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Best for readers who like MM hockey romance with second chances, forbidden attraction, grumpy heroes, and unresolved feelings.
The Last Guy On Earth
LGBTQIA+ · Romance · Travis' Picks · Bisexual Romance · Contemporary Romance · Gay Romance · Sports Romance
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A surprise hockey trade reunites star goalie Jethro Hale with Coach Clay Powers, fifteen years after their secret love affair. Their attraction hasn't faded, but a player-coach romance could threaten the team's successful season and both men's careers. Best for readers who like MM hockey romance with second chances, forbidden attraction, grumpy heroes, and unresolved feelings.
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One cold December day, two men are blindsided by a hockey trade; one is the most decorated goalie in the league, while the other one is the youngest coach in the majors.
Jethro Hale is the last player Coach Clay Powers wants to see on his roster, but the G.M. pulls a fast one. And it's not like he can even explain why. Nobody knows about their love affair fifteen years ago.
Cue the all-star awkwardness, the painful memories and the reawakening of deep feelings on both sides.
Unfortunately, their attraction still burns brightly. But it can never be. A player and a coach? The scandal would overshadow the team’s banner year.
If only they could resist each other…
If you love grumpy heroes, high stakes hockey, struggling single parents and smoldering kisses, grab your copy of The Last Guy on Earth.
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Best for readers who like MM hockey romance with forbidden attraction, workplace complications, and single-dad characters.
The New Guy
LGBTQIA+ · Romance · Travis' Picks · Contemporary Romance · Gay Romance · Sports Romance
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Hockey player Hudson Newgate is running out of chances after a string of trades and a disappointing season. His attraction to Gavin, the team's new athletic trainer and a single dad, threatens to complicate his fresh start in Brooklyn. With their jobs, family responsibilities, and Hudson's father's disapproval standing in the way, keeping things professional won't be easy. Best for readers who like MM hockey romance with forbidden attraction, workplace complications, and single-dad characters.
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A new male / male hockey romance from 24-time USA Today bestseller Sarina Bowen!
My name is Hudson Newgate, but my teammates call me New Guy.
That was my nickname in Chicago, too. And Vancouver. That’s what happens when you keep getting traded. Brooklyn is my last chance, especially after my poor performance last season.
But I can make this work. The new guy knows to keep his head down and shoot the puck. The new guy puts the game first.
What he doesn’t do is hook up with the other new guy—a hot athletic trainer who lives in my building. Gavin needs this job with my team. He’s a single dad with responsibilities.
We can’t be a couple. My arrogant agent–who’s also my father–will lose his mind if I’m dating a dude. And my team needs me to score goals, not whip up a media circus.
Too bad Gavin and I are terrible at resisting each other…
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Best for readers who enjoy MM romance with opposites-attract chemistry, unconventional relationships, obsessive attraction, and morally questionable behavior.
Sem
LGBTQIA+ · Romance · Travis' Picks · Bisexual Romance · College Romance · Gay Romance
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Maggie has noticed the intimidating, reckless man who keeps appearing wherever he goes, but Sem is nothing like the men he usually finds attractive. When Sem breaks into Maggie's apartment and challenges him to an unexpected encounter, the two begin a secret game that gradually becomes something more complicated. Best for readers who enjoy MM romance with opposites-attract chemistry, unconventional relationships, obsessive attraction, and morally questionable behavior.
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Sometimes your dream guy isn’t who you think he is.
Sem has been stalking me for months. He shows up everywhere I am and lurks in the background, his eyes always on me. I don’t understand his fascination with me, but he won’t leave me alone.
He’s definitely not my type. He’s too big, too reckless, and too feral.
But then one night he breaks into my apartment and dares me to do something crazy and I can’t say no.
Then I do it again. And again.
Now it seems we’re both addicted to this secret little game.
But when I begin to see the man beneath the brutish exterior, will falling in love prove to be the most reckless bet yet?
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Ideal for readers looking for queer YA horror with body horror, isolation, obsession, and an unsettling supernatural connection.
Scorpion Deep
LGBTQIA+ · Romantasy · Teen + Young Adult · Travis' Picks · Gay Romance
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Jonathan Covey wants to escape the isolated isle of Kelcarrow, but a desperate ritual awakens Scorpion Deep, an eldritch sea god whose growing obsession with him turns increasingly dangerous. It has a 4.6-star average from more than 600 Goodreads ratings. Ideal for readers looking for queer YA horror with body horror, isolation, obsession, and an unsettling supernatural connection.
