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Summary: Percival Fisher has lived above the Poseidon bookshop in Coeursleigh-near-Sea all his life. Which is probably why everyone in town still sees the bookshop as his father’s and not all the improvements Percy’s made since he inherited it. So when the rival bookshop, the Minerva, is purchased by a new owner and his sister, Percy has hopes of an alliance between the shops and some recognition for his work. Hopes that are dashed when, on their first meeting, the new owner gives him the cut direct right in the middle of the street, clearly showing he has no interest in any sort of relationship. Sidney Weaver has come to Coeursleigh-near-Sea hoping no one asks why a former solicitor and his sister have bought a bookshop in a small holiday town when they know nothing about running a bookshop. Or why they left Norwich to begin with. Or really anything at all about them. Most especially the owner of the rival bookshop. Because he’d know at once that Sidney knows nothing about running a bookshop, not because Mr. Fisher of the Poseidon is handsome and knowledgeable and... and far too clever. No, it’s best they maintain a cordial distance. But an unexpected meeting during a ball at the assembly rooms—with dancing, and music, and candlelight—reveals their attraction is mutual, and Percy and Sydney begin to think there could be an alliance between them, until the secret in Sydney’s past catches up with him and threatens both his new relationship and his new life in Coeursleigh First in a series of books set in Coeursleigh-near-Sea, a holiday town in Regency England that had fashioned itself on Bath and Brighton, complete with assembly rooms, seasons for the marriage mart, and one thing the other towns don’t have—a Master of Ceremonies known for his match-making skills.

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Summary: In every life, in every time, I am always drawn to you. Whether they are band mates on a cross-country road trip, lovers in a late-night double feature, or ancient warriors bound by an Emperor’s boon, the connection between Darren and Miles is a force of nature. Their love is an anchor; their devotion is a sanctuary. Joshua Tree: When band leader Miles’s world falls apart, his best friend Darren is the only one who can pick up the pieces. A spontaneous road trip to the desert in a beat-up hippie van turns into a journey of rediscovered longing and the realization that some feelings can’t be buried forever. Late Night Double Feature: A post-midnight feature party provides the perfect cover for a different kind of performance. In the quiet darkness backstage, Darren and Miles explore the boundaries of their desire, proving that the best stories happen after the credits roll. The Emperor’s Boon: In a world of ancient honor and armored duty a single command can change everything. When Emperor "Maelius" grants a rare favor, they must navigate the shift from the battlefield to the bedroom, finding peace in a life defined by service and surrender. Heat level: 5 ____________ New to the series? Fragments of Sanctuary is the perfect introduction to the high-heat, deeply emotional world of A.E. LeMercier. These three standalone stories showcase the "Safe Authority" and protective devotion that fans have come to love, set in entirely new worlds. Returning to the Intricate Ties crew? Because one lifetime of Miles and Darren wasn’t enough, see your favorite couple like you’ve never seen them before. Same heat. Different worlds. Endless devotion

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Summary: Harberton... It’s not just a place, it’s a destination. It exudes class from a bygone era. Yet, in its way, it’s homey. Within the walls of this manor, status resides along with servants. Within these walls lie untold secrets. Following the Napoleonic Wars, retired Colonel Baldwin Banfield lives in isolation with his Butler, Reginald. After the loss of his wife and completion of service, he sought a simpler life. However, when a visit from an old friend and his sister prompts them to alter their quiet way of life, they must face new challenges, such as hiring help and dealing with scandals, controversy, and pining from both the upstairs guests and downstairs staff. Despite that, when the lonely Colonel and his butler realize there is something more between them than flirtatious glances and camaraderie, there’s seemingly nothing anyone can do to stop them from pursuing love. Unfortunately, following one's heart in a stiflingly judgmental period can be a dangerous game, especially when some forms of love are considered a crime. Join international number one best-selling author Daniel Elijah Sanderfer for this timeless Jane Austen-esque style romance set in the background of Regency Era rural England.

