Gay Romance Report August 22, 2025

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Always Hope, by RJ Scott

He couldn’t save his team. Now Tyler has nothing—and no one.

Corporal Tyler Mason is haunted by the friends he lost in war, the sole survivor because of a mission that cost his team their lives. Rejected by his twin sister, who can’t bear to face him, and having pushed his parents away beneath crushing guilt, Tyler arrives at Guardian Hall, desperate to disappear into silence. He wants to vanish—erase every trace of who he was—but somehow, the people of the Hall look past the scars and silence, seeing strength in his survival and hope where he sees only failure.

As co-founder of Guardian Hall, Dr. Marcus Stirling has spent years helping others rebuild—but despite everything he has seen, he carries the weight of his own mistakes and the hard-fought sobriety he has achieved. He’s seen so much, but nothing prepared him for the broken man standing on the roof that night, burned, scarred, and barely holding on.

What begins as a fragile connection between doctor and patient slowly deepens, each moment drawing them closer until desire becomes impossible to deny. But love has never been safe. And when guilt, grief, and the shadows of the past close in, both men must risk everything for the one thing they never believed they’d find. Because even when there’s nothing left… hope can still survive.

Always Hope is a slow-burn, hurt/comfort, MM romance with a broken soldier, a recovering addict, ghosts that won’t let go, and a forbidden connection that might save them both.

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Pierre Before Bill, by Patrick Doyle

A story about coming of age queer. About love between men. About fathers and sons. About longing, fulfillment, heartbreak, and joy.

After yet another fight with his father, Pierre leaves home. He doesn’t plan on leaving, but on his way to school the next day he doesn’t get off the bus. Still in his uniform, he goes to the end of the line, sticks out his thumb, and takes the first ride. He doesn’t see himself as a runaway, more as a wanderer. He’s heading to, not from. To what, he doesn’t know. His ignorance of the world has been imposed. His self-assurance is all his own. The only thing he knows to be true is his attraction to men.

This is his story. From boy to man. From the 70s to the 90s. From the backwoods to the whole wide world. From pining after an elusive loner to later, much later, meeting a single dad. For nearly twenty years we watch Pierre grow from a teenager afraid of nothing to a man who’s learned one thing: he’s better off on his own. Life begs to differ.

Pierre Before Bill is the latest installment in the Pierre & Bill series. And the beginning of the story. In Pierre & Bill: A Love Story, we meet Pierre and Bill in their prime. In Pierre & Bill Now, we follow them as they age. Now, in Pierre Before Bill we discover Pierre before he meets Bill or Danny or Ruth or Liam. And we find out what makes him who he is: cocksure, determined, and impossible not to love.

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The Burnt, by Peter E. Fenton

How far would you be willing to go to reveal the truth?

Finding work-life balance isn’t always easy when you’re sleeping with the boss. Charlie Watts is feeling stressed as he studies for his private investigator’s license, starts taking on his own cases and tries to navigate his relationship with Declan Hunt. He thinks he can handle it, but every time their relationship is going well, work always seems to get in the way.

While Charlie investigates a threatening note that appears to be from a boy who mysteriously disappeared ten years ago, Declan tries to find the meaning behind the final words of a man who was brutally murdered. As Declan and Charlie work to solve these mysteries, secrets from the past are exposed, Charlie is haunted by ghostly dreams, and Declan is forced to confront some terrible truths from a hidden past.

Ultimately, the truth will be revealed, but at what cost? And will Declan and Charlie be able to solve the mystery of where they want to go next with their relationship before things at work take a terrible turn?

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Playing Dirty, by CE Ricci

Our rivalry formed long before we became siblings.


Madden Hastings has been my nemesis since the day we met.

A divide was born from the age-old rivalry between our universities,

but this year, another layer developed. It became personal.

Because the captain of Blackmore’s baseball team?

He’s also my new step brother.

My disdain for the sudden blending of our families leads to more conflict,

and despite their efforts to force us together, coexisting proves impossible.

But something else starts burning beneath my bitterness and resentment;

an attraction as unexpected as it is potent.

And when the chemistry becomes too powerful to deny,

our already complicated relationship gets even messier.

Because a forbidden fling is one thing, but falling for the enemy?

It forces me into a choice I never wanted to make.

One between loyalty to my team, or the love of my life.

*Playing Dirty is the fourth in a five book standalone college sports romance series featuring two rivalry-fueled step brothers, a cut-throat game of capture the flag, and sexual tension that oozes off the page.

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The Lost Art of Woodworking and Taking Risks, by Ellie Ash

With a little bit of prodding, will Chamis finally be brave enough to go after the man he’s always wanted?

