Where Fiction and Reality Meet
Title: The Last Guy Breathing Author: Skylar M. Cates Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 254 Pages At a Glance: Great couple, good mystery, unconvincing procedural Blurb: Henry Clueley doesn’t want to be in Glamour, not after moving far away to overcome a difficult, if privileged, childhood. He’s no longer that pudgy kid desperate to escape... Continue Reading →
Title: Blake’s Home Author: Cheryl Dragon Publisher: Loose Id Pages/Word Count: 110 Pages Rating: 3 Stars Blurb: Plenty of men have tried to get ranch hand Blake Louis to The Love Shack but none succeed. At the White family ranch, Blake has found friends and a home. He desperately wants to stay. Yet he must... Continue Reading →
Title: Blake’s Home Author: Cheryl Dragon Publisher: Loose Id Pages/Word Count: 110 Pages Rating: 3 Stars Blurb: Plenty of men have tried to get ranch hand Blake Louis to The Love Shack but none succeed. At the White family ranch, Blake has found friends and a home. He desperately wants to stay. Yet he must... Continue Reading →
Title: Coming of Age Author: Venona Keyes Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 32 Pages Rating: 3 Stars Blurb: Akiyoshi ‘Aero’ Kurokuma, author of the wildly popular manga, Ecos, lost his assistant when his best friend retired. After Aero collapses from exhaustion four years later, he is forced to run a contest for an assistant. Placing... Continue Reading →
Title: King of Me Author: R.A. Kaitland Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 33 Pages Rating: 3 Stars Blurb: Cast out of his clan of shifters and with no family of his own, Anton Cedwell wants nothing more than to be accepted by his partner Sean’s family when the two of them visit over Christmas. But... Continue Reading →
Title: The Magic of Weihnachten Author: Bru Baker Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 51 Pages Rating: 3 Stars Blurb: American Walsh Brandt is happy when a promotion lands him his dream job and a quiet new life in Germany. Until December rolls around, when he realizes it’s almost impossible to hide from the holiday season... Continue Reading →
Title: Mythica Author: L.J. LaBarthe Publisher: Bottom Drawer Publications Pages/Word Count: 235 Pages Rating: 3 Stars Blurb: Caiden Jones is part-selkie and lives an idyllic life by the sea in South Australia. He’s had his fair share of disappointments, like being kept out of the Navy due to his mythica status, but overall he’s got... Continue Reading →
Title: Time for Destiny Author: Michelle Rae Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 196 Pages Rating: 3 Stars Blurb: When Daniel Wilson, oldest of five children in a troubled family, joined the military, he expected to see combat in Iraq. But it comes as quite a shock when a Rupee minted a century and a half... Continue Reading →
Title: Two Guys Walk Into an Apocalypse 3: He's a Lumberjack and He's Undead Author: V. L. Locey Publisher: Torquere Press, Inc. Pages/Word Count: 130 Pages Rating: 3 Stars Blurb: Paul and Gordon aren't your typical zombie hunters. They're a loving couple of educators who might be infected by the virus that is turning the... Continue Reading →
Title: Two Guys Walk Into an Apocalypse 3: He's a Lumberjack and He's Undead Author: V. L. Locey Publisher: Torquere Press, Inc. Pages/Word Count: 130 Pages Rating: 3 Stars Blurb: Paul and Gordon aren't your typical zombie hunters. They're a loving couple of educators who might be infected by the virus that is turning the... Continue Reading →
Title: Ordinary Heroes Author: Drew Zachary Publisher: Torquere Press Pages/Word Count: 65 Pages Rating: 3 Stars Blurb: These four tales by Drew Zachary celebrate the everyday hero. Whether it’s a midnight romp in a corn maze under the moonlight at Halloween, or a vet returning to his small hometown years after leaving for the big... Continue Reading →
Title: Conflicted Author: Louise Lyons Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 300 Pages Rating: 3 Stars Blurb: Two competing gangs of car and drag racing enthusiasts with a shared history of pain and rivalry leading to outright hatred. Two men from opposite sides of the tracks, yet with more in common than they’d like to admit.... Continue Reading →
