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Best for readers who like college hockey romance with forced proximity, enemies-to-friends tension, mistrust, and emotional pining.
On the Edge
LGBTQIA+ · Romance · Travis' Picks · Bisexual Romance · College Romance · Gay Romance · RomCom · Sports Romance
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Henri Vasel is used to people pleasing, but being partnered with Atlas Kaiser turns classroom animosity into tentative friendship and something more, with a 4.2-star rating from more than 3,500 Amazon reviewers. Best for readers who like college hockey romance with forced proximity, enemies-to-friends tension, mistrust, and emotional pining.
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"On the Edge is a warm, emotional gay college romance with a lovable sweetheart of a hero, believable chemistry, and a pricklier love interest who takes a little longer to win you over." - Apropos Books
Henri Vasel has perfected the art of people pleasing. He’s a good student, a fair hockey player, and he has a group of friends he’d do anything for. He’s happy. Or, rather, as happy as he can be when he has a class with the one person he can’t seem to please at South Carolina University.
Atlas Kaiser hates a lot of things, but right now he hates Henri Vasel the most. He doesn’t want to have to stare at his perfect face, or listen to his adorable German accent. He wants to be left alone. Unfortunately, they’re partnered together for the semester so he’ll have to grit his teeth and try to make it work.
Animosity morphs into a tentative friendship, which eventually leads to more. But while Atlas doesn’t trust their budding relationship, Henri wants more.
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Best for readers who like college hockey romance, roommates-to-friends tension, pining, and slow-burn emotional stakes.
Shots on Net
LGBTQIA+ · Romance · Travis' Picks · Bisexual Romance · College Romance · Gay Romance · RomCom · Sports Romance
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Carter Morgan III lives for hockey, but his final stretch at South Carolina University gets complicated when Zeke Cassidy becomes his roommate, his friend, and the person Carter cannot stop wanting, with a 4.2-star rating from more than 5,500 Amazon reviewers. Best for readers who like college hockey romance, roommates-to-friends tension, pining, and slow-burn emotional stakes.
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"Shots on Net is a sweet, low-angst gay college romance with great chemistry, believable miscommunication, and a grumpy hockey player worth falling for." - Apropos Books
Carter Morgan III hates everything about South Carolina University except for one thing: hockey. As the starting netminder for the team, he lives for those moments when he can step onto the ice and between the pipes. Unfortunately, his time at school and on the team is slowly coming to an end; although he’d love nothing more than to pursue a career in the NHL, he knows better than to get his hopes up.
Zeke Cassidy needs a place to live. When he answers an advertisement for a roommate, he’s not sure what he is expecting except that it isn’t Carter Morgan III. Carter is unfriendly, aloof, and they have nothing in common; even so, the pair hit it off immediately and become friends.
Carter knows Zeke isn’t interested in being anything beyond friends and roommates. Unfortunately, knowing this doesn’t stop him from hoping for more, no matter how much he tries to convince himself it’s impossible.
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Best for readers who like LitRPG chaos, dungeon survival, dark humor, escalating rules, and high-stakes plans.
A Parade of Horribles
Fantasy · Travis' Picks · LitRPG · Sword and Sorcery
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An Amazon Charts #1 this week, Carl and Donut reach the tenth floor, where a series of races, strange glitches, and whispers about the eleventh floor point to bigger dangers ahead, with a 4.8-star rating from more than 14,300 Amazon reviewers. Best for readers who like LitRPG chaos, dungeon survival, dark humor, escalating rules, and high-stakes plans.
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It’s off to the races in the explosive eighth book in the Dungeon Crawler Carl series.
As chaos and mass panic spread outside the dungeon in the wake of Faction Wars, Carl and Donut find themselves on the tenth floor, where they’re forced to compete in a surprisingly normal set of tasks. Well, normal for the dungeon.
Races. Get from point A to point B, and don’t come in last. After each race, they pick an upgrade for their vehicle and the track gets more challenging. It all seems a little too normal, a little too simple.
