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Old rivalry turns personal when the player who ended Owen Bosley’s career becomes the tenant living just next door.
One Last Try
LGBTQIA+ · Romance · Bisexual Romance · Gay Romance
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Old rivalry turns personal when the player who ended Owen Bosley’s career becomes the tenant living just next door. One Last Try follows a retired rugby legend and single dad forced into close quarters with the younger pro athlete tied to his past, as resentment gives way to attraction in a village that leaves little room to hide. This is a warm, slow-burn MM sports romance with forced proximity, emotional history, and small-town charm.
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When the rookie who ended your rugby career moves in next door.
Retired legend Owen Bosley is used to the quiet life. After a career ending injury eight years ago, Owen leaves it all behind in exchange for a fresh start. Now he’s the landlord of his local pub in a chocolate-box village. The Little Thatch is the heart of the community, but there’s one problem. The pub needs work… expensive renovation work, so to help pay for the repairs, Owen rents out his cottage and moves into the tiny apartment upstairs.
But nothing could prepare him for who would move in.
Pro rugby star Mathias Jones never expected to be signed to the one team whose fans despise him, but some opportunities are too good to pass up. A few months with the Centurions seem like an eternity, but Mathias is determined to see it through. He’s here to play rugby, not make friends.
Seeking refuge in the quiet countryside, Mathias figures he can escape the fallout from his mistakes and the crowds who insist on reminding him. But when he meets his new landlord, it’s clear that running from his past won’t be easy.
For the former rivals, finding common ground on opposite sides of the bar should be easier than on the field. But with Owen overwhelmed by renovations and Matthias fighting to prove himself on the team, the weight of their shared history may be one challenge too big to tackle.
One Last Try is an age gap MM rugby romance with a cheery single dad pub owner and a grumpy sportsman. Expect slow burn, forced proximity, a barrel of rugby puns, and a village full of hilarious punters. One Last Try is the first in the brand-new Try for Love series of interconnected rugby standalones.
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Maple farmer Sam Caldwell lives a quiet life in rural New Hampshire until he rescues Ben Marshall, a guarded city man fleeing loss.
Love Story
LGBTQIA+ · Romance · Gay Romance
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Maple farmer Sam Caldwell lives a quiet life in rural New Hampshire until he rescues Ben Marshall, a guarded city man fleeing loss. Snowbound days become shared routines, found family, and an unexpected pull. As Ben’s past resurfaces, both men must decide if home can be built together. Love Story is a tender small town romance from author RJ Scott.
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Love wasn’t on Sam Caldwell’s agenda until a city boy with haunted eyes and no coat crashed into his world.
As a fourth-generation maple farmer in Caldwell Crossing, New Hampshire, Sam is rooted in tradition, family, and a quiet life filled with woodsmoke, laughter, and loyal friends. But everything changes when he finds Ben Marshall half-frozen on the side of the road. Ben is sharp, guarded, and running from his past—yet there’s a pull between them that Sam can’t ignore.
Ben never expected to end up in a snowy New Hampshire town, especially not after losing everything in Boston. Forced to leave his career and reputation behind, he retreats to the one safe place left—his great-aunt Harriet’s home in Caldwell Crossing. But safety doesn’t mean peace, and the last thing he needs is to catch feelings for the grumpy, gentle farmer who rescued him.
As winter thaws and maple flows, so does something deeper between Sam and Ben—trust, laughter, and the terrifying possibility of love. But when Ben’s past threatens to drag him back under, can two men who’ve built walls around their hearts find the courage to create something together?
Love Story features a city boy starting over, a maple farmer rooted in tradition, found family, best friends, early mornings that turn into something more, and the kind of love that feels like coming home.
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A harmless lie about a serious relationship pulls two lifelong friends into unfamiliar territory.
Maybe We Can Fake It
LGBTQIA+ · Romance · Gay Romance
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A harmless lie about a serious relationship pulls two lifelong friends into unfamiliar territory. In Maybe We Can Fake It, small-town optimist Brenden Sanderson asks gruff loner Travis Reed to pose as his boyfriend for a family visit. As their arrangement deepens into something neither planned, this M/M romance explores chosen family, healing old wounds, and love that grows from friendship.
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Welcome to Mayweather...
