Gay Romance Report March 14

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Necessary Space, by Kate Hawthorne

Hendrix

What’s the only thing more annoying than my years-too-young neighbor?

The way I want him more than air.

There are plenty of things I don’t like about my new home in California, and my neighbor, Miles, is at the top of the list. He’s smug and arrogant, he speaks out of turn. And even though I should have learned my lesson about fast-talking, younger, dominant men when I broke up with my ex, I want him. For better or worse, Miles and I are on the same page and that’s why we decide there’s no harm in taking things between us someplace a little more private.

Good thing it’s only a physical connection between us because I could never be with a man like him for the long term…

Miles

Can I tease my well-dressed and thick-thighed older neighbor into bed?

I’m not sure, but there’s no harm in trying.

There’s never been a man who twists me up inside the way Hendrix does, and from the very first time he tells me yes, I know I’m going to demand a thousand more agreements out of his gorgeous mouth before I’m anywhere close to being done with him. He says he only wants me for my body, but it’s not long before things between us feel anything but casual. Hendrix thinks I can’t tell he’s being cautious with me, that I don’t know his worries about the past repeating itself are a constant threat in his head.

Joke’s on him, though. Hendrix makes me want to be a better man and I’m not going to stop until I prove that I’m worthy of a partner like him, even if I stumble more than once along the way.

What’s the only thing scarier than falling in love with the older man who’s determined not to trust me?

Giving him the space to discover he can.

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Necessary Space is a 76,000 word age gap romance where coffee is a love language, annoying neighbors become lovers, kneeling is so much more than an act of submission, and love can be found all in good time.

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Chester Falls Volume Two, by Ana Ashley

What does a bachelor, a royal bodyguard, a biker, a military veteran and a prince’s ex have in common?
They’re all about to find their own swoon-worthy romance with a happy ever after.
Welcome to Chester Falls where anything is possible, the cinnamon buns are to die for, and love is always just around the corner.

The Chester Falls Collection Volume Two includes:
How to Catch a Bachelor
How to Catch the Boss (Christmas Novella)
How to Catch a Biker
How to Catch a Vet
How to Catch a Happy Ever After

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Destructive Relations, by Hayden Hall

Parrish Turner has always been my ultimate fantasy. He was my gay awakening, my sweetest torture, and my forbidden fruit ever since my father remarried and merged our families.

And he never even noticed me. The most I got from him was a passing growl. And it was enough to make me wild with desire. Until he left.

Now, five years after I’d last seen him, we’re back in the same house. Even worse, we’re in tight quarters, forced to share the same bed. Luckily, it’s only for a couple of weeks.

But that is long enough for my will to cave in. Especially now that I’ve got nothing else to lose and Parrish is starting to tease me in ways I can’t interpret. Either he’s trying to bully me for fun, or he’s flirting. With him, the two are never far apart.

He blurs the line between right and wrong. And I can’t resist the temptation that could only ever end in the destruction of whatever family we have left.

Destructive Relations is the first novel in the Destined to Fail series. You can expect forced proximity (only one bed), two young men who hate each other, forbidden love, heart, heat, humor, and a happily ever after. Make sure to use the Look Inside feature to read the content warnings. All books in this series are complete standalones.

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Oh, Sacred Dark, by Marina Vivancos

Tyler’s first priority is to protect his coven. Not because he’s the High Witch’s right-hand-man. Not because he was born a Dom. But because this is his home, and a protector is who he is.

When a new person is fostered by the coven, Tyler is immediately suspicious. Roman is a sub, sure, but his old coven is bad news. They’re all convicted of practicing Chaos Magic, so…why isn’t Roman?

Tyler is sure that Roman is up to no good. The sub refuses to integrate with the coven. Will avoid meals, barely leaves his room, doesn’t talk to anybody. There’s something wrong there, and Tyler won’t stop until he finds out what.

Turns out, there’s a lot more to Roman than meets the eye—a dark past that’s left scars he can’t even imagine. In the end, Roman might not be someone Tyler has to defend again…but someone he needs to protect.

