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  • How to Hack a Hacker by A.J. Sherwood

    How to Hack a Hacker by A.J. Sherwood

    Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 33 ratings
    Kyou has a routine. A system. He guards Brannigan Genovese, hacks for his family of choice, and drinks far too much caffeine for any living being. He has contingency plans for everything except for the following:. • Brannigan buying up real estate from the Irish Mob. • Kyou’s band of brothers figuring out who Brannigan actually is...
  • Dirty Heart by Rhys Ford

    Dirty Heart by Rhys Ford

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A Cole McGinnis Mystery. Former LAPD detective Cole McGinnis’s life nearly ended the day his police partner and best friend Ben Pirelli emptied his service weapon into Cole and his then-lover, Rick. Since Ben turned his gun on himself, Cole thought he’d never find out why Ben tried to destroy him. Years later, Cole has stitched himself back together...
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  • Blaze by Jocelynn Drake, Rinda Elliott

    Blaze by Jocelynn Drake, Rinda Elliott

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 18 ratings
    The rings have been selected. The champagne placed on ice. The cake decorated. And the pre-wedding sex is off the charts. .. Lucas Vallois and Andrei Hadeon are finally ready to walk down the aisle. There’s just one small problem. A ghost from Lucas’s past shows up days before the wedding, desperate for help...
  • Enduring Night by John Wiltshire

    Enduring Night by John Wiltshire

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 14 ratings
    The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting. Nikolas has always liked art. You'd have thought that Ben and Nikolas would have learnt that their romantic holidays inevitably end up as disasters. A short break on the polar ice sees them trapped in a nightmare of murder and deceit...
  • Ignite by Jocelynn Drake, Rinda Elliott

    Ignite by Jocelynn Drake, Rinda Elliott

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 15 ratings
    Two of Noah’s Army buddies are dead. Someone has taken shots at Noah. And now Noah’s former lover, JB, is a target. Noah, Rowe, and JB team up to track down a killer trying to take out all of Noah’s old Army team in hopes of covering up a dark secret. But this trip to Washington, D. C. threatens to unravel the perfect life that Rowe and Noah have built over the past three years...
  • A Matter of Time, Vol. 1 by Mary Calmes, Paul Morey

    A Matter of Time, Vol. 1 by Mary Calmes, Paul Morey

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Jory Keyes leads a normal life as an architect’s assistant until he is witness to a brutal murder. Though initially saved by police Detective Sam Kage, Jory refuses protective custody - he has a life he loves that he won’t give up no matter who is after him. But Jory’s life is in real jeopardy, especially after he agrees to testify about what he saw...
  • The Spoil of Beasts by Gregory Ashe

    The Spoil of Beasts by Gregory Ashe

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    A jailhouse slaughter. A relentless killer. And way too much jackassing around. When word comes that two key witnesses in an investigation are dead, North and Shaw are surprised—and pleased—to learn that their friend, John-Henry Somerset, is interested in hiring them as freelance contractors for the Wahredua police department...
  • The Hitman's Guide to Stately Fences and Killer Defenses by Alice Winters

    The Hitman's Guide to Stately Fences and Killer Defenses by Alice Winters

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Leland. Life is normal… suspiciously normal. During my long, lonely years as a hitman, I never realized that one day, I would have a family to call my own...
  • Noble Hops by Layla Reyne

    Noble Hops by Layla Reyne

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 10 ratings
    Everything Dominic Price has worked hard to uphold is about to come crashing down on everything he holds dear. So much for the quiet life. Just as assistant US attorney and brewery owner Dominic Price is settling into a comfy new chapter with his partner, FBI agent Cameron Byrne, the sudden death of Nic’s father puts their happily-ever-after in jeopardy...
  • Forever by Tinnean

    Forever by Tinnean

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Lately, life is both sweet and sour for intelligence operatives Mark Vincent and Quinton Mann. The sweet is they’re settling into a relationship; Mark has found a condo in Alexandria with the help of Quinn’s mother, Portia; and Mark and Quinn are looking forward to spending the holidays in the Caribbean. As for the sour, something shadier than usual is going on at Langley...
  • Shut Up and Drive by L.M. Krier

