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  • Wayward by Gregory Ashe

    Wayward by Gregory Ashe

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 22 ratings
    Emery Hazard is trying to plan his wedding, even though his fiancé, John-Henry Somerset, isn’t exactly making things easy for him. To be fair, Somers has been distracted lately; his father is running for mayor in a hotly contested election, and their hometown is splintering under the weight of divisive politics...
  • Dirty Laundry by Rhys Ford

    Dirty Laundry by Rhys Ford

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    For ex-cop turned private investigator Cole McGinnis, each day brings a new challenge. Too bad most of them involve pain and death. Claudia, his office manager and surrogate mother, is still recovering from a gunshot, and Cole’s closeted boyfriend, Kim Jae-Min, suddenly finds his teenaged sister dumped in his lap...
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  • Domestic Animals by Gregory Ashe

    Domestic Animals by Gregory Ashe

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 19 ratings
    Sometimes, the most dangerous animals are the ones you let inside.When a man hires Emery Hazard to track down a teenager who, he claims, robbed him, Hazard isn’t convinced. The story has holes in it, and the client seems eager—too eager—to keep the authorities from getting involved. But Hazard is willing to play along; he suspects something much darker is going on, and he wants to know what it is...
  • Breaking Cover by Kaje Harper

    Breaking Cover by Kaje Harper

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 40 ratings
    For homicide detective Mac, it's been a good year. Having Tony to go home to makes him a better cop and a better person. For Tony, it's been hard being in love with a man he can't touch in public. Evasions and outright lying to friends and family take a little of the shine off his relationship with Mac, but Tony is determined to make it work...
  • The Magnolia Murders by Aimee Nicole Walker

    The Magnolia Murders by Aimee Nicole Walker

    Rated: 4.68 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 12 ratings
    Everything old is new again in love and murder.Work together, live together, and play together is the name of the game for Royce Locke and Sawyer Key. But one of those things changes when Chief Mendoza taps Sawyer to lead the newly formed cold case unit. His first task: solve the Magnolia Murders that spanned three decades and suddenly stopped in 2000...
  • The Grave Between Us by Tal Bauer

    The Grave Between Us by Tal Bauer

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 44 ratings
    It was just one moment.It was just one mistake.For years, men have been disappearing. A father in North Carolina. A boater in California. A hiker in Arkansas. And more, scattered across the United States. The FBI knows who’s responsible: a serial killer they caught, a man they sent young profiler Cole Kennedy to interrogate...
  • Forever by Kindle Alexander

    Forever by Kindle Alexander

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 17 ratings
    Dr. Robert Adams grew up with more advantages than most, the son of a former vice president, he had two loving fathers, a twin sister he adores and wonderfully doting grandparents. Life is good until one afternoon when his dreams flat-line. And no scalpel can repair the guilt and grief he carries with him for the first time in his life...
  • Declination by Gregory Ashe

    Declination by Gregory Ashe

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 25 ratings
    Shaw and North are together. Finally. After eight years of knowing each other and loving each other and slipping past each other, they’ve finally told each other how they feel. Borealis Investigations is growing, and they have a major prospective client on the line. Everything is finally moving the way it should...
  • Wheels Down by Beth Bolden

    Wheels Down by Beth Bolden

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Shaw isn’t his friend—until Ross discovers he’s so much more. Ross Stanton is having a bad week—a bad month—really, a bad year . But the last thing he wants, after the betrayal of his friend and business partner, is for anyone else to know just how much he’s fighting for survival...
  • Rhythm of Us by Aimee Nicole Walker

    Rhythm of Us by Aimee Nicole Walker

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Xavier Cruz has come home after touring with his band for eight years, a life his family and friends would never envy if they knew the truth. Haunted by past decisions, he’s lost himself and his music. Every day is a struggle to recapture them both and forgive the mistakes he’s made. Can Xavier push past his nightmares and hear the melodies all around him again?Ben St...
  • Red Flagged by Elle Keaton

    Red Flagged by Elle Keaton

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Ex-US Marshal turned Cooper Springs Chief of Police, Andre Dear isn’t looking for love. He’s too busy hunting a killer. The last person Andre expected to see in Cooper Springs was Dante Castone. He left Dante and the rest of his old life behind him when he moved to Washington State and what he thought would be a quiet job in a small town by the ocean...
  • Jingle Bells & Mistletoe by Sammi Cee

    Jingle Bells & Mistletoe by Sammi Cee

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Jonathan watched all of his friends fall in love, get married, and grow their families. All he’s ever wanted is a relationship as wonderful as the one his parents have always had...
  • Heartstring by Ana Ashley

