And It Came To Pass
Interlude Press, 2017
Adam Young is a devout, young Mormon following the pious path set forth for him by his church and family. But when his mission trajectory sends him to Barcelona, Spain, with a handsome mission companion named Brandon Christensen, Adam discovers there may be more to life and love than he ever expected.
But it’s also a story of wrestling with one’s faith, and trying to find oneself in the midst of what you’ve been told you should be, growing up. It’s about the weight and pressure and difficulty of trying to learn to be and love oneself when the community around you tells you that you shouldn’t.
Bitter Springs
2015, Interlude Press
In 1870s Texas, Renaldo Valle Santos, the youngest son of a large and traditional family, has been sent to train with Henry “Hank” Burnett, a freed slave and talented mesteñero–or horse-catcher–so he may continue the family horse trade. Bitter Springs is a sweeping epic that takes themes from traditional Mexican literature and Old Westerns to tell the story of a man coming into his own and realizing his destiny lies in the wild open spaces with the man who loves him, far from expectations of society.
“Highly recommended… Bitter Springs is a wonderful depiction of a lost period of gay life and history in the rural West of the 1800s.”–American Library Association, GLBT Roundtable
“Stone deftly mixes yearning and hot passion with sweet tenderness and a love of nature in this engrossing and deep coming-of-age love story.”–ALA Booklist
“Readers will savor this sweet, loving historical.”–Publishers Weekly
“Compelling and deeply satisfying…the representation of ethnic, racial, cultural and sexual diversity in an Old West setting is both refreshing and historically accurate.”–RT Book Reviews Magazine
The Bones of You
2014, Interlude Press
Oliver Andrews is wholly focused on the final stages of his education at Cambridge University when a well meaning friend upends his world with a simple email attachment: a video from a U.S. morning show. The moment he watches the video of his one-time love Seth Larsen, now a Broadway star, Oliver must begin making a series of choices that could lead him back to love-or break his heart. The Bones of You is full of laughter and tears, with a collection of irritable Hungarians, flirtatious Irishwomen and actors abusing Shakespeare coloring Oliver and Seth’s attempts at reconciliation.
“By the time the book ended I was in love with the characters to the point I couldn’t let them go.”–USA Today
“Stone’s sensitive debut… plays the relationship with restraint, letting it unfold slowly and organically.”–Publishers Weekly
“Their beautiful love story will bring plenty of laughter, and even a few tears, as these men grab hold of their rare second chance. It was appreciated that neither man was willing to give up his dreams because that wouldn’t have felt true to the love they have shared since boarding school.”–RT Book Reviews Magazine