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  • Adoring Keaton by Siobhan Davis

    Adoring Keaton by Siobhan Davis

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    A friends-to-lovers new adult MM romance from USA Today bestseller Siobhan Davis. Stand-alone with HEA and no cliff-hanger. Keaton Moving to California was supposed to be my fresh start. A clean slate. An opportunity to drop the façade, escape the lies, find a focus, and just be myself.But I should have realized it wouldn’t be easy, especially when my last name is Kennedy...
  • Dirty Secret by Rhys Ford

    Dirty Secret by Rhys Ford

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 26 ratings
    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 from. Traditional Korean men aren’t gay—at least not usually where people can see them. But Cole can’t spend too much time unraveling his boyfriend’s issues. He has a job to do...
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  • The Unforgettable Hookup by Jax Calder

    The Unforgettable Hookup by Jax Calder

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 20 ratings
    Sam’s story…One night. That’s all it was supposed to be.I can’t believe my luck when the most gorgeous guy I’ve ever seen propositions me in a bar, looking for his first-ever one-night stand.No names. No strings. Just pure fun.I’m more than happy to oblige.But after our incredible night together, I can’t stop thinking about him. Unfortunately, I have no way to track him down...
  • Pink Heart Jam, Vol. 1 by Shikke, しっけ

    Pink Heart Jam, Vol. 1 by Shikke, しっけ

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 19 ratings
    A drunken dare turns into a college student’s chance to confront his own sexuality—by visiting a male brothel!For college student Haiga, starting school in the big city is a chance to make new friends and try new things. On the first day of classes, he spots an impossibly gorgeous upperclassman named Kanae strumming a guitar and decides to join the school’s rock band...
  • Golden Boy and the Two Bears by Nash Summers

    Golden Boy and the Two Bears by Nash Summers

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Asher Williams is obsessed with love. His column is thriving, fellow students trust him with their relationship woes, and he’s on his A-game when it comes to matchmaking. At least, matchmaking other than his own. After a heartfelt letter written to his column, Asher is set on aiding the two love-struck heroes who desperately need his help...
  • Rookie by Eddie Cleveland

    Rookie by Eddie Cleveland

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    * Although part of a series, you will enjoy it as a standalone as well!Rookie is everything you love in an MM first time gay romance. A journey of self-discovery, the undeniable sparks with the man who makes him question everything, the moment of realization, the secret relationship, and coming out...
  • By the Numbers by K.M. Neuhold

    By the Numbers by K.M. Neuhold

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 23 ratings
    Two hot roommates, minus clothes, plus a drawer full of debauchery, and a WHOLE lot of tension. You don’t have to be a math genius to figure out the sum of that equation...
  • Got Me Merry by Casey Cox

    Got Me Merry by Casey Cox

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Can my best friend get me to enjoy the holidays? Ho... Ho... Um…No? Christmas just isn't my jam. The crowds. The cold. That Mariah Carey song blasting everywhere I go. Thanks, but no thanks.Don't get me wrong. I'm no Grinch. The holidays are awesome if you have a great family and money to shower them with gifts. Unfortunately for me, I have neither of those things...
  • Intimation by Vee Hoffman

    Intimation by Vee Hoffman

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Book 3 in the Acclamation series, Intimation chronicles the months following the end of Lent and Easter holiday and the increasing and intensifying intimacy between Michael and Dominic. Moments stolen away from public sight, even when foreshadowed by Dominic’s approaching graduation and Michael’s intentions for the future, only serve to strengthen their feelings for each other...
    Categorized as:
    college  queer  contemporary  m-m  length-medium
  • A Fighting Man by Sandrine Gasq-Dion

    A Fighting Man by Sandrine Gasq-Dion

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Army Ranger Slater Cassidy has a very special – very sexy – target in his sights. Meeting gorgeous, smart, uber-snarky Casper Kennedy was the highlight of Slater’s last trip home to New York. The soldier in him carefully plans his conquest. Unfortunately, Casper’s wearing some seriously strong armor and Slater’s charm offensives bounce right off...
  • After Ben by Con Riley

