Here are the new releases for the week.
Let us know if there’s something missing & we’ll add it to the list.
| Title | Author | Publisher | Release Date | Other Details | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Same Bones | Gregory Ashe | Hodgkin & Blount | 2/16/2026 | The Lamb and the Lion: Wolves Among Us #1 | Amazon |
| Makers | Casey Cox | Self Published | 2/16/2026 | Upper Echelons #4 | Amazon |
| Two for Boarding | SB Barnes | Self Published | 2/17/2026 | Minor Penalties #2 | Amazon |
| Owning Jett | Lucy Lennox | Self Published | 2/17/2026 | Made Marian Legacy #3 | Amazon |
| Under His Protection | Andrew Grey | Self Published | 2/17/2026 | Olympia Stories #2 | Amazon |
| Mister Pierce | Ariel Dawn | Self Published | 2/17/2026 | CEOs of Kink | Amazon |
| The Wizard of Silver | R.B. Hanna | Self Published | 2/17/2026 | The Emberland Duology #1 | Amazon |
| Free Base | S.J. Crawford | Evernorth Books | 2/18/2026 | WMU #1 | Amazon |
| Pressure Play | Declan Rhodes | Self Published | 2/18/2026 | Top Tier #1 | Amazon |
| Soulbound Ink | Trisha Linde | Self Published | 2/18/2026 | Love Sync Ink | Amazon |
| The Promise Of Together | Jay Hogan | Southern Lights Publishing | 2/19/2026 | Fisher & Church #3 | Amazon |
| Contractually Yours | Crea Reitan | Dragon Fire Fantasy | 2/19/2026 | Amazon | |
| Reckless Little Game | Raleigh Ruebins | Self Published | 2/19/2026 | Crimson College #3 | Amazon |
| Don’t Feed the Vampire | Grae Bryan | Self Published | 2/19/2026 | Coastal Creatures #1 | Amazon |
| The Lion’s Light | Caitlin Ricci | Self Published | 2/19/2026 | Golden Pride #3 | Amazon |
| Gentry | Ashley James | Self Published | 2/19/2026 | The Moore Men #3 | Amazon |
| Fourth and Long | Quinn Ward | Self Published | 2/19/2026 | Tackled By Love #4 | Amazon |
| Sharp Edges | L Eveland | Self Published | 2/19/2026 | Between the Lines #1 | Amazon |
| Second Serves and First Times | Emmery Fox | Self Published | 2/19/2026 | East Coast Matches | Amazon |
| Flotsam | E. Davies | Self Published | 2/19/2026 | Sunrise Island Brothers #5 | Amazon |
| Safe at Home | Tia Fielding | Self Published | 2/19/2026 | Build-A-Pack #3 | Amazon |
| Queerly Beloved | Farhad J Dadyburjor | Penguin | 2/20/2026 | Amazon | |
| Daddy’s Shiny Star | TL Travis | Sapphire Publishing | 2/20/2026 | Daddies and Littles | Amazon |
| More Than Words: Lamont’s Story | Lisa Oliver | Self Published | 2/20/2026 | Hellhound Collar Series #7 | Amazon |
| Conflict of Interest | C.G. Macington | Self Published | 2/20/2026 | The St. Jude’s Medical Series #2 | Amazon |
| Things I Wished We Said | Jacey Davis | Self Published | 2/20/2026 | Amazon | |
| Summer Breakers | C.C. Black | Mountain Ranch Publishing | 2/21/2026 | Amazon | |
| Finn’s Find | Gabbi Grey | Self Published | 2/21/2026 | Love in Mission City | Amazon |
| Out Cold | Lorelei M. Hart & Colbie Dunbar | Surrendered Press | 2/19/2026 | Bramble Woods #1 | Amazon |
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TITLE: The Same Bones
AUTHOR: Gregory Ashe
SERIES: The Lamb and the Lion: Wolves Among Us #1
PUBLISHER: Hodgkin & Blount
LENGTH: 374 pages
RELEASE DATE: 2/16/2026
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Predator. Prey. Pack.
When Teancum Leon’s ex-lover confesses to murder, Tean doesn’t believe it. Sure, Ammon has a dark side, but he’s not capable of killing someone.
Except Tean seems to be the only one who feels this way. Tean’s boyfriend, Jem, is more than willing to take Ammon’s word for it. The police are thrilled to bring the official investigation to a close. And Ammon’s wife, Lucy, is afraid of what he might have done in a fit of rage.
With the police no longer looking for answers, it’s up to Tean and Jem to find the truth. Their investigation leads them to more victims—and to the realization that a serial killer is at work, and he’s targeting gay men.
