Reviewed by Kat

TITLE: True Prince

SERIES: The Prosper Woods Chronicles (Book 3)

AUTHOR: Patricia Logan

PUBLISHER: Westburg Publishing

LENGTH: 228 pages

RELEASE DATE: September 3, 2021

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My life couldn’t get any better or more bizarre. Ever since moving to small town Prosper Woods, California, and meeting my vampire lover, the oddest things have been happening. Of course, a lot of that has to do with the fact that this whole place has turned out to be one giant melting pot of the strangest paranormal creatures on the planet. Let’s face it, this little place is like the United Nations of weirdos.

Not all of them like me.

I’m in love with my unicorn who just happens to be the most decent, honest, and kindest man I’ve known throughout my long life. I hadn’t planned on settling down forever. I usually must move on every twenty years or so, because I never age. I always wanted a family but alas, that wasn’t to be. Now, things are looking up and all because a curious little boy has come to town.

Unfortunately, our enemies are determined to spoil all this bliss.

I’ve had to combine forces with someone I absolutely hate. Plus…he smells like dog. The only reason we’re pairing up is because we share common enemies. A reckoning is coming for the vampire and the unicorn, and am I looking forward to ending them once and for all.

And if the kid gets in the way, I’ll just give him to Justine as a snack.

Reviewed by Valerie

TITLE:  Salvation

SERIES:  Darkest Skies #3

AUTHOR:  Garrett Leigh

PUBLISHER:  Fox Love Press

LENGTH: 2482 Kb

RELEASE DATE:  September 2, 2021

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Reformed gang boss Dante Pope is out after a four-year stretch in prison. But freedom has found him faster than he’s ready for. His only brother hates him, and with nothing but PTSD and a newfound fascination with plants for company, the outside world is a terrifying place.

A prisoner rehabilitation scheme lands him at a stately home that might as well be the moon. Working for gorgeous gardener Sid is a welcome distraction—his shoulders are broad, his rugged jaw unshaven, and his long, tanned legs? Wow.

But Sid has problems of his own. A life-changing disease has left him limited in ways he can’t bear and accepting help, even from a stranger, makes him want to curl up and die. If Dante would let him. Newsflash: he won’t, and he’s not a stranger for long. With his dark smile and sinister ink, Dante Pope is the most beautiful man Sid has ever seen. Life is hard, but falling for each other is easy. Sunshine and shadows.

Old ghosts can haunt Dante all they like. Loving Sid is the only salvation he’ll ever need.

Salvation is a sweetly angsty standalone MM romance novel in the Darkest Skies series. Expect: second chances, forced proximity, friends-to-lovers, and buckets of hurt/comfort themed loveliness. Content warnings for childhood trauma, violence, and chronic illness.

Reviewed by Valerie

TITLE:  Chrysalis

SERIES:  The Formicary #1

AUTHOR:  S.E. Harmon

PUBLISHER:  Self Published

LENGTH:  224 pages

RELEASE DATE:  September 1, 2021

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Waking up in the hospital with a gunshot wound to the head is bad. Finding out I have amnesia is far worse. My memory is practically wiped. I don’t know why someone wants me dead. Hell, I don’t even know my name. They say my name is Christian Cross. Too bad that name means nothing to me.

I haven’t forgotten everything, though. Grayson Laurie has always been my kryptonite, and it would take more than a bullet to the brain to forget him. He assures me that I’m imagining the distance between us, but I know better. I just don’t know how to fix it. I console myself that at least I’ve reached rock bottom and things can’t get worse…until they do.

My life is a tangled mess of lies and deceit. The more I learn about myself, the less I want to know. I want nothing more than an honest future with Gray, but the past isn’t about to let me go without a fight.

Fortunately, I’m starting to realize that fighting is my specialty.

Reviewed by Taylin

TITLE: Descent Of Ravens

SERIES: Bel’s War #1

AUTHOR: AC Andrews

PUBLISHER: Self Published

LENGTH: 354 Pages

RELEASE DATE: August 30, 2021

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The old covenant of the gods is broken. Will the world break, too?

When an army of vampires invades their home, Rio and Turi must fight for their future while the fate of an empire hangs in the balance.

The exiled son of an emperor, bitten and infected with the night-curse, seals himself into a tomb for eternity only to be awakened eight hundred years later by an awkward and anxious priest who needs his help saving their people. The healer Rio, a priest of Astara, is lost in grief and rage when war comes to Trosika. Yet he is drawn to the enigmatic vampire prince, pulled by a love that stretches across lifetimes. Can Philip help him save his religion from extinction?

