Hop Against Homophobia

Last month, a teenager at Arsenal Tech High School here in Indianapolis was reprimanded and eventually expelled for firing a stun gun at school. Why did Darnell "Dynasty" Young own a stun gun, let alone have it in his possession on school property? The answer is horrifying yet simple--his mother gave it to him because... Continue Reading →

Hop Against Homophobia

Last month, a teenager at Arsenal Tech High School here in Indianapolis was reprimanded and eventually expelled for firing a stun gun at school. Why did Darnell "Dynasty" Young own a stun gun, let alone have it in his possession on school property? The answer is horrifying yet simple--his mother gave it to him because... Continue Reading →

Small Gem – Love Is in the Message (Love #3) by R.J. Scott

R.J. Scott’s Love Is… series had me at hello and has kept me on the line ever since, as Luke Holston and Cameron Anders, two teenage boys so close to taking that final step into adulthood, have managed to work their way through the uncertainty of finding just the right way to let someone know... Continue Reading →

Small Gem – Love Is in the Message (Love #3) by R.J. Scott

R.J. Scott’s Love Is… series had me at hello and has kept me on the line ever since, as Luke Holston and Cameron Anders, two teenage boys so close to taking that final step into adulthood, have managed to work their way through the uncertainty of finding just the right way to let someone know... Continue Reading →

Small Gem – The Bridge by Hayden Thorne

The path to true love for Remy Pépin and Alain Ètoile is bridged by superstition, a kind heart, and a candle in the window to light the way in The Bridge, the short and lovely story of two young men from very different walks of life who find their way to each other with a... Continue Reading →

Small Gem – The Bridge by Hayden Thorne

The path to true love for Remy Pépin and Alain Ètoile is bridged by superstition, a kind heart, and a candle in the window to light the way in The Bridge, the short and lovely story of two young men from very different walks of life who find their way to each other with a... Continue Reading →

Fallen Angel (The Angel of 13th Street, #2) by Eden Winters

Life is about doing the best with what you’ve been given to work with. It’s about making a difference and offering second chances. It can’t be about saving everyone, because not everyone can be or wants to be saved, but it can be about giving at least one person a chance at a better life.... Continue Reading →

Fallen Angel (The Angel of 13th Street, #2) by Eden Winters

Life is about doing the best with what you’ve been given to work with. It’s about making a difference and offering second chances. It can’t be about saving everyone, because not everyone can be or wants to be saved, but it can be about giving at least one person a chance at a better life.... Continue Reading →

Review: The Affair of the Porcelain Dog by Jess Faraday

Title: The Affair of the Porcelain Dog Series: The Ira Adler Series: Book One Author: Jess Faraday Publisher: Bold Strokes Books Length: 288 Pages Category: Historical, Mystery Rating: 4.5 Stars At a Glance: Sometimes happy endings are so evident they’re impossible to miss. Sometimes happy endings are so subjective that one hesitates even to call... Continue Reading →

The Affair of the Porcelain Dog by Jess Faraday

Drug trafficking, human trafficking, blackmail, betrayal, duplicity, moral ambiguity, prostitution, and murder; all things you might expect to find in the Whitechapel district around the time Jack the Ripper took the life of his final victim, Mary Kelly, then seemed to disappear from the face of the earth. They’re also things that take place within... Continue Reading →

Acrobat by Mary Calmes

Andreo Fiore is a man whose life is lived on the very fringes of the right side of the law. He toes that delicate line, working as a bodyguard for a mob boss, while also being a father and trying to be a good role model to his teenage nephew, Michael. Being his mobster’s keeper... Continue Reading →

Acrobat by Mary Calmes

Andreo Fiore is a man whose life is lived on the very fringes of the right side of the law. He toes that delicate line, working as a bodyguard for a mob boss, while also being a father and trying to be a good role model to his teenage nephew, Michael. Being his mobster’s keeper... Continue Reading →