Ignore those strange glitches that are occurring with increasing frequency. Don’t listen to those whispers about what’s happening on the mysterious eleventh floor, something the system AI calls A Parade of Horribles. Nobody, not even the showrunners, knows what that means. Just that the AI has ominously dubbed it “a coming-out party for the ages.”
Everything is fine, Crawler. I repeat, everything is fine.
Carl hates that it’s business as usual. The rules of this floor have taken away his agency. That just will not do.
So Carl is planning a party of his own. It’s a plan so dangerous, so insane, he can’t even consult his friends lest the AI put a stop to it. Because if it goes wrong, it’s not just the end of Carl and Donut. No. The stakes are higher than they’ve ever been.
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Best for readers who like gritty romance with cohabitation tension, fierce loyalty, external danger, and messy emotional stakes.
LOT 62
LGBTQIA+ · Romance · Travis' Picks · Gay Romance · RomCom
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Devon and Maddox are adjusting to life together on Lot 62, where cohabitation, old patterns, and new threats put their relationship under pressure, with a 4.4-star rating from more than 5,600 Amazon reviewers. Best for readers who like gritty romance with cohabitation tension, fierce loyalty, external danger, and messy emotional stakes.
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"LOT 62 is a satisfying continuation of Devon and Maddox’s story, with more stress than new-love sparkle but plenty of humor, affection, and hard-earned growth." - Apropos Books
Every fairytale had a villain, and this way of life was ours.
Coming from nothing and gaining something is a lot to handle. Can they hang on to it?
A year after moving in together on Lot 62, Devon and Maddox have a whole new dynamic to adjust to—cohabitation. Merging their personalities and energies into one tiny trailer is a lot to handle, but so is their relationship. There are bound to be some growing pains, and these two are about to work through them all.
As they strive to steady their relationship, they also have a horde of troubles coming their way.
Jim is out of prison with a new plan.
Devon is a product of his upbringing and doesn’t always make the smartest decisions.
Maddox runs interference while suffering the consequences of their reality.
With threats on their doorstep, Maddox and Devon learn how to prioritize the hard way. All that matters is that they’re together, and they’ll stop at nothing to ensure they are.
The future may seem bleak, but their bond and the love they share will have to get them through the dark to the future they’re dreaming about.
*Reminder: this is book 2 in the From Nothing series. Garron Park (book 1) must be read first. Lot 62 is a continuation of Garron Park, focusing on the relationship between Maddox and Devon. MM enemies-to-lovers romance.
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Us follows two hockey players trying to protect their relationship while the pressure of secrecy starts to wear them down.
Us
LGBTQIA+ · Romance · Travis' Picks · Contemporary Romance · Gay Romance · Sports Romance
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Us follows two hockey players trying to protect their relationship while the pressure of secrecy starts to wear them down. Wes is thriving in his rookie NHL season, but keeping Jamie hidden from the media, teammates, and the world turns love into something fragile and exhausting. This is contemporary sports romance with established-couple tension, emotional stakes, forced secrecy, and the challenge of choosing each other in public and private.
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Can your favorite hockey players finish their first season together undefeated?
Five months in, NHL forward Ryan Wesley is having a record-breaking rookie season. He’s living his dream of playing pro hockey and coming home every night to the man he loves—Jamie Canning, his longtime best friend turned boyfriend. There’s just one problem: the most important relationship of his life is one he needs to keep hidden, or else face a media storm that will eclipse his success on the ice.
Jamie loves Wes. He really, truly does. But hiding sucks. It’s not the life Jamie envisioned for himself, and the strain of keeping their secret is taking its toll. It doesn’t help that his new job isn’t going as smoothly as he’d hoped, but he knows he can power through it as long as he has Wes. At least apartment 10B is their retreat, where they can always be themselves.
Or can they? When Wes’s nosiest teammate moves in upstairs, the threads of their carefully woven lie begin to unravel. With the outside world determined to take its best shot at them, can Wes and Jamie develop major-league relationship skills on the fly?
Warning: contains sexual situations, a vibrating chair, long-distance sexytimes and proof that hockey players look hot in any shade of green.
