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First Harlequin Kradam Fest: Prompt Submission Post

Comment here with your prompts for our first Harlequin Kradam Fest.

We will accept prompts through July 5th.

All of the prompts will be collated into a list and posted here at

harlequinkradam on July 6th for claiming. Prompts will be available for claiming (and you may post your fanfic or fanart submissions) from July 6th through Sept 14th.

You may submit general prompts or more specific scenarios. You may submit blurbs off the back of Harlequin romance novels, or scenarios you’ve made up yourself, or mix ‘em up.

For example:

General Prompt: marriage of convenience

Specific Scenario: Kris is the son of a wealthy businessman who must marry by his 25th birthday or lose the inheritance he plans to use to make the world a better place; he sees Adam perform one night and is smitten; Kris makes Adam an offer he can’t refuse.

The only requirements are that the prompt be Kris/Adam and be of a Harlequin nature (which we will interpret broadly).

For more information about the Fest please read the rules on the community profile. If your question isn’t answered there you may ask us here at the Q&A post.

Here are several prompts to get us started:

Adam Lambert has been invited to his ex’s wedding. Because he refuses to let the cheating bastard think he cares, Adam replies as plus one. The only problem is that he isn’t currently seeing anyone, and there’s no way he’s showing up without a date. Kris Allen appears to be the answer to Adam’s problem, except when the time comes for their fake relationship to end, will Adam be able to let him go?

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Adam Lambert and Kris Allen had been in love once, but that was years ago. When they meet up again Kris is determined to maintain a distance between them; Adam is equally determined to win Kris back.

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Unable to make it on his music alone, Kris Allen takes a job as a personal assistant to the flamboyant, charismatic and infuriating glamrocker Adam Lambert. Working for Adam becomes a challenge in more ways than one when Kris finds himself attracted to the other man.

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Kris Allen agrees to participate in a charity bachelor auction because it’s for a good cause, but eyebrows are raised when the infamous Adam Lambert bids on him. When Adam wins the bidding, though, Kris is less concerned with his reputation and more with his virtue.

Now submit yours! *g*

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After being attacked by a stalker, Adam Lambert moves to a small town in Arkansas to get out of the public eye. Kris Allen comes home to visit his family and finds himself attracted to the sexy recluse. Can Kris convince Adam to take a chance on him?

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When photographs of Kris Allen kissing another man are posted on-line he refuses to deny that he is gay. His record company claims breach of contract, but they give Kris a choice: either he will be banned from performing publicly for the remainder of his contract and sued for damages, or he can agree to allow them to sell his contract to Adam Lambert, a man who has made no secret of his desire for Kris.

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Vampire Prince Kristopher Allen must bond with his mate or forfeit succession to the throne. When Kris meets Adam Lambert he knows immediately that he’s found his mate, but there’s just one problem: Adam’s still human. Will Kris give up Adam, or the throne?

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Kris Allen has realized that he made a mistake when he left his music career behind. Now he’s mounting a comeback, and opening for Adam Lambert during his summer concert tour would be a coup, but there’s a catch: Adam wants Kris as more than his opening act.

Adam Lambert’s days of tabloid notoriety are behind him if he wants to keep his record contract. To complete his newly reformed image, his management wants him to settle down and get married. Adam refuses to even consider the idea until he meets his prospective husband, Kris Allen.

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Kris Allen wakes up with a headache. And a ring on his finger. He’s not sure whether he should be horrified or patting himself on the back when he rolls over and discovers Adam Lambert in bed beside him.

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Rocker Adam Lambert needs a break from his hectic life, so one day he just disappears. He ends up someplace where no one would ever think to look for him . . . and meets Kris Allen. Will Kris forgive Adam when he realizes that everything he knows about the other man is a lie?

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Kris Allen’s feelings for his neighbor Adam Lambert spill over when Adam comes home for a visit after a break up [or reason of author’s choice].

Adam wakes up in a life that's not his own, married to Kris and a father of two. A glimpse into a life that could have been his if he'd chosen a different path. (Ripped from the plot of the Family Man with Nic Cage)

Oh nice! *g*

Adam Lambert lived for one thing—killing zombies. And this man—this legend—was exactly what Kris Allen needed. In mist-shrouded alleys, hunted by zombies, haunted by fear, he vowed to find Adam and convince him to help him. But he hadn't counted on falling in love….

Adam kept his own secrets—like the one he couldn't hide when the moon was full. But his wolf was drawn to Kris, recognizing him as his mate. With him in his arms, Adam reveled in passion…and rued his deception. Would he still love the man who fought by his side if he realized that zombies weren't the only monsters? Kris would have to make a choice—and he only had till the next full moon.

