Where Fiction and Reality Meet
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 Half of Us (A Book in the Family Series) Author: Cardeno C. Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 194 Pages Rating: 4.5 Stars Blurb: Short-tempered, arrogant heart surgeon Jason Garcia grew up wanting a close-knit family, but believes he ruined those dreams when he broke up his marriage. The benefit of divorce is having... Continue Reading →
The Novel Approach is pleased to welcome author Sherrie Henry today, as our final guest in the Countdown to GayRomLit Celebration. To bring things to a close, Sherrie is offering the chance for one lucky reader to win an e-copy of her new book Two Red Leaves, the sequel to last year's Last of the... 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: Laurel Heights 2 Author: Lisa Worrall Publisher: White Stiletto Press Pages/Word Count: 143 Pages Rating: 4.5 Stars Blurb: Will and Scott are now out and proud and living together in Scott's tiny house. So everything is perfect, right? Wrong... Scott has a new partner, a new male partner, and Will is not happy about... Continue Reading →
Title: Burnin’ For You Author: Jamie Lynn Miller Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: 226 Pages Rating: 4.5 Stars Blurb: Lucas Taylor is a New York City fireman at Station 127, dedicated to his job, even though it has brought him heartrending tragedy - the loss of his lover, Ryan, in an explosion. Evan Singer is the... Continue Reading →
Title: Burnin’ For You Author: Jamie Lynn Miller Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: 226 Pages Rating: 4.5 Stars Blurb: Lucas Taylor is a New York City fireman at Station 127, dedicated to his job, even though it has brought him heartrending tragedy - the loss of his lover, Ryan, in an explosion. Evan Singer is the... Continue Reading →
Title: Summer Symphony Author: Brandon Shire Publisher: TPG Books Pages/Word Count: 164 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Martin Zoric had vivid dreams of fatherhood, of a small hand pressed to his, of pink dresses and girlish laughter. Then his wife had a stillbirth and his world fell apart. He listened to the unwanted apologies, stood... Continue Reading →
Title: When Love Gets Hairy Author: Jacob Z. Flores Narrator:: T.J. Jamesin Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Run Time: 7 Hours, 55 Minutes Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: As vain as he is beautiful, Nino Santos happily lives life waiting for the next ferry full of fairies to bring him new conquests. As long as they aren’t hirsute,... Continue Reading →
Title: Tell Me It’s Real Author: TJ Klune Narrator:: Michael Lesley Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Run Time: 10 Hours, 24 Minutes Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Do you believe in love at first sight? Paul Auster doesn't. Paul doesn't believe in much at all. He's thirty, slightly overweight, and his best features are his acerbic wit and... Continue Reading →
Title: Tell Me It’s Real Author: TJ Klune Narrator:: Michael Lesley Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Run Time: 10 Hours, 24 Minutes Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Do you believe in love at first sight? Paul Auster doesn't. Paul doesn't believe in much at all. He's thirty, slightly overweight, and his best features are his acerbic wit and... Continue Reading →
Title: The Brick Yard Author: Carol Lynne Publisher: Totally Bound Pages/Word Count: 203 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: For Lucky Gunn, the hardest fight of his life happens outside the cage. On the south side of Chicago sits an old gym called The Brick Yard. Ten years ago, on a bitterly cold day, Lucky Gunn... Continue Reading →
Title: Moving Mountains Author: T.N. Tarrant Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 214 Pages Rating: 3 Stars Blurb: After Nathan Taylor’s wife fell into a coma, he fought for years to get custody of their son, Christopher, and finally succeeded. Although Nathan loves his wife, Letty, he has never been in love with her—theirs was a... Continue Reading →
Title: Beneath the Stain: Parts 3 and 4 Author: Amy Lane Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: Serial Novel 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 Mackey... Continue Reading →
Title: The Bible Boys Author: Dan Skinner Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: 125 Pages Rating: 4.5 Stars Blurb: A Sin. An Abomination. Teenagers Caleb and Matthew had been told by the radical fundamentalist church that dominated their families' lives that a love like theirs—between two boys—was unnatural and forbidden. That it would damn them forever. The... Continue Reading →
Title: Frozen Hearts Author: Teegan Loy Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 200 Pages Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: The best college hockey player in the nation is hanging up his skates because he's tired of living a lie. Five years ago, Erik Fox was forced by his father to change schools in the middle of the... 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: Mountains to Climb Author: T.A. Chase Publisher: Totally Bound Pages/Word Count: 60 Pages Rating: 3 Stars Blurb: Sometimes the past can be the biggest mountain to climb. Toby Schwartzel has never forgot Jensen Brockhoff, the man he loved and the one who disappeared six years ago. He thinks he’s moved on, but when Jensen... Continue Reading →
Title: The Dating Game Author: Jay Northcote Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: 103 Pages Rating: 4.5 Stars Blurb: Five sex-free dates—how hard can it be? When they were at uni, Owen always had a bit of a crush on Nathan. But Nathan was apparently straight, and Owen was too busy with other guys to take his... Continue Reading →
Title: Summer Lover Author: B.G. Thomas Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 350 Pages Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: Seasons of Love: Book Two Scott Aberdeen doesn’t believe in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, or God. Or love—at least, he knows no one will ever love him. After all, he has carried a torch for his best... Continue Reading →
Title: The Paranormal Detection Agency Author: Anne Brooke Publisher: Amber Allure Pages/Word Count: 57 Pages Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: When paranormal investigator Jack Atkinson meets new client Aaron Riley, he doesn't expect the level of attraction he instantly feels for the man. Neither does he expect the kind of haunting Aaron describes, which Jack is... 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 →
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