Here are the new releases for the week. We aren’t perfect and could miss a book or two, so let us know if there’s something missing & we’ll add it to the list and information that follows.
| Title | Author | Publisher | Release Date | Other Details | Link |
| Destructive Forces | Harry F. Rey | NineStar Press | 4/22/2019 | The Galactic Captains #4 | |
| SIO | C.A. Blocke | NineStar Press | 4/22/2019 | ||
| Where Song Replaces Silence | Layla Dorine | NineStar Press | 4/22/2019 | ||
| Demon or Angel | Lynn Michaels | Self Published | 4/22/2019 | Age of Exilum #1 | |
| The Gathering Storm | Tricia Owens | Self Published | 4/22/2019 | Juxtan #2 | |
| Burden | K.C. Wells | Dreamspinner Press | 4/23/2019 | Love, Unexpected #2 | |
| Crossing the Touchline | Jay Hogan | Dreamspinner Press | 4/23/2019 | ||
| The Doctor’s Secret | Heidi Cullinan | Dreamspinner Press | 4/23/2019 | Copper Point Medical #1 | |
| Innocence and Carnality | J. Alan Veerkamp | Dreamspinner Press Publications | 4/23/2019 | ||
| Home to Cedarwood | Megan Slayer | Pride Publishing | 4/23/2019 | Cedarwood Pride #1 | |
| Play Hard | Avery Cockburn | Self Published | 4/23/2019 | Glasgow Lads #4.5 | |
| Survival | Leona Carver | Less Than Three Press | 4/24/2019 | The Green Man #2 | |
| Ties That Bind | Alex Whitehall | Less Than Three Press | 4/24/2019 | ||
| Love Is A Walk In The Park | V.L. Locey & Stephanie Locey | Gone Writing Publishing | 4/24/2019 | ||
| Mud & Lace | Jay Northcote | Jaybird Press | 4/25/2019 | Rainbow Place #4 | |
| Anthony, The Earl of Crofton | Rebecca Cohen | Self Published | 4/25/2019 | ||
| Don’t Fight the Spark | Kasia Bacon | The Order Universe | 4/26/2019 | Soldiers and Mercenaries #1 | |
| Win/td> | Catherine Lievens | eXtasy Books | 4/26/2019 | Council Assassins #6 | |
| Surviving the Apocalypse: Long Leggity Beasties | Tinnean | JMS Books | 4/27/2019 | Surviving the Apocalypse #3 | |
| Antidote | Jack Pyke | Men in Ink Press | 4/28/2019 | Don’t #2 |
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TITLE: Play It Again
AUTHOR: Aidan Wayne
PUBLISHER: Carina Press
LENGTH: 288 pages
RELEASE DATE: April 22, 2015
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The videos are fun.
But it’s the host who has him coming back for more…
When Seattle-based blind YouTuber Dovid Rosenstein finds Sam Doyle’s Let’s Play channel, playitagainsam, he’s instantly captivated by the Irish gamer. Everything about Sam is adorable, from his accent to his personality, and Dovid can’t get enough of his content.
Dovid’s glowing shout-out on Don’t Look Now, his own successful channel, sends Sam’s subscriber numbers skyrocketing overnight. He has more comments than he can read. And while the sudden surge in popularity is anxiety inducing, Sam decides it’s only right to dedicate his next episode to Dovid…which soon leads to a heart-pounding exchange of DMs.
They may have never met in person, but Dovid’s never felt this close to anyone before. What they have feels worth exploring—no matter the distance. But is it possible to already be in love with someone who’s half a world away?
TITLE: Destructive Forces
SERIES: The Galactic Captains #4
AUTHOR: Harry F. Rey
PUBLISHER: NineStar Press
RELEASE DATE: April 22, 2015
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In the far reaches of the Kyleri Empire, young Captain Mahnoor travels around the system to escape the cultural pressures to marry. But his infatuation with a handsome imperial pilot leads him into a galactic war.
