Hugh Reynolds is bored. And, okay, maybe a little bit lonely. His best friend's out of town and it turns out that he doesn't really have a reason to leave the house without her. When his mom mentions the new gym down the street, he figures, why not? The cute guy at the gym flirts outrageously and says filthy things to him, the kinds of things Hugh finds arousing and doesn't know why, so when Nick invites him home, he goes along. Maybe he's never actually gone home with a guy he just met specifically to have sex with him, but Nick is cute, and promises pizza. They share a bit more than pizza. Warnings: contains wildebeests. (Not really.) (But kind of.) Also a gym steam room that doesn't meet health codes, a totally non-romantic sexual encounter, and a lot of dirty talk. 8,750 words.

Sometimes you can't find the right man till you find the wrong one. Will Derrie likes girls but he isn’t honest with them; he wants kinky sex and lots of it. When Hugh offers to dominate him, no sex required, Will realizes it might not be so easy to separate the two. Hugh Reynolds holds the world at arm's length. He lives alone, works alone, and he thinks he's as happy as he'll ever be. But Will gets under his skin and once he's gone, Hugh realizes he doesn’t want to go it alone forever. Truman Jennings hits on a cute guy at a conference and he’s smitten by the end of their first date. Hugh's not the kindest or the easiest boyfriend Truman's ever had, but he brings one thing to their relationship that no one else kinky, adventurous, sweetly submissive Will. Three men. Three sides to love, and intimacy, and laughter. Three people who don't know what they're looking for...until they find it in each other.

Will Derrie has a problem. He's twenty-one years old and there's something terribly wrong with him. He doesn't like sex. He wants to like sex, but even when he's totally into his girlfriends, he still has to run a movie in his head to get through having sex with them. And the movie? So not okay. (His imaginary mistress spanking his ass really doesn't go well with his real-life girlfriend whispering sweet nothings in his ear.) When his twin brother Adam accidentally stumbles upon his search history, Ads decides that Will needs an intervention. With a dominatrix. Oh, and also, the dominatrix's mysterious (and way less scary) friend Hugh. Is it friends-with-benefits? A romance? A bromance, but with floggers? Will doesn't know. But whatever it is? Fucking hot. The Complete Scientific Method is now free. Check out the page on the website for bookseller links.

Will Derrie doesn’t make friends easily. So his friendship with Hugh is weird already, even without the whole “take of your shirt and grab the bed frame” angle. But he thinks he has it pretty much under control until his brother Adam starts in on him. Adam never leaves well enough alone–ever–and this is no exception. Crushing On The Dom is part two of The Scientific Method, and is approximately 10,000 words, or about 40 pages long. The Complete Scientific Method is now free. Check out the page on the website for bookseller links.

Hugh Reynolds doesn’t mind teasing the cute, submissive straight boy with the massive crush. It’s just transference, right? His friends aren’t so sure Will’s feelings are quite that shallow–and they definitely don’t think Hugh’s as perfectly detached as he pretends to be. A Conflict Of Interest is part three of The Scientific Method, and is approximately 11,000 words, or about 45 pages long. The Complete Scientific Method is now free. Check out the page on the website for bookseller links.

Hugh invites Will over for dinner–but Lucy and Nick decide it’s time he takes things a little bit further than scenes in the guest room. And Will? Will does have that ever-so-pesky intimacy kink, after all. Put Up, Shut Up is part four of The Scientific Method, and is approximately 10,000 words, or about 40 pages long. The Complete Scientific Method is now free. Check out the page on the website for bookseller links.

Hugh loses a bet. Will spends the next few weeks reminding him exactly what the terms were at every opportunity. Do they actually have sex? Well, Hugh would say they already had, and Will—Will would try not to beg. Peer Pressure is part five of The Scientific Method, and is approximately 10,500 words, or about 42 pages long. The Complete Scientific Method is now free. Check out the page on the website for bookseller links.

Will expands his horizons. He also expands...in other ways. The End. The Back End. is part six of The Scientific Method, and is approximately 10,500 words, or about 42 pages long.

Always eat dinner at the restaurant on Friday. No sex in the library. No cuddling (okay, unless it's with Will). Hugh Reynolds lives by certain rules. Surely the most obvious rule of all is: Don't fall in love. It's not a rule Hugh has trouble keeping. At least, not until he meets Truman Jennings. Truman's funny, and sharp, and cracks jokes about Lord Peter Wimsey. Truman's also good in bed, unquestionably, even if he is totally and completely vanilla. But Hugh doesn't fall in love with people, so that can't possibly be what this is, this annoying ever-present sensation of free fall. Hugh maintains a pretense of not being in love (kind of) all the way up until his kinky pal Will visits for the weekend. But Will won't let him get away with pretending he's not in deep. And it turns out Truman might not be as vanilla as he thought. This is the second installment in the Scientific Method universe. If you're reading in order, it comes after The Scientific Method, The Complete Miniseries. Warnings: contains threesomes, endless hand-wringing over commitment, and gratuitous train schedule inaccuracies for the Santa Barbara-Oakland route.

Will Derrie is not dating his friend Molly. At all. They're just fighting about Star Trek and screwing a lot. You know. Like you do, with your friends. Right? Thing is, he'd really like it if they were also screwing in a...kinky way. Which he told her. Kind of. Ish. She loves the gay couple with whom he still shares sex and whips, and when they finally try it out, Molly's a domination savant. She says gorgeous, filthy things, in just the right tone. So why can't Will get into it? (And he better try a little harder or she's gonna kick his ass. And not in a good way.) Right when he decides the best sex he’ll ever have is with a gay dom who’s in love with someone else, said gay dom smacks him around a bit – metaphorically/literally – and convinces him that the potential rewards of communicating honestly with Molly are worth the risk. This is the third installment in the Scientific Method universe. If you're reading in order, it comes after Hugh's New Dude. Warnings: Various forms of pizza and beer are consumed during times of angst, Marvel and DC Comics are invoked within moments of each other, and the hot stuff is still almost entirely with the boyfriends. (The author apologizes to Molly, whose steamy scenes mostly take place off-page.)

