Gay Romance Report June 27, 2023

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Everything’s Better With You, by R.L. Merrill

Everything’s Better With You is a TED LASSO-inspired sports-themed funny romance featuring two guys who’ve pined for each other for 15 years while their careers soared and their bodies fell apart.

Retired quarterback and “nicest guy in the NFL” Leslie Payton met former college cheerleader-turned-reality-show darling Joe Judd fifteen years ago. They spent one magical night…talking. They’ve been pining for each other via text and phone calls ever since while their careers kept them geographically apart. When their alma mater recruits them to reinvigorate a flagging athletic program, Leslie is thrilled to finally have Joe close enough to see if their “what if” can become a reality. And the sooner the better before Leslie’s history of Traumatic Brain Injury catches up to him and he’s unable to be a true partner.

Joe has spent their years apart dancing on reality TV, Broadway, and concert tours, knowing full well the clock is ticking on his body’s ability to continue taking the abuse. Leslie wants forever to start now, and Joe doesn’t have that luxury, though Leslie makes him want things he’s never allowed himself to dream of with anyone else. But a lifetime of only feeling worthwhile for his performance ability makes him doubt whether he could ever be a good coach or enough of a partner for the best man he’s ever known.

As football and cheer coaches, they’re forced to be rivals in public, but behind closed doors, their chemistry is unstoppable. A wager triggers their competitive sides, but the secrets they keep come to light and present them with a seemingly insurmountable obstacle. Can they finally meet on the relationship 50-yard line and move forward as a team?

Recommended for readers 18 and up who love open and honest dialogue about sex, and challenges to toxic masculinity. Also included: mesh crop tops, gratuitous shirtless car wash scenes, phone sex therapy, and all the pining.

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Say Uncle, by Ki Brightly and M.D. Gregory

Narrated by Kayden Lukakis

The Nomad

Hayes Snyder had no plans to return to New Gothenburg, but when a contract takes him there, his conscience drives him to visit his brother. Spending a night at a club is his way of unwinding after time on the road, and when he meets a bratty man who makes his toes curl, he’s impossible to resist, even if he will only be a distraction for a short time.

The Brat with Nothing to Lose

Beckett Snyder is bored and freshly single, and the moment he lays eyes on a tasty stranger in black leather, he knows what he wants. When they’re kicked out of a club for their public fun, he doesn’t expect to see the sexy man again, until Hayes walks through the front door of his childhood home. It turns out Hayes is the uncle he hasn’t seen since he was a small child, and he didn’t have any memories of him.

Irresistible Temptation

Hayes and Beckett know it’s taboo to continue building a relationship, but it’s hard for them to stay away from each other. Hayes’s time in the city is counting down and they choose to make the most of it, but Hayes’s job turns dangerous, and Beckett doesn’t know when to follow orders. Will Hayes have to leave Beckett behind for his own good, or will they be able to make this unusual relationship last?

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Immortal Jewels the Complete Series Box Set, by Lee Colgin

Immortal Jewels, the complete bestselling series plus bonus scenes, available now as a four book box set bundle! Stories of love, adventure, romance, betrayal, and fate. Spicy MM fantasy/paranormal romance includes:

Beneath the Opal Arc – The steamy love story of a rare male witch who saves the world and the handsome older vampire who saves him.
Featuring opposites attract, an age gap, only one bed, protective lover, a quaint little bookshop & cinnamon candied nuts!

Across the Sapphire Sea – When a possessive vampire is bent on finding a cure for a mysterious ailment, and his feisty fledgling craves more independence, can their love endure or will ancient secrets shatter their bond forever?
Featuring a fiery and at times toxic relationship, an age gap, a power imbalance, a repentant lovers, spicy times in the bathing barrel & danger at the arctic circle!

Beyond the Ruby River – When a demon half-breed uses his incubi charms on a mortal man, will their love last forever or is each soul destined to pine for the other for all eternity?
Featuring a sweet incubus longing for a love that endures beyond lust, a grieving mortal man with an open heart who makes papyrus production hot, friends to lovers & a fun prehensile tail!

Over the Emerald Valley – When a sassy palace concubine is given to a dutiful army general for the night they form an unlikely partnership to solve a mystery of missing jewels.
Featuring an age gap, hurt/comfort, only one bed, sneaky jewel thieves & spicy dessert nights!

Also includes over 15000 words of bonus material exclusive to this boxset!

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First Catch, by Cecelia Storm

The hardest play to master is a touchdown of the heart… Will these two opposites come together to score the ultimate goal?