    Shut Up and Drive by L.M. Krier

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A serial sex attacker is spreading fear in Stockport and DI Ted Darling and his team are on the case. The man randomly targets young women and abducts them from busy supermarket car parks. He's armed with a knife and is clearly highly trained in how to handle it. Ever-dwindling police resources make the manhunt harder, even though the attacker clearly doesn't care whether or not he's caught...
    Categorized as:
    mystery  queer  suspense  m-m  contemporary
  • Rialto by Jocelynn Drake, Rinda Elliott

    Rialto by Jocelynn Drake, Rinda Elliott

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 11 ratings
    Someone has it out for Rialto. Ian Banner is loving his hectic life. He’s newly married, ready to start a family, and opening a new restaurant. All his dreams are coming true. The last thing he needs is a problem with his restaurant. But when one attack after another comes, he grows convinced he has another enemy...
  • Bulletproof by Reese Knightley

    Bulletproof by Reese Knightley

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    It all started with a glimpse. - A chance encounter left an impression and Wolfgang Brandt was hooked. When Caleb turns eighteen in two months, Wolf is going to be at that birthday party come hell or high water. He doesn’t care if he has to fly across the world to be there. But then things go south and Wolf is left reeling when Caleb goes missing...
  • Off Course by Nicole Edwards

    Off Course by Nicole Edwards

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    From New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author Nicole Edwards comes the ninth installment in her Brantley Off the Books series. With wedding plans underway, Brantley Walker and Reese Tavoularis are attempting to create some balance between work and life. After a busy summer, they’ve finally slowed down enough to take a breather. At least until the hacker extraordinaire—a. k. a...
  • Chain Reaction by Nicole Edwards

    Chain Reaction by Nicole Edwards

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    From New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author Nicole Edwards comes the tenth installment in her Brantley Off the Books series. During the two years since they created the Off the Books Task Force, Brantley Walker and Reese Tavoularis have had their share of difficult cases, but their next one hits close to home. Too close...
  • Castiel by Annabella Stone

    Castiel by Annabella Stone

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    What once was strong is broken. Can what was broken be repaired? Former SEAL and Operative for the US Government’s elite Red Squadron, Castiel Cunningham Clark has defied the odds more times than he can count. He learned the hard way how fickle fate can be and he’s made it his business to live his life at one speed and one speed only… full steam ahead. Except when it comes to one person...
  • Modern Warfare by Valerie Vaughn

    Modern Warfare by Valerie Vaughn

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Covert Affairs M/M Romance Book Two. Navigating a new relationship is never easy, but Deputy Director Syler Perrin has the uniquely hair-raising privilege of doing it with one Special Agent Arthur Dufault, premiere CIA operative and all around menace...
    Categorized as:
    military  mystery  queer  m-m  contemporary  length-short
  • Rebel by Reese Knightley

    Rebel by Reese Knightley

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    One man on a journey of redemption and the other out to prove himself. Cohen “Ace” Gray – Pegasus Commander. He’d buried one lover; he wasn’t going to take the chance of that ever happening again. Ace had his own demons to work on, but working closely with Jacob and having his friendship— despite their twenty-year age difference—had made life a bit easier...
  • Short Stack 2 by Lily Morton

    Short Stack 2 by Lily Morton

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    What happens after the happy ending? Drawn together for the first time, this is a collection of Lily’s short stories about some of the much-loved men from her books. Follow them through wet and windy marriage proposals, surprise workplace visits, and a very entertaining ghost tour...
  • When I'm Old and Grey by L.M. Krier

    When I'm Old and Grey by L.M. Krier

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    DI Ted Darling doesn't like coincidences. There are too many for comfort surrounding his latest case. They're spilling over into his private life, too, when some toxic family secrets are uncovered. A serial killer appears to be targeting vulnerable elderly people in care homes and despatching them in the most cynical way. Ted and his team are struggling to get a lead on who the killer really is...
    Categorized as:
    mystery  queer  suspense  m-m  contemporary  length-medium
  • Edison's Professor by Jocelynn Drake

