Where Fiction and Reality Meet
"Whereof what's past is prologue." -- William Shakespeare Title: The Butterfly King (The Lost and Founds: Book Three Author: Edmond Manning Publisher: Pickwick Ink Publishing Pages/Word Count: 301 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Terrance Altham doesn’t know why he’s been arrested. He’s committed no crime and the cops aren’t talking. Sadly, the man sharing his... Continue Reading →
“Mark my word,” Carrie said. She leaned toward Terrence so he could hear. “We’ll have a woman president decades before a Negro gets elected.” – Michael Rupured Title: Happy Independence Day Author: Michael Rupured Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 256 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Terrence Bottom wants to change the world. A prelaw student... Continue Reading →
Title: Encore (The Replacement Guitarist: Book Four) Author: Lori Toland Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: 376 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Blaze Shinozuka is a bonafide rockstar with his band, Razor's Edge. After his romance with music manager Jason Stockton crashed and burned, Blaze is free to live and love. It's been a wild and heady... Continue Reading →
Title: Hidden Gem Author: Lissa Kasey Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 246 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Misaki “Aki” Itou is a psi—a person with mutated DNA granting him psychic abilities. He’s also a contracted companion—a whore. It may not be the perfect profession, but having a roof over his head, food to eat, and... Continue Reading →
Title: Daron’s Guitar Chronicles: Volumes One-Five Author: Cecilia Tan Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: 1000+ Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Sex, drugs, and rock and roll. Coming out and coming of age in the days of AIDS, MTV, Reaganomics, and Just Say No. Daron Marks is a young guitar player with a dream, make it big... Continue Reading →
Title: Daron’s Guitar Chronicles: Volumes One-Five Author: Cecilia Tan Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: 1000+ Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Sex, drugs, and rock and roll. Coming out and coming of age in the days of AIDS, MTV, Reaganomics, and Just Say No. Daron Marks is a young guitar player with a dream, make it big... Continue Reading →
Title: Redemption by Fire Author: Andrew Grey Narrator:: Peter B. Brooke Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Run Time: 2 Hours, 29 Minutes Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Dirk Krause is an asshole of the first degree. His life is a hell of his own making, and he makes everyone around him just as miserable. When he's injured on... Continue Reading →
Title: Fever Pitch Author: Heidi Cullinan Publisher: Samhain Publishing Pages/Word Count: 339 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Sometimes you have to play love by ear. Love Lessons, Book 2 Aaron Seavers is a pathetic mess, and he knows it. He lives in terror of incurring his father’s wrath and disappointing his mother, and he can’t... Continue Reading →
Title: The Last Thing He Needs Author: J.H. Knight Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 220 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Tommy O’Shea is raising his seven younger brothers and sisters without any help from his drug abusing father and stepmother. Since he was fifteen years old, he's managed to keep the children fed and out... Continue Reading →
Title: The Knife of Narcissus (Parts One and Two) Author: Carolyne Chand Publisher: dik-dik books Pages/Word Count: 123 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Lucius Sentius, along with most people in the city of Rome, assumes that the debauched days of Nero are behind them now that Rome has settled down under a sober new ruler,... Continue Reading →
Title: Brokedown Hearts (Foster Siblings: Book Three) Author: Cameron Dane Publisher: Loose Id Pages/Word Count: 332 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Ex-con David Joyner returns home knowing he must atone for his past sins. Working at an animal shelter, David keeps his head down, desperate to prove to a hostile town he’s a new man.... Continue Reading →
Title: The Pillar Author: Kim Fielding Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: During his youth, orphaned thief Faris was flogged at the pillar in the town square and left to die. But a kind old man saved him, gave him a home, and taught him a profession. Now Faris is the herbalist... Continue Reading →
Title: Red Dirt Heart 2 Author: N.R. Walker Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: 250 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Up until Travis arrived on his doorstep, Charlie had lived a very solitary life. He had surrounded himself with isolation; a couple million acres of red dirt, scorching sun and loneliness. Six months on, winter has settled... Continue Reading →
Title: Avaritia: The Oswald Witches Author: Mathew Ortiz Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: 251 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Welcome all to Maquintock Bay. A sleepy little town a few hours north of Boston on a picturesque stretch of New England coast. The town’s folk live a quiet life away from the hustle and bustle and... Continue Reading →
Title: Murder on the Mountain Author: Jamie Fessenden Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 210 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: When Jesse Morales, a recent college grad who aspires to be a mystery writer, volunteers to work on the summit of Mt. Washington for a week, he expects to work hard. What he doesn’t expect is... Continue Reading →
"I did not expect this," he said, so startled he found the word/rhythm place without thinking. "That the person in my skin was so plain to someone else, I didn't expect it. How is it that you can see the guy I've hidden mostly from myself?"-- Amy Lane Title: Beneath the Stain: Parts One and... Continue Reading →
Title: Repossession Is 9/10ths of the Law Author: Hank Edwards Publisher: Wilde City Press Pages/Word Count: Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Alan Baxter barely scrapes by working as a deejay in suburban Detroit. To make ends meet, he takes a job as an automobile repossession agent, and discovers his very first assignment is a car owned... Continue Reading →
Title: Repossession Is 9/10ths of the Law Author: Hank Edwards Publisher: Wilde City Press Pages/Word Count: Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Alan Baxter barely scrapes by working as a deejay in suburban Detroit. To make ends meet, he takes a job as an automobile repossession agent, and discovers his very first assignment is a car owned... Continue Reading →
Title: Diversion (2nd Edition) Author: Eden Winters Publisher: Rocky Ridge Books Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: There are good guys, bad guys, and then there’s Lucky. Former drug trafficker Richmond “Lucky” Lucklighter flaunts his past like a badge of honor. He speaks his mind, doesn’t play nice, and flirts with disaster while working off his sentence... Continue Reading →
Title: Duck Duck Ghost (Hellsinger: Book Two) Author: Rhys Ford Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Paranormal investigator Wolf Kincaid knows what his foot tastes like. Mostly because he stuck it firmly in his mouth when his lover, Tristan Pryce, accidentally drugged him with a batch of psychotropic baklava. Needing to patch... Continue Reading →
Title: Duck Duck Ghost (Hellsinger: Book Two) Author: Rhys Ford Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Paranormal investigator Wolf Kincaid knows what his foot tastes like. Mostly because he stuck it firmly in his mouth when his lover, Tristan Pryce, accidentally drugged him with a batch of psychotropic baklava. Needing to patch... Continue Reading →
Title: Days of Love Author: Elisa Rolle Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: 760 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Days of Love chronicles more than 700 LGBT couples throughout history, spanning 2000 years from Alexander the Great to the most recent winner of a Lambda Literary Award. Many of the contemporary couples share their stories on how... Continue Reading →
Title: Days of Love Author: Elisa Rolle Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: 760 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Days of Love chronicles more than 700 LGBT couples throughout history, spanning 2000 years from Alexander the Great to the most recent winner of a Lambda Literary Award. Many of the contemporary couples share their stories on how... Continue Reading →
"And there the craftsman sat in the deepening shadows of his workshop, ignoring the candles that burned themselves out till he was finally enveloped by the night, his thin figure bent over his worktable and the little minstrel." -- Hayden Thorne Title: The Glass Minstrel Author: Hayden Thorne Publisher: Queerteen Press Pages/Word Count: 216 Pages... Continue Reading →
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