Posts labeled Novella
Review - Holly and Oak by R. Cooper
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Chester has known Will since they both were in their early teens. The two have grown into the small town’s most powerful witches and now personify the two seasonal deities. Chester is the Holly King, ruling the winter months from June to December, while Will is the Oak King. Yet, the two have been kept apart by the coven and their families, because, in Chester’s mind, he is gay and weird.
Review - Animated by Kim Fielding
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Frank was a paratrooper in World War II, but he was injured in a drop shortly after the D-Day landings. The injury left him with a bad foot and the need to use a cane to get around. Although he had dreams of being an artist, Frank found work as an animator for a Hollywood film company, and he’s very good at it. He’s now the lead animator for the frog character of a cartoon version of The Frog Prince.
Review - Finding the Way Home by Sean Michael
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Jim lost an arm in an IED attack, so after a long stay in the hospital to recover, he’s leaving the army. At least it will give him more time to spend with his long-term boyfriend, Andy. Unfortunately, Jim arrives home to find that Andy has dumped him and moved on. With nowhere else to go, Jim calls up his dependable old army buddy “Horse” to see if he can stay with him until he figures things out.
Tags: Contemporary Novella
Review - A Little Familiar by R. Cooper
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Piotr is a powerful witch. Perhaps the most powerful one in the region, but he stays apart from his coven. He prepares food for all the major events like Samhain but doesn’t attend them. Instead, he stays home alone with no company aside from his dead grandmother’s crow familiar and the ghost of his great-grandmother. Bartleby is a very rare human familiar. He doesn’t have much power on his own, but the witch he bonds to will become much more powerful.
Review - Love in an Elevator by Sean Michael
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Scott is a freelance photographer. Josh is an executive at a company Scott has just finished a shoot for. The two men are attracted to each other, so meet for drinks after the work day ends. The attraction grows and it seems inevitable the two will end up in bed together. Josh and Scott are very well matched. Josh is a gently dominating top who enjoys pleasuring Scott, who barely puts up any resistance to Josh’s control.
Tags: Novella D/s Slightly Kinky
Review - A Suitable Brat by R. Cooper
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Westin is an outguard but is getting too old for the life on the road, sometimes sleeping rough, especially in the cold. He has resolved to retire and return to his family’s estate. There’s just one problem: another outguard called Sun. Unlike most outguards like Westin, Sun’s brief is wide-ranging, so their paths often crossed. The much younger man has a sharp tongue and a way of getting Westin, or almost anyone, to do exactly what he wants, which includes sharing a bed.
Review - Uncle 2 by Jay L. North
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Ben is now living with his uncle Devon, with whom he’s having a sexual relationship. It’s a two-bedroom apartment, so nobody suspects the true nature of their relationship. Devon dominates his nephew, giving him pleasure in ways that Ben never thought possible. He just can’t seem to get enough of his uncle, and the feelings are entirely mutual. The desire to pull Ben out of his shell as well as explore the young man’s kinky fantasies push Devon to engineer some public encounters with his nephew.
Review - The Stableboy by Gale Stanley
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Perry had a good thing going with his sugar daddy boyfriend who produced reality television shows. What he didn’t know until they were arrested was that the guy was also a major drug supplier. Perry is sent to jail, and thanks to his smart mouth, ends up in solitary. Eventually, he is given a choice: join a special ‘rehabilitation’ program run by the police, or go back into the general population, where Perry will be used and brutalized by the other inmates.
Review - Your Mate by M.A. Innes
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Evan is an exhibitionist, and at 21, he is at his sexual peak, so he’s following his dream and trying to break into the porn business. He applied to a studio where the current major star is one of the tentacled aliens that arrived on Earth recently. Evan has seen what those multiple appendages can do, and where they can go, and wants to experience that himself. When Evan arrives for his interview and meets the alien Aristotle, the sparks definitely fly.
Review - Choir Boy by Jay L. North
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At the age of 20, Isa is a little old for the choir, but he does like singing. He likes Father Malcolm even more. Isa is desperate for the big priest to initiate him into the pleasures of the flesh. He’s seen what many of the other pastors and elders get up to with the male members of the seraglio, and Isa wants to experience those things for himself. Isa comes up with a crazy plan that he thinks will show the Father he is ready.
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