When Leo Wayland accepts a job as head of the new horror unit at Maiden Studios, he knows what is expected. Make cheap movies that earn their money back fast. It doesn't matter that he dislikes horror. He just needs to escape his assistant director's position at a rival studio.
But he didn't expect to be assigned a terrible title and a leading man, all before he even had a script, or that his leading man would be Everett Reid, the actor who rejected a very young Leo’s advances, only to disappear from movies altogether a few years later in a cloud of scandal.
Everett Reid will do anything for a chance to get back the career he lost and away from teaching at a theater camp for children. And if it means working with Leo Wayland again, he can do that too. Especially now that Leo is all grown up and not so untouchable.
With only three weeks, a flamboyant stage actor, twelve scantily clad women, and a sound stage full of coffins may not seem like the makings of something great. But really, that all depends on what you are hoping for.
Chapter 1Ten Years Ago Leo slipped into his leather shoes, pulled a shirt over his head, and tried hard not to remember the night before. It was impossible. Last night, he’d kissed Everett Reid. Okay, it wasn’t exactly a kiss. It was a sloppy, hoppy-breathed attempt after a long day of shooting and a few too many beers. Everett had been kind, but uninterested. Yet, it hadn’t escaped Leo the way Everett would sometimes look at him with those pale blue eyes, and how he would hunt him down on the set, and choose to spend lunch with him talking books in the cafeteria instead of keeping to his dressing room like most all the other actors did. Tonight, not for the first time, Leo was supposed to help Everett practice lines, and he was certain he was going to die of embarrassment. Or maybe E
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