New MM Audiobooks

Elijah Sager joins the Burlington Bobcats to get away from a brutal breakup. The last thing he needs is the team's star, publicly straight Gabriel Sanderson, watching him like that. Gabe hides three things: he is gay, he is a wolf shifter, and his pack's territory is under threat. When Eli steps on the ice, his wolf knows him as his fated mate. With a rival pack moving from threats to kidnapping, they have hockey games and full moons to get through together.

Lance and Angus only wanted to welcome Jackson back to Fairway, but the celebration ends in an explosion. People are dead, many more are hurt, and nobody knows what happened. Detectives Franks and Burns have to put the pieces back together, and for Franks the case is personal: the victims are the people closest to him.

It should have been the biggest win of William Hagen's tennis career. Under a crowd that wants him to fall, he loses badly instead. To fix his image as the untouchable Ice King, he is sent to the Ortega Cup in Spain to play doubles with his biggest rival, crowd favourite Theo Eastwood. Shared training and evening laps in the pool make it hard to keep despising Theo, and Will starts to wonder which of them judged too fast.

Holden introduced himself to the giant at the club with a formal handshake. A week later he did it again at the hospital, pretending not to know him. Julian Foster, a widower and single dad, thought three years was long enough to try again. Now Holden is his daughter's nurse, she is obsessed with her Holden stickers, and the texts are not only about her anymore. A sweet single dad romance about healing and starting over, book 2 of Mended Hearts.

Forrest Scoville is built like a linebacker and teaches kindergarten. The kids love him, the parents keep asking if he is right for the job. Conrad Langdon took custody of his grieving niece Lizzie, who flinches from almost everyone except her huge, soft-spoken teacher. A shared love of Lego brings the two men together late at night, but Forrest grades Lizzie's spelling tests, and dating a parent could cost him his job.

Yurka and Volodya met in 1986 at a Soviet Pioneer camp, where their attraction was against the law. Twenty years later Yurka is a conductor on tour in Kharkiv, and Volodya goes to find him to look back at what happened between them. This time the story is told from Volodya's side, from his upbringing to coming to terms with being gay, moving between 1986 and 2006. The sequel to Pioneer Summer, written by a Ukrainian and Russian duo and banned in Russia after it became a bestseller there. Translated by Anne O. Fisher.

His funding falls through, so a grad student takes a live-in manny job with a salary he cannot refuse and three kids he was warned are spirited. The kids are hot to the touch, the house has scorch marks everywhere, and his boss is the most attractive man he has ever met. Bedtime stories, a kiss in a dark hallway and a secret he has not worked out yet. Fated mates, a single dad dragon and a baby on the way.

Rudy is the handyman at Creature Comforts Inn, and a werewolf who does not always control his shifts. Bowen is mostly human and talks to animals, who lately keep warning him that something is following him. They send him to the inn for protection. Rudy and his wolf are both drawn to the new guest, and when the shadow finally shows itself, he will have to work with his beast to save his mate. A cosy paranormal mystery with found family.

Two centuries ago a vampire mercenary made a deadly bargain to bring back the soul of his mate, and paid with his own. When the summons finally comes, it leads Gabriel to Irongard and to Nicholas Armahn, a shy, gentle man who dreams of blood and murder and whose prayers go unanswered. Nicholas is nothing like what Gabriel expected. Whatever soul he carries, this life is his, and the truth could cost Gabriel everything again. Ends in an HEA.

Cardiac surgeon Maxwell York lives by a six-page colour-coded protocol, the only way he can handle a world that is too loud and too bright. Jax O'Connell, war medic turned chief of trauma, knows his fiance is not cold, just wired differently. They have survived everything except their wedding, which Max's mother is turning into a coronation. An established couple romcom with a neurodivergent surgeon, a veteran and meddling families on both sides.

Ethan is the joker of his rugby team, and the only thing that wipes off his smile is any mention of Luke. Luke was the bright spot of his childhood, until Ethan hooked up with Luke's sister and they had a son. Now Luke is back in New Zealand, signed to Ethan's team and set on making the national side. He has a boyfriend and has no intention of falling for Ethan again. Ethan has every intention of getting his best friend back. Book 3 of Sporting Secrets.

River has watched every holiday romance movie and is still waiting for his own. After too much spiked eggnog he books a week in a snowy Bavarian town to find it. Then a storm hits and he crashes his car in front of the local grump. Easton has a cabin, a dog and no interest in Christmas, or in the wedding planner who just turned his quiet winter upside down. A light Christmas romcom, snowed in with a grumpy lumberjack.

A widowed writer moves to a small town for quiet, sleep and a good meal. Instead he gets North next door: his brother's best friend, far too cheerful, and busy befriending the crows that scatter garbage all over his lawn. He had his great love and lost him, so this cannot be happening again. North, an EMT with a lot hiding behind his smile, keeps showing up anyway, with cooking lessons included. Heavy yearning, grief, hurt/comfort and a very happy ending.

After a loss that came far too early, he throws himself into church work to honour a last request. The problem is that he does not believe in God, not when he is told men like him are sinful. He gets through one day at a time without caring much whether it is his last. Then he meets someone who believes in him, and his life shifts again. A short, heavy listen. The author lists the content warnings on her website.

Parker and Brandon were best friends until Brandon confessed and Parker broke his heart. Three years later Brandon is the star of college soccer, until an injury sends him to rehab at the very facility where Parker now works, after being expelled from college and kicked out of his MMA gym. Brandon is set on not falling again for a straight guy. Nobody told Parker he was straight. MMA, soccer and a choice between his late father's legacy and Brandon.

A short, very steamy MMM poly romance, just under two hours. The publisher gives almost no plot, only the heat level, so expect a quick listen built on rivalry and spice.

Jeb has never told his two best friends that he is bi, or that he has loved both of them for years. He has not told them the family tree farm in Vermont is about to go under right before Christmas either. Then he breaks his wrist hanging lights, and Embry and Adam, who stopped speaking to each other the night they graduated, both come running. One bed, homemade eggnog that loosens tongues, a goat in a Santa hat and a farm to save.

He spent eight years running from feelings he did not understand. Then Zac and Vince crashed into his life, he gave in to one of them for a single night, and spent the next year avoiding both. When he finally sends a fantasy request to the Dark Desires website, guess who walks in. An MMM romance for mature listeners, readable as a standalone.

The monster under his bed imprinted on him as a child, like a duckling. Now it is back, six feet tall, made of shadows and far too attractive, claiming to be an exiled prince of the Shadow Realm. His powers are bound and the only person he can feed on is the man he used to scare. Fear is no longer on the menu, though. A nightmare to lovers romance, first in a series of standalones, no cliffhanger.

Joe Bruno is a Catholic priest and exorcist with a crush on Percy Ashdown, a far too attractive art historian who kills demons. When he finally confesses, it turns out Percy has wanted this since they met, and he whisks Joe off on a European holiday. Percy is also living a double life, and his clumsy attempts to look like a good man drag them into crime, blood and zombies. Fast burn, high steam, supernatural action.

Prince Reverie wants nothing to do with the crown of his cruel father. When the king plots to seize the Drakon King's magic, he leaves town. Prince Xandreth, brother of that Drakon King, has left too, to find a friend who went missing. Stranded in the Wraithwood, the two princes agree to help each other and go their separate ways. Then a very old myth puts them at the heart of something much bigger. Rivals to lovers, dragons, witches and magical tech.

Tav has not used his real name in years. To protect his sister he fights in illegal matches for the city's crime boss, and every bout leaves less of him. Then a man in a fancy suit takes him home from a bar and touches him like he already knows him. Conrad, a morally grey CEO, decides after one night that he will find out every secret Tav has and make the city pay for every drop of his blood. A one-night stand that turns into much more.

Ten years ago the love of Callum's life left in the middle of the night, with no note and no trace. Ten years later Callum finds Tobi drinking himself into oblivion in his best friend's bar, and Tobi used to never touch alcohol. Tobi lost everything and broke Callum's heart to spare him, and he does not want to be saved a second time. Callum is going to find out the truth anyway.

Silas Manning is a doorman on the Upper East Side. Senator Graham Lawther is the client he cannot get rid of, his opposite in every way, and the man he is sure is his soulmate. Graham came to his bed like the others and simply never left. In Manhattan, trusting the city with your secrets is risky, and getting involved with a family like the Lawthers costs you your privacy. Book 4 of Doormen of the Upper East Side.

Alexei Avrorin is the most ruthless enforcer of Russia's oldest mafia family. When a job goes wrong, a vet named Kelly Mackey quietly saves his life instead of turning him in. Alexei cannot forget him, watches him from a distance, and becomes sure Kelly is hiding dangerous secrets. In his world being gay is a death sentence. Dark humour, big reveals and a guaranteed HEA, first in a series about the Avrorin brothers.

Adrian is completely over his ex-fiance, or so he says, until Peter turns up at the office party with a new fiance. In a panic Adrian grabs a handsome stranger and asks him to play his boyfriend for fifteen minutes. Jonah, out of work and only there for his best friend, agrees. Then Peter invites them both to a fancy New Year's Eve dinner. A cosy fake dating novella with a grumpy pug, read by the author.

Zhang Yuwen's villa has become home to a found family of gay men. His love life is going well, his novel keeps getting rejected, and he is hiding something from his new boyfriend Huo Sichen. He is not the only one. As the five housemates deal with love, family, money and work, their secrets start coming out. The second volume of this cosy Chinese contemporary.

One scandal too many and Prince Alexander Pembroke is shipped off to Roosevelt University in the States, with orders to stay out of the tabloids and firmly in the closet. Then he meets Tommy O'Reilly, a Hollywood star taking classes like everyone else, who dislikes him on sight. The feeling is mutual. A compulsory expedition and a shared political science project keep throwing them together, and what they call chemistry starts to look a lot more serious. A college rom-com with banter, a loud group of friends and a great sister, first in the Roosevelt University series.

David Liu thought being cheated on was the worst of it. Then his ex shows up at their cousins' ten-day wedding at a ski lodge with the new boyfriend and spends the week rubbing it in. His ex's other cousin, Jensen, offers to play buffer. Jensen lives abroad, has a reputation as a charmer, and David has sworn off love for good. Fake dating him is supposed to be simple. A standalone holiday romance with a nosy family, a ski lift breakdown and plenty of banter.

Caleb plays the perfect student and the perfect basketball player so nobody looks too closely at what he went through. The only one who sees him is Miguel, his stepbrother, who has loved him from the start and has no intention of hiding it. Miguel knows every sign that Caleb is about to break and wants to be the one who catches him. A contemporary stepbrothers romance with darker themes, trauma recovery, a very protective hero and a lot of heat. The author suggests listening to Trick of the Flesh first.

Connor was at the top of the snowboarding world until one night took everything. Five years later he is offered a way back as head coach for Vox Montgomery, the reckless, cocky rider good enough to rival his own record. Vox has resented his idol for vanishing, and now that Connor is in Ricochet Ridge he wants a lot more than his respect. Their sponsor forbids staff and athletes from dating, so one wrong move ends both their careers. Coach and athlete, trauma, snark and an HEA. Can be listened to on its own.

Colt walked away from Zahir Delacroix right after high school and called it a fling for years. He became the lawyer his father wanted, never married, and now his career sends him straight back to Redwood Bay, where the first person he runs into is Zahir. Zahir never expected to see the boy who ghosted him again. He still loves him, and he refuses to be anyone's secret a second time. A first love second chance romance.

Beckett Harrington has always done what his father wanted, until his tuition check bounces and his father is arrested for fraud. He runs to Theo, his best friend, and finds him in bed with Beckett's long-time rival Asher. They live together, and they film it. Beckett needs money, so he makes them an offer. The deal gets complicated fast. A triple POV MMM with high spice, a light plot, darker themes and three broken boys finding family in each other.

Matteo Russo is the only openly gay tennis pro, a former junior star whose career was derailed by an accident. Broke and struggling to qualify, he loses to rich American superstar Miles Callahan and dares him to go to Wimbledon on a tight budget: no team, no coach, no fancy hotel. Miles says yes. Now he needs a hitting partner and someone to explain laundromats, and the challenge turns into a secret fling. Lots of banter, early spice and not much actual tennis.

Elias Mercer is twenty, the new rookie center for the Ravensburg Reapers, and talks like nothing can touch him. Then the captain walks in. Damian Kade is thirty-two, an enforcer everyone fears, and when he looks at Elias it is possession. One Halloween night in a hotel room turns into a whole season he cannot quit. A dark hockey romance with a big age gap, obsession and violence.

After fifteen years in the NHL hiding who he is, he needs one more season to retire with his secret intact. Then rookie Stryker Bell arrives: young, cocky and impossible to ignore. After a brutal road loss he finally kisses him. Now he is falling for the rookie while old trauma comes back up, and if he does not fight for Bell he will retire in the closet and lose him too.

Since he got out of an abusive relationship, Gabe keeps his life small: his bookshop, his flat above it and a handful of people he trusts. Then his younger brother's best friend Noah comes back to town to open a gym and needs a place to stay. Noah sees how much Gabe is hurting and how lovely he is, and is ready to be only his safe place if that is all he gets. A slow burn about healing, trust and chosen family.

In real life nobody breaks down in a picture-perfect town and gets rescued by the local baker, and he would not have green eyes and a steady smile either. Until it happens. A short small-town romance, under five hours.

Gerard loves music and hates fame, which is awkward for the youngest member of a chart-topping band of brothers. He runs away to a tiny island in the Chesapeake Bay, calls himself James and rents a studio in a crumbling Victorian house. He is not alone in it. Emory Griffin, a grad school dropout wanted by the local police, became the test subject of his own invisibility research. An autumn love story with a gothic feel, just before Halloween.

Prince Gabriel can win anyone over with a smile and a wink. Prince Alejandro of Solterra is the exception: the man his twin, the king, turned down for his footman. Alejandro is gorgeous, stubborn and turns every conversation into a contest, and Gabriel suspects the whole thing is revenge on the other Valemont brother. A witty royal romance between two rival princes who flirt competitively.

Trent got lucky landing Magnus Rochester Lancaster the Fourth, a certified genius, as his roommate and best friend. Less lucky: Magnus never knocks, and his latest obsession is making adult content together. Magnus is a professor and doctoral candidate at the same university, so there may be an ethics problem, but he wants Trent in his life for good and a business seems like the way. Pretending to fall in love for subscribers gets confusing fast.

The plan was simple: finish college and get away from his parents. Then he goes for a run, loses four hours, and comes back with rages, a heightened sense of smell and a taste for very rare steak. Jesse van der Meer shows up to explain the hidden world he now belongs to, and the heat between them grows fast. But Jesse came looking for him for a reason, and he has secrets of his own. The author lists the content warnings on her website.

When a notorious pirate captain takes their ship in the Caribbean, Will, a manservant who has spent his life serving others, stands between the crew and the Davenport girls with a carving knife. Then he negotiates: valuable information in exchange for the children's safe return. Captain Damon is amused and intrigued, and offers him a place aboard as his cabin boy so he can stay with them until the ransom is paid. He thinks he is demanding Will's servitude. He is handing him his freedom.

Mack did not sign up to hunt ghost-eating creatures, but that is what he gets when he and Brandon go to help friends at an old inn in the Scottish Highlands. Terrified ghosts are fleeing, others look half eaten, and something is herding them toward the inn while killing healthy people within a week to eat their souls. Nobody knows what it is. Brandon wants a kilt and a sword, Mack wants him in the kilt, and they need a plan before everyone gets eaten. Book 3 of the series.

Three hundred years after magic dried up in ancient China, resentment has built with nothing to hold it back, and disaster is coming. Chen Xing is the last exorcist left. His only power is the heart lamp, a light meant to guide him to the Protector who will fight beside him. It picks Xiang Shu, a stranger with no interest in being anyone's hero. The danmei novel behind the manhua, set in the same world as Legend of Exorcism.

In the 1950s town of Amorea, Mike works at the bookstore and the waiter Sean saves a special smile for him. After years of waiting, they are ready for the next step. But there are no children or parents in Amorea, and nobody who left for the mountains ever came back. One night Mike wakes to a black cloud of starlings filling the sky, and no one else seems to notice. A small-town romance that turns into a psychological thriller.

Gargoyles are supposed to be immune to mage magic, yet he can feel Rune in his veins. Ever since the sharp-tongued mage kidnapped one of his fellow mercenaries, he has not stopped thinking about him, and now he dreams that Rune is taken. Nobody else cares much, since Rune's list of enemies is very long. So he goes to rescue him anyway, even if it gets him caught too. Behind the sarcasm he finds a man who trusts no one, and a pull between them that looks a lot like fate.

Raised in a cell and used as a bloodhound by his masters, he finally escapes and runs as far as he can. Then he walks straight into another man's trap. This one treats him like a person: he nurses him back from the edge, gives him a new name and teaches him how to live outside a cage. What his rescuer does not know is how dangerous the creature in his house really is, especially when it rains. A dual POV dark dystopian standalone from the 1NF3CTION shared world. The author lists the content warnings on her website.

Tex has one plan: football, the draft, everything he has worked for. He needs a tutor to pass a class, and he does not expect Colton Reed, quiet and brilliant and nothing like his usual type. Colton likes rules and lines that stay uncrossed. He is not out, his father would not understand, and falling for the student he tutors could cost him his job. Study sessions turn into something closer, then into secret kisses. A golden-hearted lineman, a guarded grad student, forbidden attraction and heat that builds slowly.

In summer the castle on Dark Island is full of boat club members and noise. In winter, when the ice comes in over Alexandria Bay, it goes quiet. Four lonely people stuck there for the season are pulled together when the voices of the dead warn them that someone who should not be on the island has arrived. They have their own secrets to protect, a winter to survive and attacks in the night to figure out. A polyamorous story. The author lists the content warnings on her website.