Chamis has pined for Bennan from afar, too shy to approach the handsome man or even respond to his blatant flirtations. When those flirtations cease, Chamis is sad but not surprised. He’s big, awkward, and totally inexperienced. What could he possibly have to offer cheerful, flirty, experienced Bennan?

When a newcomer to the castle seems to catch Bennan’s eye, Chamis assumes he’s doomed—until Perian goes out of his way to assure Chamis that those feelings he has for Bennan are reciprocated. Could Perian be right? Even if he is, Chamis has never been in a relationship before, never done anything before. Are feelings enough, or is it better not to risk his heart?

The Lost Art of Woodworking and Taking Risks is a cozy MM fantasy romance novella that takes us on a little detour from the main story to see the details of Bennan and Chamis’s hard-earned HEA. It can be read as a standalone but is best enjoyed as part of the series.

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He Should Be Mine, by Jessica Jackman

The only man I want is the one man I can’t have.

Molly is beautiful. Feisty. Sensual. Passionate.

A pretty boy who knows his trade.

He is also the very epitome of high-maintenance. Rude. Stroppy. Always aiming to unnerve people with his brazen words and attitude.

It makes me want to hold him tight and show him he doesn’t need to put on an act. Not with me.

But he belongs to my boss. And when your boss is a mafia capo, that’s a line you do not cross.

My role is to guard Molly. Keep him safe. Stop him running away. Prevent anyone from knowing my boss has a boy.

I’m not supposed to crave him.

I’m just supposed to watch him. Day after day. Night after night.

Watch and never touch.

I’m his jailer.

He’s my damnation.

He Should Be Mine is a sizzling dark mafia gay romance with a guaranteed happy ever after.

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Casual Felonies, by Kelly Fox

At what point does casually stalking your hot barber become a felony?

Look, I swear I’m harmless. Just a mildly obsessed, extremely hot influencer trying to figure out why my barber-slash-hookup-slash-possible-soulmate kicked me out after the best [redacted] of my life.

As he was shoving me out the door, he muttered something about my dads and a meat hook. I have no idea what he’s talking about. Sure, my dads are… intense. But it’s not like they’d actually kill a man for defiling their son.

Probably.

Anyway, I’m off to slap a super illegal tracker on the hot barber’s car and see what that gets me.

CASUAL FELONIES is book one of The Wildlings, a queer romantic vigilante saga set in the semi-near future, featuring the grown-up kids of the morally gray Guardians. Expect: cousin shenanigans, ethically questionable tech, surprise cameos, vigilante family drama, and the completely unsanctioned defiling of a barber chair.

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Maybe, by Fearne Hill

Learn to fly. Fly away.

Isaac: After one quarrel too many with our wealthy father, my eighteen-year-old brother, Ezra Fitz-Henry, does exactly that. He flies away, leaving me behind to play the part of the perfect and dutiful son. When our cold, heartless father dies a decade later, Ezra strolls back into my life—as difficult and secretive as he is beautiful. I’m not prepared. You’re not supposed to want the one you can’t have.

Ezra: I only go back for the money. I have a three-point plan: take what’s mine, use it to escape my lousy flat, and never have anything to do with the Fitz-Henrys ever again. But that’s before I see Isaac, with his solemn frowns and disapproving lips—the best of things and the worst of things. My friend. My enemy. My sinful fantasy.

My younger brother.

Maybe is a standalone M/M romance featuring a relationship between adopted brothers.

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Balls to the Wall series, by Tara Lain

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Can a single-dad professor learn the truth about romance from a tattooed bartender? You bet your High Balls!

Though only twenty-six, single father Theodore Walters lives with his head in the clouds and his feet firmly planted in reality. At the center of his life is Andy, his seven-year- old son, with whom he shares no DNA, though nobody— including his religious-fanatic in-laws—knows that, and Theodore will do anything to keep them from finding out. Theodore works hard to get his PhD and the tenure and salary that might follow to make a better life for Andy— but the head of his department thinks his dissertation on Jane Austen and romance novels is frivolous.

Theodore’s carefully planned life goes off the rails when he walks into a popular Laguna Beach bar and meets the bartender, “Snake” Erasmo, a pierced and tattooed biker who sends Theodore’s imagination—and libido— soaring. Snake has even more secrets than Theodore and couldn’t be a less “appropriate” match, but he might be the only guy with the skills to show Theodore that happily ever after is for real.

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New Rules, by Willow Thomas

Don’t break the rules…make new ones.

Connor
My contract with Greenleigh United is up soon, which means I have a year to either sign a new deal or the team owners are going to sell me.

All I am is football and I love paying for this team. There is nothing I want more than to help get us promoted.

But then Heli crashes into my life with his sass and glitter and rules. Before I know it, I’m agreeing to all kinds of things this crazy little American is telling me to do.

