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Perfect Night

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In the bustling streets of London, Charlie hustles to pay for his mother’s care, taking a risky side job that puts his heart—and body—on the line. Enter Sebastian, a suave New Yorker with a taste for the finer things and a hidden vulnerability. Their chemistry ignites during a night that feels like a scene from a fairy tale, but reality looms. As their worlds collide, Charlie’s fierce independence clashes with Sebastian’s desire to nurture. Can they conquer their pasts and rewrite their love story, or will it all come crashing down? Dive into “Perfect Night,” where passion meets peril in a modern twist on a classic romance.

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Courtside Confession: A Coming Out MM Tennis Romance

About Courtside Confession: A Coming Out MM Tennis Romance:

In the high-stakes world of professional tennis, young phenom Alex Wright is on the brink of his first major tournament victory. But beneath the surface of his rising career, Alex harbors a secret that could change everything. Enter Chris Rivera, a seasoned player known for his calm demeanor and killer backhand, who becomes more than just a mentor to Alex.

As they partner for a challenging doubles tournament, their on-court chemistry is undeniable. The two athletes find themselves sharing more than just tactics; personal stories and vulnerabilities come to light, drawing them irresistibly closer. However, the path to love is not just a game of physical endurance but emotional courage.

Amid fierce competition and the glare of the public eye, Alex faces pivotal moments that test his resolve. From confronting prejudice to embracing his true self, Alex’s journey is fraught with challenges that extend far beyond the tennis court. With Chris by his side, he must decide if he’s ready to make the most important play of all—coming out and confessing his feelings, risking his career for a chance at lasting love.

“Courtside Confession” is a stirring tale of love, identity, and the courage it takes to be one’s true self in the competitive sports arena. It promises to be as heart-racing as it is heartfelt, perfect for fans of sports romance and stories of personal triumph.

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A Place To Fall

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Living in a tiny town, Cameron is a gay boy whose creativity is both his strength and weakness. One night, a series of intense images and dreamlike scenes lead him to the edge of the woods, where he disappears from view. This novella will make you think about what it means to be genuinely free while also containing humor and tragedy. Though “A Place To Fall” may not appear to offer much at first glance, inside you will learn what it means to enjoy life—or better yet, death—according to your own terms.

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The Strange Story of Stanley Suspect

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Stanley Suspect is not your ordinary paranormal investigator. Living alone in London with his three ghosts, this young transgender man who hates nothing more than Christmas and carolers can exorcise a poltergeist or have tea with your deceased relatives, but his life lacks something.

Tormented by dreams about his haunted childhood home and a murder that happened there, he is waiting for fortune or a great adventure to come knocking on his door and help him escape his fears – and debts. And it does, when a beautiful clockmaker succubus who committed a crime seeks his help. But as they flee to Scotland together and encounter strange and magical creatures, so does Stanley’s past catch up to him, and he discovers the crimes committed by him and his father, and his dark destiny.

Liar, crook, sweetheart, and always a child at heart, Stanley Suspect is coming out of the trans crypt to take you on a journey to the underworld and his upside-down reality, but can you really trust him? Between ghosts, demons, dangerous women, and the trickster fairy folk, you might just want to become the devil’s advocate to find your way through the mazes of mind. For every path leads somewhere, even if not where you expected…

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The Lesbian President by Lee Cushing

About The Lesbian President by Lee Cushing:

Eleanor was first first woman elected to the position of President of The United States and was unmarried, but when her mother’s dying wish was for her to find the happiness of love her secret was revealed when she met Sydney Sullivan. She was gay.

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Callisto 2.0

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She had to travel beyond the planet to discover her true self. Will she find the courage to walk through the doorway to a new future?

Shambhala Space Station, 2097. Solitary physicist Callisto (physics, after all, is a jealous mistress) never accepted conventional wisdom. So when she’s recruited to work on faster-than-light technology by a beautiful and mysterious older woman, she eagerly accepts the career opportunity at the women-only research station orbiting Earth’s moon. But her enthusiasm suffers when her first discovery is unexpected heartbreak.

Throwing herself into work on a problematic warp drive prototype, Calli blossoms in the utopian female community that shows her love and acceptance for the first time in her life. But when a twisted conspiracy, a disingenuous affair, and a disastrous betrayal test her place in this unique environment, the brilliant scientist must dig deep to find her moment of truth.