Brenden Sanderson is known in his small town for his sunny personality and being friends with everyone. But when he accidentally tells his adopted daughter’s grandparents that he’s in a serious relationship right before they announce an unexpected visit, he goes into panic mode.
His longtime friend Travis Reed is known in town as a grumpy loner, but he has his reasons, and he also has a serious soft spot for Brenden. So when he offers to help Brenden out by being his fake boyfriend, Brenden isn’t going to turn him down.
What neither of them expect, though, is for fake boyfriends to turn into fake boyfriends with benefits, and then into something else that feels a lot less fake.
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In Burn It Down, firefighter Kade returns home with a young son to protect and never expects to face Spencer, the first boy who broke his heart.
Burn It Down
LGBTQIA+ · Romance · Bisexual Romance · Gay Romance
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In Burn It Down, firefighter Kade returns home with a young son to protect and never expects to face Spencer, the first boy who broke his heart. Spencer has rebuilt himself as a teacher who refuses to disappear again. Old wounds resurface as duty, parenthood, and second chances collide in a tender small town romance by Nicole Dykes.
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Kade
I’ve always wanted to be a firefighter, and I never thought I would become a father, but it turns out—I’m both.
And while being a firefighter was the only career I ever wanted—being a father has become my greatest destiny in this world.
Now I need to do everything I can to protect my son, even if that means going back to my hometown. I won’t let my son down, no matter what, and I will do my duty as a fireman.
Hopefully, I can do it without everything else burning down around me.
Spencer
I never expected to see Kade again—my high school crush and my biggest heartache in adolescence.
I’m not the same person I once was. I’m stronger now. I won’t allow myself to be invisible.
I love being a teacher, and nothing will stop me from being the best one I can be. But Kade coming back into town with his adorable young son in tow—makes it a challenge.
All I can hope is to get through this school year without going back to that unsure, terrified kid.
I have to remember who I am—and when that fear comes back, threatening my newfound confidence—I hope I’ll find the courage to burn it down to the ground and come back stronger than ever.
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Dylan fled Foxwood Hollow to escape years of unrequited longing for Axel, his brother’s best friend—and the alpha he’s never stopped wanting.
A Den Mate for Dylan
LGBTQIA+ · Gay Romance · Paranormal Romance
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Dylan fled Foxwood Hollow to escape years of unrequited longing for Axel, his brother’s best friend—and the alpha he’s never stopped wanting. Returning home reignites everything he tried to leave behind. For Axel, Dylan’s absence carved a void, and his return wakes instincts he’s denied for years. In their small fox-shifter town, longing and fate collide in a tender, slow-burn romance.
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Welcome to Foxwood Hollow. In a world of fox shifters sits a small, quaint town where everyone knows your business. Often stifling, always safe, and forever a place to call home.
Dylan
Axel is the love of my life; he just doesn’t know it yet.
Ten out of ten do not recommend spending your formative years pining after an alpha who’s your brother’s best friend. But alas, here we are.
My only solution is to leave Foxwood Hollow and start afresh. So what do I do when I have no choice but to return home, only to realise all of those years and miles haven’t doused the flame?
Axel
He’s your best friend’s little brother. He’s your best friend’s little brother.
It was a mantra I’d repeated to myself for years, ever since my brain had shifted from omega smells good to omega smells like mine.
I’m happy for Dylan when he leaves Foxwood Hollow to chase his dreams. I always knew he was destined for a life larger than this little town can offer him. But I feel his absence like a gaping chasm, and the silence that follows has my alpha instincts going into overdrive.
When Dylan finally comes home, a lot has changed. But the soul-deep longing is as present as ever.
Can I really let him slip through my fingers again?
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When a threat from his past resurfaces, a carefully rebuilt life begins to fracture.
The Allure of Ruins
LGBTQIA+ · Romance · Bisexual Romance · Gay Romance
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When a threat from his past resurfaces, a carefully rebuilt life begins to fracture. In The Allure of Ruins, Paxton Walsh turns to his closest friend and employer, Colton Gates, whose quiet devotion has long blurred the line between partnership and love. Forced into proximity and honesty, this M/M romance explores healing, loyalty, and the risk of choosing more.