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Summary: Exiled by his own family for being too visible, too defiant, too himself, Tomás Moreno is abandoned in La Corona—a forgotten jungle town in the far northeastern corner of Colombia. The son of the Minister of the Interior finds himself in a place with no electricity, no running water, and no escape. But in this prison of his family's making, Tomás discovers something unexpected: purpose. As teacher, healer, and advocate for the powerless villagers of La Corona, he navigates the impossible space between guerrillas, the oil company, and the military. When rebels repeatedly sabotage the nearby pipeline, toxic oil floods the river that sustains the town, and Tomás becomes the only voice fighting for people who have none. Then Felix Amaral arrives—a Brazilian engineer working with the cleanup crew—and for the first time in years, Tomás glimpses the possibility of love. Suddenly, he's summoned back to Bogotá to join peace negotiations that could end the war. But returning to the family that rejected him means confronting his past. In a land where survival demands compromise and silence, can Tomás claim both love and purpose—or must he sacrifice one to save the other? A powerful story of love, of identity, of resilience, and of finding family in the most unexpected places.

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Summary: Billy Joe Dare longs to leave his father’s farm and go West with the settlers, trappers, and fortune hunters. The wilderness has a powerful call, and one night, he screws up his courage and answers. The first thing he does is get mauled by a bear. The second is to get rescued by Walks With the Wind, a young Native American warrior with beautiful eyes. Billy Joe learns Walks With the Wind is on a dream-quest to see the Indian Territory over in Oklahoma, where the white man wants to relocate him and his tribe. No one among them has seen this territory and his dream warns him the land there is no good, and his people will regret giving up their ancestral lands to be relocated there. Together, Billy Joe Dare and Walks With the Wind brave the dangers of the wilderness as well as angry white settlers and slave owners. Billy Joe learns the Indian warrior is not what he seems to be. And they both learn falling in love may be the biggest danger of all in the ruthless world of the American Wild West.

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Summary: In eighteenth century London, twenty-year-old Dennis Must, otherwise known as Sheba, is successfully plying his trade in the taverns and molly houses of Covent Garden. His life is turned upside down when a regular customer is murdered, leaving Sheba as the sole witness and prime suspect. He soon becomes hard-pressed to evade the Bow Street constables let alone the killer. Reluctantly, Sheba teams up with intriguing lawyer Valentine Lee, finding him to be a helpful ally and more. Can they track down the culprit before Sheba becomes the next victim? And will Sheba’s growing feelings for Valentine prove to be his downfall or his salvation?

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Summary: In Dickensian Britain, a popular parlour game demanded that players sacrifice something of value each time they erred — no matter how small the mistake. September, 1843. Teenagers Ben and Jem, bound by desperation and circumstance, flee the oppressive confines of a London school for wayward boys. As they journey across the countryside, their bond deepens, each finding solace in the other while carefully guarding the secrets that haunt them. Seeking shelter from violent storms, they take refuge in an abandoned farmstead. There, at last, Ben and Jem allow themselves to acknowledge their true feelings — but the farmstead is no sanctuary. It is shrouded in darkness, and something within that darkness has taken notice of them… and recognizes one of its own. Equal parts Dickensian drama, queer coming of age tale, and Gothic horror, it is a haunting story of discovery, love, and the price exacted when past mistakes — and the darkness between worlds — demand their rightful sacrifice.

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Summary: On a fog-bound winter night, five men from the Clearwater, Larkspur, and Delamere Mysteries find themselves stranded in a rural railway station, awaiting a special train bound for Larkspur Hall and Clearwater’s annual Christmas Ball. To pass the long hours, they share candid, colourful, and often amusing tales from their pasts while the attentive stationmaster listens in. Yet the youngest among the group, a stranger, grows increasingly uneasy. He bears a secret and is the subject of mysterious messages that arrive throughout the night. Who is he, and why has he been invited to Larkspur Hall? Only by unravelling their stories can the group piece together the truth.