Will Calli embrace her destiny in an unexplored cosmos?

Callisto 2.0 is the transformative first book in the Shambhala Saga feminist science fiction series. If you like compassionate characters, deep-space intrigue, and hopeful visions of the future, then you’ll adore Susan English’s cosmic adventure.

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Blue Billy’s Rogue Lexicon

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William Dempsey was a wonder among wonders.

By 18, he had risen from a gang of London street rogues to be the personal plaything of the Marquess of Argyll. Maintained in splendour, celebrated at masquerades – with everything he could wish for.

Now all has come crashing down. He is put out in the rain without patronage, his West End apartment, or a place among the ton.

So on a stormy night, he arrives at a house in Southwark. Marathon Moll’s in the Mint – the bawdyhouse he worked in during his ascent and where he earned the name Blue Billy.

But is Marathon Moll’s a place from which to rise again? For there is one in the crowd, who catches his eye. Who takes his hand and promises something better.

Or does Moll’s signify a return to his roots? For one day, a second and very different young man raps on the door. Takes his hand and asks him to return to his past.

To the street language of vagabonds. The canting dialect of thieves.

To the schemes, and the dreams, of his youth.

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Morphosis

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In 1987, Ollie, his children from a previous marriage, Sam and Jodi Lee, and his romantic partner Dwayne start anew on a farm near a small and quiet farming community tucked deep in rural and open country.

Ollie takes employment as a deputy with the local Sheriff’s Department, leaving Dwayne home to help with toddler Sam and teen Jodi Lee.

Dwayne adjusts to his new role and struggles to balance AA support, his own medical illness, and tending Ollie’s children. He is met, also, with harsh homophobic attitudes from locals, most notably from the local pharmacist who refuses to fill his prescription outright, worsening his condition and allowing Ollie’s children to wear him to his breaking point.

Headlines explode when a high school girl is found murdered and Ollie works tirelessly in catching the murderer named The Visitor. Ollie’s eagerness and his drive keep him too busy to notice his family spinning apart.

Thus unravels a tense and unsettling queer character study that examines narcissism, codependency, and self-worth, and explores if we are truly capable of escaping the worst parts of ourselves or are we prisoner to our self-destructive cycles?

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When Daddy Hurts by TL Travis

When Daddy Hurts by TL Travis

Daddies are supposed to be fierce and strong. Protectors of their boys.

But what happens when Daddy is the one who needs taken care of?

Stupid, unwritten rules.

Pfft.

Who came up with them anyway?

Daddy needs me now more than ever and I’m gonna be there for him just like he’s always been for me. Darn the rules, we’re a family and that matters most.

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The Tyranny of Desire

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PUCHY MUSHKIN is a big dreamer and an even bigger loser whose spectacular failure as a human being is exceeded only by the enormity of his penis.

In the depths of his despair, Puchy has an epiphany: could the endless series of screw-ups that define his existence be the result of his overwhelming desire for the success he believes is his birthright? To test his theory and, hopefully, change his fate, Puchy vows to banish all dreams, goals, aims, ambitions, and obsessions from his life except one: to assassinate desire itself and hang it by its feet like Mussolini.

What follows is the hilariously dark, raunchy, and irreverent tale of one man’s twisted war with himself—an anti-story about an anti-hero whose only motivation is to have no motivation at all.

The Tyranny of Desire by Morty Shallman is the perfect choice for fans of Arthur Nersesian and Gary Reilly’s The Asphalt Warrior. If you’re a fan of edgy, irreverent literature, you won’t want to miss The Tyranny of Desire.

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Serafino da Ferrara

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Ferrara, 1505 AD. Talented Serafino is apprenticed to Mastro Filargiro, one of the city’s leading artists.
Serafino finds love, but his mastery takes him on a perilous journey across Italy’s feuding city-states, unaware that his virtuosity is a threat to the pre-eminence of the hitherto unchallenged masters of the Renaissance.
His life must take a dramatic new turn in the hope of escaping their enmity.

