Gay Romance Report July 18, 2025

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Up in Flames, by E.M. Denning

Oren Reid is on top of the world. He and his two best friends have just passed the bar, and he doesn’t think life could get any better. What it could get, though, is a whole lot worse. Oren loses both of his friends in a car accident in which he’s the sole survivor. After the accident, Oren is a mess, but he’s a determined mess. Eventually, he finds himself back on his feet, going out and trying to live his life, and one night he spots someone he never expected to see again—the man who saved his life.

Will Dorsey’s dreams have come true. The only thing he’s ever wanted is to be a firefighter, and now that he is, he’s never going to let go of his dream job. Then Oren literally—and figuratively—crashes into his life and changes everything. Working Oren’s accident was a typical part of the job for Will, but when they meet again months later and Oren wants to be friends, Will doesn’t have it in him to say no.

Oren is straight, so as their friendship develops, Will keeps his growing interest and attraction for the other man to himself. He isn’t out, and he doesn’t want to be. Only Oren isn’t as straight as he always believed, and he’s falling hard and fast for the man who pulled him from the smoking wreckage. Will feels the same, but if he comes out, he risks losing everything.

Oren and Will must decide if their future is worth walking through fire for… or if the new love between them will just go up in flames.

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A Gift-Wrapped Holiday, by Amy Aislin

Mal’s first priority is giving his six-year-old son the best Christmas ever, a goal made trickier by a recent move to New England after losing his job. As a single dad, he’s not looking for romance—especially not with a blond California boy ten years his junior.

After being ridiculed at the family business, Luca sets out to prove himself by opening an eco-friendly gift-wrapping store in a small town with a hard-on for Christmas that’s about as far from LA as he can get. Out of his comfort zone in snowy Maine, love is the last thing on his mind.

But the magic of the season has other ideas. As Mal and Luca collide on wintery streets, will they let their first Christmas in Lighthouse Bay lead to happily ever after?

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Wants And Needs, by Hinsel Meyer

Fate will take them down a path they never thought they’d walk.

Liam
Being Autistic, I’m an expert over thinker, but all I seem to do with Carter is react on impulse.
I’ve spent years avoiding friendships—the last one ended up an unmitigated disaster—but there’s something about Carter that effortlessly draws me in.
Maybe it’s the fact that he defended my little sister.
Maybe it’s his melodic voice.
Or maybe it’s how accepting he is of my…quirks.
I could keep listing his attributes forever and never be able to guess how he gripped me from the start.
What I do know is this has resulted in my first crush in years.

Carter
All I wanted was one friend who wasn’t grossly in love and busy planning a life of bliss with their perfect match.
When I met Liam, I couldn’t pass up the opportunity. He’s a fascinating man—brilliant, kindhearted, and funny, even when he doesn’t know it.
But nothing is ever that easy.
Looking back, the road to having a fake boyfriend was simple enough:
One nasty ex.
One very important meeting.
One lie to defend Liam’s pride.
Add that all up and the result is us pretending to be happily in love.
But there’s a small detail I forgot to mention.
I’m straight—or at least that’s what I thought before Liam kissed me.

Wants and Needs is a Contemporary MM Romance and Book 7 in the Fan Service Series. While it’s technically a standalone, it would be best enjoyed by reading the series in order.
This book has no cliffhangers and ends in a HEA. There are a lot of very gay things happening inside, so if that’s not for you, then this book isn’t either. If it is, then welcome to the mostly low-angst world of the Fan Service Series, I’m thrilled to have you and hope you’ve enjoyed this journey.

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Heart Taker, by Ava Olsen

Silas
I’m the oldest guy on the college hockey team and I’ve heard the jokes but the truth is, I put a year of my life on hold. I’ve worked hard to prove that I have a future in this game, but Coach Damien Banning doesn’t believe in me. Damien doesn’t think I’m good enough, but he doesn’t know me at all. I’m ruthless. And when the icy tension ignites, it’s too late. But it’s not about hockey anymore.

Damien
I played pro hockey until an injury sidelined my career, my marriage, and brought me to small town Vermont to coach college hockey. I know every player on my team and Silas Moss isn’t cutting it. He’s a skillful d-man, but something’s holding him back. I push him, with good intentions, until summer training camp. I thought my heart was frozen, but no, it’s beating again. And Silas, ruthless player that he is, has taken it.

Heart Taker is a college hockey MM romance. Both MCs have something to prove and everything to lose.

