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Heir to a powerful empire, Ash Langley lives by control until Ethan Bennett enters his life and challenges everything he knows.
When We Ignite
LGBTQIA+ · Romance · Gay Romance
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Heir to a powerful empire, Ash Langley lives by control until Ethan Bennett enters his life and challenges everything he knows. Their connection is undeniable—and forbidden. Desire soon becomes danger as passion threatens to destroy them both. Alex Cross’s When We Ignite is a raw, addictive romance of power, longing, and impossible choices.
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Ash Langley has spent his life defined by duty and expectation. Heir to a corporate empire, he hides his loneliness behind control and composure. Ethan Bennett, fifteen years younger and still finding his place in the world, wants freedom more than anything—until he meets the one man he cannot have.
Their connection is electric and forbidden. Each glance, each stolen moment, blurs the line between what is right and what feels inevitable. As passion ignites into obsession, secrets threaten to destroy everything they both hold dear.
In When We Ignite, Alex Cross crafts an intense, emotional romance about power, vulnerability, and desire that defies convention. The first in a duet, it burns with longing, heartbreak, and impossible love.
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Paris Daillencourt Is About to Crumble centers on the quiet pressure of self-doubt and the fear of being seen.
Paris Daillencourt Is About to Crumble
LGBTQIA+ · Romance · Gay Romance · RomCom
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Paris Daillencourt Is About to Crumble centers on the quiet pressure of self-doubt and the fear of being seen. Thrust onto a televised baking competition, Paris finds unexpected connection alongside public scrutiny that amplifies his worst anxieties. As confidence and romance develop unevenly, the novel explores vulnerability, internalized shame, and the emotional cost of believing you must earn your own worth.
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From the bestselling author of Boyfriend Material comes a sweet and scrumptious romantic comedy about facing your insecurities, finding love, and baking it off, no matter what people say.
Paris Daillencourt is a recipe for disaster. Despite his passion for baking, his cat, and his classics degree, constant self-doubt and second-guessing have left him a curdled, directionless mess. So when his roommate enters him in Bake Expectations, the nation’s favourite baking show, Paris is sure he’ll be the first one sent home.
But not only does he win week one’s challenge—he meets fellow contestant Tariq Hassan. Sure, he’s the competition, but he’s also cute and kind, with more confidence than Paris could ever hope to have. Still, neither his growing romance with Tariq nor his own impressive bakes can keep Paris’s fear of failure from spoiling his happiness. And when the show’s vicious fanbase confirms his worst anxieties, Paris’s confidence is torn apart quicker than tear-and-share bread.
But if Paris can find the strength to face his past, his future, and the chorus of hecklers that live in his brain, he’ll realize it’s the sweet things in life that he really deserves.
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A reality dating show producer and his awkward star find love where the cameras aren’t looking.
The Charm Offensive
LGBTQIA+ · Romance · Gay Romance
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A reality dating show producer and his awkward star find love where the cameras aren’t looking. The Charm Offensive by Alison Cochrun is a smart, swoony rom-com about authenticity, anxiety, and rewriting the rules of romance. A BuzzFeed and Entertainment Weekly Best Book pick with 4.6 stars on Amazon, this queer love story is pure joy.
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Dev Deshpande makes fairy tales for a living. As the star producer of Ever After, a hit reality dating show, he’s built a career out of crafting love stories—even if his own is perpetually off-script. Then comes Charlie Winshaw, a disgraced tech genius cast as the season’s reluctant prince. Awkward, anxious, and hopelessly bad at romance, Charlie is Dev’s biggest challenge yet.
But behind the cameras, sparks start flying in all the wrong directions. As the two men navigate scripted love, unscripted feelings, and the expectations of millions of viewers, they’ll have to decide which story is truly theirs.
Witty, heartfelt, and impossible not to root for, Alison Cochrun’s The Charm Offensive earned rave reviews and EW and BuzzFeed Best Book honors.
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Perfect for fans of Red, White & Royal Blue and The Princess Diaries.