Coven Ties takes place in a universe where magic exists, and everybody is born either a Dom or a sub. This book contains themes of abuse and trauma with a focus on healing, love, and found family.

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Confetti Hearts, by Lily Morton

Joe Bagshaw doesn’t believe in love or marriage anymore, which is rather a hindrance for a wedding planner.

His own marriage was a whirlwind affair that ended before the ink could dry on the wedding certificate. Nevertheless, even with his divorce pending, he’s getting by. Or at least he was until he finds himself snowed in at a remote Scottish hotel with the wedding party from hell, a terrible ABBA tribute band, and his soon-to-be ex-husband.

Lachlan has missed Joe from the second his husband walked away. He wants Joe back and is prepared to do anything to get him. Being snowed in together seems to offer the chance Lachlan needs, but does he have what it takes to get Joe to trust in love and their marriage again?

From bestselling author Lily Morton, comes a romantic comedy about love, matrimony, and the best of second chances.

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Welcome to Morningwood Books 1-4, by Kiki Burrelli

Welcome to Morningwood!

The secluded, all-shifter town of Morningwood is a safe haven for shifters of all kinds. A small town with a bit of a wild side, the citizens of Morningwood will always keep you entertained, whether it be a spicy relationship between a new college student and the Morningwood University dean, or what’s up between the town sheriff and the young bad boy who can’t seem to stop getting in trouble, once you visit Morningwood, you won’t ever want to leave!

Gingerbred Lessons
Kicked out by his mother, Harris—college freshman and impala shifter—goes to live with his aunt in Morningwood. When the Morningwood University dean, and puma shifter, Andrew Boothe, spots Harris, it is want at first sight and his inner beast will not be ignored.

No matter how forbidden, love finds a way.

Balldrop
Young, cocky, and all alpha, Maddox wants the one man he can’t have.
He’s an alpha tiger shifter and the town’s rich, pretty boy, with a chip on his shoulder to match. The circle of people he cares for is a dot occupied by a single man, his college track and field coach, Wesley.

Wesley has a way of making Maddox feel like he isn’t just the town’s asshole. He’s an alpha. Wesley’s alpha.

Sweet Meat
Alone in the world at nineteen, Brisbane feels lucky to have a job and a roof over his head—at the same time. He’s looked out for himself all his life, until he meets Malcolm.

As an alpha tiger shifter, and elite agent tasked with protecting Morningwood, Malcom knows the young human is off-limits but doesn’t let that stop him. Brisbane doesn’t just need Malcom, he’s the first person Malcom has wanted to care for in a long time.

Can the walls come down between two men with so much standing in their way?

Sack of Gold
Dusty’s the town clown. Joseph is the uptight Sheriff. Sparks fly when these opposites collide.

Sheriff Joseph watches his town like he would his pride and there isn’t anyone who needs more of his attention than Dusty Bridle. He’s young, trouble, and all Joseph’s lion wants. Dusty’s friends have all started finding mates while he feels left in the dust. He doesn’t enjoy half the pranks he pulls around town, but won’t ever stop if it means Joseph will come to tell him he’s been naughty.

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Notorious, Charlie Cochet and Macy Blake

New Paranormal Romance from Bestselling MM Authors Charlie Cochet and Macy Blake with shifter royalty, a snarky fox, and the tiger who refuses to fall for his charms.

Caspian Drake knows what it takes to get ahead in modern-day shifter society. He is an Earl, after all, and known for his wit, style, and ability to charm the pants off of anyone he chooses. Getting his best friend Brandr, the Prince of the Dragons, in and out of trouble is only one of his many talents. When a horrible attack shakes Cas’s world, he’s forced to pair up with Saphir Vepkhia, the esteemed tiger shifter and former Captain of the Royal Guard.

Upon retirement, Saphir is granted the title of Baron Archer and, much to his dismay, becomes part of royal society. Years later, when he’s summoned to the palace, the last thing Saphir expects is for the king to request a favor that ties him to the scoundrel, Caspian Drake. Despite his misgivings, Saphir accepts the assignment, knowing it will give him the access he needs to infiltrate the wealthy and powerful while trying not to get outfoxed by the exasperating Earl.