    After Ben by Con Riley

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    "Seattle Stories: Book One" A year after the sudden death of his longtime partner, Ben, Theo Anderson is still grieving. The last thing he's looking for is a new lover. But as Theo soon discovers, sometimes life has other plans...
  • Scratch the Surface by Mary Calmes

    Scratch the Surface by Mary Calmes

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 19 ratings
    Sometimes things look one way, but when you scratch the surface, there’s more than meets the eye.Jeremiah Wolfe has always done what was necessary to survive. On top of working two jobs, he’s going to school to become a social worker so he can give kids the help he never got when his mother left years ago. When a rare night off finds him with the chance to make a quick buck, he jumps on it...
  • Only You by Aimee Nicole Walker

    Only You by Aimee Nicole Walker

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Two completely different men and one powerful attraction. Sebastian Blake is a cynical, self-made billionaire who has only known rejection and abandonment in his personal life. Adam Johnson is a closeted gay man who works for the law firm representing Sebastian in a civil lawsuit filed against him by a former employee...
    Categorized as:
    anal sex  queer  alpha male  suspense  mystery  bdsm  m-m  angst
  • Naughty & Nice  by DJ Jamison

    Naughty & Nice by DJ Jamison

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Why can't I forget your kiss...Dear Quinn,Why must I have these feelings for you? You're my ex-stepbrother, and nothing will change that truth, no matter how many letters I write. I never expected to see you again--or to rescue you from the side of the road in a blizzard. I didn't think you would ever like me, much less kiss me in a steaming hot tub on a snowy night...
  • Yesterday by Sarina Bowen

    Yesterday by Sarina Bowen

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    It’s been seven years since John Rikker left his childhood home in Michigan. Surely that’s long enough to scar over the wounds he received there...
  • Untouched by M.A. Innes

    Untouched by M.A. Innes

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 13 ratings
    Growing up in an unusual family has made adapting to college more difficult for Jay. Sheltered and socially awkward, the only easy part about higher education is the classes. While everyone around him seems to instinctively understand what they’re into and who they are, he’s lost and alone. That is, until his new roommate makes life a little more interesting...
  • A King in Wonderland by Nash Summers

    A King in Wonderland by Nash Summers

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Asher Williams is obsessed with love. Or at least he was, until it all came crashing down. He made a mistake. And even Asher himself, arranger of marriages and aider of lovesick hearts, doesn’t know how to fix it. And like every heroic quest, there are a few bumps in the road and dragons to slay...
  • Unconditional Love by Andrew Grey

    Unconditional Love by Andrew Grey

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    "A Seven Days Story" Can a person's life change in just one day? How about seven? Donald Pottier and Jason Greene are barely more than boys when they meet on Chincoteague Island, Virginia. A day of crabbing soon turns them from strangers to friends, then to something more, but the boys' time is limited: at the end of the summer, Jay will leave Don and the island behind...
    Categorized as:
    anal sex  queer  contemporary  m-m  angst  length-short
  • Defenseman No. 9 by Xavier Neal

    Defenseman No. 9 by Xavier Neal

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A New Adult Romantic Comedy. Once upon a time, the Vlasta Vipers hockey team was so incredible — on and off the ice — they were almost mythical. Back then, they were the undefeated conquerors of the rink. Coveted prizes for Puck Bunnies. Their reputation was ironclad until the wrong skates landed on the wrong feet...
  • Camera Shy by E.M. Leya, Sara York

    Camera Shy by E.M. Leya, Sara York

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Trust is earned, but sometimes we form walls around ourselves to protect us from the pain, keeping others from getting close, and shielding us from the darkness that lurks around us. Charles has faced the worst of that darkness. Living on the streets from eleven years old, he learned to survive by trusting no one...
  • As I Am by E.M. Leya, Sara York