The Rules of Royalty
LGBTQIA+ · Romance · Teen + Young Adult · Gay Romance
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In The Rules of Royalty by Cale Dietrich (4.6 out of 5 stars), a newly discovered American prince falls for the man meant to train him in royal decorum. Set against glittering palaces and high-stakes politics, this swoony MM romance delivers wit, warmth, and forbidden attraction. Perfect for fans of Red, White & Royal Blue and The Princess Diaries.
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Jamie Johnson never expected to be royal. One minute he’s an ordinary American; the next, he’s the secret heir to the sun-soaked throne of Mitanor. Whisked into a world of palaces, press conferences, and impossible expectations, Jamie has to learn how to be a prince—fast. Enter Erik Lindstrom, the reserved, perfectly polished spare prince of a northern kingdom, assigned to teach Jamie the rules of royalty.
But when lessons in etiquette turn into stolen glances and late-night confidences, friendship begins to blur into something far more dangerous. Love between princes could cost them everything—their duty, their futures, even their crowns.
Cale Dietrich’s The Rules of Royalty is a dazzling royal romance full of heart, humor, and irresistible slow-burn chemistry.
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In Jackdaw by KJ Charles (4.5 out of 5 stars), a disgraced constable and the thief who betrayed him are forced into a dangerous alliance on the run…
Jackdaw
LGBTQIA+ · Gay Romance
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In Jackdaw by KJ Charles (4.5 out of 5 stars), a disgraced constable and the thief who betrayed him are forced into a dangerous alliance on the run from the law—and from their past. Taut, emotional, and steeped in magic, this MM fantasy romance delivers heartbreak, heat, and second chances from one of the genre’s best.
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Jonah Pastern lives by sleight of hand and quick escapes. A magician, thief, and windwalker, he’s made a career out of deception—and once made a mistake out of love. Six months with constable Ben Spenser nearly changed him, until betrayal tore them apart and left Ben imprisoned and broken.
Now Ben is out, ruined but unbowed, and ready to make Jonah pay. But revenge turns to reckoning when a shared past pulls them both into danger. Hunted by the law, betrayed by allies, and haunted by what they once were, Jonah and Ben must decide whether love can survive the wreckage of their lies.
KJ Charles’s Jackdaw is a lush, thrilling MM romance where magic, danger, and redemption collide.
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Perfect for fans of morally complex worlds and tender, dangerous romance.
The Spoils of Victory
LGBTQIA+ · Romantasy · Gay Romance
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In The Spoils of Victory by Jem Blackwing (4.6 out of 5 stars), a battle-scarred soldier inherits a war prize who tempts him toward ruin. This dark MM fantasy romance weaves forbidden desire, political intrigue, and haunting secrets into a slow-burn tale of love and rebellion. Perfect for fans of morally complex worlds and tender, dangerous romance.
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After twenty years of fighting for an empire that owns him, Damon finally earns his freedom—and an unwanted gift that could destroy it. Among his spoils is a scarred, silent man meant as an insult, a living reminder of everything Damon despises about war. But refusing the gift would mean his death at his brother’s jealous hands.
Rumors about Damon’s forbidden desires have haunted him for years, and in the ruthless Azurian Empire, loving another man is a crime punishable by exile or worse. Yet every glance from his captive stirs the hunger he’s spent a lifetime denying.
As secrets buried in blood and scars begin to surface, Damon must choose between safety and the one forbidden thing that could set him free.
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An assassin walks down the aisle toward the man he was raised to kill.
Betrothed to the Emperor
LGBTQIA+ · Romantasy · Gay Romance
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An assassin walks down the aisle toward the man he was raised to kill. Prince Airón enters the imperial court under orders to murder Emperor Tallu and save his homeland, but the newly crowned ruler chooses him as consort instead of his sister. Forced into proximity with a dangerous sovereign who suspects everything, Airón must navigate court intrigue, shifting loyalties, and a slow-burn enemies-to-lovers dynamic within a high-stakes political fantasy.
