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Kissing the Best Man
Elaine Ashford - 2016
Now he's getting married, and Seth wants to make amends with the brother he hasn't spoken to since then. Turning up unexpectedly on the doorstep of your estranged, gay brother isn't the greatest plan in the world, but Seth's determined not to let their years of separation make him miss his brother's wedding. He's not expecting to get swept up in wedding planning immediately, like they've never been apart. Kent's just trying to write a best man speech for his best friend's wedding. But he can't seem to stay on track when he's talking to his best friend's younger brother, no matter how hard he tries. When Seth finds himself falling, what can Kent do but catch him? As the wedding looms closer, so does the spectre of the home Seth's been trying to escape. Will he have to give up Kent to please his parents, or can he keep this man who's come to mean so much to him? ***Kissing the Best Man is a 34k word Gay Contemporary Romance with a HEA and no cliffhangers or infidelity.***
A Sip of Rio
Teodora Kostova - 2016
Not only is his dream holiday slipping through his fingers, but Liam is sick and tired of getting his heart broken. Blaine Reed has a solution that can save Liam’s plans. Recently divorced, Blaine needs a break, and a couple of stress-free weeks in Rio with a sexy guy like Liam sound like heaven. Liam and Blaine hit it off right from the start, becoming good friends even before they’ve left London. Despite their efforts to ignore the simmering attraction between them, it boils over when they end up sharing a room in one of the most romantic cities in the world. Being together in Rio is easy, and it’s exactly what Liam needs – no feelings, no drama, nobody getting hurt. Until someone does. When the holiday bubble bursts, it’s up to them to find a way to be together outside of Rio’s seductive magic. **47K words** **Stand alone** **MM Romance**
Weekend Boyfriend
Dillon Hunter - 2019
Newly single and with a class reunion just a couple of weeks away, all of his old high school friends are about to find out that his picture perfect life is actually falling apart. Except maybe nobody has to know. Maybe Trevor can still have his cake and eat it, too.
“Pretending to be gay to score a free trip home? Nothing to worry about, right?”
Wyatt Hayes never expected that his life would be this hard. The modeling contract he’d scored was supposed to have been his ticket to the good life. Waiting tables and sharing a walk-up studio the size of a shoe box was never supposed to be part of the deal, but even those things are easier to stomach than constantly having to make excuses to his family to hide the fact that he’s too broke to visit.
“One weekend, no strings attached.”
But sometimes even the best laid plans can get a little tangled when faking it starts to feel a little too real…
Weekend Boyfriend is a steamy standalone featuring a hopeless romantic whose life isn’t nearly as perfect as he would like everyone to believe, a waiter who isn’t quite as straight as he thinks, and a class reunion where anything might happen. No cliffhangers and a guaranteed happily-ever-after ending.
Blue’s Boss
Candice Blake - 2018
Period. If that’s not bad enough, I’m currently unemployed and sleeping on my brother’s couch. When I finally land a job interview at the city’s best marketing firm, I don’t realize that the rugged and handsome man who helped me earlier is actually the CEO of the company...Remember when I said I've lost faith in men? Well...one thing leads to another and I’m crushing hard on my boss. But I’m still struggling to let go of my past. Can I finally overcome what's holding me back and go for the man in the pinstriped suit who’s way out of my league? Hunter: I’ve built my company from the ground up and I’m not going to let a one-night stand ruin everything.My life revolves around my multi-million dollar empire. That’s until I hire Blue. I know I am straight. But Blue somehow steals away all my attention and makes me question everything I know about myself, especially my sexuality. I’ve always been a private man who’s strictly business. But keeping this secret relationship with Blue is not only killing me inside but my business as well. How much of my company am I willing to put on the line to explore this forbidden love affair?Warning: Blue's Boss contains explicit sexual content not suitable for anyone under the age of 18.The Everett Bros focuses on three brothers who go on their own journeys to find love. Each novel in The Everette Bros series can be read on its own or as part of the series.
Scars
Lynley Wayne - 2012
In doing so, he has no way of knowing that he will find his own salvation.Jace came home from the war scarred in more ways than one. The physical scars that he carries are nothing compared to the mental ones. Struggling with PTSD, he has closed himself off from the rest of the world. The last thing that he ever thought to do was fall in love... Nathaniel has lived on the streets since he was thirteen. When he wakes up in a strange apartment after being badly beaten, he has no idea how he got there. Little does he know that his rescuer, the large man with scars crisscrossing his face, could hold the key to healing the scars that they both have.
