title: The Dead Dream Wakes
author:  Ezra Holiday 
description: Ezra Holiday is a long time storyteller and writer. Being both a social radical and eccentric personality, his unique perceptions are deeply rooted in the work he produces and the words he writes. He currently lives in the Pacific Northwest with his wife and is expecting his first child.
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  > Colder Than Fiction
  
  By Amanda Meuwissen
  
    
  
  An author is often haunted by their muse, but this one promises a kiss.
  
    
  
  Ezra wakes with the worst hangover of his life after a Christmas party he
  never wanted to attend. It’s the holidays, he was just dumped by his
  boyfriend, and his next manuscript is due to his publisher by the end of the
  year, but all Ezra wants is escape. Then escape finds him when the antagonist
  from his current work in progress appears in the flesh to help him finish his
  book – and indulge in everything else that’s been missing from Ezra’s life.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  SUNDAY, DECEMBER 20
  
    
  
    
  
  Ezra’s breathing increased. His eyes clenched tight, and the hand not madly
  pumping between his legs twisted into the sheets as he let his knees fall
  open, hips subtly rising with his strokes, and then—
  
  Oblivion.
  
  “Thanks for the show,” a husky voice said beside his ear.
  
  Ezra’s eyes flew open, discovering a stranger lying in bed beside him.
  
  He was stunning, bl