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An aspiring detective goes undercover in a powerful crime family and finds herself drawn to the one man she should never trust.
Take Me Apart
Romance · LGBTQIA+ · Dark Romance · Erotica · Gay Romance
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An aspiring detective goes undercover in a powerful crime family and finds herself drawn to the one man she should never trust. Lies, danger, and forbidden attraction collide in Take Me Apart, a dark mafia romance with 4.3 stars on Amazon and strong reader acclaim for its heat and high stakes.
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I have only one goal in life: Become a detective. It’s there, just out of reach, so close I can taste it. When I find out the Vitale family is about to be investigated again, I do what I do best.
Jump in head first.
There’s just one problem; Enzo Vitale. The man is red hot danger, every word a dare from his lips. And I never was one to turn away from a challenge…
But when things get rough, lies reign and deceit is around every corner. I find myself drawn to the one man I should be running from. The criminal whose hands are bathed in blood.
Am I falling for the enemy?
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A confident seducer sets his sights on a newly divorced bartender who wants nothing to do with desire or labels.
Try
LGBTQIA+ · Romance · Bisexual Romance · Erotica · Gay Romance
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A confident seducer sets his sights on a newly divorced bartender who wants nothing to do with desire or labels. As attraction ignites, both men are forced to question who they are and what they want. Try is a sizzling contemporary romance with 4.4 stars on Amazon and strong reader acclaim for its intensity.
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Try – verb: to make an attempt or effort to do something or in this case…someone.
Sex. Logan Mitchell loves it, and ever since he realized his raw sexual appeal at a young age, he has had no problem using it to his advantage. Men and women alike fall into his bed—after all, Logan is not one to discriminate. He lives by one motto—if something interests you, why not just take a chance and try?
And he wants to try Tate Morrison.
Just coming out of a four-year marriage with an ex-wife from hell, a relationship is the last thing on Tate’s mind. He’s starting fresh and trying to get back on his feet with a new job at an upscale bar in downtown Chicago.
The only problem is, Tate has caught the unwavering and unwelcome attention of Mr. Logan Mitchell – a regular at the bar and a man who always gets what he wants.
Night after night Tate fends off the persistent advances of the undeniably charismatic man, but after an explosive moment in the bar, all bets are off as he finds his body stirring with a different desire than his mind.
As arrogance, stubbornness and sexual tension sizzles between the two, it threatens to change the very course of their lives.
Logan doesn’t do relationships. Tate doesn’t do men. But what would happen if they both just gave in and…tried?
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On the run his whole life, Sebastian never expected fate to bind him to Liam, a powerful alpha werewolf.
Witchblood
LGBTQIA+ · Romantasy · Gay Romance
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On the run his whole life, Sebastian never expected fate to bind him to Liam, a powerful alpha werewolf. As magic ignites and past dangers resurface, fox and wolf must stand together against monsters and demons threatening their bond. Witchblood blends fate, magic, and M/M paranormal romance in a high-stakes clash of worlds.
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Sparks fly as magic and fate collide
Sebastian has always been the outsider, a fox raised among wolves. He's survived on his wit, magic, and instincts, but he's always on the run. That is until he meets Liam, the alpha werewolf, who’s commanding and powerful presence Sebastian cannot resist.
There’s magic between them, a spark of something beyond a fox or a wolf; an awakening energy only fate could create. But their happiness is short-lived when Sebastian's dark past comes back to haunt him, unleashing a threat they cannot ignore.
Together they face rogue wolves, fae monsters and even demons who threaten their newfound bond. Can they unite their different worlds and fight this evil force, or will their love be torn apart by the darkness that seeks to destroy them?
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Returning home to solve a toymaker’s murder, investigator Valentine Anzio is drawn back into old wounds and a dangerous attraction to the suspect’s son.
The Toymaker’s Son
LGBTQIA+ · Romantasy · Dark Romance · Gay Romance
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Returning home to solve a toymaker’s murder, investigator Valentine Anzio is drawn back into old wounds and a dangerous attraction to the suspect’s son. As secrets tighten and time runs out, truth and love hang in the balance. A dark, twisty fantasy mystery praised on Goodreads for its unsettling imagination.
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"Woven with dark fantasy and intricate twists and turns, this story was an absolute delight." ~ Zakiyya, Goodreads.
"Wow. This dark, twisty tale, loosely based on Pinocchio will, without a doubt, enthrall and entrap you." ~ Lara, Goodreads.