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Kris Allen knew he was teetering on the edge of ruin. His father had staked his fortune, and his virginity, at the card table—and lost! To the most notorious gamester in town…

Adam Lambert had money, plenty of it, but it was a long time since he'd been considered a gentleman. Still, he never intended to pursue this debt. Until he met Kris Allen in the flesh—and began to wonder just how long his honor would hold out…

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An infamous sea pirate, Adam Lambert is consumed with the need to destroy the man who brutally murdered his father. Having nearly ruined the Earl of Conway financially, he is waiting to strike the final blow. And his opportunity comes in the form of a spirited young man, the earl's nephew......

Born and raised on a plantation, orphan Kris Allen is determined to rebuild his beloved Briarwood. He sails to England alone, hoping to convince his uncle to lend her the funds. Instead, he finds herself ruthlessly kidnapped by the notorious Adam Lambert, and will soon find his best-laid plans thwarted by a passion that could seal their fates forever.…

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Kris is a security specialist and a Allen through and through. His eccentric, rather dubious family runs an Atlantic City spa that's just this side of legit. So Kris isn't inclined to trust handsome, charming Adam Lambert when he shows up claiming to be related to Lila, the girl the Allen family is about to adopt. But Adam is Lila's uncle and one of the famously rich and snooty Boston Lamberts.

Adam's search for his brother has led him to news of his death, and to a niece he's never met. But someone else has also tracked Lila down—someone who never wanted the child to be found. Adam is determined to protect Sam and find out what really happened to his brother. And Kris Allen is just the man to help him do it…

Note: All blurbs taken from eHarlequin.com and OC names are welcome to change.

If I already have an unpublished story that 100% fits a prompt that I see right here, can I claim it now??

I can already tell from these early prompts how much I'm going to love this fest!!! ♥

You can't claim the prompt now (you can claim starting July 6th), but so long as the story isn't published anywhere prior to then you can plan on claiming it. *g* There's no limit to the number of people who can claim a prompt, so you don't have to worry about it being snapped up.

\o/ I'm so glad! *g*

Werewolves! And virgin!Kris! OMG *loves* *g*

Love this idea!

Yay! I'm so excited! I already have ideas for a lot of these fic.

Unforunately, they're also distracting me from beetlejuice!kradam. Grrr....

They all sound great but the second one sounds fantastic. I hope someone grabs it. I would leave a prompt but I've been told I suck at them :(

I'm so excited about this comm! Great idea

Okay, browsing eHarlequin.com is hands down, the funnest thing EVER.

Adam Lambert returns home to help run his family winery...not be distracted by the adorable Kris Allen on the staff! Burned by office romances before, he vows to stay away from the tempting Mr. Allen, but temptation soon proves to be too much. Meanwhile, Kris, frustrated that his new boss is judging him based solely on looks, attempts a "reverse makeover" - trying his best to make himself as unattractive as possible. When this only serves to make Adam want him more, how will Kris react?

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As a teenager, geeky Kris adored gorgeous Adam. He protected Kris from the bullies, but was too tough for the sweet small-town Kris to crack. Then he left for ~~the army~~ Hollywood...

Now the rebel's back—just in time to rescue Kris from attending his ex-fiancé's engagement party alone. He'll be his stand-in boyfriend and convince everyone they're wildly in love!

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Kris and Adam split up years ago, and are just now reuniting for their daughter's wedding. In an attempt to make their little girl's special day drama-free, they agree on a truce, but what happens when they are forced into close quarters again after so many years?

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After a devastating breakup, Kris needs to get away from his small town, where everybody knows his name - and every single painful detail of his failed engagement. He needs a change of scene, and his first small step: answering big-shot music executive Adam Lambert's Housekeeper Wanted advertisement!

Adam is a cutthroat businessman, and has enough secrets to fill his palatial mansion to overflowing. But will Kris glimpse the compassionate man beneath the roughened exterior? And will Adam let Kris get close enough to reawaken his faith in love?

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Adam is a former cop who now wears his hat low and his badge polished. (This, apparently, is Harlquin-speak for he's a sheriff? LMAO) After rescuing a young Kris Allen and his infant son, Adam is reminded that there is more to life than just duty.

Kris, running from his past, bumps into his future in the form of the dashing sheriff. Terrified, he plans to run again - but not if Adam can help it!

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Kris Allen is the glue that sticks his family and the Bella Rosa restaurant together, but he's neglected her heart… Under the cover of darkness, Kris sneaks into Prince Lambert's forbidden palace grounds to pick herbs for the Bella Rosa signature sauce. Kris slips and nearly drowns, and reclusive Adam is forced out of the shadows to save him….