    Edison's Professor by Jocelynn Drake

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The stranger chose him. Edison Walker had never seen the man with the wide green eyes before. He only knew that he was in trouble. And that he took one look at Ed and decided he was his haven. His protector. Ed would not let him down...
  • Two Little Boys by L.M. Krier

    Two Little Boys by L.M. Krier

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    In his darkest and most complex case to date, DI Ted Darling has to confront demons from his own past when investigating the brutal murder of a young boy. As more deaths follow, he realises he is up against powerful people who believe themselves to be above the law, and starts to feel out of his depth...
  • A Phoenix Christmas by Reese Knightley

    A Phoenix Christmas by Reese Knightley

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    It's a dog gone Christmas! The plan was to gather at Noah and Mac’s place for a holiday celebration, but when the couple’s nine-year-old Labrador Retriever goes missing, the men and women of Phoenix descend on the city of Alameda. The neighbors and local cops get involved in a search that stretches from the streets of downtown to the rocky beaches...
  • Ghost of Christmas Present by Pandora Pine

    Ghost of Christmas Present by Pandora Pine

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    With only a week until Christmas, Detective Jude Byrne is wrapping up final preparations for his family’s celebration. He’s made a list and checked it twice, bought presents, planned the neighborhood cookie exchange, and hung mistletoe. Jude’s got a handle on everything, that is, until his son asks if his grandfather is coming to celebrate with them—a man Jude hasn’t seen in six years...
    Categorized as:
    mystery  suspense  queer  contemporary  m-m  length-short
  • Thuggiana by Gregory Ashe

    Thuggiana by Gregory Ashe

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Pics, or it didn’t happen. Thuggiana is a collection of short stories connected to The First Quarto. It includes the following:. “The Slightest Folly”. This prequel provides a glimpse into Auggie’s and Theo’s lives in high school. It takes place before They Told Me I Was Everything. “As School-Boys from Their Books”...
  • Perfect Match by Pandora Pine

    Perfect Match by Pandora Pine

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Brando Lombardi has successfully matched all three of his brothers with their soulmates, gifting them each with a lifetime of love and happiness. The problem is, Brando himself is always the bridesmaid and never the bride… er, groom. But then he meets a broken-hearted man in uniform who takes his breath away and changes everything...
  • Daddy Detectives Episode 1: A Tyler and Ian Jamison Story by April Wilson

    Daddy Detectives Episode 1: A Tyler and Ian Jamison Story by April Wilson

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    This is the first installment in a new series for private investigators Tyler and Ian Jamison. Our heroes are adjusting to life as a married couple and are now parents of newborn twins. While the guys are enjoying paternity leave, their administrative assistant, Kimi, comes to them with a personal emergency...
    Categorized as:
    mystery  suspense  queer  contemporary  m-m
  • Interwoven by Ripley Hayes

    Interwoven by Ripley Hayes

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Daniel Owen has spent the best part of ten years renovating his house when he finds the cellar. By falling into it. The mysterious cellar has a mysterious door, and behind the mysterious door is a mysterious box … and in the box … there are clues to the shocking history of Daniel’s beloved home town. A cold case is occupying Mal Kent’s time. A notorious car thief is released from prison...
  • How Not to Break by Susan Hawke

    How Not to Break by Susan Hawke

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Take one former SEAL with a healthy dose of regret…. Nick St. Cloud is living with shame from the one time he let his lust override his sense of honor. He’s haunted by the memory of when he made love to his best friend’s eighteen-year-old son. The tragic accident that happened that same night has only compounded his guilt...
  • 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...
  • Slip and Slide by Patricia Logan

    Slip and Slide by Patricia Logan

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 13 ratings
    ATF special agents, Thayne Wolfe, and his partner, Jarrett Evans, have gotten into sticky situations in the past but nothing prepares them for the daunting task of being loaned out to a coal mine in West Virginia where Jarrett’s grown up. Investigating a deadly mining explosion may be the end of them yet...
  • Out Of A Fix by Mary Calmes