Being with him lights me up in a way no one and nothing has before. Not even football.

Which is a big flipping problem because if this thing with Heli gets out, I am done.

Goodbye to any chance I might have had playing top flight football.

I need to decide if Heli is worth the risk.

Heli
When I was a kid, I learned that the only way to get my Hollywood actor parent’s attention was by acting out. Now I’m an adult and crazy stunts are second nature to me.

My latest indiscretion is a showstopper. Literally. So my parents ship me off to a small town in England where they own a soccer team.

Being relegated to the land of Sunday roasts and Stone Henge isn’t as bad as I thought it would be.

Not when there is Connor Bunton to occupy my thoughts.

At first, flirting with him is a fun way to pass the time.

And then I see him naked and he starts to fill other parts of my body.

I set rules to protect him from falling in love with me, but can I protect myself?

And what happens to his career if we are found out?

Hurricane Heli isn’t just a cute nickname, and I don’t want Connor to be a part of my trail of destruction.

New Rules is book one in the Love The Game interconnected shared world. Full of tropey goodness, including opposites attract, boss’s son, praise kink, and a lot of Britishisms.

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Tender, by E.M. Lindsey

There Miles stood…

Relationship over.
No car.
No place to live.
And no hope for his future.

And then a gorgeous, avenging angel appears. And not just any angel. The father of his ex-girlfriend. But it can’t mean what Miles wants it to mean, right? After all, Emmett is married to an equally gorgeous man: a pediatric cardiac surgeon with abs of steel and a glare that could melt diamonds.

There isn’t a chance in hell Miles is getting involved with them. Not even when Emmett and Cosimo take him in. Not even when they start flirting.

Not even when he starts realizing their relationship dynamic is not what he thought it was.

Emmett and Cosimo are the actual dream. A fantasy he conjured up once when he was lonely and not sure anyone was going to want him for who he was. But the more he gets to know the pair, the more he starts to have hope.

And hope is a dangerous thing.

As Miles starts to crack and he feels himself start giving in to their attention, he realizes that his own salvation might come at the hands of sharp tongues, tender hands, and the promise of an absolute happily ever after.

Tender is the fourth and final book of the Beginning of Always series. It features a sunshine nerdy scientist with needs he keeps to himself, a grumpy surgeon who just wants the people he loves to be happy, a nervous, deaf grad student who isn’t used to getting what he wants, falling for your ex’s dads, power dynamics, high spice, high swoon, and a triple happily ever after.

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The Banning of the Bath Bombs, by AJ Sherwood, and Devon Vesper

Turns out bath bombs are actually magical portals. Or at least, in the hands of Master Mage Declan, they became portals. Even he’s not sure why.
Said magical portal connects to Ross’s bath tub.
Which means this is also now the Unholy Trifecta’s problem because Ross absolutely refuses to deal with portal magic by himself. Thanks muchly.

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Crossover time!, Unholy Trifecta, Supernat PA, Insanity of Reincarnated Mages, bath bombs gone wild, lots of bath tub hopping, I treat Canon like a Buffet but in a Gentle Way, Canon-Typical Poor Decision-Making, brain cells assemble, it’s just mindless fluff and shenanigans, Declan use your brain challenge: failed, crack treated like crack, neither author is sorry

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Fated, by Devon Vesper

He dreams of a future his destiny will never allow. Choosing between them is unthinkable, but he must choose, or lose everything.

Tortured by bullies and his own anxiety, Aesriphos Aspirant Kerac Vihn dreams of having a son. And while he aches to make that a reality, Kerac also feels the pull of his patron god to join the Aesriphos Order. But Aesriphos can only marry within the same gender and never have children of their own.

Then he meets Aesriphos Aspirant Darolen Jaund, a craggy aspirant in the holy Order with a kind, patient heart. Darolen’s gentleness soothes Kerac’s panic attacks as he becomes Kerac’s champion. But when he asks to court Kerac, saying yes will mean the end to his dreams of a son.

Darolen is sure they can have it all: each other, the Order, and their son. But old fears prove hard to shake. Can Kerac trust in Darolen’s love and his god’s promises, or will he ignore his destiny?

Fated is a prequel novella to the phenomenal God Jars Saga. With all the love, magic and adventure fans of the original series have come to expect of this amazing world, it’s sure to be your new favorite.

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Fated mates, mages, warriors, social anxiety, depression, found family, idiots learning how to help Kerac when he has a panic attack, Darolen puts the fear of the gods into his a**hole friends, threatens to make a friend swallow his sword, he is not amused, protective x11, Kerac is sweet dollbaby with a crush, Darolen gets tired of chasing and surprise kisses Kerac, Kerac can’t get enough of them kisses, adorable schmoop.

