Gay Romance Report June 12, 2026

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Cash Hooper Saves a Life, by Lisa Henry and Sarah Honey

Cash Hooper has built himself a small, safe life in Goose Run. He has housemates he can trust, and his twin brother Chase is his ride or die. He has quiet routines that don’t ask too much of him—he works, and he reads, and he listens to podcasts. There aren’t many things that can make Cash talk to a stranger, but finding an injured animal is one of them.

Mason Ross is struggling. He’s come to Goose Run partly out of familial obligation, and partly for a break from working at a busy city veterinary practice that has him close to burnout. But when a cute guy brings an injured dog to his doorstep in the middle of the night, Mason finds himself drawn to him. The guy, not the dog. Though the dog is also cute.

As Cash and Mason spend time together caring for the stray, Mason finds that there’s more to his quiet midnight visitor than meets the eye, and Cash quickly becomes the sunny spot in his otherwise gray days. Mason can’t deny his attraction to Cash, but he’s also not going to make a move on a guy who flinches every time he’s touched.

Meanwhile, Cash isn’t sure what to do about the pull he’s feeling toward Mason. It’s new, it’s terrifying and exhilarating in equal measure—and Cash has a lifetime of trauma that warns against taking risks.

For there to be anything between them, they’re both going to have to take a leap of faith. Cash has to confront his past, and Mason has to decide his future. Because falling for someone is easy—believing that you deserve them is the hardest part.

Welcome to Goose Run, a small town full of quirky characters, big personalities, and unexpected romances. Just don’t ask about the goose.

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The Key Holder, by Finn Dixon

The summer promised escape. It delivered temptation.

Ford
A summer alone at my ex-wife’s cabin at Pathfinders Lake is just what I needed. A chance to relax, reset, and figure out how to get what I want. Namely, a genuine connection with a man that isn’t just interested in my body.

But in the middle of relaxing (with no clothes), I’m interrupted by the stepson I hadn’t seen in years, and it seems he’s my new cabinmate.

And infuriatingly irresistible.

Dylan
Determined to break free from the comforting cycle of meaningless sex, I took my friend’s advice, locked it up, and headed to the remote wilderness of my childhood. However, my plans for a “celibate summer” come to a screeching halt when the man who sparked my gay awakening is there…and naked.

The more time we spend together, my carefully built resolve begins to crumble and the history of my unspoken longing consumes every thought until all I want to do is shatter every boundary between us.

It seems like he’s ready to take the plunge with me, but is it just my imagination or can we really find a way to unlock a future neither of us dared to dream?

The Key Holder is a forced proximity, age gap MM romance. It is part of the Pathfinders Lake multi-author series that features forbidden romance. Each book can be read as a standalone but is better enjoyed as a series.

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Taste, by Cora Rose and E.M. Lindsey

When portals from another world split open the sky, humanity braces for war… only to discover the monsters from Erethar aren’t here to conquer. They need something from humans. Something oddly specific in order to survive.

And I’ve spent the last few years working at my little shop and doing my part to help humanity by donating what the monsters crave.

But everything turns upside down the day I get a call from a friend saying an injured, banished Vyastil is looking for sanctuary.
He’s nothing like the others I’ve met. Cielo is a soft and tender monster whose punishment doesn’t fit his crime. And unfortunately, as much as I try to help by feeding him what his body needs, he doesn’t believe he’s worthy of taking it.

I want to teach him that everything he grew up knowing about humans is wrong, and that maybe his people would be a lot less repressed if they allowed themselves the one thing humans indulge in.

But the moment Cielo gives in and tastes me is the moment it no longer becomes about what his body wants.
It’s now about who we are to each other, and what fate has in store for both our future, and the future of monsterkind.

My name is Dante, and I’m working to save Vyastil society by showing them that the pleasures of the flesh can be theirs, if they only allow themselves to take it.

You’re welcome, Erethar.

