When Nathan Shern, Duke of Byworth’s, empty sham of a marriage is threatened by a fellow duke he is naturally aggrieved. He cannot allow the potentially damaging contents of his wife’s diary to reveal the depths of their estrangement because exposure of his secret dalliances with other men would taint his innocent children’s lives. Not [...]
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Orphaned as a boy and brought up by the crusty, disapproving Edward Collins, Dr. David Jameson may not know much about love, but he makes up for it with an encyclopedic knowledge of Egyptian history and language. Too bad his job as linguist for a team excavating in the Valley of the Kings puts him [...]
Filed under: 1920's, 3½ Stars, ebook, Fiction, J.M. Gryffyn, novella, Reviews | 1 Comment »
Ragnar, a hardened Scottish soldier, is indifferent to English rule of his homeland until he falls in love with Gylis McIvoy, a fellow Scotsman. They have a brief and passionate affair, but circumstances tear them apart permanently. Ragnar swears vengeance, and soon becomes a freedom fighter modeled on the recently captured and executed William Wallace. Ragnar manages to [...]
Filed under: 1 star, 13th Century, ebook, Fiction, Jay E Hughes, Reviews | 3 Comments »
Trusting a psychic flash might solve a mystery…and lead to love. Inspector Robert Court should have felt a sense of justice when a rag-and-bones man went to the gallows for murdering his cousin. Yet something has never felt right about the investigation. Robert’s relentless quest for the truth has annoyed his superintendent, landing him lowly [...]
Filed under: 4½ Stars, BDSM, Bonnie Dee, detective, ebook, England, Fiction, Murder Mystery, Reviews, Summer Devon, Victorian | Tagged: 4½ Stars, BDSM, Bonnie Dee, detective, ebook, England, Fiction, Murder Mystery, Reviews, Summer Devon, Victorian | Leave a Comment »
The best jobs in 1911 Belfast are in the shipyards, but Donal Gallagher’s pay packet at Harland and Wolff doesn’t stretch far enough. He needs to find someone to share his rented room; fellow ship-builder Jimmy Healy’s bright smile and need for lodgings inspire Donal to offer. But how will he sleep, lying scant feet [...]
Filed under: 1910's, ebook, Fiction, five stars, Ireland, novella, P.D. Singer, Reviews | Tagged: 1910's, ebook, Fiction, five stars, Ireland, novella, P.D. Singer, Reviews | 3 Comments »
Traumatised by the nightmare of trench warfare in France, Robert Blake turns to rent boy Jack Anderson for solace. Neither man expects their business relationship to go quite so far. It is 1919, less than a year after the end of the First World War with a recovering Britain in the grip of the influenza pandemic. Crippled [...]
Filed under: 3½ Stars, ebook, England, novella, Reviews, Scarlet Blackwell, World War I | Tagged: 3½ Stars, ebook, England, novella, Reviews, Scarlet Blackwell, World War I | 6 Comments »
1748 Lieutenant Conrad Herriot and Seaman Tom Cotton have been master and servant for over a decade, and friends for almost as long. When Tom is injured during a skirmish, Conrad forgets himself and rushes to Tom’s side, arousing suspicion about the true nature of their relationship. All Tom wants is the chance to consummate [...]
Filed under: Age of Sail, Alex Beecroft, ebook, England, five stars, novella, Reviews | 1 Comment »
Book one in the Pearl Harbor Series Gay prostitute Tinder McCartney thought he had it made in WWII Honolulu…until true love and an attack on Pearl Harbor turned his life upside down. Tinder McCartney is the only gay male prostitute working in Honolulu, Hawaii during World War II. Like the 200 female prostitutes who live [...]
Filed under: 1940's, 3½ Stars, A.J. Llewellyn, America, ebook, Fiction, World War II | Leave a Comment »
Gideon Makepeace grew up in Bill Tourney’s Traveling Wild West Show, so he knows Indians better than a lot of folks of his day. He and his half-breed lover, Jedediah Buffalo Bird, are traveling east to New Orleans where Gideon hopes they’ll find a home together, safe among the crowds of the big city. But [...]