    Out Of A Fix by Mary Calmes

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Through the years, Nash Miller has watched all his buddies fall in love and get married. It was romantic, and he’d wondered when he himself would find the one. Now, older, wiser, he realizes that what he’s always wanted—a husband and a family—just isn’t in the cards for him. And that’s all right...
  • With This Bling by L.B. Gregg

    With This Bling by L.B. Gregg

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Caesar Romano’s catering career is doing better than he’d ever dreamed. And so is his love life—even if his boyfriend’s house in Staten Island is way too far from civilization for his liking...
    Categorized as:
    mystery  suspense  queer  m-m  contemporary  humor  length-short
  • Concealed Hearts by Nicky James

    Concealed Hearts by Nicky James

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Two closeted men in one rumor-hungry small town have no chance of keeping their love a secret. Chief of Police Windsor Elkhart is a master deceiver. Not a single person in Jasper has a clue he’s gay, which explains the endless suitors all vying for his attention. Happily married to his job, he’s convinced life is good enough...
  • Little by J.M. Dabney

    Little by J.M. Dabney

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 9 ratings
    Insanity was in the eye of the beholder. Harmon Little was a surveillance expert. He lived in the shadows, and he liked it there. There wasn’t a place he couldn’t get in and out of without detection. As usual with his mischievous nature, his current assignment went south, and he ran. He thought he was free and clear until he knocked someone over in a grocery store aisle...
  • Zenith by Eli Easton, R.J. Scott

    Zenith by Eli Easton, R.J. Scott

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    A killer haunts Prophet, and this time it’s personalThe discovery of a body at the Thompson Cabins sets off a chain of events that hits too close to home for Sheriff Gabriel Thompson. When his brother Sam becomes a prime suspect in the murder investigation, Gabriel is forced to keep secrets from Tiber and call in outside help as he fights to prove Sam’s innocence...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  mystery  queer  m-m  contemporary  audiobook
  • Gently Come Knocking by Cole McCade

    Gently Come Knocking by Cole McCade

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    ** Warning: the following description contains heavy spoilers for the ending of Criminal Intentions: Season Two. **. Malcolm Khalaji is one paternity test away from a breakdown. When a one-night stand from a year ago shows up on his doorstep, she's bringing more than a trip down memory lane — and her little bundle of joy may just be a bundle of trouble if it turns out the baby is actually his...
  • Secret State: Enemy by Ripley Hayes

    Secret State: Enemy by Ripley Hayes

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Paul needs to work out who's trying to kill him. .. if only they’d stop for long enough to let him. Paul Qayf. Secret Service agent. Reckless. Flamboyant. Dangerous. John Bean. Copper. Steady. Small town. Determined. Everything that Paul Qayf isn’t. ‘Distrust’ doesn’t even come close. Qayf’s job is simple. Stop a smuggling gang operating in the desolate, Dickensian marshes to the east of London...
    Categorized as:
    mystery  military  queer  m-m  contemporary  length-short
  • Silent Knight by Layla Reyne

    Silent Knight by Layla Reyne

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    I won’t let anything happen to you. Fourteen years ago, Braxton Kane’s feelings were forbidden. As an officer, he couldn’t fall for an enlisted… no matter how much he longed for Holt Madigan. Now—as a police chief in love with a digital assassin—his promise to always protect Holt is becoming harder to keep. I’ll protect you...
  • Kiss Marry Kill by S.C. Wynne

    Kiss Marry Kill by S.C. Wynne

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Snakes don’t only crawl in the grass. River Martin has begun to reveal his true motives for being in Rainy Dale, and, shocker, it’s not good news for Maxwell. If Maxwell is going to go to war with River, he’ll need people on his side. In his quest to be more of a people person, he’s roped into attending the wedding of one of his young patients, Janelle Raiden...
  • Twisted Valentine by Isabel Lucero

    Twisted Valentine by Isabel Lucero

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 9 ratings
    Kaspian doesn't ask for much, only the undivided attention of the man he's obsessed with. But lately Quin seems preoccupied, and when Kaspian spots him talking to a guy at work, he sees red. Clingy, obsessive, impulsive, and sociopathic, the thought of anyone else getting Quin's attention has Kaspian's blood boiling...
  • His Protector: a First Love, M/M Romance by Sue Brown

