Archive for the ‘Western’ Category
May 31st, 2011 by Kassa / 732 views
Title: I’m Saying Yes 
Author: E.N. Holland
Publisher: Bristlecone Pine Press
Length: Novel (110k/389 pgs)
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Blurb:
Jim Crane and Allen Prescott became lovers when they met as teenagers; in the years since they have carried on a furtive and secret affair, getting together only when time and their circumstances allowed. Jim has long wished to create a life with Allen but Allen has always refused. His ingrained belief that “people kill queers” has prevented him from recognizing and accepting his love for Jim. I’m Saying Yes opens when Jim, depressed and suicidal, gives Allen an ultimatum: choose me or else. After an agonizing night, Allen makes the decision to accept Jim’s offer, finally realizing that a life without his lover is a life not worth living.
I’m Saying Yes chronicles their first four months together as they begin their life as an openly gay couple, in a time-1976-and place-rural west Texas-where this was not the norm. They face challenges that range from simple: figuring out details of housekeeping, to sad: dealing with the death of Hal Lawrence, an older man who becomes a special friend and trusted confidante. It is a transformational time for both men but particularly Allen, who, over the course of the novel comes to accept his sexuality and ultimately, himself.
Jim and Allen have a few rocky moments but the story ends on a happy note because, as Allen says, when you believe in yourself and are guided by a strong and powerful love, anything is possible. Their deeply shared love and commitment to each is other is proof that that is true.
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April 6th, 2011 by Book Utopia Mom / 600 views
Title: Riding Double 
Edited by: Anne Regan
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Length: Anthology (105k/298 pgs)
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Blurb:
The romantic allure of the cowboy is unparalleled. These sweaty, dusty icons of the West, past and present, still melt hearts and raise pulse rates, whether the man’s wearing a ten-gallon hat, chaps and spurs, or nothing at all. In these stories of romance with a Western flair, love softens the most hardened range rider and passion fires the most stoic ramrod’s blood. Fate may throw a few twists in their path, but at the end of the day, these men will be riding double into the sunset.
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Posted in 2.5 stars, Anthology, Erotica, Fiction, Gay, Historical, Reviews, Romance, Western | No Comments »
March 31st, 2011 by Kassa / 793 views
Title: Dutch’s Boy 
Author: Xavier Axelson
Publisher: Seventh Window Publications
Length: Novella / 88pgs
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Blurb:
Fulfilling your dream isn’t easy, especially if you’re the son of well-known rodeo rider Dutch Reynolds. Dutch doesn’t want to see his son Harry leave the family ranch until he feels Harry is ready. But for Harry, his dream of riding broncos at the rodeo seems to be passing him by. With the moral support of his best friend Reb, Harry takes his life in his own hands and leaves the ranch before Dutch can stop him. Chance encounters, sex and love soon teach the young cowboy life lessons that he will not forget.
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March 24th, 2011 by Book Utopia Mom / 1,555 views
Title: According to Hoyle 
Author: Abigail Roux
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Length: Novel (88k/254 pgs)
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Blurb:
By the close of 1882, the inhabitants of the American West had earned their reputation as untamed and dangerous. The line between heroes and villains is narrow and indistinct. The concept that a man may only kill if backed into a corner is antiquated. Lives are worth less than horses. Treasures are worth killing for. And the law is written in the blood of those who came before. The only men staving off total chaos are the few who take the letter of the law at its word and risk their lives to uphold it. But in the West, the rules aren’t always played according to Hoyle.
US Marshals Eli Flynn and William Henry Washington are escorting two prisoners to New Orleans for trial when they discover there’s more to the infamous shootist Dusty Rose and the enigmatic man known only as Cage than merely being outlaws. When forces beyond the marshals’ control converge on the paddlewheeler they have hired to take them downriver, they must choose between two dangers: playing by the rules at any cost or trusting the very men they are meant to bring to justice.
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Posted in 3.5 stars, Gay, Historical, Reviews, Romance, Western | 1 Comment »
August 16th, 2010 by DarienMoya / 1,017 views
Title: Forbidden Love
Author: Stormy Glenn, H.C Brown, Anna O’Neill and Alexsandr Voinov
Publisher: Noble Romance
Length:: 87pages
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Blurb:
A four-story anthology featuring Stormy Glenn, H.C. Brown, Anna O’Neill and Aleksandr Voinov.
