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  • Paternal Instincts by Nicky James

    Paternal Instincts by Nicky James

    Rated: 4.78 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 18 ratings
    At the heart of a missing child case, Quaid and Aslan learn the true nature of fatherhood. With their baby due any day, Quaid ends up tangled in a case on the last day of work before his parental leave begins. Between eerie ransom notes and family secrets, unanswered questions pile up, twisting the case into something Quaid has never seen. Someone is lying. Someone knows more than they’re saying...
  • Wayward by Gregory Ashe

    Wayward by Gregory Ashe

    Rated: 4.59 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 23 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...
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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...
  • Missing Pieces by Nicole Edwards

    Missing Pieces by Nicole Edwards

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Brantley Walker and Reese Tavoularis are plunging headfirst into the satisfying chaos of married life. Although their preference would be to sit on a beach enjoying umbrella drinks for a week, the honeymoon will have to wait...
    Categorized as:
    mystery  suspense  queer  military  m-m  audiobook
  • Breaking Cover by Kaje Harper

    Breaking Cover by Kaje Harper

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 41 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...
  • Body and Soul by Lucy Lennox, Sloane Kennedy

    Body and Soul by Lucy Lennox, Sloane Kennedy

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 41 ratings
    Oz: Escaping the international modeling scene to design my own fashion collection is the first step to shucking my bobble-headed supermodel reputation and proving to the world I’m more than just a pretty face. But the minute I have to accept roadside help from the sexy man next door, I feel like the airhead people think I am...
  • Daddy Detectives Episode 2: A Tyler and Ian Jamison Story by April Wilson

    Daddy Detectives Episode 2: A Tyler and Ian Jamison Story by April Wilson

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In book 2 of Tyler and Ian Jamison's Daddy Detectives series, Ian is getting the hang of being a stay-at-home dad to their infant twins. Tyler is investigating the source of the blackmail threat made against Ian.
    Categorized as:
    mystery  suspense  queer  m-m
  • His Wicked Wants by Leighton Greene

    His Wicked Wants by Leighton Greene

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    For a man who takes what he wants, desiring the one thing he can't have is torture. Nero Andretti is used to getting his way. Cold, calculating, and criminally seductive, he clawed his way up from the back streets of Rome to the edge of the Castellani crime family's inner circle. No one can resist him. No one except Gabriel Carstairs...
    Categorized as:
    mafia  mystery  suspense  queer  found-family  m-m  length-long
  • Brokered Betrayals by Aimee Nicole Walker

    Brokered Betrayals by Aimee Nicole Walker

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
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    Categorized as:
    mystery  queer  suspense  m-m  length-short  audiobook
  • 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...
  • 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...
    Categorized as:
    mystery  suspense  queer  m-m  length-medium
  • 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...
  • Alfie: Part II by Cara Dee

    Alfie: Part II by Cara Dee

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    MM Romance • Part 2 of 2 • Second Chances • Irish Mafia • Family • Hurt/Comfort • Age Gap • Revenge • Opposites Attract. When two broken hearts have reached their limits, it’s time for a mobster to play dirty in order to let the healing begin. Don’t worry, Alfie has a plan. That very second, the moment West said those words…I almost shattered. Again. I’d put myself out there...
  • 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
  • Rushed by Sloane Kennedy

    Rushed by Sloane Kennedy

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 14 ratings
    Christopher. Happily ever afters. White knights riding to the rescue on their brazen steeds to rescue the damsel in distress. Said knight declaring his undying love. Same stories just with different covers. I'd spent the better part of my childhood reading those stories, always putting myself in place of the damsel in distress. And by the last page I felt safe...
  • A Thousand Vermilion Stars by Patricia Logan

    A Thousand Vermilion Stars by Patricia Logan

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A copycat serial killer is driving their whole team crazy. Dr. Leo Reeves has always considered himself a halfway decent criminal profiler. Some of his colleagues even call him brilliant. With this assignment, he sure as hell doesn’t feel that way. He’s been missing something at every turn. The case is dragging into its seventh month and every lead he and his team follow, takes them to a dead end...
  • 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
  • Leo on Fire by Patricia Logan

    Leo on Fire by Patricia Logan

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Some days, fighting crime, just doesn’t pay. FBI Profiler, Leo Reeves, has settled into his new job and his new life in Los Angeles. Working with Max Prince every day in the office is fulfilling but not as satisfying as burning up the sheets with him every night at home...
  • Old-Fashioned Cupcake with Cappuccino by Sagan Sagan