Taste is the second book in the MM Monster Romance series Feed and Feast. It contains a sex shop worker who just wants a little peace, a naïve, kind monster who has no idea how much he’s worthy of being loved, sucking, tasting, friends to lovers, touch and affection starved cinnamon rolls, body piercings as a love language, secret rescue missions, and a toe-curling, swoony, happily ever after.

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Heartsmashed, by Brooke Blaine

He hired a fake boyfriend for the weekend.
The man who showed up wasn’t the escort.

Sawyer Montgomery spends his nights broadcasting heartbreak on his prime-time radio show—spinning sad songs, giving terrible love advice, and pretending he’s totally over the ex who shattered his heart.

(Spoiler: he’s not.)

But when he needs a fake boyfriend to survive a weeklong family celebration with that very ex, hiring an escort seems like the perfect solution.

Simple. Efficient. No emotions required.

The only problem?
The man he mistakes for the escort… isn’t one.

Beckett Calder walks into the hotel lounge expecting to meet his blind date. Instead, he finds Sawyer—a romantic disaster who clearly thinks Beckett is the escort he hired.

Beckett should correct the misunderstanding.
He should walk away.

(Spoiler: he doesn’t.)

Because there’s something about Sawyer—maybe it’s the sarcasm, the bruised heart, or the way he looks like he could really use someone on his side—that makes Beckett say yes.

Now he’s pretending to be Sawyer’s devoted boyfriend.

For an entire week.

Which would be manageable…if the chemistry between them didn’t feel so dangerously real.

Because the longer they pretend, the harder it becomes to remember it’s all an act.

And when the week ends, Beckett might be the one mistake Sawyer never wants to stop making.

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The Things We Couldn’t Say, by Kaycee King

“I’d rather watch you kiss other mouths forever than risk the chance of losing you for good.”

This is the code that thirty-six-year-old punk rock guitarist Samuel James Johnson lives by. It keeps him safe inside the closet, hidden from fans, from the world, from Adam Kieran Lee, his lifelong best friend, and the man he’s silently been in love with since he was seventeen.

Unfortunately, though Sam’s caution and closed lips protect him from being known, it can’t stop the perpetual wounds that Adam, who’s by all appearances straight, accidentally carves into his heart when he shamelessly womanizes on tour.

Though the two of them have considered themselves close nearly all their lives, a distance has settled between them. While Sam is distracted living a double life and crafting songs with his secret boyfriend, Oliver, Adam is intensely jealous, convinced he’s being replaced as Sam’s best friend.

With random women in Adam’s arms, and a boyfriend wanting more from Sam than he can give, tensions eventually come to a head, forcing them to face the things they’re terrified to reveal, risking the very loss that Sam has so carefully worked to avoid.

The Things We Couldn’t Say is a high angst, slow burn MM romance about friendship, secret longing, bisexual awakening, and the courage it takes to love yourself and be honest.

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Bright Dead Things, by Hailey Turner

If the forest stares back at you, you’re already prey.

Bran Gallagher grew up with three rules passed down through his coven: beware forest paths that lead to dangerous mounds, always keep iron close, and never speak of magic.

Cillian Dunne grew up with his mother’s love, his father’s absence, and secret warnings to never trust a witch.

In Pelham’s forest, where bright lights haunt the trees and hunt the lost, there are traditions kept for survival and others out of habit, none of which should be broken.

Bran and Cillian unknowingly broke tradition and ruined each other in the aftermath of a kiss years ago. Reunited in the wake of a family tragedy, they cross paths with something old, something terrifying—something that wants them dead. When Bran’s younger sister is stolen away by a nightmare into the Otherworld, they can only follow and try to keep each other alive in a strange and haunting land.

Trapped in a dangerous Fae Court, Bran learns being a witch comes with a death sentence. To save him, Cillian must fight against those who seek power from a past he has no memory of, and the only person he can trust is the witch who broke his heart.

But it might be too late.

For the Fae have never been kind, and they have always hungered, and this time, what they hunger for is revenge.

