Amy Lane is a master at bringing together two unlikely people and making it completely believable that these disparate characters not only will fall in love but also will stay together longer than the sexual attraction lasts. Paired with Alexksandr Voinov, Lane continues this tradition in this extension of Country Mouse. Once American Owen Watson…
The Tucker Springs, Colorado, series, of which this is the latest title, has been surprise after surprise as far as plots are concerned. This one is no exception, connecting an atheist tattoo artist and a Christian youth minister. Seth Wheeler is immediately smitten with the man who moves into the apartment across from him above…
We’ve all seen the movies and read the books where Mr. Right sweeps the bride off right before she says “I do.” But what happens to the hapless groom, aka the “other” guy? Attwell uses this classic image of the forgotten groom as the springboard for an unusual and entertaining romance. Good, solid, well-meaning Emory…
Jersey starts out awkwardly, and doesn’t get much better from there. It’s not necessarily terrible, just unpolished, and leaves much to be desired in the romance department. Jersey (Gervasio) Parma is a photojournalist who has never had a real attachment to another person. He has friends, of course, but his closest friend is now in…
I loved Peterson’s Whispering Pines Ranch M/M romance series, but was a little leery about reading this non-series book. The main Whispering Pines characters are older men who are dealing with gay lifestyles and their homophobic neighbors while trying to find true love. Plan B, on the other hand, centers on the college crowd. Would…
Cullinan delves into professional disappointment from two totally divergent viewpoints, one from a semi-professional football player and the other an internationally acclaimed ballet dancer. On the surface a man clad like a gladiator in football pads and gear and a man clad in tights and ballet slippers should be so far apart as to be…
One of the things psychologists tell widows and widowers is that people who were in happy marriages are prone to have happy second marriages. Quinn O’Malley, the protagonist of this book, really has his doubts when his partner of ten years dies of cancer. Quinn has been putting one foot in front of the other…
When I find a book I truly enjoy, I often end up hunting down my husband and reading passages to him. Some books are so good that a reader must really just share to enjoy them fully. Almost Like Being in Love, with its laugh-out-loud joie de vivre me looking for my husband multiple times…
How dangerous is it to love two competitive brothers? Riley Evans finds out in Quinn’s debut novel, a heady romp set in contemporary Kansas. When Riley meets brothers Eric and Jason, he falls head over heels for Eric, only to have the guy dump him. Fortunately, Jason was around to help Riley get himself together,…
Committing to someone romantically and living with that person are two very different things as Anthony explains in this third Blue Notes romance. As Aria begins, Philadelphia attorney Sam Ryan is heartbroken and can’t quite bring himself to dispose of his late partner’s ashes. Sam’s family and friends urge him to cut the ties and…