But someone else is stirring on the high steppe. Someone even more dangerous. Someone who has been content, until now, to watch. And wait.
Until Tean and Jem wake them up.
TITLE: Makers
AUTHOR: Casey Cox
SERIES: Upper Echelons #4
PUBLISHER: Self Published
LENGTH: 78 pages
RELEASE DATE: 2/16/2026
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He came to train my body. Instead, he healed my heart.
No amount of wealth, power, or success can insulate you from the soul-destroying loss of having your child die in your arms. I know I can’t live in this shell of grief forever, but I have no idea how to move on.
Enter Jarvis Small.
My son-in-law’s brother, a personal trainer, and the breath of fresh air I never thought I’d never find again.
His approach is…unconventional, to say the least. He’s loud. Unapologetic. And for the first time since Adam died, I actually feel happy.
He’s also decades younger than me, and—plot twist: a man.
I know I need to let go of the past and start living again, but can I do it with Jarvis?
TITLE: Two for Boarding
AUTHOR: SB Barnes
SERIES: Minor Penalties #2
PUBLISHER: Self Published
LENGTH: 353 pages
RELEASE DATE: 2/17/2026
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With fourteen years as the San Francisco Sea Lions’ top defenseman under his belt, Phil Easton is tired. After his coaches push him into playing on a bad knee and he ends up on long-term injured reserve, the chances of having his contract renewed dwindle before his eyes. He’s ready to hang up his skates when head coach Ben Morris shows up on his doorstep to help him recover. As what starts as a short-term boarding situation turns into friendship and maybe more, Phil can’t help noticing a few things about his coach that don’t add up.
Barring a short stint on a college hockey team, journalist Ben Sinclair has never been a sports fan. Every day he spends posing as the Sea Lions’ coach while investigating a scandal at the heart of the Sea Lions’ management, he hopes he can finish the job quickly and move on. But living in Phil’s spare room, growing closer to him by the day, Ben begins to wonder if putting down roots would be so bad. When Ben’s family calls in a favor in the form of taking in his wayward nephew, Charlie, Phil offers his support. The closer they grow, the more Ben relies on Phil for help with coaching and Charlie, going against every instinct he’s trained into himself for two lonely decades.
With his heart on the line, can Ben accept Phil’s offer of a convenient marriage to keep custody of Charlie? Can Phil figure out his own sexuality in time to make the marriage real? And can both of them work together to protect the Sea Lions from a conspiracy going all the way to the top?
TITLE: Owning Jett
AUTHOR: Lucy Lennox
SERIES: Made Marian Legacy #3
PUBLISHER: Self Published
LENGTH: 350 pages
RELEASE DATE: 2/17/2026
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Two weeks. One villa. A dangerous game of seduction and lies.
My job is simple: get close, get the intel, get out.
Then Locke Maris walks into my op.
He’s cold. Controlled. Heir to a billion-dollar shipping fortune. And so aggressively straight he doesn’t even look at me twice…
Until he does.
Locke makes me an offer: play his assistant by day, be his secret lover by night, at a house party where the world’s elite will gather to sip champagne, enjoy the Italian sun… and play a dangerous game called Paxis.
In this ancient variation of chess, humans are pawns and each coded move could start or stop wars. I should report this to my agency immediately. Walk away clean.
But I can’t walk away.
Because in the privacy of his suite, the moves Locke makes are just as dangerous, the words he murmurs in my ear as devastating, and the growing devotion I feel as destructive as any global war.
At the end of this, I’ll have to disappear like I always do.
I don’t get to want things that could ruin my cover—or my career.
But Locke Maris is ruthless about protecting what’s his, and as far as he’s concerned he owns me.
When everything falls apart, I’ll find out exactly how far he’ll go to keep me.
TITLE: Under His Protection
AUTHOR: Andrew Grey
SERIES: Olympia Stories #2
PUBLISHER: Self Published
LENGTH: 101 pages
RELEASE DATE: 2/17/2026
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With his Hollywood career over, Eddie returned to Olympia and began his life again as a police officer. When he gets a call from an old friend, he hurries to help. Eddie never expected to come face to face with his biggest regret again. Yet maybe this was a second chance with the man he’d left behind to pursue his ambitions of fame and fortune.
Accountant Marty’s life hasn’t turned out the way he expected, and now he’s discovered that he may be working for a front for money laundering. Not knowing what else to do, he calls the old number he has for Eddie, hoping for help. What he gets is a protector… and quite possibly more.
