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  • Only the Lonely by L.M. Krier

    Only the Lonely by L.M. Krier

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    'Blind dates end in bleeding hearts'Ted Darling is back and his boss has news for him. He'll be taking on more responsibility over an expanded area, with a bigger team. Before he even has chance to take stock, he's facing his first body in what could be the most cynical murder he's ever encountered...
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    mystery  suspense  queer  m-m  length-medium
  • 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...
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    mystery  queer  suspense  m-m  contemporary
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  • Jem and Tean: Guys Gone Wild by Gregory Ashe

    Jem and Tean: Guys Gone Wild by Gregory Ashe

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Jem and Tean: Guys Gone Wild is a collection of short stories. It includes the following:“First Dates”A prequel to The Lamb and the Lion books, this short story shows Jem and Tean as they are set up on blind dates—with disastrous results.“Cheap Seats”Jem and Tean go to the movies. Jem insists it’s an epic bromance date. Tean insists they’re just casual acquaintances...
  • Again with Feeling by Gregory Ashe

    Again with Feeling by Gregory Ashe

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    We might not be doomed to repeat the past. But it’s pretty likely.When Dashiell Dawson Dane receives a phone call from his nemesis Vivienne Carver (okay, one of his nemeses), he’s caught off guard—to say the least—by her help solve the murder of her brother, who disappeared almost thirty years ago. His gut tells him to say no...
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    queer  mystery  suspense  m-m  audiobook
  • Shatter by Kiki Burrelli

    Shatter by Kiki Burrelli

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    A ruthless omega with a chip on his shoulder meets the alpha patient enough to show him love. Nolan found solace as an agent in the Omega Assassins Club. The only place he ever felt accepted, it is his home and the other operatives in his pack are his family. He knows he’s messed up, everyone in his pack is in their own way, but Nolan’s past refuses to let him think about the future...
  • 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...
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    mystery  queer  suspense  m-m  contemporary  length-medium
  • 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...
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    mystery  suspense  queer  contemporary  m-m  length-short
  • Follows with Intent by Gregory Ashe

    Follows with Intent by Gregory Ashe

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Keeping your eye on the prize isn’t always a good thing.Nico knows he’s difficult; he has the string of exes to prove it. But staying sharp was the only way to stay safe in the cutthroat world of modeling, and it turns out, graduate school isn’t any gentler. Career first. Boys…later.Jadon knows he’s burning out; his partner at the Metropolitan Police is more than happy to remind him of that fact...
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    mystery  suspense  queer  m-m  length-short  audiobook
  • 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...
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    mystery  suspense  queer  contemporary  m-m
  • Fire and Ice by Patricia Logan

    Fire and Ice by Patricia Logan

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Thayne Wolfe and Jarrett Evans are a happily married gay couple living their American dream. Their new house, two rambunctious ferrets, and a job they love, make them feel complete. As they walk into work at the ATF the week before Christmas, they’re greeted by friends from the FBI...
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    mystery  suspense  queer  m-m  length-medium  audiobook
  • An Allotment of Time by Ripley Hayes

    An Allotment of Time by Ripley Hayes

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Murder? Suicide? Accident? Or all three? Daniel Owen is coming to terms with not being a cop. He’s happy to find a bunch of likeminded people at the town allotments — until one of them is brutally murdered. Mal Kent is settling into his new job as the man-in-charge of Melin Tywyll CID. The fly in the ointment is bigoted, lazy DI Carey, Daniel’s replacement...
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    mystery  queer  suspense  m-m  hurt-comfort  length-medium
  • 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...
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    mystery  queer  suspense  m-m  contemporary  length-medium
  • 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...
  • Extended Stay by Mia Monroe

    Extended Stay by Mia Monroe

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    I’ve never been interested in a man before. So why do I want to kiss this one?Promising my sick uncle I’d help fix his rundown hotel in San Diego was just the beginning of my problems. I plan to do what I can, convince him to sell, and then take off, returning to my calm and structured existence back east. I double down on that plan when I arrive to find it in worse shape than I expected...
  • Honor by Reese Knightley

    Honor by Reese Knightley

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    They really are perfect for each other with zero bullshit between them.Oliver Rains joined Pegasus after the military to keep doing what he loves—helping out the innocent and putting scumbags in the ground where they belong. He was supposed to find a new team, not fall in love, but what he hadn’t counted on was former chief of police Parker Johnson walking into his life...
  • Maddie by Annabella Michaels