    As I Am by E.M. Leya, Sara York

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Kyle has struggled to protect his brother from the darkest things in life, but in doing so, they've lived on the streets, making a life for themselves away from those who would hurt them. It's taken years, but life is starting to look up for Ky. Still, he finds it hard to quit working the streets and the easy money it brings. Carson has everything he could want in life...
    Categorized as:
    anal sex  queer  m-m  contemporary  rockstars
  • Their Perfect Future by M.A. Innes

    Their Perfect Future by M.A. Innes

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 6 ratings
    Living together had been their only goal, but now what? Bryan and Maddox spent their first weeks back at college trying to keep their relationship from falling apart. Now that they’re living together and learning how to make their unique relationship work all over again, new issues have come up...
  • A Working Man by Sandrine Gasq-Dion

    A Working Man by Sandrine Gasq-Dion

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Matthew Hawke’s professional life is soaring as high the powerful bird of prey whose image is inked on his back. He’s at the top of his game as the owner of an advertising agency that is scooping up prime accounts like a mighty hawk wrapping its talons around an unfortunate ground rodent. Yes, work is good. Too bad his love life has more in common with the dying rodent than the triumphant hawk...
  • Cherish by Tere Michaels

    Cherish by Tere Michaels

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Several years after the end of Duty & Devotion, Matt and Evan are living quietly in their Brooklyn home with the twins, Danny and Elizabeth. The older girls - Katie and Miranda - are off at college, Evan is about to be promoted to captain and things are calm. Briefly. Evan accidently learns that Miranda has a new boyfriend and is talking marriage after just three months of dating...
  • A Tent for Two by Milana Spencer

    A Tent for Two by Milana Spencer

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 19 ratings
    When Miles goes camping with his best friend, Beckett, there’s just one problem: Miles forgot his sleeping bag.The simple solution would be to share with Beckett, but Beckett hates skin-contact. Even the prospect of sharing a tent with Miles makes Beckett flustered and he dismisses the idea immediately. Which is fine. Miles can respect the boundaries of their friendship...
  • Behind the Curtain by Amy Lane

    Behind the Curtain by Amy Lane

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Dawson Barnes recognizes his world is very small and very charmed. Running his community college theater like a petty god, he and his best friend, Benji know they'll succeed as stage techs after graduation. His father adores him, Benji would die for him, and Dawson never doubted the safety net of his family, even when life hit him below the belt...
  • Through These Eyes by N.R. Walker

    Through These Eyes by N.R. Walker

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Six months after we last met Carter Reece and Isaac Brannigan, they're still very much in love. Moving in together, moving forward, life for these two is great until some life changing events occur. Isaac has a frightening setback and Carter's world starts to unravel. Things become even more complicated and start to change for both men when Isaac’s new colleague enters the picture...
  • Punch Drunk Love Vol. 1 by Moscareto

    Punch Drunk Love Vol. 1 by Moscareto

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 9 ratings
    Get this Mature-rated Boys’ Love webtoon/manhwa in English print for the first time! A full-color romantic comedy about a soft man hoping for some hard love…and maybe getting it from the new guy at work.Seon-woo knows he’s painfully average in every way, but he can’t help pining for the hot new manager at work, Tae-moon...
  • Beautifully Complicated: A Forbidden MM Romance by Michele Lenard

    Beautifully Complicated: A Forbidden MM Romance by Michele Lenard

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Timing is everything.You know the guy everyone loves in a strictly platonic manner? The one that people think is nice and funny and smart, but not in a romantic way?That’s me.What’s worse, not even my formerly straight best friend and current roommate, who I’ve had a crush on for years, saw me as anything other than his buddy.I blame myself, sort of...
  • Out in the Field by Lane Hayes