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I was born to kill the emperor, but first, I must marry him.
I trained as an assassin while my twin sister trained to be the empress. My life will be forfeit once I murder the most powerful man on the continent, but I have no choice. If I fail, the Imperium will consume our nation and anyone who rises against them.
Too soon, we walk into the glittering imperial court, each step taking us closer to the dangerous man on the black throne, my sister’s future husband, the newly crowned Emperor of the Southern Imperium. Emperor Tallu has more spies than fish in the sea. He poisoned his own father to secure the golden crown.
When his sharp eyes skim over us, they don’t catch on my sister. They land on me, his killer.
“I choose you, Prince Airón of the Northern Kingdom. You will be my consort.” Tallu’s smile is mirthless. “Or I will reduce your entire nation to ashes.”
Betrothed to the Emperor ends with more story to tell, but the characters end on a HFN.
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In Call Me by Your Name by André Aciman (4.4 out of 5 stars), a life-changing romance unfolds between a young man and his family’s summer guest on…
Call Me by Your Name
LGBTQIA+ · Literary Fiction · Gay Romance
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In Call Me by Your Name by André Aciman (4.4 out of 5 stars), a life-changing romance unfolds between a young man and his family’s summer guest on the Italian Riviera. Winner of the Lambda Literary Award and basis for the Oscar-winning film, this modern classic captures desire, identity, and the haunting beauty of first love.
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In the golden light of an Italian summer, seventeen-year-old Elio lives a quiet life of music, books, and sun-drenched days at his family’s seaside villa. Then Oliver arrives—a confident, magnetic American scholar who turns Elio’s world inside out. What begins as curiosity becomes a slow-burning connection that defies reason and convention.
As desire deepens into love, both are pulled toward an impossible choice: yield to what they feel or protect themselves from heartbreak. Amid lush gardens, long afternoons, and fleeting glances, their bond becomes an unforgettable exploration of identity, intimacy, and the ache of first love.
Call Me by Your Name by André Aciman is a lyrical, devastating portrait of passion and memory that lingers long after summer fades.
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Kit Vincent’s Love Immortal is a haunting queer gothic romance for fans of dark academia and forbidden desire.
Love Immortal
LGBTQIA+ · Gay Romance · Paranormal Romance
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At an elite Vermont college, Jonathan Evergreen’s world changes when his advisor vanishes and a magnetic new professor takes his place. As romance blooms, students begin to disappear, and Jonathan must face a deadly secret. Kit Vincent’s Love Immortal is a haunting queer gothic romance for fans of dark academia and forbidden desire.
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Some secrets are written in blood.
At an elite college hidden in the Vermont woods, Jonathan Evergreen dreams of restoring ancient books and rebuilding his life after being cast out by his family. But when his trusted advisor disappears and a mysterious new professor, Dacian Bathory, takes his place, Jonathan’s world begins to unravel.
Drawn to Dacian by a connection he cannot explain, Jonathan is soon entangled in a series of strange disappearances and brutal deaths that lead back to the college’s shadowed halls. Desire and danger blur as Jonathan uncovers the truth about Dacian’s past—and the darkness that binds them both.
Kit Vincent’s Love Immortal is an atmospheric gothic romance of obsession, heartbreak, and the seductive power of immortality.
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A man living on the edge of the law finds his future in the hands of someone who believes in it.
The Light Beneath the Dark
LGBTQIA+ · Romance · Gay Romance
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A man living on the edge of the law finds his future in the hands of someone who believes in it. In The Light Beneath the Dark, motorcycle club president Lincoln Stone faces a criminal accusation that could destroy everything he has built. When attorney Mason Davenport takes his case, suspicion gives way to unexpected trust, shaping a small-town gay romance about loyalty, redemption, and the fragile hope of a second chance.
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Lincoln Stone is President of the Dark Angels motorcycle club, and he’s been accused of a crime he didn’t commit. Will this finally be his downfall?