On Jiwani, Viscamon is attempting to consolidate his power, by blaming the Ingvar for the royal massacre and calling armies from across the Empire to track down the missing prince, and achieve his dream of destroying the Galactic Balance. However, Antari knows the truth about Osvai and must find the courage to stand up to the prince’s enemies, and his own, no matter the risk.
Meanwhile on Aldegar, Daeron is being held prisoner by the few remaining Ingvar forces and must find a way to break free to rescue his mother and the crew of the Daring Huntress once again, as well as the missing Prince Osvai, before the Kyleri come to take back what’s theirs.
Sallah, no longer the last Tevian, returns to Aldegar with no choice but to enlist the help of the man she hates and the woman she once loved to see her son again.
As the Galactic Balance tips ever more towards chaos, time is running out to save Ales from the destructive forces he has unleashed.
TITLE: SIO
AUTHOR: C.A. Blocke
PUBLISHER: NineStar Press
LENGTH: 223 pages
RELEASE DATE: April 22, 2015
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Set in a near-future environment, mega-corporations have taken over the most habitable of planets, creating domed utopias for their devoted employees. Everyone else has been shunted off to a multitude of mostly habitable planets and moons where they scrape by as farmers and tradesfolk, miners and merchants, bounty hunters and scavengers.
James Marks and his crew of scav trash operate their ship, SIO, on a mission to obtain a mysterious piece of new tech. It changes everything and leaves him stranded somewhere he doesn’t recognize with a cute, if not a bit annoying, tech scientist. James doesn’t know, when he first meets Michael, but his life is about to change in a very surprising way.
TITLE: Where Song Replaces Silence
AUTHOR: Layla Dorine
PUBLISHER: NineStar Press
RELEASE DATE: April 22, 2015
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Raze halts his midnight joy ride to give chase to twinkling lights that appear in the road before him and then lead him deep into a forest, where he falls into another world. There, magic is real, wishes are granted, and no one is considered odd or out of place.
Raze has never fit in anywhere in his own world and uses his angry attitude to keep others at bay and mask his anxieties and fears in this new place. A dangerous combination in Loas, where rudeness is frowned upon and foul language can land him in a dungeon.
Rurin, an inhabitant of Loas, tries to teach Raze about their world, its magic and its residents, but he faces Raze’s stubborn resistance at every turn. Bitter about his past, pessimistic about his future, Raze sees what could be, but he struggles to accept it. In the meantime, his encounters with the Fae range from hostile sarcasm to potential danger. While he attempts to keep the promises he’s made to Rurin and follow the rules laid out for him, Raze grows more and more curious about the place where he’s landed. It’s too bad he keeps making poor choices.
As the connection between them grows, Rurin works to keep Raze from being banished, but Raze may be cast out of the Loas before he has the opportunity to discover the true reason he was led there in the first place.
TITLE: Demon or Angel
SERIES: Age of Exilum #1
AUTHOR: Lynn Michaels
PUBLISHER: Self Published
LENGTH: 219 pages
RELEASE DATE: April 22, 2015
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WAR IS COMING… the angels of Osestra and the demons of Exilum are preparing for the final battle to be played out in Manna, the human realm, and one young man is caught in the middle.
Vern Swain may be the key to everything.Vern is a country boy dreaming of seeing his name up in lights. He runs away to become a star. His journey is just beginning, but it takes him in unusual directions…right in the path of his guardian demon.
Teague, son of Xaphan is a demon of Exilum charged with ruining Vern’s life, but he just can’t do it. He’s confronted by his family, and forced to choose sides.
War is coming, but who’s fighting for Manna?
TITLE: The Gathering Storm
SERIES: Juxtan #2
AUTHOR: Tricia Owens
PUBLISHER: Self Published
LENGTH: 150 pages
RELEASE DATE: April 22, 2015
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After betraying the only man he ever loved, Hadrian ni Leyanon waits for death amidst the ruins of a sorcerous battle. Before that can happen he is recruited by the Council of Elders which governs the use of magick in Juxtan. The Council needs him to track down his evil sorcerer father and force him to face a justice they aren’t powerful enough to inflict on their own. Wracked with guilt, Hadrian agrees to join the mage-led mission in the hopes it will allow him to redeem himself. But when Caled, the handsome mercenary whom Hadrian betrayed, insists on joining the mission too, Hadrian discovers that redemption needs to come from the man who hates him most. Previously published as The Gathering.