Imi Dyre is half goblin, poor and on scholarship, and the healers turn him down despite years of work. With his dream of a clinic gone, he accepts an apprenticeship with master wizard Elim Greenwood, young, talented and annoyingly handsome. Elim is looking for a cure for vultrism, a curse that makes people feed on souls, and Imi's magic might be the answer. Their growing affection could cause a scandal in the guilds, and Elim is clearly hiding something.

The Charmed Away Temp Agency couples are home for the holidays. A collection of short vignettes showing how each of them celebrates, and the chaos that comes with it. Best for listeners who already know the series.

Xiahou Lian, the youngest assassin of the Qiye Garden, infiltrates the Xie household as a servant to the youngest son, Xie Jinglan, and waits for orders. A bond grows between the assassin and his mark, and the choice he makes puts him in serious trouble while Xie Jinglan walks free. Two years later they meet again in the Imperial Palace, each hiding something dangerous. A fan favourite danmei series.

He is homeless, broke and about thirty seconds from a toe tag when a man dressed all in black steps out of the shadows and fights to keep him breathing, then vanishes. The next time his life is on the line, the same man is there again, shielding him with his own body, and this time he sticks around. A hero with a villain complex who smokes, punches people and keeps calling him a pipgeek, and who insists on being trusted. When the local drug lord calls in the favour he owes, staying alive gets easier with a stalker like that. Not getting hurt again is another matter. Snarky banter, a pocket-sized geek with a plant habit and auto-immune disorder rep.

Heartbroken after a situationship gone wrong, Brady signs up for Mate Match, the dating app that worked so well for his best friend. As a recessive and probably infertile omega he knows the pickings are slim, and he mostly wants to get over Xavier. Xavier was betrayed in the worst way and knows exactly what he lost in Brady, so when he hears the omega is dating again, he joins the app for the sole purpose of being matched with him. A sweet second chance omegaverse with a baby and a happy ending, best after Mate Match: Curtis and Jae.

Nathan Carter did not come back to Worthbridge for a second chance. He came back for a roof, a job that pays, and maybe a way to connect with the teenage son he barely knows. The army taught him to survive, not how to be a father, and not how to live with walking away from everything, Freddie Webb included. PC Freddie Webb never left, not the town and not its ghosts, the steady man everyone trusts to hold the line. Then a routine arrest puts him face to face with the boy he once loved, and with that boy's angry, guarded son, already spiralling toward trouble. Gritty small-town romantic suspense with first responders and a criminal case threatening the whole community. The author lists the content warnings in her note.

Ten years ago Graham Wilder almost kissed him at prom. Four weeks later he asked Gray to meet him behind the auditorium, waited forty-five minutes, and Gray never came. So he moved to New York, perfected being gloriously single by choice, and filed Graham Wilder under things we do not discuss. Then he walks into the ten-year reunion and there is Gray: former physics partner, Hillside High's golden-boy pitcher, the first boy he ever wanted enough to risk getting hurt. Gray is out now, knows what he wants, and what he wants is him. He is not asking him to forget the past, he is asking for tomorrow.

The first three books of the series in one listen, each following a different couple from a group chat of single dads. Laurence has given up on love until a reckless young artist seduces him. Gage got pregnant by his best friend right before Aaron left to study abroad and kept the baby secret, until Aaron shows up with a ring. Dr. Vincent Rhyne is the most eligible bachelor at a wedding, and the man he cannot stop thinking about asks for his help getting pregnant. Humour, heat, male pregnancy and no cliffhangers.

The whole Ghostly Guardians series in one audiobook, set on the Mannix Estate, where the men are hot and the ghosts are nosy. Negotiating with ghosts, fighting demons and falling in love across five stories: the prequel novella Eternal Luck, then Spirited Situation, Vortex Conundrum, Conduit Crisis and Gateway Catastrophe.

Getting into the same post-grad programme as his girlfriend seemed like a solid reason for Connor to stay with her. Now he is in San Diego living with Thalia's family and all he wants is to go back to Sacramento, to his friends and the sport he loves. A pickup soccer match on the beach stirs something up, and his eyes and his camera fix on a dark-eyed forward who looks straight out of a magazine. Dane Calvo is tall, untamed and openly gay, hits on him, gets turned down, and turns out to be Thalia's younger brother, sleeping in the next room. Dane is out to Connor and not to his family, and Connor wants to be friends, even to train him. Connor is straight, or thinks he is. Touches on identity, infidelity, mental health and family trauma.

Liam is at breaking point after losing his mother and being deceived by his father, and the only thing holding him steady is the annual two-week ski trip to Ricochet Ridge with Damon. Damon is his ride or die, the friend who chose him over his own twin brother when Liam's father forced the choice, and the one person who has never lied to him. Except Damon has been living a lie for thirteen years, keeping quiet about what really happened between Liam's father and his twin to protect him. He cannot keep the truth in any longer, and he is no longer sure he can hide his feelings either. Best friends to lovers, with grumpy sunshine and forced proximity at altitude.

They call him Knight because he is always trying to save someone, which would be more convincing if he could save himself. He got mixed up with the wrong people, took the fall for a man he thought he loved, and was betrayed by him anyway. Redemption Road is a fresh start, a new family of men who know what it is to make mistakes. Aiden, his best friend's brother, is his roommate and a casual hookup, and is fast becoming the centre of his world, though he is a doctor headed somewhere far from Riverton and far too clever to fall for a con. Then Knight's past arrives to drag him back into the biker gang he thought he had escaped, and this time he has to fight for his freedom.

When Stefanos breaks up with his boyfriend he urgently needs somewhere to live, and his best option is the spare room of the moody hockey captain. The trouble is that Alexei does not seem to like him very much. If Alexei knew Stefanos was horror boy, the person he has been pining for anonymously online for the past year, he might feel differently. A sweet and spicy college hockey romance between a jock and a music nerd, with hurt comfort and a You've Got Mail setup.

Seren feels other people's emotions, whether his fellow villagers love him, put up with him, or despise him the way his parents do, and it leaves him isolated. When he first senses someone watching him, he assumes he is finally losing his mind. Then a creature of shadows attacks and his watcher has to show himself: Nevander, a guardian fae, dazzling and cold, who looks at Seren as if it hurts to look away. Fae cannot lie, so what he says must be true. Seren is the last Prince of Elladar, and it is time to come home. Possessive loyalty and steamy fae promises, first of a trilogy with a new couple in each book.

As long as Greg has a typewriter, strong coffee and a pocket full of stamps, the world is fine. His zine parodies Craigslist personal ads, and hidden in each issue is one quiet ad that says something true about him. Nobody has ever spotted it, until a letter arrives from a reader signing as M. Their snail-mail correspondence becomes the most honest relationship Greg has ever had, but M. disappears every time he suggests meeting. Set in the underground zine scene of the early 2000s, on the rocky coast of Maine.

Lonnie has settled into the Port City gay community and wants to pay it forward, so when he spots Scot looking lost at a huge party, he takes the white wolf under his wing. Scot misses the family pack he grew up with and wants to be more than friends far too fast, and Lonnie has to work out how to let him down gently. Scot also asks him a question he has no easy answer to: where is his own pack?

Ethan's first Christmas with Carter in Foggy Basin should be peaceful: decorating their cabin, skating under the town lights, being welcomed into a community he never expected to trust. He almost believes he is finally safe. Then a letter arrives that threatens everything he has built. Old fears come back and Ethan struggles to say what is wrong, while Carter stays steady beside him through family shadows and new friendships. A short small-town holiday story from the Foggy Basin series.

After a botched selfie swap shows thousands of colleagues a photo of his sock-covered crotch, 38-year-old former executive Kent Fox has moved back in with his mother and the only job he can find is stocking shelves at a grocery store. His new boss is his ex-gay ex-boyfriend. Gray Collins runs the local Pick-n-Save, goes to church four times a week and has spent nearly a decade working up to proposing to the woman helping him overcome his homosexuality. To Kent he is the same coward he was twenty years ago, the boy who did nothing while his brother tore them apart. Forced together again, they have to face what broke them and the feelings that never went away.

He fought his way to captain of the Lakeview Cougars, and nobody knows he is an omega who is secretly gay. A childhood coach warned him an omega would end up as the team toy, so he strikes first: they call him the Viking Captain for the fights he starts on the ice. His parents accept him completely, but he has told no one he is gay. Then two alphas join the team and will not leave him alone, stalking him and pushing him to his knees in the locker room, and the worst part is how much he loves it. They want him to admit he is theirs. A dark hockey omegaverse, no mpreg.

Pretending he is not in love with the thousand-year-old vampire who is the bane of his existence is one of the hardest things Yorick has ever done, and he is determined to woo Atticus if it is the last thing he does. It very nearly is, when someone stabs him with a poison that limits his healing and Atticus, instead of pampering him, hands him a poisoned weapon and throws him into the lion's den on a revenge errand. Nearly five hundred years ago Yorick fell into Atticus's life, robbed him, set him on fire and ran off, which set the tone for everything since. Atticus's past still endangers everyone near him, and a poison aimed at vampires starts unearthing the truth about that first night.

Actor Finn Kerrigan grew up a soap star, then headlined a hugely successful and very silly action trilogy, and has finally been offered a script that could get him taken seriously, and maybe give him the standing to come out. To land the part of a hockey player he lies. He may be Canadian, but the last time he skated he was ten, and filming starts in a month. Cameron Chavkin is the face of the LA Storm, at the top of his game, with a garage full of expensive cars and a rock star for a neighbour, and he has been asked to mentor the once-famous actor. The bad boy of hockey was never meant to get involved, and saying goodbye at the end of the shoot turns out to be harder than following the script.

He has never watched a hockey game, and now he is the liaison to the Warhammers, the local team of the Community of Species Hockey League. Worse, felid shifter Felix Ansas plays for them, and Felix hates him, with reason: he once accused him of some pretty awful things. Felix needs to show his new coach some team spirit, so he decides to teach him hockey. Alone together should be a disaster, and it is not. Felix turns out to be far more complex than he thought, which is a problem for someone whose secrets are not compatible with love.

Kit Forrest is officially the saddest man in Cedar Falls. A year after his boyfriend turned down his proposal and left town, his beloved bookstore in an old brick firehouse is falling apart around him, shelves overstuffed, a resident orange cat with an attitude problem, and repairs he cannot begin to pay for. Sage Ballard is the hometown boy who got famous and then became a tabloid disaster, and he urgently needs a nice, ordinary boyfriend to convince one very rich investor he has changed. Three months of fake dating keeps the bookstore alive. Kit thinks Sage is a sunglasses-indoors diva, Sage thinks Kit is an earnest nerd who talks too much, and the cat, who bites everyone, will not leave Sage alone. Cosy, small town, grumpy sunshine, with one bed and the first snow.

A new audio edition, read by Cooper North, of the book that opens the series behind Heated Rivalry. New York Admirals captain Scott Hunter takes his pregame rituals very seriously, and when a particular smoothie ends his slump, he wants the magic back and the funny guy behind the counter too. Kip Grady never imagined being invited back to Scott's penthouse. What happens there is hot and frequent, but always on Scott's terms, behind closed doors. With the playoffs coming, Scott cannot risk his image, and Kip is ready to go all in. How long can he stay a secret?

Charlie Barnes has always dreamed of playing on the same team as his brothers, so when Avery is traded to the Bandits mid-season, it should be the best day of his life. But his best friend Max, the captain he has secretly loved since his rookie year, is suddenly challenged by the team, the media and the fans to prove he leads better than the new Barnes addition. Max never thought Charlie could feel the same, until a leaked video makes it obvious. Team politics, a protective big brother, and a captain determined to win Charlie for good.

Mordecai Ashenvale is a vampire, of a species that lives on the edge of society by choice, myth and legend, never meant to befriend humans. Then power-hungry kin raise an army of human hunters, seize the throne and kidnap the great elder, his uncle, and as his direct descendant Mordecai is the only one who can save him. He would rather not: it was his uncle who cursed him, and he despises the curse. But rescuing him is the only way to avoid ruling, and the journey means living among humans. He never expected his long-dead heart to wake for one of them. Ensley Elowen is fantasy- and gaming-obsessed, far too observant, and cannot know anything about the mission. Gothic, with rainy autumn nights and a creepy mansion.

Cam has been stealing cars to pay for his mother's care home since his brother died of an overdose, and the nasty man he steals for has started making guys like him disappear. Then he gets caught hiding in the back seat of a car at a Las Vegas vehicle auction, by the FBI. Mars, a British agent who considers car auctions his happy place, finds out the young man is a very good car thief, and when one of the team's cases crosses paths with Cam's boss and nearly gets them all killed, keeping him safe becomes all Mars can think about. The FBI wants Cam as bait for a much bigger fish, and the whole team is pulled in.

Central Europe, 2448, sunk into a brutal dark age where warlords fight off near-constant invasions. Wren of Helvetica has trained as a mage in a hidden Alpine monastery for half his life when his mentor, now court magician to a warrior king, summons him: the old mystic who tended a remote mountain shrine where seven lanterns burn to the gods of an older world has died, and someone has to take his place. The new life is dangerous and lonely, until Wren comes back from foraging to find a large man named Uli filling the shrine, amused that Wren has no idea who he is. A standalone with magical realism, no cheating and a guaranteed happy ending.

Léon Lyon is the premier executioner of Reims during the French Revolution: beautiful, beloved, broken, desired and feared in equal measure, a dangerous kind of celebrity. Every head he takes brings him a centime closer to escape, and he has been saving all of it to leave town and rescue his little brother Émile from the same fate. Then Émile is kidnapped by the dashing and despicable Henri De Villiers, and the only way to get him back is to play Henri's game. The deeper Léon goes into Henri's world, the more of another man he sees, idealistic, passionate and ready to kill or die for the people he loves. And something supernatural seems to be following both of them.

Two addicts meet in rehab, find friendship and something close to hope, and go their separate ways. Bodhi Hart has everything he once dreamed of, sold-out arenas and a voice that moves millions, but the music stopped feeling like his somewhere along the way and rehab became an ultimatum. Iggy Preston's first love was ballet until an injury ended it overnight, and grief and reckless choices nearly cost him everything else. They are thrown back together on a European tour, Bodhi back at centre stage and Iggy joining the band as makeup artist, and sobriety is fragile enough that loving each other may be the one risk they cannot take. A rockstar romance, slow burn, with opposites attracting.

Wilder Rowan is a witch with no purpose and too many secrets, and the secrets are catching up. Surviving them means relying on the one person he cannot stand, Byron Blake, a man without a soul, a murderer and a permanent pain. Byron was about to bury Wilder at the bottom of the ocean for getting between him and his twin when the Boss ordered him to protect the witch instead. So now he cannot kill him, and they are stuck together in the middle of nowhere running from a fate that wants revenge. Somewhere along the way Wilder became interesting, and things Byron finds interesting have a way of turning into obsession. For mature listeners.

At Ljómur, surrounded by mates, they had seen how fate could rewrite a life in an instant, and never imagined it would claim them too. Bash was his peace and his home, the one person who saw through every layer, until four years ago he sent Bash away without a word and let him believe their love had been a lie. Now the group needs Bash's brilliant mind, and since the military believes Xeni is dead, he is the perfect ghost to go and fetch him. He braces for hatred and tears. Nothing prepares him for standing in front of Bash again, in a world on the edge of fallout, carrying the scars and the secrets he still has not explained.

Everyone thinks Lachlan Doyle, captain of the football team and senior class president at Royce High, has a charmed life. The emo goth next door knows better, having overheard what goes on in that house for years and wished he could save him from it. Lachlan fakes his interest in cheerleaders and auditions for the school play just to be out of the house in the offseason, without realising the lead role means kissing a boy in front of the whole audience, or that the boy has had a crush on him forever. The jock and the goth only make sense as a couple when they are both playing someone else. Two high school seniors, with every intimate scene between characters who are eighteen or over.

Almost everything the world thinks it knows about him is a lie, two people know the truth, and one of them is a stalker having a wonderful time using it to get his way. The other is NHL goalie Vanya Maximov, who seems very committed to taking the stalker down, and with whom he had a one-night stand he cannot stop thinking about. Vanya is walking sunshine, possibly a golden retriever in disguise, and everything he has ever wanted, which is exactly why he deserves better than a mess like him. Vanya refuses to listen, refuses to treat him as fragile, and gives him a little pain with his pleasure. The second book in the Punk as Puck spin-off trilogy.

Enfield never wanted an arranged marriage, but keeping the spoiled lifestyle that supports his three children means signing on the dotted line, with a plan to get what he needs and ditch the wife afterwards. His parents have other ideas, and the woman he is contracted to turns out to be a man. He is livid. Xavi has been looking forward to this day for years, having watched six older brothers get their happy endings, and the man who walks through his door is angry, mean and not interested. The author lists the content warnings on her website.

Mack is over the moon: he has Brandon, their training is done, and with the FBI's official stamp of approval they can start ghost busting. The last place he wants to be sent is his hometown of Opelousas, Louisiana, until he learns the child being terrorised is his favourite cousin. That is not the only case in town. A malevolent ghost at the nearby university is escalating fast, scratching students, pushing them down stairs, and eventually breaking every window in a three-storey building, which is more than two people can handle alone. Plenty of firsts, a cockblocking ghost, and Brandon discovering that a quietly capable Mack does a great deal for him.

Oliver's parents let him down, so he protects himself by showing people the cold, charming asshole who is only there for a good time. When a phone call stirs up feelings he thought he had buried, he goes looking for a friend from his past, and a stranger opens the door instead, all dimples and blue eyes that actually see him. Darius knows who Oliver is before he gives his name, and knows that befriending him is a betrayal, and does it anyway. They become each other's safe place and fall in love, the happiest Oliver has ever been. Then a secret comes out, and Darius has to choose between love and family. The author lists the content warnings on her website.

When the Council of Witches orders Bran Gallagher to abandon his dying coven and join another, he flees to the Otherworld with the man he loves rather than face sentencing. Cillian Dunne returns there as the long-thought-dead Winter Prince, his past still missing from his memory, and to win back his stolen court he has to find allies among the Fae who once judged him guilty of consorting with witches. Among his sworn enemies, Bran will wear Cillian's collar and be seen as his pet if that is what it takes to stay at his side. At the Autumn Court's Midsummer Festival, King Lugh wants Bran for his own entertainment, and the bargain Cillian strikes to protect him starts a clock he cannot stop.