Oliver

Teaching languages on the side is the only thing keeping me afloat right now, but when a golden-retriever of a man hired me for double my usual rate, I was suspicious. Question everything, that’s my motto. But there’s something about Spencer – besides his incredible athletic body – that puts my defenses at ease. Then my past catches up with me at gunpoint, and all hell breaks loose.

Spencer

The NFL is expecting great things from me this season, not to mention upholding my family’s pro-sports legacy. But when grumpy Oli showed up at my door to teach me French, it didn’t take long for me to fall for his beauty and mind. But… why does he feel like he’s always in danger? What is he running from? We could be so happy together if he’d just let me protect him from whatever, or whoever, seems to be catching up to him.

First Catch is a standalone Shady Past & Grumpy/Sunshine MM Sports Romance novel, and the first in the San Diego Seals series.

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Dragon Rider, by S. Rodman

Dragons are real. I should not be so distracted by the men riding them.

I’ve found myself in a hidden world of dragons and nightly battles to protect Earth, but while the dragons are magnificent magical creatures, and bonding with Ri and learning to fly is an exhilarating joy, other dragon riders are taking too much of my attention.

Mordecai is haunting my dreams and thoughts. He is a strikingly good looking man. Tall and lean with long blond hair and blue eyes that change shade with his emotions. But he is cruel, mocking and aloof. He lets no one close. I should leave him well alone.

Harlen is far nicer. He is friendly, takes an interest in me and smiles. His broad muscles and bronzed skin, together with his dark curls and copper eyes, give me butterflies.

When our bonded dragons mate, I know it affects us. A dragon’s passion is impossible to resist. But I’m shocked to discover which man is more dominant. And I’m awed by the awakening of my pleasure. Dragons aren’t the only things that are new to me. Exploring this side of my nature is divine.

But I can’t help hoping it is more than that.

In this strange new world of dragons, magic and desire, can I find my place? And can I find love?

Dragonrider is set in our modern world, one where dragons fly every night, you just can’t see them. It contains a gay ‘Why choose’ love triangle, with high steam, high stakes, high angst & a happy for now ending.

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Some Place Like Home, by Gin Vane

Three weeks of playing taxi shouldn’ t have him tied up in knots…

Everett says he owes him for his help at Foxland, but Carver has long been comfortable in the shadow of his unknown past. He doesn’ t need the former detective to search through his life for family. No sense in holding space for something he’ ll never get.

With his auto shop scraping by, he’ s back to bartending to pay the bills— and while he doesn’ t want to admit it, the perk of easy company is losing its shine. Too broke to refuse the work, he gets a tip about a sedan off the highway. But the man behind the wheel quickly becomes more than he bargained for.

Daniel Henning may look like some bumbling academic, but when he brushes off the dig dirt, the man is downright gorgeous. He’ s in town for three weeks and absolutely running from his baggage. Just like another college-boy that Carver used to know.

Maybe he hasn’ t learned a thing if he’ s willing to make this mistake twice, but it’ s not just Daniel’ s talent with rope that keeps pulling Carver back in. Daniel looks at him like the best parts of what he lost. If they could each escape the weight of their pasts, might they have a future together?

Only more time would tell. But Carver’ s never been the kind to ask.

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Assassin, by Katy Haye

Kiss or Kill? Why not both?

Kit was sent to the Sudharainian court with one purpose: kill Prince Talal, heir to the sultanate.
Kit’s never wavered in his duty before, but he’s taken aback by a sudden, powerful attraction to the man he’s been sent to assassinate.
The attraction seems to be mutual, so perhaps Kit can use it to his advantage: seduce the prince to get close enough to murder him.
There’s just one problem: Kit knows a hundred ways to kill a man, but since he’s never even been kissed, he has no idea how to begin a seduction…

Isolated by being both prince and heir, Talal has been eager to meet his soulmate since the age of two.
He knew his soulmate would come from across the sea where customs are different, but he couldn’t have guessed the man would be a beautiful killer who considers soulmates an abomination.
The only place they’re compatible is in the bedroom. Talal will use that connection to forge their bond. Since soulmates are united for life, that will give him plenty of time to establish a relationship … won’t it?

If you enjoy Tavia Lark and E H Lee’s MM fantasy stories, you’ll love stepping into the world of Adventurers and Exiles. Join Kit and Talal in their timeless romance where a feral cinnamon roll meets his intellectual bound-by-duty prince.

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Loving Lennox, by KD Ellis

Riley didn’t know home wasn’t a place… It’s a person.

Riley would rather sell himself on the streets again than go back home. Only a chance encounter with a stranger saved him from becoming another statistic as a teenager, but now he’s aging out of the youth shelter and has nowhere left to go— until a kind act from the shelter’s director sends him straight to Lennox.