TITLE: Burden
SERIES: Love, Unexpected. #2
AUTHOR: K.C. Wells
PUBLISHER: Dreamspinner Press
LENGTH: 209 pages
RELEASE DATE: April 23, 2015
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A hooker with a heart, falling for a Vice cop? This is no Hollywood movie, and if they want a happily ever after, it’s not going to be easy.
Detective Randy Michaels is back with Vice, working to help NYC crack down on its prostitution problem. When he suspects Jesse Bryant of soliciting, Randy is torn between duty and his knowledge of what put Jesse on the streets. Jesse is clearly struggling, and he isn’t the only one. Recent events have forced Randy to question his sexuality, and a shocking encounter with Jesse plunges him into a crisis of conscience.
Jesse didn’t think his life could get any worse. His family cut all support, his education is on hold, and he’s surviving the only way he knows—selling himself on the streets. Of all the people who could have offered him a helping hand, why did it have to be Randy?
Two men carrying their own personal burdens: How long will it take them to realize that what they really need is each other?
TITLE: Crossing the Touchline
SERIES: Auckland Med. #2
AUTHOR: Jay Hogan
PUBLISHER: Dreamspinner Press
LENGTH: 302 pages
RELEASE DATE: April 23, 2015
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What if you’ve worked your whole life for a dream, to play rugby for the most successful sports team on the planet, the New Zealand All Blacks?
What if that dream is so close you can smell it?
What if you meet someone?
What if you fall in love?
What if your dream will cost the man who’s stolen your heart?
And what if the dream changes?
Reuben Taylor has a choice to make.
Cameron Wano is that choice.
TITLE: The Doctor’s Secret
SERIES: Copper Point Medical #1
AUTHOR: Heidi Cullinan
PUBLISHER: Dreamspinner Press
LENGTH: 337 pages
RELEASE DATE: April 23, 2015
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The brilliant but brooding new doctor encounters Copper Point’s sunny nurse-next-door… and nothing can stand in the way of this romance.
Dr. Hong-Wei Wu has come to Copper Point, Wisconsin, after the pressures of a high-powered residency burned him out of his career before he started. Ashamed of letting his family down after all they’ve done for him, he plans to live a quiet life as a simple surgeon in this tiny northern town. His plans, however, don’t include his outgoing, kind, and attractive surgical nurse, Simon Lane.
Simon wasn’t ready for the new surgeon to be a handsome charmer who keeps asking him for help getting settled and who woos him with amazing Taiwanese dishes. There’s no question—Dr. Wu is flirting with him, and Simon is flirting back. The problem is, St. Ann’s has a strict no-dating policy between staff, which means their romance is off the table… unless they bend the rules.
But a romance that keeps them—literally—in the closet can’t lead to happy ever after. Simon doesn’t want to stay a secret, and Hong-Wei doesn’t want to keep himself removed from life, not anymore. To secure their happiness, they’ll have to change the administration’s mind. But what other secrets will they uncover along the way, about Copper Point… and about each other?
TITLE: Innocence and Carnality
AUTHOR: J. Alan Veerkamp
PUBLISHER: DSP Publications
LENGTH: 350 pages
RELEASE DATE: April 23, 2015
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Innocence is his only currency.
The gilded cage of propriety where Nathan grew up as a member of the Deilian aristocracy became a true prison when, at fifteen, his homosexuality came to light and created a terrible scandal. His parents see only one way to preserve their reputation amongst the other noble families: fit Nathan with a chastity belt to increase his value to a potential partner and marry him off as soon as possible.
The recipient of that prize is Lord Rother Marsh Delaga III. After a hasty wedding, Rother whisks Nathan away to the strange and seductive land of Marisol, where Nathan will begin a new life, free to explore the pleasures of the marriage bed, though his life is still not his own.