"This book was a complete and utter mind f*ck." ~ Jacqueleene, Goodreads.
Patience, little puppet. The night is long, and we have just begun.
After the suspicious death of Jacapo, the well-loved toymaker, criminal investigator Valentine Anzio returns to his hometown of Minerva to help solve the suspected murder.
He’d hoped never to go back. Perhaps things have changed and the nightmares won't plague him. Perhaps Devere, the aloof and alluring toymaker’s son, won’t remember the kiss Valentine gave him all those years ago, and perhaps Valentine will keep the pieces of his fractured heart intact…
But it soon becomes clear, little has changed in Minerva. The powerful, handsome lord who’s paying Valentine desires more than the truth, and the toymaker’s son isn’t as guilty as the whole town appears to believe.
If truth, justice, and a second chance at a lost love are to prevail, Valentine must discover who killed Jacapo the toymaker, or the lonely, brilliant, and enchanting Devere, will hang.
The clock is ticking, and this time, a broken heart is the least of what Valentine stands to lose.
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Abducted into a moonlit realm, Luke is claimed as the Dark Companion of a dangerous elven prince bound by fate and shadows.
Taken by the Lord of the Nocturne Court
LGBTQIA+ · Romantasy · Dark Romance · Erotica · Gay Romance
Our take
Abducted into a moonlit realm, Luke is claimed as the Dark Companion of a dangerous elven prince bound by fate and shadows. As a forced union approaches, captivity blurs into temptation and fear into desire. A dark gothic M/M romantasy filled with peril, obsession, and reluctant attraction from K.A. Merikan.
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“I am yours, and I can be your prince as well as your beast.”
Luke
I’m your typical small-town loser stuck in a dead-end job. Single, because dating is for well-adjusted human beings, not traumatized gay boys with trust issues. All I want is to leave my past behind and finally start living.
My wish comes true in the most bizarre way imaginable. One evening, a beautiful man with pointy ears and flowing dark locks appears out of nowhere. He proclaims I am to be his ‘Dark Companion’ based on some stupid deal I made in a dream. Oh, and apparently he’s an elven prince, the Lord of Shadows, Protector of the Nightmare Realm and Knight of Grief Ocean.
Which is a weird way to ask me out, but okay.
It’s a hard no from me, but this absolute psycho abducts me to his palace in a moonlit realm populated by vicious beasts and backstabbing courtiers.
If I am to ever get back home, I need to adapt, because our full moon wedding is approaching fast. I can’t allow myself to buy into his seductive kisses, poet shirts made of spider silk and bouquets of sapphire roses. They hide poison and deception. A gilded cage is still a prison.
But…
What if I just never realized that what I need is a man with a cruel smile and a sword dipped in midnight? A man with secrets, and scars, and smoky eyes, and a past filled with darkness, and… have I mentioned he has a big d—
“Taken by the Lord of the Nocturne Court” is a standalone, scorching hot, dark gothic M/M romantasy filled with snark and dark humor, but also violence, peril, jealousy, and angst.
The book is a darkly romantic escape into the shadows where love and destiny collide. Dive into the pages to discover if a gilded cage can become a home when shared with a seductive elven prince devoted to his Dark Companion’s every wish.
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He writes monster romance for a living.
Claimed By The Orc Emperor
LGBTQIA+ · Romantasy · Gay Romance
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He writes monster romance for a living. Monsters are supposed to stay fictional. Then he crosses into another world and meets a powerful, devastatingly attractive orc emperor who wants him as his mate. What starts as fantasy turns very real in this playful, spicy portal romance packed with humor, desire, and unapologetic monster-loving energy.
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As a monster smut romance author, my life is writing about creatures that only exist in my imagination ravaging humans and making them fall in love with them. It's a fantasy of mine to be ravaged by a monster, but they're not real. My collection of...erm, toys is as close as I'll get to being with a real live monster.
That is, until I cross a barrier I had no idea exited and landed in a world that shouldn't be. There, I meet the most handsome orc I've ever laid eyes on.
Orcs exist! And one of them wants to claim me as his.
Claimed by the Orc Emperor is book one in a multi-author series, Orc Mate Selection. While it can be read as a standalone, this series has an overarching plot, so they are best read in order.
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Best Man follows control-loving agency boss Zeb Evans, whose orderly life unravels when he asks his chaotic employee Jesse Reed to fake being his boyfriend at a wedding.