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Good Pucking Luck begins with a public heartbreak, then turns one viral disaster into a no-strings arrangement that refuses to stay simple.
Good Pucking Luck
LGBTQIA+ · Romance · Travis' Picks · Bisexual Romance · Gay Romance · Sports Romance
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Good Pucking Luck begins with a public heartbreak, then turns one viral disaster into a no-strings arrangement that refuses to stay simple. After a failed hockey-game proposal makes Hayes internet-famous for all the wrong reasons, he swears off relationships and agrees to keep things casual with pro player Rylan. This MM hockey romance blends second-chance vulnerability, physical chemistry, and the risk of trusting a heart labeled off-limits.
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"Good Pucking Luck is a fun, low-angst MM hockey romance with great chemistry and likable characters. Hayes and Rylan play off each other really well, even if the relationship feels a little too easy at times." - Apropos Books
Hayes
Proposing to my first boyfriend at a hockey game wasn’t my smartest move. Not only does said boyfriend walk out on me, but the whole stupid thing goes viral, and it turns out the man I was dating has too many boyfriends to count. Internet fame has crowned me a member of the Jilted Exes’ Club, a name I’d do anything to escape.
One thing’s for sure: I’m not making the same mistake again. No more boyfriends, just easy hookups. And I’ll start with this gorgeous catch in Seattle. The only problem…he’s a god in bed, and I’m an inexperienced mess.
Rylan
After a night with Hayes, I play some of the best games of my career. It’s meant to be a one-and-done deal, but when I find out he also lives in LA and doesn’t want anything serious, I see an opportunity.
Hayes wants experience. I want my good-luck charm to help me win the cup.
The media would go wild over a pro hockey player dating a member of the Jilted Exes’ Club—a distraction neither of us needs. We want this to stay simple. Easy. No strings, no falling in love.
Except I’m pretty sure I’ve already fallen. After all Hayes has been through, how do I get him to entrust his heart to someone who’s only ever been labeled a player on and off the ice?
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Playing Dirty turns a college rivalry into forbidden attraction when two baseball enemies become stepbrothers under the same roof.
Playing Dirty
LGBTQIA+ · Romance · Travis' Picks · Bisexual Romance · College Romance · Gay Romance · Sports Romance
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Playing Dirty turns a college rivalry into forbidden attraction when two baseball enemies become stepbrothers under the same roof. Madden Hastings has always been his nemesis, but their blended family forces old hostility into close quarters, where resentment starts to look dangerously like chemistry. This MM sports romance leans into rivalry, loyalty, and the messy line between hating someone and wanting them.
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"Playing Dirty was a fun, satisfying, and entertaining four-star read with great forbidden stepbrother tension, playful enemies-to-lovers banter, and chemistry that felt natural instead of forced. The rivalry felt more like flirting foreplay than overblown drama, and that worked so well." - Apropos Books
Our rivalry formed long before we became siblings.
Madden Hastings has been my nemesis since the day we met.
A divide was born from the age-old rivalry between our universities,
but this year, another layer developed. It became personal.
Because the captain of Blackmore’s baseball team?
He’s also my new step brother.
My disdain for the sudden blending of our families leads to more conflict,
and despite their efforts to force us together, coexisting proves impossible.
But something else starts burning beneath my bitterness and resentment;
an attraction as unexpected as it is potent.
And when the chemistry becomes too powerful to deny,
our already complicated relationship gets even messier.
Because a forbidden fling is one thing, but falling for the enemy?
It forces me into a choice I never wanted to make.
One between loyalty to my team, or the love of my life.
*Playing Dirty is the fourth in a five book standalone college sports romance series featuring two rivalry-fueled step brothers, a cut-throat game of capture the flag, and sexual tension that oozes off the page. Not suitable for anyone under 18 years of age.*
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Unbreak Me places first love in the quiet pressure of forced proximity, where emotional recovery and self-discovery begin on an unexpected farm.