But Rother’s Delaga House is a place of secrets, dangers, and depravity Nathan can scarcely comprehend. Where friends are few and peril waits around every corner, Nathan must employ all the manipulation he learned from high society, along with his talent for clockwork. Most of all, Nathan must adapt, compromise to survive, and cast off the preconceptions of his homeland.
Because only he can orchestrate his freedom, and it’ll come at a cost.
TITLE: Home to Cedarwood
SERIES: Cedarwood Pride #1
AUTHOR: Megan Slayer
PUBLISHER: Pride Publishing
LENGTH: 122 pages
RELEASE DATE: April 23, 2015, 2nd Edition
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Will the naysayers drive Colin and Jordan apart, or will the two make their way together in this small town?
Colin Baker owns a bookstore and he’s back in Cedarwood with his son. He’s looking for a new start after a bad breakup, but he never expected that start to include his old crush, Officer Jordan Hargrove. Jordan hasn’t come out, but if he can score with Colin, then he’s all in. He’s dreamed of hot nights with the quiet man.
After a speeding ticket and some hurt feelings, sparks fly between the bookstore owner and the police officer, but Cedarwood is a small town with small-town values, and a gay couple isn’t what the town expects. Colin’s created a support group for single gay fathers and he feels he’s making some difference in Cedarwood. Some folks are fine with these two men reconnecting, but others aren’t.
Will their love survive or will it fall apart before they get started?
Publisher’s Note: This book was previously released elsewhere. It has been revised and reedited for release with Pride Publishing.
TITLE: Play Hard
SERIES: Glasgow Lads #4.5
AUTHOR: Avery Cockburn
PUBLISHER: Self Published
LENGTH: 135 pages
RELEASE DATE: April 23, 2015
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“I’ll always want more of you.”
Robert McKenzie lives to work. He’s fresh out of university as a video-game entrepreneur, and his new app could actually save lives. But burning the candle at both ends means missing out on the best parts of his own life—including his boyfriend, Liam.
Liam Carroll works to live. His job as a bartender pays the rent—if not always the heating bill—and that’s plenty for now. But Robert’s workaholism reminds Liam his own life is going nowhere, and his own dreams are scaring the pants off him.
To jolt them out of their ruts, Robert invents a new game: He and Liam are to take turns offering each other sexy new challenges with irresistible rewards.
Of course, Robert gets more than he bargained for, as Liam takes their game in one surprising direction after another. Whether it’s in the bedroom, on the football pitch, or at the pub (or even the supermarket?), the things they learn about each other—and themselves—could change their lives forever.
Play Hard is the feel-good, staying-in-love story the world needs right now!
Note: This happier-ever-after novella features the main characters of Playing With Fire but can be read as a stand-alone story.
TITLE: Survival
SERIES: Green Man #2
AUTHOR: Leona Carver
PUBLISHER: Less Than Three Press
RELEASE DATE: April 24, 2015
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The Velikaya Knyazhna is ready for its journey to a new world. Assigned to the botanical labs, Valentin has spent the past weeks helping to prepare the ship’s parkland for the journey—a park that is absolutely vital to the terraforming that will take place when they reach their destination.
But as they proceed with the cryo process that will sustain them over the long journey, Valetin’s superior is insisting the park isn’t ready, and will be dead long before they reach their destination. Her pleas are ignored, however, and the ship departs, its crew and colonists frozen.
Then what feels like only a moment after he’s put into stasis, Valentin opens his eyes only to find out that he and the other botanists have been mysteriously woken up seventy years early…
TITLE: Ties That Bind
AUTHOR: Alex Whitehall
PUBLISHER: Less Than Three Press
RELEASE DATE: April 24, 2015
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For Chel, Tomlin, and Mathias, life is simple but good. They share a home and a love, and despite a few conflicts of personality, are happy. Mathias runs a magic shop, where he makes magic items and potions for his customers, and Tom is his familiar, helping supply his magic. Chel, who’s not magical, works at a bookshop and makes sure dinner is on the table for his lovers.
