Tuesday, April 30, 2019

Leap of Faith: Part Two NSFW #blogstory #MM #gay #contemporary

Welcome back to Leap of Faith! A quick apology. When I created the blog posts, I split the story paying attention to where it stopped for suspense, not noticing where the sections started. Which means this drops you right into the nudity/sex scene in the first paragraph. Sorry, not sorry. :D

Copyright Lexi Ander

Part Two


Dropping a kiss on the small of John's back, Javier stepped away. His erection pointed at Sam's face. Sam brushed sandy hair out of his eyes before he placed a condom in his mouth, and then expertly rolled the latex down Javier's shaft.
"Oh, yeah, babe, just like that," Javier started pumping in and out of Sam's mouth. "Yeah, you like taking my dick, suck me, suck me hard." Javier grabbed Sam's hair and actually started choking Sam on his cock.
Ben cringed but Sam seemed to eat up the rough handling.
"Javier, don't forget about me," John whined, wiggling his ass at Javier, which garnered him a stinging slap on the butt.
After pulling out of Sam's mouth, Javier added lube to his sheathed cock and John moaned aloud as Javier pushed inside him and started a slow steady rhythm. Sam hopped to his feet, rolling on his own condom. Javier paused as Sam gradually slid into him.
"God, babe, you're so fucking tight on my cock. I'll never get tired of the way you feel," Sam groaned loud and clear.
"Need you, Sam, need you to pound me with your fat cock. Don't stop, don't ever stop," Javier gasped as Sam set a hard, fast rhythm that shoved Javier into John.
Ben stood there frozen, watching as his life tumbled down around him. How long had Sam and Javier been lovers? How many employees had Javier fucked at the office? How many people who worked for him knew and either pitied his naiveté or laughed at his blind stupidity? How had he not noticed something had been going on? How could he not have picked up on the nuances between Javier and Sam? Was he that oblivious? His stomach rolled as he watched the two most important men in his life betray him.
Sam had been his best friend since childhood. They'd come out to their parents together. They'd shared everything, and it appeared, he'd been sharing Javier with Sam too. He felt inexplicably lost, set adrift, and he didn't know what he'd do. He trapped a ragged sob behind clenched teeth but it didn't stop the tears from falling.
"The stripper's here." Someone called from behind him, pulling him out of his thoughts.
"Good, have him come over here and put his cock in Javier's mouth," Sam called.
Ben's legs were rooted to the spot and refused to cooperate. He mind screamed for him to move, to hurry before anyone recognized him. He wanted to hide, to be invisible. All his dreams were gone, stolen, taken away by secrets and lies. Shouldn't he be mad? His mind said he should be but all he felt was a body-numbing chill that made his heart feel too large for his chest. He didn't want to be seen or talk to Javier right then. But at that moment, Sam glanced over his shoulder and the happy bliss drained from his face as he recognized Ben staring back at him.
Coolly, Ben turned and walked out the door. He strode on wooden legs down the hall to the elevator. Pressing the call button with more restraint than he felt, he watched the progress of the elevator in the numbers overhead. He wondered if it would be quicker if he used the stairs. Forty floors were too many to attempt at any other time, but now the need to leave nearly made him throw away caution.
A tall, dark-headed man who carried a heavy leather jacket and motorcycle helmet approached from the opposite direction. The guy's visual perusal reminded Ben of the ridiculous costume he wore. How did he ever think these sequined boy shorts would turn Javier on? Now he had nowhere to go with a muscular hunk walking toward him. The biceps on the guy would crack Ben's paper-pushing ass in half just by flexing. He watched the man from the corner of his eye. He never knew how people were going to react. A straight man wouldn't be caught dead in the outfit he wore. The last thing Ben needed was to get his ass handed to him if the guy was offended.
"Some party." The stranger placed the helmet under his arm.
He wasn't as tall as Ben had thought. They were about the same height, though the guy was wide, very wide, with much more shoulder width than Ben… and the most amazing crystal blue eyes.
"I guess you could say that. My fiancé appears to be fucking his way through our employees and my best friend is fucking my fiancé." Ben stopped breathing. Had he just blurted—yes he had.
Fan-fucking-tastic.
The man held his helmet out to Ben and he automatically accepted it. He didn't know why. Maybe it was the way the stranger didn't blink when Ben said his fiancé was a man. The guy pulled on his heavy motorcycle jacket.
"I guess the upside is you found out before you got hitched."
He rested the helmet against his stomach, attempting to hide his body while swallowing back his anguish. The elevator dinged and the doors silently slid open. The stranger motioned for Ben to enter first before following.
Ben heard his name being called and he couldn't help the way he flinched. Sam slammed his hand on the elevator door to keep it from closing. His chest was bare and sweaty, Sam's jeans hung loose on his lean hips.
"Ben, wait, let me explain."
He could only stare at his best friend. What did Sam think there was to discuss? There was no way he could misconstrue what had been going on.