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Paxton Walsh has a comfortable life, which wasn’t always the case. But ever since he left his tumultuous life on the West Coast, trading it for a new beginning on the East Coast, things have settled. He can thank himself for the change, but also his boss and friend, Colton Gates. Their relationship is…a bit too codependent and close for most people to understand, but it works perfectly for them. So what if thoughts can be conveyed with a glance? That doesn’t really mean anything. Or at least not what other people think.
But now a threat from Pax’s past is back, shattering that hard-won peace. With Pax in danger and needing protection, Colton immediately steps up and takes him in. Without distance, though, without retreating to separate homes, both men have to be honest about their feelings. The truth is, Pax was hurt, body and soul, and if he reaches for Colton and finds they can’t be more, he’ll lose everything. If Colton does the same and it doesn’t work, he’ll lose Pax, his best friend and the person who knows him better than anyone. With both of them terrified of the what-ifs, it might be too hard to have faith and jump. If only they could both be brave.
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Human detective Finn joins a vampire-only unit to escape the danger stalking him, but his new partner—ancient, irritable Marcus—wants him gone.
How to Vex a Vampire
Paranormal Romance · LGBTQIA+ · Gay Romance
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Human detective Finn joins a vampire-only unit to escape the danger stalking him, but his new partner—ancient, irritable Marcus—wants him gone. As threats to the human–vampire alliance escalate, their reluctant partnership turns into something deeper. With danger closing in, Finn and Marcus must protect each other in this sharp, romantic paranormal mystery from Alice Winters.
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Finn
Getting into the vampire-only detective unit was the easy part; what’s going to be more difficult is dealing with my new partner, an ancient vampire who keeps threatening to eat me. The unit has never had a human in it, and Marcus—or as I like to call him, Fangy McFangface—would really prefer to keep it that way. He’s grumpy, short-tempered, and broody, but I have a way with words and I know he’s starting to like me, even if he swears he’s not. But what he doesn’t know is that I didn’t join the unit because I was tired of being a homicide detective, I joined because there is someone after me. They’ve already taken enough from me and I’m afraid they’re going to take all of me if I don’t find someone to help. That’s all Marcus was supposed to be, but now, he’s so much more and I can’t imagine my life without him.
Marcus
The moment the pesky human walked through that door, I knew I had to get rid of him. He’s charming and almost everyone else instantly loves him, but he doesn’t understand how risky it is being part of this unit as a human. But as I get to know the stubborn man, I learn that perhaps he’s not as naive as I once thought. And maybe he’s what I needed to realize there is more to life than just work and my dog. A group arises who is threatening to disrupt the alliance between the humans and the vampires, but Finn is the one who shows me how strong that alliance can be and reminds me why it’s worth protecting. When threats hit closer to home, I realize I would do anything for Finn because he’s brought so much joy to my life—and because he’s mine.
This 105k word book contains: A creative use for undergarments, unintentional splits, a wolfhound who just wants to be a part of things, a vertically challenged human who still manages to wrap every vampire he meets around his little finger, the best date ever, possessiveness, really awkward dancing, some workplace revenge, and just a bite or two. Or three.
While the plot of the first book is tied up and completed, there's a minor cliffhanger that will be tied up in the second book.
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Atticus King rebuilt his life after Noah Rossi vanished without a word, burying the hurt that once consumed him.
Echoes of Us
LGBTQIA+ · Romance · Bisexual Romance · College Romance · Gay Romance · New Adult
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Atticus King rebuilt his life after Noah Rossi vanished without a word, burying the hurt that once consumed him. But when Noah returns two years later, the connection between them ignites again—along with the pain he left behind. As they confront addiction, heartbreak, and the truth of why Noah disappeared, they must decide whether love is worth the risk of breaking again.
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Atticus King had his life mapped out—train hard, play volleyball, keep to himself. That is, until Noah Rossi burst onto the scene: charismatic, impulsive, a storm that tore through Atticus’s carefully built walls and set his world on fire. They didn’t fit—Noah was everything Atticus wasn’t—but somehow, they found a rhythm in their shared love for the game and an undeniable pull toward each other. It was everything Atticus never knew he wanted.
But just as quickly as Noah entered his life, he disappeared. No explanation. No goodbye. Only silence that left Atticus drowning in confusion and pain.