Best Man
LGBTQIA+ · Romance · Gay Romance
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Best Man follows control-loving agency boss Zeb Evans, whose orderly life unravels when he asks his chaotic employee Jesse Reed to fake being his boyfriend at a wedding. What starts as a convenient arrangement quickly challenges Zeb’s rules, defenses, and assumptions about love, age, and power. This warm, funny romance explores vulnerability, opposites, and the risk of letting go.
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Zeb Evans doesn’t do messy.
The product of a disorganised and chaotic childhood, Zeb likes order and control, and as the boss of his own employment agency he can give that to himself. Life runs along strict lines and he never mixes business with pleasure. Everything in his life lives in neat, alphabetized boxes. Until Jesse.
Jesse Reed is Zeb’s complete opposite. He’s chaos personified. A whirling cyclone of disorder. He’s also charming and funny and a very unwanted distraction. Which is why it comes as a complete surprise to Zeb to find himself asking Jesse to pose as his boyfriend for a few days in the country at a wedding.
Zeb doesn’t do impulsive, but as the time away progresses, he finds himself increasingly drawn to the merry and irreverent Jesse. But can he bring himself to break the hard-won lessons he’s learnt in life? And even if he can, how could Jesse be attracted to him anyway? He’s so much older than Jesse, not to mention being his boss.
From the bestselling author of the Mixed Messages and Finding Home series comes a warm and funny romance about one man’s fight for control and another man’s determination to circumvent it.
This is the first book in the Close Proximity series, but it can be read as a standalone.
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Ronan follows a monster warrior who helped conquer Earth and now survives in the ruined world left behind.
Ronan
Dystopian · LGBTQIA+ · Romance · Gay Romance
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Ronan follows a monster warrior who helped conquer Earth and now survives in the ruined world left behind. When he discovers the Mate’s Mark on his skin, prophecy becomes real for the first time in generations. Bound to a human fated mate, Ronan must confront guilt, survival, and the possibility of healing a planet broken by war.
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It's been almost a century since the veil fell and monsters invaded the world. We didn't give the humans an opportunity to retaliate as we charged in and took over, and I was at the head of the front lines with my sword in hand. A perfect soldier, fighting the battles that ultimately put my people in charge of this planet. Half of humanity was slaughtered, and in the decades since the invasion, things have only gotten worse. Tensions between the rebel humans and monsters grew as the climate changed, and temperatures rose as resources dwindled. The sun scorched away plants and trees, leaving behind a husk of a planet where everyone fights for survival.
The Fates were furious at our violence, and now we're trapped inside the hell we created.
We've all heard tale of the Mate's Mark, and how we're destined to find our fated mate. One human, one monster - foretold to be the cure to this cursed world and repair the damage that has been done. What was once the cause of curiosity and intrigue has turned into nothing more than a mockery. Decades have passed, and not a single pair of fated mates had been found.
Until now.
Until me.
Until the night I pull off my armor and find the mark staring back.
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Unclaimed follows Frost, who flees heartbreak for a quiet cabin and stumbles into a hidden supernatural world.
Unclaimed
LGBTQIA+ · Gay Romance · Paranormal Romance
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Unclaimed follows Frost, who flees heartbreak for a quiet cabin and stumbles into a hidden supernatural world. When Gemini, a snow leopard shifter, realizes Frost is his fated mate, starting over becomes far more complicated than planned. As danger and destiny collide, both must face what it means to belong to each other.
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A terrible breakup sent Frost scrambling across the country for a new start. He never expected to find a whole new existence. One he didn’t believe was real.
After getting brutally dumped by his longtime boyfriend, Frost found himself nearly three thousand miles away from everything he had ever known. He isn’t afraid to start over, but he might be a tad terrified of the wildlife that suddenly plagues him. When he bought his cabin in the middle of nowhere, the realtor warned him he might see a few dangerous creatures. She didn’t warn him about Gemini.
From their first meeting, Gemini knows Frost is his fated mate. There’s just something about his scent. Unfortunately, Frost is human, and Goddess Celeste also obviously has a sense of humor, sending a snow leopard a mate named Frost. Gemini has no idea what he’s doing, but he’ll do it anyhow. Living without his mate isn’t an option he’s willing to choose.
Unclaimed is the first book in Charity Parkerson’s Devilish series. It is a spinoff of her Hellish series, where vampires, Weres, demons, gods, and all manner of the supernatural live together beneath the noses of humankind. These books are best when read in order.
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No Quick Fix pairs a retired SEAL searching for purpose with a widowed father struggling to keep his family together.