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Saturday, April 27, 2019

What's On The Reading Radar? #WishList #TBR #amreading

What's going on? I'm in a reading slump. Nothing is really holding my attention. I cann't say how many books I have started, put down to do something like make dinner and then just moved on to another story. I have already re-read some of my favorites (this week has been Anne Bishop) and still looking for something new to ignite my imagination. I hate this when it happens. Nothing really grabbed me from the list so it's short today. Just wish list and to-be-read offerings today. 


Title: Sometimes Demons Whisper
Series: WCPC Paranormal Consultants Book 1
Author(s): Lynn Michaels
Length: 13 pages
Publisher: eXtasy Books Inc (March 1, 2019)
Genre: Romance / Urban Fantasy / Gay /

Notes: 

Blurb: Kayden and Bryan find a way to deal with the demons that the consultants at WCPC can’t handle.

WCPC handles all your paranormal needs. Poltergeists, ghosts, or mystical apparitions, we can help. We employ the most talented wranglers who can control even the toughest demons around. Call the consultants of Watercrest Cannon Paranormal Consultants to help.

Broody wrangler and tactile psychic take on the mystery at Brown-Blythe Manor - Sometimes Demons Whisper.




Title: Omega for Rent
Series: 
Author(s): Liam Kingsley
Length: 153 pages
Publisher:

Genre: Romance / Paranormal / Accidental Pregnancy / Billionaire Romance / Gay / Mpreg /

Notes: Not sure if I have read this author before

Blurb: It’s better to fake a relationship than be forced into one… But what happens when the fake relationship starts feeling like everything you never knew you wanted?

Chase Cartwright has a problem—his dad needs him to date the omega son of an important businessman in order to close a deal. But omegas often form intense emotional attachments with alphas and Chase, commitment-phobe, isn’t willing to take that risk. He just needs to figure a way out of it…

Riley Lewis is an omega for hire, and he offers a specialist service—he can take an alpha knot without any of the emotional baggage. And now he’s got a client, a rich alpha who needs him to be a fake boyfriend. But Chase is adamant it’s just business. A fake relationship for show, to keep his father off his back. No sex. Definitely no knotting.

But what’s Chase supposed to do when the immediate connection he feels for the omega turns into a soul-deep craving to be close, too overwhelming to ignore? It’s all-consuming and beyond any kind of human bond, and the alpha will tear apart the world to keep it safe—both Riley, and the new life they’ve created within him.

Because there’s a new danger lurking on the edges of their happiness, another alpha who’s obsessed with Riley, and he forces Chase into an impossible decision: How much is Chase willing to sacrifice to protect the man he loves and the baby he carries?</i?




Title: Protector Dragon
Series: 
Author(s): Liv Rider
Length: 228 pages
Publisher:

Genre: Romance / Paranormal / Gay /

Notes: 

Blurb: Shifters ruined his life. How can he be falling in love with one?

