Title: Tangle Girls
Editor: Nicole Kimberling
Publisher: Blind Eye Books
Length: Novel / 180 pgs
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Blurb:
Six stories featuring extraordinary heroines. Amazons, assassins, psychics, spacefarers, activists and enchanted lovers fill this anthology with adventure, humor and passion.
Posted in 3.5 stars, Anthology, Fantasy, Lesbian, Reviews, Science Fiction | No Comments »
Title: Halfway 
Author: K.I.L. Kenny
Publisher: Torquere Books
Length: 21,400 words
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Blurb: Andy doesn’t see himself as a typical college freshman after three years of traveling with his diplomat father. But there are compensations to campus life, and he plans to make the most of them. He joins his father’s frat, makes the basketball team, and starts sampling the local nightlife — where he finds Steven, an aloof, exotic cross-dresser who doesn’t think much of frat boys.
Bridging the town vs. gown divide is tricky, and keeping the flame of romance alive in places like laundry rooms and parking lots seems to be Andy’s biggest challenge at first. It’s not long, though, before the frat president is making suggestive comments, and with pledge hazing to get through, Andy knows things are about to get much, much worse. When the pressure is on, will Andy have the guts to abandon compromise and take his commitment to Steven all the way? Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in 3.5 stars, Erotica, Gay, Reviews, Romance | 5 Comments »
Title: Number Theory 
Author: Noah Bogdonoff
Publisher: Untreed Reads Publishing
Length: Short story (1.4k/4 pgs)
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Blurb:
A high school boy finds out that in both love and algebra, solving for ‘x’ may not always get you the result you expect.
Posted in 3.5 stars, Fiction, Gay, Reviews, Young Adult | No Comments »
Title: Honorable Silence: Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell 
Editor: Kris Jacen
Authors: Maura Anderson, William Maltese, George Seaton, Lex Valentine
Publisher: MLR Press
Length: Anthology, 241 pages
Buy the book: Publisher (e-book), All Romance eBooks, Amazon (Kindle Edition), Amazon (print), Rainbow eBooks
Blurb:
Our men and women in uniform sacrifice daily to serve our country. But what about the additional, voluntary sacrifice that each gay person in the military makes daily when they don their uniform? We ask these men and women to not only serve their country but to serve in silence and denial, sacrificing not only their physical lives but their emotional ones too by denying them their right to love.
Four talented authors weave tales that describe how living a lie pulls at the hearts and souls of good servicemen, whose only desire is to do their duty to their country…honorably. In Afterburn by Lex Valentine, two fighter pilots let their hearts soar despite regulations. George Seaton’s The Loss of Innocence Store provides a glimpse into the U.S. Army prior to the institutionalization of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell. A sniper and infantryman find that love eases the pain of being forsaken in Forsake Not by Maura Anderson. And Strategic Maneuvers by William Maltese reveals the intricate steps that can lead to love while in uniform.
Posted in 3.5 stars, Anthology, Erotica, Fiction, Gay, Reviews, Romance | 10 Comments »
Title: The Mariposa Club 
Author: Rigoberto Gonzalez
Publisher: Lethe Press
Length: Novel /250 pages
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Blurb:
As they embark on their final year of high school, the Fierce Foursome—Maui, Trini, Isaac, and Liberace—decide to do something big, something that will memorialize their friendships for when they all go their separate ways and begin their new “adult” lives.
Already accustomed to the hardships that come with being openly gay in high school (not to mention in their homes), the boys can’t begin to imagine what they will be faced with when they set out to create Caliente Valley High School’s first GLBTQ club.
All four boys are remarkably different, and they have been brought together for the time being by their shared feelings of being on the periphery at school, at home, and in the community. But once the Mariposa Club is formed, they will not only have a place where they belong and that is all their own, but it will be a place for future students who feel as displaced as they do.
Little do they know that when the town is rocked by a tragic homophobic incident, the high school and entire community will turn to the Mariposa Club as a symbol of their grief and fear.