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CG Drews, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of Don't Let the Forest In and Hazelthorn, weaves a disturbing and intoxicating siren-call in Scorpion Deep, about a lonely boy who accidentally awakens an obsessive eldritch sea god.
The only thing Jonathan Covey wants from the gloomy, moldering isle of Kelcarrow is to leave it. Summer is ending, and his friends are looking forward to college on the mainland, unaware that Jonathan was not accepted to join them. He'll be left behind with nothing but the ocean's haunts and a rising dread of being abandoned.
In an act of wild desperation, Jonathan pays a tithe to Scorpion Deep, an eldritch sea god who many of the locals have dismissed as myth. He wants to forget the past, he wants to follow his friends, and most of all he wants to finally escape.
To his shock and horror, the ritual works—Scorpion Deep awakens. And despite his terror, Jonathan can't help but feel drawn toward the ageless entity that seems just as mutually obsessed with him. As scales start growing down his spine and Scorpion Deep's adoration of him turns bloody, Jonathan realizes the only way to end the nightmare is to destroy the monster one way or another.
But once a god has awoken, the only way to be free is to pay a price of blood.
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Best for readers who like steamy MM college romance, athlete-and-tutor pairings, bisexual awakening, humor, and cuddly intimacy.
Until Him
LGBTQIA+ · Romance · Travis' Picks · Bisexual Romance · College Romance · Gay Romance
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College athlete Logan Lewis needs academic help from mysterious tutor Theo Reign, but their unusual arrangement develops into a relationship that challenges Logan’s previous assumptions about attraction, with a 4.0-star average from more than 10,300 Goodreads ratings. Best for readers who like steamy MM college romance, athlete-and-tutor pairings, bisexual awakening, humor, and cuddly intimacy.
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"A heartfelt MM romance with great chemistry, plenty of humor, and a relationship that felt genuinely earned. I loved watching Logan slowly break through Theo’s defenses." - Apropos Books
If there’s one thing I’ve learned this year at college, it’s that things aren’t always what they seem.
I’m Logan Lewis. I’m popular, charming, athletic, and all the girls love me. Yep, I’ve really got it made.
But when I find myself in danger of failing my chemistry class and losing my sports scholarship, I know the only person who can save me is the smartest science tutor on campus.
Theo Reign is brilliant. He’s also cold and antisocial, moody and mean. He looks at me like he hates me, but touches me like he wants me.
There’s something just beneath the surface that draws me in. His secret pain mirrors my own, and I suddenly find myself craving him. I can’t get enough of this mysterious and intriguing man, and though I know what we’re doing is weird and probably toxic, I just can’t seem to let him go.
I never thought I would want another man.
Until him.
Until Him is a steamy M/M college romance with heart, soul, lots of laughs, and of course, cuddling.
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This will appeal to readers who want historical horror built around institutional cruelty, female friendship, folk magic, and hard-won resistance.
Witchcraft for Wayward Girls
Historical Fiction · Horror · Literary Fiction · Travis' Picks · Occult Horror · Suspense
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In 1970, four pregnant teenagers confined at a Florida maternity home discover witchcraft and use their new power to resist the adults controlling their bodies and futures, with a 3.9-star average from more than 144,000 Goodreads ratings. This will appeal to readers who want historical horror built around institutional cruelty, female friendship, folk magic, and hard-won resistance.
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"Superb ... a perfect horror for our imperfect age.” – The New York Times
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER
They were never girls, they were witches . . . .
They call them wayward girls. Loose girls. Girls who grew up too fast. And they’re sent to the Wellwood House in St. Augustine, Florida, where unwed mothers are hidden by their families to have their babies in secret, to give them up for adoption, and most important of all, to forget any of it ever happened.
Fifteen-year-old Fern arrives at the home in the sweltering summer of 1970, pregnant, frightened, and alone. Under the watchful eye of the stern Miss Wellwood, she meets a dozen other girls in the same predicament. There’s Rose, a hippie who insists she’s going to find a way to keep her baby and escape to a commune. And Zinnia, a budding musician who plans to marry her baby’s father. And Holly, a wisp of a girl, barely fourteen, mute and pregnant by no-one-knows-who.