Growing up the only human in a shifter town, Joel has been an outcast his entire life - not even his own family let him forget how weak humans are. Running away was his only chance at a normal life, and he's been avoiding shifters ever since. But when his job working in a coffee shop puts him in a room full of shifters, he has to confront his worst fears. He's just not sure if he should be alarmed or happy that the hottest guy he's ever met is determined to talk to him. After all, everyone knows shifters aren't attracted to humans.

Dragon shifter Thomas Rollins thought nothing could be more difficult than resolving arguments between the shifters in his district. But when he meets his fated mate Joel, he has no clue how to get the suspicious human to talk to him for more than five minutes, never mind go out on a date. When he learns about Joel's past, he's determined to prove shifters and humans can get along very well.

Just as Joel is starting to let his guard down, his family finds him and forces him to come back to a place he refuses to call home. Can the trust Joel and Thomas have started to build survive the ultimate test?

Protector Dragon is a m/m paranormal dragon shifter/human romance with a HEA and no cliffhangers


Title: Luka the Thief
Series: 
Author(s): Darina Smith
Length: 145 pages
Publisher:

Genre: Romance / Fantasy / Gay / 

Notes: 

Blurb: Luka, a young thief, steals from anyone he can to support his family. When he decides to make it a habit by stealing from a jeweler in a faraway village, things get out of hand when the man catches him. Trying to escape, he runs into the sword-maker of that village. 

Stild, on his way back from the town, meets a young boy named Luka. Luka asks for his assistance, and Stild, being the kind-hearted man that he is, decides to help him. Stild has no idea of the consequences that he will have to face in helping a thief. When strangers come to the village, having their eyes set on Luka, Stild can’t help but wonder what it is they want. But soon, he realizes that if he has to protect a thief, instead of going to the authorities, he will have to take matters into his own hands.


Title: The Sapphire Scythe
Series: The Order of the The Red Shadow, 1
Author(s): JB Trepagnier 
Length: 218 pages
Publisher:

Genre: Romance / Urban Fantasy / Gothic Vampire / Bisexual / Poly / 

Notes: 

Blurb: Born in battle, my birth brought peace. But peace is boring and so is the warlock I’m betrothed to.

Real Name: Aria Emanuele

Code Name: The Sapphire Scythe

Supe Status: First vampire/Succubus hybrid. Heir to the Aeternae clan.

Military status: Top spy and assassin for the Universal Army.

I’ve been running from my duties as the heir to the supe kingdom to marry Cade, my intended, and create more hybrid children for centuries. I’ve been playing soldier, spy, assassin, or whatever takes me close to the action instead. My parents and my people think I just need time to sow my royal oats, but I love this too much to give it up.

Humans have brought themselves to World War Three. My mission in the Universal Army is to get close to the dictator who caused it. I already suspect he’s got a supe close to him, but I’m keeping it to myself for now. I want to do this myself. I had a mark close to Zimin, the dictator. My mission was simple. Extract information, then kill him. Something went horribly wrong that night. I wake up in a hotel room with a Lycan, a vamp, and a warlock. All trained assassins like me. Seems my dear parents sent them here.

There’s also a little catch in there. According to the men in my hotel, nature has given me three mates instead of one. Nature and my parents expect me to pick. Nature has sick sense of humor and seems to know my horrible taste in men. There’s Ronric, the huge Irish Lycan, Rainer, the dark Egyptian Warlock, and Kalon, the swarthy Bulgarian vampire. I had a lot of fun in all three countries before swearing off men from any of those places and refusing to go back.

Now, I’ve got 3 beautiful men in front of me with all the qualities I want in a man and I have no idea how I’m supposed to pick.


Title: Pendulum
Series: (Kingdom of Night Book 1)
Author(s): Joel Abernathy
Length: 463 pages
Publisher:

Genre: Romance / Paranormal / Fantasy / Shifters / Vampires / Poly / Gay /

Notes: cliffhanger warning with notes about the rest of the series being released by the end of April 219

BlurbTorn between brothers, torn between worlds.