Ethan is a senior on the reigning champion Landon High Color Guard, a straight-A perfectionist with a family too busy to notice, planning to spin his way to another gold at nationals and get his love life out of last place while he is at it. Danny has just slid into the DMs of his long-time crush, Ethan, which is a bold move, but he has been determined to make the most of life since coming out. He has patched things up with his two adoptive dads, and his East Valley Color Guard is about to debut its fiercest show yet. So why is he secretly searching for his biological mother? As nationals approach, the rivalry between their teams sharpens and the line between love and competition blurs.

Grady risked his bruised heart and found the man of his dreams, and Lake jumped in with both feet and could not be happier. Now they only need to make it down the aisle. For Grady this is nothing like his first almost-wedding, if only he could believe it, and part of him still waits for the reality of marrying a man to be too much for Lake. Lake has everything he ever pictured, family and love and a happily ever after, and between wedding plans and an unexpected teenager landing in their lives, he needs Grady to trust that he is in this for the long haul. The sequel to Third Time Lucky, to be listened to in order.

Amos and Tom fall in love working the tobacco fields through the hot summers of the early 1900s, but Tom cannot shake his strict religious upbringing or his duty to the family farm. Their friend Maeve is pining for a man she cannot have either, in a town and a world drawn along racial lines that already make his life precarious. Spanning most of the twentieth century and travelling from New York to Southern cities and Appalachia, it follows four people trying to find happiness in a world that demands conventional choices, and asks at what point you risk everything to stop living a life that feels untrue. Based on the story of one of the author's own ancestors.

Nicholas never wanted to be king, but it is the life he inherited, and every decision, smile and promise belongs to Valoria, including the one that says he will marry a prince he has barely met. The perfect match, the perfect alliance. Then his new footman starts reminding him that being loved by a nation is not the same as being seen. Noah has spent years just out of sight, straightening cuffs and opening doors so the man wearing the crown never has to carry anything else, and wanting him is his biggest mistake. The king is kind when nobody is watching and lonely in ways the world never notices. Kings do not fall in love with footmen. They marry princes.

Freshly dumped and out of a job, former book editor Adam Wheatley moves back to his sleepy Maine hometown with a list of failures as long as his arm, and learns his aunt Rose has been hiding that her beloved inn is weeks from going under. His plan: renovate it himself, throw a grand reopening on Christmas Eve, then go back to the city and rebuild his career. The renovation proves more flop than flip. Enter Graham, a maddeningly competent and ridiculously attractive contractor who offers to help in exchange for a place to stay, patient and kind and far too easy to like for a man who has sworn off romance permanently. A queer holiday rom-com.

Carver drove across the continent to get away from a death, accusations and a wrecked career, and found peace in Mission City, British Columbia, with a good job and two rescue dogs. Then he runs into Styx on the street. Styx and his bandmate were driving to Vancouver to start over after their drummer died, until the bandmate vanished in Mission City and left him broke and homeless. Carver, their former roadie, offers him a place to stay, even though Styx is a reminder of everything he is trying to forget, and temptation in person. Styx crushed on Carver for years, and is not sure he can stay just a friend, or leave when it is time to go.

September 1945. Lieutenant Commander James Linnel, Viscount Rede, comes home from the Atlantic convoys to find Biltham Hall, the family estate, close to ruin, and his dying father pressing him to marry and produce an heir. To buy time he strikes a deal with the sharp-witted Isabel Errington: a fake courtship to satisfy both families. His heart belongs to Jack Milburn, a resourceful young servant at the Hall. In post-war Britain their love is a crime, and they have to navigate class lines and secrecy as the old order collapses, while James discovers that his young autistic cousin has been sent to an institution.

Not a romance: an essay by a writer who started playing Peewee hockey in 1975 and later founded a gay men's hockey club. He looks at Canada's national sport through gender, masculinity and sexuality, how it moved away from straight white machismo, why Hockey Canada and the NHL still resist change, and what the success of the Heated Rivalry series could mean for queer players coming out. For listeners who want the real-life side of hockey romance.

Aster Shepard accepts the title of Master of Streya from his former mentor feeling flattered, intimidated and sure he is not ready. Days into the role he finds himself responsible not only for the next generation of apprentices but for the next Infinite, a light walker of immense power whose destiny is bound to the city and to every light walker. He has to teach, prepare and protect him from a world that expects a legend, while some whisper that Aster should never have been chosen. Epic fantasy with a gay protagonist and a magic system rooted in the stars, more fantasy than romance.

Newscaster Kei and animator Ushio have been together for nearly two years, and whenever Kei is in trouble, Ushio is there. So when rumours swirl about Kei's entirely nonexistent political ambitions, Ushio helps him ride out the storm. But Kei is starting to realise he is not the only one who could use a shoulder. What is Ushio hiding, why has he had no work lately, and is it not finally Kei's turn to help? The third volume of the Boys' Love light novel series.

Hagiwara Kazuaki lives an ordinary working life and is worried about the distance growing between him and his live-in girlfriend. His coworker Nakarai Sei quietly pines for the male roommate he grew up with. A misfired email starts an anonymous exchange between them, an odd and comforting friendship built on shared frustrations, until the secret turns into a passion that threatens to swallow them both. A Boys' Love light novel from the team behind Yes, No, or Maybe?

Soren's life is simple and sweet: his labrador Tibby, a cybersecurity job, a lakeside cabin in Foggy Basin and a welcoming queer community in town. The only complication is Sam, the shy, gorgeous manager of the pet food store, who runs off every time they end up alone together. Sam is sure a man like Soren would never look at him twice and gets tongue-tied whenever he comes in. Then he rescues a litter of newborn kittens, ends up asleep over his register from round-the-clock feedings, and Soren offers to help. He cannot turn the kindness down, even if he still has no idea what to say to him.

Travel consultant Camden Hayes has one rule: never fall for anyone on a trip. He has seen what happens when vacation feelings follow people home, and he keeps his heart as neatly packed as his suitcase. Then a sixteen-day research trip through Colombia with his two best friends puts him in the path of Mateo Salazar, their tour guide, warm and unhurried, with a way of saying his name that makes thirty-one years of careful rules feel fragile. Four cities and one rule about to break. Explicit, 18+.

Children's horror author Burke Bennett is stuck on his latest book, so he leaves San Francisco for a bed and breakfast in Rainbow Arroyo, a tiny New Mexico town known for welcoming queer folks. He did not expect the owner, Dayton Barnes, to be so attractive, or Dayton's daughter Vicki to be his biggest fan, or the town to be this nosy and this charming. The chemistry is immediate, but a business to run, long writing days, a daughter to consult and the distance between their homes make it complicated, with the fall harvest festival and Halloween coming up.

Rookie quarterback Nico Fallon was drafted to fill a legend's shoes, brash, cocky and desperate for validation, chasing a dream that might not even be his. His new coach is the retired icon Cooper Callahan, stoic and unbreakable, who pushes him harder than anyone ever has. On the field it pays off. Off it, charged glances and every good boy pull Nico into stolen moments. Cooper came back to coach, not to face his ghosts, and certainly not to want the infuriating rookie, and he uses control as armour. A standalone pro football romance, a secret relationship that stretches over years, grumpy x sunshine and a lot of longing.

At Demere University he is the golden boy: the senator's perfect son, the kicker who never misses. One mistake later he is sharing a dorm room with Elliot Vaughn, tattooed, reckless, running an illegal fight ring and hating him on sight. Vaughn decides to break him. He brings people home and holds his gaze across the room, whispers things a straight man should not react to, and wrecks his focus. Giving in would mean giving up everything he is supposed to be. A steamy enemies to lovers college football standalone.

Every man he has ever flirted with was taken, so of course his fated mate is too. For weeks the angel has felt Ethan Routliff without being able to find him, until he finds him dying on the ground and heals him without thinking. Then Ethan says he has a boyfriend. He walks away rather than make him choose, but healing Ethan also stopped something far worse, and someone much more dangerous than the boyfriend wants him. A warm angel and human romance, best listened to in order.

He moved halfway across the country for a man who was not interested, and that may not even be the stupidest thing he has done. The stupidest is seriously considering telling Elliot Crane he is falling in love with him, while also looking for a job and keeping his new coworkers from finding out he is a shifter. In a small town where everyone knows everyone except him. The same town where Elliot's father was murdered and Elliot nearly was, where the people behind it still have friends, and where half the population would happily see its shifters torn apart. More cows than people, and he is trying not to get fired, outed or killed.

When the mayor of Fairway is killed, Angus lands in the middle of a tangled case of bribery and corruption, and while half the city is quietly celebrating, the investigation is a nightmare for the police. Lance wants to be supportive, until the mayor's ghost works out that he can see and hear her. She will not leave him alone, follows him everywhere insisting they solve her murder immediately, and brings chaos to his usually simple life, all while refusing to share the information that would actually lead to her killer. With stress coming from every direction, Angus and Lance have to keep it from getting between them. Someone is hiding something.

John has never met anyone who annoys him more than Chad Sinclair: always smiling, always thrilled with life, a spoiled city boy who seems never to have heard the word no. He cannot believe he drunkenly married him in Vegas, or that Chad has now turned up at his farmhouse ready to give up his whole life and play happy husbands in the middle of nowhere. John gave up on that kind of future a long time ago. Chad has always believed things work out for him, and getting his husband to admit he wants him is no exception. He said I do, and Chad is stubborn enough to stay and keep proving him wrong. Woke-up-married, grief and small-town life, with a very slow fuse.

Wash is seriously tired of upper management trying to butt into his personal life, and has no work-life balance problem that anyone can prove. So when they send a temp to assist the research floor, he plans to ignore him. Unfortunately they have sent the sweetest temp known to all species, who plies him with sweets and pretty smiles and will not take the hint. Peri never expected to meet his match on a temp assignment, but the grumpy demon from research is handsome, clever, protective and badly in need of a holiday. When Taron asks for help getting Wash to relax, Peri leaps at the chance. A corporate retreat, a lot of shenanigans and a guaranteed happy ending.

Ten years ago he was made a promise, and now he gets to watch the same man make it twice. Hunting and surviving are all he has ever aimed for, and training others to do the same simply made sense: no feelings, no expectations. He never expected the man he has kept at arm's length for a decade to challenge all that, with help from a brand new recruit and his sweet cherry pastries. Getting past the history means admitting to two men that his heart still beats. A full-length dark dystopian why-choose romance, standalone within the shared 1nf3ction world. For mature listeners.

Oliver is left for dead in the ruins of his underground city, betrayed by the love of his life, his dark blood slowly draining the electricity out of him while a creature of legend destroys his dream. Death cannot come fast enough. What finds him first is the beautiful man he took prisoner the day before. Jude has a plan to escape the city and survive, and he will let nothing and nobody stand in his way, so Oliver is dragged back into the wastelands where men have become monsters and the old gods rule. He learns that hate is just love's jealous companion. A redemption arc following The Whims of Gods, with forced proximity and giant monsters.

The Matchmaking Mamas found love for his best friend Maverick and his rival neighbour, so surely they can find him a guy. After weeks of waiting they finally come through: Hank is sweet and charming by text, they bond over dogs, and in person he is extremely hot. It looks like a perfect match until Hank sees him and nearly swallows his tongue, and not in a good way. Hank was expecting a woman. The Mamas have thoroughly screwed the pooch, there is a friendship worth saving in the wreckage, and he would very much like to keep his inconvenient feelings to himself. The closer they get, the more he wonders.

You can only hold your breath underwater for three minutes before you pass out, and for seventeen-year-old August Grey, life in his small Nebraska town has felt like that endless third minute since his best friend Waylon died. A place at a prestigious summer writing programme in New York looks like his one chance to heal and keep the promise he made to Waylon. New York brings its own weight: a strained reunion with an estranged father, trying to write without Waylon, and the arrival of Levi, his old crush, who knows nothing about his failed coming out. A novel in verse about grief, first love and the joy of becoming who you are, from a Pushcart Prize-nominated poet.

The third book in Hayden Hall's Boys of Elmwood U series, a college sports romance read by Kai Rubio.

Travis Brooks is a carefree physical therapist in Chicago who thrives on casual hookups and spontaneous adventures, until watching every friend fall in love makes him wonder whether there might be more. Parker Reyes, his dedicated new colleague, is in a comfortable, passionless relationship with his high school sweetheart David, whose demanding job keeps pulling him further away. As their friendship grows, so do the feelings, and Parker is wracked with guilt over them. Travis has to decide whether he is ready to want more than a fling, and Parker has to choose between the safety of his past and the possibility of a future with Travis.

High school principal William Garrison steps in to help a bullied freshman and discovers that fifteen-year-old Ben is the son of Benito Vega, the boy who tormented him in high school for being different. Seeing Benny again stirs up a lot. But Benny has changed, in more ways than one, and wants to prove it to both his son and William. William has to decide whether he can let go of the past for Ben's sake, and maybe for his own. Mature themes.

Andrew King is asexual, autistic, the eldest of four brothers, and has spent his life putting everyone else first, so agreeing to be the fake boyfriend of an infamous hockey player feels like one more sacrifice. He is not prepared to fall for the man who made it clear Andrew is not his type. Nicholas Whitmore is an NHL player, a wealthy playboy and a world-class jerk, and he needs a fake boyfriend at his father's birthday party to prove to his cold parents he is not the disappointment they think. Neither his money nor his looks impress Andrew, and Nicholas finds himself obsessed with his no-nonsense quirks. Asexual and autistic representation.

Jaeyoung is leaving for America, and Sangwoo Choo has worked out three possible outcomes, none of them viable: he cannot make Jaeyoung give up his plans, and there is no guarantee a Casanova like him would wait six months for Sangwoo to join a study-abroad programme. After weeks of ghosting, Jaeyoung barges into his apartment and announces he is moving in. With only weeks left, two diametrically opposed former enemies have to decide whether they can stay together. The final volume of the Korean BL novel, translated by David Odell.

Matteo Marchetti is the loudest man on the Atlanta Firebirds and founder of the team book club, always narrating his teammates' love lives and hiding his own behind jokes. Zay Brooks is the team's physical therapist, out, settled, and never crosses a professional line. A shoulder injury puts Matteo on his table three mornings a week, and the loudest man in hockey goes quiet. Slow burn, hurt/comfort, and a book club that recognises the plot and comments in the group chat.

Blake hates jocks and refuses to tutor them, until his sister begs him to help a friend from the football team. Cooper needs to pass to keep his scholarship, and he is delighted to spend time with his cute, grumpy, quiet tutor. A social butterfly and an introvert become friends anyway. Then Blake starts feeling things he never felt before, and Cooper, who has already fallen hard, decides to wait and be the friend he needs. A college football romance.

He spent twenty-one years hating the Clemenza family, and he bought him to avenge his father. Now there is a bounty on his captive's bloodline and a price on his own head, because he turned his back on his family to stand between him and the grave. His enemy has become his protector. Surviving their enemies is one thing; surviving the truth when they are finally alone with it is another. The final book of a dark mafia trilogy about the same couple, to listen to in order.

Razor runs drugs across East London for a man darker than the devil, and violence is what keeps his sister and her baby fed. Tristan Hale-Fitzroy has every advantage money can buy and spent twenty-three years playing the perfect heir, until a betrayal sends him looking for something real. He finds Razor. Tristan should have crossed the road; he stands his ground instead, with lies on his lips. A dark London underworld romance about class, crime and a very bad idea, first in the Pretty Poison trilogy.

A new audio edition of the book behind the hit series, narrated by Cooper North. Shane Hollander, captain of the Montreal Voyageurs, lets nothing get in the way of his game. Ilya Rozanov, captain of the Boston Bears, is cocky, brilliant and the only player Shane cannot beat. In public they are rivals. In private they cannot keep their hands off each other, and the secret hookups become harder to keep out of the press. Book 2 of Game Changers.

Eight years after HMS Melpomene was lost searching for the Franklin expedition, one of its few survivors is hanged for a murder he says he cannot remember. London newsman Harry Lambert, obsessed with the story, goes to see Sidney Blakely, the survivors' leader turned spiritualist medium, and Lieutenant Taylor, who claims the dead speak through him. Harry believes none of it, until the story of mutiny, ghosts and strange beasts in the ice starts to unfold. A queer Victorian polar gothic.

He is an accomplished pre-law student with a life mapped out by his parents, currently enjoying college, writing shameless gay smut and getting absolutely no action. Then there is Vex, his secret crush: tattoo artist, ex-burglar, influencer, the obnoxious local bad boy with ice-blue eyes, and straight. Or so he thought, until Vex notices the skinny, pale nerd and makes him his sweetie and his eager plaything. It was only meant to be a fling, and everyone believes he hates Vex, which would have been much simpler to keep up. Previously published as Obnoxious Bad Boy by Devon Doe.

He is certifiably the best goalie in the league, and the Stanley Cup with his name on it proves it. So why is he suddenly completely off his game, and why is a rival goalie the only one who can help? Nikolai Ivanov lost that Cup to him. He has every reason to enjoy the downward spiral and none at all to talk him through a panic attack at midnight, or pull him out of his own head with dry Russian humour right before a game. By the time he wonders what Nikolai gets out of it, Nikolai has become the most important part of his pregame routine. There is only one Cup, and they both want it. Rivals to friends to lovers.

Fires burn across Tavornai, Bemishu marches on the Ariphadeus, and something even more horrifying threatens the happiness he and Tallu have found. They finally have an ally that could let them retake the Imperium from Kacha and Bemishu, and they control the rivers that cross the empire, but their enemies move like seasoned generals and keep total victory out of reach. When Bemishu flees into the Ariphadeus, they have to follow, because what lives there could swing the war his way. The fifth and final book of the series.