Washington DC, 2008. Parker’s first year at Georgetown High is coming to an end.
His father is appointed Consul General in Florence. Parker enthusiastically embraces his new life and befriends handsome Beppe.
But almost everyone around him has been keeping secrets. And the fifteenth-century palazzo where his family now lives unexpectedly reveals its long-buried mysteries.

Separated by five hundred years, yet united by their talent, Serafino and Parker embark on similar journeys of discovery while fellow artists, assassins, princes and envious classmates rage and scheme around them.

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The Queering by Brooke Skipstone

The Queering by Brooke Skipstone

Editor’s Pick Booklife Reviews: A fast-paced yet thoughtful romance of coming out and finding love in later life in Alaska
5 Star Clarion Reviews: A riveting novel . . . about love, courage, and solidarity
[A]n impressive story that packs a punch. —Kirkus Reviews

Trapped between a homicidal brother and a homophobic podcaster eager to reveal her lesbian romance novels, a seventy-year-old grandmother seeks help in Clear, Alaska.

Suffocating in a loveless marriage and lonely existence, Taylor MacKenzie lives only through her writing, using the pen name Brooke Skipstone, her best friend in college and lover before her death in 1974.

Afraid of being murdered before anyone in her family or community knows her life story, Taylor writes an autobiography about her time with Brooke and shares it with those closest to her, hoping for understanding and acceptance.

Accused of promoting the queering and debasement of America by a local podcaster, Taylor embroils the conservative community in controversy but fights back with the help of a new, surprising friend.

Can she endure the attacks from haters and gaslighters? Can she champion the queering she represents?

And will she survive?

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Blood Catalyst

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MM Paranormal Vampire and Rock Star Romance (Carolina Sky Book 4)

Everything is about to change.

Taken from his vampires, Matthew now has a whole new set of fangs to worry about.
He was back to square one—vampire dinner.

But Tobia and Gwin aren’t giving him up. When Tobia’s maker shows up on the scene, they use him to get to New York quickly in order to save their muse.
He could not stand to lose her, and his heart ached for Matthew. They weren’t complete without him.

Kato, John & Wayne are trying to cope without their singer, but it doesn’t feel right.
“Carolina Sky and Matthew are about something more than being a kick ass band. I just don’t know exactly what that is.”

…And nothing comes out how they planned.

A serialized paranormal Rockstar romance with mythical beings and multiple pairings.

Tags: Rockers looking for fame, forbidden love, vampires are coming, women with fangs, prolific song writing, gay love, bi-sexual love, fighting demons, fighting alcoholism, energy draining performances, jealousy among friends, love triangle, everybody wants the singer

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The Game Changers: Gay Sports Romance Box Set

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Nothing is sexier than a man who plays sports.

If you love steamy gay sports romances, grab this complete 3-book box set The Game Changers.
In this collection you will find:

Going Offside
A childhood friend turns into a college rival, and the worst thing is I want him, badly.
I’ve still been struggling to come out.
The last thing I need is to have a crush on a rival cheerleader, especially when that person is from my past.
I have to try and keep it together because if anyone finds out then my cover will be blown and I’m not ready to be out.
But damn if I don’t hate the way Liam makes it look so easy…

On Thin Ice
My mentor taught me everything he knew about hockey, now he’s going to teach me everything he knows about love.

It’s impossible for these men to pretend they’re straight, and yet they do everything they can to fight off these gay feelings.
Going from friends to lovers can be tough, especially when there’s an age gap involved, and if the truth should get out it could ruin Trent’s career before it’s truly started.
He left Eric behind once before when he turned pro, can he do it again when this time his heart is on the line?

Off The Field
It’s My First Time With A Man—And He’s On The Opposing Team.
I’m a single dad, the Coach of the San Diego Coyotes.
Chris Woodgate is the star pitcher for the Los Angeles Blackbirds—and my son’s hero.
He should be off-limits to me.
Is my life about to become a home run because of Chris—or the most disastrous strikeout ever?

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Cop vs. Capo by Cari Z, L.A. Witt

Cop vs. Capo by Cari Z, L.A. Witt

Wherever August Morrison and Ricardo Torralba go, chaos is sure to follow. The authors certainly know this, since their “standalone book” has now turned into a series with no end in sight, because…UGH. These two. We give up.

Anyway.