    Old-Fashioned Cupcake with Cappuccino by Sagan Sagan

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Thirty-nine-year-old Nozue went from living a routine, melancholic life of sleep and work to spending his days in bliss with Togawa, his younger subordinate. Now six months into their relationship, the two have graduated from dates at a pancake shop to spending their nights together...
  • Smoke Gets in Your Eyes by Anaïs Flogny

    Smoke Gets in Your Eyes by Anaïs Flogny

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A gripping and lushly illustrated tale of love and lies set between 1930s Chicago and New York’s criminal underworld, perfect for fans of manga like Banana Fish and readers of graphic novels like Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me who are looking for adult LGBTQIA+ fiction. Chicago, 1930. Jules Tivoli is a penniless Italian immigrant doing odd jobs to make ends meet...
  • Suspicious Behavior by L.A. Witt, Cari Z.

    Suspicious Behavior by L.A. Witt, Cari Z.

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Detective Darren Corliss is hanging by a thread. In between recovering from a near-fatal wound and returning to work at a hostile precinct, he’s struggling to help care for his ailing brother. His partner and boyfriend, Detective Andreas Ruffner, wants to help, but doesn’t know how. And with his own family crises brewing, Andreas is spread almost as thin as Darren...
  • A Hunted Man by Jaime Reese

    A Hunted Man by Jaime Reese

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    After surviving ten years in prison, Cameron Pierce is attempting to put the past behind him. He tries to adjust to his newfound freedom with a place at the halfway house and a job. But one lesson he learned in prison keeps him guarded: hope is a dangerous thing. Hunter Donovan, Assistant State Attorney, is a man of justice who loves a challenge...
  • Instant Regret by E.M. Lindsey

    Instant Regret by E.M. Lindsey

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 19 ratings
    There’s nothing like having your sanctuary destroyed. My life has been a series of carefully cultivated, strategic moves to ensure peace and quiet. I’m generally a happy guy but there’s one thing I can’t stand: having my space invaded. After all, that's why I chose this run-down building that no one wants to live in. And then he moved in...
  • The Girl in the Wind by Gregory Ashe

    The Girl in the Wind by Gregory Ashe

    Rated: 4.80 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    The price for the truth might be their family. When Theo and Auggie return home—safe and sound and miraculously alive after being dragged into a murder investigation—all Theo wants is for life to get back to normal. No more murders. No more investigations. Nothing, in other words, that might put Auggie in danger...
  • 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”...
  • Replay: The Complete Series by K.M. Neuhold

    Replay: The Complete Series by K.M. Neuhold

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Downward Spiral— a band with a handful of platinum records, and almost no hope of making it. Meet Lincoln, Benji, Lando, and Jude— the hottest rock stars of the decade, who’ve just about hit rock bottom. Face the Music:. When I left the love of my life asleep in my bed ten years ago without a backward glance, I never thought I’d get another chance...
  • All We Are by Jessie Walker

    All We Are by Jessie Walker

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Pride. Will and Waylon have been through hell and back—more than once. But they’re still standing, still loving each other, still embracing their found family. And that’s something Will is stupidly proud of. He’s happier than he’s ever been, and more in love than he ever thought possible. He just hopes he can find a way to make Waylon believe in them as much as he does. Pride...
  • Follows with Intent by Gregory Ashe

    Follows with Intent by Gregory Ashe

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 9 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...
    Categorized as:
    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...
    Categorized as:
    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...
    Categorized as:
    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...
  • Like a Lion by Cole McCade

    Like a Lion by Cole McCade

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    A new homicide case raises a question with no clear answer:. Who is the victim? When a charred body is recovered inside a burned-out car, before Malcolm and Seong-Jae can solve the case they must first trace the victim's identity. False plates. ID missing. Teeth pulled from the skull...
  • Head Over Feels by Bix Barrow

    Head Over Feels by Bix Barrow

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Well, this puts the “ex” in “explosive”. .. Felix: What would happen if everyone you’d ever dated got together and plotted against you? For me, it’s glitter bombs. Lots and lots of glitter bombs. Okay, maybe I deserved the first one or two. Or three...
  • Reckless Behavior by L.A. Witt, Cari Z.

    Reckless Behavior by L.A. Witt, Cari Z.