When Lennox’s older sister begs him to rent out his spare room to a kid about to become homeless, he gets way more than he bargained for. He expects an acne-spotted, Red-Bull-bingeing teenager. What he does not expect is Riley.

Riley, who has a dominant streak a mile wide but somehow submits so beautifully.

Riley, who has a tough exterior but hides a sensitive soul.

Riley, who might just be what Lennox never knew he was looking for.

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The Meaning of Life, by BA Tortuga

When tragedy strikes in the parking lot of a rodeo event, bullfighter Jasper Dean loses his best friend Kayla, inherits her barrel racing horse, her pack of dogs, and her two babies, who also happen to be his biological kids. He has no idea what to do about any of it, and JD struggles to juggle all of his new responsibilities. So when an old friend makes an unexpected offer of help, he grabs it with both hands.

Nash Remington was right there when the crime happened, and he’s mourning just like the rest of his rodeo family. When he seeks out JD to deliver Kayla’s horse, which he’s been caring for, he makes the offer for JD to come to his ranch to let him and his family help JD figure out what to do next.

The two men have to deal with loss, their old attraction to each other, new love, and a whole new family dynamic, all while balancing work and life and trying to make sense of a terrible loss. Can they find the meaning of life together?

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Johnson x 2, by Shae Michaels

They’re both professional hockey players, albeit for different teams. They’re both attending the same celebrity charity golf tournament. And they both have a hotel reservation under the name ‘J. Johnson’.

Or so they thought.

What happens when the hotel accidentally only holds one room instead of two? Can these two antagonistic, rival hockey players manage to share a hotel room without any sexy, forbidden, naughty hanky panky?

For Jaime Johnson and J.J. Johnson, the answer is… no.

A momentary lapse in judgment is all it can be. That’s all they can let it be. But what if underneath all the sniping and squabbling, there was… more?

Jaime Johnson and J.J. Johnson know how to handle being enemies. Can they handle falling in love?

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Death, by Sienna Moreau

It all began with the kiss of Death.

Abaddon, the Destroyer, right hand of Lucifer, has returned from the dead with one thing on his mind: revenge on the Horseman who kept him from taking back what is his. But spending time alone with Death has awakened something between them, resulting in an experience that he enjoys more than revenge. The natural conclusion is to keep doing it, of course. He never planned on his heart getting involved with a Horseman he can’t even touch.

Death is the fourth Horseman of the Apocalypse, arriving only when the end is near. The Apocalypse he and his brothers were summoned for this time is over, lost when they lost one of their own, but the stakes are higher now than ever before. It isn’t just Earth that’s at risk; the fate of existence now hangs in the balance, with a power-hungry God ready to unleash a new world order.

Death cannot touch another and has resigned himself to spending his existence alone, until a kiss changes everything for him. When Abaddon returns, and they pick up right where they left off, Death doesn’t fight the attraction that spirals out of control faster than they can keep up with it. Death cannot feel Abaddon’s skin against his own, but Abaddon breaks so beautifully under him anyway, taking everything that he can give and asking for more.

Abaddon had never imagined that he would love anyone or fall so hard, so fast. Death had never imagined that he would find someone to walk beside him, someone to call his own. Time is running out for them, and if they don’t find a way to push back against the powers vying for them, all will be lost.

The last Apocalypse is coming, and no one is safe.

Death is the fourth and final book in the Four Horsemen series. This book is not a standalone and must be read in order. You have been warned.

Content warnings: religious themes, extreme violence, gore, blood play, masochism, and others listed inside.

Arachnophobia warning: There is also a dog-sized pet spider named Paul who just wants to be loved.

Death is a 112,000-word dark paranormal MM romance featuring morally questionable characters, unrequited hate, Angels, Demons, Horsemen of the Apocalypse, snark and plenty of banter.

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Forged in Love, by Harper Dakota

At one hundred and fifty years old, Ian finally had everything he wanted.

Becoming a vampire when he was eighteen, he viewed it as his chance to find his own fated mate, to explore the world, to live and see new things. He’s never regretted his choice, finding friends among paranormals and humans. When he finally meets his mate, he’s amazed that Fate brought him such a perfect fit. Berkley’s handsome, caring, creative. Everything Ian could have wanted in a partner. They settle into their life together, but when a fun outing takes a dangerous turn, will Ian and Berkley be able to save themselves, or will bigotry and hatred win?

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Title by Author

The Namesake

Dexen Dremest leads a good life. He owns an exclusive club, has friends he cares about, and has a supportive family. Too bad there’s a hole inside his chest where his heart used to be. One man ripped it out, leaving only tattered ends behind.

