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Hatred gets complicated when winning starts to depend on the person you can’t stand.
Iced Out
LGBTQIA+ · Romance · Travis' Picks · College Romance · Gay Romance · New Adult · Sports Romance
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Hatred gets complicated when winning starts to depend on the person you can’t stand. In Iced Out, two college hockey rivals become reluctant teammates, and their fierce competition takes an unexpected turn when secret hookups seem tied to the team’s success. This new adult sports romance delivers enemies-to-lovers tension, sexual awakening, and emotional friction with a fast, charged edge.
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All's fair in hate and hockey.
My path to success never included an enemy as a teammate, especially one as infuriating as Quinton de Haas.
Clawing under my skin is his favorite pastime, only feeding the animosity between us as the years pass.
We’re as completely opposite as two people can be; the golden boy and the black sheep.
Constantly at odds or at each other’s throats.
The only thing we can agree on is hockey is our true love, and we’ll do whatever it takes to come out on top.
I never imagined that drive would lead me to do the unthinkable: falling into bed with my not-so-straight rival.
But athletes are a superstitious bunch, and when our hook-ups lead to victories, we tell ourselves we can’t stop.
Besides, it’s all for the sake of the team, right?
*Iced Out is the first in a five book standalone college sports romance series featuring two misunderstood rival teammates, pages of snarky banter, and more secret spicy times than any book should be filled with. Not suitable for anyone under 18 years of age.*
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Never Will I Ever turns a bitter grudge into dangerous attraction when two former teammates are forced into close quarters at summer camp.
Never Will I Ever
LGBTQIA+ · Romance · Travis' Picks · College Romance · Gay Romance · New Adult · Sports Romance
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Never Will I Ever turns a bitter grudge into dangerous attraction when two former teammates are forced into close quarters at summer camp. After betrayal, banishment, and secrets leave his life in pieces, the last person he wants beside him is Kaleb LaMothe. This new adult MM college romance fits readers looking for earned tension, forced proximity, emotional resistance, and chemistry that grows from real conflict.
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"Never Will I Ever surprised me with a hot, nostalgic summer camp setting that made the enemies-to-lovers romance feel tense, physical, and emotionally earned. The chemistry worked, the spice served the story, and by the end, I immediately wanted the rest of the series." - Apropos Books
He's the one I swore I'd never ever fall for.
A teammate’s betrayal. A banishment. A secret revealed.
That’s all it took to unravel my life at the seams.
The punishment for my past mistakes goes further than expulsion, and penance can only come from the worst hell imaginable:
Summer camp.
Ten weeks spent wrangling a bunch of kids is bad enough, only to get worse when I meet my new co-counselor.
The back-stabber himself.
Kaleb LaMothe.
Being forced to coexist adds more tension to our already shaky foundation, but it also pushes us to uncover deeper parts of each other.
Until animosity becomes a feeling far more dangerous.
An attraction so potent, I lose sight of why I’m stuck in the wilderness to begin with.
And if I’m not careful, I might lose something else entirely.
Like my heart.
*Never Will I Ever is a new adult college romance featuring two quarreling camp counselors, grudges the size of Mount Hood, secretive outdoor rendezvous, and a group of meddling tweens sure to send you into hysterics. Not suitable for anyone under 18 years of age.*
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One impulsive kiss turns certainty into something far more dangerous.
Don’t You Dare
LGBTQIA+ · Romance · Travis' Picks · College Romance · Gay Romance · New Adult · Sports Romance
Our take
One impulsive kiss turns certainty into something far more dangerous. In Don’t You Dare, a college student starts pushing the boundaries of friendship after a party dare leaves him wanting more from his best friend than either of them expected. This new adult romance leans into bi-curious awakening, emotional risk, and escalating tension as desire starts to threaten everything they already are.
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It was never meant to be more than a dare.
A party game. A dare. A single kiss.
That’s all it took to flip my world upside down.
I’ve always classified myself as straight, and as far as I can tell, so has he.
I didn’t think one kiss would change that, but I was so wrong.