The Cowboy's Secret
Riley Knight - 2019
Since the illness of his father, Malcolm is trying to keep the ranch in business and hold onto the family property--as he promised his father he would. But his brothers want to sell, and they send Kyle, an up-and-coming lawyer to try to convince him to let the farm go. Their scheme doesn’t quite go as planned because Malcolm has a secret hidden away in his heart--one only Kyle has the key to unlock. This 60,000 word gay cowboy romance is for adults only--you won’t regret giving love a try.
Downpour
R.M. Grace - 2016
. . Ash Greene has nothing left to lose when he stands on the curb, ready to lose his dignity. The rain is relentless and has been for days—the story of his life. With nowhere to go and no one to turn to, he only has one option if he wants to earn enough money to survive. Yet, when a chance encounter with a stranger spares him from making the terrible decision, he believes things may be about to change. Cole Harris is getting by, living his life from day to day. He's not looking for love because people like him are incapable of love. All people like him do are push others away. He has too many demons haunting his past to let anybody step foot into his despair. Yet, when he stumbles upon a guy soaking in the rain, only fate can be at work. Letting Ash into his life, Cole soon discovers a devastating reason he should treat him as he does everyone else. The only trouble is, for the first time in his life, he has met a guy worth keeping. Desperate to hold onto him, he will face the tough decision to tell Ash the truth of who he is, or hope he can keep his past buried.
First Love
Esme Beal - 2018
ASHTON has everything a man could ask for. Rich. Successful. Talented. Not to mention good-looking. As the CEO of the biggest company in Snow Falls and with more money than he knows what to do with, Ashton lives his life above the rest of the city. NOAH is an Omega living an ordinary life in Snow Falls. He's content with a steady job and an opportunity to spend his free time helping out at the local shelter. Despite having everything, there's one thing missing in Ashton's life: an Omega at his side. He ignores the attempts of his friends and colleagues to set him up, instead deciding to go to another part of town to finally find someone to be with. That's where he runs into Noah, an Omega he went to school with but never actually met. They feel a mutual attraction toward one another and it's not long before the two of them are spending time together. But as their relationship gets deeper, Noah discovers that being with a man as famous as Ashton isn't so easy... What happens when Ashton is faced with an impossible choice? Can he be the Alpha everybody believes he is? Is Noah the Omega Ashton was truly destined to be with? Or will the challenges that continue to threaten their relationship be too much to overcome? FIRST LOVE is a STEAMY standalone contemporary non-shifter omegaverse romance. It features a loving Alpha and a caring Omega. There are no cliffhangers and no cheating. Happy ending? Check inside to see! Mature readers only!
Coming Clean
Silvia Violet - 2015
He intends to sell the house and take off on a new path to discover what he wants out of life. Then he meets Connor. The attraction he feels to a man so different from himself is no less shocking than his change in financial circumstances, but Connor is in the closet and Jeremy wants a life lived out in the sun.Connor is a former Force Recon Marine who runs a housecleaning business. When he’s hired to get Jeremy’s house market-ready, he’s startled by how attracted he is to his client despite their many differences. But his past, especially his final mission, weighs heavily on him. He’s not certain he can be the man Jeremy needs, but no man has ever made him want to take a risk like Jeremy does.
Out of the Ashes
Amanda Marie Raulerson - 2017
Lucas, a Dom without a sub. Two police officers with traumatic pasts. Alexi is hurting since his break up with Chase, but he has to put that aside when Chase brings a case from Club Darkfall to his precinct. The Chief is aware of his lifestyle so Alexi is automatically assigned the case. Of course he will need a partner to play his Dom, and Lucas is the only one who can pull it off. Lucas has been watching, he has seen Alexi’s pain and the way he and Chase have been hurting each other. He wants it to stop. This is his chance to make Alexi his Boy and he's going to take it. Alexi will be his. Now they must work together, go undercover, to take down a group that is hiding a murderer. The risk is high, it’s dangerous, but Lucas and Alexi can't fail the victims. Can they find love, in the midst, or will the fear and pain stop them from completely trusting each other?
Don't Judge a Book...
Scarlet Blackwell - 2012
He thinks it's all about books and even the occasional interruption 'real life' throws his way cannot change his beliefs. When car thief Darren arrives to do his community service, Rhys's world is turned upside down. Rhys thinks the man is uneducated, only to find him reading classics. He expects him to behave like the criminal he is, only Darren doesn't. While Rhys isn't exactly out and proud, Darren is in denial about his sexuality. They are wrong for each other on so many levels, yet rejection only makes the need greater...