    Heartstring by Ana Ashley

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    MikIf I had a dollar for every mistake I made… But there’s only one mistake I regret.Breaking my promise to the only person who ever understood my need to get away from a future I didn’t want…Tyler.I’ve reached many hearts through my music, but the only one I’ve ever wanted might be lost to me forever.TylerFool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice…Mik broke a promise a long time ago...
  • The Final Line by Kendall McKenna

    The Final Line by Kendall McKenna

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 13 ratings
    Staff Sergeant Corey Yarwood is an instructor at the Basic Reconnaissance Course. His last deployment ended in horror, but he can’t remember those events. Battling severe PTSD, Corey’s drinking is growing out of control. Sean Chandler walks into a dive bar, and into Corey’s life...
  • The Law of Miracles by K.C. Wells

    The Law of Miracles by K.C. Wells

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The sequel to A Christmas Promise… Joshua Trant is doing his best to support his son Micah and Micah’s partner Greg as they approach the trial of Greg’s attackers. This was never going to be easy, especially as Greg wants them prosecuted for a hate crime, but County Attorney Alexander Rycliffe assures them he’ll do his utmost to make sure the perpetrators are held accountable for their actions...
  • Roman by Annabella Stone

    Roman by Annabella Stone

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Fact: Six years ago, former Force Recon Marine Roman Walsh made the biggest mistake of his life and chose duty to his country over love. Fact: He was an idiot. Now the one he loves is missing, and Roman has only one thing on his mind. Get him back alive...
  • Unforgettable by Marley Valentine

    Unforgettable by Marley Valentine

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 20 ratings
    One night with Reeve Hale wasn’t enough. I knew it when I kissed him, I knew it when I slept with him, and I was certain of it when I walked out of his motel room the very next day. So when the shy, gorgeous man is introduced as our newest employee at Vino and Veritas, I can’t help but conjure up all the ridiculous ways to convince him to repeat that unforgettable night...
  • Dauntless by Victoria Denault

    Dauntless by Victoria Denault

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    He’s everything I’ve ever wanted, at the worst possible moment.One and done. That’s always been my motto when it comes to guys, because I’m not about to pull someone else into the closet my parents have locked me inside. I’ve been waiting years to claim my inheritance and live the life I want to live–out, free, and oh yeah, rich...
  • Change of Heart by K.M. Neuhold

    Change of Heart by K.M. Neuhold

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Does my husband's heart still miss me now that it beats in the chest of another man? Lub-dub A heartbeat more familiar than Easton’s own Lub-dub He vowed to love his husband until death do they part. And then the worst happened. Lub-dub His heart kept another man alive. River. A stranger in the world with Easton's husband's heart pumping the blood that warms his skin...
  • The Ghosts Between Us by Brigham Vaughn

    The Ghosts Between Us by Brigham Vaughn

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Dr. Christopher Allen knows how to deal with death. He’s a psychiatrist who works with hospice patients and their families, helping them cope with grief and letting go. But Chris’s job doesn’t prepare him for the sudden death of his devil-may-care brother Cal. At Cal’s funeral, Chris is completely thrown when he meets Elliot Rawlings, an artist Cal has been dating...
  • ChrisMyths by Amy Lane

    ChrisMyths by Amy Lane

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    After courtship, cohabitation, and learning about love and each other, Andy and Eli face the ultimate test: being separated at Christmas.Eli’s seen the propaganda—the country boy goes home from the city and realizes his heart is back among the snow, trees, and chickens. A big happy family is something Eli, with his demanding job running a shelter for LGBTQ youth, can’t provide...
  • Blue Skies by Nic Starr

    Blue Skies by Nic Starr

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 7 ratings
    Coming to Collier’s Creek is the best decision they’ll ever make.When Kit arrives in the small town of Collier’s Creek, he's searching for a change of scenery and the solitude to help him overcome his writer's block. All he wants is to be left alone to finish his novel.Felix was born in Collier's Creek, with no plans to return...
  • Beauty and the Beard by R.M. Neill

    Beauty and the Beard by R.M. Neill

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    LeafGrief is a complex thing to experience. Since losing my husband, I’ve let it call the shots. It’s been in control so long that I’ve almost forgotten what it feels like to have someone hold me tight at night or share a secret smile with.But a beautiful young model shows up at my lodge. He’s eager to learn about the outdoors and experience life outside the city...
  • Black by Quin, Perin.

    Black by Quin, Perin.