A searing M/M fantasy romance full of magic, Fae lore, high-stakes, courtly intrigue, and a forbidden love readers will be sure to devour. 

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Ascension, by Jourdan Lane

As a half-vampire, half-werewolf, I was never meant to exist. Much less ascend to a position of power.

Joining the Council of Elders was supposed to bring order to the chaos. Instead, I’m juggling ultimatums—from the Council, the angels, and from monsters who’d rather see me dead. One wrong move, and the people I love will pay the price.

Old enemies are gathering. And they’re bringing new friends. If they get their way, humanity won’t know what hit them, and the fragile balance between realms will crumble.

It’s time to figure out what I’m made of, and hope that it’s enough. I’m not in this fight alone and one thing’s for certain: if we’re going down…We’re going down swinging.

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Riptide, by AG Meiers

Caught in a riptide of secrets and mistakes…

The scandal didn’t just end my career. I lost my reputation. My family. My future.

Fate handed me a fresh start. Working patrol in a small beach town in Maine keeps me hidden from the world and out of trouble. ‘License and registration, please’ is about all the social life I’m looking for these days.

When a traumatized runaway crashes into my life, I reluctantly offer refuge, but his dangerously attractive older brother threatens everything. Tanner Weston is powerful. Arrogant. Always in control. He doesn’t deal well with opposition, especially not from a scruffy small-town cop.

We manage to negotiate an uneasy truce to support his brother’s recovery.

Until bullets cut through the peaceful night sky.

Now, I find myself fighting a dangerous shooter and my growing attraction to a man who plans to expose the secrets I’m trying to hide.

Riptide, book 1 in the Saltwater Trilogy, is a slow-burn, enemies-to-lovers, M/M romantic suspense featuring two men with nothing in common but an excess of emotional baggage, so love just doesn’t fall easily into place in the first book. But if you love grit, heart, a good redemption arc, and a hard-won happily ever after, dive into the Saltwater Trilogy today.

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How to Make a Hybrid, by Avery Burnwell

Three alien soldiers want to make me theirs.

Humanity thinks that would be terrible for our species.

I disagree.

After I was rejected by my fellow humans, these towering, lethal, gorgeous aliens (my Givers) took me in and raised me aboard their ship, the Derecko, caring for me like I was one of their own.

Humanity was fine with that, wanting me to be cared for by anyone but them, since I dared to interact with our potential invaders (because I needed them to save my neck). But now that I’m old enough to mate, everyone suddenly thinks I’d be better off with my own kind.

HARD PASS.

No human has ever made me ache for their touch, but all I ever do is ache for my Givers. And what’s so great about being human anyway? Mating with Givers means becoming a hybrid, and having alien babies, and humans are terrified of that.

I’m not.

I’ll do whatever it takes to make myself half human, half alien, and theirs forever.

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The Cinders, by D K Girl

A fallen prince. A bold shoemaker. One impossible love.

The Cinders is a dark, queer retelling of Ye Xian—the original Cinderella tale from China—filled with palace intrigue, whispered magic, and slow-burn MM romance.

Exiled from the Forbidden City, Prince Xian is trapped in a governor’s court—kept as an ornament, paraded as a dancer, and traded as leverage for power.

Then a gifted shoemaker arrives: fearless, stubborn, and determined to remind Xian he is far more than the helpless creature others wish him to be.

But defiance has consequences. And in a court ruled by cruelty and superstition, even a single pair of shoes can spark a reckoning.

For fans of: MM fairytale romance • hurt/comfort • gilded courts • myth & magic • happiness ever after

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Windsor, Wyoming series, by Amy Aislin
Narrated by Aaron Hokanson

In Windsor, Wyoming, cowboys fall hard, best friends become lovers, and summer flings have a habit of turning into forever. Against a backdrop of sprawling ranches, mountain views, and star-filled skies, the men of Windsor Ranch navigate longtime crushes and the kind of love worth taking a risk for. Perfect for readers who love small-town romance, found family, friends-to-lovers, and plenty of cowboy charm.