Now, I can’t stop thinking about him. In all the ways I shouldn’t.
My best friend.
Aspen.
His taste is branded in my memory, his touch seared in my skin.
And I want more.
This simmering attraction I feel only grows with passing time.
Which is why I start tossing out new dares.
Riskier ones that toe lines we never thought we’d cross.
I’m gambling with our friendship, knowing it could ruin us.
But there’s so much more at stake here.
Like my heart.
*Don't You Dare is a new adult college romance featuring two best friends, too many baseball puns, scorching dirty talk, and a whole lot of bi-curious exploration. Not suitable for anyone under 18 years of age.*
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Being together does not make things easier when the world still wants to pull you apart.
Running with the Alpha’s Son
LGBTQIA+ · Teen + Young Adult · Travis' Picks · Gay Romance · Paranormal Romance
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Being together does not make things easier when the world still wants to pull you apart. In Running with the Alpha’s Son, Max and Jasper try to build a real relationship while family duty, public scrutiny, and distance keep testing their bond. This YA queer shifter romance shifts from longing to fragile connection, balancing tenderness, pack conflict, and danger that follows them even in retreat.
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The long-awaited third instalment in Penny Jessup’s best-selling The Alpha’s Son series.
Max and Jasper are finally together!
After months of agony and an eventful New Year’s Eve party, the path between souls has been lit, and the new couple are excited to date.
But being the mate of the alpha’s son comes with unexpected strings.
Not only must Max take on official duties as a member of the alpha’s family, but some pack members aren’t happy about the newly public relationship. And with Jasper away at college and traveling to different packs as a representative for his father, it’s hard to find the time to bond.
When summer arrives, Jasper invites Max to run away with him to his family’s house in the Californian desert, away from the pack and prying eyes.
But what starts as a vacation turns into something far less tranquil when their sanctuary is invaded by unfriendly interlopers.
When running away means running into trouble, can Max and Jasper still find the time and space to connect?
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Wanting someone is one thing.
Chasing The Alpha’s Son
LGBTQIA+ · Teen + Young Adult · Travis' Picks · Gay Romance · Paranormal Romance
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Wanting someone is one thing. Chasing them through silence, distance, and pack politics is another. In Chasing The Alpha’s Son, Max follows Jasper into the mountains for one last chance at the connection they left unresolved, only to find rivalry, unrest, and looming change waiting in the snow. This YA queer shifter romance deepens the series with longing, emotional uncertainty, and fate tested under pressure.
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The second book in Penny Jessup’s best selling The Alpha’s Son series.
It’s been three months since their kiss on the beach and Max hasn’t heard a whisper from Jasper.
With Christmas fast approaching, and despite vowing he would chase Jasper to the ends of the world, Max is ready to give up. Until Alpha Jericho announces he’s sending a select envoy of Elite Pack wolves to an allied wolf-pack stationed high in the rocky mountains, where they will bear witness to a Blood Moon. A week in a cozy ski-lodge sounds as romantic as you can get, so Max decides to give things with Jasper one last shot.
But life in the mountains is rockier than expected and finding alone time with Jasper is harder than Max thought. Political unrest between the packs is galvanizing Jasper’s determination to keep them apart, and new and old suitors are emerging in the pursuit of Jasper’s affections.
Running headfirst into snow storms, Max begins to question if the destiny he’s been chasing is what he really wants. And when the Blood Moon arrives, bringing irrevocable change that no one saw coming, Max and Jasper’s connection will be put to the ultimate test.
Will they find the path between souls among the snow covered peaks or will the mountain roads lead them to an unexpected destiny?
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Fate feels a lot less romantic when it pairs you with the last person you want.
The Alpha’s Son
LGBTQIA+ · Teen + Young Adult · Travis' Picks · Gay Romance · Paranormal Romance
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Fate feels a lot less romantic when it pairs you with the last person you want. In The Alpha’s Son, Max Remus heads to a werewolf summer festival expecting nothing, only to find himself bound to the arrogant heir of an elite pack. This YA paranormal romance blends wolf shifters, queer yearning, and coming-of-age tension with humor, heart, and bite.