All I wanted was a fresh start when I left my abusive ex-boyfriend behind in Austin. What I got? A den of wolves.

No, I mean literal wolves—moon worship, fangs and all.

Sebastian and Victor? One’s troubled and dangerous, the other’s as overprotective as he is overpowered, and they’re both alpha males. Speaking of alphas, each of them thinks I’m his “fleur.” Which I’m guessing is another term for “omega.”

If I wanted anything to do with the wolf pack or its super-exclusive “gentleman’s club,” I’d be flattered that the twins are fighting over me like a scrap of meat, but I’m not that kind of guy no matter what they insist I am and there’s nothing gentlemanly about the wolves who run the Lodge.

Problem is, they’re not the only ones who are after me. Keeping the wolves at bay is hard enough, but when a vampire from my past comes calling, I’ll have to choose sides—and a mate—just to survive.

Pendulum is a 140k romantic fantasy and the first in a series of three books. This book has been re-edited and republished, V. 2.0. The first two books end in cliffhangers and the third (final) book ends in an HEA for Remus and the brothers. The entire series will be released by the end of April 2019. Please see inside cover for content warnings, audiences 18+ only.


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Saturday, April 20, 2019

What's on the Reading Radar? #TBR #WishList #amreading

What happened this week? Me grumbling about April being more than half over. It was April 2nd yesterday.


Title: Earth Fathers are Weird
Series: 
Author: Lyn Gala
Length: 
Publisher:

Genre: Romance / Sci-Fi / Alien / Gay / mpreg /

Notes: I read and loved this! I will definitely be re-reading soon! <3

Blurb: Captain Maxwell Davis and his entire unit scrambled to engage alien ships over Iowa. The aliens snatched him out of his destroyed jet before they continued on their interplanetary hot pursuit. Then they informed Max that Earth was too far outside regular shipping lanes to return him to his planet.

So Max ends up in an alien spaceport looking for work. To afford a ticket home he can either spend three hundred years working with linguists to improve the computer's questionable ability to translate English or he can take a job as a nanny for an unpopular alien. That way he can afford the ticket in four years. The problem is that the computer may have mistranslated the word "nanny" and there might be a reason an alien is willing to pay such a high fee.




Title: Jailmates
Series: Maxim Colonies
Author: Lesli Richardson
Length: 309 pages
Publisher:

Genre: Romantic Sci-Fi / Alien / Mpreg /

Notes: I'm in the middle of reading this, so I haven't finished. I have words to say about someone's incorrect use of pronouns, but I'm waiting to see if it is supposed to be a character growth thing.

Blurb: This wasn’t in the contract.

Simon Quigley had no idea what to expect when he agreed to do this for the money, but the eight-foot-tall pink alien isn’t what he was expecting. For starters, Simon’s straight.


And Mohrn isn’t a girl.


The contract? It’s unbreakable.


It’s going to be a long five years…

[102k words, sci-fi, m/m, m-preg]




Title: Sing the Four Quarters
Series: Quarters, 1
Author:  Tanya Huff
Length: 338 pages
Publisher: JABberwocky Literary Agency, Inc. (August 4, 2015)

Genre: Fantasy

Notes: 

Blurb: The Bards of Shkoder hold the country together. They, and the elemental spirits they Sing – earth, air, fire, and water - bring the news of the sea to the mountains, news of the mountains to the plains. They give their people, from peasant to king, a song in common.

Annice is a rare talent, able to Sing all four quarters, but her brother, the newly enthroned King Theron, sees her request to study at the Bardic Hall as a betrayal. To his surprise, Annice accepts his conditions, renouncing her royal blood and swearing to remain childless so as not to jeopardize the line of succession. She walks away from political responsibilities, royal privilege and her family.