Mnevermind 1: The Persistence of Memory by Jordan Castillo Price

Daniel Schroeder lives in a world where dreams and fantasies can be bought for the right price. It’s an intriguing proposition, the idea of being able to fulfill an ambition, to achieve the unachievable, to participate in the illusion of sex with a virtual stranger without the complication of awkward entanglements and empty promises. Daniel... Continue Reading →

Mnevermind 1: The Persistence of Memory by Jordan Castillo Price

Daniel Schroeder lives in a world where dreams and fantasies can be bought for the right price. It’s an intriguing proposition, the idea of being able to fulfill an ambition, to achieve the unachievable, to participate in the illusion of sex with a virtual stranger without the complication of awkward entanglements and empty promises. Daniel... Continue Reading →

Gambling Men by Amy Lane

Sometimes love’s a gamble. Sometimes you go all in, you throw in all your chips, you lay down all your cards, and sometimes you lose your shirt. But sometimes that’s okay because if you never lose your shirt, how will you ever be able to tell the game’s getting interesting? Poker is pretty much a... Continue Reading →

Gambling Men by Amy Lane

Sometimes love’s a gamble. Sometimes you go all in, you throw in all your chips, you lay down all your cards, and sometimes you lose your shirt. But sometimes that’s okay because if you never lose your shirt, how will you ever be able to tell the game’s getting interesting? Poker is pretty much a... Continue Reading →

Small Gems – Where You Hurt the Most by Anne Brooke

Some of the most painful scars, the ones that hurt the most, are the scars that can’t be seen, whether it's the end of a relationship or the end of a chapter in life that seemed like nothing but promise until, in the space of a moment, it shifted drastically and left behind the visible... Continue Reading →

Small Gems – Where You Hurt the Most by Anne Brooke

Some of the most painful scars, the ones that hurt the most, are the scars that can’t be seen, whether it's the end of a relationship or the end of a chapter in life that seemed like nothing but promise until, in the space of a moment, it shifted drastically and left behind the visible... Continue Reading →

One Small Thing (One Thing #1) by M.J. O'Shea and Piper Vaughn

I don’t normally gravitate toward books in which the story revolves around babies and/or children, not because I don’t like kids but because I have three of them; so while I can commiserate—been there, smelled that—there isn’t that sense of the unknown I look to escape into when I read. But what’s a girl to... Continue Reading →

One Small Thing (One Thing #1) by M.J. O’Shea and Piper Vaughn

I don’t normally gravitate toward books in which the story revolves around babies and/or children, not because I don’t like kids but because I have three of them; so while I can commiserate—been there, smelled that—there isn’t that sense of the unknown I look to escape into when I read. But what’s a girl to... Continue Reading →

Conviction (Dominion #3) by Lissa Kasey

Weeks after the tumultuous events that capped off the danger and suspense in Reclamation, Seiran Rou is still suffering the psychological aftereffects of a past, long thought dead, that came back to claim him. A man from Gabriel Santini’s past wants Seiran dead, not because he really has anything against Sei personally, but because Andrew... Continue Reading →

Conviction (Dominion #3) by Lissa Kasey

Weeks after the tumultuous events that capped off the danger and suspense in Reclamation, Seiran Rou is still suffering the psychological aftereffects of a past, long thought dead, that came back to claim him. A man from Gabriel Santini’s past wants Seiran dead, not because he really has anything against Sei personally, but because Andrew... Continue Reading →

Everything Under the Sun by Rachel West

I first read Everything Under the Sun nearly two years ago (when I was still really, really new to the M/M romance genre) and remember promising myself I’d read it again someday because I liked it that well. Reading Rachel West’s The Cellmate, recently, reminded me of just how very well I’d liked it. So... Continue Reading →

Everything Under the Sun by Rachel West

I first read Everything Under the Sun nearly two years ago (when I was still really, really new to the M/M romance genre) and remember promising myself I’d read it again someday because I liked it that well. Reading Rachel West’s The Cellmate, recently, reminded me of just how very well I’d liked it. So... Continue Reading →

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