Title: Becoming Ted Author: Matt Cain Publisher: Storm Publishing Release Date: June 4, 2024 Genre(s): Contemporary M/M Romance Page Count: 416 Rating: 4 stars out of 5  Read book blurb here 43-year-old Ted is devastated when his husband of what Ted thought were 20 wonderful years, Giles, leaves him for a younger, more exciting man. And once Ted begins to realize how Giles has demeaned him and held him back from his dreams, Ted begins working toward his childhood dream of becoming a drag queen. It takes Ted a while, but he gets there in the end, and in b ..read more

Title: Death in the Spires Author: KJ Charles Publisher: Storm Publishing Release Date: April 11, 2024 Genre(s): M/M Murder Mystery, Historical Page Count: 273 Rating: 5 stars out of 5  Read book blurb here Jem, Nicky, Aaron, Hugh, Toby, Ella and Prue - The Seven Wonders, or at the start "Feynsham's set" - Toby's curated collection of fellow students who met their first year in Oxford, becoming fast friends, until Toby's murder in the spring of their third year, 1895. Ten years after, Jem loses his lowly clerk job because of a note sent to his employer:&n ..read more

Title: Blackmailer's Delight Author: David Lawrence Publisher: Broadbound Publishing LLC Release Date: February 12, 2024 Genre(s): M/M Historical Romance Page Count: 325 Rating: 4.5 stars out of 5  Read book blurb here In the midst of the French Revolution, the English "Revolt of the Housewives" erupted in 1795, whereby the mostly female rioters redistributed food stores to those in need, after one of England's coldest winters, setting fair prices for the food and paying the proceeds back to the original owners. I love how the women strived to give all in ..read more

Title: Curio Author: CS Poe Publisher: Emporium Press Release Date: February 5, 2024 Genre(s): M/M Contemporary Romance Page Count: 60 Rating: 5 stars out of 5  Read book blurb here Llewellyn Cooper (Lew) and his aunt Julia ("Remember the summer you took up performance art in the park and destroyed all your panties in front of picnicking families?" "It was art, Lew. I was making a statement.") run the Curio Cabinet in NYC's West Village and have lately been fascinated by Professor Bow Tie (Henry), a natty dresser (albeit with thick thighs and a lumberjack ..read more

Title: Cross My Candy Heart Author: A.C. Thomas Publisher: NineStar Press Release Date: February 6, 2024 Genre(s): M/M Contemporary Romance, Valentine's Day Page Count: 95 Rating: 4 stars out of 5  Read book blurb here This novella answers the question: "How do you let someone know you're totally crushing on them when dressed as a slightly mangy teddy bear or in a duck costume with candy-striped tights and big webby feet?"  After his latest bad relationship with a truly horrid ex, Justin is working three jobs to get his head anywhere close to above ..read more

Title: One Night in Hartwood Author: Emma Denny Publisher: Mills & Boon Release Date: November 17, 2023 Genre(s): M/M Historical Page Count: 352 Rating: 3.5 stars out of 5  Read book blurb here Set in 1360 England, a wedding has been arranged and brothers Ash and Rafe are escorting their sister Lily to her nuptials. However, the groom William de Foucart disappears before the wedding occurs, and and as he is returning home, Rafe comes upon a man in the forest, Penn. Over the first part of the book, as the two begin traveling together they learn to dep ..read more

Title: Time to Shine Author: Rachel Reid Publisher: Carina Adores Release Date: September 26, 202 Genre(s): M/M Hockey Romance Page Count: 352 Rating: 4.5 stars out of 5  Read book blurb here Rachel Reid is the author of the Game Changers series, featuring hockey stars Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov and their ten-year angst-filled relationship. Time to Shine is similar in that it features two young hockey players, Casey Hicks and Landon "Stacks" Stackhouse, but has more of a young adult (YA), less sexually-charged feel, yet deeply emotional.  Cas ..read more

Title: Murder at the Oasis (Mason Adler Series #3) Author: David S. Pederson Publisher: Bold Stroke Books Release Date: August 15, 2023 Genre(s): Crime Procedural, M/M Historical Page Count: 231 Rating: 4.5 stars out of 5  Read book blurb here In this third book in David S. Pederson's Mason Adler series, we find private detective Mason Adler and his friend, interior designer Walter Wingate, in Palm Springs for a short vacation. While the pace of the book is a bit slow, it's refreshing to get a glimpse at a time when vacations weren't adventure travel, whe ..read more

Title: Puzzle for Two Author: Josh Lanyon Publisher: JustJoshin Publishing Release Date: May 27, 2023 Genre(s): M/M PI Mystery Page Count: 316 Rating: 4 stars out of 5  Read book blurb here Puzzle for Two gives us an improbable case ("Possibly the whole pretend-t0-be-my boyfriend to decoy my maybe suicidal wife thing?") with Zach, a young PI resolved to keep his father's PI agency afloat while fending off creditors as well as his competitor ex-Marine Flint Carey who is determined to buy him out. Never mind that Zach might be a bit too inexperienced, the c ..read more

Title: Broadway Butchery (Memento Mori #3) Author: CS Poe Publisher: Emporium Press Release Date: June 22, 2023 Genre(s): M/M Crime Procedural Page Count: 311 Rating: 5+ stars out of 5  Read book blurb here I have to admit I struggled a bit with this book. No, no, no .... I loved "Broadway Butchery" (I'm not an idiot) but it was hard to decide if I wanted to devour it in a frenzied stay-up-all-night, sob in my pillow marathon .... or savor every page, every nuance of the flowering relationship between Larkin and Doyle, set my Kindle aside for a few ..read more