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REVIEW: Be Mine – Alexandra Caluen

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Genre: Contemporary LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewer: Tony Get It On Amazon About The Book A hurt/comfort M/M romance novel about truth and consequences. Valentine Gale knew he was difficult. Too many years of not only hiding his emotions, but refusing to admit he had them. He thought his future would look a lot like his present. Then he met the new science teacher Christopher Parsons. Kit had been trying to find a moment to talk to the language-arts teacher for months. When the guy started that conversation at the academy’s year-end party, Kit was delighted. It turned out they had a lot in common. Including the way they liked to … Read more

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REVIEW: Cold Cases and Bitter Enemies – J.M. Dabney

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Cold Cases and Bitter Enemies - J.M. Dabney

Genre: Mystery, Police Procedural, Romance LGBTQ+ Category: Gay, Pan, Ace Reviewer: Maryann Get It On Amazon About The Book An unknown enemy wanted to take everything from us. Graves I’d spent all my forty-plus years paying for mistakes when I’d simply been human. Living in the shadow of my friend’s happiness grew harder every day. I didn’t mind being the odd one out. I didn’t mind being considered the unlovable strait-laced-ish one to their mayhem. Acceptance after a lifetime of not measuring up was nice. I’d found my rhythm and my place among the weirdness of my unit. That was until Marcel Douglas, the new ego-maniac in Homicide, decided he … Read more

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REVIEW: Out of Focus – A.L. Lester

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Out of Focus - A.L. Lester

Genre: Contemporary, Romance LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewer: Maryann Get It On Amazon About The Book Alex has never quite believed he’s good enough. Not as a person and not as a lighting technician. He hates that however hard he tries he can’t get his boss, Luke, to like him. In the two years he’s been in the job it’s become a Thing with him and he’s got a huge crush on the man. He needs to move on for his own sanity and his career and he’s just about to accept a job at a bigger theatre when one of the volunteers he’s bedded and dumped pushes him off a … Read more

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REVIEW: Suspiciously Sweet – Samantha SoRelle

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Suspiciously Sweet - Samantha SoRelle

Genre: Contemporary LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewer: Gordon, Paranormal Romance Guild Get It On Amazon About The Book Trevor Hill has a secret. By day he’s a mild-mannered journalist, but by night he’s the hottest—and most hated—food critic in town. When he walks into Nana O’Neill’s Bakery looking for his next scathing review, the last thing he expects is someone like Owen behind the counter. The scowling man looks more like a bouncer than a baker, but after one bite, Trevor is in love—with Owen’s baking at least. Owen O’Neill has secrets of his own. Scarred, tattooed Owen would rather be in the kitchen whipping up pastries than dealing with actual … Read more

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REVIEW: Dirty Work – TA Moore

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Dirty Work - TA Moore

Genre: Contemporary, Romance, Suspense LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewer: Maryann Get It On Amazon About The Book Crime Scene Cleaner [kraɪm siːnˈkliːnə]: Cleans up crime scenes…before the cops know there is one. People always say ‘you can’t go home again’. It turns out that doesn’t count as a guarantee…especially not during a global pandemic. After the jobs in LA started to dry up, crime scene cleaner Grade Pulaski was forced to pack up and move home. He loves his family, but the last thing he ever wanted was to face the ghosts he’d left back in Sweeny, Kentucky. Also, the place just sucks. He certainly isn’t going to stay any longer … Read more

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REVIEW: To Melt a Frozen Heart – Fearne Hill

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To Melt a Frozen Heart - Fearne Hill

Genre: Contemporary, Holiday LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewer: Aethena, Paranormal Romance Guild Get It On Amazon About The Book Freddie Duchamps-Avery has only one desire this Christmas: to ask his beloved Reuben to marry him. However, with his needy father moping around, finding the perfect, romantic moment to propose is proving tricky. The Rt Hon. Charles Duchamps-Avery is a successful politician, a hopeless father, and a miserable divorcé. Facing the prospect of Christmas alone in London, he accepts his son Freddie’s generous invitation to join the gang at Rossingley. Yet, being surrounded by happy couples only serves to remind of his past mistakes and a looming, lonely old age. If only … Read more

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REVIEW: Brushed With Love: Fearne Hill

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Brushed With Love - Fearne Hill

Genre: Contemporary LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewer: Xanthe, Paranormal Romance Guild Get It On Amazon About The Book Clement Constantine Church is a hot mess. With deadlines to meet. Whereas the striking Viking redecorating his seaside cottage is simply hot.  As a precocious teen, Clem wrote a best seller. Now he writes for other people. Too busy contemplating his bleak career and panicking about pretty much everything, he doesn’t notice that the gorgeous surfer slapping paint across his bedroom walls has a top-notch flirting game. Nor that the body hidden underneath his white overalls should come with its own government health warning. Anyhow, apparently the Viking is straight. After one too … Read more

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REVIEW: Making History at Crofton Hall – Rebecca Cohen

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Making History at Crofton Hall - Rebecca Cohen

Genre: Contemporary, Dash of Historical LGBTQ+ Category: Bi, Gay Reviewer: Maryann Get It On Amazon About The Book Crofton Hall is buzzing with anticipation for the filming of the Secret Histories TV special about a scandalous affair that has been hidden for over four hundred years. The hall’s new historian, Dara Callaghan, is drawn not just by the hall’s rich history but to TV producer, Nathan Lorimer. Nathan is finally ready to start dating again, several years after the death of his husband. There’s something about Dara, a quietly spoken Irishman, and the romance that surrounds Crofton Hall, that makes him want to take a chance. Meanwhile, Ben Redbourn, 16th Earl of … Read more

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REVIEW: Unholy Desire – Lynn Burke

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Unholy Desire - Lynn Burke

Genre: Contemporary (Age Gap) LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewer: Madison, Paranormal Romance Guild Get It On Amazon About The Book As an overseas missionary who leads lost souls toward salvation, it’s imperative I live a godly existence, even in the midst of life-shattering grief. Returning to the States brings about a trial worse than the loss of love, and I’m faced with desire for someone forbidden to me by my church and the word of God. Aaron Weston. My best friend’s son who is no longer a gangly teen. He makes me want things no newly widowed man should. His presence fills the emptiness in my life, but my sinful nature … Read more

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NEW RELEASE / GIVEAWAY: The Scars That Bind Us – Michelle Notaro

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The Scars That Bind Us - Michelle Notaro

Michelle Notaro has a new MM urban fantasy out: The Scars that Bind Us. And there’s a giveaway! Sometimes the worst scars are the ones you can’t see. Growing up in the magi compound was far from easy. I didn’t think I’d ever get out of that horrid place, but eighteen years ago, my world changed. I was allowed freedoms I’d never had before, although, even today, I was still at the Non-Human Specialties Operations’ beck and call. Which is how I find myself on a team with my best friend, five shifters, and a human. Now, I have to figure out a way to work with others—with shifters. I’ve never … Read more