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Shaken and Stirred, by Lilly Atlas

Alex
I’ve always despised Ryder Calloway. Eight years ago, at an elite summer program, Ryder and his prep school buddies made my life hell, never letting me forget I didn’t belong in their world. Now I’m juggling graduate school, a sick mother, a rebellious brother, and a job doing bottle service at one of Boston’s most exclusive nightclubs—where the last person I want to see is Ryder Calloway strutting through the door.
When he decides to apply for a job at my club, claiming he’d easily out-earn me in tips, I’ll do anything to prove him wrong. Even if it means accepting his ridiculous challenge.

Ryder
Alex Morgan hated me on sight, and honestly? The feeling’s mutual. There’s something about his perpetual scowl that gets under my skin in the best way. He thinks I’m nothing but a spoiled rich brat with no work ethic. I’ll show him.
With time to kill before starting a graduate program, my parents know nothing about—one that would destroy their carefully laid plans for my future—working alongside Boston’s grumpiest bottle service boy sounds like the perfect distraction. I can’t wait to see the look on Alex’s face when he realizes we’ll be working side by side.
What neither of us expects is how quickly hatred can turn into something else entirely.

Shaken and Stirred is the first book in the Bottle Service Boys series and book one of a duet. Alex and Ryder’s story continues in the next in series.

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The Lost Art of Finding Where You Belong, by Ellie Ash

After falling hard and fast, can Perian handle the realities of a relationship with the head of the Mage Warriors?

Perian is ready to commit to this relationship, but as the head of the Mage Warriors, Brannal has duties hunting demons that take him away from the castle—and from Perian, who finds himself struggling with the absence. The rumor mill in the castle is working overtime, and some in the castle—thankfully a minority—dislike him. Perian’s not prepared when that dislike takes a violent turn.

Still, it’s not all bad. Perian’s confirmed that absence makes the heart grow fonder, he’s strengthening new friendships (and learning how kinky some of those friends can be), and he’s watching Renny get stronger. But she’s still frustrated by her limits, and not everyone seems to be ready for these changes and the influence that Perian has.

Brannal clearly cares for Perian and doesn’t want him to get hurt, but if Brannal has to pick between his duties and Perian, is Perian going to lose? Or can Brannal prove that he’s more than just the leader of the Mage Warriors?

The Lost Art of Finding Where You Belong is a cozy MM fantasy romance with plenty of steam. Told in single POV, it features a newly established couple still working on their HFN as they try to figure out how to make their relationship sustainable. It is best read in order.

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Ice Breaker, by Ariel Dawn and Penny Fox

A desperate heart. A brutal secret. A reckless fight for love.

Alex

Returning home to recover after a terrible injury is the only way to get back on the ice. But coming home to Ashbourne means coming home to him—Jordan Mackenzie, my little brother’s best friend and the one man I can’t resist. Which is why when Mack offers to help, I can’t say no… even if means destroying both of us in the process.

Can I keep my hands and my heart to myself this time around? Or will my addiction to Jordan ruin me for good?

Jordan

Alex Brewer is everything I want and everything I can never have. Which is why when he shows up at my rehab center like a hurricane, I know I need to keep my distance. The sooner I can get him back on the ice, the sooner I can get my life back to normal. Problem is the more time I spend with Alex, the more tempted I am to give in to him and my secret desires. Will I finally let myself have what I want?

Or will history repeat itself and destroy what’s left of us?

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Emerett Has Never Been in Love, by Anyta Sunday

A man who acts before he thinks, a man who thinks before he acts, and the ensuing mishaps on the path to the ultimate love match.

Emerett “Lake” Lakewood has a healthy ego and a flair for the dramatic. After losing his best friend to marriage—completely crushing his heart—he deems it prudent to distract himself, and what better way than playing cupid?
He’s already got his eye on two young men desperately seeking romance, and he has a plan to hook them up.
Barbecues.
Photoshoots.
Reciting Shakespearean love declarations.
Lake is killing it. Love is positively pulsing in the air. Anyone could see it.
Well, anyone other than Knight, his best friend’s dad, who cautions Lake to stop meddling. To leave love to its natural course.
Lake has always valued Knight’s frankness, but this time he’s wrong. Without him, two hearts might be doomed never to find love.
Besides, what does Knight know about romance? He’s barely dated in all the seven years Lake’s known him. He’s clueless.
Though, there’s a thought. Knight has everything going for him. Sensibility. Kindness. Generosity. And for a forty-four-year-old, he’s—objectively—freaking hot.
Why is he single?
~ ~ ~
“. . . [T]here may be a hundred different ways of being in love.” ~ Jane Austen

And a hundred different ways not to recognize it.
~ ~ ~ 
Emerett Has Never Been In Love” is a fun, fast-paced gay romance retelling of Jane Austen’s Emma.