When Mathias suddenly comes down with a mysterious illness, Chel and Tomlin seek out answers. As Mathias’s familiar, Tomlin can sense that nothing is wrong with the magical parts of him, but when a trip to the doctor’s indicates nothing is wrong with him physically either, they start to worry.
Then Mathias collapses, and the search to find the truth becomes urgent.
TITLE: Love is a Walk in the Park
AUTHOR: V L Locey & Stephanie Locey
PUBLISHER: Gone Writing Publishing
LENGTH: 143 pages
RELEASE DATE: April 24, 2015
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Sullivan Haines knows exactly what he wants out of life. Fame as a Broadway dancer and to find the man of his dreams. Sadly, his love life is a dismal mess, his roommate is PMS personified, and working at a dingy dance studio teaching old people how to tango and foxtrot is not exactly the bright lights. Actually, life in the Big Apple is pretty rotten, until he and his dog run into tall, dark, and oh-so-handsome Duane Hart in the park. Their pooches hit it right off, but can the two men find romance along the park’s winding paths?
Duane Hart hasn’t had a lot go right in his life. His girlfriend recently broke up with him, taking everything that wasn’t nailed down or in his roommate’s name. Well, everything except the Yorkshire terrier that he didn’t want to get in the first place, and that she now refuses to take back. However, when he meets a handsome stranger and his pit bull in the dog park, will the blooming heat in his chest be able to convince him to start dating again? Or will fate prove love isn’t a walk in the park, after all?
TITLE: Mud & Lace
SERIES: Rainbow Place #4
AUTHOR: Jay Northcote
PUBLISHER: Jaybird Press
LENGTH: 226 pages
RELEASE DATE: April 25, 2015
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When Wicksy falls for drag queen Charlie, they discover that both sexuality and gender can be fluid.
Simon Wicks—Wicksy to his rugby teammates—has only ever been interested in women. But when he sets eyes on Lady Gogo, a drag queen who performs at Rainbow Place, he can’t stop thinking about her. He knows there’s a guy behind the fishnets and make-up, but he’s ready to explore his fantasies, and Lady Gogo is game for making them come true.
Charlie adores performing in drag. It allows him to indulge in his love of cross-dressing while earning some extra cash. Fooling around with a mostly straight guy in secret seems like a fun diversion, and gives him the chance to explore his feminine side. He feels safe wearing the mask of his confident alter ego, because the real Charlie is hidden from view.
When Wicksy sees more of the guy behind the make-up and glitter, his attraction to Charlie persists, and he realises he’s bisexual. In turn, Charlie begins to understand and accept his gender fluidity. As their mutual journey of self-discovery brings them closer, the secrecy becomes increasingly hard to deal with. If they’re going to have a future together, they both need to find the courage to show people who they really are.
TITLE: Anthony, The Earl of Crofton
AUTHOR: Rebecca Cohen
PUBLISHER: Self Published
LENGTH: 240 pages
RELEASE DATE: April 25, 2015
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A tale set in Stuart England, where the king’s life depends on his most loyal of subjects.
Anthony Redbourn, Earl of Crofton, delights in his reputation as a charming rogue. Life is never quiet at the court of King James I, especially with his good friend and secret lover, Sebastian Hewel, by his side. As an actor with the celebrated King’s Men, Sebastian has his own admirers, but neither man has eyes for anyone else.
When a plot against His Majesty is uncovered it threatens Anthony and Sebastian’s charmed lives, and they are dragged into the political intrigue and the race to save the king from danger. Fear that a traitor is linked to the King’s Men leaves Sebastian and Anthony with no choice but to stage a very public dissolution of their friendship, so Anthony can be free to be the patron of a new rising actor, and Sebastian can be the prodigy of another noble.
It is a dangerous game they are playing to expose the plotters and still find a way to meet in secret, as Anthony is adamant that they will not sacrifice the love they have fought so hard to win. They will do whatever it takes to protect the king’s life, and their commitment to each other.