No Quick Fix
LGBTQIA+ · Romance · Gay Romance
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No Quick Fix pairs a retired SEAL searching for purpose with a widowed father struggling to keep his family together. Hired as a protector and caregiver, Brann Calder becomes something far more essential to Emery Dodd and his daughters. As duty, desire, and responsibility collide, both men must confront what a real future might cost.
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A retired SEAL is about to face his toughest assignment yet. As a nanny…
Fixer. Bodyguard. Advocate. Brann Calder is expected to play all these roles and more as a member of Torus Intercession, a security firm guaranteed to right what’s wrong. In the military, catastrophe was his specialty. Five months out of the service, Brann is still finding his way, so a new assignment might be just what he needs. Unless it includes two things sure to make a seasoned, battle-trained veteran nervous: life in a small town, and playing caregiver to two little girls.
Emery Dodd is drowning in the responsibility of single fatherhood. He’s picked up the pieces after losing his wife and is ready to move on now, hopeful that his engagement to a local patriarch’s daughter will not only enrich his community but will grant his daughters some stability too.
The only thing standing in Emery’s way is that he can’t seem to keep his eyes—and hands—off the former soldier he’s hired to watch his girls until the wedding.
Emery’s future is riding on his upcoming nuptials, but being with Brann makes him and his family feel whole again. Too bad there’s no way for them to be together.
Or is there?
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When wonder becomes a cage, love demands a choice that costs everything.
When the Tides Held the Moon
Romantasy · LGBTQIA+ · Teen + Young Adult · Gay Romance
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When wonder becomes a cage, love demands a choice that costs everything. In 1910s New York, a Puerto Rican blacksmith joins a Coney Island sideshow and forms a bond with Río, a captive merman whose quiet intelligence reshapes his sense of belonging. As affection deepens, the pull between found family, moral reckoning, and impossible love defines this cozy historical fantasy with a gentle, aching heart.
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The Shape of Water meets The Greatest Showman in this beautifully illustrated queer historical cozy fantasy, as a young Puerto Rican immigrant goes through a journey of love and self-discovery after capturing a merman for a Coney Island sideshow act in turn-of-the 20th century New York.
"A lushly illustrated historical romance . . . This book is a charming fable — an elemental dance of fire and water." ―THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
A Goodreads Choice Awards Finalist | BookRiot Best Books of the Year | Amazon Best Romantasy of the Year | Reader's Digest Top 10 of the Year
Benigno “Benny” Caldera knows an orphaned Boricua blacksmith in 1910s New York City can’t call himself an artist. But the ironwork tank he creates for famed Coney Island playground, Luna Park, astounds everyone, especially the eccentric side-show proprietor who commissioned it. Benny’s work earns him an invitation to join the show’s eclectic crew of performers—his first welcome in the city—and share in their astonishing secret: the tank Benny built is a cage for their newest exhibit, a living, breathing, in-the-flesh merman stolen from the banks of the East River under a gleaming full moon.
The merman is more than a mythic marvel, though. Benny comes to know Río as a clever philosopher, an observant traveler, and a kindred spirit more beautiful and compassionate than any human he’s ever met. Despite their different worlds, what begins as a friendship of necessity deepens to love, leading Benny’s heart into uncharted waters where he can no longer ignore the agonizing truth of Río’s captivity—and his own.
A cage is no place for a merman to survive. Though releasing Río means betraying his new family, bankrupting their home, and losing his soulmate forever, Benny must look within for the courage to do what’s right, and find a love strong enough to free them both.
“This is the start of something special.” —TJ KLUNE, New York Times bestselling author of The House in the Cerulean Sea
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At Hawksview University, two deeply scarred souls are drawn together by shared pain and quiet understanding.
Shattered Ice
LGBTQIA+ · Romance · Bisexual Romance · Gay Romance
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At Hawksview University, two deeply scarred souls are drawn together by shared pain and quiet understanding. As Bohdi and the woman who sees past his walls grow closer, healing feels possible but never guaranteed. Old wounds threaten fragile trust, forcing them to confront whether love can mend what life has broken. Shattered Ice is an emotional new adult romance by P.S. Black.
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Hawksview University Series is written as an interconnected character series. If you were thinking of reading my Lost & Found Duet, I would suggest reading this first. Shattered Ice will give all the spoilers for my duet. Although you don't have to, you do get a deeper understanding of Bohdi who is the MMC in Shattered Ice.
What happens when two broken souls collide?
Do the damaged pieces have the power to make each other complete?
Or is their fate to be shattered?
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