Ten years later, Annice has become the Princess Bard and her real life is about to become the exact opposite of the overwrought ballad her fellow students at the Bardic Hall wrote about her. Now, she's on the run from the Royal Guards with the Duc of Ohrid, the father of her unborn child, both of them guilty of treason – one of them unjustly accused. To save the Duc's life, they'll have to cross the country, manage to keep from strangling each other, and defeat an enemy too damaged for even a Bard's song to reach.




Title: The Jasper Soul
Series: 
Author: Bailey Bradford
Length: 
Publisher: Pride Publishing (April 9, 2019)

Genre: Romance / Fantasy / Gay / 

Notes: 

Blurb: An ancient evil stalks the earth, seeking to finish what it started…

Matt Callaghan is pretty sure he’s just an average guy. His tragic past haunts him, and the only comfort he finds is something he’s not willing to explain to anyone else. The jasper stone he found as a child had been with him for over half his life, and he can’t be parted from it.

There’s more to the stone than Matt knows. Thousands of years ago, one man, the last of his people, was cast into the stone, his soul protected when his body could not be saved.

The evil that hunted him is still alive, still waiting for a chance to destroy the jasper stone.




Title: Ties That Bind
Series: 
Author: Alex Whitehall
Length: 17k
Publisher: LT3 Press

Genre: Romance / Paranoraml / Urban Fantasy / Poly / Gay /

Notes: releases April 24th

Blurb: For Chel, Tomlin, and Mathias, life is simple but good. They share a home and a love, and despite a few conflicts of personality, are happy. Mathias runs a magic shop, where he makes magic items and potions for his customers, and Tom is his familiar, helping supply his magic. Chel, who's not magical, works at a bookshop and makes sure dinner is on the table for his lovers.

When Mathias suddenly comes down with a mysterious illness, Chel and Tomlin seek out answers. As Mathias's familiar, Tomlin can sense that nothing is wrong with the magical parts of him, but when a trip to the doctor's indicates nothing is wrong with him physically either, they start to worry.

Then Mathias collapses, and the search to find the truth becomes urgent.




Title: Puck
Series: 
Author: TJ Land
Length: 144 pages
Publisher:

Genre: Romance / Fantasy / Gay

Notes: 

Blurb: Newly arrived at Oberon’s court, Puck has already made a name for himself through his wit, his wiliness, and his very nice legs. But he’s not interested in the envy of his peers; what he’s really after is the attention of the lord of all fairies himself. 

Seducing the monarch will surely win him power and prestige, provided he can withstand Oberon’s famously bad temper. Soon, though, Puck realizes that Oberon’s belligerent façade is just that, and his schemes of strategic seduction are submerged beneath budding infatuation.

Now, Puck will have to muster all his tricks, from sonnets to the lash, to win the fairy king’s heart—a task which becomes substantially more difficult when Oberon discovers that Puck has been consorting with mortals…




Title: The Long Past and Other Stories
Series: 
Author: Ginn Hale
Length: 228 pages
Publisher: Blind Eye Books (October 3, 2017)

Genre: Historical Fantasy / Alternate World

Notes: 

Blurb: 1858 –Warring mages open up a vast inland sea that splits the United States in two. With the floodwaters come creatures from a long distant past. What seems like the End Times forges a new era of heroes and heroines who challenge tradition, law, and even death as they transform the old west into a new world.

--In the heart of dinosaur country a laconic trapper and a veteran mage risk treason to undertake a secret mission.

--A brilliant magician and her beautiful assistant light up stages with the latest automaton, but the secrets both of them are hiding test their trust in each other and pit them against one of the most powerful men in the world.

--At the wild edge of the Inland Sea, amidst crocodiles and triceratops, an impoverished young man and a Pinkerton Detective must join forces to outmaneuver a corrupt judge and his gunmen.




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Sunday, April 14, 2019

What's on the Reading Radar? #TBR #WishList #amreading

What's up? Writing. Writing. And losing notes to the chapter I'm on that were prepared for the character months ago. That lead to hours (two days) of searching and a few tears over not finding said notes. I'm laughing, but not laughing, if you know what I mean. 

