Where Fiction and Reality Meet
Title: Sleigh Ride Author: Heidi Cullinan Publisher: Samhain Publishing Pages/Word Count: Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Minnesota Christmas, Book 2 Arthur Anderson doesn’t want anything to do with love and romance, and he certainly doesn’t want to play Santa in his mother’s library fundraising scheme. He knows full well what she really wants is to hook... Continue Reading →
Title: A Working Man (Men of Manhattan: Book Four) Author: Sandrine Gasq-Dion Publisher: Wilde City Press Pages/Word Count: 134 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Matthew Hawke’s professional life is soaring as high the powerful bird of prey whose image is inked on his back. He’s at the top of his game as the owner of... Continue Reading →
Title: There’s Something About Ari Author: L.B. Gregg Publisher: Riptide Publishing Pages/Word Count: 95 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Buck Ellis’s future seems pretty damn bright. With a full college scholarship in hand, he’s going to ditch Bluewater Bay and pave the way for his kid brother Charlie to do the same. The only fly... Continue Reading →
Title: There’s Something About Ari Author: L.B. Gregg Publisher: Riptide Publishing Pages/Word Count: 95 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Buck Ellis’s future seems pretty damn bright. With a full college scholarship in hand, he’s going to ditch Bluewater Bay and pave the way for his kid brother Charlie to do the same. The only fly... Continue Reading →
Title: Buck Baxter, Love Detective Author: Geoffrey Knight Publisher: Wilde City Press Pages/Word Count: 90 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Welcome to Wilde City, 1924—a crane on top of every skyscraper, a party in every club, a romance on every dance floor, a shooting every night, a broken heart on every street corner and a... Continue Reading →
Title: Let It Be Author: Cheryl McIntyre Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: 134 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: I’m the happy one. The dependable one. The shoulder. The anchor. The pillar. The rock. The matchmaker. I’m the one you call when you’ve had a bad day. When you need to vent, or scream, or cry. I... Continue Reading →
Title: Facing Demons (Scars: Book Three) Author: Lynley Wayne Publisher: MLR Press Pages/Word Count: 379 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: When demons from his past interfere with his present, Cam knows Seth is the only one he can trust to help him face them. At the age of fifteen, Seth Dempsey gave his heart to... Continue Reading →
Title: Accidental Contact and Other Mahu Investigations (Mahu #7.5) Author: Neil Plakcy Publisher: MLR Press Pages/Word Count: 187 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Sex, mayhem and justice in the Aloha State as openly gay Honolulu homicide detective tracks murderers, missing people & a dog with unusual appetites. From murderers to missing babies to a shaggy... Continue Reading →
Title: Drawing the Devil Author: Jon Keys Publisher: Samhain Publishing Pages/Word Count: 162 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: A heart can live a lifetime in eight seconds. Ever since his father caught him with another boy and threw him out at the tender age of sixteen, Dustin Lewis has been fighting his way up the... Continue Reading →
Title: Trapped in Oz (Tales From Kansas: Book Three) Author: Andrew Grey Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Martin Long has plans and dreams, but they are derailed when his parents move and must sell their house. In need of a place to stay, fast, he answers an ad for a roommate,... Continue Reading →
Title: The Replacement (Broken #6) Author: Kol Anderson Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: Novella Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Season finale. Find out what happens to Aaron and how "The Replacement" aka Carter Bennett is doing under a new owner. Review: I know I'm going to sound like a broken record here, but Kol Anderson never ceases... Continue Reading →
Title: Shaking the Sugar Tree Author: Nick Wilgus Narrator:: Wayne Messmer Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Run Time: 8 hours, 52 minutes Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Wise-cracking Wiley Cantrell is loud and roaringly outrageous—and he needs to be to keep his deeply religious neighbors and family in the Deep South at bay. A failed writer on food... Continue Reading →
Title: Made by Raffi Author: Craig Pomranz Illustrator:: Margaret Chamberlain Publisher: Frances Lincoln Children’s Books Length: 40 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Raffi is a shy boy who doesn’t like noisy games and is often teased at school. But when he gets the idea of making a scarf for his dad’s birthday, he is full... Continue Reading →
Title: All Kinds of Tied Down Author: Mary Calmes Narrator:: Tristan James Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Run Time: 9 hours, 1 minute Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Deputy US Marshal Miro Jones has a reputation for being calm and collected under fire. These traits serve him well with his hotshot partner, Ian Doyle, the kind of guy... Continue Reading →
Title: Beneath the Stain: Parts Six and Seven Author: Amy Lane Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 350 Pages (Full Series) Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: In a town as small as Tyson, CA, everybody knew the four brothers with the four different fathers—and their penchant for making good music when they weren't getting into trouble. For... Continue Reading →
Title: Prosperity Author: Alexis Hall Publisher: Riptide Publishing Pages/Word Count: 190 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: A breathtaking tale of passion and adventure in the untamed skies! Prosperity, 1863: a lawless skytown where varlets, chancers, and ne’er-do-wells risk everything to chase a fortune in the clouds, and where a Gaslight guttersnipe named Piccadilly is about... Continue Reading →
Title: Family Unit Author: Z.A. Maxfield Narrator:: JP Handler Publisher: Self-Published Run Time: 8 hours, 38 minutes Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: A retired marine, Logan is methodical and conservative. Richard is a liberal pacifist who is pathologically afraid of guns. Yet the minute Logan sets eyes on Richard, his heart turns over like an old... Continue Reading →
Title: When Love Comes to Town Author: Jacob Z. Flores Narrator:: TJ Jamesin Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Run Time: 7 hours, 32 minutes Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Brody O'Shea isn't looking for much, just a hot guy with a decent job, who is sane and doesn't have kids. The son of a former rock star, Brody... Continue Reading →
Title: Junior Willis Author: Richard Natale Publisher: Bold Strokes Books Pages/Word Count: 84 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: From the moment he leaves the Midwest in the early 1950s, Tom Larson is forced to confront his sexual and romantic desires at every turn. His awakening begins in Korea where he has an affair with his... Continue Reading →
Title: The Luckiest (Lucky Moon: Book Two) Author: M.J. O’Shea and Piper Vaughn Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 280 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Rock star Nick Ventura has finally hit rock bottom. Jealous of his brother’s new love, he overindulges in his usual vices and winds up crashing his car into a department store... Continue Reading →
Title: The Luckiest (Lucky Moon: Book Two) Author: M.J. O’Shea and Piper Vaughn Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 280 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Rock star Nick Ventura has finally hit rock bottom. Jealous of his brother’s new love, he overindulges in his usual vices and winds up crashing his car into a department store... Continue Reading →
Title: Flight of Magpies Author: KJ Charles Publisher: Samhain Publishing Pages/Word Count: 212 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Danger in the air. Lovers on the brink. A Charm of Magpies: Book 3 With the justiciary understaffed, a series of horrifying occult murders to be investigated, and a young student who is flying - literally -... Continue Reading →
Title: Work in Progress Author: John Inman Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 226 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Dumped by his lover, Harlie Rose ducks for cover in the Belladonna Arms, a seedy apartment building perched high on a hill in downtown San Diego. What he doesn’t know is that the Belladonna Arms has a... Continue Reading →
Title: Campus Cravings Author: Anthology Publisher: C-Squared Publishing Pages/Word Count: 392 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Welcome to Cathia University, where school is in session! Nine of today's hottest gay romance authors have crafted brand-new interrelated novellas celebrating everything wonderful about college, including sophisticated professors, sexy teaching assistants, ambitious grad students, and spirited undergraduates, all... Continue Reading →
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