Where Fiction and Reality Meet
Title: Dirty Secret Author: Rhys Ford Narrator:: Greg Tremblay Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Run Time: 8 Hours, 4 Minutes Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Loving Kim Jae-Min isn't always easy: Jae is gun-shy about being openly homosexual. Ex-cop turned private investigator Cole McGinnis doesn't know any other way to be. Still, he understands where Jae is coming... Continue Reading →
Title: Dirty Secret Author: Rhys Ford Narrator:: Greg Tremblay Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Run Time: 8 Hours, 4 Minutes Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Loving Kim Jae-Min isn't always easy: Jae is gun-shy about being openly homosexual. Ex-cop turned private investigator Cole McGinnis doesn't know any other way to be. Still, he understands where Jae is coming... Continue Reading →
Title: Paragraph 175 Author: Ruby Lis Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: 276 Pages Rating: 3 Stars Blurb: Berlin, 1936. The carefree, hedonistic days of the Weimar Republic have ended, replaced by the conservatism of the Nazi Party. Stricter interpretations of laws such as Paragraph 175 criminalize homosexual activity. For gays, falling in love is punishable by... Continue Reading →
Title: Paragraph 175 Author: Ruby Lis Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: 276 Pages Rating: 3 Stars Blurb: Berlin, 1936. The carefree, hedonistic days of the Weimar Republic have ended, replaced by the conservatism of the Nazi Party. Stricter interpretations of laws such as Paragraph 175 criminalize homosexual activity. For gays, falling in love is punishable by... Continue Reading →
“This was how it would feel, then, to want a whole future with someone. To see it unspooling in front of me, a wide Highland track, swept with sun and infinite possibilities.” – Harper Fox Title: Scrap Metal Author: Harper Fox Publisher: Samhain Publishing Pages/Word Count: 258 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Is there room... Continue Reading →
“This was how it would feel, then, to want a whole future with someone. To see it unspooling in front of me, a wide Highland track, swept with sun and infinite possibilities.” – Harper Fox Title: Scrap Metal Author: Harper Fox Publisher: Samhain Publishing Pages/Word Count: 258 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Is there room... Continue Reading →
“Hate crimes are the scariest thing in the world because these people really believe what they’re doing is right.” – Cher Title: Bashed Author: Rick R. Reed Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: 2nd Edition It should have been a perfect night out. Instead, Mark and Donald collide with tragedy when they... Continue Reading →
“Hate crimes are the scariest thing in the world because these people really believe what they’re doing is right.” – Cher Title: Bashed Author: Rick R. Reed Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: 2nd Edition It should have been a perfect night out. Instead, Mark and Donald collide with tragedy when they... Continue Reading →
“It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.” ― Chuck Palahniuk Title: Chase In Shadow (Johnnies #1) Author: Amy Lane Narrator:: Sean Crisden Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Run Time: 9 hours, 39 minutes Rating: 5 Stars Blurb:... Continue Reading →
“It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.” ― Chuck Palahniuk Title: Chase In Shadow (Johnnies #1) Author: Amy Lane Narrator:: Sean Crisden Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Run Time: 9 hours, 39 minutes Rating: 5 Stars Blurb:... Continue Reading →
“Drama is life with the dull parts left out.” ― Alfred Hitchcock BLURB: Christmas, 1983: A young man, Robert, tends to his soul mate, Keith, who is dying from AIDS. Robert tries valiantly to make this a special Christmas for his lover, but loses the fight late Christmas night. Christmas, 2007: Robert ventures out late... Continue Reading →
“Drama is life with the dull parts left out.” ― Alfred Hitchcock BLURB: Christmas, 1983: A young man, Robert, tends to his soul mate, Keith, who is dying from AIDS. Robert tries valiantly to make this a special Christmas for his lover, but loses the fight late Christmas night. Christmas, 2007: Robert ventures out late... Continue Reading →
“Justice isn’t about fixing the past; it’s about healing the past's future.” ― Jackson Burnett Justin South's Paul & Sam is the story of two nineteen-year-old boys who are brought together in a rather coincidental fashion and under some fairly serendipitous circumstances, as their lives had intertwined some years before in a near-tragic way, and... Continue Reading →
“Justice isn’t about fixing the past; it’s about healing the past's future.” ― Jackson Burnett Justin South's Paul & Sam is the story of two nineteen-year-old boys who are brought together in a rather coincidental fashion and under some fairly serendipitous circumstances, as their lives had intertwined some years before in a near-tragic way, and... Continue Reading →
“Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.” – Hippocrates In this third and final story in the Waiting for Forever series by Jamie Mayfield, we rejoin the story directly after Brian, Mike, Alex and Leo rescued Jamie from Steven O'Dell. Jamie has been beaten severely and has... Continue Reading →
“Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.” – Hippocrates In this third and final story in the Waiting for Forever series by Jamie Mayfield, we rejoin the story directly after Brian, Mike, Alex and Leo rescued Jamie from Steven O'Dell. Jamie has been beaten severely and has... Continue Reading →
Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it. – Rabindranath Tagore Chris O’Guinn’s Fearless is the story of fifteen-year-old Justin, a boy whose one and only aim is to be... Continue Reading →
Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it. – Rabindranath Tagore Chris O’Guinn’s Fearless is the story of fifteen-year-old Justin, a boy whose one and only aim is to be... Continue Reading →
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