On the reading front, not doing so bad. I started a reread of Anne Bishop's The Others series, which I haven't listed because it's a reread.


Title: Murder Most Lovely
Series:
Author(s): Hank Edwards, Deanna Wadsworth
Length: 230 pages
PublisherDreamspinner Press (April 30, 2019)

Genre: Romance / Mystery / Contemporary /

Notes: Releases on April 30th

BlurbA killer at a small-town literary festival. Bumbling drug dealers. A kidnapped cat. Starting a romance among all this chaos might be the death of them.

Michael Fleishman is excited to meet his favorite mystery writer, Russell Withingham, at Lacetown’s Literary Fest. He is not expecting to cross paths with sexy hairdresser Jasper “Jazz” Dilworth—or become embroiled in a real-life mystery. As Lacetown’s only mortician and the county coroner, Michael is called to his first murder scene and is shocked to recognize the victim—Russell’s young lover.

Jazz only wanted to confront his ex, Russell, over his cheating. Instead, he meets the adorably awkward Michael and becomes a murder suspect. Soon Jazz is teaming up with Michael to clear his name. Along the way, they are helped and hindered by Michael’s sassy assistant, Kitty, the grumpy Sheriff Musgrave, Russell’s creepy PR rep, Norbert, and Michael’s lothario grandfather, who likes his manhattans strong and his women saucy. And of course, Mr. Pickles Furryton the Third….



Title: The Redemption of Althalus
Series:
Author(s): David Eddings, Leigh Eddings
Length: 726 pages
PublisherDel Rey; 1st edition (January 23, 2001)

Genre: Fantasy

Notes: A friend recommended this to me last week and I picked it up at the used bookstore. Unlike some of the books by David Eddings, this is on kindle as well.

BlurbIt would be sheer folly to try to conceal the true nature of Althalus, for his flaws are the stuff of legend. He is, as all men know, a thief, a liar, an occasional murderer, an outrageous braggart, and a man devoid of even the slightest hint of honor.

Yet of all the men in the world, it is Althalus, unrepentant rogue and scoundrel, who will become the champion of humanity in its desperate struggle against the forces of an ancient god determined to return the universe to nothingness. On his way to steal The Book from the House at the End of the World, Althalus is confronted by a cat--a cat with eyes like emeralds, the voice of a woman, and the powers of a goddess.

She is Dweia, sister to The Gods and a greater thief even than Althalus. She must be: for in no time at all, she has stolen his heart. And more. She has stolen time itself. For when Althalus leaves the House at the End of the World, much wiser but not a day older than when he'd first entered it, thousands of years have gone by.

But Dweia is not the only one able to manipulate time. Her evil brother shares the power, and while Dweia has been teaching Althalus the secrets of The Book, the ancient God has been using the dark magic of his own Book to rewrite history. Yet all is not lost. But only if Althalus, still a thief at heart, can bring together a ragtag group of men, women, and children with no reason to trust him or each other.




Title: Two Fates
Series:
Author(s): Kari Gregg
Length: 207 pages
Publisher:

Genre: Romance / Paranormal / Gay /

Notes:

BlurbJamie and Ian recognized they were destined mates as teenagers. Heedless of their pack’s objections, they loved fully and recklessly. When Ian perished in a senseless accident a decade later, Jamie’s grief was so consuming he almost died too, but in the years since, Jamie learned to cope. Though his heart is empty, he finds purpose in teaching shifter craft to pack whelps and carving bone to offer for trade. His is a quiet life, his peace hard-won. The pack seer’s alarming prophecy at Jamie’s birth assured Jamie he would love again, but what he shared with Ian...That magic only happens once.