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Omega Captive of the Golden Dragon, by Wendy Rathbone

I’m a set-omega and I’ve been sold by my wolf pack to the dragons as a breeder.

My name is Caylen. I’m a wolf shifter whose inner beast is missing. This means I cannot shift. As a set-omega, my pack can’t scent me and I’m officially a non-member. Worse, I have lost all rights and can be sold to the highest bidder.

Dragons are wealthy but omega-poor. To keep their population stable, they have become the biggest set-omega importers and pay the most for breeders.

My fate is in the hands of strangers. I’m afraid but refuse to show it.

On the auction block, someone bids for me with pure gold amid gasps and wonder. What does that even mean? What will happen to me?

MM romance, shifter, dragons, omegaverse, mpreg, first time, size difference, past trauma, rescue, HEA.

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Hide and Seek, by Willow Dixon

Jax
It was supposed to be an easy job: keep an eye on Myles until I’m sure he’s not a threat to us, then forget he exists and go back to living my life.

But the more I observe him, the more I realize that Myles is unlike anyone I’ve ever known, and toying with him is just as much fun as watching him. I want things from him I’ve never wanted before, and the more I watch him, the more I’m sure he wants them too.

He just doesn’t want to want them.

Then someone threatens his life, and instead of letting things play out, I step in and help him. That moment changes everything, and I vow to do everything I can to keep him safe, and make sure that whoever is after him pays for daring to touch him.

Watching Myles might have started out as a job, but now it’s an obsession. He’s the only person who’s ever made me feel anything, and once I set my sights on him, I’ll do whatever it takes to make him mine.

Ready or not, here I come.

Hide and Seek is the second book in a new dark romance series set at an elite, invite-only college, and is stranger/stalker to lovers story between an introverted hacker and the frat boy who awakens his darker side. You can expect: stalking, strangers to lovers, opposites attract, first times, some forced proximity, hurt/comfort, lots of primal play, mild CNC, outdoor and public fun, a protective MC, morally ambiguous heroes, not-so-secret societies, and lots of spicy times that will melt your kindle screens as these two opposites realize that sometimes the last person you should want is the one person you need.

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Made Marian Volume One, by Lucy Lennox

Enjoy the Made Marian series in bundle format. Included in Made Marian Volume One are the following three titles:

Borrowing Blue
Follow Blue Marian as he accidentally kisses a random stranger in a bar one night and kicks off a series of events at a big family wedding that throws everything into question. Little does he know the stranger would turn out to be his new brother-in-law who owns the vineyard in Napa where the wedding is being held. When Tristan Alexander decides to kiss the sweet man at the bar to make his ex jealous, he has no idea it will challenge everything he ever knew about himself. Borrowing Blue is the award-winning debut novel that opens the worldwide bestselling Made Marian series.

Taming Teddy
When photographer Teddy Kodiak decides to show up in Alaska to shadow one of the wildlife verterinarians on staff, he assumes his charming personality will win the guy over immediately. Little does Teddy know Jamie Marian has no patience for men with big egos and even bigger reputations. Been there, done that. All Jamie wants is time to himself to lick his wounds from being jilted not long ago. But Teddy has other ideas, and Jamie needs to brace himself for the whirlwind that is Teddy Kodiak on a mission to impress the sweet, shy scientist.

Jumping Jude
Jude Marian is a closeted country music star who does everything he’s supposed to do. He’s been shoving down his own desires for years in order to follow his career dreams. But when a mysterious attack leaves him shaken and vulnerable, Jude’s new bodyguard brings all those desires rushing into the forefront of his mind. Derek Wolfe is a big, bad bodyguard who’s as straight as they come. Except late at night when Jude is at his most vulnerable, it seems Derek is the one person he can be himself around. What if Derek isn’t straight afterall? And what if there’s a way Jude can finally have everything he ever wanted?

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The Violence of Love, by Kitt Lynn

Autry

I honestly thought I could outrun my past and survive on my own.

But I was so wrong.

I only lasted two months on the streets before I was snatched up and stashed away in an old boarding house. It’s been weeks of waiting for my turn on the black market auction block. I had so many chances to find a good pack back at my old academy, but I turned them all down. I thought I had time. I thought I could wait to find true love.

And now it’s too late.

I’m being sold like a discarded piece of furniture, but this might be my only way to stay hidden. Being illegally purchased means my pack won’t be advertising who I am or how they got me. It should be enough to keep me safe, because if the wrong person recognizes me… if they learn the truth about what I did…

I don’t want to belong to a pack of strangers, but I need to. For my survival and to keep my secret.

This is my only chance.

NOTE: This book is a dark romance. It can be read as a standalone. MMMMF.

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