    Out in the Field by Lane Hayes

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Max Maldonado loves baseball. He knows playing first base at a private college probably won’t get him to the big leagues, but he doesn’t mind. He loves the game and his teammates. If he has to stay in the closet until he graduates, that’s okay. Baseball comes first. Relationships are complicated anyway. And after his recent messy breakup, Max prefers to keep things simple...
  • Dissonance by Shira Anthony

    Dissonance by Shira Anthony

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A Blue Notes Novel British noble Cameron Sherrington has hit rock bottom. The love of his life, opera sensation Aiden Lind, is marrying another man, and Cam knows it’s his fault for pushing Aiden away. As if that’s not enough, someone is trying to take away his family business, and the US authorities are pursuing him on charges of money laundering...
    Categorized as:
    anal sex  queer  contemporary  m-m  angst  abuse  length-short
  • Unraveling Josh by Edie Danford

    Unraveling Josh by Edie Danford

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    When the crown prince of bad boys hooks up with his former high school crush, he’s after just one kind of happy ending. Nick McQueen just scored the perfect hookup—Ellery College ski champion, Joshua Pahlke...
  • The Nothingness of Ben by Brad Boney

    The Nothingness of Ben by Brad Boney

    Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 27 ratings
    Ben Walsh is well on his way to becoming one of Manhattan’s top litigators, with a gorgeous boyfriend and friends on the A-list. His life is perfect until he gets a phone call that brings it all crashing down: a car accident takes his parents, and now he must return to Austin to raise three teenage brothers he barely knows...
  • Bedhead by Brooke Blaine

    Bedhead by Brooke Blaine

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    From USA Today bestselling author Brooke Blaine comes a sexy M/M enemies-to-lovers romance in the new Hate to Love You series.HudsonI hate Drew Edwards. That isn’t a secret to anyone in New York.Smug, charming, flippant, and a royal pain in my ass, Drew has a way of making everyone fall in love with him, but I know the truth...
  • Outplayed by Courtney W. Dixon

    Outplayed by Courtney W. Dixon

    Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 19 ratings
    It’s all fun and games until someone gets hurt.AspenCooper Summers is a rising football star at the University of Texas. And he happens to be my new roommate. He’s amazing and surprisingly chill. It doesn’t take us long to form a strong friendship. But serendipity is a funny thing. I suddenly find myself wanting to explore my sexuality with Cooper. Let’s just say he’s hot...
  • Flipping the Script by Willow Dixon

    Flipping the Script by Willow Dixon

    Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 20 ratings
    JesseAfter years of working my butt off, I’m finally living the life I always wanted. I have a job I love, friends who’ve become family, and I’m enjoying the freedom of being single.Then Sebastian, my childhood rival, moves back to town and my perfect life is thrown into chaos. We’ve always hated each other, but now there’s something else between us...
  • A Betting Man by Sandrine Gasq-Dion

    A Betting Man by Sandrine Gasq-Dion

    Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    How bad could one harmless bet be? Kent Samson is about to find out. Raised in Alabama, Kent has hidden his past and now loves his life as a big time ad exec for a prestigious advertising company in New York. But when he makes a bet with his best friend, Blaine, Kent is thrown for a loop—for Kent has to make the next person to walk through the door fall in love with him...
  • Artistic Appeal by Andrew Grey

    Artistic Appeal by Andrew Grey

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Brian Watson knows close friends Gerald Young and Dieter Krumpf have an ulterior motive when they invite him to their Christmas party. Brian has taken over the case to secure the return of the famous painting called The Woman in Blue to Dieter, but they don’t want Brian to be all work and no play. They intend to set him up with a friend, but he’s not who catches Brian’s eye...
    Categorized as:
    anal sex  queer  contemporary  m-m  length-short
  • Behind Bars by Alana Henry

    Behind Bars by Alana Henry

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Arrested for a crime he didn't commit, eighteen year old Riley Parker is forced to carry out his sentence in prison. He expects a cold, hard life, filled with danger and uncertainty. What he doesn't expect is his cell mate Nathaniel Greyson...
  • Requited by Jesse H. Reign