All Jonathan Covey wants from the gloomy, mouldering isle of Kelcarrow is to leave it. Summer is ending and his friends are heading to college on the mainland, not knowing he was not accepted to join them. He will be left behind with the ocean's haunts and a rising dread of being abandoned. In desperation he pays a tithe to Scorpion Deep, an eldritch sea god most of the island dismisses as myth, and to his horror it wakes. He cannot help being drawn to an ageless being just as obsessed with him, even as scales start growing down his spine and its devotion turns bloody. From the author of Don't Let the Forest In.

When his ex-wife lands in rehab, he gets an unexpected Christmas present: a seven-year-old girl with nowhere else to go. He loves his former stepdaughter as if she were his own and has no idea how to give her everything she needs, and in a town as holiday-mad as Christmas Falls, letting her down feels inevitable. Unless he swallows his pride and accepts help from Mason West, the new director of the Holiday Hope Foundation, who goes well above and beyond. For Charlie's sake, obviously. He has never been into men, but Mason is sweet and generous and perfectly sized for snuggling into a holiday sweater.

After his boyfriend cheats, Kieran's best friend whisks him off to Reykjavik to get over it. A scenic boat cruise ends in chaos, and Kieran lands in the age of the Vikings, taken captive by Wulfric, a powerful and terrifying warrior whose clan are Ulfhednar, wolf shifters. Humans are the natural enemies of the pack, and the longer he stays the more dangerous it gets. Despite their mutual dislike, Wulfric swears to keep him alive until he can get home, on one condition: Kieran lets himself be claimed as his mate. There is a thin line between love and hate, and a softer side to a wounded warrior that makes Kieran wonder which century he calls home.

Five years ago Benji's father drowned when his truck went into a river. An accident, they said, and there was nothing to be done. Benji still suspects there was more to it, and lives buried in grief, struggling to keep his father's convenience store going in the small town of Roseland, Oregon. Haunted by visions of feathers and water, he feels his grip on reality slipping, until a man called Calliel falls from the sky and leaves the burning print of wings on the ground. Great forces are descending on Roseland, bringing long-hidden truths about reality and family with them, and Benji finds he can no longer live without the angel beside him. Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Best Gay Romance.

After an accident leaves him with amnesia, Riley Wilson remembers everything except the crash, the last year of his life, and the fact that he had a serious boyfriend. The boyfriend is his older brother's ex-best friend, Aaron, the arrogant jerk who wrecked his brother's future and the person Riley despises most. In what world did sensible, meticulous Riley agree to date him? He would love to cut Aaron out and start fresh, but with his family being cagey about the past, Aaron may be the only one willing to help him remember. So they start from square one, reenacting every date, every kiss, every first, and all Riley has to do is not fall for the same man twice.

A regular at the gay bar Pot O Gold, Ezra Kelley keeps his tangled emotions at bay with one-night stands and hookups that ask nothing of him, until the night bartender Donner Davis picks him up off the floor after a misunderstanding and far too much tequila. Ezra cannot remember the last time someone was simply kind to him. Two years after watching his lover die, Donner is stuck in a holding pattern, living in his sister's basement, working the bar and flirting with customers, happy to spend a night with Ezra and not remotely ready for anything more. One night turns into a connection neither expected, and both of them will have to let go of the past to get it right this time.

On the eve of the new millennium, diamond thief Noel Snow seduced FBI special agent Robert Cuffe and slipped away at dawn. He is a successful novelist now, turning his old capers into books and modelling his hero's nemesis, and possible love interest, on Cuffe. He leaves Robert a drunken message every New Year's Eve and has not heard a word back in ten years, so he is thrilled when his former lover turns up at his upstate farm on Christmas Eve. The thrill does not last: Robert is there to accuse him of a new string of diamond heists. Innocent this time and still very attracted to his serious lawman, Noel plans a second seduction, provided he can stay out of jail.

Dean has always had a plan: get through college, get the degree, move back home. Tutoring Nick Russell was not part of it, and neither was falling for the sweet, smirking baseball player. Dean knows exactly which moves to make, and Nick does not bite, which is fine, because he turns out to be a good friend. Nick is an undrafted nobody failing an elective, and he needs a real connection before he can even think about getting physical. Dean wants him and does not push, and the waiting is exactly what breaks him. A fling to round off college seems harmless, except Dean's visa is running out and neither of them wants it to end.

Kole has mastered deflection. He explains away the real reason he had to move to St. Thomas to live with his father and his new family, has an excuse ready for every bruise and limp, and dates a girl at his new school so nobody asks who he is really attracted to. What he cannot hide is how drawn he is to Gabriel. Gabriel wishes he could disappear, but everywhere on the island he calls home there are people who misgender and threaten him, and with his single mother barely making ends meet he sees no better life waiting after high school. As they slowly share what they are carrying, they become each other's lifeline. From the author of Felix Ever After, for fans of Aristotle and Dante.

In a small town of fox shifters where everyone knows your business, Cooper is working on being done with hiding. He has finally accepted who he is, an alpha who likes other alphas, and a submissive one at that. He never expected the Daddy Dom of his dreams to be Patrick Morgan, the man he has been a tiny bit obsessed with since Patrick came back to Foxwood Hollow: firm hand, gentle touch, walls impossible to scale. Patrick's ex left him with trust issues, and a soft-hearted sub like Cooper deserves better than his baggage. Everything about Cooper calls to him anyway, and if anyone can squeeze through a crack in his walls, it might be his little fox.

When single dad Sab Dubois downloads a swingers app out of harmless curiosity, his gorgeous neighbour catches him at it and makes him an offer he cannot refuse. Galen McCarthy, the firefighter over the back fence, does not do love, relationships or forever, and coaching his flustered neighbour through some first-time exploration seems simple enough. No strings, no expectations. Then for the third Christmas running Galen ends up fighting for his life, and everything he did not know he wanted comes into focus: the man who fed and healed him, the little girl he adores, and the family he never knew he needed.

He is at a college Christmas party, ugly sweaters and cookies shaped like appendages included, when news breaks of what his ex-girlfriend has been getting up to on the side, and no amount of tequila shots can wash the taste away. In that mood he will agree to anything, and an offer to get very naughty indeed walks right in. A drunken three-way seems like the perfect cure. The only problem is that the hot cowboy who has just arrived is the last man he should be putting his hands on: his ex-girlfriend's brother. A forbidden, steamy holiday novella from the Crimson Ridge world.

He has spent more than two years in Terrafeara, a stitched-together world of monsters, rebels and volatile rifts, mostly managing to stay under the radar. That ends when an Aussie crash-lands into his life half dead and drags the attention of the Glowranth crown prince along with him. Saving him means teaming up with Kael, the prince's guard, a Glowranth warrior and six-foot-plus of brooding, blue-skinned temptation with glowing eyes and a lethal energy punch, who sharpens his sarcasm and makes his pulse race, and who might be his if he lets him. As they cross hostile ground they start to suspect the rifts are not accidents.

Devon learned early that love is conditional and that he is only kept around while he is useful, so when Christian needs a distraction, who better than someone who pretends to feel nothing? Christian has chased adrenaline all his life, loud engines and the moment his dirt bike leaves the ground, and when his friends moved on without him nothing felt the same. A ghost from his past drops into his lap and he tells himself it is temporary. Trusting Devon burned him once. The more he sees under the mask, the more he hopes it is not too late. The final book of the series, with messy found family, to be listened to after Exposing Colorado.

Rafael's way to bring down his awful father runs through his new wife and stepson, but it has to be subtle, or he ends up in military school with no hockey. Buttoned-up Cody, his golden-boy stepbrother, is the far more interesting target, and when Rafael catches Cody checking him out, the plan writes itself: a secret that would destroy the family from the inside. Cody has waited years for a predictable life, and Rafael is as predictable as a rabid raccoon. Straight-A hockey player one day, Rafael's good boy the next, he needs to go back to hating him, and he is fairly sure he can resist. Stepbrothers, hockey, and a lot of questions.

Corporal Morgan Armitage arrives at Guardian Hall in the middle of the night with his newborn daughter, a veteran carrying grief and trauma and terrified he will fail her. Guardian Hall gives him room to breathe and to learn how to be a father. Cole Braxton is used to solving problems from a distance, but with Morgan and Gabbi suddenly part of his world, distance stops being an option, and he wants to be the one Morgan turns to. Morgan does not expect to be seen as anything other than broken or a burden, and has to trust that what he is building with Cole will still be there when he needs it. Found family and gentle caregiving, with a protective millionaire.

Dr. Miles McCabe carries other people's suffering for a living as a crisis counsellor, until his own past collides with a disturbing new case and he is sidelined, his licence under review. Rowan Ashcroft built his reputation on silence, a former covert operative turned investigative podcaster who exposes the hidden machinery of power and never talks about his scars. A violent breach of patient confidentiality throws them into the same fight, and reluctant cooperation turns into a partnership sharpened by attraction neither saw coming. The closer they get to the truth, the more Miles risks his profession and Rowan the one rule that has kept him alive.

A thousand years after alphas, betas and omegas, the world only knows breeders and breedables, and male breedables are hunted for the auction block faster than they are born. Luken and Iri are running out of time: if they cannot breed, they cannot stay together. They are ready to try anything, even leaving the safety of the city. A short polyamorous listen. The authors list the content warnings on their website.

All of England knows Havelock Harper, the consulting detective from the papers. What nobody reads in his private files are the impossible cases, and his long, committed love affair with Major Sebastian Wright. Their new case takes them to the enchanted forest of Farleigh, where the trees have started writing words in their bark. The victim is the Duke of Farleigh, an ancient chestnut cut down, and the villagers want justice for their friend. A short, cosy queer mystery with an established couple.

Civil war has reached the capital, and Mostyn, a beta radiology technician, is hiding in his hospital's ICU trying to keep his last patient alive. Starving and sure he will not make it out, he accepts a safe place from a stranger and ends up in the Hayes pack, among wolf shifters, the most powerful alpha he has ever met, and two fated mates: stoic alpha Isam and tough omega Servas. A bonus novella set during Omega's Power, best listened to after book eight or after the whole series.

He hated Cameron long before he understood he wanted him. Cameron is the golden boy, studious, disciplined and genuinely kind, and for years he has quietly sabotaged every one of Cameron's romances. When he follows him to college, he builds a lie Cameron cannot resist to get close to him, and when it falls apart Cameron has every reason to despise him. Then he saves Cameron's life. A debut, first in the After St. Silas series. The author lists the content warnings inside the book.

My clan calls me vigilant. My brother calls me overprotective. I call it duty. So when one of the towns we were visiting turned us away without letting us speak to anyone, I could not make myself leave it alone. I went back after dark and found a terrified man being hunted by his own people. He collapsed into my arms, sobbing and grateful, and something in my chest lit for him. Getting him out of the country was going to be harder than I expected, and I would smuggle him out if that was what it took.

Drew takes a job at his uncle's MMA training centre to turn his life around, and ends up questioning everything he thought he knew about himself. Light heavyweight champion Asher Ramsey is the definition of a ladies' man, all stormy grey eyes and inked skin, and the artist in Drew itches for his pencils every time he looks at him. Asher's own life is a script written by his PR manager, with the biggest fight of his career weeks away and no room for distractions. Then he offers Drew his spare room.

Hayden cannot remember a time when he did not love Dean, who has only ever seen the boy next door and his little sister's best friend. Then Dean comes home after graduation and notices that Hayden has grown up. What he proposes is a summer, in secret, with an expiry date attached, and Hayden knows he should refuse. Dean is sure he just needs to work this out of his system before his dream internship starts. By the end of August neither of them has it figured out.

Recruited by the FBI, Brandon Havili is sent to shadow his brother and the psychic he is anchored to. Three weeks of following people around and learning the job, in theory. Then he accidentally picks up a hitchhiker of the ghostly variety. Donovan is not pleased, Jon is enormously amused, and sorting it out means going back to Eureka Springs to find an FBI medium. Mackenzie Lafayette turns out to be nothing like what Brandon expected, and Nashville can wait.

Cloyce was looking forward to a Fourth of July weekend by the lake with his hockey player boyfriend and his best friend. Then Jax walks in on the two of them, and the weekend takes a very unexpected turn. Draper is head over skates for Cloyce and there is nothing he would not share with Jax, but does that include his boyfriend. And Jax has been sitting on a confession he made two years ago in the dark, wondering whether Draper even remembers it.

Summer is off-season in southern Florida: families leave to escape the heat, the streets empty out and the nights go quiet. Good weather for mischief while the police are not looking. Dallas, the middle Jaeger brother, spent his childhood lost in the shuffle and is now fiercely protective of Sanoa Bay and everyone in it. Callum Ames is back in the affluent neighbourhood next door after four years away, rich and popular and carrying one secret he cannot afford. To impress his father he proposes a curfew to squeeze the Bay. The Jaegers do not like rules.

Ashby is not in love with his best friend, except that he has been since forever. Kieran left their tiny hometown to become a doctor in London while Ashby stayed behind, running his dad's old business and hanging everyone's fairy lights. Now Kieran is back for Christmas, newly curious about kissing boys and very interested in Ashby's opinion on the subject. Ashby offers to wingman instead, because he refuses to be anyone's safe experiment. Then his ex turns up, Kieran kisses him to make a point, and nothing about it feels hypothetical. A cosy holiday novella with mutual pining, snow and shelter dogs.

Jacob Browne comes from rugby royalty and has spent his career failing to be the hero his father was, and now his relationship with New Zealand's favourite It Girl has fallen apart too. When she hires a male nanny, it lands like a kick in the guts that another man gets more time with his kids than he does. Austin is fresh back from London, determined to win over his glowering second boss and equally determined not to crush on a straight man again. Princess parties, Lego wars and long nights of talking take that resolution apart. Then it turns out Jacob is not as straight as everyone assumed. Contains mature themes.

Going home to Winterbury for Christmas comes with an entire sleigh of mom guilt, which is exactly why it has not happened in years. The last time, the town's mistletoe legend turned a best friend into a sworn enemy and left behind what can only be described as mistletoe PTSD. The plan is simple: help out at the family animal clinic, avoid the Christmas tree farm, avoid Archer Hodge entirely. Archer walks into the clinic on day one in pine-scented flannel with a beautiful dog in his arms, still able to pluck every last nerve, and annoyingly better looking than memory allowed. Frenemies to lovers with meddling moms, a gingerbread debacle and snow, plus an optional after-dark scene at the end.

In a world rigidly sorted by secondary gender, a political storm is building against the traditional alpha order, and eight strangers find themselves united against Cerberus, a corrupt power broker. Fen is a sharp omega hacker, Loch the protective alpha leader, Binnie an alpha political consultant, Saint a former demolitions specialist who no longer functions in polite society, Ollie the analytical beta. Safety means moving into Binnie's secure residence, which brings Fen's roommates Seth, San and Deacon along too. Unpicking Cerberus's plots turns a group thrown together by circumstance into a pack of four mated pairs, and into a challenge to everything their society calls normal.

Meddling with Maverick has always been the favourite pastime, right up until a prank on the neighbour backfires and he lets the Matchmaking Mamas start setting him up. Keeping an eye on those dates is clearly a duty. If a few of them happen to fall apart along the way, that is surely coincidence. Then Maverick calls the bluff that anyone could do better, and the meddler lands in the matchmaking hot seat himself. A lifetime of being straight has not prepared him for wanting a real date with a man, and it turns out that does not frighten him at all.

Ethan Evans has spent his whole life doing what other people wanted: working the ranch, pretending to be straight, trying not to sink under his parents' expectations. Failing out of college got him moved into the barn like an unwanted stray, under the eye of the new ranch boss he cannot stop noticing. Carter Higgins turned up at Willow Creek looking like a modern Western, rugged and calm, with a past he does not discuss, a family he would rather forget, and a talent for reading people. They clash and circle each other through the dusty heat of Foggy Basin until the lines blur, and neither of them expected to want the other.

As heir to the most successful tutoring company in the world, Rory studies harder than anyone else and never loses. Except to Luca, the infuriatingly good-looking hockey player who wins every academic competition without appearing to try. After a very public meltdown, Rory sets his sights on the most cutthroat academic camp in the country to salvage his reputation, and then Luca turns up. This time Rory has a plan: make Luca fall in love with him, and break his heart. Queer YA from the author of And They Were Roommates.

The dread Night King Xelroth Vex has dragged everyone down to the Under Dark to face their pasts, their fears and possibly their destinies. He believes he is the one in control. His son Declan Wilde has other views. King Aquilan discovers his memories are not complete, Lord Rhalyf squares up to his family and his own ambition, and Finley fights for his life to get hold of the magic he has always wanted. Meanwhile Helgrom, Snaglak, Glom and the twins attempt a desperate heist for weapons and armour in an abandoned dwarven city. The cosy romantasy leans a little further into high fantasy as the stakes climb.

In a perfect world, Lucas West would meet someone inside the kink communities he moves through, a Little who needs a Daddy Dom as much as he needs someone to care for. They would date, play, and build a future together. In a perfect world, Colt Carter would get through his next deployment and move closer to DC, somewhere he could finally have a personal life worth the years he has spent keeping his Sadist and his Daddy Dom locked away. In reality the two of them meet each other. A series where romance runs into the actual mechanics of kink, mismatches and compromises included.

Kevin has had enough. Thanks to his father he is unemployed, homeless, and under pressure to become whatever his father wants next. Fortunately his guardian angel in disguise has quite different plans for him. Tully's entire afterlife revolves around the haunted grounds of Saint Sebastien's, and he is a powerful undead spell caster with a settled routine. Then he lays eyes on the new human sexton, and unlife as he knows it turns upside down.

Darian Thornfield-Hayes has always been content to fade into the background and run Redwood Manor with precision. When a murder threatens the fragile peace between the rival Mafia factions staying there, he lands in the spotlight as the accused. Raffi DeLuca, acting head of security and the flirt who has been a thorn in his side for months, gives him an alibi by claiming they spent the night together, and compromises his own vows to the Don to do it. Sharing a room to keep the story straight turns the attraction between them into something neither can ignore. Darian has not told the whole truth, and Raffi has to work out how far he is willing to go for him.