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Outcast, by DJ Jamison

I’m the outcast brother …

I’m headed back to Riverton and the foster brothers I left behind. But this homecoming isn’t going to be sweet. I left without a word to them after getting outed and disowned.

The fences don’t just need mending. They need rebuilding. My brothers and I had a code to always be there for one another, and I broke it.

Now, I have the chance to step up and help them with their floundering business. To prove myself and make good.

Then one night, while on a job, I see the town’s golden boy shoved to his knees by none other than the jerk who got me outed in high school.

I run to his rescue, and everything changes…

Emory is a fragile, beautiful man trying to find himself–even as he struggles under the weight of guilt, grief, and expectation. And I’m the bad boy he’s never let himself have.

I could be the key to his salvation or his ruin.

And suddenly, my brothers aren’t the only ones I’m fighting for.

But can I really have it all–love and family–or will I just lose everyone all over again?

Outcast is Book 1 of Foster Bro Code, set in Riverton near the fictional town of Granville, which appears in Games We Play and Rules We Break series. It includes found family, bisexual journey, and bad boys with hearts of gold! 

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The Consort’s Curse, by Eliot Grayson

An unwanted consort, an unwilling pawn…

Locked away in an abbey since his magic manifested, Remi’s never known the touch of another man, averting his dawn mage’s curse with a potion that keeps him alive—but prevents him from truly living. When he’s whisked off to the glittering, worldly Calatrian capital and forced to marry a lord he’s never met, his only hope is that his new husband won’t use him and his magic too cruelly.

Suddenly recalled from his diplomatic posting, Stefan finds himself embroiled in another of his powerful father’s political plots. His demure, delicate consort is painfully chaste, heartbreakingly beautiful, almost certainly an unscrupulous liar—and precisely calculated to wrap Stefan around his pretty little finger.

Stefan refuses to be drawn in by his wiles. He won’t touch him unless absolutely necessary. Won’t taste his alluring sweetness. And he absolutely will not sate his ever-growing obsession with claiming what belongs to him.

No matter the cost…

The Consort’s Curse is the fourth book in the Twilight Mages series, and some characters from book three appear, but it can be read as a standalone. As in every book, there is an HEA. Life’s unreliable enough. Extra happy endings in a romance should be guaranteed!

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The Fumble, by Odia Fine

OZ
I’m an accountant. He’s the sweet, sunshine-y wide receiver of the Detroit Diesels. What else could bring us together besides me being in just the right place at the wrong time?

I have never been good at taking help. Or into guys sweeping me up in whirlwind romances.

But when the 6-foot-tall hunk offers me a ride home in a sports car after literally knocking me off my feet…well. It’s the least he can do.

LANG
I thought it’d just be the ride home.

Then he shows me the ride of my life.

His A/C goes out the next morning, and my practice gets cancelled. One last heat wave runnin’ through the city.

And I’ve got one chance to figure out if this is really love. Or just another crazy impulse.

The Fumble is a steamy MM instalove short football romance, featuring a meet-ugly on the sidelines, a Black jock cat-dad, and a guaranteed HEA. A perfect lunch break read.

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Untamed Aggression, by Matthew Dante

Marcus
39, tough, headstrong, and leader of the Shadow Vipers.

Being the leader of a biker gang is like being a father on steroids. You’ve got to be smart, ruthless, and able to wrangle a pack of overgrown, testosterone-fueled, man-children who can’t seem to go a week without causing chaos. The number of times I’ve had to clean up their messes is ridiculous.

As if that wasn’t enough, now I’m playing babysitter to Mr. Never-Shuts-Up. I literally threw him in the trunk, and the guy still continued screaming at me! The mouthy little menace is going to be the death of me.

I should just let that serial killer get him.

But when he looks at me with those eyes… I know I’m a goner.


Gavin
24, Influencer by day, hopeless romantic by night.

I’ll admit it. My taste in men hasn’t exactly been stellar. Case in point? My last date tried to murder me.

Oh. And he happens to be a serial killer.