Title: Springtime 1962, The Lawson YMCA Author: Owen Keehnen Publisher: Wilde City Press Pages/Word Count: 72 Pages Rating: 3 Stars Blurb: A diary is found in a secondhand bookstore. The narrator opens the dusty cover and discovers that the book is the intimate diary of a man named Joseph. Reading the entries, the narrator is... Continue Reading →
Title: Sleeping on the Job Author: Missouri Dalton Publisher: Torquere Press Pages/Word Count: 118 pages Rating: 3 Stars Blurb: At sixteen, Simon Murphy was an accomplished jewel thief, at eighteen he was released from a boy’s reform school and these days, he’s a detective with Chicago’s Night Shift. When a familiar killer strikes again, Simon... Continue Reading →
Title: Carnival – Decatur Author: Zoe Lynne Publisher: Harmony Ink Press Pages/Word Count: 202 Pages Rating: 3 Stars Blurb: A Harmony Ink Press Young Adult Title In a world of lights, music, fanfare and fun, there’s not a lot left to the mundane, and nothing can be truer for four special boys whose lives intertwine... Continue Reading →
Title: Into the Light Author: Scarlet Blackwell Publisher: eXtasy Books Pages/Word Count: 104 Pages Rating: 3 Stars Blurb: Sheriff Sean Keller hides a terrible secret - he watched a heinous crime committed eighteen years ago and did nothing to prevent it. Now he finds himself face to face with Eden Gray, the victim of that... Continue Reading →
Title: Bad Boy: Naughty at Night Author: Jamie Lake Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: 64 Pages Rating: 3 Stars Blurb: Kindergarten teacher by day, sensual masseuse by night, Peter Davidson never thought things would get so tough that he’d need to give out sensual massages in secret in order to make ends meet. But when the... Continue Reading →
Title: Davis’s Magic Author: Lisa Clarke Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 45 pages Rating: 3 stars Blurb: When a chance encounter after a night of celebration brings Davis Anderson unexpectedly crashing into Jamie Greene's life, Davis knows the universe has delivered the man of his dreams. Unfortunately, love is the last thing Jamie is looking... Continue Reading →
Title: Davis’s Magic Author: Lisa Clarke Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 45 pages Rating: 3 stars Blurb: When a chance encounter after a night of celebration brings Davis Anderson unexpectedly crashing into Jamie Greene's life, Davis knows the universe has delivered the man of his dreams. Unfortunately, love is the last thing Jamie is looking... Continue Reading →
Title: Macarons at Midnight Author: M.J. O’Shea and Anna Martin Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 214 Pages Rating: 3 Stars Blurb: Tristan Green left his small English town for Manhattan and a job at a high profile ad agency, but can’t seem to find his bearings. He spends a lot of time working late at... Continue Reading →
Title: Macarons at Midnight Author: M.J. O’Shea and Anna Martin Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 214 Pages Rating: 3 Stars Blurb: Tristan Green left his small English town for Manhattan and a job at a high profile ad agency, but can’t seem to find his bearings. He spends a lot of time working late at... Continue Reading →
Title: Falling for Ramos Author: Sue Brown Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 226 Pages Rating: 3 Stars Blurb: A glimpse of a group of businessmen in a newspaper tells Colin Hess his old love, Alejandro Ramos, is back in London a decade after they split up. They met by chance as students, when Colin was... Continue Reading →
Title: Secret Fire (Uniform Encounters: Book Five) Author: Morticia Knight Publisher: Totally Bound Pages/Word Count: 203 Pages Rating: 3 Stars Blurb: Police officer, Zach and Fire Marshal, Daryl would be perfect together—if they would ever quit fighting long enough to find out. A devastating fire and the secret behind it almost keeps them from getting... Continue Reading →
Title: Kiss Yesterday Goodbye Author: Cassidy Ryan Publisher: Totally Bound Pages/Word Count: 73 Pages Rating: 3 Stars Blurb: For their future, he must let go of his past. Aidan has a huge crush on Jon, but not only is Jon his boss, albeit temporarily, he is also recovering from a bad break-up. On his final... Continue Reading →
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