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Summary: Patch Burke is the son of a miner. He lives with his mother in the forgotten coal community of St. Charles, Virginia. They are barely making ends meet, but they do what they can to survive. While they may lack material possessions, they find strength in their love for one another. Butch is an orphan who was left behind after his father died from Black Lung Disease. Feeling desperate and lonely, he contemplates leaving the place he once called home. Fortunately, hope arrives when he encounters Patch, a kind neighbor boy. What begins as a friendship soon blossoms into a beautiful love. Patch persuades his mother to welcome Butch into their home, creating a sense of family. However, when bad news threatens to tear them apart, they must unite to overcome the challenge and protect everything they hold dear. Join best-selling authors Daniel Elijah Sanderfer and C.C. Black in this poignant tale about overcoming hardship, having faith, and embracing chosen family amid life's struggles.

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Summary: Wade When my little brother was fifteen, he kissed a boy. Someone from our werewolf pack saw him and told Alpha, and that was the end. The end of his life, because wolf packs have ironclad rules and one of them is, Thou shalt not be gay, ever. Shawn died. And the extra gut-punch on top of losing my brother was that the man who obeyed our Alpha’s order to kill Shawn was Dustin, our Fixer, a man I’d thought was my good friend. The man I’d secretly had a crush on. Once Shawn was dead, once Alpha let me loose, I ran fast and far. I wanted to kill Dustin, to smear his guts out on the ground and dance on them, but he had four inches, thirty pounds, and fifteen years of fighting experience on me. He was pack Sixth to my Fifteenth. In a fight, I’d always lose. Still, as I made a new life a long way from the pack, I vowed that one day, I’d find Dustin and end him. Then, one spring night, I woke to a very familiar wolf peering in at me from the fire escape. I had my shot at revenge at last. Dustin Pack Fixer is a title, a job, an avocation. It’s also a prison, bound by vows to your Alpha and one sole commandment: protect the pack. My father, who was Fixer before me, taught me all kinds of ways to cover up evidence that might reveal werewolves. I could pick locks, alter photos, confuse, drug, blackmail, and eliminate threats. I was up on all the new technology that was growing by leaps and bounds here in the 1970s. I understood video, knew what a motion detector could do. And I used my skills to kill an innocent boy. Well, that’s what my Alpha thought I’d done, what he’d commanded of me. What Shawn’s brother Wade believed, when he escaped our pack and vanished. In fact, Shawn was still alive and I was no longer Fixer. But it took me seven years to find Wade, to give him the good news. Question is, will he kill me before I can tell him he still has a brother? Fixer is a hurt-comfort, second chances prequel novella set in the 1970s, thirty-seven years before the events in Unacceptable Risk.

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Summary: Merry Christmas from the Earl of Crofton. Come and read about the festive goings-on at Crofton Hall in this collection featuring characters from the Modern Crofton and historical series. Stories are from Christmas Past, Christmas Present, and Christmas Future. Christmas Past A Gift for the Man Who Has Everything: Anthony and Sebastian Twenty Buttons: James and Adam Merry Gentlemen: Charles and Timothy Christmas Present Ben and the Mistletoe: Ben and Ashley Chris and the Kittens: Chris and Jack Christmas Telly Sucks: Dara and Nathan Ashley’s Twelve Days of Christmas: Ben and Ashley Christmas Future The First Christmas in the Cottage: Karl and Val New Year’s Eve at Fairbanks: Simon and Robin The First (and last) to Make it Home: David and Kieran

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Summary: The action-packed sequel to the best-selling thriller, The Road to Montepulciano On the night of the ninth of June 1944, four days after the Allied liberation of Rome, four nuns are murdered in a railway carriage at the Vatican City railway station. Sixteen years later, returning to Tuscany after a gruelling book signing tour of Australia, Damson O’Reilly finds his partner, Giancarlo (no longer a detective but now a well-known and successful lawyer) engrossed in a slander case between Italy’s screen heartthrob, Mario Celestino, and a high-profile, fascist industrialist, Giovanni Scavola. The case uncovers buried secrets, secrets that bring to light the involvement of both men in the WW2 crime and which lead to kidnapping, torture and murder, culminating in a dramatic, bloody outcome that will rock the Italian nation to its core.