A hundred years after the world ended in a wave of fire, a broken man survives in the wasteland that used to be America. Cavalo has deliberately cut himself off from what is left of civilisation, holed up in the crumbling ruins of a North Idaho prison with a mutt called Bad Dog and a robot on the edge of insanity for company. He is deteriorating too, his memories rising like ghosts. Then he crosses into the irradiated Deadlands and takes prisoner a mute man who belongs to the murderous Dead Rabbits. First half of the duology, on audio for the first time.

Twenty-one days. Cavalo has been given an ultimatum: hand the prisoner back to the cannibalistic Dead Rabbits, or the town that took him in is destroyed along with everyone in it. Twenty-one days to prepare for war, to hold together what is left of his shredded sanity, to talk the survivors around him into fighting back, and to work out what the marks covering the mute criminal mean. Lucas has a secret, and Cavalo has to decide whether it is worth dying for. The second half of the duology, after Withered + Sere.

Prince Julian Davaros is heir to the throne of the Lamdera Islands. Gorgeous, rich, adored, and a serial killer. His family and his bodyguard know what he is; everyone else sees the heir apparent. He cannot stand most people, he does not do relationships, and being alone with him usually means you are next. Then Wynn Carter catches his eye in a small café, and for once the obsession is not one he wants to kill. Wynn came for his thirtieth birthday, some sun and some culture, and ends up swept into lavish dinners and intimate nights with a future king. Secrets never stay buried, and when someone hurts the one person Julian wants, the quiet monster gets out.

Michael McCabe does not take holidays, especially not after nearly losing his brother to an arsonist. When an explosion tears through his enforced getaway in Tahiti, the off-duty SWAT officer is pulled into something that looks like a great deal more than bad luck. Alex Kessler came to the islands to scatter his late wife's ashes after a year and a half of grieving, and did not expect danger, or a man like Michael. The threat follows them home to Seattle, and so does a classified operation called Project Asphodel.

Will came back to Shiloh a shell of the person he used to be, and staying was the bigger mistake. Where Waylon McAllister is concerned he never stood a chance: damaged, reckless, a walking grenade aimed at his heart. However hard he tries, Will cannot shake him, least of all now that he has had a taste of what they could be. He wants to love him, protect him, keep him, if only Waylon would let him. Second in the Lost Boys series and a direct continuation of Where There's a Will. Triggers are listed at the front of the book.

Sean O'Brien handles his anxiety by being the funny one: at school, in his relationships, and on stage at local open mics. Then the act starts to feel like a performance of someone he is not. Between awkward encounters with his girlfriend and rising panic, he meets Elijah, a new boy with quiet confidence and a kind of honesty Sean has never allowed himself. His life, his comedy and his sense of who he is all come into sharper focus. A coming-of-age story about the courage it takes to speak when your voice shakes.

Mark is being blamed for a crime he did not commit, and Derrick holds his future in his hands. The way out he is offered is simple on paper: date the hockey captain, break his heart, walk away. Hunter turns out to be gentle, patient and so disarmingly kind that it terrifies him. Hunter, meanwhile, is stretched thin between caring for his best friend after an accident, school and his spot on the college team, and Mark arrives at the exact moment he has nowhere else to go. The closer they get, the clearer it becomes that Mark is hiding something, and the truth detonates everything they were building. Contains mature themes.

Gabe is pining after one man and has just been stood up by another, so he leaves for a holiday retreat for two on his own and lets the storm outside match his mood. Edries has spent years making headlines as an eccentric billionaire, and is now making them because his wife wants a divorce, says she never loved him, and is taking the children for the holidays. He reaches the mountain just ahead of the blizzard. Someone is already inside the room he paid for. Contains mature content, and the author lists the content warnings on her website.

Army veteran Harmon Wheeler lost his voice and the future he had planned to a single bullet. He knows he is large and intimidating, and he cannot reassure anyone when he cannot speak to them, so he loses himself in books and in the patient librarian who always takes the time to help him. Derek Willow sees past the menace to the quiet, intelligent man underneath, and starting a sign language class is a way to help Harm and to strengthen his own case for library director. Notes, texts and ASL carry the two of them closer. Then Derek's stalker decides he wants Derek for himself, and Harm may not be able to speak but he remembers everything he learned in combat.

Valentino and his crew have barely finished with what looked like their worst enemy when a brutal murder rocks the community. An assassination attempt on Aladar sends them looking for answers and turns up more questions instead. New alliances are forged, long-buried secrets come back to the surface, and there are traitors on every side. Nobody can be trusted entirely once matters of the heart are involved. Second and final book in the series.

Oliver Jacoby is the star left winger of the Berkeley Shore University hockey team, known for his skill on the ice, his easy charm and a protective streak that runs bone deep. Ryan Abrams is quieter, recognisable across campus by his vintage 1950s clothes and the music drifting out of his dorm room, though what he really escapes into is the sky. A hockey star and a stargazer sound unlikely together until you know they were childhood neighbours, inseparable, until a military reassignment took Ryan away and left the whole thing suspended in silence. Reunited by chance at Berkeley Shore, Ryan is not sure their bond survived the lost years and Oliver has no intention of letting him go twice. Contains mature content, and the author lists the content warnings on his website.

Former homicide detective Jude Holt is trying to get a handle on his necromancy, find his footing with his new SED team and build something solid with Angel, his fated mate and partner. Then a dark force out of his past resurfaces and wakes a volatile new magic in him, the kind that could consume everyone he loves. Angel swore to protect Jude even from himself, but a shadow god is using a familiar face to tear the Veil open and their bond is the only shield they have left. Saving their future may mean Jude striking a deal with the shadows trying to end it. Ends on a minor cliffhanger.

Christmas is a curse as far as Kris Kringle is concerned. His family runs a Christmas tree farm and a Santa's workshop experience, and despite the name he would rather be building ships in bottles or reading up on sea monsters for the nautical mythology course he teaches. Krakens, mostly. Levi Shoal moved to Lifeboat, Maine, to get away from his family, and did not plan on befriending a grumpy man in flannel who has no idea Levi is a kraken or that the town sits on an oceanic ley line surrounded by sea monsters. When that magic is threatened and Lifeboat is attacked, the secrets have to come out for them to fix it. A standalone holiday novel with a lot of hijinks and a sprinkle of suspense.

Mason knows exactly what kind of person dates their best friend's crush behind their back, and he is not proud of it, least of all because that friend took him in when he was kicked out at fifteen with nowhere to go. Being around Atticus makes it far too easy to forget any of that, because Atticus is healing parts of him he thought had stopped hurting. Atticus knows that glass breaks, it is the first thing you learn in glassblowing, and it is not the only thing of his that has. Between a childhood he is still carrying and a heart someone already broke, he doubts the anxiety will ever leave. Then Mason turns up like sunshine, and they are both still recovering from pasts that keep trying to repeat.

Everyone is back from the Under Dark and the trials the Night King arranged for them, but the Under Dark has not finished with them. King Xelroth Vex appears to be holidaying in the Aravae Empire, hiding behind the glamour of a human face. Haera Vex, Rhalyf's sister, has tracked her brother down and is going about undercover as an Aravae herself. There are now more Vexes in Tyrael than in Nhamashel, which is not a situation that stays quiet for long.

Everyone asked Cesare Vitale for forever. Lovers said it, family implied it, his children needed it, and every one of them eventually found a reason to walk away. He has never been easy to love. He chose power over people, protected his throne better than his heart, and made himself the villain because villains never have to beg anyone to stay. Now he wants his name and his crown back. Then Rafael looks at every ugly truth about him and wants to touch it anyway, asking for the one thing Cesare no longer knows how to hand over. Dark mafia romance with a silver fox, a queer awakening and a family already coming apart.

Eight years of solving the mysteries of the universe as a nuclear physicist ended in burnout, and a summer pouring drinks on Palm Island sounded like the cure. The wild parties, the strong measures and the loose dress code were all expected. Stepping off the ferry and seeing the man he let get away nearly a decade ago was not. Lyric is the life of every party, content to live in the moment, and has apparently not spared him a thought since. He has never stopped thinking about Lyric. It feels like fate, and like a second chance he is not sure is on offer.

Remi never expected a crush on his best friend's older brother to amount to anything, and then Benson Harper comes back to Darling, possibly for good. At forty-two Benson is searching hard for his own sense of self, and the man Remi is falling for now is kind and honest in ways the boy next door never knew about. Between wildlife rehabilitation, a new habit of mountain climbing and strained silences with his brother, Benson works up to telling his family he is autistic. Remi was not ready for love to arrive in quiet days spent working the ranch side by side, and is even less ready to lose it. Twelve-year age gap, with Deaf and autistic representation.

Ever since he was sacrificed as part of a forbidden ritual, Julian can see and speak with the spirits of passed brujx, which would be fine if it let him belong to his boyfriend Yadriel's community. But he sees other things too: shadows at the edge of his vision, glowing eyes in the dark, and dark spots on people that feel deeply wrong. Then Ángel arrives, a nonbinary brujx who can heal the living and release the dead, and who sees the same spots. Yadriel has reservations, and Ángel's methods are ruthless. Sequel to Cemetery Boys.

Evan Halloway travels to northern New Mexico to stand in for his best friend's son Max, who has got himself into a sticky situation, and the last thing he expects is to love the place, where everything from the landscape to the food seems designed to poke, scrape or burn. Then there is cowboy bullfighter Sam Marron, father of the young woman Max has got pregnant, who rubs Evan the wrong way from the first minute. Sam has no time for a fancy retired hockey player from Boston and will defend his daughter to his last breath, until it turns out Evan is unreasonably hot and a genuinely good man. A hockey family collides with a rodeo man, with long distance and family politics to wrangle.

On a black night full of stars, twenty-year-old Georg leaves rural Bavaria with a backpack and no plan beyond starting over somewhere he might be welcome. He falls asleep on the train and wakes in Vienna with no money at all. A stranger called Maria explains that the birds and butterflies have always followed him because his life force billows, and that she is the head gardener of a park with a guardian spirit which has finally sent her an apprentice. Settling into that wilder world, Georg meets Og Keird, a shy and gifted pianist, and a misunderstanding pulls them apart for eight years before Og comes back asking to try again.

Rabbit Trace is a musical prodigy with terrible stage fright and a famous mother who gave her whole life to the craft, which leaves him one panic attack from coming apart. A dull routine is what keeps him upright, and it holds until one of the Devils of Vitality decides to invade his life whether he wants it or not. Baikal Void is the future Dominus of the Brumal Mafia, taking the crown far sooner than planned as his father dies, and holding his own deranged nature down with both hands. He is dragged to a university recital, sees Rabbit fighting demons of his own, and decides he has found his saving grace. He collects enough on Rabbit's mother to force the matter.

The last person Myles expects to answer his roommate wanted ad is the man from the diner he has been quietly pining over. Avery is social and flirty and more or less his opposite, while Myles spends his days writing sci-fi erotica under a name his parents think belongs to a journalist. He likes being invisible, and this arrangement is about to shake that loose. Avery, ignored by his family over the wellness fair his acupuncture practice is running, soaks up every second of Myles's attention and knows perfectly well that sleeping with his landlord is a bad idea. Part of a low angst trans romance series set at Randy's Diner.

Paranormal investigator Jack Atkinson does not expect to want his new client, and he does not expect the haunting Aaron Riley describes to interest him as much as it does. After that first meeting the two of them fall into a passionate affair, which Jack would happily continue, except that Aaron has room in his head for exactly one thing: getting rid of his ghosts. Digging into them, Jack finds family secrets running deeper than anything he had imagined. Whether the truth ends what they have started is another question entirely.

A fake engagement to the sheriff who escorted him to family camp is weirdly delightful. Failing to mention that his family are professional thieves is a small oversight. He left the Callahan business years ago and is a law-abiding photographer now, someone who takes nothing but pictures and has learned not to get greedy for anything or anyone, though his relatives never got that memo and a week at camp means a week of being guilt-tripped back into the fold. Holden Axford was supposed to be a one-night stand, but he takes protecting people seriously, so he declares himself the fiance and starts charming a family of criminals. Callahans do not get caught, and nobody warned him about catching feelings.

A science fantasy monster romance with a Howl’s Moving Castle streak, set after the Rise, when the old gods came back and brought humanity down. Helios has never known anything else and is very good at surviving it. On the day he is about to be sold into slavery, rescue turns up in the shape of a mutant: Griffin, the Devil of the Wastes, who takes him aboard the Beetle, a six-legged machine run by a bad-tempered AI. Given the chance to do more than survive, Helios is not about to let go of it. Contains mature content, full content warnings on the author’s site.

Flirt with a stranger, get the photo, walk away. The job should have been simple, except the stranger turned out to be the most famous player in the league. Stellan is very good at being irresistible to the wrong kind of man, and when a Chicago hotel job ends with a career-ending photo of Matt Harkins, Stellan gets fired for trying to stop it. Seven months later Matt walks into a Seattle suit fitting and finds Stellan holding out the next jacket. A closeted captain with everything to lose is about to find out how much he will risk.

The youngest foster brother, the one with the most potential, and the one his brothers have plans for. College, and leaving the family auto shop behind. Plans that definitely do not include a big, sexy ex-con called Flynn Donovan, who is older, bigger, and looks hard all over, though he is soft underneath if you can get him to admit it. Flynn resists, citing all the obvious reasons, until he confesses the real one. He has guilt about his past and fears about the future that make everything else look like child's play.

Prince Zavrius has spent his life in the shadow of his family, fifth in line to a throne he will never claim. While his eldest brother Theo schemes and the court whispers about war, Zavrius is told to prove his worth with a display of swordsmanship he is nowhere near capable of. Balen, a rising star of the Paladin Order, offers to train him: disciplined, unflinching and loyal to his duty, everything Zavrius is not. Their stolen hours build something that defies both their stations. Set five years before the events of Reforged.

Noah Rossi met Atticus King in the worst year of his life, and while everything else was falling apart Atticus stood out like a lifeline. Two years later they are finding their way back to each other, picking up a love that never really ended. Rebuilding trust does not erase the wreckage, and Noah's past still sits in the shadows of everything they are trying to become. The story moves between the present and the past, through grief, addiction and the scars he has spent years outrunning. A companion novel to Echoes of Us.

Jude rarely meets anyone who becomes more than a passing acquaintance, and his cousin's graduation party is the last place he expects to. He is intrigued enough to invite the boy to spend the summer with him at the boat club on Dark Island. Conner had built his whole future around an NHL draft that never came, so being taken in by a frat brother's hot cousin, a professional hockey player at that, is not the worst way to float through a summer he has no plan for. The castle and the club are far too good to be true. One man there takes an instant dislike to him, and Conner ends up inside the wall, in front of a circle of masked people holding knives and deciding whether he lives. Contains mature content, and the author lists the content warnings on her website.

The summer before his sophomore year, Horatio Bithersea walks into the university library and finds Carson Hamlett, resident golden boy and master magician, cradling his father's dead body. Elsinore, one of the most prestigious universities in the secretive magical world, rules the professor's death an accident and carries on. A year later Horatio is keeping his head down and trying to graduate without his uncontrolled magic hurting anyone, until the ghost lays a curse on them both: avenge him by destroying Elsinore and its heart, or lose their minds, their memories and their souls. Elsinore gave Horatio everything, his magic, an escape from an abusive family, the freedom to live as a transgender man, and now he is supposed to be its ruin. A dark academia retelling of Hamlet.

Seymour Madison comes to Somerstown to settle the estate of a father he was estranged from, having spent years coasting along with no attachments, no relationships and no wish for either. Then his father's lawyer turns out to be a robot god, some very attractive faeries want him to find a missing head, and the cute man from the cemetery is an angel working for a monster mafia. There is also an adorable cat girl who eats people whole. Sariel is an angel with something terrifying underneath the heavenly exterior, held prisoner by a demon who will stop at nothing, and Seymour lands between a rebelling faction and the ruling family of monsters with, for the first time, something worth fighting for.

Cody Desmond comes back to Bay Springs, Mississippi after a disastrous few months working a cruise ship, with his first real relationship sunk somewhere behind him and no idea what comes next. One look at Liem Lott's mischievous smile raises the stakes considerably. Liem has an artist's soul, an endless supply of kindness and a knack for making something beautiful out of chaos, and he has been Cody's one source of peace for a long time. Determined not to wreck this fresh start, Cody has to convince himself he deserves what Liem is offering, while family emergencies and old wounds turn it into a story about the right person at the wrong time.

Reuben Langley broke Xavier Conway's heart once, and five years on Xavier has convinced himself he is over it. He is a famous supermodel now, with faraway locations, glamorous parties, even more glamorous men, and a great deal of noise. If his mind still wanders back to the quiet, responsible war photographer he loved and lost, nobody needs to know. Then everything collapses around him, and the person standing there when he hits the bottom is Reuben. Reuben fell for him the first moment he saw him, a wild, sassy boy in a hotel bar, and finding out whose son he was should have stopped him but did not. Set in London and the Inner Hebrides. The book opens with a disclaimer about its content.

Ryan Davis has spent fifteen years in hell. Taken at eight years old, then beaten, broken and forced into silence, he managed to exist. A chance phone call gives him a way out and he takes it, though escaping is not the same as being safe and freedom is not the same as being happy. Jacob Wright has adapted to a life he did not plan, in a beautiful house on a secluded stretch of the northern California coast, after an accident six years ago took his livelihood and his mobility with it. He would say he is happy, if still careful. When Rye turns up on his beach, lost and close to death, Jake becomes a caretaker for a man who cannot speak and Rye has to trust a stranger to survive. Strangers to friends to lovers, with demi representation and a hard-won ending.

Keith Brooks has spent all thirty-eight of his years in or near Foggy Basin and cannot think of a reason to change that. He trims cattle hooves for a living and does the odd job as a farrier when one of the horse ranches needs him. Bart Martin grew up in a suburb of Sacramento with everything conveniently close by, content enough if a little bored and a little lonely, until his uncle calls from a town in northern California barely big enough for the map. Bart arrives in the middle of a Pride parade, thoroughly lost, and the gruff man with arms like tree trunks offers to help. He is not sure he should trust him, but he is desperate, and it is the sort of small decision that rearranges two lives.

