Where Fiction and Reality Meet
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: Partners (Equals Book 2) Author: Brigham Vaughn Previous Book: Equals Cover Artist: Brigham Vaughn Blurb: After a rocky first few months, Stephen Parker and Russ Bishop’s relationship is at a crossroads when the death of Stephen’s father forces them to visit Stephen's hometown in southern Georgia. Estranged from his family, Stephen must find a... Continue Reading →
Writing About Illnesses Jørgen has always suffered from panic attacks, but back when his first character came to me (like, ten years ago, would you believe it?) I was young and didn’t know much about mental illnesses. But last year, when he came back, I knew exactly what was wrong with him: Jørgen suffers from... 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 →
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: 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: 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 →
TNA: Hi, Margie, I’m so glad to have you here with us today. Let’s start by having you tell us a little bit about yourself. M.C.: Thanks for hosting me! It's always fun to be at a new place. About me? I promise not to answer the door wearing lingerie. It scares the visitors and... 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 →
Title: A Twist and Two Balls (With a Kick #1) Author: Clare London Publisher: Jocular Press Pages/Word Count: 66 Pages Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: Eduardo Mancini is going to be a star of the London stage and screen. Or that was the plan. His alter ego Eddy March hasn't got further than the chorus and... Continue Reading →
Title: Spaghetti Western Author: EM Lynley Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 220 Pages Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: A Novel in the Delectable Series Cordon-Blue trained pastry chef Riley Emerson arrives in Aspen, Colorado for a summer season at the best restaurant in town, only to discover his jerk of a boyfriend has dumped him, leaving... 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: With Wings (The Dark Angels: Book One) Author: Z. Allora Publisher: Rocky Ridge Books Pages/Word Count: 251 Pages Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: The lights go down and stage lights up. The Dark Angels have arrived. With his come-hither voice and body made for sin, lead singer Angel Luv draws lovers like a magnet. And... 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: Love and Punishment Author: Susan Mac Nicol Publisher: Boroughs Publishing Group Pages/Word Count: 245 Pages Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: FROM DARKNESS AND LIGHT Someone is leaving a trail of bodies throughout London, and Detective Anthony Parglietto is determined to end the violence. Then he’ll return to the man he loves. Tough, street-savvy, and used... Continue Reading →
Title: November Rain Author: Daisy Harris Publisher: Samhain Publishing Pages/Word Count: 140 Pages Rating: 4.5 Stars Blurb: A single bullet could take them both down. Fire and Rain, Book 4 Detective Joe Klamath is used to guys falling on their backs at the arch of his commanding eyebrow. Yet he can’t seem to get a... Continue Reading →
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