When I was growing up my dad was an avid Green Bay Packers football fan as well as a University of Nebraska Cornhusker football fan. (Go Big Red!) What this meant is on most Saturdays in the fall we’d go to a game, and on Sundays we’d watch one on television. All of…
I usually stay away from debut novels, but when the Amazon aggregate said because I’d read and enjoyed Sean Kennedy that I’d enjoy Boney’s book, I was in the right mood to say, “Show me!” And Boney did, in spades. When his parents are suddenly killed in an accident, attorney Ben Walsh comes home to…
Toronto tattoo artist Gabriel Navarro is smitten when American war veteran Jake MacLean comes into the shop inquiring about a special inking. Jake’s got a hand-drawn sketch, and Gabe, who has no tattoos on his body but is an artist working on his Master’s degree, realizes the picture’s potential. Jake wants his medevac Black Hawk…
What does it mean to be gay? If you’re an eighteen-year-old guy and your best friend turns you on, are you gay? If you’re straight and have a girlfriend but work for a gay-for-pay porn site having sex with other straight guys, are you gay? Lane tackles these and other weighty questions in the companion…
There are mid-life crises, and then there are mid-life slumps. James Richards, a gay English professor at a small junior college outside Sacramento, California, has slumped so low at age forty-three that he’s nearly belly dancing with the pavement. That is until he meets gay Latino, politically incorrect, good guy Rafael Ochoa, whom James thinks…
Narrated in the first person, St. Nacho’s is a story of contrasts. Cooper, the narrator, is struggling with his past, and yet for all the angst, the story is full of hope. Also, although Cooper is a skilled violinist, he falls in love with a deaf college student. Yet it’s Cooper’s past that truly gets…
Tangled Web is a historical romance set in London during 1816. The hero, Brendan Townsend, has always known he was attracted only to other men, despite the dangers of such a relationship. He finds himself in a case of hero worship with Philip Carlisle, an older widower whom he asks for help. The relationship progresses…
In Altered Heart, an m/m werewolf romance, the heroes come from two different worlds. Mick Matranga has been a werewolf for all his life and is part of the Committee for Supernatural Behavioral Enforcement. Rio Hardin is a runaway and hustler who was forcibly turned into a werewolf by Sutter, an alpha with a cruel…
I just love it when I find a new author to glom, and that’s exactly what’s happened with Captain’s Surrender by Alex Beecroft.Peter Kenyon has been promoted to the rank of captain, but his ship awaits him in Bermuda, so he must take a temporary position as a lieutenant on The Nimrod, which is sailing…
When was the last time you read a romance set in the earliest days of the Jazz Age? Whistling in the Dark not only features an unusual setting but two heroes who face ordinary struggles such as keeping a family business afloat. I also loved the insight into the earliest days of radio, before the…