Unbreak Me
LGBTQIA+ · Romance · Travis' Picks · Bisexual Romance · Gay Romance
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Unbreak Me places first love in the quiet pressure of forced proximity, where emotional recovery and self-discovery begin on an unexpected farm. Sent away by his family to heal, one man finds himself out of place, over his head, and increasingly drawn to Jonathan Rosseau, the farmer who understands wounded animals and wounded people. This is a steamy MM romance about desire, identity, and finding steadiness in another person.
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"Unbreak Me is a slow-burn MM romance full of yearning, tenderness, and emotional vulnerability. The South African farm setting and forced proximity make Davy and Jonathan’s relationship feel intimate, safe, and transformative." - Apropos Books
I'm trapped in the middle of nowhere with the sexiest man I've ever seen...what could possibly go wrong?
My family sent me here thinking it would help lift my mood. When I think about it now, I realise I didn’t give nearly enough thought to what it would be like, or what I’d be doing on a farm. If anything, I had a vague, nebulous notion that it would be like some sort of retreat.
Boy, was I wrong.
Far from relaxing, I now find myself tending to actual sheep. If you knew me at all, you’d know how preposterous that is. When I’m not covered in dust from participating in manual labour, I spend my time confined in small spaces with the farmer, Jonathan Rosseau.
I was told he was good with animals and broken people. No-one mentioned the fact that he’s built like a tank and has the sort of facial features that makes my brain short circuit. No-one said a word about that.
With every day that passes, I find it harder and harder to tear my eyes off him.
Oh, God. I hope he can't feel the way I’m looking at him.
Unbreak Me is a steamy, swoon-y MM romance. It's a story about first love, finding your soulmate, and finding yourself in the process. To see if Unbreak Me is the book for you, use the 'Look inside' feature and scroll up to the copyright page
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Garron Park turns lifelong rivalry into a volatile MM romance shaped by poverty, violence, and reluctant need.
Garron Park
LGBTQIA+ · Romance · Travis' Picks · Contemporary Romance · Gay Romance
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Garron Park turns lifelong rivalry into a volatile MM romance shaped by poverty, violence, and reluctant need. Devon and Maddox have spent years clashing in motocross, work, and survival, but one brutal night forces them into unexpected proximity. Their hatred shifts into desire without softening the world around them, making this enemies-to-lovers romance raw, combative, and emotionally bruised.
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Garron Park, where hope dies and no one ever gets ahead. Until…
When Devon Sawyer desperately searches for his brother in the middle of the night, beaten and broken, he finds Maddox Kane instead. With his dad on his trail, he has no choice but to stand on his enemy’s doorstep and let Maddox help.
Maddox has never seen Devon this vulnerable. Living in Garron’s trailer park means families dole out discipline on the regular and violence is a part of life, but something about how far Jim Sawyer takes it this time has Maddox unnerved.
Rivals in motocross, work, and life itself, they’re forced to work together for one night. Perspectives change and their friction morphs into something unexpected.
Hatred turns to lust.
Tensions switch from hostile to aroused.
While their competitiveness remains, their dynamic shifts. Their acceptance is anything but graceful.
Two guys who come from nothing, with very little to look forward to, find themselves craving each other in new and fiery ways.
Reluctantly.
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Recovery never lasts long for Harry Dresden, especially when an old debt pulls him into a favor for a man he would rather avoid.
Out Law
Fantasy · Travis' Picks · Urban Fantasy
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Recovery never lasts long for Harry Dresden, especially when an old debt pulls him into a favor for a man he would rather avoid. In Out Law, a reluctant job for Marcone forces Harry to protect someone he does not trust while facing a demonic threat tied to one of his own past decisions. This novella delivers sharp supernatural tension, hard-earned fallout, and fast-moving urban fantasy action.
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The past comes back in a big way for Chicago’s only professional wizard in this action-packed novella from the #1 New York Times–bestselling Dresden Files.
In a city that’s just beginning to recover from the devastation caused by the Battle of Chicago, Harry Dresden is finally pulling himself together as well. He’s ensconced in his own personal castle, healing his various wounds and training an eager new apprentice. The last thing he wants is any trouble. But, as history has consistently—and quite annoyingly—shown, what Harry wants is rarely what Harry gets.
