Where Fiction and Reality Meet
Title: Player vs Player Author: Amelia C. Gormley Publisher: Riptide Publishing Pages/Word Count: 282 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Pushing for change can be dangerous when change starts pushing back. Video game writer Niles River loves the work he does at Third Wave Studios: creating games with mass appeal that feature women, people of color,... Continue Reading →
Title: A Chaotic Range Author: Andrew Grey Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 200 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Most of the time ranch hand David rescues stray cattle, but this time he and his fellow cowboys Wally and Haven save a stranded motorist. David is surprised to find his former high school classmate nearly frozen... Continue Reading →
Title: Hell on Wheels (Bluewater Bay: Book Three) Author: Z.A. Maxfield Publisher: Riptide Publishing Pages/Word Count: 250 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Nash is the reliable one in the Holly family, the guy everyone counts on to keep things going. His genius twin brother is off at university, so Nash runs the family’s auto repair... Continue Reading →
Title: Matches Author: Rick R. Reed Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: 17 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Christmas Eve should be a night filled with magic and love. But for Anderson, down on his luck and homeless in Chicago's frigid chill, it's a fight for survival. Whether he's sleeping on the el, or holed up in... Continue Reading →
Title: Talk About Happy Endings Author: Kol Anderson Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: 102 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Five couples try to find love on Christmas and in the process discover themselves. Review: Have you ever made a Christmas Wish? Are you familiar with the saying, "be careful what you wish for?" Well, in this... Continue Reading →
Title: rock Author: Anyta Sunday Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: 256 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Igneous. When Cooper’s parents divorce, he finds himself landed in Week About—one week with his mum and one week with his dad. Only, it’s not just his dad he has to live with. There’s Lila, too: The other woman, the... Continue Reading →
Title: Infected: Epitaph Author: Andrea Speed Publisher: DSP Publications Pages/Word Count: 323 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: In a world where a werecat virus has changed society, Roan McKichan, a born infected and ex-cop, works as a private detective solving crimes involving other infecteds. Tiger strain infections start showing up all over Seattle, much to... Continue Reading →
Title: Going the Distance Author: John Goode Publisher: Harmony Ink Press Pages/Word Count: 210 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Looking like the perfect all-American boy—tall, handsome, and athletic—makes it easy for Danny Monroe to blend in with the in-crowd of a new high school. It’s a trick he picked up moving with his father from... Continue Reading →
Title: Hound Dog and Bean Author: B.G. Thomas Narrator:: Charlie David Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Run Time: 8 Hours, 23 Minutes Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: There's been little love in H.D. "Hound Dog" Fisher's life since the death of his beloved mom when he was a boy. Bounced around the foster care system, he ran away... Continue Reading →
Title: Storming Love: Nelson & Caleb Author: Kaje Harper Publisher: MLR Press Pages/Word Count: 87 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Nelson Dunn has a settled routine – an evening security-guard job, days off for his therapy dogs, occasional club sex, and good books. He sometimes dreams about more, but he’s made himself content. So when... Continue Reading →
Title: Storming Love: Nelson & Caleb Author: Kaje Harper Publisher: MLR Press Pages/Word Count: 87 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Nelson Dunn has a settled routine – an evening security-guard job, days off for his therapy dogs, occasional club sex, and good books. He sometimes dreams about more, but he’s made himself content. So when... Continue Reading →
Title: Faith & Fidelity Author: Tere Michaels Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 290 Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Reeling from the recent death of his wife, police officer Evan Cerelli looks at his four children and can only see how he fails them. His loving wife was the caretaker and nurturer, and now the single... Continue Reading →
Title: Faith & Fidelity Author: Tere Michaels Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 290 Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Reeling from the recent death of his wife, police officer Evan Cerelli looks at his four children and can only see how he fails them. His loving wife was the caretaker and nurturer, and now the single... Continue Reading →
Title: Say Something Author: BA Tortuga Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 226 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Jenson has loved Mike his whole life, but he has never known how to tell Mike how he feels. After high school Mike leaves for college and his Hollywood dream, while cowboy Jenson stays behind in their... Continue Reading →
Title: Boyfriend Goes Home Anthology: Boughs of Evergreen Author: Laura Susan Johnson Publisher: Beaten Track Publishing Pages/Word Count: 35 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: As a family scrambles to prepare Thanksgiving dinner, they discover that the greatest blessing of all is just being together and being alive. Review: I've read Crush by this author and... Continue Reading →
Title: Alliance (Torsere: Book Three) Author: Annabelle Jacobs Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 284 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: King Ryneq and his dragon rider consort, Nykin, return to Torsere to defend the kingdom against the lowland armies already camped along Torsere’s borders. Seran wants the dragons, and with a new witch in his ranks,... Continue Reading →
Title: Christmas Commitment Anthology: Boughs of Evergreen Author: Shayla Mist Publisher: Beaten Track Publishing Pages/Word Count: 26 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Dick hates Christmas. This year more than ever because he's been dumped by his boyfriend. There's only one way to prove to Zack he's serious about their future together: coming out to his... Continue Reading →
Title: Blame It on the Mistletoe Author: Eli Easton Narrator:: Jason Frazier Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Run Time: 2 hours, 38 minutes Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: When physics grad student Fielding Monroe and skirt-chaser and football player Mick Colman become college housemates, they’re both in for a whole new education. Mick looks out for the absent-minded... Continue Reading →
Title: Benjamin Pepperwhistle and the Fantabulous Circus of Wonders Author: Cornelia Grey Publisher: Storm Moon Press Pages/Word Count: 65 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Benjamin Pepperwhistle has one overriding desire: to handle the glorious machinery that is a gun. So when he decides to run away to join the circus, it's only natural that he... Continue Reading →
Title: Henning: The Hunted Prince Author: Hayden Thorne Publisher: Queerteen Press Pages/Word Count: 143 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Young Henning Babkis has learned not to consider himself to be anything special. Ignored and taken for granted by his family, his education suffering as a result of their neglect, he nevertheless struggles to fit in... Continue Reading →
Title: When Ryan Came Back Author: Devon McCormack Publisher: Harmony Ink Press Pages/Word Count: 222 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Steven's life changes forever the day he discovers his childhood friend and lifelong crush, Ryan Walters, standing in his bedroom. The problem? Ryan Walters committed suicide just days earlier. Ryan tells Steven that he didn't... Continue Reading →
Title: Forgiving Thayne Author: J.R. Loveless Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 290 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Nicholas Cartwright has done everything in his power to forget that night six months ago in Senaka, when his true mate rejected him, leaving him shattered and disillusioned. Burying himself in his work, he pushes himself to the... Continue Reading →
Title: Unwrapping Hank Author: Eli Easton Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: 138 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Sloane loves a good mystery. He grew up as the son of two psychiatrists, so he finds most people tediously easy to figure out. He finds his way to Pennsylvania State University, longing for a rural experience, and ends... Continue Reading →
Title: Grumble Monkey and the Department Store Elf Author: B.G. Thomas Narrator:: Donald Tursman Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Run Time: 2 hours, 19 minutes Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Kit Jefferies, a part-time department store Christmas elf, is an artist who loves life and his family. Unfortunately, his car dies at a rest stop in the middle... Continue Reading →
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