Gay Romance Report August 15, 2025

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Resilience on Canvas, by Logan Sage Adams

Robert Davis, a prideful man with a fiery temper, has been taking care of his family and their farm since long before the onset of the Great Depression. But when the once-fertile land of Guymon begins blowing away, Robert knows he has to lighten his burden somehow. Desperate, he tries to marry his sister off to the son of one of the most fortunate families in town.

Henry Sherwood, a bashful shop clerk in the town’s largest corner store, has had eyes for Robert ever since he and his family first moved to the Oklahoma panhandle. Despite his proclivities, Henry agrees to marry Robert’s sister, if only so that he might please his parents. But once the reality of his upcoming nuptials sets in, he realizes that he can’t follow through.

After Henry calls off the wedding, Robert heads into town to beat some sense into the man. But when a black blizzard rolls through, the men are forced to seek shelter together. During the storm, the two strike up a friendship, and over the coming weeks, it transforms into something more.

As Robert and Henry’s relationship blossoms, their life in Oklahoma continues to wither. Together, they make a plan to leave for California. But in order for them to thrive out west, Robert will have to learn to let other people care for him, while Henry must find the courage to fight for their future.

Set in 1935, Resilience on Canvas is a heartfelt MM historical romance that explores the importance of family and friendship, the power in finding one’s inner strength, and the endurance of the human spirit.

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You Can Save Me, by R.L. Merrill

Sixties folk singer Dane Donovan vanished from a desolate highway rest area in 1979. Forty years later, he’s found hitchhiking in the California desert on a cold winter’s night. He hasn’t aged a day, but the roadmap of scars he wears tells a chilling tale.

Veteran detective Walter Muse took over Dane’s missing persons case twenty years ago, but his haunting connection to Dane Donovan goes back to a peculiar run-in as a child with The Troubadour and his Talking Board at a traveling carnival. He receives a late-night call with Dane’s whereabouts and races to Laurel Canyon to see for himself whether Dane is real — or a ghost meant to taunt Walter and his somewhat precarious hold on his sanity. Walter’s carefully honed detective instincts are thrown out the window, however, when his obsession with the case develops into an undeniable attraction to the mysterious singer.

Dane is on a mission to stop a new killer hell-bent on picking up where Dane’s kidnapper left off, and Walter is determined to protect him, no matter the personal and psychological cost. They’ll have to rely on new friends and trusted colleagues as well as the power of a mystical spirit board to stop the killing, and have a chance at a real future together.

You Can Save Me is part of the multi-author Carnival of Mysteries series. All books may be read as a standalone, but this book is a continuation of the events in You Can Do Magic. Recommended 18+ and TW for violence and mention of suicide of a family member.

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Play Maker, by Ava Olsen
Narrated by Mac Rae & Nathaniel Ames

Axel Lund

They call me the play maker. I make hockey wins happen—until I’m confronted with Jace, my college rival, for the coveted center spot. And my BFF’s ex. I know secrets about Jace, and I’m not happy to be on the same team as him, never mind the same line. But as our competition on the ice heats up, things off the ice get complicated. No matter what, I’m not getting outplayed.

Jace Rowland

Axel Lund, the conceited jerk, thinks he’s gonna waltz in and take the top spot on my hockey team? No way. The cocky forward thinks the worst of me, but he doesn’t know the truth. And every encounter with him cracks my icy control. But I’m not getting played by Axel. If anything, I’m going to play him.

Play Maker is a bi-awakening, rivals-to-lovers, college hockey MM romance. Get ready for cocky boys, intense chemistry, and a heated play to HEA.

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The Unlikely Heir, by Jax Calder

What happens when the Prince of Wales falls in love with the prime minister?

My boring life working in an insurance call center in sunny California just took an unexpected turn. Thanks to my misbehaving relatives, I’ve leaped from obscurity to royalty as the new heir to the British throne.

But my welcome in England is about as warm as the weather. I arrive to discover a country horrified at the thought of an American version of Prince Charming and ready to revolt against the monarchy. I vow to my grandmother, the queen, that I will do everything possible to help her save the crown.

Unfortunately, royal life isn’t easy. From bewildering traditions, traitorous friends, and malevolent swans, the only thing I’m succeeding in is providing entertainment for the tabloids and social media trolls.

And then the broodingly handsome prime minister, Oliver Hartwell, bursts into my life.

With his meteoric rise from poverty to the most powerful man in the country, Oliver understands my current plight. Innocent messages of support turn into late-night chats—and unexpected feelings.

But there’s one major problem. The royal family must remain politically neutral at all times.

So how can I keep my promise to save the monarchy when I’m falling in love with the prime minister?

A forbidden romance filled with humor and drama featuring a bumbling Prince of Wales and a stern yet dashing prime minister, with a love that could transform a nation.

