Works by
Dave Benbow
(Writer)

Fiction

• Daytime Drama (2003) -- Finalist, 2003 Lambda Literary Award for Romance
  Daytime Drama is set in the outrageous world of daytime soaps, where amnesia victims usually have evil twins--but handsome leading men must keep their love for each other in the closet--Dave Benbow’s raucously sexy, wickedly funny debut novel lays bare the lust, greed and ambition of Hollywood, through the eyes of an innocent newcomer who wants it all...

• Male Model (2004)
  Designing window displays for the glamorous Cameron Fuller USA store on Rodeo Drive is Blake Jackson’s passion. After all, handsome, elegant designer Cameron Fuller is an icon of chic style. With his Vogue-thin wife, Suzette, he’s one-half of “America’s Couple.” But their relationship is like one of the store’s many displays: luxurious, beautiful, and completely for show…
  
  Blake is completely unprepared to meet Cameron in the flesh-or to have him help with a last minute window change during a surprise visit to the store late one night. Working side by side, the two men experience an overpowering attraction, and soon, they’re engaged in a whirlwind secret affair, played out on private planes, in New York penthouses, behind office doors and in a remote Hawaiian beach house.
  
  In need of a fresh look to launch his new cologne, Cameron finds it in his lover’s chiseled cheekbones, ice-blue eyes, long, dark hair and hunky, six-pack abs. Within weeks, Blake’s gone from shop-boy to poster god. A billboard of him romping in the California surf wearing only a pair of skin-tight leather lowriders stops traffic in Times Square and Hollywood. Suddenly he’s the “it” boy, wanted and feted from coast to coast, yet having to keep his feelings for Cameron in the shadows. But someone is unhappy about Blake’s sudden rise to fame, and the growing love between the designer and his model…someone who knows their secrets…someone determined to make them pay dearly. And as the days tick down until the celebrity-packed party that will launch Blake’s star, it’s clear that the only way Cameron and Black can hold on to what they have is to let go of everything else…
  
  Riveting and compulsively entertaining, Male Model is a wickedly revealing glimpse into the rarified world of fashion-the conniving stylists and creative directors who’d step on anyone to get ahead, the insecure models who swing both ways, the temperamental diva directors, the jaded wives living on couture shows and kinky boudoir habits, the barely concealed rage and need, lust and envy, desperation and dreams they all share…and the secrets they’d all kill to keep under (stylish) wraps.

• Summer Cruising (2006) -- Nominated, 2006 Lambda Literary Award for Male Fiction
  Sweeping romance and steamy sex are the daily activities for the hunky passengers of the RMS Princess Diana, as they set sail on a rollicking all-gay cruise through the sun-drenched Mediterranean and its stunning ports of call...But this idyllic holiday abruptly ends when a calculating psychopath sets in motion a dastardly plan to send the luxurious liner to the bottom of the sea. Soon daring escapes, personal sacrifices, and heart-pounding rescues replace romance and the men of the Diana struggle to survive the sinking ship and each other...

Anthologies

• Man Of My Dreams (2004) by Ben Tyler, Dave Benbow, Jon Jeffrey, and Sean Wolfe
  Whether naughty by nature or sweet to the core, the men in these novellas by four of the hottest writers in gay fiction all have one thing in common…they’re the stuff that dreams are made of…
  
  Includes works by Ben Tyler, Dave Benbow, Jon Jeffrey, and Sean Wolfe