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Liskey’s Lament, by D.V. Antaura

An MM enemies to lovers steamy romance.

After arriving on an idyllic planet to take up a solo post as an observer, Robert Liskey hopes his new job will give him the peace and solitude he needs to write a masterpiece. So he is far from happy when a defective spaceship leaves his predecessor, a hunky but abrasive mute named Venner, stranded there with him.

Liskey doesn’t know the two of them are about to embark on a torrid affair, a union characterized by dom/sub sex more intense than he’d ever imagined. Neither does he know his new home isn’t the safe paradise it appears to be. As their relationship blossoms, a terrible catastrophe looms large on the horizon, a disaster so devastating it will either tear the two lovers apart or destroy them both.

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Only One Island, by R. Cayden

Castaway with his boss’s son.

Hank

I’ve attended some dreadful company parties, but getting lost at sea marks a new low for a work event.

My only companion on this life raft is Elliot. He’s ten years younger than me, wildly chaotic, and mostly responsible for getting us in this mess.

The fact that he’s also my new boss’s son is just a cherry on top of this terrifying, near-death sundae.

We crash on a small island, stranded somewhere off the coast of Seattle.

Elliot and I are exhausted, battered, and hungry. We lost half our clothes in the desperate swim to shore, and there are more storms on the horizon.

But we made it, and surely, we’ll be rescued soon.

If only we can agree on a survival strategy.

I’m an amateur naturalist and detail-oriented person, while Elliot is… creative.

Maybe it’s a survival instinct, but as the nights pass, Elliot and I find comfort in each other’s arms.

He becomes everything to me, my other half.

Until we get rescued, that is, and the real world comes to pull us apart.

Only One Island is a 70K M/M romance, loaded with heat and geeky fun. Our opposites-attract heroes danger-bang their way to survival and a well-earned HEA, with plentiful nature facts and constant disasters along the way. Enjoy!

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Love in Laguna series, by Tara Lain

What if I’m always kidding myself?

Billy Ballew wants to be married, but he’s been engaged to three women and can’t get to the altar.

He wants to be a contractor, but he’s so dyslexic he has to force himself to read and fears the contractor’s license test more than death.

He wants to please his mother, but all she wants is for him to give her grandchildren.

What Billy doesn’t want is to find out he’s gay.

But then he meets Shaz, the one guy so flamboyant Billy can’t even be seen with him without losing all his friends – and his family. One more thing Billy wants and can’t have.

Maybe he should just stay home with his cats.

KNIGHT OF OCEAN AVENUE is a gay awakening, total opposites attract, trying to please your mother, religious confrontation, learning who you are romance.

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Gravity, The Complete Collection, by Kindle Alexander

The Gravity Series is an unforgettable whirlwind romance chronicling the love of two men over three decades. Friction, Fusion, & Force heat up the scene with passionate alpha males who navigate the often-rocky road to love. Love’s rarely easy, but when it’s true, it’s a battle worth fighting for.

Friction: Can the friction of life destroy what they shared or is your first true love like gravity—an unending universal law?

Fusion: Our strong relationship could unravel when the differences become too hard to ignore. Can the bonds we forged in our past hold us together or will our carefully laid foundation crumble, leading us to separate lives?

Force: When our cherished lives suddenly go sideways, are either of us really the men we believed ourselves to be? Can we navigate the maze of these powerful truths, or will the force of change shatter what we hold dear?

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Don’t Clause a Scene, by Lee Blair

The world expects us to hate each other, but fate has other plans.

As a member of a Maplewood founding family, I’ve always known what I’m supposed to do with my life:

1. Take over Red’s, the diner that’s been in my family for generations.
2. Support the community, which usually means helping out with the town’s almost-monthly festivals.
3. Hate everything about, and everyone involved with, Sparky’s Diner.

For the most part, it’s been an easy destiny to fulfill, even if sometimes I wish for something else. Something more. Maybe that’s why I take a chance on Halloween with a costumed guy who shouldn’t look so good in a mullet wig.

I’m stunned when his costume comes off and I see the one man I can’t have anything to do with. The man who’s temporarily back in town and working at his family’s diner. The man I can’t get off my mind.