Things go from bad to worse when money laundering turns to murder, with Marty as a possible witness. Passion rekindles and builds quickly, but so does the danger. Eddie is determined to keep Marty safe, but catching the killer will push them both and test their renewed relationship to the limit.
TITLE: Mister Pierce
AUTHOR: Ariel Dawn
SERIES: CEOs of Kink
PUBLISHER: Self Published
LENGTH: 271 pages
RELEASE DATE: 2/17/2026
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A playboy with a dark past. A vengeful heart. A cold-blooded killer.
Oliver
When my boyfriend asks me to help him exact revenge on Sloane Pierce, the sexy self-made billionaire who stole everything from him, I can’t say no. Infiltrating Sloane’s world and exposing him for the monster he is should be simple.
But Mr. Pierce awakens a part of me that is as dangerous as it is addicting, challenging more than just my compliance and my loyalty…
Can I keep my eye on the target and bring my boyfriend the revenge he seeks? Or will I become another one of Mr. Pierce’s victims in more ways than one?
Sloane
Falling for Oliver wasn’t part of the plan. But my pretty new assistant makes me want things I haven’t desired since before I became Mr. Pierce—things that will no doubt destroy me in every way possible.
Control is what I’m good at. It’s what I crave. But the higher I rise in this cutthroat business, the harder it is keep the monster inside me contained.
Will Oliver be the first man to make me submit? Or will the truth expose more than just my sins?
TITLE: The Wizard of Silver
AUTHOR: R.B. Hanna
SERIES: The Emberland Duology #1
PUBLISHER: Self Published
LENGTH: 84 pages
RELEASE DATE: 2/17/2026
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If Dorothy was a boy and gay, it would be Drew Hale.
Working as a librarian for Wamego Public Library in Kansas is dull and not exciting for him and his dog, Tot. When a storm whisks them away inside of a tornado, Drew knows he’s not in reality anymore. Ryder lives in the land of Emberland with his mother. When both of them hear a loud crash outside, Ryder investigates alone to see Drew and Tot unharmed of the barn house wreckage. Drew is confused and wants to go home. Drew follows Ryder to meet his Ryder’s mother, and what he learns and discovers about her is astonishing. Ryder’s mother tells Drew the only way to go home is to see the Wizard who lives at the Silver City. Ryder, Drew, and Tot embark on a journey of love, secrets, and danger. But as they connect more with each other, Ryder wishes Drew never left Emberland. But can Drew make it home safe, or will a obstacle stand in the way?
TITLE: Free Base
AUTHOR: S.J. Crawford
SERIES: WMU #1
PUBLISHER: Evernorth Books
LENGTH: 300 pages
RELEASE DATE: 2/18/2026
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I need to stop crushing on the hot new guy. Asking him to move in with me is the last thing I should do.
Ian
My main goal for sophomore year is to survive with my bruised, rejected heart intact. That looks a lot like avoiding anything that could hurt me, at least until Callum Cross shows up. He’s so quiet, it’s like he doesn’t want people to notice him, but Callum is too tall, too built, and too damn good-looking to hide from anyone, especially me.
Sure, all signs point to Callum being straight, but nobody’s had his back before, and there’s nothing stopping us from just being friends. What makes things complicated is that Callum is exactly my type, and when he ends up crashing on my couch, there’s no escaping how much I’d rather have him in bed.
Callum
A thousand miles isn’t enough distance between here and home, not with nineteen years of baggage. I’m trying to keep my head down and stay out of the way where I belong, but Ian Scott doesn’t get the memo. I’m a shell of who I want to be, but that attractive, out-of-my-league baseball player talks to me like we’re friends, and then…we actually are.
Ian noticed me, but I can’t let him notice how I really feel—someone like him could never like me back. The only problem? He takes me in with open arms when I’m at my lowest. I know I’m not supposed to crave him, but he cares for me like nobody ever has. Ian gives me so much, and all I want is for him to take something back and take me apart.
TITLE: Pressure Play
AUTHOR: Declan Rhodes
SERIES: Top Tier #1
PUBLISHER: Self Published
LENGTH: 293 pages
RELEASE DATE: 2/18/2026
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Heath Donnelly scores ugly goals and sends every paycheck home.
A late-season call-up to the Chicago Ironhawks wasn’t supposed to stick. But Heath stuck—through training camp, through opening night, through the kind of net-front chaos that makes highlight reels and terrifies him in equal measure. At twenty-two, his NHL contract is the only thing standing between his family and the bills that keep arriving. He can’t afford a mistake.
He definitely can’t afford to fall for a teammate.
Kieran Mathers is the mistake.