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    “Meow!”There it was.The sound that made my knees buckle.He purred, neck stretched, eyes half-lidded.With those cat ears, in his hair.And the tail, that he flicked.A ray of sun in the drizzling rain. I’d been a traveler, floating adrift, while he’d stayed in one place. How was I supposed to know he’d become my anchor? My light. My everything...
  • 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...
  • Blindside by N.R. Walker

    Blindside by N.R. Walker

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Mark Gattison has avoided love and commitment his entire adult life. Not interested in more than a one night stand or a brief encounter in a bathroom stall, he is the epitome of a good time.Will Parkinson is the guy who defends him, the guy who puts up with him, the guy Mark calls his best friend.When Will becomes unsettled and a little distant, Mark takes it upon himself to find Will a boyfriend...
  • The Harder We Fall by Rebecca Raine

    The Harder We Fall by Rebecca Raine

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 11 ratings
    For years, I’ve been bound by sleeplessness and sorrow. His voice threatens to set me free.Insomnia. It’s part of the penance I pay for my greatest mistake. But when an ill-timed doze behind the wheel of my car nearly introduces me to a pole, I know something has to change.Sleep with Me, a locally-made meditation app, promises a cure. I don’t expect it to work...
  • Dear Mona Lisa... by Claire Davis, Al Stewart

    Dear Mona Lisa... by Claire Davis, Al Stewart

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Tom; shy office clerk by day and drawer of foxes by night, wakes up one Monday knowing the most extraordinary week of his life is about to begin. In five days, a lifelong ‘secret’ will be made gloriously public—but will it mean losing the person he loves most?Getting married… It seems only yesterday Tom changed nappies and sang nursery rhymes to a laughing baby...
  • Wonderland by Jude Ouvrard

    Wonderland by Jude Ouvrard

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Lucas Colton is far too young to go through all this pain but meeting poetry teacher, Preston Davidson, changed everything. His life went from heartbreak to joyful and then, from friendship to love. The impact Preston had on Lucas’ life was mesmerising...
  • Before I Fall by Joelle Lynne, Courtney W. Dixon

    Before I Fall by Joelle Lynne, Courtney W. Dixon

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Who’s going to catch me when I fall?EvanEverything has been taken from me. My home, my family, and the love of my life. Raising a child on my own isn’t how I envisioned my young life full of hopes and dreams. Now, my youth is gone, too. I had been drowning with no way out until him. The one man I didn’t expect to hold my head above water...
  • Sundays with Oliver by Kelly Jensen

    Sundays with Oliver by Kelly Jensen

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Two empty-nesters. Two bruised hearts. One chance to make things right.Oliver expected to miss his daughter when she left for college, but he’s surprised by the size of the hole she leaves. Or maybe he hadn’t expected to spend his days watching grass grow and making sad cookies. Or to lose his job. Meeting Nick—the uncle of his daughter’s roommate—is a bright spot in an otherwise gloomy forecast...
  • There's Only After by Julie Anne Addicott

    There's Only After by Julie Anne Addicott

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    THERE’S ONLY AFTER A Hurricane Hearts Novel BOOK 1 Two lives shattered by suicide. Two men searching for hope. Jackson Andrew was my life. My husband. My reason for breathing. “Time of death eleven-forty-nine p.m.” I will never be whole again. Andrew doesn’t wake up. And I can’t let him go. A past filled with secrets, lies, and unimaginable trauma...
  • The Right Way by May Archer

    The Right Way by May Archer

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    "The right way is the one where we end up together...And to do that, we need to survive this." A brilliant, obsessive mind is the heart of Sebastian Seaver’s genius. It might also be the thing that costs him everything he’s created and everyone he’s ever loved...
  • Puppy Patrol by Gregory Ashe

    Puppy Patrol by Gregory Ashe

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Shaw and North are going to spend a peaceful weekend at a lakeside cabin. Until, that is, a dog starts barking.This story takes place before Declination...
  • Half Moon Chambers by Harper Fox

    Half Moon Chambers by Harper Fox

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    A cop and a recovering addict – no chance for romance there. Yet Vince, a street-hardened narcotics officer, is having to reassess his life. Six months ago, he hit rock-bottom. A bullet brought him down, and his beloved partner Jack betrayed him. Badly disabled and in constant pain, Vince is flying a desk these days, and it doesn't suit him at all...
  • Infamous by Jenny Holiday

    Infamous by Jenny Holiday

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Is he brave enough to face the music? All that up-and-coming musician Jesse Jamison has ever wanted is to be on the cover of Rolling Stone. When a gossip website nearly catches him kissing someone who isn’t his famous girlfriend—and also isn’t a girl—he considers the near miss a wake-up call...
  • Junkyard Heart by Garrett Leigh

    Junkyard Heart by Garrett Leigh

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Tired of the London rat race and the heartbreak that comes with it, photographer Jas Manning returns to Porthkennack, the Cornish seaside town where he spent every childhood summer on his father’s farm. Resigned to year-round rain, wind, and homemade jam, he’s sorely unprepared for the impact that artsy carpenter Kim Penrose has on his heart...
  • Don't Leave Me Alone by Jenny Wood

    Don't Leave Me Alone by Jenny Wood

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Alvin is coming home to bury his family His whole family, all the family that he had left. His mom, dad and twin sisters. The military didn't think he was stable enough to come back but really, he was just worried how he'd get through the days. The first one's at his empty family home especially. Carter is a school teacher going to the funeral of a very well respected family of his community...
  • Don't Leave Me Alone by Jenny Wood