It starts with a visit from Harry’s most powerful frenemy, Gentleman John Marcone, Baron of Chicago. He needs Harry to assist in the redemption of an underling who’s looking to go straight. And since Harry does kinda sorta owe Marcone for saving his life once (stupid honorable debt!), it’s not a request he can refuse. He’ll just wish he had.
Because this little favor is going to drag Harry into a fight he doesn’t want on behalf of a lowlife he doesn’t trust against an enemy more powerful and pestilent than he ever could’ve expected: an insatiable, demonic foe whom Harry himself may have created when he wiped out the vampires of the Red Court so long ago.
Before, all it wanted was blood. Now it wants the entire world . . .
“Butcher checks all the boxes when it comes to satisfying readers’ expectations. The paranormal fantasy elements are on point . . . The author maintains the exciting pacing and intensity throughout, powering the narrative with an abundance of high-octane action sequences . . . Dresden fans will enjoy this bite-sized supernatural adventure.” —Kirkus Reviews
“A great series—fast-paced, vividly realized and with a hero/narrator who’s excellent company.” —Cinescape
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Irritation starts to feel dangerous when it gives way to something harder to deny.
Fair Catch
LGBTQIA+ · Romance · Travis' Picks · College Romance · Gay Romance · New Adult · Sports Romance
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Irritation starts to feel dangerous when it gives way to something harder to deny. In Fair Catch, a guarded college student takes in an infuriating football player as a roommate, expecting chaos and counting the days until he can reclaim his space. Instead, their uneasy truce deepens into closeness, forcing him to choose between the future he planned and a connection that could change everything. This new adult sports romance blends class tension, reluctant intimacy, and emotional risk.
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Catching feelings was never part of the plan.
Taking in Kason Fuller as roommate is meant to be a favor; one I regret immediately.
The bumbling, virgin football player drives me to the brink of sanity, stealing my food, my sleep, my peace and solitude.
My solution? Call a ceasefire.
Get him out on dates and out of my hair.
Yet as our truce shifts, I realize there’s a depth to this connection unlike any I’ve felt before.
It turns out, I don’t mind his presence.
I crave it, along with every morsel I learn about him.
But falling for the guy from the wrong side of the tracks wasn’t in the cards.
And I’m not the only one who thinks so.
Now, I’m at a crossroads between the life I thought I’d have, or risking everything to catch him.
*Fair Catch is the third in a five book standalone college sports romance series featuring one extremely *frustrated* virgin, flirtatious roomie dates, and a not-so-sanitary use of butter that will have you clutching your pearls. Not suitable for anyone under 18 years of age.*
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Jealousy is easy to dismiss until it starts looking too much like the truth.
Caught Stealing
LGBTQIA+ · Romance · Travis' Picks · College Romance · Gay Romance · New Adult · Sports Romance
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Jealousy is easy to dismiss until it starts looking too much like the truth. In Caught Stealing, a fiercely protective friend tries to keep a notorious campus playboy away, only to get pulled into a charged game of pranks, rivalry, and attraction that keeps turning personal. This new adult sports romance builds on buried feelings, loyalty, and slow-burning tension with a playful but emotionally risky edge.
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It's not stealing if he's meant to be mine.
Let me tell you how Holden Sykes operates.
As the campus playboy and one-and-done king, he doesn’t do strings.
Or repeats.
Or names, for that matter.
So when he tries making my best friend the next notch on his bedpost, I react poorly.
Some would call it jealousy or an unrequited crush, but friends protect each other from making mistakes.
The same ones I’ve already made.
Which is why driving Holden away seems like my only option.
Too bad he’s not giving up without a fight.
Each prank leads to another until he turns this into a game far more precarious than intended.
One filled with stolen moments and heated glances, drawing me into his orbit.
But the undeniable attraction simmering between us leaves me caught in the crosshairs of an impossible decision.
Loyalty...or love.
*Caught Stealing is the second in a five book standalone college sports romance series featuring a road-tripping rubber ducky, two guys fighting for the upper hand, and enough cock-blocking shenanigans to make your cheeks flush. Not suitable for anyone under 18 years of age*
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