Yes, leave it to me to swipe right on the Valentine Killer.

So, naturally, the universe decided that the safest place for me is under the protection of a ginormous, six-foot-four, permanently scowling biker who looks like he eats danger for breakfast.

He doesn’t smile. He doesn’t flirt. So, of course, I’m head over heels attracted to the guy.

As I said, my taste in men can’t be trusted.

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Ink and Insults, by Ki Brightly and M.D. Gregory

A Dark Secret Creates an Evil Scheme
Ren Booth has one goal—revenge. He has a plan to take down his big bad brother, the man who put Ren’s life on a path he hated.

1. Turn Luke’s motorcycle club against him.
2. Hurt the family Luke chose over his own blood.
3. Let Luke rot in the total destruction.

The game sounds easy, but he doesn’t factor in two wild cards connected to his brother.

The Lonely Man
Oli has been working for Luke at his barber shop for years but wants to become a tattoo artist. When Ren opens a new tattoo parlor next door to the Ink Well—the studio Oli wants to work in—Oli is outraged. If that wasn’t bad enough, Ren starts dating the man Oli is in love with, KC Beaumont. Oli refuses to let Ren ruin his goals, even if Ren is hot.

The Overwhelmed College Linebacker
KC Beaumont is the son of Luke’s boyfriend. The only man he’s interested in, Oli, works for Luke, and he can see the problems with that a mile away, so he steers clear. When Oli takes a shot at KC, he makes a choice—date him and Ren, with their knowledge, of course. How could he ever choose?

Self-Discovery Becomes More
The three men balance each other out and start a relationship. Ren’s plans take a back seat as he enjoys time with his new men. What happens when Ren’s secret is exposed? Can the relationship survive deception? Or will Ren be the one left destroyed?

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A Corpse for Christmas, by Ki Brightly and M.D. Gregory
Narrated by Keval Shah

Who Doesn’t Want Their Enemies Destroyed For Christmas?

A Second Chance for the Accidental Serial Killer
Eddison “Eddie” Wheelwright isn’t a bad guy, he’s just a chronic klutz. He escaped his abusive father by going across the country for college. To make his exit, he was forced to leave behind a good friend, Tyler. Eddie told himself Tyler would be fine. Years later, Eddie runs into him again. He has been hurt and is on the verge of homelessness. Tyler has not been fine. Guilt eats at Eddie, and he can’t ignore Tyler’s plight, especially since it’s almost Christmas.

Hope for the Homeless Man
Tyler Morrow hates a lot of things. His ex-stepfather, who gave him the scars on his face. Eddie, who left him behind to be tortured. When their lives collide on one of the worst days of Tyler’s life, Tyler decides to ignore Eddie. The plan fails when Eddie murders a man who exploited Tyler. He can’t help but give Eddie another chance to be part of his life. And a brand-new shot to earn space in his heart.

The List
Tyler has a list of men who caused him pain. Only Eddie has no clue what the list is for, so he sets out trying to solve the riddle. Through a series of unfortunate accidents, he leaves most of the men dead. Tyler thinks Eddie is murdering these awful men to protect him. What will happen when he learns the truth? Will he forgive Eddie for taking credit for something he didn’t do on purpose? Or will this be a death blow for their new relationship?

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His Truest Role, by Kieran Lamour

Having devoted his life to the stage, could he give it all up for love?

He’s their most adored leading man—revealing his secret could destroy his career.

When renowned Australian theater director Kim Delatour arrives in Barcelona to direct his hit play The Swan, he immediately clashes with charismatic yet undisciplined leading man Dídac Amat. With no time to cast another actor, Kim is told that Dídac’s audience pull is vital to ensure the production is a success. But despite enmity in the rehearsal room, neither can resist the magnetism that pulls them when the sparks fly. With passion on the breeze in Barcelona’s sultry summer evenings, will it be love or hate on opening night?

+ M/M
+ Enemies to lovers
+ Australian director meets Catalan leading man
+ Age gap (25–35)