    Don't Leave Me Alone by Jenny Wood

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Alvin is coming home to bury his family His whole family, all the family that he had left. His mom, dad and twin sisters. The military didn't think he was stable enough to come back but really, he was just worried how he'd get through the days. The first one's at his empty family home especially. Carter is a school teacher going to the funeral of a very well respected family of his community...
  • Sol: Learning to Love #2 by Con Riley

    Sol: Learning to Love #2 by Con Riley

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Solomon Trebeck’s heart broke the night of his bi-awakening. Fifteen years later, Sol’s back in Cornwall where it happened, single, shy, and oh-so lonely. Teaching art to kids wasn’t his life plan. Neither is raising a teenage nephew, but with no family left to support him, a live-in job at a boarding school becomes his life raft.Problem: that life raft is sinking...
  • Head-on by John Inman

    Head-on by John Inman

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    At twenty-six, Gordon Stafford figures his days are numbered. At least he hopes they are. Wearied by guilt and regret stemming from a horrific automobile accident two years earlier in which a man was killed, Gordon wakes up every morning with thoughts of suicide. While the law puts Gordon to work atoning for his sins, personal redemption is far harder to come by...
  • Home Ice Disadvantage by Hannah Henry

    Home Ice Disadvantage by Hannah Henry

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 10 ratings
    Felix Becker is trying to figure out where he belongs in New Jersey. After spending nearly a decade in Texas in a codependent, though platonic, relationship with his best friend, recent Stanley Cup winner Rowan Foley, it’s time to move on. His new condo is fine, but things finally start to look up when he meets his cute neighbor, Will. Will Knight’s third book is destroying him...
  • Split by Mel Bossa

    Split by Mel Bossa

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Quiet and imaginative, Derek O'Reilly spends a lot of time watching a movie in his head. His fiancé Nathan, aka "Mr. Alpha", wonders why Derek hasn't taken any interest in their wedding planning. Aunt Fran—his spiritual guru—would like to know when her guilt-tripping nephew became some kind of kept boy...
  • State of Mind by E.M. Lindsey

    State of Mind by E.M. Lindsey

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 10 ratings
    "Whatever happens in the future, whatever we become in life, know you’re the best thing that ever happened to me."Taking up shop in a former kosher bakery, Wilder Torres aches to find out who he is beyond his dark past. He hides his scars under long sleeves, and his nightmares behind a soft smile, and he’s very careful not to let anyone close...
  • In Me an Invincible Summer by Ryan Loveless

    In Me an Invincible Summer by Ryan Loveless

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    To an outsider's view, world-famous action star Joe Nestra lives the Hollywood dream—parties, women, and a high-profile divorce. In reality, Joe's agent directs his public life. Those women he's supposedly intimate with? Prearranged dates ending at the red carpet...
  • How Much For The Whole Night? by R.J. Scott

    How Much For The Whole Night? by R.J. Scott

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    This book is a brand new novel expanded from a short story of the same name. COMPLETELY rewritten with 50,000 added words and a whole brand new story!A seductive stranger gives Josh everything he wants, but one night of lust could get them both killed...
  • Moonlight by Evie McGlynn

    Moonlight by Evie McGlynn

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    I was the most sought-after concert pianist in the world. Now I barely leave my apartment. Injury and addiction have taken their toll, and I can't seem to get my life back on track.My best friend wants to send me on a month-long vacation to the Moonlight Inn to get ready to play for his wedding. In New Jersey. The place where I almost died...
  • Fem by Seth King

    Fem by Seth King

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Peter Martin is living two lives inside one body. Although he is openly gay, a lifetime of taunting from his family and community for being “too feminine” has still left him clad in false armor, portraying a character that is entirely fake, but keeps him safe from ridicule all the same. Stand tall, speak deeply, keep a strong handshake, never draw attention, never be “too gay...
  • ‎Felix by R.J. Scott, Meredith Russell

    ‎Felix by R.J. Scott, Meredith Russell

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Hiring a fake boyfriend for a school reunion seems to be the only solution, but love was never part of the equation.Felix has enough on his plate looking out for his parents, let alone agreeing to being hired for a date with the friend of a friend. His instant attraction to the scatter-brained scientist has him making impulsive decisions he hopes he won’t regret...
  • Fire and Flint by Andrew Grey

    Fire and Flint by Andrew Grey

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    A Carlisle Deputies Novel Jordan Erichsohn suspects something is rotten about his boss, Judge Crawford. Unfortunately he has nowhere to turn and doubts anyone will believe his claims—least of all the handsome deputy, Pierre Ravelle, who has been assigned to protect the judge, as he's been receiving the threatening letters...
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