    Maddie by Annabella Michaels

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    After witnessing firsthand just how dirty and underhanded a life in politics can be, Maddie Vanderhorne steps off the campaign trail to follow his passion. Starting his own event planning business is the best decision Maddie’s ever made, quickly winning over his clients with his vibrant and outgoing personality...
  • Zenith by Eli Easton, R.J. Scott

    Zenith by Eli Easton, R.J. Scott

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 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...
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    suspense  mystery  queer  m-m  contemporary  audiobook
  • A Teachable Moment by Ripley Hayes

    A Teachable Moment by Ripley Hayes

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Husband-hunting can be fatal… As a favour to their friend Sasha, Daniel and Mal are looking for the husband she fled so she can get a divorce and marry again. Instead of a husband, they find a mystery that could see Daniel charged with murder. It turns out the husband wasn’t who he said he was, and anyway he’s dead...
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    mystery  queer  suspense  m-m  length-medium
  • North and Shaw: Out of Office: Volume 2 by Gregory Ashe

    North and Shaw: Out of Office: Volume 2 by Gregory Ashe

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Short stories from Borealis: Without a CompassNorth and Shaw: Out of Office Volume 2 is a collection of short stories. It includes the following:“Couple Friends”As a (relatively) new couple, North and Shaw learn what it means to have friends as a couple—and how to be friends in a relationship. This story takes place before Indirection...
  • Twisted Valentine by Isabel Lucero

    Twisted Valentine by Isabel Lucero

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 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.What follows is a twisted journey filled with lies, surprises, sex, and ultimately...
  • When Stars Align by Denver Shaw

    When Stars Align by Denver Shaw

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Scarred by the past. Terrified to love again. SavionOnce upon a time, my life was a fairytale. Engaged to a beautiful woman, we were planning our perfect future. Then, the sick act of an obsessed man ruined everything. Alone, disfigured, and betrayed, I fled to LA to focus on my work as a paleontologist.It was there I met Declan...
  • Trust Me If You Dare by L.B. Gregg

    Trust Me If You Dare by L.B. Gregg

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    Hard help can be good to find. Romano and Albright, Book 2 Feisty New Yorker Caesar Romano has a knack for getting into a jam, and this week is no exception. When his pregnancy-hormone-buzzed business partner sweet talks him into working a solo gig for his famous ex, Caesar attracts the worst kind of attention. It’s only the beginning...
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    suspense  mystery  queer  m-m  length-short
  • Killer Bond by Jocelynn Drake, Rinda Elliott

    Killer Bond by Jocelynn Drake, Rinda Elliott

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 12 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...
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    mystery  insta-love  suspense  queer  m-m  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...
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    mystery  queer  suspense  m-m  contemporary  length-medium
  • Delicious by Sierra Riley

    Delicious by Sierra Riley

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    “You’re exactly what I never knew I needed.” “I don’t have time for love.” Gavin Campbell has poured everything he has into starting up his bakery, Delicious...
  • How To Save A Life by Andria Large, Jena Brignola

    How To Save A Life by Andria Large, Jena Brignola

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    How do you save someone’s life? There’s the obvious way of physically saving them from a tragic end. Then there’s the more subtle way of saving someone who doesn’t know they need to be saved. Someone who is drowning emotionally and has no idea that they are slowly dying. Ezra Whitmore is one of those people...
  • Challenge by Quinn Ward

    Challenge by Quinn Ward

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    A split second in the past molded their futures... until now As the head chef at his family's restaurant and a single dad, Freddie's plate is full. He doesn't have time to fall in love, especially with the boy next door who made him question his sexuality when they were teens...
  • Summer Secret by Raleigh Ruebins

    Summer Secret by Raleigh Ruebins

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    We’re still just best friends. …Even though we’re sharing a bed. Owen: Is it weird to want to sleep with your best friend? Max has always been there for me. He’s rescued me when I partied too hard and saved me from bad situations more times than I can count. And it’s never mattered that he was gay and I was straight...
  • Skin and Bone by T.A. Moore