Kenneth—pack newcomer and presumptive alpha—disagrees. Instinct led him to Kentucky after Ian’s death tore Jamie’s world apart. While Kenneth would’ve done anything to spare Jamie the agony of Ian’s loss, Kenneth will also never deny what drove him to Burnt Fork in the first place: Jamie is his destined mate.

Can one man have two fates? The pack lore Jamie teaches suggests that is possible, but Jamie alone must decide if finding the courage to love again is a blessing...or his curse.




Title: Bitter Blood
Series:
Author(s): Lyn Gala
Length: 218 pages
PublisherLyn Gala (May 19, 2018)

Genre: Paranormal / Romantic Elements / Vampires

Notes: This is not the typical vampire story. It was an excellent read with a strong female over the age of 40.

BlurbOfficer Paige Silver assumes that a serial rapist is the worst fate her small town of Oxbow could suffer, but then her rookie partner Brady appears on her doorstep with a taste for blood and a back covered in runes that have been carved into his flesh. Suddenly the mundane evil she thought she knew is nothing compared to the demonic forces that are gathering. Well, evil might have claimed Brady for their side, but Brady came to Paige.

Even without understanding his developing powers, he offers his loyalty to the woman he has admired and wanted for some time. The fact that they were partners at work kept them from ever acting on their mutual attraction, but now that Brady is no longer human, he is determined to earn a spot in Paige's bed and her life. And while ethics kept Paige from considering a relationship with Brady while he was alive, she's having more and more trouble keeping any sort of professional distance. Her only fear is that the evil that changed Brady may lay claim to his soul, and if she gives him her heart, he may drag her with him right into hell.




Title: The Wild Ways
Series:
Author(s): Tanya Huff
Length: 433 pages
Publisher: DAW; 1 edition (November 1, 2011)

Genre: Urban Fantasy / Bisexual MC / Mystery / 

Notes: This is one of my favorite series. I was saving this audiobook because the next book isn't on audio yet, and I forgot why I was saving it. Imagine my disappointment when I finished this and went to buy the next audio... The book is out, but not on audio yet. I loved Alysha and liked Charlie in the first book, but I wasn't sure I liked Charlie enough to follow her as a main character. Charlie turned out to be so much more--more. I loved her and we got to spend more time with cousin Jack.

BlurbAlysha Gale's cousin Charlotte is a Wild Power, who allies herself with a family of Selkies in a fight against offshore oil drilling. The oil company has hired another of the Gale family's Wild Powers, the fearsome Auntie Catherine, to steal the Selkies' sealskins. To defeat her, Charlotte will have to learn what born to be Wild really means in the Gale family...

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Wednesday, April 10, 2019

New Release! The Aurora Conspiracy #scifi #lgbtiaq




Welcome to Aurora Mining Station located in deep space. A place where Regin makes an unlikely friend and is unexpectedly offered a second chance with the only person he ever wanted... if a conspiracy doesn't tear his world apart first.


Blurb:

Regin just wants to heal. After a terrible accident that maimed him, and nearly took his life and that of someone he loved, he's spent the last several years licking his wounds on a mining station. With only six months left on his contract, he hopes to start a new life.

Then he's accused of a crime he didn't commit, and a ghost from the past arrives, reopening old wounds and leaving him convinced that no second chances could ever really come his way. But sorting out himself and his personal life won't matter much if he can't prevent a second catastrophe and save a whole lot more than two lives.

Buy Link: LT3 | Amazon | B&N | Bookstrand |

For a limited time get 25% off through
 the publisher's website, LT3 Press

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Monday, April 8, 2019

Coming Soon! #newrelease #scifi #lgbtiaq


The Aurora Conspiracy releases on Wednesday, April 10th. You only have a couple of days left to pre-order for 36% off. Pre-order now and you will also get the book the evening before the official release. Enjoy!

Buy Link: LT3 Press

Blurb:

Regin just wants to heal. After a terrible accident that maimed him, and nearly took his life and that of someone he loved, he's spent the last several years licking his wounds on a mining station. With only six months left on his contract, he hopes to start a new life.