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Max Remus couldn’t care less about finding his mate—unlike the rest of his fate-obsessed pack. He totally prefers hanging with his bestie, eating his dad’s steak sandwiches, and drawing in his trusty sketchbook.
But all that is about to change at the Blue Moon Festival—a summer camp where Elite Pack wolves go to find their mates. The festival is a right of passage for every teen werewolf, and this year’s festival will be one to howl home about. The alpha’s son, Jasper Apollo, is attending for the first time.
When Max finds himself inexplicably linked with the exceptionally handsome but totally jerk-faced heir, he’s forced to grapple with the unexpected feelings clawing at his soul.
If Max rejects his destiny, will fate’s bite be worse than its bark?
Netflix's Young Royals meets Teen Wolf meets Twilight––the first installment in a thrilling new series, The Alpha's Son is a heart-wrenching Young Adult, Boys Love, wolf shifter romance; full of yearning, comedy, and adventure.
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It’s a strong pick for readers who want urban fantasy with emotional weight, high-stakes chaos, and a hero trying to save a city while figuring out what’s left…
Twelve Months
Fantasy · Travis' Picks · Fantasy Adventure · Urban Fantasy
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Chicago is still reeling, Harry Dresden is barely holding himself together, and the next disaster has already started knocking. Twelve Months puts Harry in the middle of grief, rebuilding, political fallout, prowling monsters, and a deadly engagement that is somehow not even the only problem on his plate. It’s a strong pick for readers who want urban fantasy with emotional weight, high-stakes chaos, and a hero trying to save a city while figuring out what’s left of himself.
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AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
AN INSTANT USA TODAY AND INDIE BESTSELLER
Harry Dresden, Chicago’s only professional wizard, has always managed to save the day—but, in this powerful entry in the #1 New York Times bestselling Dresden Files, can he save himself?
One year. 365 days. Twelve months.
Harry Dresden has been through a lot, and so has his city. After Harry and his allies narrowly managed to save Chicago from being razed to the ground, everything is different—and it’s not just the current lack of electricity.
In the battle, Harry lost people he cared about. And that's the kind of loss that takes a toll. Harry being Harry, he’s doing his level best to help the city and his friends recover and rebuild. But it’s a heavy load, and he needs time.
But time is one thing Harry doesn’t have. Ghouls are prowling Chicago and taking out innocent civilians. Harry’s brother is dying, and Harry doesn’t know how to help him. And last but certainly not least, the Winter Queen of the Fae has allied with the White Court of vampires—and Harry’s been betrothed to the seductive, deadly vampire Lara Raith to seal the deal.
It's been a tough year. More than ever, the city needs Harry Dresden the wizard—but after loss and grief, is there enough left of Harry Dresden the man to rise to the challenge?
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It’s a strong pick for readers who want funny, tender queer romance with emotional mess, real growth, and do-over energy.
Here’s to Us
LGBTQIA+ · Romance · Teen + Young Adult · Travis' Picks · Gay Romance
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Arthur and Ben are older, supposedly wiser, and very much trying not to spiral when the universe keeps shoving them back into each other’s orbit. Here’s to Us follows exes, current relationships, and a whole lot of unresolved feelings as both boys try to figure out whether first love is something you outgrow or something that keeps demanding a second look. It’s a strong pick for readers who want funny, tender queer romance with emotional mess, real growth, and do-over energy.
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"A sweet, emotionally immersive gay romance with incredible chemistry and so much yearning, Here’s to Us completely wrecked me. Arthur and Ben’s push-pull dynamic felt honest, nostalgic, and deeply affecting from beginning to end." Apropos Books
#1 New York Times bestseller! Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera reunite to continue the story of Arthur and Ben, the boys readers first fell for in the bestselling rom-com What If It’s Us.