    Skin and Bone by T.A. Moore

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Digging Up Bones: Book Two Cloister Witte and his K-9 partner, Bourneville, find the lost and bring them home. But the job doesn’t always end there. Janet Morrow, a young trans woman, lies in a coma after wandering away from her car during a storm. But just because Cloister found the young tourist doesn’t mean she’s home...
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    suspense  mystery  queer  m-m  contemporary  length-medium
  • Definitely Not Meant to Be by A.W. Scott

    Definitely Not Meant to Be by A.W. Scott

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    “How long have you been in love with your best friend?” Godric I accepted long ago that I couldn’t have all of the things I wanted in life. Growing up in the way I did, I would be a fool to get my hopes up. But even with that knowledge, I couldn’t resist. I was helpless not to fall into the orbit that was my best friend...
  • This Won't Hurt by Cara Dee

    This Won't Hurt by Cara Dee

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    THE EXTENDED EPILOGUE OF THIS WILL HURT II The honeymoon The kids The Congo The awards The podcast The vacation The food trucks The barbecue The love The condors ..
  • Smoke and Murders by S.C. Wynne

    Smoke and Murders by S.C. Wynne

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Maybe my time in Rainy Dale has run its course. Things are spiraling out of control for our indelicate, but occasionally loveable, Doctor Thornton. His romantic life is already in turmoil, but when someone sets fire to his medical practice his finances are also in jeopardy. Sheriff Royce Callum offers Maxwell a safe place to stay, as he searches for the arsonist...
    Categorized as:
    mystery  suspense  queer  m-m  audiobook
  • It's a Wonderful Knife by S.C. Wynne

    It's a Wonderful Knife by S.C. Wynne

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    It's beginning to look a lot like murder.Chopping down a Christmas tree has never been something Dr. Maxwell Thornton aspired to. But his boyfriend, Sheriff Royce Callum, has a tradition of visiting Giggly Elves Tree Farm every Christmas to do just that.Trying to prove he’s a team player, Maxwell agrees to accompany Royce on his week-long tree-felling adventure...
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    mystery  suspense  queer  m-m  length-medium  audiobook
  • Saving Hope by Annabella Michaels

    Saving Hope by Annabella Michaels

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    As a police officer in the small town of New Hope, Rhode Island, Lieutenant Mike Archer rarely sees more than the occasional drunk and disorderly. When a man tries to break into the vacant house next door, Mike is shocked to discover his best friend’s younger brother...
  • Broken Wheels by K.C. Wells, Tricia Kristufek

    Broken Wheels by K.C. Wells, Tricia Kristufek

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Someone wants Dr. Josh ‘Wheels’ Malone dead—and they’ll keep trying until he’s six feet under, which means CrossBow Operations Manager Dixon Meeks has his work cut out for him.Make sure Dr. Malone—Doc—eats.Sleeps.Stays alive.Not that he minds this latest assignment. Doc has been on his radar for a while, and Dixon will do anything to protect him, especially if it means Doc actually notices him...
    Categorized as:
    mystery  suspense  queer  m-m  length-long
  • Death Tells a Tale by A.P. Eisen, Kale Williams

    Death Tells a Tale by A.P. Eisen, Kale Williams

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Cliff Baxter is approached with a dream job, but it means time away from the man he loves and the family he’s only just reconciled with. When opportunity knocks twice and another unexpected offer comes his way, he and Paul make a decision neither dreamed possible, changing their lives forever...
    Categorized as:
    mystery  queer  suspense  m-m  contemporary
  • Miracle by R.J. Scott

    Miracle by R.J. Scott

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    An abandoned baby, a poignant note from his long-lost twin, and unexpectedly, Jax’s world is turned upside down...
  • Betting Brett by Joy Danvers

    Betting Brett by Joy Danvers

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Brett is seriously clueless. He’s a great friend and a great father to his little girl, but how could he not realize after all this time that I’m gay? And I’m in love with him? I know I’ve never said anything, but I feel like I’m pretty obvious.Now I messed up and made a tipsy bet with him about a blow job that I really don’t want to take back. I’m not sure if it was a mistake though...
  • A Friend in the Glass by Gregory Ashe, C.S. Poe

    A Friend in the Glass by Gregory Ashe, C.S. Poe

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 6 ratings
    It’s winter in New York City, and Rufus O’Callaghan is trying to make things work. He’s still got his job as a confidential informant, and he’s still got Sam Auden. The ex-Army drifter has moved in with Rufus, and the two men are trying to build a lasting relationship as Sam struggles to find his footing in the city...
    Categorized as:
    mystery  queer  suspense  m-m  behind-doors
  • Fixing What's Bent by April Kelley