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    After too many years of putting his job first, Detective Andreas Ruffner is getting his priorities straight. He’s ready to spend some quality time with his adult kids, not to mention come clean about some things he should’ve told them a long time ago. And introduce them to his partner and boyfriend, Darren Corliss. But in a heartbeat, a family dinner turns into Andreas’s worst nightmare...
  • Ruger by Lane Hart

    Ruger by Lane Hart

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    From two. USA Today. best-selling authors comes a steamy MM enemy to lovers romance. Ruger James Fulton is used to being confused. After barely graduating from high school, RJ took his one marketable skill and opened up an auto shop in town. Cars have always made sense to him, while the rest of the world makes him feel like an idiot...
  • The Reprobate by Silvia Violet

    The Reprobate by Silvia Violet

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    People call me a reprobate. I’m known for my humor, my arrogance, and my inability to follow rules. My boss sends me on a mission to protect the cold-as-ice billionaire I love to hate. I plan to push all the man’s buttons. He’s as irritating—and as hot— as he’s always been. I expected to want him. What I didn’t expect was for my heart to get involved...
  • Trust Me If You Dare by L.B. Gregg

    Trust Me If You Dare by L.B. Gregg

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 23 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...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  mystery  queer  m-m  length-short
  • Hot Ice, Tennessee by Raleigh Ruebins

    Hot Ice, Tennessee by Raleigh Ruebins

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A hockey hotshot has me wrapped around his finger…. Even after I learn his dirty secret. Jesse is cocky, charming, tattooed, and even more possessive off the ice. …He’s also my friend’s younger brother—which I found out like a puck to the face. He’s too young, too popular, and he knows he has my attention. He’s a college dreamboat, with frat bros riding his jock every day. My world’s different...
  • Edge by Charity Parkerson

    Edge by Charity Parkerson

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 7 ratings
    After a short abduction, Mickey finds himself at the center of his kidnapper’s obsession. He’s not mad about it. No one has ever accused Edge of being sane. He was raised to be a killer, and that’s what he is. But nothing matters to Edge like his found family, and Edge thought Mickey planned to hurt one of his, so he snatched him. It wasn’t a long, drawn-out dilemma...
  • Killer vs. Kingpin by Cari Z., L.A. Witt

    Killer vs. Kingpin by Cari Z., L.A. Witt

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    August Morrison and Ricardo Torralba would really like to live a quiet life—as quiet as life can be for a couple of eccentric hitmen, anyway. Unfortunately for them, they pushed their luck with the authors and demanded a second book. So now, whether they like it or not, they’re getting a third installment. Yes, this is a revenge book. Because we’re the authors, that’s why...
  • Real Risk by Elle Keaton

    Real Risk by Elle Keaton

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    It's possible they're a match but first the two men will have to survive trial by fire. Chief Flynn is fighting smoke and flames, tirelessly protecting the lives and property of his fellow islanders from yet another spate of fires. Arson or accident? When injury puts him on the sidelines, West Coast Forensics Arson Investigator Kimball Frye offers his assistance...
  • 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
  • Shaken & Stirred by A.W. Scott

    Shaken & Stirred by A.W. Scott

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    “Of course I had to get stranded with the one man who hates me…”. Rob. Working for Mateo Rojas had its perks. I was always paid well and on time. I had my pick of any man or woman I wanted. And I gained a group of friends that were quickly turning out to be some of the best I’d ever had. The only downside to this place is the lack of an experienced bartender...
  • Code Violation by Elle Keaton

    Code Violation by Elle Keaton

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Trust is a thing of the past. All that matters is the truth. Forrest Cooper. Has a short list of people he trusts. His sister. Xavier Stone. Magnus and Rufus Ferguson. A nosey newcomer to Cooper Springs is not making his list. Ever. Nero Vik. Produces a podcast about unsolved murders all over the country. He’s in town following his instinct...
  • The Thief and The Gangster by Alexa Land

    The Thief and The Gangster by Alexa Land

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Adriano. It started as the hottest hook-up of my life. Jack was gorgeous, and the spark between us was intense. But the night ended with me chasing him through the streets of San Francisco half-naked, after he stole my late father’s watch. Awesome. Days later, I finally tracked him down, just as I got the news that all hell was breaking loose back home in Las Vegas...
  • The Billionaire by Emerson Beckett, Rheland Richmond

    The Billionaire by Emerson Beckett, Rheland Richmond

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    There's a thin line between love and hate, and I hate that I'm still in love with him. ★Austin “Daredevil” Wentworth★. I hate Greer Rowan. Hate how I feel when he looks at me, hate the way things ended, and I hate that he’s my older brother’s best friend. I hate how badly I want him, and most of all, I hate that I’m still stupidly in love with him...
  • 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...
    Categorized as:
    mystery  queer  suspense  m-m  length-medium  audiobook
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