Where Fiction and Reality Meet
Title: L’histoire de François: Vampire (Mortal Angst #1) Author: Edward Kendrick Publisher: Wilde City Press Pages/Word Count: 64 Pages At a Glance: A good deal of missed opportunity Blurb: Since his turning in 1022 young spy, François, has hated all humans. And yet, in 1347, he falls in love with one, only to be betrayed... Continue Reading →
Title: Restless Spirits (Spirits: Book One) Author: Jordan L. Hawk Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: 218 Pages At a Glance: An Instant Favorite Blurb: After losing the family fortune to a fraudulent psychic, inventor Henry Strauss is determined to bring the otherworld under control through the application of science. All he needs is a genuine haunting... Continue Reading →
Title: On Wings of Song Author: Anne Barwell Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 110 At a Glance: Places where the pacing of the story seemed rushed, but a sweet story about two soldiers who reunite after a devastating war Blurb: Six years after meeting British soldier Aiden Foster during the Christmas Truce of 1914, Jochen Weber still finds... Continue Reading →
Title: The Reluctant Berserker Author: Alex Beecroft Publisher: Samhain Publishing Pages/Word Count: 248 Pages At a Glance: A dense, intricately plotted, and meticulously written book Blurb: Manhood is about more than who’s on top. Wulfstan, a noble and fearsome Saxon warrior, has spent most of his life hiding the fact that he would love to... Continue Reading →
Title: Turkey in the Snow Author: Amy Lane Narrator:: Gomez Pugh Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Run Time: 2 Hours, 32 Minutes Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Since Hank Calder's four-year-old niece Josie came to live with him, his life has been plenty dramatic, thank you, and the last thing he needs is a swishy, flaming twinkie to... Continue Reading →
Title: The Bells of Times Square Author: Amy Lane Publisher: Riptide Publishing Pages/Word Count: 236 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Every New Year’s Eve since 1946, Nate Meyer has ventured alone to Times Square to listen for the ghostly church bells he and his long-lost wartime lover vowed to hear together. This year, however, his... Continue Reading →
Title: A King Undone (Noble Pleasures: Book One) Author: Cooper Davis Publisher: Samhain Press Pages/Word Count: 340 Pages Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: Sometimes you have to risk everything, to follow your heart In a world where gentlemen openly court and marry fellow noblemen, the threat of scandal still lurks behind every velvet drape for kings... Continue Reading →
Title: Springtime 1962, The Lawson YMCA Author: Owen Keehnen Publisher: Wilde City Press Pages/Word Count: 72 Pages Rating: 3 Stars Blurb: A diary is found in a secondhand bookstore. The narrator opens the dusty cover and discovers that the book is the intimate diary of a man named Joseph. Reading the entries, the narrator is... Continue Reading →
Title: A Time for Loving Author: Nico Jaye Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: 26 Pages Rating: 3.5 Stars Blurb: Jack and Christopher have made it through years of campaigning and the horrors of Waterloo together--side by side by day and, by night, in each other's arms. After the war is over, however, will the love shared... 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: Semper Fi Author: Keira Andrews Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: Rating: 4.5 Stars Blurb: The war is over. The battle for love has just begun. As Marines, Cal and Jim depended on each other to survive bloodshed and despair in the Pacific. Relieved to put the horrors of war behind him, Jim went home to... Continue Reading →
Title: One Indulgence Author: Lydia Gastrell Publisher: Loose Id Pages/Word Count: 252 Pages Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: When Henry Cortland, the Earl of Brenleigh, comes to London to fulfill his duty and take a wife, he also decides to first fulfill his most secret and suppressed desires. He wants to spend just one night with... Continue Reading →
Title: A Taste of Copper Author: Elin Gregory Publisher: Love Lane Books Pages/Word Count: 71 Pages Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: Your master has the field for today, but his name, whatever it might be, is without honour. Olivier the squire worships the Black Knight and takes a fierce joy in his prowess as he defends... 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: 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: 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: 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 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: Bloodline (Whyborne & Griffin: Book Five) Author: Jordan L. Hawk Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: 236 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Between his bullying father and dissolute brother, Percival Endicott Whyborne has quite enough problematic family members to deal with. So when his sister returns to Widdershins asking for help solving the mystery of a... Continue Reading →
Title: Bloodline (Whyborne & Griffin: Book Five) Author: Jordan L. Hawk Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: 236 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Between his bullying father and dissolute brother, Percival Endicott Whyborne has quite enough problematic family members to deal with. So when his sister returns to Widdershins asking for help solving the mystery of a... Continue Reading →
Title: Half a Man Author: Scarlet Blackwell Publisher: Totally Bound Pages/Word Count: 27000 Words Rating: 2.5 Stars Blurb: In a world torn apart by war, solace is hard to find... It is 1919, less than a year after the end of the First World War and a recovering Britain is in the grip of the... Continue Reading →
Title: The Glass-House Murder Author: T. Nielson Publisher: JMS Books Pages/Word Count: 156 Pages Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: Meet Lord Henry Carlisle: gentleman, wastrel, and mystery-novel lover. When his mother telephones him on a May evening to tell him they've just discovered a body in the glass-house, Hal does what he loves to do: he... Continue Reading →
Title: Sacrificed: Heart Beyond the Spires Author: Bey Deckard Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: 380 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Reunited once more, the crew of Baal’s Heart must make the long and treacherous journey south to the towering spires of the Devil’s Isles. The path through the mountain range is fraught with peril; mayhem and... Continue Reading →
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