First-round draft pick. Hockey royalty. The kind of player coaches call mature beyond his years—which is a polite way of saying he’s never been young. Kieran has spent his entire life performing a career he didn’t choose, and he has an exit strategy: one more season, then graduate school, then a life where no one knows his father’s name.
The plan is flawless.
The plan doesn’t account for Heath Donnelly asking him a simple, honest question in a stalled elevator—and seven years of control coming apart in the space between floors.
What starts in that elevator doesn’t stop.
It turns into a secret neither of them can afford.
Road trips. Locked doors. Late nights in a narrow apartment where the radiator ticks and the bed is too small for two hockey players. In a league that still treats coming out as career-ending—and a locker room where privacy is an illusion—every moment together is borrowed time.
Heath needs to stay.
Kieran needs to leave.
The city is watching. The closet is thinning. And the trade deadline is coming fast.
When it hits, they’ll have to choose between the futures they planned—and the one they’ve found together.
Because the hardest thing in hockey isn’t taking the hit.
It’s staying visible after.
TITLE: Soulbound Ink
AUTHOR: Trisha Linde
SERIES: Love Sync Ink
PUBLISHER: Self Published
LENGTH: 229 pages
RELEASE DATE: 2/18/2026
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Before they were mates, their souls were bound in ink.
Joel is just your average human omega—overworked, underpaid, and doing his damnedest to smile his way through it. He’s living for himself and no one else, because let’s face it, he doesn’t have time for dating, and he’d probably just end up with a loser anyway, so why bother? It’s with himself in mind that he walks into a tattoo parlor to get his first ink, however he walks out with more than he paid for… He’s been marked by his fated mate.
Alpha North is a jaguar shifter, his sleek black fur the same color as the ink he tattoos his clients with. People wait years for a chance to get inked by him, even knowing they don’t get a choice about what he’ll choose to mark them with. Heck, it’s part of the appeal. They know the rules: No requests, no speaking, and most importantly, never, ever hit on him. This jaguar is saving himself for his mate. When his mate walks in the door, though, his people skills are more than a little rusty. Does he talk to him like any normal guy would? Nope. Instead, his jaguar convinces him to mark him as theirs.
TITLE: The Promise Of Together
AUTHOR: Jay Hogan
SERIES: Fisher & Church #3
PUBLISHER: Southern Lights Publishing
LENGTH: 320 pages
RELEASE DATE: 2/19/2026
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I never dreamed I’d get a second chance at love. I scarcely believed in it the first time. Then Mads appeared from nowhere during one of the hardest times of my life, and everything I thought I knew about myself, about what I deserved, about who I wanted to become, was turned upside down.
Falling for Mads was the easy part. Learning to trust him took longer. Having faith in myself is a battle I’m still fighting, but finding the courage to confront and make peace with my past is the only way forward.
Mads sees me. The real me. Even the parts I’ve spent a lifetime pretending didn’t matter.
The broken pieces of my childhood are coming back to haunt me. Another mystery. More personal this time, but no less deadly.
They say it’s never too late to change and I’m determined to try. I want a future with Mads at my side, and not getting myself killed beforehand would be an excellent start.
TITLE: Contractually Yours
AUTHOR: Crea Reitan
PUBLISHER: Dragon Fire Fantasy
LENGTH: 367 pages
RELEASE DATE: 2/19/2026
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Sign your love away…
Enfield
I never wanted an arranged marriage but to continue the spoiled lifestyle I live and support my three children, I sign on the dotted line with a plan to get what I want and ditch the wife. My parents have other plans and the woman I’m contracted to turns out to be a man. I’m livid.
Xavi
I’ve been looking forward to this day for years. After watching six older brothers get their happy endings, all I want is mine. But the man who walks through my door is angry, mean, and not interested. My happy ending is heartbreak instead.
TITLE: Reckless Little Game
AUTHOR: Raleigh Ruebins
SERIES: Crimson College #3
PUBLISHER: Self Published
LENGTH: 269 pages
RELEASE DATE: 2/19/2026
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My frat enemy pulled me deep into reckless obsession.
Weston’s the perfect college golden boy.
The rule follower ‘Frat Dad’ of Onyx Society.
I call him the campus sheriff, because his rigid, lawful attitude gets deep under my skin.
But on the night we collide, Wes surprises me… and I like it far too much.
I see him on his knees for me and I crave more.
He says I’m chaotic.
Dark and violent, just because it’s fun.
But I watch as he breaks all of his rules for me, one by one.
He’s never slept with a man, and I’m a lone wolf…
But this twisted thing between us is quickly becoming a need.