Filed under: 4 stars, America, ebook, Fiction, Margaret Mills, novella, Reviews, Tedy Ward, Western | 1 Comment »
Grayson Drake has been sent by a covert spy agency from the South to break Marx Wellbourne out of Elmira Prison at all costs. Ordered to return Wellbourne to Richmond so the Confederate Army can pick his brain about the maps he’s memorized, Gray soon discovers Marx is courting death from malaria and pneumonia. To [...]
Filed under: 19th Century, 2 stars, America, American Civil War, ebook, Fiction, Keta Diablo, novella, Reviews, War | 5 Comments »
Five years ago Drew Hibbard dismissed Rogan Brockport from his life. Now, they meet again at the Governor’s Ball and Rogan will know the reason for the abrupt, unexplained cut. After Rogan saves Drew’s life during a pirate raid, he kidnaps him and the perfect opportunity to extract answers from Drew is finally at hand. [...]
Filed under: 18th Century, 2½ stars, ebook, Fiction, Keta Diablo, novella, pirates, Reviews | Leave a Comment »
Young Rob Winston is deemed too small of stature and unsoldierly to take his place in the military ranks of the American Revolution. All he is seen fit to do is to become the sexual comfort and treasure of Colonel Seth Hampton of the army of General Nicholas Herkiner in the Mohawk Valley campaign. With [...]
Filed under: 18th Century, 2 stars, America, America War of Independence, BDSM, Dirk Hessian, ebook, Fiction, novella, Reviews, War | 2 Comments »
When Matt films a documentary of gay men living in New Orleans over the last fifty years, his first subject is none other than Sebastian LaGrange, his very own landlord. The elderly gentleman has lived through good times and bad, has seen and done it all, and Matt thinks he’s perfect for the project. Although [...]
Filed under: 1940's, 1950's, 4½ Stars, America, ebook, Lynn Lorenz, novella | Leave a Comment »
Bob and Trip are best friends and business partners who are negotiating the sale of their company when Bob decides to come out of mourning for his dead wife, Melinda. Since Melinda was his cousin, Trip understands what Bob is going through, and while he figures Bob is as straight as they come, he has [...]
Filed under: 1960's, 3½ Stars, America, ebook, novella, Parhelion | 2 Comments »
Long Journey Into Darkness is the dark tale of love and romance between cousins that turns fatal. Very Gay, Set in England turn of the century, coming to New York to start again only to be followed by the past, finding love and ………..there is however a little stage drama, murder and more. Review by [...]
Filed under: 1910's, America, ebook, Fiction, Half of One Star, Reviews | 10 Comments »
Piero leaves his home in Taormina to go to work for a renowned naturalist in England. Unfortunately, he hadn’t reckoned on falling for the Professor’s handsome young nephew, but it seems they have only just begun to explore their mutual attraction when the Professor discovers their relationship. To avoid scandal, he sends Piero away on [...]
Filed under: Asia, ebook, Fiction, Michael Joseph, Reviews, three stars | Leave a Comment »
Mr. Leopold Thornton finally has the man he’s loved for a decade, yet he can’t believe his good fortune. A reformed rake and a conservative solicitor? Can it possibly last? To add to Leopold’s worries, Arthur’s spending more time at the office…with a handsome new secretary. Desperate not to lose Arthur, Leopold does the only [...]
Filed under: 19th Century, 3½ Stars, Ava March, ebook, England, Regency, series | 1 Comment »
North Carolina, 1876: Rumors abound about the dark, mysterious Dominic Beresford in Chapel Hill. Their curiosity piqued, their libidos functioning on overload, Craven and Anthony are intent on obtaining answers about the supposed licentious gatherings taking place every weekend. When the duo are caught spying on Beresford Hall, their punishment will be swift and severe, [...]