Lincoln lives a life that straddles the fine line between right and wrong. Now he stands accused of a crime that could see him losing everything he holds close and breaking a promise to the one person who loved him unconditionally, his sister.
That is, until Mason.
Mason Davenport believes in the law and what it stands for. When his father asks him to take on Lincoln’s case, he learns some things are not as clear cut as they seem. Can he see beneath the exterior Lincoln hides behind to help him battle for his freedom and keep what he treasures most? Or will those who are conspiring against Lincoln win?
The Light Beneath the Dark is a steamy MM gay romance, opposites attract, with a sassy little girl that can offer one man freedom and another what he never realized he wanted, a daughter.
If you enjoy Lila Rose's Hawk's MC Club series (next generation), you'll love reading The Light Beneath the Dark by JP Sayle.
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Years of love, longing, and silence sit at the heart of Fool Hearts, where friendship has always meant more than either man could name.
Fool Hearts
LGBTQIA+ · Bisexual Romance · Gay Romance
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Years of love, longing, and silence sit at the heart of Fool Hearts, where friendship has always meant more than either man could name. When Wyatt returns to Plum Valley and finds himself living beside Easton again, old feelings and new desires begin to shift the ground between them. This is a small-town romance built on pining, tenderness, emotional vulnerability, and a hard-won path to love.
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Best friends. Unrequited love. A story that spans decades.
Wyatt
At twelve, he was my best friend. At sixteen, he became my crush. And now, at thirty-four, he’s the man I’m still pining after.
Falling in love with Easton was never part of the plan. But now that I’ve done it, I can’t seem to stop. It doesn’t help that we’re living under the same roof. Or that Easton is so dang sweet I want to lick him from head to toe.
But Easton is straight, and all the cattle in Texas won’t change the fact that he’ll never look at me the way I see him. I want someone who can love me back. And I won’t be able to find that while I’m hung up on my best friend.
It’s time to find a way to say goodbye.
Easton
I always knew I was a little bit different than everybody else. When kids my age were hooking up, all I wanted to do was sit on the ranch with Wyatt and plot out our future. I didn’t need anyone else.
When Wyatt leaves Plum Valley, he takes a piece of me with him. When he returns at the moment I need him most, he helps me to heal and feel whole again. We have a good life now, Wyatt and I, best friends still after all these years.
So when I happen to catch my friend down on his knees in the barn, I don’t understand why, all of a sudden, I’m thinking things I shouldn’t be. Now, I can’t stop wondering and wanting.
But would taking that chance with Wyatt risk the best thing in my life?
Fool Hearts is a small-town, longtime friends to lovers romance with a whole lot of pining, a bi-awakening in a barn, swoon-worthy cowboys, a roller coaster of emotions, and one very HEA. It’s book 1 in the Plum Valley Cowboys series but can be read as a standalone.
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Jacki James’s Controlled Burn kicks off the Station 69 series with steamy firefighter romance and forbidden tension.
Controlled Burn
Romance · LGBTQIA+ · Gay Romance
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Jacki James’s Controlled Burn kicks off the Station 69 series with steamy firefighter romance and forbidden tension. A geeky librarian falls for his father’s best friend, a firefighter who is everything he has ever wanted in a Daddy. With a 4.5 out of 5 stars Amazon rating, this sizzling MM romance is tender, playful, and utterly addictive.
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Book boyfriends are safe. They don’t break hearts, argue with your dad, or run into burning buildings. But when librarian Jesse sets his sights on Keith, the firefighter from Station 69 who also happens to be his father’s best friend, fantasy collides with reality in the hottest way possible.
Keith is strong, confident, and exactly the kind of Daddy Jesse has only dared to read about. The problem? His dad will flip, and dating a man who risks his life daily is more terrifying than any novel plot twist.
But Keith’s kisses are real, his touch steady, and his care impossible to walk away from.
Can Jesse trust himself to embrace a Daddy who’s flesh and blood, or will the flames of love consume them both?
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