But now I’m playing for two sides.
My frat has me gathering info on Wes, as our societies reignite a war that should have died years ago.
Violence erupts, and my loyalties should belong elsewhere.
But Wes is opening up to me. Giving me all of him, still needy for more.
And I will recklessly protect what’s mine.
TITLE: Don’t Feed the Vampire
AUTHOR: Grae Bryan
SERIES: Coastal Creatures #1
PUBLISHER: Self Published
LENGTH: 318 pages
RELEASE DATE: 2/19/2026
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Riley has been alone in the woods for a long time. Turned as a child, he’s hungrier and more fractured than the average vampire, and staying clear of humans is his safest bet. His moms think a mate could help him stabilize, but it’s unclear whether Riley has one, anomaly that he is. Until a new baker arrives in town, smelling so sweet and so perfect that Riley can barely stop himself from eating him up on the spot. Now it’s no longer a question of whether Riley has a mate, but whether Riley can pretend to be less of a monster long enough to woo him.
Romance has never been Seth’s priority. He’s always been more focused on family and friendships and his passion for feeding delicious baked goods to whoever will take them. So it’s odd that this too young, too quiet, too beautiful man keeps showing up at Seth’s door, looking at Seth like he’s something special instead of painfully ordinary. And it’s even more odd that Seth can’t keep his own boundaries straight or his hands to himself. And it’s maybe oddest of all that Seth is coming to feel like Riley’s unnerving, unwavering attention is something he might not be able to live without.
TITLE: The Lion’s Light
AUTHOR: Caitlin Ricci
SERIES: Golden Pride #3
PUBLISHER: Self Published
LENGTH: 235 pages
RELEASE DATE: 2/19/2026
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Robin has been performing since he was old enough to watch his parents tear each other apart and learn the safest thing to be was charming. The flirting, the easy smile, the guy who makes everything look effortless — it’s armor he built in childhood and perfected over a lifetime. No one gets past it. Not even the grumpy lion shifter mechanic who watches him like he’s something worth figuring out.
Vaughn doesn’t do sweet. He does engines, crossword puzzles, and silence. But Robin’s act doesn’t fool him — never has. He can hear the skip in Robin’s heartbeat every time he fakes a laugh. He just doesn’t know why.
Robin has survived worse than a bad boss and a kitchen that tried to break him. But surviving isn’t the same as living, and Vaughn is the first person who’s ever made him want to stop just getting by. Being real means letting Vaughn see everything — the scars, the fear, and the dream Robin’s been too afraid to chase. It means trusting a man who could crush him and believing he won’t.
Vaughn has never been good with words. He’ll have to prove it the only way he knows how: by staying.
TITLE: Gentry
AUTHOR: Ashley James
SERIES: The Moore Men #3
PUBLISHER: Self Published
RELEASE DATE: 2/19/2026
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TITLE: Fourth and Long
AUTHOR: Quinn Ward
SERIES: Tackled By Love #4
PUBLISHER: Self Published
LENGTH: 367 pages
RELEASE DATE: 2/19/2026
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Falling for a football player wasn’t supposed to happen—not when the sport destroyed my life.
Tanner
I spent years watching football steal my dad piece by piece. By the time he died, I knew the cost: loving a player means watching them break.
My roommate comes home from games with bruises blooming across his ribs, and everything I swore I wouldn’t feel crashes through anyway. He’s quiet strength wrapped in a uniform that represents my worst nightmare.
He stays when I push him away. Sees past my grief. Makes me want to believe not every player ends up like my father.
I know better.
My heart doesn’t care.
Seth
I’m a senior playing my final season who’s holding out hope of going pro. The smart move? Walk away from the guy whose father’s dementia came from the game I play.
But Tanner’s the first person who looks at me and doesn’t see stats or potential. Just a guy trying to figure out who he is.
Every game day, he hides with noise-canceling headphones. Every time I come home hurt, he flinches. And I keep suiting up anyway.
He deserves someone who doesn’t make him relive his trauma every Saturday.
The problem? I’m falling for him anyway.
And I’m starting to think what I’m wearing might cost me the only thing that’s ever felt real.
TITLE: Sharp Edges
AUTHOR: L Eveland
SERIES: Between the Lines #1
PUBLISHER: Self Published
LENGTH: 403 pages
RELEASE DATE: 2/19/2026
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JOEL
I don’t skate for beauty. I skate to win.
I learned young how to control everything—my body, my career, how to hurt people who deserve it. Nothing gets through unless I let it.
Then a red-haired hockey player walks into my rink, and I want to take him apart.