    Requited by Jesse H. Reign

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 12 ratings
    If you've read Unrequited, and have been left longing for more of Andy and West's story - you are in luck. Requited tells the story of roommates and best friends Andy Montgomery and West Baxter from West's perspective. It is a sweeping story of friendship that turns into longing that can't be ignored...
  • Ballsy by Sean Ashcroft

    Ballsy by Sean Ashcroft

    Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 14 ratings
    When he arrives back in LA after ten years away, the last thing Sam expects is to end up being roped into pretending to be with the man he’d left behind for the sake of a magazine article. After a near-death experience that left him scarred and changed, all he wants to do is lick his wounds and live quietly for a while...
  • Obsessed with My Temptation by Rina Damen

    Obsessed with My Temptation by Rina Damen

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    People know me as the college Prince, but I’m secretly obsessed with the most intimidating guy in this college.They call me a Prince because I’m attractive, charming, and a good guy. The pressure to be perfect is exhausting, but it’s the only thing I know.Then there’s Travis Ashford, intimidating, senior, and a boxer, my polar opposite, but his heated gazes haunt me at night...
  • Legal Artistry by Andrew Grey

    Legal Artistry by Andrew Grey

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Years ago, Dieter Krumpf’s grandmother died and left him everything, including a photo album containing pictures of the art collection she left behind when her family fled the Nazis. Now, Dieter is calling on the services of a lawyer, Gerald Young, to determine whether his family’s legacy might be returned to him...
    Categorized as:
    anal sex  queer  contemporary  m-m  length-short
  • Artistic Pursuits by Andrew Grey

    Artistic Pursuits by Andrew Grey

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Frank Jennings is an FBI agent looking for redemption. Leslie Carlton is an Interpol agent looking for a thief. Attraction flares from the moment they meet on a case searching for a stolen triptych of unique Tiffany windows, but after a single night of stunning passion, Leslie is called back to London to continue his search there...
  • Stuck in Oz by Andrew Grey

    Stuck in Oz by Andrew Grey

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Tales from Kansas When Jeremy and Petey’s mother died, their house was taken to pay the debts she left behind, leaving them homeless. Afraid Petey will be put in foster care, they have no one to turn to but their Uncle Milt, so they pack up Jeremy’s beat-up car and leave San Diego for Wamego, Kansas...
  • My [Not So] Straight Professor by D.K. Sutton

    My [Not So] Straight Professor by D.K. Sutton

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Dr. Joshua Hamlin considers himself straight but a persistent student, too much tequila, and a flash of red satin panties has him questioning everything.Atticus is tired of being alone. His friends are all paired up. And he's always crushing on the wrong guy. First it was his roommate. Then his yummy but straight--and married--drama professor...
  • Test Me by Neve Wilder, Kirt Graves

    Test Me by Neve Wilder, Kirt Graves

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Two polar opposites. One impossible physics class. A whole lotta attraction.I have no sympathy for slackers like Josh Pickett, who think that just because they're athletes they can skate by and leave the academic heavy-lifting to nerds like me. And especially not slackers who've already left me hanging on a class project once before, forcing me to finish it solo...
  • Stuff Me by Joe Satoria

    Stuff Me by Joe Satoria

    Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 10 ratings
    Searching for one sweet beary Daddy. CHARLIEI was truly, madly, deeply, in love after one night. How was that even possible? He ticked the last box on my European bucket list. And I got more than I bargained for. Could this beary Daddy be the one?My body craved Mr. Mystery Bear. I needed the care and attention he gave me, even if it was just for one more night. But first, I needed to find him...
  • Lost In The Crowd by E.M. Leya

    Lost In The Crowd by E.M. Leya

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Jared Watson has everything a person could dream of having. He's the hottest country music sensation to hit the charts in years. He travels the world doing what he loves, but something is missing. No matter where he goes, security follows. His manager is always calling or on his case, and no matter where he goes, fans are hounding him for autographs...
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