Everything the girls eat, every moment of their waking day, and everything they’re allowed to talk about is strictly controlled by the adults who claim they know what’s best for them. Then Fern meets a librarian who gives her an occult book about witchcraft, and power is in the hands of the girls for the first time in their lives. But power can destroy as easily as it creates, and it’s never given freely. There’s always a price to be paid . . . and it’s usually paid in blood.
In Witchcraft for Wayward Girls, the author of How to Sell a Haunted House and The Final Girl Support Group delivers another searing, completely original novel and further cements his status as a “horror master” (NPR).
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Ideal for readers looking for an emotional MM romance with small-town isolation, family strain, vulnerability, and trust.
In the Middle of Somewhere
LGBTQIA+ · Romance · Travis' Picks · Contemporary Romance · Gay Romance
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Goodreads Choice Award nominee In the Middle of Somewhere follows guarded professor Daniel Mulligan and quiet local Rex Vale as an unexpected relationship develops in rural Michigan, with a 4.1-star average from more than 13,000 Goodreads ratings. Ideal for readers looking for an emotional MM romance with small-town isolation, family strain, vulnerability, and trust.
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Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Debut Goodreads Author
Daniel Mulligan is tough, snarky, and tattooed, hiding his self-consciousness behind sarcasm. Daniel has never fit in—not at home in Philadelphia with his auto mechanic father and brothers, and not at school where his Ivy League classmates looked down on him. Now, Daniel’s relieved to have a job at a small college in Holiday, Northern Michigan, but he’s a city boy through and through, and it’s clear that this small town is one more place he won’t fit in.
Rex Vale clings to routine to keep loneliness at bay: honing his muscular body, perfecting his recipes, and making custom furniture. Rex has lived in Holiday for years, but his shyness and imposing size have kept him from connecting with people.
When the two men meet, their chemistry is explosive, but Rex fears Daniel will be another in a long line of people to leave him, and Daniel has learned that letting anyone in can be a fatal weakness. Just as they begin to break down the walls keeping them apart, Daniel is called home to Philadelphia, where he discovers a secret that changes the way he understands everything.
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Ideal for readers looking for an emotional MM hockey romance about grief, caregiving, friendship, and mental health.
The Last Buzzer
LGBTQIA+ · Romance · Travis' Picks · Gay Romance · Sports Romance
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Desmond unexpectedly becomes his nephew’s guardian and an assistant college hockey coach, where he connects with Jack, a player struggling with anxiety and the pressure of continuing a sport he once loved, with a 4.0-star average from more than 4,300 Goodreads ratings. Ideal for readers looking for an emotional MM hockey romance about grief, caregiving, friendship, and mental health.
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In the time it takes to answer a phone call, Desmond’s life changes. Suddenly, he’s a single parent to his nephew, living in South Carolina, and the assistant coach for the university hockey team. Life might not be great right now, but he’s handling it. And things can’t possibly get worse, right?
Jack— the survivor of a horrific childhood— knows that things can always get worse. And right now, for him, worse is hockey. He loves the game, and loves the friendships he’s cultivated with his teammates, but that’s where the good ends and the bad begins. Every time his skates touch the ice, he feels worse and worse, eaten alive by anxiety and stress.
Desmond’s arrival becomes a bright spot for Jack, in the otherwise bleak nightmare hockey has become for him. There is more than the surface-level attraction, though. Soon, their friendship begins to move beyond the sport that brought them together. Before they know it, Desmond and Jack’s lives become intertwined in a way that neither could have expected.
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A strong match for readers drawn to MM hockey romance, second chances, shared history, and unresolved feelings between teammates.
Square to the Puck
LGBTQIA+ · Romance · Travis' Picks · Gay Romance · Sports Romance
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Corwin Sanhover has spent six years trying to forget his history with Nigel St. James, but Nigel’s trade to South Carolina forces the two hockey players to confront their lingering attraction and consider starting again, with a 4.2-star rating from more than 3,300 Amazon reviewers. A strong match for readers drawn to MM hockey romance, second chances, shared history, and unresolved feelings between teammates.
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Corwin Sanhover could almost convince himself that the night six years ago didn’t happen. But when Nigel St. James is traded to South Carolina, it becomes a lot harder to keep their history in the past.