He’s closeted. Careful. Thinks he’s hiding what he wants.
He’s not.
I should leave him alone. He can never be seen with me, will never introduce me to anyone who matters.
I keep putting my hands on him anyway. Some things are worth ruining yourself for.
RED
I’ve spent my whole life being told I’m too small.
Too small for the NHL. Too small to hit back. Too small to want things that would swallow me whole.
Then I meet Joel Coffey, and I stop being careful.
He’s out. Untouchable. When he looks at me, I forget every rule I made to survive.
For years, we find each other in borrowed beds and cities where no one knows my name. He chases gold. I claw my way through the league. We leave marks on each other that I check for long after they’ve faded.
It was never supposed to last. We keep choosing it anyway.
TITLE: Second Serves and First Times
AUTHOR: Emmery Fox
SERIES: East Coast Matches
PUBLISHER: Self Published
LENGTH: 310 pages
RELEASE DATE: 2/19/2026
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Ben Harris always does the right thing. A model student, vice president of the fraternity, captain of the tennis team. His life is perfect. Right?
Except, Ben has been hiding his feelings for best friend Nate since freshman year. Now Nate is madly in love with his childhood crush and trying to set Ben up with his dream man. How do you tell your best friend that he is your dream man without ruining everything? The answer? Fake date your cocky new teammate.
Elias Liebrenz is not here to make friends, and he sure as hell doesn’t plan on sticking around. This team is an interlude to the glittering pro tennis career surely laid out before him. He didn’t plan on becoming someone’s fake boyfriend, but who knew he had a secret thing for Preppy, American frat boys with secret kinks?
TITLE: Flotsam
AUTHOR: E. Davies
SERIES: Sunrise Island Brothers #5
PUBLISHER: Self Published
RELEASE DATE: 2/19/2026
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“I’m tired of men thinking they know me from their right hand.”
HILTON:
After ten years of putting on a persona and taking off my clothes, I’m starting over on Sunrise Island. And I know exactly how to handle the young guy next door when he gives me that attitude.
One dare later, I’m getting behind the camera again. I see something real underneath Drew Cole’s brash youth, and I want to capture it before it’s gone. But good portraits always reveal what’s behind the lens.
As I try to reveal the truth, will I finally expose my own heart?
“I found myself by watching him—and now he knows my name.”
DREW:
I’m Sunrise Island’s golf cart mechanic and jokester, but nobody sees past my smiles. And then my new neighbour steps straight out of my college fantasies.
Hilton Saint is older, less innocent, and way hotter than he is on my hard drive. I can’t seem to get my foot out of my mouth—until Hilton challenges me to lay myself bare for his lens and see how it feels.
I have a lot left to learn, but there’s only one thing I want to know: am I ready for everyone to see the real me?
TITLE: Safe at Home
AUTHOR: Tia Fielding
SERIES: Build-A-Pack #3
PUBLISHER: Self Published
LENGTH: 178 pages
RELEASE DATE: 2/19/2026
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For the last handful of years, Max Douglas has had two things keeping him sane: his brother Ben, and the music of the band Kaiju. Getting through a horrible childhood in the crappiest of wolf packs was one thing, but battling addiction as a wolf while adult was a whole other ballgame. When Max and Ben’s cousin Brodie ends their abusive alpha father and takes over the pack, things start to change for the better, starting with rehab.
Ben has always been the caretaker of his brother. There might only be a year between them, but Ben has been the big brother since their troubled mother put a tiny baby in the same crib with him. They might as well be twins, they’re so in tune with each other.
Brodie is a good, loving alpha, and the house where Ben and Max grew up feels like a happy home with a flourishing pack inside it for the first time. Brodie’s best friend Rian, a vampire, now also lives with them, and both Ben and Max are incredibly fond of him. Then they discover that one of Rian’s best friends is Luca Moretti, the lead singer of Kaiju.
That’s mind-blowing on its own, but then Luca needs a safe haven as Kaiju disbands and his health crumbles, and suddenly the man who has kept Max afloat is there in their home.
Luca doesn’t know what comes next, other than his band is no more, he doesn’t want to be on a stage again. He’s had to make the decision to accept either death or being turned. While he didn’t have becoming a vampire in his life plan, it was the only option that made sense. Being a vampire is a whole new experience. So is the way his new senses make him understand the wolf brothers better. With that comes the friendship and attraction that bubbles between the three of them.
Luca knows that as a former human, he should probably feel weirder about wanting both of the brothers, but on the fanged side of life, human sensibilities don’t matter as much. Navigating a relationship between the three of them is tricky, and the fact that the threat to their pack isn’t fully gone won’t make anything easier, either.