Ten years ago, Adam locked his palace gates—and his heart. Now cradling this beautiful, ordinary man in his arms is tempting him to live again.

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And, taken from another Nic Cage movie...

Cop Kris Allen is the definition of a nice guy. So when he runs out of change for a tip at his favorite cafe, he pulls out a lottery ticket and promises beleaguered waiter Adam Lambert that if he wins, he can have half the jackpot. Adam just doesn't have the faith to believe him, but what happens with Officer Allen shows up the next day with half of a million-dollar jackpot in tow?

For Kris, sharing the jackpot with Adam is just the right thing to do...but will his gold-digging girlfriend feel the same? And what about Adam's boyfriend, who is a little suspicious of cute boys bearing string-free money? Will Kris and Adam be able to connect with each other, or will the money get in the way?

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LMAO, these are ridiculously awesome. Okay, I'm done now. But seriously, what's up with these novels? Everything's about either babies or sheiks. Sheiks?

Edited 2010-06-16 00:18 (UTC)

Lord Kris Allen was promised in marriage to Crown Prince Neil Lambert before he was even born, but on the eve of the nuptials Dark Prince Adam Lambert, long away from his country and who had turned his back on the crown, returns and lays his own claim to Kris and his country. Faced with no choice, Kris weds Adam despite the frightful things he has heard about him. But will it turn out that the Dark Prince isn't quite as bad as he's been made out to be and maybe he had a very good reason to leave his family behind...

Full disclosure on this one: I requested it for the author auction of Donorschoose, but I don't think it's going to be done, so hopefully someone here will pick it up.

Prompt: One broken man finds his way back to happiness after he meets someone who savors the simplicity in life.

A few years ago Kris became the American Idol. Danny was the runner-up. Kris's career is going better than even he expected, but after Katy leaves him unexpectedly, he doesn't know what to do with himself. Living in Conway is too difficult with everything there reminding him of her, and he never got used to L.A. with the paparazzi constantly hounding him. He buys a house in San Diego on a whim and settles in certain that he'll start healing any time. He doesn't. (No drug use or anything like that. This is Kris after all, so I'm thinking he stops going to church, which is probably worse for him.) His life is all business and he can't see the bright side anymore.

Adam is a thirty year old man with the mind of a child. His family tell him he's special, but he doesn't really think it's too helpful to say 'special' when you mean 'different'. He lives with his mom and brother, but he wants to live on his own some day, even though lots of people think he won't manage. He works odd jobs around the neighborhood from yard work to carrying groceries. It makes him happy to be useful since his mom works so hard for him. He's sensitive to how people feel, and he can sense that something is wrong with the new guy in town the moment he sees him. Plus, Adam really loves American Idol, but the closest he gets to singing for a big audience is when he sings in Temple.

When they meet, Adam is certain they'll be best friends. Kris is still caught up in himself at first, but gradually Adam unlocks his shell just by being himself and he starts seeing that the sky is bright blue—just as Adam sees it. Then, shockingly, he falls in love again--and Adam falls for the first time.

Adam Lambert fled to Montana for a new start as a mail-order bride. Kris Allen, handsome older brother to the man he was supposed to marry, helps him settle in. But what Adam doesn't expect is to fall for the rugged, closed-off lawman who swears he doesn't believe in love!

Kris Allen made one mistake—and now his freedom is forfeit to the man all Rome knows as the Sea Wolf. Sold into marriage, the one thing over which he still has control is his own desire. So when Adam Lambert offers him a wager—if he doesn't plead for his kisses in the next seven days, then he will have his independence—Kris thinks it will be easily won.

Feisty orphan Adam Lambert lives by wit and skill as a London street performer. But when his sharp tongue gets him into serious trouble, he throws himself upon the mercy of nobleman Kris Allen.

When Kris Allen's husband attacked him in a drunken rage, he could tolerate it no longer and had no choice but to escape into the cities. LA was a world away from Kris Allen's tedious small town existence, a welcome distraction from his recent marriage to a cold and cruel husband. There, he met Adam Lambert. Though Kris was at first distrustful, Adam eventually won him over by teaching him about loyalty, honor, and self-respect. But Kris' husband means to find him, to make him pay for his humiliation. And Kris can no longer hide.