Posted in 3.5 stars, Fiction, Gay, Reviews, Young Adult | 2 Comments »
Title: Neighbors 
Author: Victor J. Banis
Publisher: Untreed Reads Publishing
Length: Short story (2.4k/6 pgs)
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Blurb:
Linda, who is becoming bored in her marriage, finds herself fixated on the new neighbor who has moved into the trailer next door. Might she be the change Linda’s looking for?
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Posted in 3.5 stars, Erotica, Fiction, Lesbian, Reviews | 2 Comments »
Title: Finding Sanctuary 
Author: DC Juris
Publisher: Fanny Press
Length: 150 pages
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Blurb:
Finding Sanctuary is the story of Vincent, a typical, average guy who has begun to unravel. He has a respectable, mainstream life, with a solid job, nice girlfriend, comfortable house—all the material trappings. What, then, is causing this restlessness, these blackouts? The first revelation is that his best friend Eric is also his heart’s desire. But then Eric invites him to a weekend at a BDSM playhouse … There Vincent will confront his fears and test the limits of his sexual boundaries. Eric has his needs, too—needs that conflict with Vincent’s. Will their fragile new bond survive the weekend? Will Vincent find the sanctuary he so fervently desires?
Posted in 3.5 stars, BDSM, Erotica, Fiction, Gay, Reviews | 4 Comments »
Title: Wolf Town 
Author: Joely Skye
Publisher: Samhain Publishing
Length: Novella
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Blurb:
For nine years, Scott Lund has been erasing himself. Making sure his own kind—those who can control people’s minds—can’t track him down. It has been a lonely existence. So lonely, that when he makes a real connection with a stranger, he breaks his own cardinal rule and falls asleep in the man’s arms.
Rory McIntyre has been sent by his pack alpha to keep a protective eye on Scott. Seduction wasn’t part of the plan, but once he lays eyes on the Minder, Rory isn’t satisfied to keep his distance.
The moment Scott opens his eyes, he panics and flees—straight into a Minder trap. The handsome stranger from the night before turns out to be his rescuer, who whisks him away to a safe place. Wolf Town.
Overwhelmed by Rory’s family, Scott knows only two things for sure. His attraction to Rory is growing by the minute. And to keep his lover safe, he must put as much distance between them as possible…
Posted in 3.5 stars, Erotica, Gay, Paranormal, Reviews | 1 Comment »
Title: All Four One 
Author: Jennifer Wren
Publisher: loveyoudivine
Length:: Short Story / 19 pgs
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Blurb:
Brenda’s love for Jacob knows no bounds. While they are vacationing in tropical paradise, she discovers a kinky secret of her husband-to-be. Shock turns to intense longing when Jacob adds another dimension to their heated sexual routine and ultimately reinforces her love, devotion and acceptance of every side of him.
Posted in 3.5 stars, Bisexual, Erotica, Reviews | No Comments »
Title: Friday Night Jamie 
Author: Bren Christopher
Publisher: Loose-ID
Length:: Novella / 132 Pages
Buy the book: Ebook
Blurb:
Jamie Morgan is a CPA at Brooks and Stillman Accounting Services, New York. He has a regular schedule in life — weekdays, he will be working. Fridays will be the time to go out to the club and have fun. Saturdays will be time to recover from Friday nights, doing grocery or laundry. He also has an ideal dream man, someone with stability — someone like Keith Brooks, the VP Marketing at the same office. Then one Friday night, he hooks up with Matt, a stranger with long dark hair, rough hand, and in between jobs. The sex is hot but Matt is not his dream man. Things change when Jamie discovers something weird in an account he handles — then suddenly his life is turned upside down with his apartment being broken into, his boss being murdered, and two FBI agents coming into his life saying that his company might be involved in money laundry for the mafia. And suddenly, the stranger Matt, seems to be the only one Jamie can trust.
Posted in 3.5 stars, Erotica, Gay, Mystery, Reviews, Romance | 1 Comment »