Kellan O'Reilly needs a stellar final season to get picked up by an NHL team, needs to keep the overnight job his family depends on hidden from his coach, and needs to work out why his new tutor seems to hate him on sight. Bennett Wellington III, Wells, has done everything possible to avoid tutoring athletes, and being assigned to Kellan cracks the facade he spent years building, because Kellan is part of the reason Wells no longer resembles the boy he used to be. Kellan does not remember. Wells holds the power now and has no plans to give it up, except that trying to make Kellan's life hell keeps backfiring, and his commanding streak unlocks something in Kellan that is better than sleep and better than any record goal.

Levi Mercer wanted to honour his brother's memory with a charity stream, and the VR horror game was meant to last a few hours. It becomes an endless one instead, where the monsters follow rules and the man hunting him does not. Dying resets the scenario but not his killer's growing fixation. Through forest slashers and haunted hospitals the encounters shift from quick murders to lingering touches, from clinical kills to whispers, as he collects Levi's reactions like data. When the person killing you starts protecting you from everything else, the question stops being how to escape and becomes what he is turning you into. Very dark, with an abusive relationship at its centre, a happy for now ending and a minor cliffhanger. The author lists the full content warnings.

For years he was not human and did not want to be. Being the Beast was simpler: pacing the cage until his handlers let him out to fight, no name, no speech, a brutal existence he understood and accepted. Everything changed when Lucas was thrown into that cage with him, when he claimed Lucas as his own and realised he would do anything to protect him, starting with getting them both out. They are somewhere good now, somewhere safe, and none of it feels right to him. He makes sense in the dark place and Lucas does not, which leaves him with a problem he cannot name. Roman and Lucas's story, after Possession and Confession, and dark throughout. The author lists the content in the ebook sample.

Bastian is a vampire who does not bite, not any more. He would like to spend his undead life visiting charming Italian villages and dancing in the square with a cute boy, with his best friend Whitby, a magical talking cat, beside him. Stumbling across a dead girl on the beach who appears to have been killed by a vampire was not the plan. The local police chief does not trust him and assigns detective Nico De Luca to watch him until his trial. The Vampire Council has been called, and the bodies keep piling up.

Mason Vitali has not had a sub in eight years. The last time ended badly enough that he swore never again, and then a young man turned up by accident, eyes full of fear and want, desperate to be seen. Jinx is all vinegar and defiance until the right mood opens him up, and he bends for Mason as easily as Mason ends up bending for him. Jinx had sworn off men entirely, having been trafficked as an infant and sold into prostitution before he got his freedom, and after two failed years of trying to date women he wants to try something else. What Mason gives him turns out to be his control and his autonomy back. Then they reach a crossroads, and he has to decide whether letting go is the thing that lets Mason thrive.

Jackson and Elliot have been neck and neck since their first race, two elite marathoners who push each other to the limit every time out. With the Olympics coming, they are made to do the one thing neither wants: train together. Altitude camp means long runs, cold nights and a tension that stops being purely competitive somewhere along the way. One kiss takes the line between rivals and something more complicated with it, and leaves them both breathless for reasons that have nothing to do with a tempo run. Between Olympic pressure, media attention and injuries that could end a career, their timing could hardly be worse. Follows Your Pace or Mine and stands alone.

Mason decided to behave like the main character of one of his favourite dark romances and stalk the attractive waiter, and did not expect to end up chained to a pole in the man's basement. As outcomes go, he is delighted. Zane insists he has to kill him, since the stalking led to him accidentally committing several crimes he now feels obliged to cover up, and he keeps using the phrase loose ends. Mason is certain he would never actually go through with it and is simply resisting the inevitable. A dark rom-com with a reverse corruption arc and a thoroughly delusional narrator.

He hates weddings, having been jilted at his own a few years back, but he will not turn down free food and a weekend in a five-star hotel. A little fun before the festivities seems reasonable too, so when he spots a ripe peach he reaches for it. At the rehearsal dinner the next evening, the hookup turns out to be the groom, and the groom is marrying his cousin. He has no intention of letting a cheat walk down that aisle, especially one who keeps looking at him, so the plan is to tease and taunt until the man admits he is gay and calls it off. Except the groom is sweet, genuinely confused about his own sexuality, cooks, and has an absurdly cute dog. Previously published as Not My Groom by Devon Doe.

Peach Correctional Institution, a prison in the middle of nowhere in Georgia, is only a stepping stone for Kace Wright. The last thing he wants is to be a corrections officer, but he needs the money to get out of a small town that has been nothing but toxic to him. Stick to the plan, pay the bills, save for the move, leave. Then he meets Nathan Richardson and Colson Locke, two prisoners the charge sheets call low-life addicts, and every pass and every comment he makes only pulls them further into his head. He wanted to hate them, and then he learns the truth about them. To the other inmates he is Officer Wright. To those two he is their little princess. A dark why-choose romance.

Two fugitive mercenaries on the run through a dystopian cyberpunk Boston, one kinky wager, and enough denial between them to reduce two competent killers to obsessive idiots. Tiernan wants a detached bang with his unlikely ally and a long bath he has no access to. Danil, a smartass hitman who knows Tiernan cannot resist a competition, proposes a bet that turns into an unscheduled side heist. Danil has always been a makeout guy, and his nemesis with benefits is all but allergic to kissing. A short, spicy introduction to the Hack & Harrow series, violent and emotionally messy, with morally grey leads.

Austin was the cute kid on a TV show, then one of the biggest teen idols of all time, and is now a has-been scrambling for bit parts and numbing himself while he waits for Hollywood to take him seriously. When an offer finally comes, the condition is six weeks in rehab. Waiting there is Harvey Laden, spoiled son of a rock legend, handed the fame Austin had to work for, and the man whose face his fists have met more than once. Harvey is there on a court order after the fights, the hookups and the arrests, and the last thing he needs is The Boy Next Door turning up. They have thrown a lot of punches, and there is one night they would both rather forget. All the grit and glamour of the late 1970s.

Oklahoma panhandle, 1935. Robert Davis, proud and hot-tempered, has carried his family and their farm since before the Depression, and as the land blows away he tries to marry his sister to the son of one of the luckiest families in Guymon. Henry Sherwood, a bashful clerk at the corner store, has had eyes for Robert since the Davises arrived, agrees to the marriage to please his parents, then calls it off. Robert storms into town to knock some sense into him just as a black blizzard rolls in, and the two are forced to shelter together. Friendship grows into more, and with Oklahoma withering around them they plan to leave for California.

A wounded soldier and a devoted fisherman, boyhood best friends until one night changed everything. Then Jack lost the memory of it. Sol cannot forget. They share a life in Porth Luck now, holding it together with silence and sacrifice, while Jack keeps reaching for something he cannot name: charged moments, stolen touches, a pull in his gut. His mind may be broken, but his heart remembers what it lost. A steamy second chance with bi awakening, first times, a wounded hero, small town and found family, and a lot of angst.

Jack and Zak do everything together. Best friends, business partners, and never once the other B word. When Zak inherits his grandmother’s house in a quiet small town, they head off for a lazy summer and run into Harvey: six foot nine, a former stunt double living well out of the spotlight, and the first person who does not look down his nose at what they do for a living. He rather likes their work, in fact. They both fall. The only question left is whether three people can make it work. A short, scorching MMM about two retired adult performers and a big soft-hearted man, all of them in need of some healing.

Since moving to the coastal town of Willowhope, Skylar Reign has been building an interior design business from the bones up, with a psychic medium for a best friend and a clairvoyant mentor who drops hints like breadcrumbs. Between coffee dates with ghosts and battle plans that double as family dinners, he has found a real home, made of oddballs and outcasts who refuse to let him fall apart. The only thing missing is Kingston Porter, grumpy and guarded and the one man he is secretly in love with. Kingston is being pulled into dreamscapes tied to a mansion, and whatever waits there is hungry.

Haden likes his life exactly as it is. No mess, no attachments, no complications, because solitude means control and control means nobody gets hurt. Then his sister dies and he becomes the reluctant guardian of her daughter, and on the day of the funeral he saves a stranger and brings him home. Jay is paying off a debt that was never his, buried in a past that clings like a shadow, and in Haden's house he remembers what safe feels like. Whether either of them can fight for it is another matter.

Nakht has loved one man in his short, sheltered life: Meryt, his fellow palace dancer. They are two among Pharaoh's many personal slaves, not free but content, so long as they have each other. Then Meryt is killed during an attempted coup. Lost, Nakht surrenders himself to the gods, who do not want more bloodshed. They want him to prove his love by resisting every pleasure and temptation they can put in front of him. He is certain he can. His certainty is about to be tested. A standalone in the series.

Zach is flying home from his first semester at college with presents for his family, a voicemail from his ex and about as much travel anxiety as a body can hold. After a run of humiliations, including his bags being stolen, he meets Kieran, who is dreading his own Christmas at home and travelling with his sister Rena and her boyfriend Lucas. The snow keeps falling, the flights keep not leaving, and one long night in an airport turns into something neither of them planned. Rena and Lucas have to work out whether their relationship survives another storm. A holiday rom-com about first loves, flight delays and finding home.

Elio Hampton lost everything at seventeen: his wings, the only family that had ever truly loved him, and his best friend. Almost a decade later, after years at the hands of the man he thought loved him, he is standing on a bridge with daisies in his fists when Crescent Miller wraps his arms around him and pulls him back. Crescent had moved to a new town for a fresh start and never imagined Elio would be part of it, and the moment he recognised the bloodied man on that bridge he knew he was not losing him twice. They keep turning up at the same park, at the same hour, by the same patch of daisies, and Elio starts to wonder whether fate is cruel or he is simply too hurt to read it. Contains mature themes.

Tom has spent years watching Enzo Ferrante get away with murder and slip through the FBI's fingers behind a beautiful face and an elegant pedigree. One sloppy mistake reverses everything between them: Tom is no longer the agent thirsty for his blood, he is the man who saved him. He has the Camorra's enforcer in his web now, and he intends to put the whole family away for the rest of their lives. What Enzo does not realise is how much he gives away at night, whispering his sordid secrets into Tom's sheets. Nobody knows he belongs to someone else, not even his fiancee. An age-gap forbidden romance.

Arya has always been a one and done man, but his friends are pairing off, forty is coming up fast, and he is starting to wonder about his choices. Then he discovers his latest hookup is the new committee chair for the charity ball his company is planning. Ben's fresh start in Kansas City is not going well, and spending his days beside the man who ghosted him does not help. When his ex turns up hoping for a reunion, Ben panics and announces he has already moved on, with Arya. Arya agrees to play along in exchange for help landing a big client, and the lines blur from there.

Jason Harker admits to being a little nosy, which is what happens when you live alone in a town as small as Belleville. Finding the newcomer in the alley behind his store, cradling a bird as though letting go might break him, is all it takes to make befriending Joe Milton a personal mission. Now the whole town thinks he has a crush, which he certainly does not. Probably. Joe moved here to start an apple farm and is trying to renovate a collapsing house alone before his family arrives for Christmas, and the secret Santa who steps in to save him comes with an elf helper who makes his heart go faster than his deadline. Dislike to friends to lovers, between a secret millionaire and a grumpy apple farmer, with positive mental health representation.

The angel Dina is young and ancient at once, watching human epochs blow past his home in Heaven while he waits for the end times. When the archangel Uriel tells him the truth about God's first creations, Dina goes looking and finds a beautiful, seductive star who urges him to bring on the apocalypse and be done with evil for good. Lovesick, he agrees. On the borders of a nation like Babylon, the human Tadeo has suffered and died to entirely human horrors, and comes back with powers he is convinced came from God. Set on freeing his town from war, Tadeo meets an angel carrying a dark omen. The end is coming, and the question is who actually wants it.

A man who spent a lifetime chasing danger finds that desire is the thing leaving him breathless now, and it arrives with calloused hands, a bottle of red and a promise of forever. A short one in the Table for Two series.

Two years ago Bastian Fontenot and Tikhon Volkov tore into each other in a playoff handshake line, and the words did lasting damage. Now both play for the Atlanta Firebirds, an expansion team built from castoffs, and the room goes cold whenever they share it. Bastian is loud and Cajun and handles his ADHD by being first through every door, and a night in a Toronto gay bar opened something nobody on the roster knows about. Tikhon is Russian, precise and closeted on every team he has played for. Then the team cat has kittens, a bonded pair who cry when they are apart. Bastian takes one, Tikhon the other, same building, and the handoffs turn into meals and the meals into late nights.

The Evil Queen, obsessed with beauty and perfection, never imagined the day her only son would become fairer than she is. Prince Makellos flees into the woods to save himself and luck brings him to the house of seven little men, exiled to dig gems out of the mines for the Queen. They need him as much as he needs them, and love grows in the little hideaway. The jealous Queen will stop at nothing to kill the son who outshines her. A why-choose fairytale retelling that stands alone but connects to the rest of the GriMM world.

Rumpelstilzchen is the Queen's ruthless enforcer, a shadow geist bound to her by black magic, and his only way to freedom is to find his missing Heart and claim it. He does not expect it to be beating inside the miller's son. Boy is locked in the palace cells for his family's unpaid tithe and will die at sunrise unless he spins a sack of straw into gold as his father promised. He expected the Queen to come for his head. Her Shadow comes for his heart instead, meaning to carve it out, and then finds his magic wrapping protectively around the young man. A darker retelling with a shadow daddy, part of the GriMM Tales.

Life on the edge of the desert has never been easy for Zayn, a jackal who earns his living as a sword dancer and a prostitute. After selling his services at auction to a hyena sellsword called Naji, he realises Naji could be his way to a better life. Just as that begins to come true, trouble from Naji's past catches up with him, and the jackal has to move fast to save the hyena or lose him for good. An anthro fantasy romance.

Remy was not trying to go viral, he was just doing his job in glitter and spandex, and suddenly he was internet famous with too many eyes on him and no way to keep up. Enter Karim El-Amin, a former wellness star and content whisperer who swore off cameras after his own burnout and now lives on yoga, hot tea and quiet mornings above a queer café. Remy asks for help building something sustainable and Karim says yes, certain he can keep it professional. He is wrong. A tender, high-heat romance about burnout and creator chaos, with soft dom energy and a guaranteed happy ending.

More than forty years ago, Gary lost his virginity during what should have been a harmless night of experimenting in a tent in the woods, and he has thought about Denny Atwood ever since. After years of living a lie, he would like nothing more than to reclaim what he only ever felt for Denny, so it is quite a surprise when Denny moves in next door with his blue pots and upside-down pineapples on display. Denny picked the Silver Gardens retirement community on a whim for a fresh start, and never imagined finding straight-laced Gary living in a swingers' community full of blue-haired ladies and randy old men. A later-in-life, secret-dating rom-com, and given the setting there are on-page scenes with other couples too.

Theo is done with Valentine’s Day. Dumped on the most romantic night of the year, he ends up at a hotel bar ready to drown his sorrows alone, except the last free booth already has someone in it: a captivating stranger who calls himself E. Better known as Eros, who has spent millennia firing arrows for everyone else and never found his own soulmate. One look at Theo and the god of love knows exactly what he has been waiting eons for. One bottle of wine, one night, one divine spark.

A Romeo and Juliet retelling set in modern-day Oxford, with two vampires on opposite sides of a brutal power struggle. Centuries ago Tobias had his mortality taken from him by Vladimir Damianos, head of Britain’s most powerful clan, and he has wanted revenge ever since. His plan runs through Vladimir’s son Alexander, who turns out to have rebelled against his father by protecting mortals instead of hunting them. Alexander falls first, and hard, with no idea that Tobias is every bit the monster he is. Contains mature content, full content warnings on the author’s site.

Jory Harcourt is back with his columns, this time covering 2021. Different from the year before, he says, and also a lot of the same. Like everyone else he assumed things would go back to how they were after the lockdown, and when they did not, because they could not, that took some getting used to. What held him up through it was the ordinary, grounding presence of family, friends and community. And on the worst nights, stepping outside to look at the stars.

Growing up in rural Texas, Mitchell Evans wanted to dance, which made him a target. He found success in New York, and twelve years later he heads home at a crossroads. A reindeer jumps in front of his car, he goes off the road, and lands in the path of the one man he was hoping to avoid. Texas Ranger Web Eisley was not expecting his first love four days before Christmas. They quarrelled years ago over coming out, and Web is out now, but he has worked hard for the respect of his colleagues. The attraction has not gone anywhere.

Hugo refuses to be anyone’s pawn. He wanted to find a husband. What he got was flirty chaos wrapped in a charming smile, with a side of adventure and danger. The son of a famous baker, Hugo is hunting a rich husband to save his family, mostly because his mother would rather die than trade their pseudo-aristocratic life for actual jobs. He never set out to win the heart of Prince Everand, and he certainly did not mean to land in the middle of a brewing war between Brenam and Wulia. A cosy romantasy with magic, secrets, meddling mothers, a mad king, a bit of spice, and a playful prince who will do anything to keep Hugo.

Mother Jones has spent his life running the royal stables at Lilleforth and watching fondly while everyone around him falls in love and lust. Nobody has ever stoked that fire in him, until the new royal groom barrels into his life, all sunshine smiles and golden hair. Mother is past thirty and rough around the edges, and cannot imagine Vasily returning the feeling. Vasily, meanwhile, is the fourth son of the king of Koroslova, travelling incognito for a year in a place where he can finally stop denying who he is. He has not worked out how to mention the prince part.

Ten years ago the Van Dorens pulled him out of a megachurch cult where the leader kept him as his own, and he has spent a decade trying to outrun it. The past will not let go. The leader's voice is still in his head, his figure still at the edge of vision, reminding him that he belongs to him and should have died alongside him. Then Gracen fills his office with phone books, and the voice goes quiet. The closer they get, the louder it comes back, until Gracen works out that the man is not in his head at all. Mature listeners, content warnings on the author's site.