Ensnared in the war-torn, untamed Dark Ages of North England, Adam understands all too well what it takes to survive: the ability to numb the soul. He has learned this lesson the hard way, watching his mother die at the hands of the king's henchmen, his brother cast out into the cold to perish, and discovering the treacherous, leering king holds a crucial secret about his past. But when the king grants Adam his life, he discovers the pardon is perhaps worse than death. Adam is made executioner's apprentice, forced to witness unspeakable suffering. Brainwashed and exhausted, Adam's heart slowly grows cold—until Kris Allen is brought to the dungeon as traitor and spy.

Adam Lambert finds himself falling in love with his new neighbor Kris Allen - and Kris' young son. But what he doesn't know is that Kris Allen is running from a dangerous past, one's that's about to catch up to them.

After accidentally tangling with a drug dealer, Kris is desperate for protection. And the only guy he knows who's trained in this sort of thing is Adam Lambert - the man he left because his job is too dangerous. Yeah. Kind of funny that he's now the one in a heap of danger. But the fact is, he trusts Adam with his life.

Most summaries edited from eHarlequin.com

This:
Kris and Adam split up years ago, and are just now reuniting for their daughter's wedding. In an attempt to make their little girl's special day drama-free, they agree on a truce, but what happens when they are forced into close quarters again after so many years?

Is the plot of an awesome Bette Midler movie. LOL

Really? LOL. I totally made that one up myself. :P

LOL I was going to post the second one.

Thrust into the limelight, child star Kristopher timidly enchanted audiences night after night…. But when his parents died, Kris retreated into his own world—too shy to leave his home. Once a year he shares his musical passion by offering lessons in a charity auction…. This year, money talks. The winning bid: $100,000!

Enter Adam Lambert, arrogant Wall Street tycoon. He wants Kris with a burning desire, though he knows that, shy and sweet, he will need a gentle awakening…. But Adam's the master of seduction!
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Four years ago, Kris loved Adam Lambert with all his heart. What he didn't know was that Adam would take his virginity and then move on….

Now, not knowing where to turn for money, Kris has taken a job he wouldn't normally have considered. But on his very first night things go disastrously wrong when he bumps into… Adam. He's outraged to see how Kris is earning a living and knows he needs to stop him immediately. But the only way to do that is to keep him close and pay for his time….
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That's hilarious.

That Old Feeling (http://www.amazon.com/That-Old-Feeling-Bette-Midler/dp/0783226772/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1276658968&sr=8-1)

AWW!
I love this idea!
It sounds like Adam would be such a sweetheart.

For centuries every 23 years Adam falls in love with the same brown eyed boy over and over again. Only to lose him shortly after. When Adam finds the boy again in Arkansas, he has to fight to keep him safe and find out the dark secret that keeps tearing them apart.
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Twelve year old Kris Allen is married off at midnight to the fifteen year old son of a sinister Duke , who is then exiled for an unpardonable indiscretion. Nine years later, Kris is living a peaceful existence, unaware that the disturbing dream he had as a child is in truth reality and that he is married. When Kris rescues, and falls in love with, a wounded duelist he has no idea that Adam, the handsome stranger with the blue eyes who sweeps him off his feet, is in truth his husband.
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After a score of resoundingly dull society suitors Kris Allen still longs for only one man. The dashing scoundrel who kidnapped him two years ago.
Adam Lambert, has a secret. He's the one Kris seeks - it is his kiss he still yearns for. Confessing to his abduction would bring disaster and scandal upon them both. But how can he convince Kris to forsake his pursuit of his dream lover - when all he dreams of is holding him in his arms again?
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Kris Allen almost welcomed the news of the pirates boarding his ship. Anything would be better than joining the man that he'll be forced to wed - even death at the point of a sword. But as the handsome pirate captain undressed him with his flashing blue eyes, he began to tremble with new fears . . . and new desires. For he sensed a fury in this man he did not understand . . . and passions he knew he could not control.
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Kris' husband, dashing Major Adam Lambert, has disappeared into war-torn Spain. Left alone, Kris discovers a dark secret behind his whirlwind marriage and flees to England. By day he banishes every thought of his husband, but by night he's haunted by memories of their intensely passionate wedding night…. Five years on, Kris has just taken the hand of a dangerously handsome dance partner. he's about to come face-to-face with his commanding husband—back to claim him!
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Courting scandal since boyhood, free-spirited Adam Lambert vows there is just one way to save his childhood friend from a loveless marriage: to kidnap him! But Kris is furious. So angry that he challenges him to take their assignation to its natural conclusion and seduce him. When his inexperienced attempt flares into intense passion, Adam is ruined…and hopelessly, unexpectedly, in love with Kris. Now the wild and willful Adam must convince Kris that they are a perfect match—in every way.

I'm glad that you're excited about the comm and that you like these prompts, especially the second one. *g*

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