Ben survived freshman year of college, but he’s feeling more stuck than ever. His classes are a slog, his part-time job working with his father is even worse, and his best friend Dylan’s been acting weird for weeks. Ben’s only real bright spot is his writing partner Mario, who’s been giving him a lot of Spanish lessons and even more kisses. Mario’s big Hollywood dreams make Ben start to dream bigger—and the choices he makes now could be the key to reshaping his future. So why can’t he stop thinking about a certain boy from his past?
Arthur is back in New York City for the first time in two years, ready to take the theater world by a storm as the world’s best . . . intern to the assistant of an off-off-Broadway director. Of course, it sucks to be spending the summer apart from his sweet, reliable boyfriend, Mikey, but he knows their relationship is strong enough to weather the distance. Which is why it’s no big deal when his ex-boyfriend Ben stumbles back into the picture. And it’s definitely fine that Ben’s blissfully happy with some mystery boy. First loves are special, but it’s way too late for what-ifs. Right?
Even as the boys try to shake off the past, they keep running into each other in the present. Is this the universe trying to tell them there’s a do-over in their future?
Here's to Us is sure to be welcomed by fans old and new of these authors and their previous collaboration, What If It's Us. Critically acclaimed and bestselling authors Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera combine their talents in these smart, funny, heartfelt novels about two very different boys who can’t decide if the universe is pushing them together—or pulling them apart.
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The Bad Box is good for readers who like supernatural horror with serial killers, haunted places, and malevolent ancient forces.
The Bad Box
Horror · Travis' Picks · Occult Horror
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Sarah flees from two murderous stalkers only to find herself trapped in a supernatural nightmare of buried victims, haunted houses, and an ancient evil force, with a 4.3-star rating from more than 100 Amazon reviewers. The Bad Box is good for readers who like supernatural horror with serial killers, haunted places, and malevolent ancient forces.
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Sarah Temple hopes to find a bit of peace and quiet when she leaves her abusive boyfriend, but instead she finds a world of horror. It’s bad enough that a sadistic serial killer and another maniac are both trying to murder her, but what’s worse is the mysterious Solitary One who controls both of them, a malevolent entity that the serial killer describes as a living darkness, a man and yet not a man, something that’s alive and yet not alive, something that wants to appall the world.
Trying to flee from the two killers, Sarah finds herself running deeper and deeper into a deadly supernatural trap, a place where people are buried alive, where ghastly apparitions mutter in the dark, where demented killers prowl, where a crumbling haunted house can drive its victims mad with terror, and where something buried for a very long time may walk again.
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When gods treat mortals as pieces on a board, vengeance can echo across centuries.
Hades’ Daughter
Fantasy · Jaime's Picks · Travis' Picks · Epic Fantasy · Historical Fantasy
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When gods treat mortals as pieces on a board, vengeance can echo across centuries. In Hades' Daughter, the fall of Troy sends the warrior Brutus eastward under divine vision, unaware he walks into a legacy of betrayal rooted in the ancient Labyrinth. This mythic historical fantasy weaves Greek legend, cursed bloodlines, and power struggles into a sweeping saga of destiny and revenge.
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Ancient Greece: A place where the gods hold mortal life cheap, mere playthings to amuse, delight, and abuse at their will.
But those puny mortals are not wholly devoid of power and at the core of their fabulous city-states lies the Labyrinth, where they can shape the powers of the heavens to their own design. When Theseus entered the Labyrinth and came away with the prize of freedom and his beloved Adrianne, Mistress of the Labyrinth, his future seemed assured... Until he abandoned her for the unforgivable sin of bearing him only a daughter, and the world seemed to change. From that day forward, all the Labyrinths in the ancient world started to decay. It slowly became clear that power was fading from the city-states.
Was it the natural decline that comes to all cultures or was it because the power of the Labyrinth had been corrupted by a woman spurned?
A hundred years pass—Troy has fallen and the Trojans are a scattered and humbled people. The warrior Brutus is of the line of kings and gods. He wears the golden kingship bands of Troy proudly—but they are his only mementos of a former glory, for he is a man without a country and is left little else but pride and a memory of the latent power that he could wield if but given a chance. When he receives a god-sent vision of a distant shore where he can rebuild the ancient kingdom, he will move heaven and earth to reach his destiny.