He saved Tobi's life the same night he burned his own to the ground, and now the man who has haunted his dreams for months is his roommate. Which would be great, except they met on the worst night of Tobi's life and all he sees is another hockey player. It gets worse when Savage, the cocky step-brother he already cannot stand, starts flirting with Tobi purely to get under his skin. Jealousy does the rest, and competing for Tobi twists his head until he no longer knows what, or who, he wants.

They say the world was better before the Red Rain, before the skies turned toxic and the virus made people savage. August disagrees. Desperation is profitable, hope is a commodity, and he sells dreams daily. Keaton Levine was supposed to be another mark, until he turned out to be someone who actually sees him. Keaton lost everything when he was bitten, was discharged, discarded and diseased, and has nothing left but vengeance. He came for answers and got lies, and found a reason to fight anyway. Set in the shared 1nf3ction universe, readable alone.

Rush is in love with his best friend. There was no exact moment, it grew and evolved, and it will never be more than platonic because Torin is straight. Then one night Torin kissed him and left him with more questions than answers, and the next morning a family secret shattered everything he thought he knew. Torin was there through all of it. Four years on, having put his own feelings aside and stepped back into the role of the friend who could be counted on, he wants to find out whether Rush is ready now.

Liam West thought he was on the verge of stardom until one disastrous season of reality TV made him America's favourite villain. Now he is broke, hiding in a small town, and spending December dressed as an elf in Santaland, and the green tights are not even the worst of it. Charlie Fisher is Christmas's number one fan. When he finds a little girl's letter to Santa asking for one thing, a new boyfriend for her uncle Liam, he decides to make it happen. Liam is not easy to love, and Charlie starts to suspect he is the one who wants the chance.

At twenty-two, Alessandro Silva knows that coming back to tiny Perch Creek for his foster mother was the right call, even if a missing degree and a delinquent's reputation mean he is lucky to be waiting tables. Not everyone is pleased he is back. The one bright spot is his boss's brother. Jaime Winters has watched the world go by from hospitals and behind stacks of textbooks, and years of heart failure have left him a virgin at twenty-three. He has a new heart now and no idea what giving it away would mean.

Baseball fans know Matty Miller as a two-time Gold Glove nominee and proud dachshund daddy to Instagram's favourite wiener dog. Off the field he is a bisexual farm boy from Alabama renovating a fixer-upper farmhouse and pretending the butterflies he gets around his left fielder are pregame jitters. Peter Diaz has never been accused of being subtle, quotes Chris Evans at every opportunity, and secretly writes filthy Roasters fanfiction under a pseudonym. When the truth comes out he agrees to join Matty on a televised holiday baking competition to win his trust back. Final book in the series.

Caspen Coolsby's dad has been missing a few months and everyone has stopped looking except him. His first real lead comes from his new upstairs neighbours: using candle scents tied to their memories, he can transport himself inside those memories, and nobody loved candles more than his dad. Then a boy called Lars starts turning up in moments where he has no business being either. The line between memory and reality thins, Caspen falls for him, and finding his dad means reliving the hard parts of his own past and not only the good ones. From the author of If I See You Again Tomorrow.

Preston York has spent his life as the Spare of the York dynasty, the fun one, the flighty one, the one expected to look good in a tuxedo and nothing more. When his older brother Maxwell, Golden Boy Chief of Cardiothoracic Surgery, bets he would not last a week in the real world, Preston trades silk sheets for scrubs and brunch for the graveyard shift. He is ready for the blood and the exhaustion. He is not ready for his boss. Dr Lucas Silva clawed his way from a fourth-floor walk-up in Queens to Chief Resident and has zero patience for tourists, least of all the Chairman's devastatingly handsome son wearing Gucci loafers to a trauma activation. The on-call room gets smaller by the hour. A comedy, and a direct sequel to Bedside Manner.

Akira Hebikawa is heir to the strongest ruling Yakuza family, unhinged and impulsive and a permanent problem for the bodyguard who is also his right hand. They could not be more different. They fought a common enemy together once and never separated after, Akira taking him in out of boredom, him following because there was nowhere else to go. The feelings came later, over years, and got pushed down where nobody could see them, himself included. Now the big boss has ordered Akira to marry. A gaijin never had a chance with a Yakuza prince whose future is already paved, except that Akira suddenly wants to experiment. Dark and action-heavy, with morally grey characters throughout and a size difference, for mature listeners.

Getting kidnapped at a rave was not on Xave's list, and neither was discovering that the man abducted alongside him is a rival frat member he hooked up with that same night without knowing who he was. Back at school he cannot stop thinking about it, or about him. Then he is handed the job of watching Damon to find out whether he is part of a plot against the frat, and watching turns into something closer to obsession. He wants things he has spent years refusing himself, and it does not take long to see the two of them are not so different. Then he learns someone is trying to kill Damon. Dark romance at an invite-only college, with stalking, forced proximity and not-so-secret societies. The author lists the full content warnings.

King Leopold rules Lilleforth well and is handsome, clever and charming, so the neighbouring kingdoms are queuing up with princesses. The difficulty is that Leo has no interest in princesses at all, and considerable interest in handsome young men who enjoy a good spanking. Felix Hobson left Lilleforth as a teenager to train as a groom and learned a great deal while he was away, not all of it about horses, though riding crops were involved. Home now as royal groom, he mistakes Leopold for a horse thief and tries to seduce him, which delights the king entirely. It is all fun and games until they both fall hard, and there is a visiting princess, an assassination attempt and a kidnapping between them and finding out.

Declan has always been angry and always had a short fuse, and it got worse after his best friend was killed. He avenged that death and it left him hollow, with nobody to count on. So when his own life is threatened there is no one to turn to, until Nico pushes his way in and promises to keep his secrets. Nico's favourite hobby is winding up the younger Whitlock, who makes it far too easy, and seeing him at his favourite kink club seemed like an opportunity to press a few buttons. That night is not one he will forget. Learning Declan is being blackmailed with no one to help him, Nico offers, and keeps it from Carter, Declan's overprotective older brother. Mafia son and bodyguard, mild annoyance to lovers.

When portals split the sky, humanity braced for war, only to learn the monsters of Erethar were not there to conquer: they need something very specific from humans to survive. Dante runs a little sex shop and has been doing his part by donating what the monsters crave. Then a friend calls about an injured, banished Vyastil looking for sanctuary. Cielo is soft and tender, his punishment far out of proportion to his crime, and he does not believe he is worthy of taking what his body needs. Dante sets out to show him that everything he was taught about humans is wrong, and the moment Cielo finally gives in, it stops being about hunger at all. Touch-starved cinnamon rolls and body piercings as a love language.

When Dr. Maxwell Thornton's Malibu beach house is burgled, he sees a silver lining: the perfect excuse for a sun-soaked getaway with Sheriff Royce Callum, the man who showed him what love is supposed to feel like. Their escape to the exclusive community of Ocean Whisper Estates unravels fast into jealous exes who will not stay in the past, insecurities Royce did not know he had, and murder. Someone dangerous wants Max gone from Malibu and will threaten, manipulate or kill to send him back to Rainy Dale. Max and Royce do not scare easily, and their stubborn need to protect each other nearly costs them their lives.

Rowan is a city bigfoot with a joyless, well-paid finance job, and spending the summer in the tiny town of Wendigo Hills is not his idea of fun. The town turns out to be surprisingly welcoming, and the barista at the coffee shop is far too cute. Milo is juggling work, debt and school while visiting Ethel, his great aunt and last living relative, in her nursing home, and on her advice he has decided to get some action this summer, just as a hot and hairy bigfoot moves to town. The fling turns into real dates and real feelings, and Rowan is going back to Chicago in September. Size difference and opposites attract, written as a fanfiction-style alternate universe, with a fictional author's notes recorded separately so they can be skipped.

He describes himself as an ethical ghoul. Eight years working the special kitchen at Broth with a Bite, in the Creepy Court Mall food court, feeding customers with the same dietary requirements and getting his own needs met without feeling too much like a monster. Then the new guy starts. Human, shy smile, rad hair, and smelling like a five-course meal. Ricky has no idea he works in a restaurant for ghouls, or that ghouls exist at all, and wanting to take a bite out of him is not, strictly speaking, appropriate. Content warnings on the author's site.

Rodian expected to see out his life in the far north of Urova, minding his reindeer and his small fjord town. After the Infernal War the Midnight Star decides otherwise, and he finds himself crowned and thrown into a royal court he was never trained for. His only way through the nobles arrayed against him is Arkadi, a young nobleman whose favoured currency is secrets and whose public role hides his training as one of the Star Order's assassins. Keeping his ruler alive is the job. Keeping his own heart is the difficulty.

Ewan Fate left home seven years ago meaning to come back, and now cannot work out how. A creative block that will not lift puts his painting career at risk, so he packs a bag and heads for the east coast. Not much has changed in Siren's Point: the locals still gossip, the lobstermen still haul traps, and Shiloh Lepage is still the love of his life. Shiloh spends his days on the water and his nights alone, stuck in a relationship that stopped moving, missing a friend he has not spoken to in seven years. Content warnings on the author's site.

Laurence Dalziel is worn down and washed up, six years past his last meaningful relationship, pushing forty and tired of pretending nothing has changed. Then he meets Toby Finch: young, fearless, fierce and easy to hurt, everything Laurie cannot remember being. Toby has no idea who he wants to be or what he wants to do, but he knows he wants Laurie. Laurie will surrender his body and not his heart, because this cannot last and cannot mean anything. Third in the Spires world, from the author of Boyfriend Material, with new bonus material.

After losing his bondmate to illness he accepted that his time to love was behind him, and promised her on her deathbed that he would never take another. He meant it. Since then he has served his clan, leading it while Uttin travelled from town to town freeing those forced to hide who they loved, and told himself devotion was enough. He did not expect one of those townsfolk to change his mind, or to be looked at not as a leader or a legend but as a man. Loving him means breaking the last promise he made.

Pax, the last dragon in all the kingdoms, wakes from a centuries-long sleep looking for a worthy mortal to give three scales and three wishes, after which he intends to leave the Gemstone Kingdoms for good. For now he wants adventure and a new partner in his bed, and he picks Bertram, the newly crowned Emerald King. Thirty years into a golden age the peace is proving fragile, opponents of magic are resurfacing, and Bertram wishes he knew what his life would have been had he never taken the throne. Be careful what you wish for, especially from a dragon.

Nobody should have to choose between love and justice. Patrice Denis, Haitian-born professor and activist, has no room for anything that pulls him off the path he worked so hard for, and Easton Archer is exactly that kind of dangerous distraction. The assistant district attorney gave him some of the most intense nights of his life last summer and still makes him forget they come from different worlds. With local law enforcement targeting young men of colour, and Easton's career and conscience both on the line, this is the worst possible moment. Winner of a Ripped Bodice Award.

Hadestown by way of You've Reached Sam. Eighteen-year-old August is still adrift years after the accident that killed his boyfriend, carrying the guilt with him, when he stumbles into a world beyond his own. The Underworld is everything his grey existence is not: lavish, strange, full of curious gods who all want to know how he got there. He goes looking for his lost love, guided by Cary, the broody ferrier of souls, and the longer he stays the less certain he is about what he came for.

Reid Alexander is an out and proud dance instructor, a California boy used to flashy comfort, and distinctly unthrilled to inherit his late grandfather's horse ranch in South Dakota. Three months of cowboy hell stand between him and the right to sell it. Walker Corrigan, the ranch foreman, has built his whole life around Pine Ridge, and sets about making Reid love the place. Reid was not prepared to grow attached to the land, the horses, or Walker, and then threats to the property put all of it at risk.

Max has never had time for a relationship in the high-stakes world of diplomacy, and when an ambassadorial post opens in Athens he is discreetly told his single status is not helping. Appearances matter, and his rival Quentin has a charming girlfriend. So Max hires Hunter, an actor, to play the perfect boyfriend. Hunter dazzles the diplomatic circuit, the charade takes on a life of its own, and when visa complications force them to make it official they end up in a marriage of convenience that is anything but. The Proposal meets Heated Rivalry.

Having had his world upended by a billionaire CEO werewolf and a whole hidden order of magic, Dakota is settling into life as alpha mate of the Crescent pack, and even into being heir to the witchwolf legacy. Then he comes back from Japan with a ghost attached to him, a great-great-grandfather distinctly unimpressed to find his descendant leading a werewolf pack. Worse, they land to a bloody welcome: the Wildwood wolves are coming to take the pack back. A direct sequel, to be listened to after Witchwolf.

A debut queer novel where video games, first love, magic and horror run together. Mikey Redman and Kris Dwyer are two very different teenage boys whose shared love of computer games holds them together through trouble at school and at home. While they try to work out what is happening to their friendship, increasingly unpleasant things start happening in Pytt End, and there is more magic about both of them than they realise. There is also something ancient stirring under the well in Mikey's back garden. Full cast narration with original music. Heavy content warnings, listed by the author.

One year sober. Miles Bennet's recovery was meant to be his way back to his children, and instead his ex-wife has turned it into a weapon, twisting every bit of progress into something else. When a crushing setback sends him toward a bar and a double whiskey, he has one choice left: go under, or reach for the man holding his tether. For Darren Quinn, loving Miles means being the authority Miles needs when his own self-control gives out. Then a mysterious benefactor offers one last chance at custody.

Until recently he was a fairly average twink whose biggest problems were being a terrible barista and having a cheating ex. Then comes hulking, scruffy, deeply quirky Daddy, who calls him Twink as though it were his name. That should have been a clue, because he is not human: he is a parasitic, shapeshifting, tentacled alien who crash-landed on Earth escaping a Vorcon ex who used him for breeding drones. Which is a lot of baggage. He is also thoughtful and kind, and the tentacle thing is frankly not a dealbreaker.

All of Chicago followed the news about Diego Ferguson's injury and the season he spent on the bench, and it does not hurt that he broods handsomely in every photograph. Sweat is the last place Callan expected him to turn up, but he needs a personal trainer to get back in shape before the season and Callan is the man for the job. He is straight, obviously, which does not stop anyone enjoying the view. He is also surly, arrogant, and unexpectedly desperate for some bro time between workouts. Maybe not as straight as advertised.

Joining Mike Bravo Ops to finally meet the godfather he only knows from his late father's journals does not go the way Hazard imagined. Instead of the warm, ride-or-die man on the page he gets coldness and hostility from someone who does not want to know him, and finds him annoyingly attractive anyway. Decaf has survived rejection, enlistment and a warzone, and none of it comes close to losing his best friend. Now that friend's grown son is here, Mike Bravo Ops is dangerous, and the promise he made to keep him safe says he should push him away.

Beard's past is not pretty. After an incident that nearly destroyed him he rebuilt a life he would call comfortable rather than happy, and he does not let anyone close enough to do it again. Then six feet of pure temptation starts walking into his bar, repeatedly, for a year. He has done a decent job of ignoring the college soccer player until the night the man's teammates leave him stranded and drunk, and offering him shelter stops being optional. Soccer plays to win, has never been subtle about it, and can see the interest behind the gruff exterior.

Everyone knows the way to a god's heart is to put him on a roller coaster. Probably not, but it is the dash of normality Riley and Torin need before dealing with a malevolent god intent on destroying four realms. Riley then finds himself handcuffed to a stranger who would rather punch him than help, trying to lift a curse that has stolen Mickey's powers and interrupted his naps, and explaining to his god of love and war that they do not need to join the mile-high club. Torin, meanwhile, is fairly sure neither of them should be trusted with a houseplant, let alone a realm.

Miles Curtis owes his career as a painter to the band Cloverlily, whose music pulled him out of a slump years ago and made him a fan for life. Back home temporarily to help with his family's inn, he discovers their guitarist Calvin Lowe is staying in one of the rooms. Calvin is quiet, withdrawn, dealing with the band's breakup, and makes it plain from the start that he intends to keep to himself. Finding out Miles is the painter he has been wanting to meet seems mostly to annoy him. They clash, and then work out how much they have in common.

Trading his glorious merfolk hair for human legs was supposed to be the hard part. Winning over the gay disaster pirate captain of his dreams turns out to be considerably harder. Silverfin has spent years watching Captain Hawk from a respectful, deeply romantic distance, and when a night of drunken brooding sends Hawk overboard he does the only reasonable thing: rescues him, steals a kiss, and bargains his hair to a sea goddess for legs. Now stranded aboard a pirate ship with a treasure to find and a secret to keep. Found family chaos and one extremely judgmental crab.

Perfect Shores Funeral Parlour is the family business: they bury the bodies and reap the souls. Mal does not do humans, does not like humans, finds them tedious, and is cold and unfeeling about the whole thing. Then one walks in with sad eyes and sallow skin, grieving a lost love, and it is all Mal can do not to hide him away and look after him. Jason, for his part, has heard there is a man who can bring the dead back, and he will do anything to hold Kieran again. Neither of them was supposed to happen.

Impulsive, careless, self-destructive: he is the cliché everyone warns you about, the head case with a pretty face, the one playing Russian roulette at parties. Then Will Foster comes barrelling back into his life, the boy from his childhood he had filed away as a fluke and a mistake. It is only a matter of time before Will sees what is underneath, and loving someone who does not want to be loved is hopeless. A long, raw slow burn. The story continues in If There's a Way. Content warnings listed by the author.

College student West Millbrook is in real financial trouble since his overbearing parents cut him off for moving away to study. His answer is to work for Polished P & P, which also lets him be himself: he sells his company, not his body. Easy enough, until Adrik Hail walks in. Adrik is wealthy, organised, lonely, and pays for no-strings company precisely so nobody can weasel their way into his life, because that way he stays in control. Then adorable West comes through the door and control stops being the point.

Levi's boy band days are behind him, heartbreak included, world tours swapped for bedtime stories with his orphaned niece. Then Cassian Monroe, the man who broke his heart and never looked back, walks in and asks him to fake a romance. He should say no. He has never been able to. Cassian spent years hiding behind a dazzling smile, too frightened to be himself, and it cost him the only man who ever saw him properly. He is done hiding, but with the world watching he wants a soft launch with someone safe, and walking away from Levi nearly destroyed him the first time.

