Charlie Cochrane Books In Order

Lessons in Love

He didn t think he had a heart. Until he lost it. Cambridge Fellows Mysteries, Book 1 St. Bride’s College, Cambridge, England, 1905. Jonty Stewart is handsome and outgoing, with blood as blue as his eyes. When he takes up a teaching post at the college where he studied, his dynamic style acts as an agent for change within the archaic institution. He also has a catalytic effect on Orlando Coppersmith. Orlando is a brilliant, introverted mathematician with very little experience of life outside the university walls. He strikes up an alliance with Jonty and soon finds himself heart deep in feelings he s never experienced. Before long their friendship blossoms into more than either man had hoped. Then a student is murdered within St. Bride s. Then another and another. All the victims have one thing in common: a penchant for men. Asked by the police to serve as their eyes and ears within the college, Jonty and Orlando risk exposing a love affair that could make them the killer s next target. Warning: Contains sensual m/m lovemaking and men in punts.

Lessons in Desire

Perfect love casts out fear. If you let it. Cambridge Fellows Mysteries, Book 2 Jersey, 1906 St. Bride’s English don Jonty Stewart is in desperate need of a break from university life. A holiday on the beautiful Channel Island of Jersey seems ideal, especially if he can coax his lover Orlando to step outside the college’s walls to come along. Orlando Coppersmith is scared. Within the safe confines of the school it’s easy to hide the fact that they are not just friends, but lovers. In an unknown place, in full view of everyone, how will they keep their illegal affair private-much less dare to make love, even in the security of their suite? A brutal murder at their hotel forces their personal problems into the background-at first. The race to catch the killer gets complicated when the prime suspect finds Orlando irresistible. Suddenly keeping their affair clandestine isn’t only a matter of legality. It’s a matter of life and death… Warning: Contains sensual m/m lovemaking and handsome young men in and out of Edwardian bathing costumes.

Lessons in Discovery

Orlando’s broken memory may break his lover’s heart. Cambridge Fellows Mysteries, Book 3 Cambridge, 1906. On the very day Jonty Stewart proposes that he and Orlando Coppersmith move in together, Fate trips them up. Rather, it trips Orlando, sending him down a flight of stairs and leaving him with an injury that erases his memory. Instead of taking the next step in their relationship, they’re back to square one. It’s bad enough that Orlando doesn’t remember being intimate with Jonty-he doesn’t remember Jonty at all. Back inside the introverted, sexually innocent shell he inhabited before he met Jonty, Orlando is faced with two puzzles. Not only does he need to recover the lost pieces of his past, he’s also been tasked by the Master to solve a four-hundred-year-old murder before the end of term. The college’s reputation is riding on it. Crushed that his lover doesn’t remember him, Jonty puts aside his grief to help decode old documents for clues to the murder. But a greater mystery remains-one involving the human heart. To solve it, Orlando must hear the truth about himself-even if it means he may not fall in love with Jonty the second time around… Warning: Carries a three-handkerchief rating. Contains sensual m/m lovemaking and men in kilts.

Lessons in Power

The ghosts of the past will shape your future. Unless you fight them.

Cambridge Fellows Mysteries, Book 4 Cambridge, 1907 After settling in their new home, Cambridge dons Orlando Coppersmith and Jonty Stewart are looking forward to nothing more exciting than teaching their students and playing rugby. Their plans change when a friend asks their help to clear an old flame who stands accused of murder. Doing the right thing means Jonty and Orlando must leave the sheltering walls of St. Bride’s to enter a labyrinth of suspects and suspicions, lies and anguish. Their investigation raises ghosts from Jonty’s past when the murder victim turns out to be one of the men who sexually abused him at school. The trauma forces Jonty to withdraw behind a wall of painful memories. And Orlando fears he may forever lose the intimacy of his best friend and lover. When another one of Jonty’s abusers is found dead, police suspicion falls on the Cambridge fellows themselves. Finding this murderer becomes a race to solve the crime…before it destroys Jonty’s fragile state of mind. Warning: Contains sensual m/m lovemaking and hot men playing rugby.

Lessons in Seduction

This time, one touch could destroy everything Cambridge Fellows Mysteries, Book 6 The suspected murder of the king’s ex mistress is Cambridge dons Orlando Coppersmith and Jonty Stewart s most prestigious case yet. And the most challenging, since clues are as hard to come by as the killer s possible motive. At the hotel where the body was found, Orlando goes undercover as a professional dancing partner while Jonty checks in as a guest. It helps the investigation, but it also means limiting their communication to glances across the dance floor. It s sheer agony. A series of anonymous letters warns the sleuths they ll be sorry if they don t drop the investigation. When another murder follows, Jonty is convinced their involvement might have caused the victim s death. Yet they can t stop, for this second killing brings to light a wealth of hidden secrets. For Orlando, the letters pose a more personal threat. He worries that someone will blow his cover and discover their own deepest secret The intimate relationship he enjoys with Jonty could not only get them thrown out of Cambridge, but arrested for indecency. Warning: Contains sensual m/m lovemaking and hot men in black tie and tails.