My Outlaw, by Stormy Glenn
After getting injured and losing his horse during a cattle drive, Daniel Branson is ordered to ride the stagecoach back home. Little does he realize that it will put him in the hands of the notorious outlaw, Black Bart. And the handsome outlaw has plans for Daniel that don’t involve holding him for ransom!
Forbidden, by H.C. Brown
England 1075—Sir Renoir Danier finds himself in an intolerable situation when he is ordered by King William to marry an elderly Spanish countess. Five years earlier, he met the great love of his life, Sir Sebastian. This deeply sensual dark angel taught him all that a man could give to another. Renoir became a slave to his erotic punishment. After a month of bliss, Sebastian sailed to Spain. Will he return or leave Renoir with a shattered heart?
Poisoned Heart, by Anna O’Neill
The ultimate betrayal . . . .
In Edo-period Japan, a prominent family might choose to foster a son from another clan in order to encourage peaceful political relations. When Raiden’s family invites twenty-three year old Masashi into their lives, their gesture has the opposite effect: Masashi kills Raiden’s parents. Now years later Raiden is studying with a master of magic who allows Raiden the chance to go back in time to kill Masashi before Masashi can lift a finger against his family.
But when Raiden is faced with his guest-brother once again, much to his horror he finds that his old feelings for Masashi return. With the weight of the future bearing down on Raiden’s shoulders, can he overcome these troublesome emotions, or will his new weakness destroy everything?
Deliverance, by Aleksandr Voinov
William Raven of Kent joined the Knights Templar to do penance for his sins. Formerly a professional tournament fighter and mercenary, William is brought face-to-face with a past he’d thought he had escaped.
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Posted in 4 stars, Anthology, Erotica, Gay, Historical, Reviews, Romance, Western | 4 Comments »
March 29th, 2010 by Oddmonster / 1,391 views
Title: Showdown at Yellowstone River 
Author: Angelia Sparrow and Naomi Brooks
Publisher: Pink Petal Books
Length: Novella, 62 pages
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Blurb:
Gunslinger Matt Court has hung it up for good after a disastrous encounter in El Paso. He moved to Dakota Territory, took out a homestead and started courting Annie, the banker’s daughter. But when Annie comes up pregnant and runs away with her lover, her father calls in the notorious killer, Paz, to eliminate Matt.
But the mysterious Paz holds many secrets and Matt discovers not only the gunfighter’s personal code of honor, but a truth that is worth both their lives.
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Posted in 1.5 stars, Bisexual, Erotica, Fiction, Historical, Orientation, Queer, Reviews, Western | 1 Comment »
February 23rd, 2010 by Kassa / 810 views
Title: Bristlecone Peak 
Author: Dave Brown
Publisher: Golden Feather Press
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Blurb:
Jake Brady, a farmer from Kentucky, fleeing for his life from his neighbor and four of his sons who have tracked him a thousand miles, ended up in the mining town of Alma, high in the Colorado Rockies. Wiley Deluce, one of the fastest and deadliest draws alive, arrived in Alma to carry out a job he was paid to do. Jake and Wiley met, became partners and blood brothers in the crowded Silver Heels bar, and that’s when their love and adventures began.
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Posted in 2.5 stars, Fiction, Gay, Reviews, Western | 1 Comment »
February 1st, 2010 by Kassa / 434 views
Title: Common Sons
Author: Ronald Donaghe
Publisher: iUniverse
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Blurb:
Set in a small town in the middle of nowhere in the mid-1960s, Common Sons not only anticipates the coming gay revolution, but delineates its fields of battle in churches, schools and society, pitting fathers against sons, straight teens against gay teens, and self-hatred against self-respect.
From the opening scene (where a reckless bout of drinking at a dance ends in a very public kiss between two teenage boys), the citizens of the small town of Common, New Mexico, become aware of the homosexuality in their midst.
The two boys are unable to deal with their struggle in private as the story of their public kiss spreads through the small town. Some seek to destroy the relationship between the two boys, while others seek to destroy the two boys themselves. Common Sons is a moving tale of self-discovery, love and finding the courage to come out and come to grips with truth in the face of hatred and adversity.
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Posted in 3.5 stars, Fiction, Gay, Reviews, Western | 2 Comments »