TITLE: Don’t Fight the Spark
SERIES: Soldiers and Mercenaries #1
AUTHOR: Kasia Bacon
LENGTH: 86 pages
RELEASE DATE: April 26, 2015
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As the Light Festival draws near, the Něssyrians craft paper lanterns, awaiting the most important holiday of the year.
The Lyliňg Fighting House, too, prepares for celebration—by laying fresh sand onto the arena and setting up a match against their top pit fighter, the unrivalled Yüuzuki Ōren.
His last match. One he can’t win.
With the odds more than stacked against him, the gorgeous Barbarian is as good as dead. Unless his lover, healer Ĥaiatto Ẽkana, proves himself every bit as determined as he is clever and finds a way to protect the man he’d stop at nothing to save.
TITLE: Win
SERIES: Council Assassins #6
AUTHOR: Catherine Lievens
LENGTH: 119 pages
RELEASE DATE: April 26, 2015
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What happens when a workaholic meets his mate—and doesn’t tell him about their bond?
Win is the council assassins’ handler, and that means he has to keep them safe. That’s not an easy thing to do when there’s a group of people trying to kill them, but Win has done his best, and now they’re down to only six people to eliminate before he can take care of his family. But his obsession with their safety means he doesn’t have time for anything else, and that includes Graham, the assassins’ cook—and his mate.
Graham has suspected there was a bond between him and Win ever since he arrived at the warehouse, but since he’s human, he can’t be sure. He won’t get any answers from Win, who spends more time in his office working than he should. If Graham wasn’t there to make sure he ate and slept, he probably would have collapsed, and that’s the last thing Graham wants.
Graham’s opportunity to find out if that bond is really present comes when the council puts Win on a forced vacation. It so happens that Graham is headed home to his parents for two weeks, and somehow, Win ends up going with him. Will that interlude be enough for Graham to get through to Win? Or will Win be unable to forget about the work waiting for him back home and ignore Graham? Will the assassins finally find out what’s really happening with the people trying to kill them?
TITLE: Surviving the Apocalypse: Long Leggity Beasties
SERIES: Surviving the Apocalypse #3
AUTHOR: Tinnean
PUBLISHER: JMS Books
LENGTH: 147 pages
RELEASE DATE: April 27, 2015
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Dark deeds are being done, and Jenn Canaday, a special agent with the FBI, has been assigned to look into them. This takes her to New Mexico, where cattle are being rustled and people are going missing — one of them the niece of the state’s governor.
Meg Parkinson is a sheriff’s deputy in the small town of Laurel Hill. She and Jenn had once spent a steamy week together, but then Jenn had sent her away, something Meg hasn’t gotten over, as reluctant as she is to admit it.
When Meg notices that the homeless camp on the edge of her town has become deserted, Jenn is brought into her vicinity to aid in the investigation. Will the former lovers be able to work together? Can they rekindle the flame that had once burned so brightly? And will they learn what’s behind all the disappearances without disappearing themselves?
TITLE: Antidote
SERIES: Don’t #2
AUTHOR: Jack Pyke
PUBLISHER: Men in Ink Press
LENGTH: 459 Pages
RELEASE DATE: April 28, 2019
BLURB: “Us. We’re okay, aren’t we, mukka?” ~ Jack Harrison
Video footage of Jack sleeping with Cutter, a man who has mutilated teenagers for his own sadistic streak, should have stayed dead and buried with the man who had filmed it. Yet when footage to Jack’s past starts appearing on internet porn sites, Jack’s whole world is again turned on its head. At first the porn links are done to unsettle, to disrupt Jack’s fire and ice world: all the sexed-up adrenaline of being caught between the pleasure to Gray Raoul’s BDSM kink and the “soft lad” gentleness of Jan Richards’ vanilla touch. But when the content of the porn sites force even Gray to turn his back on Jack, leaving Jack isolated and away from the full protection of the Masters’ Circle, Jack is left at the mercy of a group of men who are out to alter Jack’s whole perception on his BDSM lifestyle and the reality of being Jack Harrison. As brutally as possible, Jack’s sex life is now live webcam feed for a whole new audience.
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