Nigel St. James can’t imagine a team he’d like to play for less than South Carolina, and he knows Corwin probably feels the same. But when things between them become friendly, it’s clear that they both still want each other now, the same as they did back then.
Is it possible to start fresh and build a relationship, or are some things—and people—better left in the past?
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Best for readers who enjoy MM hockey romance with opposites-attract chemistry, grumpy characters, and tenderness beneath the conflict.
Between the Pipes
LGBTQIA+ · Romance · Travis' Picks · Bisexual Romance · Gay Romance · Sports Romance
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Argumentative Nico Mackenzie seems completely incompatible with steady NHL goaltender Anthony Lawson, but their differences do not prevent an unexpected connection from developing, with a 4.3-star rating from more than 2,500 Amazon reviewers. Best for readers who enjoy MM hockey romance with opposites-attract chemistry, grumpy characters, and tenderness beneath the conflict.
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Nico Mackenzie is angry and argumentative— in every way, he is the exact opposite of NHL goaltender Anthony Lawson. Thrown together for a summer of coaching college hockey at South Carolina University, Anthony makes every effort to be friendly; Nico, on the other hand, seems intent on being infuriating and keeping the other man at arm’s length.
When a causal relationship forms between the pair, they form an unsteady truce. The summer is finite, however, and when it comes to an end a decision has to be made: do they end things as they are or try for more?
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A good pick for readers who like MM hockey romance, teammates with benefits, bisexual awakening, and relationships that become more serious than planned.
From Coast to Coast
LGBTQIA+ · Romance · Travis' Picks · Gay Romance · Sports Romance
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Newly divorced NHL forward Remy Stone uses a trade to Calgary as a chance to start over, but a casual relationship with teammate Grayson Brody becomes complicated when deeper feelings develop, with a 4.3-star rating from more than 2,600 Amazon reviewers. A good pick for readers who like MM hockey romance, teammates with benefits, bisexual awakening, and relationships that become more serious than planned.
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NHL forward Remy Stone steps off the plane in Calgary a newly divorced man. While he doesn’t necessarily want to live in Canada, the trade offered a good excuse for a fresh start and he means to capitalize on it.
Defenseman Grayson Brody has played most of his career with Calgary, but has long fallen out of love with his team. After coming out, he has struggled with his teammates and management, and wishes he’d never done it at all.
With the addition of Remy Stone shaking everything up—both on the ice and off—things start looking up for the first time in years. What starts as a friendship between them, turns into a casual, friends-with-benefits relationship.
Except a casual relationship with a teammate is fraught with complications; particularly when it starts to feel less casual to Grayson, and neither of them are sure what the future looks like for them.
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Ideal for readers looking for college sports romance with instant connection, emotional vulnerability, patient pursuit, and hurt-comfort tension.
One-Touch Pass
LGBTQIA+ · Romance · Travis' Picks · Bisexual Romance · College Romance · Gay Romance · RomCom · Sports Romance
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Nate meets Marcos at a party, and seventeen minutes turn into something neither of them can ignore, even as Marcos’s anxiety, stress, and self-doubt make him believe Nate deserves someone else, with a 4.2-star rating from more than 2,300 Amazon reviewers. Ideal for readers looking for college sports romance with instant connection, emotional vulnerability, patient pursuit, and hurt-comfort tension.
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"One-Touch Pass is a funny, heartfelt gay college romance with great chemistry, a sunny hero worth swooning over, and an emotional arc that lands beautifully." - Apropos Books
Nate meets a stranger at a party, and in the span of seventeen minutes, his life changes.
Marcos meets a stranger at a party and wonders if the universe is laughing at him. His life has become a seemingly endless stream of bad days. Everything is a struggle, from his friendship with Max, to the simple act of changing in the locker room after a baseball game. Stress and anxiety sit so heavy on his shoulders, he can barely function under the weight of it. Starting a relationship is the very last thing he wants or feels he deserves. Particularly when Nate— beautiful, gregarious, and kind Nate— could have anybody he wanted.
If there is one thing Marcos knows, it’s this: Nate deserves someone far better than him.
But despite his best efforts to keep him away, Nate persists. He knows what he wants. He wants Marcos. He wants to coax him out of his shell, take him horseback riding, and treat him right. Seventeen minutes isn’t enough for Nate and Marcos.
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