Filed under: 19th Century, America, BDSM, ebook, Fiction, Keta Diablo, novella, Reviews, three stars | 1 Comment »
Wealthy San Francisco playboy Brett Sheridan thinks he knows the score when he hires tough guy private eye Neil Patrick Rafferty to find a priceless stolen folio of Shakespeare’s The Tempest. Brett’s convinced his partner-in-crime sister is behind the theft — a theft that’s liable to bring more scandal to their eccentric family, and cost [...]
Filed under: 1930's, America, ebook, five stars, Josh Lanyon, novella | Leave a Comment »
Bohemia, 1866 They met in a port-side tavern, their lust-filled moments stolen from days of marching and madness. After eighteen months, Captain Rudolph von Ratzlaff and First Lieutenant Mathias Hofmann have decided to run away from everything they hold dear. Resigning their commissions is social suicide, but there’s no other choice. Someone will eventually see [...]
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Post World War Two finds Laguna Beach in its heyday as an artists’ colony. Tony runs his uncles’ Grocery store in the town where a man of his bent can hide among the eccentrics who call the place home, including his Aunt Cora, who’s in charge of this year’s Pageant, where denizens of Laguna Beach [...]
Filed under: 1940's, 4½ Stars, America, ebook, Fiction, novella, Parhelion, Reviews, World War II | 5 Comments »
Istanbul, 1622. Considered hotbeds of sedition, the city’s coffee houses are in constant danger of being shut down by imperial command. Haluk, who runs a cafe in an old caravanserai, is more concerned with brewing the perfect cup of coffee than inciting rebellion. While storms in coffee cups rage around him, Haluk tends his clientele [...]
Filed under: 17th Century, ebook, Fiction, five stars, Kate Cotoner, Middle East, Reviews | 2 Comments »
In 1958 meteorologist Dr. Rob Lanard is in Las Vegas to observe the effects of the first nuclear test explosions on the weather. His boss on this job is Dr. Phillip Argent. The two men share more than just their boredom on the job; they are both pitching for the same team, so to speak. [...]
Filed under: 1950's, 4½ Stars, America, ebook, Parhelion, Reviews | 1 Comment »
One chilly night just before Christmas in 1922, eighteen-year-old poacher Danny Costessey comes to regret his impulse to climb a tree to fetch some mistletoe for his mother when he falls, breaking his leg. He doesn’t expect his luck to change when he is found by the furious gamekeeper who’s long hated his family. However, [...]
Filed under: 1920's, 3½ Stars, ebook, England, Fiction, J L Merrow, novella, Reviews | Leave a Comment »
Gold was the unbeatable champion of the House of Simeon but after the gods foretell his death, his master refuses to put him into the arena again. Instead, he makes Gold his trainer, and uses his body for his own pleasure. Gold wants nothing more than to fight again. It is all he knows, and [...]
Filed under: Ancient Rome, D.J. Manly, ebook, Fiction, Reviews, three stars | Leave a Comment »
When Julian is forced to turn to crime after he loses his inheritance, he decides that he can do better than the incompetent highwayman who tries to waylay him one dark night. That’s how the High-Class Highwayman comes into his own, and he does very well for himself, at least until Griffen Michalis comes along. [...]
Filed under: 18th Century, ebook, Fiction, Julia Talbot, Reviews, three stars | Leave a Comment »
Driven from his family when his sexuality is exposed, Jonah discovers drama, passion, and intrigue in a traveling carnival–and in the enigmatic owner, Rafe Grimstone. The preacher’s son and the lord who’s rejected his former life in England feel the heat of attraction from the moment they meet. Open-hearted Jonah is willing to risk hellfire [...]
Filed under: 1900's, 4½ Stars, America, Bonnie Dee, ebook, Fiction, Reviews, Summer Devon | 2 Comments »
The First World War cast a long shadow, and in the winter of 1920, it’s still at its darkest. When solicitor’s clerk George Johnson moves into new digs, he’s instantly attracted to friendly fellow lodger Matthew Connaught, who lost an arm in the Great War. As the two become inseparable, George begins to wonder whether [...]