    Fixing What's Bent by April Kelley

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    An MM Small Town Romance Andrew only ever gives one night, but with Kyler, one night isn’t enough.Andrew Martinez has learned not to hold on to romance. As a former homicide detective, he understands death in ways most don’t. It’s clouded his personal life to the point he hasn’t bothered with more than one-night stands...
    Categorized as:
    queer  mystery  suspense  m-m  contemporary  length-short
  • 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...
  • Beautifully Wrecked by Charity Parkerson

    Beautifully Wrecked by Charity Parkerson

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Johnny sees himself as straight. Wrecker disagrees. Their friendship is about to get an upgrade.When Johnny moved to L.A. to start a singing career, he never expected to end up working instead as security for one of the world’s most renowned musicians. It’s not so bad. After all, his job led to him meeting his best friend, Wrecker. That’s one relationship he wouldn’t trade for the world...
  • Trying Not to Fall by A.W. Scott

    Trying Not to Fall by A.W. Scott

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    “You were never just a client to me, Damari…”RonanI’ve spent years focused on the job.Protect the client always. It was a simple task.Until it wasn’t so simple.What was it about Damari Blackthorn that twisted me up inside?And why does trouble seem to find him no matter where he goes?I vow to protect his body, in the hope that he’ll one day let me do the same with his heart...
  • Corpse at Captain's Seat by Josh Lanyon

    Corpse at Captain's Seat by Josh Lanyon

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    And Then There Were…SomeAt long last, the renovations of stately Captain’s Seat are mostly complete!To celebrate, mystery bookseller and sometimes amateur sleuth Ellery Page decides to throw a house-warming party and invite his New York theater friends to stay for the weekend...
    Categorized as:
    mystery  suspense  queer  m-m  length-short  audiobook
  • Hot Doggin' by Raquel Riley

    Hot Doggin' by Raquel Riley

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Hot Doggin' is the first book in the Bitches With Stitches Series. This is a connected work of the Scars and Stripes series. Hot Doggin' is a friends-to-lovers double bi-awakening story about Stiles and McCormick, two lovable and clueless veterans who belong to a trauma support group of badass men who knit...
  • Play by Heart by Ariella Zoelle

    Play by Heart by Ariella Zoelle

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Iason’s known worldwide for his romantic lyrics, but he never thought he’d fall in love. Will his luck change when the stars align to bring Orion into his life?Iason LeylandMy love songs may have made me famous, but they were beautifully written lies that hid the fact I’ve never loved anyone. I had almost given up hope of finding true love, but then I meet him...
  • Liam Davis & The Raven by Anyta Sunday

    Liam Davis & The Raven by Anyta Sunday

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Liam Davis is a serious journalist, and he’s good at it. Or at least, he was...
  • Roots of Evil by K.C. Wells

    Roots of Evil by K.C. Wells

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Many consider Naomi Teedle the village witch. Most people avoid her except when they have need of her herbs and potions. She lives alone on the outskirts of Merrychurch, and that’s fine by everyone—old Mrs. Teedle is not the most pleasant of people. But when she is found murdered, her mouth bulging with her own herbs and roots, suddenly no one has a bad word to say about her...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  mystery  queer  m-m  contemporary  length-short
  • I’m His First, He’s My Forever by Romeo Alexander

    I’m His First, He’s My Forever by Romeo Alexander

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Two best friends, one straight, one gay, fight their own emotional storm in the middle of a raging hurricane.Who will win, heart or hurricane?Ethan: Being in love with my straight best friend? Not the greatest idea. But hey, I’ve kept it a secret from him all these years. Well, until hurricane Ada decided to visit our quiet town...
  • In The Back Of My Head by I.Y. Maslow

    In The Back Of My Head by I.Y. Maslow

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    NIGHTMARES OF A GIRL BEING HELD CAPTIVE.DREAMS THAT FEEL LIKE MEMORIES.A DILEMMA THAT SHOULDN’T EXIST.Seventeen year old insomniac Cole Torsney has had recurring nightmares since he was eight years old. Always the same; of him and a young girl named Grace held captive.Was any of it real?According to those he trusts, it wasn't...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  mystery  queer  m-m  length-medium
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