TITLE: Queerly Beloved
AUTHOR: Farhad J Dadyburjor
PUBLISHER: Penguin
LENGTH: 242 pages
RELEASE DATE: 2/20/2026
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A big-hearted tale of true love, second chances and one grand wedding
Mumbai-based industrialist Ved Mehra has found the love of his life in Carlos Silva, an American working in the city. After three years of living together, they are now ready to take the next step—a big fat Indian wedding. But as he begins to share the good news with his family and start the preparations, Ved finds himself stretched in all directions: his divorced mother is blissfully smitten with a younger man who is pulling out all the stops; a long-buried secret from his father’s past catches up to him; and if things weren’t complicated enough, his ex-boyfriend Akshay is back and wants to be a part of his life. Will things finally work out for Ved? Especially, with everyone else around him also demanding their own happily ever after?
TITLE: Daddy’s Shiny Star
AUTHOR: TL Travis
SERIES: Daddies and Littles
PUBLISHER: Sapphire Publishing
LENGTH: 195 pages
RELEASE DATE: 2/20/2026
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One lonely boy.
One lost Daddy.
A stuffie named Sloffers and a whole zoo of animals.
Literally.
Add in a pizza party turned flourgeddon.
What in the world has this Daddy gotten himself into?
Better bring your allergy pills ‘cause you’re in for one furry ride.
***The original version of this story was published in the 2024 Daddies Pride Anthology. This version has been re-edited with additional wordcount, a fun new chapter, lots of puppies and kitties and more.***
TITLE: More Than Words: Lamont’s Story
AUTHOR: Lisa Oliver
SERIES: Hellhound Collar Series #7
PUBLISHER: Self Published
RELEASE DATE: 2/20/2026
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“I’ve been alive a very long time…thugs with government connections don’t scare me.”
Hellhound Lamont had been through a long week providing much-needed protection for Giorgio and his new mate, Enda. He was willing to help, it’s what packmates did for each other. But just prior to going to Tuscany, Lamont had been waylaid by another man in Egypt – an intriguing man who left him with a business card and a plea for Lamont to call him before being dragged off by two goons. Unable to get the man out of his head and not getting any responses to his texts or calls, when Lamont was finally free of his obligations, he went looking for the man behind the card. The only issue was that ten days had passed by that point, and the man was very definitely missing.
“He doesn’t know… That’s the only explanation that makes sense.”
Ewen Cross, journalist and silver fox shifter, really wished he hadn’t stopped to talk to Lamont just moments before he’d been abducted. Unfortunately, the pull to be with his mate was too strong, but that brief meeting became a curse when Lamont didn’t come after him the way Ewen thought he would. Again, not an issue on its own, but Ewen’s fox was feeling neglected, and suffering mate sickness while tied to a chair in a basement hadn’t been on Ewen’s bingo card that year.
He’d already been kidnapped, tortured, and nearly killed. What was a little divine wrath on top of that?
Lamont pulls some godly strings, and Ewen is finally in his arms, but their troubles don’t stop there. Between corrupt officials, a story Ewen would die to protect (and damn near had), and a few interferences from Lord Hades and Consort Ali, finding time to celebrate their mating just wasn’t happening. If they could just get the story published, then maybe there’d be time to visit the Greek Islands, Consort Ali is so fond of recommending.
TITLE: Conflict of Interest
AUTHOR: C.G. Macington
SERIES: The St. Jude’s Medical Series #2
PUBLISHER: Self Published
LENGTH: 212 pages
RELEASE DATE: 2/20/2026
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Spite is a powerful sedative. But in the ER, adrenaline is the only drug that matters.
Preston York has spent his entire life as the “Spare” to the York dynasty: the fun one, the flighty one, the one expected to do nothing more than look good in a tuxedo. But when his older brother Maxwell—the Golden Boy Chief of Cardiothoracic Surgery—makes a bet that Preston wouldn’t last a week in the real world, Preston decides to prove him wrong. He trades his silk sheets for scrubs, his brunch dates for the graveyard shift, and his dignity for a pair of rubber gloves.
He’s ready for the blood, the guts, and the exhaustion. He is not ready for his boss.
Dr. Lucas Silva clawed his way up from a fourth-floor walk-up in Queens to become the Chief Resident of St. Jude’s. He runs on caffeine, grit, and the crushing weight of his family’s expectations. He has zero patience for tourists, especially not the entitled, devastatingly handsome son of the Chairman of the Board who wears Gucci loafers to a trauma activation.