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Summary: Jack Merrit longs for a case more challenging than burglaries and missing jewels, and when someone finds a skeleton inside a pipe organ, his wish comes true. At first, the strange discovery in the church of St Clement Danes seems like a prank, but when Jack’s next call is to a crime within earshot of the bells of St Martin’s, an uneasy pattern emerges. Oranges and lemons say the bells of St Clement’s You owe me five farthings, say the bells of St Martin’s And then, the murders start. If the first is chance, a second becomes a coincidence, but a third? That’s a pattern, and these are no ordinary murders. They involve diabolical contraptions that kill seemingly random victims. Asked by both London police forces to investigate without being told why, Jack and his men embark on an investigation knowing where the killer will strike next, but not when. When the killer invites Jack to join his game, a contest of intellect begins, and knowing failure will lead to disgrace, he pits himself against his most cunning adversary so far.

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Summary: After a couple of weeks at the Fire Island cabin, developing their second play together, writer Sam Herman thinks his star’s flirting means he can finally risk a kiss. But maybe not: Tommy Hayes doesn’t make a scene about it, but he leaves fast. Back in the city, Tommy spills the story to a friend who makes an unexpected suggestion: marriage. Much to Tommy’s surprise, the solution works. His wife Roberta is underwriting their play. She and Sam’s wife become friends. And Tommy has their blessing to find out why Sam’s kiss didn’t send him running to confession. Tommy and Sam find ways to fit their love affair into their marriages, careers, and military service. But they live on opposite coasts for decades, and Tommy finally has to ask: can they ever have a real life together?

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Summary: El amor prohibido florece en las sombras de la Inglaterra de la Regencia. Expulsado de su hogar infantil a causa de sus antepasados mixtos, Florian encuentra consuelo en la finca Melcombe, donde cuida los jardines y su propio jardín secreto. Pero cuando llega el encantador nuevo mozo de cuadras, Everett, la tranquila existencia de Florian se ve trastornada por sentimientos inesperados. Everett, cautivado por el misterioso Florian, decide atravesar su soledad. Se propone invitar a Florian a la feria de verano, pero en el mundo de la finca Melcombe nada sale de acuerdo con los planes. Especialmente cuando surge una conexión prohibida. ¡Compra El Jardín de Florian hoy mismo y sumérgete en esta apasionante historia de amor prohibido y segundas oportunidades! No te pierdas esta historia de amor imprescindible.

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Summary: A Slow Burn Meet Cute! Baker. Wizard. God of Space and Time. Cupcake enthusiast. How long will it take to fan the flames and enrage this gentle phoenix? Start counting. What's a wounded and lonely little cinnamon roll to do? Stripped of his psychic powers, Calico Winghorse flees his homeworld and travels to 19th century Earth via his inter-dimensional portal. As a mixed-blood phoenix trapped in human form, he opens a bakery in the San Francisco Bay Area and quietly nurses his wounds. But the unique method of his arrival draws the unwanted attention of Infinity Corporation. Representing this angelic-run company is Agustin Chavez de la Cruz, the Demon Lord of California. Even though Agustin is IC's heir, he finds himself demoted from his duties to concentrate on his new assignment: take absolute control of Calico's portal. But Calico refuses to sell at any price. He is also very busy ensuring that the good people of the city are getting their fill of baked goods. Before Agustin can formulate a more gracious avenue of acquiring the gateway, the demanding head of IC interferes, further complicating matters. So as negotiations stumble along, Calico and Agustin come to realize they both want more than a stuffy business arrangement. However, due to Calico's injuries, the portal remains vulnerable to the darker forces that want it at any cost. Agustin will have to push both his angelic heritage, as well as his own psychic powers to the very limits to heal this sweet baker, who is also the portal world's God of Space and Time. The Demon Lord of California is the first book of an LGBTQ+ paranormal-fantasy series. You won't want to miss a first love found, hidden worlds, and a recovering workaholic grasping at his second chance. All centered around the control of an otherworldly portal. So curl up with your favorite beverage, and hang out with Cal and Gus for a while. You'll be happy you did!