Two years later, Noah walks back into Atticus’s world as if nothing ever happened, stirring up old feelings Atticus has tried to bury. The bond they shared is undeniable, but so is the hurt that lingers beneath the surface. Why did Noah leave? And can they rebuild something from the shattered pieces of their past?
Love isn’t easy. But for Atticus and Noah, it might be the only thing worth fighting for.
An MM story about real love—messy, complicated, and raw. About addiction, toxic relationships, and the struggle to claw your way out of the trenches. About facing the truth, even when it’s ugly. About second chances that may or may not come with new heartbreak.
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Murder, inheritance, and a garden that sounds extremely interested in human blood.
Hazelthorn
Horror · LGBTQIA+ · Teen + Young Adult · Bisexual Romance · Body Horror · Gay Romance
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Murder, inheritance, and a garden that sounds extremely interested in human blood. This gothic horror throws Evander back into the orbit of the boy who once tried to kill him just as he inherits a sprawling estate, a fortune, and what appears to be a very alive botanical nightmare. With family secrets rotting at the roots and danger creeping through the walls, this one delivers body horror, obsession, and deeply unsettling atmosphere in equal measure.
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AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!
CG Drews, instant New York Times-bestselling author of Don't Let the Forest In, returns with another deeply unsettling and yet hauntingly beautiful tale of murder and botanical body horror, perfect for fans of Andrew Joseph White, Annihilation, and We Have Always Lived in the Castle.
Evander has lived like a ghost in the forgotten corners of the Hazelthorn estate ever since he was taken in by his reclusive billionaire guardian, Byron Lennox-Hall, when he was a child. For his safety, Evander has been given three ironclad rules to follow:
He can never leave the estate. He can never go into the gardens. And most importantly, he can never again be left alone with Byron's charming, underachieving grandson, Laurie.
That last rule has been in place ever since Laurie tried to kill Evander seven years ago, and yet somehow Evander is still obsessed with him.
When Byron suddenly dies, Evander inherits Hazelthorn’s immense gothic mansion and acres of sprawling grounds, along with the entirety of the Lennox-Hall family's vast wealth. But Evander's sure his guardian was murdered, and Laurie may be the only one who can help him find the killer before they come for Evander next.
Perhaps even more concerning is how the overgrown garden is refusing to stay behind its walls, slipping its vines and spores deeper into the house with each passing day. As the family’s dark secrets unravel alongside the growing horror of their terribly alive, bloodthirsty garden, Evander needs to find out what he’s really inheriting before the garden demands to be fed once more.
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A warm fit for readers who like historical queer romance, baseball, grumpy/sunshine dynamics, and emotionally grounded found family.
You Should Be So Lucky
LGBTQIA+ · Romance · Gay Romance · Historical Romance
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During the 1960 baseball season, struggling shortstop Eddie O'Leary is assigned to give interviews to Mark Bailey, an arts reporter reluctantly covering his story. Their connection develops into a slow-burn queer romance shaped by grief and found family, with a 4.3-star average from more than 19,300 Goodreads ratings. A warm fit for readers who like historical queer romance, baseball, grumpy/sunshine dynamics, and emotionally grounded found family.
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An emotional, slow-burn, grumpy/sunshine, queer mid-century romance for fans of Evvie Drake Starts Over, about grief and found family, between the new star shortstop stuck in a batting slump and the reporter assigned to (reluctantly) cover his first season—set in the same universe as We Could Be So Good.
The 1960 baseball season is shaping up to be the worst year of Eddie O’Leary’s life. He can’t manage to hit the ball, his new teammates hate him, he’s living out of a suitcase, and he’s homesick. When the team’s owner orders him to give a bunch of interviews to some snobby reporter, he’s ready to call it quits. He can barely manage to behave himself for the length of a game, let alone an entire season. But he’s already on thin ice, so he has no choice but to agree.
Mark Bailey is not a sports reporter. He writes for the arts page, and these days he’s barely even managing to do that much. He’s had a rough year and just wants to be left alone in his too-empty apartment, mourning a partner he’d never been able to be public about. The last thing he needs is to spend a season writing about New York’s obnoxious new shortstop in a stunt to get the struggling newspaper more readers.
