political intrigue, lurid drag queen murders, and the anything-goes world of indie films! The JAKE BENNETT ADVENTURES tell the story of drugs, corruption and sexual gratification, and the toll it all takes on an honest man. The Drag Queen Murders: The discovery of a murdered drag queen in Boystown's notorious Vaseline Alley unleashes a fast-paced search for the perps, as bisexual rookie LAPD officer Jake Bennet struggles to keep his cop buddies in the dark about his sex life, all while trying to stay one jump ahead of the killer! Outrageous characters compete with thrills and chills in this, the first adventure featuring the handsome young officer with a secret worth keeping. Tomorrow is Cancelled: Unlucky rookie cop Jake Bennet has been ostracized, and now he's herding traffic. Then a huge break comes his way: a chance to work in the movies! But will his bad luck ruin his life and cost everyone on the shoot dearly? As Jake struggles to control the artistic types around him, he must also keep both of his lovers from finding out about the other. Death in Palm Springs: Lured to Palm Springs by his current boyfriend, rookie bisexual cop Jake Bennet never dreamed he'd wind up drugged, roped, and suspended over an ant hill! But that's exactly what happens when he gets involved with a gigantic gay party in the desert, complete with illicit drugs, miscommunications galore, and the unexpected arrival of his girlfriend. Rampant drug trafficking collides with tangled personal relationships, and soon everyone is in jeopardy.

The accidental release of a bio-engineered organism has plunged the 21st century into total chaos. Petroleum, plastics and most of the men are gone. Against a backdrop of competing political ecosystems, the few hundred survivors of Los Angeles must now battle feral pets and rebuild society. Can these few courageous survivors work together to save the remnants of human civilization? “Bayla Dornon has crafted a fantastic work of high drama and full-on action adventure that will tickle anyone who enjoys a slightly tongue-in-cheek look at our current and future political state. The result has a witty undertone, which speaks volumes about human nature and our desperate need for survival, and this plays out well alongside the more serious aspects of the plot. One of the major highlights for me was the dialogue, which leaped off the pages with a fresh zeal and gave the ethos and energy of each new arrival to the ensemble cast. It felt nicely balanced between cinematic dialogue and how real people speak in these chaotic situations. Overall, I highly recommend Sludge: The Lemony-Fresh Apocalypse as a fun dystopian adventure that’s well-penned, poignant, and memorable long after you set it down.” Reviewed by K.C. Finn for Readers' Favorite

The songs, dances, jokes, parodies, spoofs, and skits of blackface groups such as the Virginia Minstrels and Buckley's Serenaders became wildly popular in antebellum America. Behind the Burnt Cork Mask not only explores the racist practices of these entertainers but considers their performances as troubled representations of ethnicity, class, gender, and culture in the nineteenth century. William J. Mahar's unprecedented archival study of playbills, newspapers, sketches, monologues, and music engages new sources previously not considered in twentieth-century scholarship. More than any other study of its kind, Behind the Burnt Cork Mask investigates the relationships between blackface comedy and other Western genres and traditions; between the music of minstrel shows and its European sources; and between "popular" and "elite" constructions of culture. By locating minstrel performances within their complex sites of production, Mahar offers a significant reassessment of the historiography of the field. Behind the Burnt Cork Mask promises to redefine the study of blackface minstrelsy, charting new directions for future inquiries by scholars in American studies, popular culture, and musicology.

First published in 2001.The standard work on its subject, this resource includes every traceable British entertainment film from the inception of the "silent cinema" to the present day. Now, this new edition includes a wholly original second volume devoted to non-fiction and documentary film--an area in which the British film industry has particularly excelled. All entries throughout this third edition have been revised, and coverage has been extended through 1994.Together, these two volumes provide a unique, authoritative source of information for historians, archivists, librarians, and film scholars.