Luke is convinced Preston is just slumming it before retreating to the safety of the boardroom. Preston is determined to prove that he’s more than just a last name.
But navigating residency is impossible when the entire York clan is breathing down your neck. Between Maxwell micromanaging his surgeries, Jax O’Connell treating the trauma bay like a contact sport, and a mother who tries to bribe the hospital administration to treat her dog, Preston is fighting a war on all fronts.
As the late nights turn into early mornings, the friction between the Spare and the Chief Resident sparks into something dangerous. But when the family legacy offers Preston a golden parachute back to his old life, he has to decide: Is he playing doctor, or is he finally ready to be real?
The prognosis is chaotic.
TITLE: Things I Wished We Said
AUTHOR: Jacey Davis
PUBLISHER: Self Published
LENGTH: 196 pages
RELEASE DATE: 2/20/2026
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Sometimes when I think back, I wonder how I got here. How did the sad, scared thirteen-year-old boy forced to move across the country to live with an aunt he barely knew end up married to his best friend and raising seven kids together?
Sure, the marriage is for the benefits, and the kids are Riot’s siblings, but still. It’s a life I never imagined, but one I wouldn’t change for the world.
Except for one thing.
I love Riot a little more than a best friend should. Or a lot more. Sometimes I imagine what his lips feel like pressed up against mine, or how it would feel if he calls me husband and truly means it.
It’s a secret I kept for years, terrified that if Riot found out, it would ruin everything. Because having him in my life in any way I could get him is better than no Riot at all.
Lately, it’s been harder to keep my feelings to myself. And when one secret is revealed, all the others start to unravel.
All I could do at this point is be honest and hope I don’t lose my best friend in the process.
TITLE: Summer Breakers
AUTHOR: C.C. Black
PUBLISHER: Mountain Ranch Publishing
LENGTH: 98 pages
RELEASE DATE: 2/21/2026
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Sebastian comes to Haleʻiwa with a one-way ticket and three months to disappear. Makoa never left—he stayed to hold his family together and keep their small surf shop alive.
When Sebastian walks into Breakers Supply Co. looking for work, neither expects what follows. Surf lessons turn into long lunches, late conversations, and a connection neither of them planned for.
Under wide skies and salt-sweet sunsets, two guarded hearts must choose between the comfort of leaving and the risk of belonging.
Sometimes home isn’t where you’re from.
It’s who you find.
TITLE: Finn’s Find
AUTHOR: Gabbi Grey
SERIES: Love in Mission City
PUBLISHER: Self Published
LENGTH: 31 pages
RELEASE DATE: 2/21/2026
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Finn
I’m not the kind of guy who lusts after strangers, but the man pulling up next to me on his bike is muscular and hot as hell. I let myself look, and he gives me a scorching grin in return. Then the light turns green, he peels away, and I figure I’ll never see him again. Except he almost gets hit by a minivan, and I stop to make sure he’s okay. Inviting him back to my place to make sure he has no lasting damage is just professional care, but damn, Ulysses can kiss. Pretty soon, we’re burning up the sheets together. Sadly, when I wake up, I find myself alone. Do I have to chalk this up to a one-night stand, or might I find the mysterious Ulysses again if I try?
TITLE: Out Cold
AUTHORS: Lorelei M. Hart & Colbie Dunbar
SERIES: Bramble Woods #1
PUBLISHER: Surrendered Press
RELEASE DATE: 2/19/2026
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My den left me out in the cold as a cub, hoping I’d never return. That didn’t work out too well for them.
As the firstborn son of the most powerful Alpha our den has ever known, I should’ve had everything. Respect. Protection. A future. Instead, my step father tosses me out into the freezing cold, left to face the elements before my first shift, and leaves me there to die.
My polar bear refuses to give up, pushing my shift early and saving my life. He keeps me alive. Keeps me fighting. Helps me find safety in the embrace of a small wolf pack.
While the den forgets me, I prepare. I study business management, train in mixed martial arts, and learn to survive among humans. I wait for the right time to return and take back what’s mine.
When I hear about a human scientist coming north to tag and track polar bears and examine why we settled so far away from most of our kind, my timeline shifts. It doesn’t matter if I’m ready or not, my den doesn’t understand how dangerous humans can be. Despite my past, protecting them is my duty… even if they never wanted me.
I don’t expect the scientist to be a hot nerd with a heart filled with kindness and a true desire to help wild life. And I certainly don’t expect my bear to scent him as mine.
Now I have to find a way to save my kind without losing the one person fate put on this planet just for me.
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