Gentle Hands
Emily Buckley - 2020
He's proven wrong when high-powered lawyer Tom Pennwood books him for the evening only to ask Matthew to help him fake a relationship.It's a simple deal: Tom gets to appease his demanding parents by fooling them into thinking he has finally settled down. Matthew gets paid a life-changing amount of money. They both get to experience an unending amount of sexual frustration due to Tom's determination to keep their deal as strictly business, with no other benefits involved. Pretty straight forward, right?Being a cynical workaholic with no time for love, Tom should, logically, repel Matthew on all levels that aren't physical. Yet his infuriating aloofness only serves to intrigue Matthew even more, and he finds himself unable to shake the belief that, despite how much Tom denies it, there's warmth beneath all of those layers of ice.*** Gentle Hands is book 1 in the Growing Pains Series and can be read as a standalone. This is a lighthearted MM romance featuring enemies-to-lovers and a fake relationship, with no cheating and a guaranteed HEA.
Come To The Oaks: The Story of Ben and Tobias
Bryan T. Clark - 2014
Snatched abruptly from his homeland and enslaved into the Antebellum South, grand homes and majestic oak trees meant little to him. Now he is considered the property of other men, but his spirit would not be broken. The awkward Benjamin Nathanael Lee lives a privileged life. His father owns the largest tobacco plantation south of the Mason Dixon line. Ben wants little to do with the harsh realities of running a plantation—that is, until he meets Tobias, the one person that changes everything for him. Wealth, greed, and power brought them together. The same now threatens to separate them forever. The two men are on the verge of losing the one thing that matters: their love for one another. Against the odds, they steal off and embark on a journey to find freedom: the freedom to love one another and to live a life without the chains of slavery. Come to the Oaks is the tale of a forbidden romance—a love forged by two young men as they journey through a land that is tearing itself apart.
His Sassy Omega
Raiven Matthews - 2022
Truthfully, I barely believed in love. It wasn’t something I’d ever needed, and I didn’t have time for it. Besides, love just led to being hurt, and I could do without that.When a huge alpha barged his way to the front of the line in my bakery, it was anything but a meet cute. My sassy mouth promptly told him exactly where he could take his perfectly formed behind. Right back out the door he’d just come in, and don’t come back, thank you very much. Then our hands touched, and sparks of electricity shot between us, and my soul screamed Mate. I wasn’t looking for love or a mate, but he was looking at me and I couldn’t look anywhere else. He was big and sexy and growly, and smelled like every wishful dream I’d ever had, and forgotten. Making me want things I’d never wanted before. Making me want to run from him as fast as my legs could carry me. Secretly, hoping he would chase me.LachlanI was having a bad morning. Clashing with a smart-mouthed, sarcastic omega was the cherry on top of my already bad day. Getting tossed out of my favorite place for sweet treats was not how I’d planned to start my day. I’d always played by the rules and done what was expected of me. My whole life, I’d known what I’d wanted in my mate. Until he was standing in front of me, nothing like I’d expected him to be, sassing me and ordering me about. Now he was all I wanted. I just had to convince him of that.We were opposites in every way. Fate must have gotten Her wires crossed and messed up big time. Or did She? His Sassy Omega is the first book in a series, but can be read as a standalone, with no cliff hangers and a HEA. It contains opposites attract, age gap, shifters, knotting, and mpreg.**Trigger warning: There is a situation where terminating a pregnancy is discussed between the MC’s, but it is only a discussion. If this could trigger you in any way, please skip that chapter. This does contain a HEA.**Revised for additional editing. No new content was added.**
Beyond Cutting
Vicki Clifford - 2013
This is no ordinary hairdresser. Viv Fraser Ph.D and stylist to the Edinburgh establishment, has a double life as an investigative journalist and finds herself involved in some hair-raising, not to mention explosive scenes, as she trawls the seamier side of her city. In this fast-paced mystery Viv investigates the case of a missing teenage boy, but her efforts are hampered by people trying to save their own skin. Always top of his class, Andrew’s school blazer turns up on a river path without him. As she picks at the veneer of the Capital’s gay scene Viv discovers an unsavoury mix of lies, jealousy and sexual deceit. Determined to find Andrew, she ignores threats on her life and continues to dig in places that even Detective Marconi has yet to explore.