Tag: mystery
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REVIEW: The Question of Us by Jay Hogan
The nightmare is over. Or so I keep telling myself. Bruised and battered, we’d narrowly escaped with our lives. I should be grateful. Grateful that my captors are in custody. Grateful that the chilling, roller-coaster of events, actually brought Nick and I closer. Grateful that we’ve finally taken a step toward something more than…
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REVIEW: The Haunting of William Thorn by Ben Alderson
The Notebook meets The Haunting of Hill House in this split timeline queer twisted love story, set against the backdrop of a haunted English manor. William Thorn had his life all planned out… until he discovered his long-term boyfriend Archie in bed with another man. Distraught, William kicks him out of their home, where tragedy…
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REVIEW: The Meaning of You by Jay Hogan
We’d shared a forever love. The kind they write stories about. A once in a lifetime chance at something special. For fourteen years Davis was my world. We were growing old together, fifties and counting. Then it was all ripped away in the blink of an eye. We’d told each other everything, or so I…
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REVIEW: Strange and Stubborn Endurance by Foz Meadows
“Stolen me? As soon to say a caged bird can be stolen by the sky.” Velasin vin Aaro never planned to marry at all, let alone a girl from neighboring Tithena. When an ugly confrontation reveals his preference for men, Vel fears he’s ruined the diplomatic union before it can even begin. But while…
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REVIEW: The Knock-Knock Man by Russell Marvel
Who is The Knock-Knock Man? A ghost, a killer, or the figment of a frightened boy’s imagination? It is a question that continues to haunt disgraced New Salstone police officer, Ali Davenport, fifteen months after the devastating case that changed the course of her life. Now, after the death of her former colleague, Ernie, Ali…
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REVIEW: All the Wrong Reasons by Sebastian Hansen
The day after telekinetic supervillain (and billionaire philanthropist), Stetson Nadenheimer dies, he wakes up on the autopsy table and falls in lust with the man hired to cut his cold, dead corpse open. The problem is that the forensic pathologist is Doctor Julian Dandridge, the part-time superhero, Scatter. It’s probably a bad idea for a…
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REVIEW: Come Unto These Yellow Sands by Josh Lanyon
Sometimes the adventure chooses you. Lover of fine poetry and lousy choose-your-own-adventure novels, Professor Sebastian Swift was once the bad-boy darling of the literati. The only lines he does these days are Browning, Frost, and Cummings. Even his relationship with the hot, handsome Wolfe Neck Police chief, Max Prescott, is healthy. When one of his…
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Release Blitz, Excerpt and Review: Sun, Sea & Small-Town Secrets by S.J. Coles
RELEASE BLITZ Book Title: Sun, Sea & Small-Town Secrets Author: S. J. Coles Publisher: Pride Publishing Release Date: July 6, 2021 Genre: Contemporary M/M Mystery/Holiday Romance Tropes: Forbidden Love / Small Town / Holiday Themes: Healing / Hurt/Comfort / Travel / Self-discovery Heat Rating: 4 flames Length: 48 634 words/ 193 pages It is a…
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REVIEW: Bath Haus by P.J. Vernon
Oliver Park, a young recovering addict from Indiana, finally has everything he ever wanted: sobriety and a loving, wealthy partner in Nathan, a prominent DC trauma surgeon. Despite their difference in age and disparate backgrounds, they’ve made a perfect life together. With everything to lose, Oliver shouldn’t be visiting Haus, a gay bathhouse. But through…
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REVIEW:Blood Red Roses: My Bloody Valentine by S.J. Coles
Official description: Rick feels like he’s finally getting his life on track…until a dead body in his flat threatens to derail more than his new career. Things are finally looking up for Rick Bennett. He’s landed a job with Swanson and Gerrard, one of the top finance firms in London and, with it, a chance…
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REVIEW: Start To Finish by Pamela A. Williams
The Official Description: Ian Start is an art professor and poet, living and teaching in Providence, Rhode Island. After suffering an infection in his leg that left him disfigured and traumatized, he’s been struggling to regain his emotional balance and find his voice again in his poetry. It doesn’t help when one of his students…
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REVIEW: Surrender Your Sons by Adam Sass
The Official Description: Connor Major’s summer break is turning into a nightmare. His SAT scores bombed, the old man he delivers meals to died, and when he came out to his religious zealot mother, she had him kidnapped and shipped off to a secluded island. His final destination: Nightlight Ministries, a conversion therapy camp that…
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