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Summary: Albert Arbon collapses at Delamere House after a three-day trek. His only son, Robert, has vanished after seeing a strange light in the Suffolk sky, and Arbon is desperate to find him. Detectives Jack and Baxter, with young Simeon, accompany Arbon back to his remote Suffolk farmhouse, only to find themselves faced with a combination of rural legends seemingly tied to a series of unsettling events. A body lies inexplicably in the middle of an untouched wheat field. Other children have gone missing. There is talk of a ‘fire snake’, and no-one dare share the secrets of what can be seen from Snake Hill. As the investigation deepens, Jack must navigate more than the mystery. He must also face the burdens of responsibility — not only for uncovering the truth and doing the right thing, but also for guiding Simeon, a boy on the cusp of manhood, who’s willing to risk everything to prove himself.

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Summary: In a world where duty clashes with desire, an heir’s heart is put to the ultimate test. Lord Grey is left heartbroken and embroiled in family conflicts when his lover vanishes without a trace. His life is a void of aching loneliness until Sam reappears, disguised as a gardener on Grey’s estate. Stunned to discover that Sam isn’t the humble bricklayer he once adored, Grey is thrust into a shadowy world of espionage. Together, they must uncover a traitor selling weapons to England’s enemies. Amidst deception and chaos, Grey must learn to trust again and convince his elusive spy that they are perfect together. But will duty and divided loyalties tear them apart? Grab your copy of this riveting gay Regency novel of passion, intrigue, and redemption from award-winning romance author Stephanie Lake.

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Summary: Lord Blair quiere una segunda oportunidad en el amor con su teniente perdido hace mucho tiempo. Sólo hay un problema: Blair está comprometido con la hermana del hombre. Asqueado de las amantes infieles, el vizconde Reid Blair decide, de una vez por todas, olvidar al oscuro y anónimo oficial que entró y salió de su vida hace cinco años. Se casará con Lady Prudence. Con su incuestionable belleza y sorprendente ingenio, está garantizado que será una esposa entretenida. El hermano de Prudence, el teniente David Cavendish, siempre ha sido muy discreto. Excepto durante una tórrida quincena, años atrás, cuando su pasión por cierto vizconde encendió su cama. Pero ahora ha vuelto del mar para salvar a su hermana de un matrimonio malhadado. Hará lo que sea para impedir la boda. Incluso seducir a Lord Blair para demostrar que la unión acabará en desengaño. Su segunda oportunidad una lectura LGBTQ+ de dos horas y el primer libro de esta serie romántica llena de vapor que comienza en la Inglaterra georgiana. Si te gustan los personajes atractivos y las tramas enriquecedoras, te encantará este libro apasionante de la galardonada autora Stephanie Lake. Descubra hoy mismo este romance histórico imprescindible.

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Summary: Respected dentist Harold Eskell writes a list of cryptic references for Jack Merrit to find and then takes his own life. Now leading the Delamere Agency, Jack is determined to uncover the truth behind Eskell’s final act. Enlisting the help of Baxter and his loyal team, he embarks on an investigation that uncovers shattered lives, unexplained suicides, illicit photography, underground erotica, and blackmail. It’s all leading him somewhere, but where? All things are unrelated yet connected, and the only way to do the right thing is for Jack to risk his liberty and fight crime with crime.