Detective David Chandler had no clue what he was getting into when he and his partner decided they were going to nail August for murder. They didn’t realize it was one of the few murders August didn’t commit, or that their homicide investigation would lead them into the middle of a mob war.

Cavalcante underboss Pedro Silva knew asking August and Ricardo for help was a terrible idea. Just mentioning their names is bad for Pedro’s blood pressure. Owing them a favor? Oh Lord. He still asked, though, because he was out of options, but he can’t say he didn’t know he’d regret it.

Neither man expected things to blow up this badly.

Now they’re both on the run from the mafia, the cops, and everyone in between… except for August and Ricardo. On one hand, that means they have two expert assassins in their corner. On the other, it means they have the biggest troll on the planet heckling them at every turn. And sticking them in a safehouse together. With only one bed.

And if August or Ricardo make one more comment about how Dave and Pedro should just hook up already…

Cop vs. Capo is 67,500 words long, and is book 4 of the Hitman vs. Hitman series.

CW: combat PTSD, alcoholism, on-page violence, discussion of abuse of a sex worker

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Forbidden Love by Dee Rose

Forbidden Love by Dee Rose

Mark and Jesse have been friends since they were kids and became best friends – like brothers in high school. However, Mark slowly begins to develop romantic feelings for Jesse, which puts a strain on, not only their relationship, but all other relationships they’d ever have. Fast forward twelve years later, and Mark’s feelings have only deepened because of their proximity in Salt Lake City. Both are successful in their chosen careers, Mark in advertising and Jesse in construction. Jesse married his childhood sweetheart, Annika Johnson, and they have a child with another one on the way. Sadly, Mark finds out he has an inoperable brain tumor and finally decides to tell Jesse how he truly feels. But Mark must tread carefully because even though he and Annika are also close, she begins to suspect Mark has a secret crush on Jesse. Several obstacles and side stories arise on the way to passionate night between Mark and Jesse in a remote cabin.

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A Little Christmas: Jacob by TL Travis

A Little Christmas: Jacob by TL Travis

For Jacob Shelton, life was anything but conventional, having been born with a silver spoon in his mouth even though it was a loveless existence. Jacob hoped there was more to life than money and was about to find out the hard way.

Richard Worthington longs for a boy of his own. One to nurture and care for, pamper and spoil. His friends in the lifestyle found their forever partners, so why’s it so difficult for him to find the same? Sugar baby after sugar baby leaves Richard wondering if it’s worth it.

Their paths cross in a chance meeting, though it’s a life-or-death decision that ultimately brings them together.

This is an MM daddy/little Christmas twist on The Little Princess Classic tale. Each age-play romance book in this multi-author series can be read as a standalone.

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On Thin Ice: Gay Hockey Romance

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My mentor taught me everything he knew about hockey, now he’s going to teach me everything he knows about love.

Trent Markham had finally made it to the big time, but it’s not all he dreamed of.
After his first season in the national league of hockey he returns to his small town, hoping that his old mentor, Eric Taylor, can teach him how to cope when the spotlight is shining on him.

Trent choked in his last game and he doesn’t want the same thing to happen again because he knows how easily he can lose his place.
But as he and Eric spend more time together tension arises.
t’s impossible for these men to pretend they’re straight, and yet they do everything they can to fight off these gay feelings.

Going from friends to lovers can be tough, especially when there’s an age gap involved, and if the truth should get out it could ruin Trent’s career before it’s truly started.
He left Eric behind once before when he turned pro, can he do it again when this time his heart is on the line?

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Remember Our Names by Laurencia Hoffman

Remember Our Names by Laurencia Hoffman

His wife’s murder has long since become a cold case.

Twenty years ago, Detective Hector Silva’s wife was brutally killed. Despite his tireless efforts to capture her assailant, every lead turned out to be a dead end. Every shred of hope turned to disappointment.

The Westbourne Police Department no longer entertains Silva’s theories, his coworkers viewing them as nothing more than paranoid ramblings. Weary from two decades of hunting for answers, Hector is contemplating retirement when the killer strikes again.

With his determination renewed, Hector will stop at nothing to bring the serial killer to justice. Lines will be crossed. Loyalties tested. One way or another, Hector is determined to look his wife’s murderer in the eye and make them pay.

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