The Tech Guru

Greer Lynx is happy most of the time. He can be serious when he needs to be, but he’d rather be the calm in the storm than the wind whipping everything up. If only he could find a man of his own, his life would be perfect. Or maybe two men will do.

The Mafia Boss’s Son

JJ Altair hates everything his dad is. He wants no part of that life and has fought hard for years to keep his distance. He’s got a great career, a friend he can’t keep his eyes off of, and an ex he can’t get out of his mind.

Three ties to bind. Three hearts on the line.

Three souls who break trying to ease their ache.

Dexen, Greer, and JJ are building something new and exciting together. It’s also terrifying since they’ve been burned in the past.

What’s worth giving up versus worth holding on to will need to be weighed. The scale won’t easily balance between the three of them, but they will lean one way or the other.

Three Hearts on the Line is an MMM steamy contemporary romance and book two in the Three Ties series. It features a businessman who keeps his heart guarded, a sweetheart who wants someone to love him, and a mechanic who fights to get away from his father’s shadow. There is friends to lovers, second chance romance, hurt/comfort, and a HEA. Each book can be read as a standalone but is better enjoyed when read in order.

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Straight Dad, by Raleigh Ruebins

Straight dads don’t get crushes on 22-year-old star quarterbacks. Right?

Kace Tomlin is the nation’s hottest, youngest pro quarterback at age 22, and he’s out and proud. When Kace hired my little construction company to work on his multi-million dollar mansion, it was the quickest hell yes of my life.

Usually I’m in Dad Mode, 24/7—boring, predictable, and dependable. But being plunged into a young hotshot football player’s world is anything but predictable.

I can’t stop watching him. Craving him. And after one blazing hot night, we can’t keep our hands off each other. I hate that he gets my wires all crossed, and makes me feel like I’m nowhere close to straight.

But Kace has a TV crew filming every moment of his private life. We’re on the show now, for all of Kace’s fans to see, keeping our smoldering secret hidden.

Is this all just another game? Or will he be reckless with me, for the whole world to see?

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Third Time Lucky, by Aurora Crane

Trust didn’t always go both ways, and Grady Donehue had learned that the hard way. He hadn’t learned better after the first betrayal, but he wasn’t going to make the same mistake a third time. Striking up a strange friendship with the equally strange–and straight–soldier, Lake, who had sunshine in his eyes? Grady could do that. He could even handle helping Lake figure out he might not be so straight after all, in a very hands-on way. But falling in love? No, thanks.

Lake McKenna has spent his whole life absolutely confident in who he is and what he wants. Even when the picture-perfect future he’d always envisioned seemed further away than ever, none of his plans had included another man. But the more time Lake spends with his new friend—grumpy and sneaky-sexy detective, Grady—the more he thinks that maybe what he really needs is something different than what he had always imagined.

Neither man was prepared for the other, but Lake is nothing if not flexible. Doubt isn’t part of his makeup. He knows how much more incredible they could be together if only Grady could see it too. But Grady has to decide if Lake is worth risking his heart again, and whether he’s brave enough to see if it really is third time lucky.

Third Time Lucky is an 80,000-word MM romance. It is a bi-awakening, friends-to-lovers romance with low angst and high feels. It is set in the Chain Reaction universe but can be read as a standalone.

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The Alien Emissary, by Eryn Ivers

The metal tentacles tightened around Bryant’s wrists and for the first time in his life he finally felt…safe.

Bryant Harrison doesn’t do burglaries. His strength, his size, and his obviously once broken nose all mean he’s the muscle – not the thief. But he desperately needs the money to save his young daughter before she’s sent to a penal colony far beyond his reach. Alarm bells ring in his head as he breaks into the personal ship of an influential alien diplomat, but this time he can’t afford to listen to them…

Captured by the ship’s top of the line security system, Bryant expects to be turned in if not turned inside out and torn limb from limb. He doesn’t expect an encounter that leaves him limp, trembling, and questioning everything.

Emissary Serihk has always been the most powerful man in a room. Backed by the richest species-state in the galaxy, Serihk decides the fates of nations and of planets. But suddenly, all he wants to decide is the fate of one human man and his young daughter.

The human is tough as nails, clever and shrewd, achingly handsome, and a survivor of things Serihk has only ever read reports on. Yet when Serihk touches him, the human yields to him, trusts him, and lights a protective fire in him that Serihk has never felt before.

Bryant wishes he could fall into the arms of this commanding, elegant, awe-inspiring alien whose very presence wipes away all his crushing fear and doubt. But he can’t afford to lose his edge. He knows from experience that good things don’t last and people always leave you.

