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Review - He's The One by Barbara Elsborg
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Stonemason Col sees a block fall off the scaffolding and fall towards an unsuspecting employee of Asquith Hall. He dives for the young man and manages to get him out of the way. The guy isn’t Col’s type, but he still feels a spark of attraction to the man, Theo. What Col doesn’t know is that Theo is actually the heir to the estate. The two men are from vastly different worlds, and each has their own heavy baggage.
Tags: Contemporary UK Setting
Review - The Precipice of Understanding by C.J. Dragon
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An old enemy of the Daranii is once again probing the borders of their space. Talin and Jon are sent with a fleet of ships to take on the invaders. The expedition and its aftermath forces the Daranii to face some very uncomfortable ideas. It falls on Jon to help his life mate and the rest of Daran understand how to deal with failure and learn from their loss.
Tags: Science Fiction
Review - The Dragon's Prisoner by Holly Day
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Kaspar is a thief. He’s very good at picking locks and stealing valuables from people’s homes. It’s not a life he would have chosen, but as an orphaned child on the streets, the other options were far worse. He ends up working for a crime boss who runs drugs and brothels. Things Kasper doesn’t want to be associated with. To get out, the boss orders him to do one last job: steal something valuable from a jewelry shop called The Dragon’s Treasure in Edge city.
Review - Code Name: Liberty by Marshall Thornton
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In the summer of 1980, Carter is running for re-election against Ronald Reagan. Iran is holding Americans hostage in Tehran. Twenty-year-old Patrick is waiting tables in a French restaurant at the top of one of Washington, DC’s posh hotels. On a night out at a club, Patrick meets “David,” who claims to be a Persian prince. David really is a prince, and the two have great chemistry, but David makes it clear that he’ll one day have to do his duty, marry a woman and produce heirs.
Review - The Ugly Duckling by Sean Michael
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Brook agrees to a blind date that his old friend set up. His date turns out to be Ducky, one of a group of boys that bullied Brook in high school. They’ve both grown up since then. Brook is no longer the geeky kid, but a ballet dancer. Ducky is apologetic over his bad behavior and the two hit it off in a big way. “The Ugly Duckling” is a very short romance tale about two men finding a connection.
Tags: Fantasy Fairy Tales Novella
Review - The Girl in the Wind by Gregory Ashe
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Theo and Auggie are back home after being dragged into a murder investigation in the Ozarks. They’re hoping things can get back to normal, but then a girl goes missing on the first day of school, where Theo is a teacher. Auggie was helping the student with her college application project, so both men are concerned about her disappearance. As the pair look into what happened, several clues point back to the Cottonmouth Club, the place at the center of an investigation into drugs and wildlife smuggling.
Tags: Mystery
Review - A Light in the Darkness by Crystal D. Budy
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When Max receives word that his father has had a heart attack, he doesn’t really want to return to the small town he ran away from many years ago, but knows he must. It doesn’t take long before Max runs into Carter, the one boy from his high school class that wasn’t impressed by the power and wealth of Max’s family. Carter now owns the small town’s first and only gay bar.
Tags: Mystery
Review - The Proposal for Unity by C.J. Dragon
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Jon and Talin have only just returned to Daran when news of a devastating pandemic sweeping Earth reaches them. Fearing for their parent’s safety, the couple organizes a Daranii mission to assist the humans. As expected, the Daranii help is not universally welcomed by everyone on Earth, even when a vaccine is quickly developed. The cure itself introduces even more complications into Human-Daranii relations. This is the first book of a trilogy that forms a sequel to the Daranii Justice series.
Tags: Science Fiction
Review - Fated Love by Sean Michael
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Sunny has raised his daughter, Julie, on his own since her mother died in a car crash. Julie is everything to Sunny, so he doesn’t have much of a life outside of work and taking care of her. Now 15, Julie is old enough to want to earn some money of her own babysitting. She gets a referral from a friend for another single dad who needs someone to look after his young daughter a few days a week.
Tags: Novelette Contemporary
Review - Object of Desire by Dal Maclean
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Tom is nearing the top of the modelling profession. A true supermodel. He’s also being pursued romantically by the head of the agency, Nick, who has left his wife to be with Tom. When Nick’s wife is brutally murdered, suspicion naturally falls on Tom. Nick hires a top-class lawyer who recommends they also hire a private investigator to look into suspects the police are likely to ignore. Things get more complicated when the investigator turns out to be Tom’s ex-boyfriend, Will.
Tags: Crime Mystery UK Setting
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