    His Protector: a First Love, M/M Romance by Sue Brown

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    What kind of courage does it take to travel two thousand miles just to say hello to a man who doesn’t know you exist? At thirty years old and never been kissed, Walker is about to find out. After a rocky start to his life in the agency, newly trained operative Walker takes the biggest chance of his life before his first mission. He returns to J. T...
  • Spencer by M. Tasia

    Spencer by M. Tasia

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    DIVINE RETRIBUTION. Everyone has secrets. Especially a Navy SEAL. But Spencer has found the one man who seems to be hiding more than him. And that just doesn’t fly. Rick reinvented his life fifteen years ago, and has no intention of revealing why. But, in the back of his mind he’s been waiting for the other shoe to fall, and now it has...
  • Law of Retaliation  (Haven Hart) by Davidson King

    Law of Retaliation (Haven Hart) by Davidson King

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Two universes unite to take on one formidable adversary. A Halloween party at Joker’s Sin means an evening of fun, drinking, dancing, and entertainment. But when a dead body is found in the club’s bathroom, it’s the loose thread that starts to unravel the hard-won peace of Haven Hart...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  mystery  queer  m-m  humor  contemporary  m-m-m
  • Finished by Cara Dee

    Finished by Cara Dee

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Book 5 of 5 | Romantic Suspense | Hurt/Comfort | Trauma | Age Difference. The Auctioned Series is a journey packed with action, nail-biting suspense, family, and love. In Gray and Darius’s fight for freedom and a future where they aren’t haunted by the ghosts of their pasts, they’ll make you laugh, cry, possibly yell at your e-reader, and swoon just a little bit...
  • Killer Bond by Jocelynn Drake, Rinda Elliott

    Killer Bond by Jocelynn Drake, Rinda Elliott

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Daniel Hendricks wants a vacation. Ward Security’s accountant and resident code breaker just needs a little R&R from the chaos and usual shenanigans of the office. But what was supposed to be a sexy vacation hook-up explodes in his face when he’s mistaken for a rogue secret agent...
    Categorized as:
    mystery  suspense  queer  m-m  insta-love  contemporary
  • Baby's Got Blue Eyes by L.M. Krier

    Baby's Got Blue Eyes by L.M. Krier

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Someone is dumping bodies on DI Ted Darling's patch and he's not happy. Ted's a good solid copper, in an old-fashioned way, with an excellent clear-up rate. He also happens to be gay and has his own unique way of dealing with any prejudice that brings him. But this killer seems to be running effortless rings round him and every promising lead just takes him up another blind alley...
    Categorized as:
    mystery  queer  suspense  m-m  contemporary  length-medium
  • Hellion by Rhys Ford

    Hellion by Rhys Ford

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    415 Ink: Book Three. From the moment SFPD Detective Ruan Nicholls meets Ivo Rogers, he knows the tattoo artist is going to bring chaos to his neat, orderly life. A hellion down to the bone, Ivo is someone Ruan not only doesn’t understand, he’s not even sure he needs to. Everything about Ivo is vibrant, brash, cocky, and arrogant, and Ruan wants no part of him...
  • Endings and Beginnings by Patricia Logan

    Endings and Beginnings by Patricia Logan

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 10 ratings
    Recently married ATF special agents Thayne Wolfe and Jarrett Evans are ready for some normalcy to return to their work in the ATF the way it has at home. They’ve just moved into their new house and neither of them are prepared for their next assignment, being tasked out to the FBI along with the rest of their team...
  • Looking For Love by Stella Starling

    Looking For Love by Stella Starling

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Micah Finn Rawlings has lived most of his life blind, sheltered, and craving adventure. Now, at twenty-two, an operation has given him his sight back and he’s ready to take on the world. Well, sort of. His newly restored vision isn’t exactly all that he’d hoped it would be, but he’s definitely not going to let that stop him…...
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