A blind old woman gives Turi bones containing three spirit familiars. As the world around him falls apart, he must learn to accept himself and master his newfound necromancy in time to save his friends, his people, and his island.

How can they survive, when not even their patron goddess could stop the forces arrayed against them?

Descent of Ravens is an exciting new fantasy with LGBTQ+ characters and relationships, rich world-building, and dark adventure!

Reviewed by Kat

TITLE: The Surrogate Omega

SERIES: The Three Hearts Collection (Book 1)

AUTHOR: Susi Hawke & Harper B. Cole

PUBLISHER: Self Published

LENGTH: 280 pages

RELEASE DATE: June 15, 2019

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If two are better than one… then three is best!

Alpha couple Richard and Dusty may not fit the world’s sense of normal, but they have each other. As a graphic designer who works from home while his pilot husband is off flying the friendly skies, Dusty spends way too many hours alone. Hours spent longing for a family, the family that the orphaned alpha is sadly lacking.

Rich never wanted children, but after a decade with his husband, the alpha is ready to open his heart to a child. Even if children are sticky, dirty, and downright irritating, for the most part. Certainly his own child will be above all that. After all, isn’t it all just a matter of proper parenting?

Josiah isn’t in the market for an alpha. He just needs to stay in forward motion and keep his eye on the prize as he juggles two jobs to raise his little sister who became his charge when their parents died. She’s smart. Wicked smart. But her school is convinced she’s too challenged, that she’ll never be able to finish regular high school, let alone college, refusing to recognize she is brilliant though severely dyslexic. To get her the help she needs, Josiah needs money, and a lot of it.

Surrogacy seems his only option. He can’t imagine doing it for just anyone, though, and soon, Dusty and Richard become more than just the daddies of the baby he’s carrying…

This book is 80k of sweet heat as only Harper B. Cole and Susi Hawke can bring, but don’t worry, it’s not too… knotty

Reviewed by Kat

TITLE: The Divorced Omega

SERIES: The Three Hearts Collection (Book 2)

AUTHOR: Susi Hawke & Harper B. Cole

PUBLISHER: Self Published

LENGTH: 240 pages

RELEASE DATE: July 5, 2019

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M/M Non-Shifter Alpha/Omega MPREG

Can two men heal the wounds Ethan’s ex left behind?

After a decade of a sexless marriage with a philandering alpha who can’t even be bothered to show for their daughter’s birthday, Ethan St. John finds himself back at his childhood home, starting over. Except for this time, he’s older, wiser, and with a child of his own to raise.

Persistently single and awkward, Ryan Davis is swiftly approaching his fortieth birthday with no sign of the singleness abating, but he somehow manages to get Ethan to agree to a date with him.

Pub owner Larry Simmons grew up with a sorry excuse for a family, but he’s built his own. It isn’t enough, though. He wants it all: house, partner, kids.

Ethan has no interest in a relationship, but after years of spousal neglect, being the center of two devoted alphas’ attention is intoxicating. Ryan isn’t quite sure how to navigate this new dynamic, but he’s found a space with these two men where he can truly be himself. And Larry? Larry is just waiting for his guys to wise up and see what is right in front of them.

This book is 68k of sweet heat as only Harper B. Cole and Susi Hawke can bring, but don’t worry, it’s not too… knotty.

Reviewed by Sadonna

TITLE:  Fathers of the Bride

AUTHOR:  Marshall Thornton

PUBLISHER:  Kenmore Books

LENGTH:   236 pages

RELEASE DATE:  August 28, 2021

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After more than two decades together, Andrew Lane and Miles Kettering-Lane are going through a nasty divorce. Not only are they unraveling their relationship but also their business—Miles once had a popular home show on cable with Andrew serving as his producer/manager—the failure of which they blame on each other. Now, they’d be happy to never, ever see each other again. But the daughter they both adore, Kelly, announces she’s getting married, and that means one very important thing: a wedding.

Thrown together, at event after event—meeting the in-laws, planning the wedding, throwing an elaborate engagement party—the two clash over everything until, their future in-laws, Bradley and Pudge Lincoln and Terry and Lissa Collins, try to take over the entire wedding. The Lincoln-Collins’ are very wealthy, to quote Pudge, “People think we’re in the one percent but that’s so embarrassing. We’re barely in the two percent!”