Hugh likes having a serious, committed relationship–maybe more than he ever imagined he would. But when a former student kills himself, Hugh shuts down, leaving Truman and Will to pull his ass out of the dark. Contains mentions of suicide and death, over-bearing friends-who-are-family, and a clumsy attempt at romance.

After two years of dating, Will and Molly know what they’re about: awesome sex, open communication, and hey, what was that about super-hot sex? They spend most of the year apart, and their reunions are legendary. Not this time. Bad things happen, but you never think that the bad thing is going to happen to you. By the time Molly gets home, a few months after being assaulted, she’s not really interested in processing it further. She’s done processing. But Will? Yeah, Will’s gonna need a minute. A week. Possibly a year. Molly gives him two days before calling for reinforcements: Will’s therapist boyfriends. All the processing in the world can’t save what was already on its way out. As much as Molly hates to admit it, breaking up with Will has nothing to do with being raped by some asshole whose name she never even knew. That was a horrible, terrible night. But sleeping beside someone she loves but doesn’t want to be with anymore? Hurts like it’ll never stop. Will spins out, breaks down, and takes his rage, his fear, his grief out on the boyfriends. They reel him back in, like always, with the usual menu of submission and laughter, but it’s not the same as being with Molly. He’s not sure anything will ever be as good as it was with Molly. When does a relationship really end? When you start questioning it? When you finally say it’s over? And what does it mean if you can’t stop thinking about the person months later? Warnings: Breaking Down contains non-graphic mentions of sexual assault and an unholy amount of angst. (Mostly Will’s.) There’s a fair amount of kink and very little sex. Does not contain flashbacks, nightmares, or PTSD. Also, there’s a dance club.

Life may be full of ups and downs, but the ride will make you scream. And laugh. And cry. Sometimes all at once. It’s been nine months since Will and his ex broke up. Nine long months. Will doesn’t date. Will actually likes commitment. It’s just not what he wants right now. That’s when he meets Davey. Davey isn’t like anyone Will’s ever known. He’s genderqueer, and even more of a relationship novice than Will. Will loves hanging out with him, and the sex is new and wild and so freaking hot. He wants everyone to be as excited about this relationship as he is, but nothing’s ever that simple. Especially when he gets his (fake) boyfriends involved. Truman’s diplomatic and amused, but Hugh? There’s a whole lot Hugh isn’t saying, and only some of it is about how possessive he feels when he’s not allowed to put his hands all over Will. Dating Davey has been a whole lot more than Will bargained for, but he’s loving the ride. Then the bottom drops out and he slams back to the ground all over again. And this time he's not the only one who needs help putting the pieces back together. Warnings: May induce gender bending. If you're lucky. Roller Coasters is 70,000 words or about 280 pages long.

Will needs a beard. When the boyfriends finally decide to get married, they ask Will to be their best man. Makes sense in theory. But getting through the ceremony and the reception without accidentally forgetting himself and doing something not-very-best-man-like? Yeah, that might be a problem. Molly Evans is back in California for good, but instead of feeling settled, she’s restless. She’s trying to finish writing a book, trying to decide what to do with it, and oh yeah, she should probably find a more permanent place to live than someone’s couch. And then, into the weird chaos of not knowing what the future holds, she gets a text. From Will. Sure, she’ll go to the wedding. Keeping Will on a leash sounds like fun. But god, Will in a suit? Molly doesn’t know how she’s gonna keep her own hands off him, let alone keep him from mauling the boyfriends. Who's going to keep Molly on good behavior? Warnings: The Boyfriends Tie the Knot May inspire a powerful intimacy kink. Wedding cake does not contain nuts.

Four nights. Four nights in a little rented house on the beach: Will, Hugh, and Truman. It should be a light, fun, sexy four nights–but nothing is ever simple with these three. A lot of love, a lot of sex, and a whole lot of complex emotions. Warnings: two married therapists and their very flexible, very submissive, best friend. Yep. Everything you think might happen? Probably happens.

A mole, a biopsy, a weekend of waiting for test results. Hugh's worried, Will's desperate, and Truman's just trying to keep it together for a few more days. Things get a little extreme. Warnings: The lads play hard in this story. There's a lot less "revisiting consent" than usual. It's an intense read, y'all. Extremes is 28,000 words long. This story is part of the Scientific Method Universe. Please check out krisripper.com/smu for more info and recommended reading order.

The most damaging secrets are the ones you don’t even realize you’re keeping. Truman has been married for almost five years. He loves his husband, their boyfriend, his job, and his life. So how is it possible that he’s been unfaithful? How did he let a harmless crush turn into…this? Hugh is shocked. Angry. Numb. He has no intention of getting divorced, but no idea how to fix his relationship. And Truman isn’t the only one who’s been less than totally honest. But how can Hugh open the doors to their future when the present is such a mess? Will has two boyfriends. For years he’s secretly wondered what it would be like to be more than just the boyfriend, but suddenly even that is in jeopardy. Did he miss his chance to tell them how he feels? Betrayal cuts deep, exposing things they never thought to question. The road back to one another feels nearly impossible, but if anyone can do this, it’s Will and the boyfriends…or should that be Will and his partners?