Forced into a fake relationship by an outdated matchmaking ritual, Cas and Saphir each face the upcoming season with their own agenda. The secrets pile up as the two mates navigate the complexities of a modern world that plays by historic rules. But the closer they get to the truth, the greater the danger–and their attraction to each other–grows.

With their lives on the line and the very foundations of their society at risk, Cas and Saphir must unravel the mystery, even if it means creating a scandal more notorious than their newfound love.

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Souls Whispering, by Arian Williams

Brought together by destiny
Bound by fate and circumstances
Unrequited love
One fated love
And one who cannot love

Two are fated to be together
One belongs with a spirit

The darkness threatens
When the powerful creature stirs
Through eminent danger
Will love unite the three
Or would their lives unravel?

Two K-pop idols with elemental powers and a telepath
The spirits whisper when the three meet

Sanang is a K-pop group composed of five idols with elemental powers that fight against dark creatures. This is the third book in the Sanang series and the story of Jee, Jav and Bin, their love and their fight against the dark creatures that threaten everyone.

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Tales of the Harker Pack: Three Book Collection, by Tara Lain

A werewolf versus a panther shifter, a billionaire, socialite flamboyant, half-human wolf, and a shifter so charismatic he captivates with a stroll across the room—meet the males of the Harker Pack in Tara Lain’s bestselling paranormal collection. You’ll fall in love – just like they do.

Book 1 — The Pack or the Panther
Cole Harker, son of an alpha werewolf, is bigger and more powerful than most wolves, tongue-tied in groups, and gay. For twenty-four years, he’s lived to please his family and pack—even letting them promise him in marriage to female werewolf Analiese to secure a pack alliance and help save them from a powerful gangster who wants their land. Then Cole meets Analiese’s half-brother, panther shifter Paris Marketo, and for the first time, Cole wants something for himself.
But this is the battle between cats and dogs!

Book 2 — Wolf in Gucci Loafers
The billionaire, socialite, playboy — werewolf.
Socialite Lindsey Vanessen wants someone to love who will love him back — an impossibility for a gay, half-human, half-werewolf. Then Lindsey meets tough cop Seth Zakowsy—the hunky embodiment of everything Lindsey wants but can’t have.
Seth has never been attracted to flamboyant men. But intrigue turns to lust when he discovers Lindsey’s biting, snarling passion more than matches his dominant side.

Book 3 — Winter’s Wolf
Winter Thane was raised on the two cardinal rules of werewolf existence: don’t reveal yourself to humans under penalty of death, and there’s no such thing as a gay werewolf. Ha! Winter takes one look at human FBI agent, Matt Partridge, and decides bird is his favorite food, but trying to convince Matt of that ends them both up in chains and facing imminent death. Winter quickly learns the pack alphas are a bunch of wusses, and humans aren’t quite what they seem.

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Invincible Nemesis, by Ryder O’Malley

Call me Sentinel. I lead the world’s foremost superhero team. But shhh, nobody knows.

I do a pretty good job balancing my social and work life, even if that job is saving the planet. Of course that blows up in my face when a villain outs my secret identity on national television. Vanguard’s bad guys will not waste this opportunity to exact their revenge. Fixing this damage will require more coffee.

Being a hero is dangerous. That’s why I broke off the relationship with my ex. Now he’s back demanding answers. I might be damn near invincible, but a thick hide won’t protect me from the hurt in his eyes. Does this mean he still cares? I should focus on saving Vanguard, but this daddy bear can’t shake the idea that we have unfinished business. Bernard, you should have stayed in bed.

This is bad, even for a Monday.Invincible Nemesis is a M/M, heart-felt adventure with an HEA and no cliffhangers. It features snark and sex, but not always in that order. This is the final book in the Men of Vanguard series.

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Free Me, by Beck Grey

When love takes hold, even the most cautious of hearts can learn to fly free.