No worries. It’ll be easy to avoid Amos—I’ve been doing it my entire life. Except Amos and I are voluntold to plan an event for the big Christmas festival. Together.

When others on the planning committee say we couldn’t possibly pull it off, we decide to prove them wrong. It turns out stubbornness is just the beginning of a long list of things we have in common.

The more time we spend together, the more I realize my life is sweeter with Amos in it. I begin to wonder how deep this rivalry goes, how long Amos plans to stay in Maplewood, and what matters more: my destiny or my freedom.

Don’t Clause a Scene is a low-angst, small-town story about an introvert and extrovert finding a groove, secrets—so many secrets—and a well-meaning town that cares maybe a little too much.

With the highest percentage of LGBTQIA+ residents in Vermont, Maplewood is a town where everyone belongs. And with festivals year round, there’s always something fun happening! This multi-author, low-angst queer series features ten standalone romances—each set against the backdrop of a different festival. Come for the celebrations, stay for the happily-ever-afters!

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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.

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Ronen, by Raiven Matthews

Ronen Sinclair
As the town librarian, I loved books, quiet spaces, and order. What I didn’t love? The incessantly flirty town sheriff, who constantly lost my precious library books and thought he could charm me into forgetting it. Mason was an irritant I could do without. I was this close to banning him from my library, when an accident made us realize we were fated mates. No thank you, hard pass. I wasn’t about to let Fate get her way, but she doesn’t like to be denied.

Mason Caldwell
As a hoarder of books, I loved spending time in the library. More than that, I loved flirting with the closed off but very sexy, if not a tad fussy, omega who ran the place with an iron fist. Ronen was surly, short-tempered, and invaded my dreams nightly. After discovering we are fated mates, I’m determined to win him over. When an old enemy rears its ugly head, I’ll burn the town down to get back what is mine.

Ronen is the first book of the Sweet Alps Legacy series, a spin-off of Sweet Alps Mates series. While this book is a standalone, please note characters from the first series will stop by to say hi and be involved in shenanigans, but it is not necessary to have read that series first. As such, it is an MM omegaverse, fated mates story with Mpreg, featuring a tightly wound, snarky honey badger omega with a penchant for hidden tattoos, a fire breathing alpha who hoards books, a large loving but meddling family, match-making ghosts, some danger and excitement, and an HEA.

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Calling His Bluff, by Charlie Cochet

Welcome to the Royal Flush series, where love is the ultimate gamble.

Ryden Foster is a Marine scarred by a painful past of loss and hardship, but with the support of his Four Kings Security family, he’s finally healing. As he rebuilds his life, the only thing he enjoys more than his job is sparring with Jay Starling, Ward Kingston’s flashy executive assistant. Their longstanding feud is filled with sharp banter, weaponized romance novels, and a heat neither will acknowledge.

Jay is organized, efficient, and always in control, except when it comes to Ryden, the brash Marine with a talent for getting under his skin. When a Marine wedding and a client’s murder are linked, Jay and Ryden are pulled into something far more dangerous than petty rivalry. After a chilling encounter, Jay sees a side of Ryden he wasn’t prepared for, one his heart can’t ignore.

As Ryden and Jay join the Kings on a perilous mission, surviving means risking more than just their lives. It means trusting each other with their hearts.

An enemies-to-lovers, opposites attract romance filled with found family shenanigans and high-stakes action.

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Like I Wanted, by Charlie Novak

Roommates. Best friends. Boyfriends?

Theo and Laurie have been best friends for six years but despite doing everything together, they’ve never been anything more than best friends and roommates.

Then someone calls them boyfriends and upends their neat little world.

As the pair struggle to put a lid on their feelings, a random email from Theo’s brother throws him even further off balance and all Laurie can do is offer a niche form of stress relief. But Laurie’s support doesn’t stop at rope garters. Once the two of them fall into bed, it’s clear things will never be the same between them.

Now, Theo and Laurie must finally address the feelings they’ve tried to hide from and figure out if they really are just friends, or if there’s always been something more between them. Can they give each other everything they ever wanted?

Like I Wanted is a steamy best friends to lovers contemporary MM romance featuring a femme boy who loves zombie horror and weird taxidermy, a goth with a secret love of shibari, interfering adult entertainers, a vicar who takes no shit, and a quest for guinea pigs.

It is the fifth and final novel in the Heather Bay series and is best enjoyed as part of the series.

