Posts labeled Contemporary
Review - Afflicted II
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This sequel to the first Afflicted book picks up right where the previous story left off. Dillon has just found out that Hunter’s mother is seeing his cousin, which dredges up all the pain and anger of being thrown out by his family. It’s a lot for him to deal with, and adding to the issue is the concern that his past will come between what he has with Hunter.
Tags: Contemporary
Review - Just Call Me Kris
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It’s a bittersweet Christmas Eve for Mike and Karl. The two lovers and newly graduated physicians have landed plum internships at New York’s Bellevue Hospital, but that means spending the holiday away from their many friends back in New Orleans and missing the annual get-together on Christmas Eve. The two are about to console each other with a night of sex when there’s a knock at the door, which turns out to be a man dressed as Santa Claus.
Tags: Erotica Contemporary Menage
Review - Inertia (Impulse)
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This review originally appeared at BDSM Book Reviews. Professional handyman Derrick has been on his own for ten years. Caring for his dying grandparents in his late teens, on top of losing his parents at a younger age, has left him emotionally drained. He feels incapable of going through any more pain, so he avoids any emotional entanglements. He thinks his life is okay, at least until he meets Gavin.
Tags: Contemporary
Review - Falling Into Place
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This review originally appeared at BDSM Book Reviews. Scott is a 30-something stay at home dad with two children and a wife who also plays his domme. Scott has a deep-seated desire to submit and experience pain, a need that masks a dark secret from his past and helps stave off the depression that digs away at him. Only, lately it hasn’t been working, and after a near disaster with his daughter, Scott’s wife Heather asks for a divorce, to which he agrees.
Tags: Contemporary D/s
Review - Staged Whispers
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Dylan, Cole and Brandon are three good friends, business partners, and lovers. They met in college and afterwards formed a successful business in Florida. But a ghost from Dylan’s past threatens to destroy him and his relationship with the two men he loves. Cole and Brandon can tell something is wrong, but Dylan shuts out all their attempts to help him. “Staged Whispers” can probably best be described as a paranormal mystery, with a fair bit of sex thrown in.
Tags: Contemporary Menage
Review - Body For Rent
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Tim isn’t very happy with his life. He has a degree in counseling, but he makes better money working a dead-end job in a furniture factory. He also feels stifled in his relationship with his current girlfriend. Tim has known since he was a young boy that he was attracted to other men, but he has repressed those feelings and tried to conform to other people’s expectations of him. One night, Tim talks himself into visiting a gay bar, where he meets Troy, the owner of a male escort agency.
Tags: Contemporary
Review - Reclamation
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This continuation of the story of a developing love between teacher Michael Cassidy and his student Dominic Butler, started in Acclamation, picks up right where the first book left off, with Dominic and Michael in a London hotel room just moments after learning of the death of Dominic’s father. Needless to say, all thoughts the two had of consummating their love are quickly forgotten as Michael rushes Dominic back into the arms of his family.
Tags: Contemporary
Review - Lorenzo il Magnifico
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Luke is a young Englishman with a boring life he hates working in a Leeds call center. At the start of “Lorenzo il Magnifico” he is escaping this life for a week in one of his favorite cities, Florence, where he plans to get it on with lots of hot Italian guys as well as make a start on his masters degree, which he hopes will help him to get a job in a gallery or museum.
Tags: Romance Contemporary
Review - It's a long story: A Novel About Beautiful Boys Doing Terrible Things to Each Other
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James is a stereotypical gay party boy. He dropped out of college and works as a waiter to earn just enough to pay his share of the rent, buy the right clothes, and pay for drinks on his weekly nights out. He appears to drink too much when he’s out, and his love life seems to consist mostly of guys he picks up at the club or hookups found on the web.
Tags: Contemporary
Review - Acclamation
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Still stinging from the loss of his lover four years ago, Michael Cassidy takes a job as an English teacher at a Catholic school in a small English town. Although only 28 years old, he’s more or less given up on life and is hiding away from it, thinking that his one great love is already behind him. However, life isn’t quite through with Mr Cassidy. One day he discovers that he lives next door to one of his students, Dominic Butler.
Tags: Contemporary