Stef:

What’s a fabulous genderfluid beauty to do when stress is high and Prince Charmings aren’t lined up at their door? Drastic times call for drastic measures, so I head to the club to recharge my sparkle on the dance floor. I have no intention of hooking up with anyone. Hookups are not my thing. I may be sassy, but I keep it classy.

Usually.

But then I see the slightly older hottie in the Tom Ford suit, and all my self-restraint goes up in a blast of glitter.

When it turns out he’s my new meditation client and my friend’s older brother, I know the universe is messing with me. Because Blake and I have incredible chemistry, and he’s made his interest abundantly clear. But mixing business with pleasure is a huge no. So why does my heart keep shouting yes?

Free Me is a 70,000 word low-angst, opposites attract, worlds collide, LGBTQ romance about a hookup gone right. It contains no cheating, and a guaranteed HEA.

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Heartstring, by Ana Ashley

Mik
If I had a dollar for every mistake I made… But there’s only one mistake I regret.
Breaking my promise to the only person who ever understood my need to get away from a future I didn’t want…Tyler.
I’ve reached many hearts through my music, but the only one I’ve ever wanted might be lost to me forever.

Tyler
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice…
Mik broke a promise a long time ago.
What he doesn’t know is that he also broke my heart.
I won’t be fooled or charmed again because his promises aren’t worth the sheet music they’re written on.
His all too-resourceful teenage daughter’s skills at matchmaking may be charming, but I’m not ready to forgive or forget.

Heartstring is book 4 in Ana Ashley’s series, Dads of Stillwater. This story contains two older guys who were always destined for each other, a know-it-all teenager, and a Labrador with short-term memory loss. Plus the usual hearts and all the small town romance you’d expect from Ana Ashley.

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Remaking Raine, by Shae Michaels

Raine

I have a job I tolerate but don’t really like—where my ex also still works and finds constant reasons to harass me. My love life is… depressing. Including a recent ‘boyfriend’ who thought I was just a convenient booty-call. But the final straw came when I showed up for a dinner at my parents’ house dressed in the same clothes as my middle-aged father. It was time for a whole new Raine Morrison. Being the logical man I am, I made a list. First up… getting a tattoo to symbolize my commitment to crafting a new me.

Carter

When he showed up for an appointment at my tattoo shop, I for sure thought the guy was lost or a government lackey come to bust my balls. Instead, I find out he’s just a guy looking for… something. To figure out who he is. I can sympathize. I spent so many years crafting my external image to be who I want people to think I am, to the extent that I still hide parts of myself—even from my closest friends—and I’m no longer sure how much of who I am is real or pretend. But Raine makes me feel like I don’t have to pretend. I can just be. And as our friendship grows… it seems like we might just find out who we really are… together.

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His Touch, by Elena London

A lonely man, with a big heart…

Alex, the porter of a hotel in the heart of his local gay district, isn’t having the most eventful nightshift. Until he notices the man on the CCTV screen, alone and unmoving in a hallway upstairs.

A broken man, in need of comfort…

Luca is a rent boy huddled in a hotel hallway, hiding from the client who’s just assaulted him. He’s alone and helpless and in pain, until the hotel’s night porter finds him, tends to his wounds, gives him the kind of gentle care he’s not felt in so long.

A vulnerable request…

When Luca returns days later, he needs Alex’s help in a different way: help to feel safe again, to feel the touch of a man who doesn’t want to hurt him.

Can Alex help this beautiful, broken man feel whole again?

HIS TOUCH is the first in a series all about men who catch feelings quickly and waste no time acting on them. These stories are romantic, emotional, steamy, and best of all: quick to read. They can be read in any order. In HIS TOUCH, the central trope is hurt/comfort.

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Die With Your Boots On, by Rain Carrington

The ranch needs to be worked, no matter the threat to them by the militia. Our reluctant heroes and partners, Tony Parnell, Bob Jensen, and Benji Blood, work hard to maintain their relationship while tending the horses and cattle. But when the main house burns, and Benji is kidnapped, all work stops.