Andrew and Miles realize they have to work together in order to compete with the overbearing Lincoln-Collins’ and give their daughter the wedding she deserves. Along the way, they realize things just might not be over between them.

Reviewed by Kat

TITLE: Glow

SERIES: Carousal Lounge (Book 2)

AUTHOR: Sammi Cee

PUBLISHER: Self Published

LENGTH: 104 pages

RELEASE DATE: August 27, 2021

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I want to call my alpha…Daddy 

Once he’d presented as an omega, Mystic had one dream: to find a mate and be a papa. Instead, he’s a nineteen-year-old virgin, dancing at Carousal Lounge Gentlemen’s Club and spending every spare second helping his friends with their children.

When Blaze, the older and wiser hired muscle, takes a special interest in Mystic and starts pushing him to take care of himself, dare he hope that the goddess wants to give him a family of his own?

In this second story of Sammi Cee’s new shifter world, you can expect a super-sexy omega dancing—if a little shyly—a Daddy alpha growling, the baby population growing, and a super-protective found family who isn’t letting their youngest and dearest get involved with just anyone. 

Reviewed by Valerie and Danielle

TITLE:  Saxon

SERIES:  Tags of Honor #6

AUTHOR:  Annabella  Stone

PUBLISHER:  Self-Published

LENGTH:  170 pages

RELEASE DATE:  July 29, 2021

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Is four days enough for him to convince Saxon that friends with benefits is not enough anymore?

Red Squadron’s Explosive Ordnance Disposal Specialist, Saxon Berg, hides his feelings under jokes, quick wit, and snark. The last thing he wants is to fall in love. Friends with benefits suits him just fine, thank you very much. But then fate had to throw him a curveball he never saw coming.

When he was a teenager Rick Jones caused the biggest scandal of his generation by kissing the president’s son on the White House lawn. Thrown out of the family and cut off from everything he knew. To survive, Rick took the only option open to him and joined the Navy. Now fifteen years later the battle-hardened former SEAL is tired of the friends with benefits thing he has going on with the sexy EOD from Red Squadron. He wants more. He just needs Saxon to see that they are worth taking a chance on.

Sometimes the line between right and wrong is stark and bleak, and sometimes Fate doesn’t even take it into consideration, when she sends the one made just for you. But in an uncertain world, only one thing is guaranteed—when the battle stops the warrior will fall.

Reviewed by Becca

TITLE: Addicted to Lust

SERIES: A Yakuza Path Romance #1

AUTHOR: Amy Tasukada

PUBLISHER: Macarons and Tea Publishing

LENGTH: 206 pages

RELEASE DATE: September 1, 2021

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Can a night of passion lead to a happily ever after?

Yakuza captain Hayato’s life is a mess. His boyfriend broke up with him, changed the locks, and kept all his stuff. He can’t crash at his brother’s because his girlfriend is moving in. And just when Hayato thinks things can’t get worse, he accidentally gets blackout drunk and wakes up in the arms of a clingy underling.

Masuo believes he and his boss made a deep connection, but when he’s blown off the next morning, he feels lied to. Assigned to run a failing pachinko parlor, Masuo is determined to turn it around to prove himself to everyone…especially his sexy superior.

When Hayato realizes he’s falling for the young parlor manager, he is more than ready for fun. But as Hayato’s tragic past comes back to haunt him, Masuo wonders if he’s ready to carry all Hayato’s baggage.

Can the unlikely pair learn to accept each other and find their way to happiness even while new challenges arise, or is their love destined to fall like balls through a pachinko machine?

REVIEWED BY Danielle

TITLE: Dare Me

SERIES: Dare to Try #2

AUTHOR: Ella Frank & Brooke Blaine

PUBLISHER: Self Published

LENGTH: 183 Pages

RELEASE DATE: August 30, 2021

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Dare Me is part two of the Dare to Try trilogy and should only be read after Dare You.

The moment Bash “Miss Razzle Dazzle” Vogel sashayed into Lieutenant Kieran Bailey’s life, both their worlds were turned upside down.
What started as an easy friendship quickly morphed into sizzling chemistry that neither one could deny.
But what Kieran knows better than anyone is that when a fire burns this hot and heavy, someone’s bound to get burned.
Do they dare to risk being together? Or will the flame of this hot match consume them both?