Chatterbox has confirmed it: America's heartthrob Jace Wilder and Britain's bad boy Lennox Rome are starring together in the year's most anticipated biopic, the story of a legendary rock duo. Jace is a child star turned industry veteran who has said nothing about the controversial script. Lennox went viral two years ago, then took the Best Actor award away from his new co-star, and has been unfiltered and unpredictable ever since. Two men who could not be more different, locked into one film. Multicast duet narration.

Wes has spent his life chasing a good time with no strings attached. Settled into a job as a physical therapist at the university, he is ready for something deeper, and then Jared “Jett” Cordier walks in: former Olympic golden boy, track legend, and about as welcoming as a slammed door. Jett lost his career, his relationship and his father, and starting over as an assistant coach was supposed to be simple. Late nights and arguments that burn too hot turn into something neither of them planned to keep.

Toby Glin was abandoned as a baby and has fought for every scrap of comfort since. A job as a busboy in a charming cafe feels like his luck finally turning, until he learns the cafe belongs to Prince Valentin Izarius, second husband of King Ryu. Valentin is warm and welcoming, and falling for him is hopeless: he already has two soulmates. What Toby does not know is that Valentin recognised the soul mark on his wrist the moment they met. Third in the Missing Pieces series, to be listened to after Confusion.

The Paranormal Society has been Oliver's home for over a decade and he still is not sure where he fits. Joining the mutual aid committee brings misunderstandings, sabotage and a life-changing proposition, and once again he fears he is out of his depth. Felipe has always been the one everyone depends on, but after years of bloodshed the cracks are showing, and the cases that used to sustain him now fill him with dread. A plot against magical folk is unfolding inside the Society itself. An autistic necromancer and his undead love.

What happens after the happy ending. Gathered together for the first time, a collection of short stories about some of the much-loved men from Lily Morton's books: wet and windy marriage proposals, surprise visits at work, and a thoroughly entertaining ghost tour. It brings together pieces written for her website, newsletter and readers' group, plus four brand new and exclusive stories, Gertie and the Glitch, A Red Ribbon, When Will Met Jem, and Sun Cove.

Wren did everything asked of him from the moment his wings first glowed, and asking to be released from a courtesan contract that should never have been legal got him banished. Now he needs a new calling, and the smouldering baker at Warwick's Wicked Bakery might be it. Talon is a griffin shifter who would rather bake than fight, and who gets very grouchy when a certain fae messes up his clean space just for a snack. Then his boss pairs the two of them together. Welcome to Hex, Indiana.

As Prince of Ardenia, Nicholas wants for nothing except freedom: from bodyguards, from media scrutiny, from bringing shame to the throne by loving whoever he likes. A trip to America becomes his royal rumspringa, and he joins a local hockey team as their backup goalie. Then he meets Hank, a plumber and single dad who activates every kink he has. Between one-on-one practices, bar crawls and lazy afternoons texting about Christmas movies, easy company turns into real chemistry. He is due back in Ardenia on Christmas Eve.

Numbers make sense. Intense alien men with big feelings do not. Stranded on a strange planet eight years ago and fully expecting to die, Assistant 23 now lives anxiously among alien residents who are nothing but kind, and still will not take off his hazmat suit, show his face or give his real name. So when a Maeleon called Farr'vye gets too personal, he does what he is best at and panics, straight into a thorn bush that shreds his clothes and undoes the hiding. Farr'vye is obsessive, caring, and entirely willing to nurse the damage.

He does not let anyone in, and cannot afford to. Then Caleb moves in and breezes through his life like unexpected sunshine, and the secrets and sharp edges built to keep people out stop working quite so well. Every time Caleb wraps around him, needy and trusting, something cracks open. The deeper Caleb settles into his chest, the more certain he is that he should push him away before he sees too much, because the truth is going to break them both. Tenth and final in the Unexpected series.

Chase Hooper does not like people, his housemates and his twin brother excepted. He particularly does not like the handsome man who stops at Goose Run Gas every night to interrupt his nap and tell him the coffee is terrible. Lee Torres is a baker, and the best and worst part of his morning is that coffee. It is awful. The man serving it is cute, if openly hostile, and something keeps bringing him back, and it is definitely not the stale pastries. Then they end up working together in Goose Run's newest venture, professionally, obviously.

Causing a scene on his own lawn with his scumbag ex was bad enough. Being rescued by his two enormous, gorgeous neighbours makes it worse, even if their arms feel safe. They look like a happy couple, and are presumably just pitying the fool next door. Duke and Stellan have wanted Bailey since the day they moved in, when he was firmly off-limits, and he is not any more. They worked out years ago that a third person would make what they have complete, and Stellan is impatient. Whether Bailey is ready is another question.

Malachite has a good life and no right to complain. Between his brothers and their new mates the house has not felt this alive since their parents died, which is precisely the problem: they are all paired off, and it is just him and his dragon Kesia. Then he walks into the Overlord's Lair and sees Quentin. His. Mate. He would very much like to win him over before mentioning the dragon rider part, and he is not sure he can, since being anywhere near Quentin turns him into an idiot. Quentin, meanwhile, can tell he is hiding something.

Kade Mills spent over a decade dreaming of the perfect meet-cute, and the universe delivers the perfect mage while he is a scarred shadow of himself, still recovering from the malicious spirits haunting his pack's territory. Liam Batiste wants a quiet room and a stack of books, and is only in Lost Creek to help a friend. Paired up to capture the threat, they end up entangled physically and magically, and have to control a bond neither of them asked for. Reluctant mates, forced proximity, and an overarching plot with cliffhangers.

A ruthless meth dealer is burning through Atlanta's streets, and God and Day's task force is the only thing standing between the city and a growing plague. Wes and Law, childhood friends turned blacklisted pyrotechnic rivals, are hiding out in Atlanta until the fire they started in Hollywood is extinguished, and get dragged onto the front line. Cinematic special effects become real explosions. The team is fracturing under secrets and betrayal as the merciless army of their fiercest kingpin yet closes in.

Aiden is known as the Ice King, and he did not become one of the best rugby players in the world by handing out free hugs. He got there through work, sacrifice and denying a large part of himself, and he plans to become the poster boy for gay rugby after he retires. Tyler has just made the New Zealand team in his first professional season, has been told to room with Aiden, and has spent years using him as a private fantasy. One of them is gunning for the other's starting spot.

Family means everything to Carter Whitlock, and keeping his safe now means marrying his enemy. Kaison St. Clair has been a thorn in his side for years, and when they meet they trade insults or blows. But someone is coming for both families, and the only way to keep everyone alive is to combine the might of the St. Clairs and the Whitlocks through an arranged marriage. Life with Kai is supposed to be about winning a war, not about love and emotions. Somewhere along the line he gets under Carter's skin.

A year ago Owen Henson had a close group of friends and a boyfriend who made his heart race. Now the friends are moving on without him and Jacob has left for a research team in the United Kingdom. Jacob walks back into the city for the annual Christmas party looking as infuriatingly handsome as the day he left, and their friends spring a seven-night Alaskan cruise on the group. Jacob says he wants to be friends. Owen agrees, sceptically, and finds his walls coming down somewhere between the fjords and the cruise-mandated activities.

Tl;dr: am I the problem for trying to sabotage my gay roommate's relationship? He transferred colleges purely to room with his best friend, and discovered that in the meantime the man came out and acquired a boyfriend. He is totally supportive. Really. So why does seeing them together drive him insane, and why is the boyfriend so obviously the worst. Somebody has to save his roommate from a terrible mistake. The harder he tries to break them up, the more it dawns on him that he might be hopelessly in love. A gay-awakening rom-com with one spectacularly clueless himbo.

Rhys likes his life controlled, quiet and predictable. At Frost + Foam every espresso shot is measured to perfection, and the last thing he wants is the annoyingly cheerful owner of the new coffee shop down the block. Caleb arrived in Frostwick Harbor determined to make Cloud Nine Coffee work, gets along with everyone, and cannot understand why the gorgeous, sharp-tongued man at Frost + Foam refuses to speak to him. Then the Harvest Festival committee pushes them into creating a signature autumn drink together. Cosy and spicy, with a neurodivergent hero.

Ten years have passed since the North Tahoe Ripper was killed, or so everyone believed. Detective Eli Winter goes back to the case that still haunts him and asks the only person who can help him end it: the only survivor. Colton Sacks is no longer the boy Eli met in the woods that night, and he has unfinished business with the killer and with the man who saved his life. They found each other in the dark once. Detective and survivor, off limits, slow burn, forced proximity, happy ending.

Elite marathoner Darius Hewitt is the golden boy of British athletics until a media scandal takes his Olympic dreams down with it. Hoping to win back the selection committee, he agrees to help at a charity running clinic. There he meets Jamie, a sharp-witted West End dancer training for his first marathon, with a crumbling career, an outrageous fundraising target and publicity problems of his own. In the run-up to the London Marathon a fake relationship solves both their image problems, and stops feeling pretend fairly quickly.

Indy and his chosen family are celebrating the holidays in true No Shame style. It is time to say I do, and Indy could not be more excited to take his vows beside Noah, Josh and Connor with their friends watching. Post-wedding bliss lasts until his past comes back to haunt him again, and Connor gets news of his own that leaves him reeling. Before they can share the best Christmas of their lives they will have to come together as one family. Fifth in a continuing series, best listened to in order.

Carter Reed moved to Morningwood Estates for peace, quiet and a fresh start, and got Benji Stewart instead. Benji does not believe in rules, subtlety or minding his own business, especially when Carter's perfectly organised life is begging to be disrupted. Competitive decorating and passive-aggressive pranks make their standoff the most entertaining thing on the block, and the neighbourhood is placing bets. In Morningwood Estates privacy is a myth and falling for your rival is practically a community event. HOA nonsense and a plot-twisty happy ending.

Damen, Laurent and the rest of the Captive Prince cast, in stories set around the events of the novels and beyond the final page. Ride with Jord, Aimeric and the Prince's Guard. Follow Damen and Laurent as they dally in the romance of the Summer Palace. Go with Charls the merchant on a caper of delight and disguise in the new kingdom. And step into the world of pets as Ancel climbs the Veretian court. The English edition of the collection, on audio.

Born unable to feel pain or fear, Pennsylvania has spent his life being told he is a monster and a freak, and the last few years drifting from town to town without putting down roots or letting anyone know him. Then he steps out of the shadows to pull children from a burning house, and only afterwards learns they belong to a mob boss. Gideon has kept his territory profitable and quiet for two years, raising twins as a widower with his family's help. Family is everything to him, and someone has just tried to take it.

Levi let his best friend set him up for his sister's wedding and did not expect the blind date to be Austin Cade, his brother's best friend and his high-school crush. Everyone assumes they are together, so Austin proposes they keep up the act, and then adds a second proposition on top of it. Neither of them has time for a relationship anyway. Austin has been in love with Levi for years and knows exactly what he is doing, which is showing him how good this could be without saying so out loud. To Levi it is all for show.

Pierce has been running for years, and this time he needs a doting boyfriend to stop his parents dragging him back to Boston. With a few sneaky accomplices, turning that fake boyfriend into a real one is the plan. So is finally understanding Pierce's secrets, and the haunted look that crosses his face every time his brother comes up, preferably before Pierce finds out too much about his own. Fourth and final in the series, with a grumpy billionaire, a sassy violinist, stolen kisses and an old mystery to close.

Dylan spent his formative years pining after an alpha who happens to be his brother's best friend, and he does not recommend it to anyone. Leaving Foxwood Hollow to start fresh was the only solution, until he has no choice but to come home and finds that the years and the miles have not put the flame out. Axel repeated the same mantra for years, ever since his brain shifted from omega smells good to omega smells like mine. Dylan's absence left a gap his alpha instincts refuse to ignore.

Duke Evander Ravenwood is barely back on his feet after the catastrophe at the Royal Institute when Parliament drags him in to answer for the chaos that followed. Political scheming is the least of his problems: the mastermind he and Viggo Stonewall have hunted for months is tightening his grip across Europe, and their new mission to find the legendary Crimson Codex puts them straight in his path. From the salons of Paris to the archives of Prague, the opera houses of Vienna and the courts of Brussels, with dark mages who will stop at nothing.

Six feet of cocky charm, easy smiles and a reckless streak a mile wide: Harlan “Gator” Thibodeaux is not Julius Petros's type, so why is he the one Julius calls when his world falls apart? Julius spent years dazzling older men who wanted arm candy and never stayed long enough to see the person underneath. Gator is bold, disarming and far too willing to look past the performance. Then Julius witnesses an abduction behind a nightclub, and the ex-military man who promises to protect him turns out to be far more dangerous than he lets on.

A string of bad boyfriends has Lennox questioning his taste in men. They are either jealous of his job dancing at a strip club or they use it to try their luck with his friends, and his overprotective big brother makes sure nobody is ever good enough. Then he notices his brother's very straight, very good-looking best friend at the club more than once. Jensen keeps his life simple: remote work, his best friend Nick, his motorcycle. Then a bachelor party puts Nick's brother on stage right in front of him.

Tired of being haunted by memories that hurt you? Drained by every heartbreak, sick of replaying every word you wish you could take back? Neurovance Laboratories presents the NeuroExtractor: erase the moments that weigh you down, keep the ones that make you whole. Seamless, painless, permanent. Some memories may be incompatible with deletion. A dark romantic techno-thriller for mature listeners, narrated in duet style, with a note from the author.

King's Heart Preparatory Academy for Young Men is not where Landon wants to be, but a scholarship could get his family out of their tiny trailer, so he takes the place. He did not know Grant would be there: the sickly kid from his past who always tried to mess with him, now grown and captain of the football team Landon is joining. Grant wants him miserable and gone, because Landon belongs to a time nobody is supposed to know about. Getting close enough to see what sits under the anger ruins both their plans.

Noah was rich, confident and motivated, right up until his father threw him out for a one-night stand. Then someone offers him a room: a cute place with a tattooed, sexier-than-he-knows-how-to-handle man attached. His best friend keeps warning him off, which only makes Noah want him more. Jamie needed a roommate after his own best friend moved in with a boyfriend, and offering Noah the room was a bad idea. The adorable bookworm knocks down walls Jamie built after a tragedy, and now his past is coming back.

Problem number one: his personal life is falling apart. Problem number two: his public life is on thin ice as well. Problem number three: a ridiculously hot NHL defenceman who cannot get his head out of his own way has decided to make him a target, and his idea of targeting involves the locker room. Which would be less of an issue if our blind PPHL goalie liked guys. Admitting he is bisexual turns out to be the easy part. First in the Punk as Puck spin-off, with chirping, praise and a very swoony ending.

Everyone's favourite vampire odd couple is back. Arthur Miller, no relation to the playwright, and his beloved Salvatore Conte are settling into their paranormal lives in Trident Falls: business is booming at the inn and Arthur has his first case as a private detective, finding their friend Brody's missing mother. Then a pet psychic is felled by a poisoned potion she somehow did not see coming, and the trail leads to the Celestine Coven, a powerful group of witches who sell their charms for a price.

Christian Sands is a doorman at Gramercy Place on the Upper East Side. His first love died in her sleep, and he asks forgiveness every day from a God he struggles to believe in, writing poems in a basement and keeping his failures to himself. Gibson Hayes is married, wealthy, powerful, and the man who gave him a job when he arrived in New York. When Gibson offers to promote him from doorman to personal assistant, curiosity and loyalty say yes, and the connection that follows will cost them both.

Hayden Harlow, once the mighty Hades, has spent centuries resenting his fall from immortality. Stripped of his godhood, he runs Harlow and Sons Funeral Home, a front for his sentence among mortals and a daily reminder of the purpose he lost. He intends to claw his way back, if the Fates at City Hall would stop toying with him. Then he storms into a florist's shop to complain about a bouquet of sunflowers and meets Levi Wilder, who finds beauty in life's messiest moments. A Hades-inspired rom-com from the author of Winging It With You.

Rhett Thornwood has always known exactly who he is. He works hard, he is the son his parents are proud of, he is the golden child the town of Cedarbrook believes in. He knows what to do about everything except Colton Dawson. Colt came back to Cedarbrook with three goals: work hard, keep his head down, and leave before anything pushes him over the line again. Rhett has always been his favourite line to cross. Rhett has secrets, and Colt has never been good at pretending not to see them. Check the triggers before saddling up.

Asher Bennet thought his relationship was fine, right up until he is dumped at Boston airport days before a worldwide travel competition show. Armed with a ticket, righteous indignation and an airport TGI Fridays mimosa, he needs a new partner, and there is a smooth-talking airline pilot sitting right in front of him. Theo Fernandez is the only pilot who has never taken a vacation and has been told to prove he has a work-life balance or lose his wings. They buckle up to fake date for the cameras. Only one bed, every location.

Philadelphia, 1902. John Hall is shy, has a persistent stammer and a lifelong fascination with mortality, and keeps mostly to himself. When his caring but critical brother talks him into opening his own funeral business, the people side of the job overwhelms him, and he needs someone personable before the business goes under. Calvin Wright is a charming con man with a tragic past and a small library of stolen books, and the necklace he tricks out of a woman sets off the chain of events that makes him John's partner. Friendship turns to love, but John struggles with emotional intimacy, his brother does not trust Calvin, and Calvin's past leads him into a mistake that could cost them everything.

Carlos Reyes is having a quarter life crisis. The romantic comedies he used to believe in stopped making sense somewhere between losing his dad, the pressure at work and a heart that never quite healed. Then the job of a lifetime lands in his lap: follow reclusive blockbuster author Claudia Leighton on her book tour and write the tell-all piece her readers have been waiting years for. The catch is her publicist, Elliot Simpson, arrogant, insufferable, and the man who broke him. Weeks together across Sydney, Dublin, Edinburgh and London, with nowhere to put any of it down.