But does that mean he has to leave the one place – and more importantly the one man – who ever made him feel safe?

The Alien Emissary is a steamy (very steamy) story featuring power dynamics, dom/sub undertones, tentacles, and trust issues.

It is the prologue novella to Interspecies Alliances – a series best read in order about a galaxy torn apart by conflict and the men fighting to keep it together. Everyone gets HEAs once the series ends, but first each novel follows its own couple with their own HFN ending on this epic space adventure.

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Collateral Connection, by C.S. Carver & Jana Maylin

“Hey there, neighbor.”

Ever since Isaac’s mother was diagnosed with early on-set dementia, his life has revolved around caring for her. It’s been lonely, but he doesn’t mind as long as they’re together. Their move to Vancouver was supposed to make things better, but Isaac is having a hard time keeping himself afloat.

Then the neighbor’s tree comes crashing through his roof.

Chase should have listened to his dad about that damn tree. Should have, could have, didn’t. Of course, the tree ends up embedded in his neighbor’s bathroom, and damage control is all he can do. Things start looking up when the neighbor turns out to be the hot new librarian Chase likes to ogle.

To avoid a lawsuit, Chase convinces Isaac to let him do the repairs, but the fixtures aren’t the only things that get rebuilt along the way.

Collateral Connection is a heart-warming MM romance with a best friend with questionable fashion tastes, dumplings as a love language, and two men trying to find themselves while upholding their family duty.

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The Secrets We Keep, by Rick R. Reed

Jasper Warren is a happy-go-lucky young man in spite of the tragedy that’s marred his life. He’s on a road to nowhere with his roommate, Lacy, whom he adores, and a dead-end retail job in Chicago.

And then everything changes in a single night. Though Jasper doesn’t know it, his road is going somewhere after all. This time when tragedy strikes, it brings with it Lacy’s older, wealthy, sexy uncle Rob. Despite the heart-wrenching circumstances, an immediate connection forms between the two men.

But the secrets between them test their attraction. Will their revelations destroy the bloom of new love… or encourage it to grow?

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Just Right, by Colbie Dunbar, Lorelei M Hart, and Trisha Linde

A little bit hot, a little bit cold. In the end, they’re just right.

Alpha wolf shifter Saffron is finally home. He’s found a new town he loves, a pack where he belongs, a house with room for a family, and has best friends as close as brothers. And life only gets better when Saff steps onto his porch one sunny day to see not only the one who got away, but also an adorable baby with Saffron’s eyes. Saff is instantly Papa to a sweet bear cub, and he couldn’t be happier.

Omega bear shifter Everest has been searching for the alpha father of his baby ever since their one-night stand over a year ago. If only they had been true mates. Maybe then they’d have started things right, instead of showing up with their daughter out of the blue one day. Everest is shocked to discover the spark is still there. If only something, or is it someone, wasn’t missing.

Alpha honey-bear shifter Dior thought he was heading down to the sunny beaches with a friend. That was until he was ditched at the side of the road when said friend found his true mate at a rest stop. Now he’s broke, alone, stranded, and desperate. He doesn’t want to “borrow” food from houses, but he’s not finding enough in his fur to sustain him. What else can he do? And he doesn’t really mean to fall asleep in the warm house… he truly doesn’t. It’s just that it smells so good, and he can’t stand to leave it. A small nap wouldn’t hurt.

And it doesn’t hurt—it changes everything.

Just Right is the sixth book in the Fairest of Them All series and can be read as a standalone. This retelling of Goldilocks gives the beloved story an m/m mpreg shifter twist. It’s sweet with knotty heat and features an alpha looking for a future, the omega who shows up on his doorstep holding said future, a down-on-his-luck alpha honey bear looking for something not too hard (just kidding—too hard is just right), true love, fated mates, a secret baby, an adorable bundle of joy, and an HEA fit for a fairy tale. If you like your alphas hawt, your omegas strong, and your mpreg with heart, download Just Right by the co-writers of the popular Royal Heat series, Lorelei M Hart, Colbie Dunbar, and Trisha Linde today.

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Revenant, by Michelle Frost

He’d be beautiful if he wasn’t there to kill me.

Being the witch of the Black Dog Pack keeps Kova safe in The Between, but it’s never stopped the man in his dreams from coming after him, night after night. When that man steps out of his dreams and into reality, Kova is forced to confront the truth of his own power as well as the dangerous attraction he’s always harbored for his would-be assassin.

Revenant is a prequel to Metal & Magic, a dystopian urban fantasy romance series. Previously available on Prolific Works. No changes have been made.