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Dead Run, by Pandora Pine

When Ronan, Jude, and Fitzgibbon agree to participate in the Salem Witches Dead Run for charity, each brag about how they’ll run circles around the others to win the race, but with the detectives sprinting past forty, they’ll be lucky to cross the finish line in one piece. Throw in glitter color bombs, aching muscles, and a booger-eating six year old bent on revenge, what could possibly go wrong?

Caught up in preparations for the run, buying witches costumes and making colored powder to throw at the runners, Everly and Wonder Wolf talk Aurora into joining in the fun with the promise of a new bike.

With new two-wheelers hanging in the balance and the finish line in sight, who will win? The kids? The detectives? Or will everyone learn the most important lesson of all; there’s a champion in each and every one of us.

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Sin, by Remi Varlow

My preacher father named me Sin because he claimed I was born bad.

He must be right. There’s not a rule I won’t break. A line I won’t cross. A person I won’t hurt to make him pay for what he did to my mother.

Until my father remarries and Cassidy comes into my life. He’s beautiful. He’s good. He’s innocent. All I want is to protect him from everyone else but me.

Despite how wrong it is, I want to be the one to teach Cassidy how to sin.

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BLAZE: The Superhero Who Claimed Me, by Christa Tomlinson

Sparks Fly When a Gruff Superhero Meets a Sweet Artist.

By night, Blaze is a superhero waging war on St. Louis’s criminal masterminds. Once the sun rises, he’s Jordan Wells, quiet custom body shop owner. Because of his dangerous life, Jordan has accepted that it’s his destiny to walk alone in the shadows… until he meets Daniel, a sweet, untrained submissive. Jordan dreams of dominating the young man, of finding respite from his hard life as a lone vigilante by losing himself in Danny’s soft submission. Although Blaze tries to only watch Danny from afar, the lure of his pretty brown eyes is impossible to resist.

Danny Griffin is thrilled to attend an exclusive D/s club, where he meets Jordan, a gorgeous and experienced Dom. Jordan appears to be the perfect man to help him explore his submissive fantasies. With each lesson in dominance and submission, Danny falls deeper under Jordan’s spell. But Danny is also drawn to Blaze, the elusive superhero who is always there when he needs him. How will Danny’s heart choose between the two men?

The passion between the superhero and his lover is electric. But when Danny is threatened by Blaze’s enemies, Blaze fears he must let Danny go to keep him safe. Unfortunately, tearing himself away from his lover’s gentle smiles and loving kisses is easier said than done. Can Jordan find a way to be with Danny despite his dangerous life as Blaze?

BLAZE is Book Two in a superhero romance series. It has dramatic rescues, evil villains, and an emotionally satisfying Happily Ever After. Fans of comics and superhero movies who want to see their favorite heroes kiss will love this series!

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Not Written in the Stars, by Piper Scott & Renee Fox
Narrated by Michael Ferraiuolo

Houston… we have a problem.

Ezra Miller’s life has been turned upside down ever since his best friend hooked up with an alien named Al, and not just because he walked in on them having close encounters of the third kind. In the year since he discovered the truth about extraterrestrial life, Ezra has accidentally become the sole person the Darvrokian race trusts to act as Earth’s intergalactic representative, which is great and all, until he’s assigned a Darvrokian coworker plucked out of his worst nightmares.

Titan Leon is everything Ezra hates in a man. He’s arrogant, presumptuous, and worst of all, hot enough to make Ezra forget why he hates him in the first place.

Hot enough that “absolutely not” turns into “only this one time.”

Hot enough that Ezra can overlook the fact that he’s Al’s most disliked brother.

But one time isn’t enough for Titan, and he won’t take no for an answer.

He’ll do whatever it takes to make Ezra his.

And sure, he’s an asshole… but as much as Ezra hates him, he can’t help but see that there’s something softer about him lurking just beneath the surface. Something Titan only lets Ezra see. And whatever that something is, it has its hooks in Ezra so deeply, he can’t help but fall into bed with him over and over again.

With the same sense of humor and earnestness as Crash-Landed in Love, Not Written in the Stars is a witty contemporary alien romance that explores the ideas of identity, belonging, and choosing your own path in life, while tackling tough questions like: how much sand is needed to fill a room in your mansion? Is $100 enough to tip your new friend, Uber driver Carlos G? And how many Slim Jims are customary to put into a gift basket?

Please note that while this story takes place on modern-day Earth… life finds a way.