Reading Order

## Books Only - Main Arc (Chronological)

* Catalysts
* Unexpected Gifts
* Take Three Breaths
* Breaking Down
* Roller Coasters
* The Boyfriends Tie the Knot
* The Honeymoon
* Extremes

## Books Only - All SMU (Chronological)

* Catalysts
* Unexpected Gifts
* Take Three Breaths
* Breaking Down
* Roller Coasters
* Surrender the Past
* The Boyfriends Tie the Knot
* The Honeymoon
* The New Born Year
* Extremes
* Threshold of the Year
* Ring in the True

## Stories and Crossovers (Chronological)

* "Cordelia's Library" (this story is available in *The Library, Volume 1*, which is free everywhere I can make it free)

* Story: Hugh Gets a Gym Membership (NSFW; early Scientific Method Universe)
* Story: A Whore in New York (NSFW; crossover with *The Ghost in the Penthouse*; CTS)
* Story: Lucy Wins a Bet #2 (SFW; early Scientific Method Universe; CTS)
* Story: Deep Emotions (NSFW; takes place two months after *The Scientific Method*; CTS)
* Story: Old Friends (SFW; takes place between *Hugh’s New Dude* and *Unexpected Gifts*)
* Missing Scene: Traditions (SFW; takes place during or shortly after *Catalysts*; CTS)
* Missing Scene: Fun With Plugs (NSFW; takes place during *Unexpected Gifts*)
* Missing Scene: Tick, Tick, Tick (SFW; takes place after *Breaking Down*; referenced during *Roller Coasters*; CTS)
* Missing Scene: Poke, Poke, Poke (SFW-ish; a very old scene from a very old draft of a book that in some sense became *Surrender the Past*; this serves as a STP missing scene)
* Missing Scene: Nick Gains Insight (SFW; takes place during *The Boyfriends Tie the Knot*; CTS)
* Story: Caging Nick (NSFW; takes place after *Surrender the Past*; CTS)
* Missing Scene: The Nature of Compromise (SFW; takes place during *The Boyfriends Tie the* Knot; CTS)
* Missing Scene: Brotherly Love (SFW; takes place during *The Boyfriends Tie the Knot*; CTS)
* Story: The Label Maker (SFW; takes place during *The Boyfriends Tie the Knot*; CTS)
* Missing Scene: Hugh's Special Blend (NSFW; takes place during *The New Born Year*; CTS)
* Missing Scene: Affection (NSFW; takes place during *The New Born Year*; CTS)
* Story: An Impromptu Lesson (NSFW; crossover between *Little Red and the Big Bad* and the Scientific Method Universe; CTS)
* Story: The Housewarming Party (SFW; takes place after *The New Born Year*)
* Story: What Will Derrie Did When He Heard About US Marriage Equality
* Story: Rules (SFW; a missing scene for *Little Red and the Big Bad, Serial Two, August*, in which Will Derrie brings Red to Nick and Bernie’s, inadvertently violating the rules)
* Story: Happy Birthday, Mr. Jennings (NSFW; takes place after *Extremes*; CTS)
* Story: The Boyfriends in the Boneyard (short story in the anthology *Lead Me into Darkness*)
* Missing Scene: Permission (SFW; takes place during the course of *Threshold of the Year*; CTS)
* Story: Absence and Presence (NSFW; takes place after *Extremes*; CTS)
* Story: Let's Get Hugh Drunk (NSFW; takes place after *Extremes*; CTS)
* Story: Frazier Learns his Place (NSFW; crossover with the lads from *The Spinner, the Shepherd, and the Leading Man*)
* Story: Bedtime Stories (NSFW; takes place…at some point in time…perhaps…; CTS)

## Suggested Reading Order

We respectfully suggest that your first time through the series you start with the books, in either the Main Arc order, or the All Books order. If you want to throw a few stories in here or there as you go, that's fine, but we do feel that reading straight through the chronological and bouncing around between books and stories and crossovers with other series is a journey worth taking--but certainly not for the faint of heart.

However, if you really want to read the whole entire monstrosity in chronological order...we have provided that here for your...inconvenience. \*giggles\*

## EXTREME Order (not for the faint of heart!)

* "Cordelia's Library" (this story is available in *The Library, Volume 1*, which is free everywhere I can make it free)
* Story: Hugh Gets a Gym Membership (NSFW; early Scientific Method Universe)
* Story: A Whore in New York (NSFW; crossover with *The Ghost in the Penthouse*; CTS)
* Story: Lucy Wins a Bet #2 (SFW; early Scientific Method Universe; CTS)
* Book: Catalysts
* Story: Deep Emotions (NSFW; takes place two months after *The Scientific Method*; CTS)
* Story: Old Friends (SFW; takes place between *Hugh’s New Dude* and *Unexpected Gifts*)
* Missing Scene: Traditions (SFW; takes place during or shortly after *Catalysts*; CTS)
* Book: Unexpected Gifts
* Missing Scene: Fun With Plugs (NSFW; takes place during *Unexpected Gifts*)
* Book: Take Three Breaths
* Book: Breaking Down
* Missing Scene: Tick, Tick, Tick (SFW; takes place after *Breaking Down*; referenced during *Roller Coasters*; CTS)
* Book: Roller Coasters
* Missing Scene: Poke, Poke, Poke (SFW-ish; a very old scene from a very old draft of a book that in some sense became *Surrender the Past*; this serves as a STP missing scene)
* Book: Surrender the Past
* Missing Scene: Nick Gains Insight (SFW; takes place during *The Boyfriends Tie the Knot*; CTS)
* Story: Caging Nick (NSFW; takes place after *Surrender the Past*; CTS)
* Book: The Boyfriends Tie the Knot
* Missing Scene: The Nature of Compromise (SFW; takes place during *The Boyfriends Tie the* Knot; CTS)
* Missing Scene: Brotherly Love (SFW; takes place during *The Boyfriends Tie the Knot*; CTS)
* Story: The Label Maker (SFW; takes place during *The Boyfriends Tie the Knot*; CTS)
* Book: The Honeymoon
* Book: The New Born Year
* Missing Scene: Hugh's Special Blend (NSFW; takes place during *The New Born Year*; CTS)
* Missing Scene: Affection (NSFW; takes place during *The New Born Year*; CTS)
* Story: An Impromptu Lesson (NSFW; crossover between *Little Red and the Big Bad* and the Scientific Method Universe; CTS)
* Story: The Housewarming Party (SFW; takes place after *The New Born Year*)
* Book: Extremes
* Story: What Will Derrie Did When He Heard About US Marriage Equality
* Story: Rules (SFW; a missing scene for *Little Red and the Big Bad, Serial Two, August*, in which Will Derrie brings Red to Nick and Bernie’s, inadvertently violating the rules)
* Story: Happy Birthday, Mr. Jennings (NSFW; takes place after *Extremes*; CTS)
* Story: The Boyfriends in the Boneyard (short story in the anthology *Lead Me into Darkness*)
* Book: Threshold of the Year
* Missing Scene: Permission (SFW; takes place during the course of *Threshold of the Year*; CTS)
* Story: Absence and Presence (NSFW; takes place after *Extremes*; CTS)
* Story: Let's Get Hugh Drunk (NSFW; takes place after *Extremes*; CTS)
* Story: Frazier Learns his Place (NSFW; crossover with the lads from *The Spinner, the Shepherd, and the Leading Man*)
* Story: Bedtime Stories (NSFW; takes place…at some point in time…perhaps…; CTS)