Where Fiction and Reality Meet
Title: All Fired Up (Sin City Uniforms: Book One) Author: Morticia Knight Publisher: Totally Bound Pages/Word Count: 160 Pages Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: Officer Shawn Everly patrols the Strip and one night, fireman Trent Marshall saves him when danger strikes. But it’s still uncertain whether Trent can save himself from getting his heart broken by... Continue Reading →
Title: Patchwork Heaven Author: Jaime Samms Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 344 Pages Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: Singer Coby Kennedy and his drummer twin, Bruce, have a band called Patchwork Heaven. They have been rising steadily up the country music charts, but unfortunately, that rise has attracted unwanted attention. Faced with anonymous letters, sinister gifts,... Continue Reading →
Title: Under the Stars Author: Geoff Laughton Publisher: Harmony Ink Press Pages/Word Count: 180 Pages Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: Ethan Tanner is an out and proud, fastidious, and fashionable sixteen-year-old vegetarian who likes theater and musicals. This year, it’s his sister’s turn to pick the vacation destination, so he ends up on a dude ranch... Continue Reading →
Title: Confetti, Cake & Confessions Author: K.C. Wells Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: 183 Pages Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: Tony Porter and Marc Powell had lived in the same house for the past eight years, since their single parents moved in together. When Tony’s mother Marie and Marc’s father Dennis decide to tie the knot at... Continue Reading →
Title: Confetti, Cake & Confessions Author: K.C. Wells Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: 183 Pages Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: Tony Porter and Marc Powell had lived in the same house for the past eight years, since their single parents moved in together. When Tony’s mother Marie and Marc’s father Dennis decide to tie the knot at... Continue Reading →
Title: The Shearing Gun Author: Renae Kaye Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 214 Pages Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: At twenty-five, Hank owns a small parcel of land in Australia’s rural southwest where he supplements his income from the property with seasonal shearing. Hank is a “shearing gun”—an ace shearer able to shear large numbers of... Continue Reading →
Title: The Blinding Light Author: Renae Kaye Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 210 Pages Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: Jake Manning’s smart mouth frequently gets him into trouble. Because of it, he can’t hold a job. Combined with some bad luck, it's prevented him from keeping steady employment. A huge debt looms over him, and alone... Continue Reading →
Title: Papa’s Boy (Morning Report: Book Three) Author: Sue Brown Narrator:: Aaron Pickering Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Run Time: 7 Hours and 49 Minutes Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: When Ray Sloane tires of the men in his usual club, he finds himself in the Pink Palm, an inauspiciously named spit-and-sawdust dive, not the sort of place... Continue Reading →
Title: Papa’s Boy (Morning Report: Book Three) Author: Sue Brown Narrator:: Aaron Pickering Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Run Time: 7 Hours and 49 Minutes Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: When Ray Sloane tires of the men in his usual club, he finds himself in the Pink Palm, an inauspiciously named spit-and-sawdust dive, not the sort of place... Continue Reading →
Title: The Lord Won’t Mind Author: Gordon Merrick Publisher: Open Road Media Pages/Word Count: 256 Pages Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: Charlie Mills always played the role of the good grandson, and his grandmother rewarded him for it handsomely in the form of all the gifts, money, and attention a boy could want. Entering college in... Continue Reading →
Title: The Lord Won’t Mind Author: Gordon Merrick Publisher: Open Road Media Pages/Word Count: 256 Pages Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: Charlie Mills always played the role of the good grandson, and his grandmother rewarded him for it handsomely in the form of all the gifts, money, and attention a boy could want. Entering college in... Continue Reading →
Title: A Matter of When Author: Eden Winters Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 236 Pages Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: Wealth. Fame. Gold record. Hookers and Cocaine front man Henri Lafontaine has it all…including a control freak manager, band members who smile as they sharpen blades for his back, and last but damn well not least,... Continue Reading →
Title: A Most Personal Property Author: Darrah Glass Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: 460 Pages Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: In the heat of August 1900, Henry Blackwell—rich, handsome, and painfully shy—anticipates the purchase of his companion slave, that most personal of properties, with equal parts excitement and dread. There are limits to what a gentleman might... Continue Reading →
Title: Being True Author: Jacob Z. Flores Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 258 Pages Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: Truman L. Cobbler has not had an easy life. It’s bad enough people say he looks like Donkey from Shrek, but he’s also suffered the death of his policeman father and his mother’s remarriage to a professional... Continue Reading →
Title: Embracing His Syn Author: A.E. Via Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: 310 Pages Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: Sergeant Corbin 'Syn' Sydney transferred from the Philadelphia Police Department as soon as he'd heard there was going to be an opening on Lieutenant Cashel Godfrey and Lieutenant Leonidis Day's Atlanta Narcotics Task Force. Syn’s primary goal in... Continue Reading →
Title: The Men From the Boys Author: William J. Mann Publisher: Open Road Media Pages/Word Count: 352 Pages Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: This stunning slice of gay life at the turn of the millennium introduces thirtysomething Jeff O’Brien. After six years, his lover, Lloyd, has just announced that the passion between them has died. Terrified... Continue Reading →
Title: Blue Collar Author: Sean Michael Publisher: Amber Quill Press Pages/Word Count: 156 Pages Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: Kendall Webber is deep in the closet. Between working as a mechanic in a garage, having served in the army during the era of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, and being raised by a fundamentalist-preacher stepfather who sent... Continue Reading →
Title: Touch Me Author: Chris Scully Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: 73 Pages Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: Massage therapist Erik Morgan offers a very special after-hours service to a handful of select clients. From a young man anxious to explore his sexuality, to a stroke patient who fears he’ll never be a man again, Erik touches... Continue Reading →
Title: In the Presence of Mine Enemy Author: Helena Maeve Publisher: Totally Bound Pages/Word Count: 89 Pages Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: A game of spy against spy leaves little room for second chances. Freshly retired from Section ranks, Hailey is glad to be out of the tangle of spy games that cost him both family... Continue Reading →
Title: Phoenix Rising Author: Kimberly Gardner Publisher: Loose Id Pages/Word Count: 277 Pages Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: Two dozen roses, one dozen balloons and a night with a sexy, young stripper. It’s the perfect birthday present for the man who has everything. Or is it? Because the gift Jimmy really wants can't be bought at... Continue Reading →
Title: Just Playing/The Road Taken Author: Ingela Bohn Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: 315 Pages/272 Pages Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: Michael and Jamie seem fated to make music together. But the thrill of playing soon turns into something more, something neither of the young men can handle. Unable to just stay friends, their only option may... Continue Reading →
Title: Hunter and Hunted Author: Tricia Owens Publisher: Loose Id Pages/Word Count: 123 Pages Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: Hunter's a professional hit man trying to get out of the life. One last job, and if he doesn't get sloppy, he's done for good. Then he can have a normal life with friends, a lover, maybe... Continue Reading →
Title: The Bucket List Author: Douglas Black Publisher: Loose Id Pages/Word Count: 108 Pages Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: When Kade Doherty gets dumped, he expects sympathy from his friends. Instead, he gets a bucket list. His friends want to help him enjoy life again, but Kade isn’t convinced a list of outlandish leisure pursuits will... Continue Reading →
Title: Wet Paint Author: Will Parkinson Publisher: Harmony Ink Press Pages/Word Count: 214 Pages Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: Transitions: Book Two Although Addy’s heart and body bear the scars from his life before he was adopted by the Deans, he’s ached for something he thought he would never find. Until he met Benny. He isn’t... Continue Reading →
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