Isolated together within the crush of an anonymous city, these two lonely souls orbit each other as they slowly give in to the inevitable gravity of their attraction. But Mark has vowed that he’ll never be someone’s secret ever again, and Eddie can’t be out as a professional athlete. It’s just them against the world, and they’ll both have to decide if that’s enough.
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When Cael Amuletos uses forbidden healing magic to save a stranger, he’s forced into the capital to survive deadly mage examinations and earn the right to practice openly.
The King’s Man
LGBTQIA+ · Romantasy · Gay Romance
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When Cael Amuletos uses forbidden healing magic to save a stranger, he’s forced into the capital to survive deadly mage examinations and earn the right to practice openly. Court intrigue, rising threats, and a prince with secrets complicate his path—but it’s Quin, the brilliant, infuriating scholar at his side, who unsettles him most. A slow-burn MM romantasy filled with danger, wit, and simmering tension.
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He heals the dying. The kingdom calls it heresy.
When Cael Amuletos breaks the law to save a noble in the royal woods, he exposes the one thing he can’t afford to reveal: his forbidden gift for healing magic. Hunted by the law and crushed by family debts, Cael’s only way out is unthinkable: slip into the capital, survive the mage examinations, and win the right to heal in daylight.
Cael owes a life-debt to the man he saved, now revealed as a prince with secrets…and enemies. But it’s Quin, the razor-tongued scholar, who gets under his skin. Privileged, infuriating, dazzling. And the only mind that keeps pace when the tests turn lethal. He matches Cael thought for thought—and may risk his future to keep Cael alive.
THE KING’S MAN is an MM slow-burn romantasy of forbidden magic, court intrigue, perilous trials, found family, a protective prince ally, and rivals-to-lovers tension that simmers across the series: all tension, no insta-love. Book One delivers a complete adventure arc; the Cael×Quin slow burn deepens book by book toward a series-long HEA.
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A reckless escape leads to a mark that refuses to fade.
Bite Marks & Broken Hearts
LGBTQIA+ · Gay Romance · Paranormal Romance
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A reckless escape leads to a mark that refuses to fade. After a demon encounter leaves Flynn bound to dark magic, survival hinges on the protection of Sebastián, a vampire who enforces order in London’s supernatural shadows. As danger closes in, attraction complicates duty. This MM paranormal romance blends urban fantasy, supernatural crime, and emotionally charged tension with a slow burn bond forged under threat.
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How to destroy your life:
- Leave Ireland in the dead of night to flee to London;
- Get yourself dragged into an alley by a demon, marked, and doomed to die;
- Gain a mysterious, fatally attractive stalker/saviour. One with strangely sharp teeth…
Flynn
I never asked for this.
Okay, maybe a little. After all, the demon was undeniably hot–the perfect way to mend my broken heart.
But I certainly didn’t sign up to become his prey–because now my chest burns with ice as dark magic grows inside me… and he’ll be back to collect it.
Thankfully, I have a saviour. Tall, dark and handsome, though his vintage dress sense is slightly pretentious and his aversion to sunlight is a bit strange…
But if he keeps looking at me like I'm something worth devouring, I might just let him.
What's one more bad decision?
Sebastián
Five centuries has taught me three rules: stay detached, stay focused, and never, never feel too much.
I built Killigrew Street to control London's supernatural underbelly. We keep order in the shadows, we maintain the balance, and we absolutely do not rescue pretty Irish boys and lock them up in our hotel.
Except, apparently, we do now.
He's marked. He's stubborn. He has an infuriating habit of throwing himself headfirst into danger with zero self-preservation. And he’s my problem to solve.
When my protective instincts quickly twist into feelings, I know I should walk away.
But my cold, dead heart seems to have other ideas.
For how long can I keep my true vampiric nature from him?
In the meantime, at least watching him try to figure out why everyone keeps making bat jokes in front of me is… admittedly entertaining.
Bite Marks and Broken Hearts is an adult MM PNR romance. It contains one touch-starved, emotionally guarded vampire, the golden retriever human who’s determined to break down his walls, a found family like no other, snarky wolves, sizzling scenes, some serious fang action, and a HEA.
The Killigrew Street Case Files is a series of standalone paranormal romances where family is forged in the shadows. Each story features a different couple and mystery, connected by their growing supernatural team and overarching plot threads.
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