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The Family: Blood and Bonds, by Katey Hawthorne

Bookish, lonely farm boy Liam finally heads off to college at 20, determined to enjoy his freedom. He’s gonna party, he’s gonna get laid, and dammit, he’s gonna enjoy himself. Except it kind of sucks.

Gianni never struggles with anything but boredom: the chief difficulty in the life of a vicious, century old vampire. And then his pretty little roommate Liam reminds him what he loves about being alive, and Gianni decides he simply has to have him.

It begins as pure entertainment, a provisional friendship. Then it turns into a challenge. Then something like love, at times indistinguishable from hate. It’s a love story for monsters, and the beginning of something that will affect their lives, families, friends, and world forever.

Which, for a vampire, is a hell of a long time.

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Puck Wild, by Declan Rhodes

Jake Riley is famous for all the wrong reasons. First came Love on Ice, the reality show where editing turned him into a national punchline in a sequined jersey. Then his self-produced hockey rap, “Puck Life,” went viral in the worst possible way. Now he’s hoping Thunder Bay, Ontario—a scrappy northern town with a fiercely loyal fanbase—might be the fresh start he needs.

The Thunder Bay Storm are holding things together with duct tape, borrowed gear, and blind optimism. And Jake? He’s suddenly rooming with Evan Carter—a defenseman so precise he alphabetizes his condiments, tracks his hits in a spreadsheet, and bakes cookies with terrifying accuracy. Evan wants peace, predictability, and definitely not a roommate who sings in the shower and leaves socks in the fridge.

What neither of them expects is the heat that starts simmering beneath their battles over bathroom schedules and fridge turf. Or the way their teammates begin to feel like family. Or the slow unraveling of the stories they’ve each told themselves to survive.

As the Storm scrape their way through a season that shouldn’t work but somehow does, Jake and Evan find themselves facing something scarier than failure: the possibility of being seen—and chosen—for who they really are.

Puck Wild is a slow-burn, opposites-attract, forced-proximity gay hockey romance about second chances, viral fame, labeled leftovers, found family, and the chaos of falling for someone who sees straight through you—and stays anyway.

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Vanquished by a Viscount, by Merry Farmer

When first love goes wrong, it can lead to a rancorous rivalry…and a second chance to make everything right again years later…

When newlywed Lord and Lady Felcourt invite their respective families and friends to spend the summer at their country estate, Hawthorne House, no one suspects that the groom’s brother, Mr. Grayson Hawthorne, and the bride’s brother, Lord Charles Aspenden, Viscount Broxbourne, have a history together…and that history isn’t good.

The two former lovers are at each other’s throat almost from the moment the party begins. But when the bride and groom have a falling out that could end both families’ chances for lasting happiness, it’s up to Grayson and Charlie to either patch things up between the bride and groom or split them up and go their own separate ways for good. Which will it be?

Vanquished by a Viscount is an enemies-to-lovers, second chance, MM romance that involves two men who love to hate to love each other, an archery competition, being stuck in a carriage in the rain, the arrival of a steamy figure from the past, and healing bruised hearts.

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Wrong Turn, Right Bear, by Colbie Dunbar

One wrong turn in the woods was the start of something oh so right.

When city-dweller Theo books a solo getaway, he’s hoping for scenic hikes and a distraction from his hectic life. What he doesn’t expect is to end up with blisters, a bruised ego, and a terrifying encounter with a wild animal.

Ash, a local tour guide and bear shifter, has always hoped fate would bring him his mate but he didn’t expect him to be an ill-prepared hiker with a smile that makes his heart race.. When Theo witnesses more than he should and flees back to the safety of the city, Ash fears he’s lost the one person he’s meant to be with.

But Theo can’t forget the man or the bear and returns to discover there’s more than love growing between them.

With a combination of laughter, lake days, and a surprise delivery in a boat, this fated mates’ mpreg romance is full of the right amount of wild.

If you enjoy knotty heat MM romance, an accident-prone omega and an alpha who can’t help falling for him, plus a happy ever after and a cute baby, download Wrong Turn, Right Bear today.

Wrong Turn, Right Bear is part of the multi-author series Beartastic Summer of Love.

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Coming Clean, by Silvia Violet

Jeremy

A sudden inheritance allowed me to leave my job as an English professor.

I planned to sell my aunt’s house, hit the road, and figure out what the hell I really wanted out of life.

Then I met Connor. My intense attraction to him sent my head spinning, but he was nothing like me, a former marine, locked up tight in the closet when I wanted to live life out loud in the sunshine. Did we even stand a chance?

Connor

I used to put my life on the line every day in my Force Recon unit. Now I run Spit Shine Clean, scrubbing toilets and dusting mantels for a living.

When a soft-spoken man hires me to get his house ready to sell, I wasn’t expecting my life to turn upside down once again.

From the moment I saw him, he was all I craved, but the ghosts of my past weighed me down. Was I capable of being the guy Jeremy deserved? Maybe not, but the pull of attraction was undeniable. This might be the biggest risk of my life.