Benji wakes scared and shocked by the identity of the ranch hand that was spying for the militia. Still, Tom Grady is a sweet young man, and he doesn’t want anyone hurt. Finding out that Benji won’t live through the ordeal motivates Tom to help Benji.

When Benji is finally safe, his guilt and fear drive him to keep going after the men that have hurt those he loves most. His new family.

He dons a disguise and goes undercover to weed out any other traitors to the ranch, and once he does, he knows he must risk his own life to save the men he loves.

Pops always said a cowboy would rather die with his boots on than in a soft bed when his hair was gray and his teeth were gone. Well, Benji is about to become a real cowboy—the hard way—but he has no intention of dying.

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Caught, by Jackie Keswick

Save two worlds, or save each other?

Rakurai hunts demons. He doesn’t consort with gods. Until he meets Tenzen.

Tenzen cares for souls. He despises the callous, self-absorbed Yuvine. Until he meets Rakurai.

A rescue and a sacrifice make a death god and a hunter fall in love, but a life of bliss is a long way off. Someone is disturbing the balance of magic and threatening two worlds. And while desire draws Rakurai and Tenzen together, duty, assassins, and clan politics keep them apart.

When they’re forced to make a choice, who will Tenzen and Rakurai save? Two worlds or each other?

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Caught starts a new mm paranormal romance series, A Balance of Magic, featuring mortals and immortals from both sides of the veil, old promises, new revelations, and a bloody fight between love and duty. It is the first book of a trilogy and ends with a HFN. The characters will get their HEA in the final book.

Tags: Tenzen doesn’t watch where he’s going, how do you rescue a death god, Rakurai is honourable and Tenzen has no social skills, spending all your life alone does that to a god, yes – sharing a hot tub is a great idea; who is so stupid to send human assassins after a Yuvine hunter, Tenzen loses the plot – and his immortality, Rakurai is a mother hen, especially when Tenzen looks like that, Tenzen refuses to fall off that bridge, Rakurai can’t decide which world he’d rather live in, that’s what having a son does to you, that happy ending is a long time coming.

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Never Have I Ever: Had a Bromance with a Teammate, by Willow Dixon

How could one kiss change everything between me and my best friend?

Jax has been my best friend since the day we met. We not only share our passion for baseball, but we train together, play on the same team, hang out together, even sleep in the same bed half the time.

I feel safe with him, and he gets me like no one else. Yeah, he’s gay and I’m straight, but that doesn’t matter.

Until it does.
Until one stupid dare to kiss each other leads to the most amazing, epic kiss of my life.
Until I suddenly can’t stop thinking about him, about what he awakens in me.
Until all I want is him.

Our bromance evolves into something much deeper, something neither of us can define. I explore new territory with him and discover sides of myself I never knew I had.

But with not only our future in baseball on the line but also our friendship, how can this thing between us ever be more than temporary? A bromance between besties doesn’t have to change anything, right?

Matt and Jax’s story is a best friends-to-lovers romance between teammates who discover that a bromance with their bestie is exactly what they’ve always wanted but never thought they could have. Expect lots of BFF banter, some serious steam, and tons of sweetness as these two oblivious jocks navigate the line between boyfriends and bros. It is the third novel in the exciting Never Have I Ever series but can be read as a standalone.

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The Purpose of Sanctuary, by C.J. Dragon

Forced to leave Earth earlier than planned, Jon returns to a Daran that is on the verge of civil war.

The threats to Jon escalate after news concerning his hybrid DNA is publicly released, bringing the conflict to the breaking point, his life held in the balance.

Knowing he will be on ‘house arrest’ again doesn’t soften its impact on Jon, and he chafes under his inability to help his life mate in any way.

The situation isn’t helped by Talin’s militant acceptance of his Warrior mentality, and his threats to Jon, even given for his safety, feel like betrayal.

Jon wants to return to Earth for his sister Emma’s wedding. He wants Talin to be the Daranii he’s bonded to, not the Warrior who commands him.

Will their relationship survive what Talin must do to protect him?

Can Jon accept the sacrifices made on his behalf without sacrificing himself?