This series must be read in the following order:
Dare You (book one)
Dare Me (book two)
Truth or Dare (book three)

Reviewed by Valerie

TITLE:  Dearest Milton James

AUTHOR:  N.R. Walker

PUBLISHER:  Self-Published

LENGTH:  193 pages

RELEASE DATE:  August 24, 2021

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Malachi Keogh finds himself in a job he neither wanted nor asked for when his father, boss of Sydney’s postal service, sends him to the end of the business line, aka The Dead Letter Office. Malachi expects tedious and boring but instead discovers a warehouse with a quirky bunch of misfit co-workers, including a stoic and nerdy boss, Julian Pollard.

Malachi’s intrigued by Julian at first, and he soon learns there’s more to the man than his boring clothes of beige, tan, and brown; a far cry from Malachi’s hot pink, lilac, and electric blue. Where Julian is calm and ordered, Malachi is chaos personified, but despite their outward differences, there’s an immediate chemistry between them that sends Malachi’s head—and heart—into a spin.

To keep his father happy, Malachi needs to keep this job. He also needs to solve the mystery of the pile of old letters that sits in Julian’s office and maybe get to the bottom of what makes Julian tick. Like everything that goes through the mail centre, only time will tell if Malachi has found his intended destination or if he’ll find himself returned to sender.

Reviewed by Stephen K

TITLE: The Beauty Within

AUTHOR: H.L. Day

PUBLISHER: Queeromance Ink

LENGTH: 217 pages

RELEASE DATE: August 10^th 2021

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“You will be trapped in stone forevermore, your beauty hidden by a façade so ugly that people will not like to look upon it. You will feel, but you will not be able to speak. You will hear, but you will not be able to communicate. You will endure across the ages, a silent witness to the decades that go by.”

François Damont’s only crime was loving the son of a witch in a time where it wasn’t permitted. For that sin, he’s been cursed to spend eternity locked inside the body of a gargoyle. A chance to break the curse comes only once every twenty-five years, lasting for no longer than twenty-eight days. He’s been unsuccessful for hundreds of years. Why would this time be any different?

History lecturer Daniel Smith is still reeling from a broken marriage when he stumbles across a mysterious man. Frankie might be hiding something, but the connection between them is too strong to ignore. Can he unlock the mystery before it’s too late?

Strange dreams. Dark forces. People who may not be what they seem. Time is not the only thing against them. And perhaps Daniel knows more than he thinks he does.

Reviewed by Valerie

TITLE:  Hijacked

SERIES:  Licking Thicket: Horn of Glory #1

AUTHOR:  Lucy Lennox and May Archer

PUBLISHER:  Self Published

LENGTH:  242 pages

RELEASE DATE:  September 2, 2021

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Renowned cardiologist Carter Rogers is used to having things under control. His life, his prestigious reputation, his career, his future.

Things he can’t control this time around:

• His meddling grandfather

• His annoying gamer cousin

• Buggy South American jungles

• Being the meat in a feuding cartel sandwich

• Getting kidnapped by a monologuing drug lord

•Falling for his very hot, very mouthy ex-Special Forces bodyguard

In short, Carter’s peaceful, well-planned life has been… hijacked.

Reviewed by Kat

TITLE: The Cautious Omega

SERIES: The Three Hearts Collection (Book 3)

AUTHOR: Susi Hawke & Crista Crown

PUBLISHER: Self Published

LENGTH: 216 pages

RELEASE DATE: August 25, 2021

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Scott Lawson, recently discharged from the military, wants nothing more than to get to know his eleven year old son, Matty. Something he’s never really had a chance to do. But to do that, he needs a job, a house—a life. Something else he’s never really had a chance at.

He absolutely does not need another fling that lands him in more trouble. Not that Matty was trouble… but his papa certainly had been before he’d left the picture.

And yet… he’s undeniably drawn toward not one, but two men.

He can’t deny that his British landlord, Julian Banks, is the kind of alpha he’d love to dominate in bed. And Julian’s strange hippy friend Kai, with his uninhibited invitations and kisses makes everything seem so… easy. Though Scott does occasionally wonder if that’s because Kai might be sneaking something extra into his “special” brownies.

A no-strings attached agreement between the three seems ideal since none of them have any interest in settling down into a traditional alpha/omega relationship. Kai’s only commitment is to absolute freedom, Scott’s focus is on Matty, and Julian’s always put the idea of settling down into the far-off future.

But… what if the answer to all their desires isn’t one man… but two? What if their union is exactly what they need to heal their souls and build a family together… not just for them, but Matty, too?

This is the third book in the Three Hearts trilogy. Get ready for a quirky British mum, sweet, fluffy love between three guys who don’t know what they’re doing, and enough naughty, knotty heat to steam your kindle.