Filed under: 1920's, 4 stars, ebook, Fiction, JL Merrow, novella, Reviews, World War I | 4 Comments »
A Civil War veteran and recovered opium addict, Adam Finlay, knows the cost of taking pleasure too far. In life, as in poker, he plays things close to the vest. The only way he knows to survive is to let no one in. Jackson Talbot loves a challenge. And no one is a greater challenge [...]
Filed under: 19th Century, 3½ Stars, America, American Civil War, ebook, Fiction, India Harper, novella, Reviews | 1 Comment »
I had always believed that I would return home to empty rooms for the rest of my life, for who would I want, and be wanted by in return? It had been an impossible alchemy until Alexander Montrose, and the summer of 1923. 1923 was the summer I fell in love with Alexander Montrose. I [...]
Filed under: 1920's, 4 stars, ebook, Europe, Fiction, Reviews, Sophia Deri-Bowen | 2 Comments »
October 15, 1898 Dear diary, that’s how you’re supposed to begin these things, or so I assume. I never in a million years thought I’d write in one, let alone under these circumstances. This was Jonathan’s doing. When he asked me to make this entry, it was something I had to do, for him. He’s [...]
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Lord Oliver Marsden’s life is perfect…well, almost perfect. His bookshop is doing well, his bank account isn’t empty, and his nights are filled with a deliciously dominant man…who tends to be a bit too domineering outside of the bedchamber. But Vincent loves him and that’s all that should matter. Right? And of course, Vincent still [...]
Filed under: Ava March, BDSM, ebook, Fiction, five stars, Regency, Reviews | 1 Comment »
Doctor Jude Evans has built a safe but barren life for himself in a small western town where he pours all his passion into caring for his patients while hiding his secret yearning to love another man. Gabriel Fontenot is a drifter who is handy with a gun, prospecting for gold and trying to forget [...]
Filed under: 19th Century, 4 stars, ebook, Fiction, Jan Irving, Reviews, Western | Leave a Comment »
London, 1840. At the height of Victorian hypocrisy, two men meet and fall in love. Their romance is forbidden, punishable even by death, but their passion blossoms thanks to a paper Valentine. Saint Valentine’s Day has become a new and very popular day for lovers. Thousands of Londonites are clamouring for the ideal romantic gift. [...]
Filed under: 19th Century, 1½ stars, A.J. Llewellyn, ebook, England, Fiction, novella, Reviews, Victorian | 55 Comments »
Sherlock Holmes is called in on one of his most personal cases ever when his young nephew, Bramwell, disappears. Has he been kidnapped by his own father and forced to marry against his nature or is something more sinister afoot? In his search for answers Holmes and Watson will cross swords with the angelically beautiful [...]
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A young man coming to grips with his homosexuality during the latter half of the 19th century, through four years of The Civil War, the Indian Wars with General Custer’s 7th Cavalry, into the rough and tumble town of Cheyenne and up into the Black Hills of the Dakota Territory. *Available in Kindle format, 382KB [...]
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Mr. Nathaniel Travers has been visiting Madame Delacroix’s brothel for five years. On every visit, he requests the same man. Stunningly handsome and highly skilled, Jasper not only shares Nate’s fondness for wickedly erotic games and black leather corsets, but he’s become a friend. Someone he can talk to. Someone he can share a supper [...]
Filed under: 19th Century, 4½ Stars, Ava March, BDSM, ebook, Fiction, Regency, Reviews | 2 Comments »
Home Station on the Prairie The Nebraska territory is a lonely place for young Jamie, who longs to be a Pony Express rider, but only manages to take care of their horses. Still, he has the ponies, and his father, and before he knows it he has Thad, a boyhood friend from back in Iowa. [...]
Filed under: 19th Century, 4 stars, 4½ Stars, America, ebook, Fiction, Kara Larson, novella, Western | Leave a Comment »
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