Ever eastward he is drawn, to a lovely and mystical green land that offers him a haven—and a dream of power and conquest. Nothing will deter him... not even the entreaties of the young princess whom he took as his wife and bedded against her will. First her hatred—and now her love—torment and bind him. She is the only one who realizes the danger he is stepping into, and she will do anything to save him... and his son, whom she carries in her womb.
For in the mists of Albion there lies a woman of power—a woman who has used her siren call to cloud Brutus's mind and has her own reasons for luring the warrior to these lush shores....
She is the long-descended granddaughter of Adrianne, and she has in her heart a hatred that has been passed down for generations. Her plans for Brutus will enact a revenge that could destroy the gods themselves.
If Brutus makes the journey successfully, it will be the next step in the Game of the Labyrinth and might start a complicated contest of wills that could span centuries....
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The Shining traps a family inside a remote hotel as winter seals them off from the world.
The Shining
Horror · Thriller · Travis' Picks · Suspense
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The Shining traps a family inside a remote hotel as winter seals them off from the world. Hoping for a fresh start, Jack Torrance accepts a caretaker job that slowly unravels his sanity. As isolation deepens and the Overlook’s history awakens, his young son senses the danger growing closer. This horror classic explores psychological collapse, inherited trauma, and the terrifying power of place.
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • ONE OF TIME'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME • In this masterpiece of modern American horror that inspired Stanley Kubrick’s classic film, Jack Torrance takes a job as the caretaker of the remote Overlook Hotel. As the brutal winter sets in, the hotel’s dark secrets begin to unravel.
“An undisputed master of suspense and terror.” —The Washington Post
Jack Torrance’s new job at the Overlook Hotel is the perfect chance for a fresh start. As the off-season caretaker at the atmospheric old hotel, he’ll have plenty of time to spend reconnecting with his family and working on his writing. But as the harsh winter weather sets in, the idyllic location feels ever more remote . . . and more sinister. And the only one to notice the strange and terrible forces gathering around the Overlook is Danny Torrance, a uniquely gifted five-year-old.
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Protection and obsession blur when the person watching from across the street may not be the hero he believes himself to be.
The Guy Next Door
LGBTQIA+ · Romance · Travis' Picks · Bisexual Romance · Gay Romance · New Adult · Romantic Suspense
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Protection and obsession blur when the person watching from across the street may not be the hero he believes himself to be. Zane moves next door to keep Leif safe from a threat no one else sees, even as his own motives grow complicated. When attraction and suspicion collide, trust becomes fragile and dangerous. The Guy Next Door is an MM romantic suspense novel about desire, perception, and the fear of being wrong.
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ZANE
Is it wrong that I watch him?
Leif Anderson seems like a friendly, kind, normal, boy-next-door type.
Unlike me.
His stalker, a creep who moved into the place next to his parents' house to keep an eye on him.
I'm not the bad guy, though.
I'm the one who will protect him.
The cops don't believe he's in danger.
Maybe they're right, and this is all in my messed-up head.
I've been wrong before.
And no matter how I justify this to myself, my motives aren't entirely pure.
It's impossible to watch a guy this hot walking around in those adorable beanies without getting a little turned on.
When he discovers my secret surveillance, I'm sure it's over.
No way he believes my reasons for watching him, but he doesn't report me for my crime.
He's curious about me in a way I don't expect from a straight guy.
Or as I quickly learn, maybe not so straight.
Before I know it, we're on a journey, exploring this wild, exciting part of Leif while I try to keep him safe from harm.
But the closer we get to one another, the more I wonder: what if it was all in my head?
What if no one's coming for him?
What if the real threat to Leif is me, the guy next door?
CW: The Guy Next Door is a steamy romantic suspense novel but contains content that may trigger some readers. Please use the "Look Inside" preview to view the complete CW at the start of the book. This warning contains spoilers for the novel.
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