Then he's accused of a crime he didn't commit, and a ghost from the past arrives, reopening old wounds and leaving him convinced that no second chances could ever really come his way. But sorting out himself and his personal life won't matter much if he can't prevent a second catastrophe and save a whole lot more than two lives.

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Saturday, April 6, 2019

What is on the Reading Radar #TBR #WishList #amreading

What have I been doing? Working on Constant (the Valespian Pact, 3) I know people are getting tired of hearing me say that and there are others who are impatient for me to be finished. But it is what it is. Other than that, I'm getting ready to do some gardening. I have seeds and bulbs, so I'm just waiting for more steady spring weather. LOL 

Title: Queen Takes Triune
Series: (Their Vampire Queen Book 6)
Author: Joely Sue Burkhart
Length: 315 pages
Publisher: 

Genre: Romance / Paranormal / Vampires / Poly / 

Notes: Yes, I devoured this book. It is the last book for Shara though there will be others for a couple other Queens. I love Shara and I so did not want her journey to end. But with more coming in this world, I can't wait to see who will be next.

Blurb: Which Triune court is calling the last Isador queen to take her rightful seat?

There are three Aima courts: one dead, one full of monsters, and one with an empty seat that's ruled by the queen of Rome. While Shara Isador loves her monsters, she has no plan to unseat a Skolos queen. Nor does she wish to work side by side with Marne Ceresa on a daily basis.

Let alone the mysterious Dauphine, who might be closer than Shara ever suspected.

Shara might be a relative baby in Aima years, and she wasn't raised in a nest. She doesn't know the ancient houses or laws that bind the queens to the high courts. But there's one thing she knows beyond a shadow of a doubt.

What this queen takes, she loves, and what she loves, she keeps for all time.

Goddess help anyone who thinks to harm one of her own in order to sway her decision.




Title: Sons of Darkness
Series: Night Vigil, 1
Author: Gail Z. Martin
Length: 284 pagea
Publisher: SOL Publishing (November 2, 2018)

Genre: Urban Fantasy / Horror Elements / Dark Fantasy /

Notes: 

Blurb: We are the Night Vigil.

The run-down convenience store, the all-night diner, the last-ditch shelter, or seedy motel, the redneck bar and the emergency room, and all the other places open on the graveyard shift—they’re Hell’s hunting grounds, full of easy marks and desperate souls, prey for evil things out there in the dark.

We keep the Vigil, looking for the ones who can still be saved, the ones who aren’t too far gone. We’re the misfits and the muck-ups, unwanted by Heaven or Hell, given one last chance to atone for all the mistakes and missed chances, the pain we’ve caused others and ourselves, the good things we were afraid to do, and the bad things we embraced with open arms. We work the night shift because that’s when evil walks. We’re the clerk in the all-night liquor store, the server in the 24-hour diner, the long-haul trucker who only drives at night, the counter person in the convenience store, the dog shift nurse. We recognize the evil when we see it, and we use the skills we honed with blood and fire to stop it, whatever it takes.

Unfinished business ties us to the mortal world, to make atonement, find absolution, satisfy retribution, get things right. You won’t find a sorrier group of halfway house heroes. No illusions left—about ourselves, humanity, or what’s really out there in the darkness. Just a purpose, to go down fighting the good fight. Because this is our last chance.

One final chance to make it right, the thin red line of humanity against the evil that goes bump in the night, your best hope to make it through the hour of the wolf

When a series of disappearances, suicides, and vengeful spirits cause havoc and death along a remote interstate highway, demon-hunting ex-priest Travis Dominick teams up with former special ops soldier and monster-hunter Brent Lawson to end the problem with extreme prejudice.




Title: Witchbane
Series: 
Author: Morgan Brice
Length: 246 pages
Publisher: Darkwind Press (February 19, 2018)

Genre: Romance / Urban Fantasy / Gay /

Notes: 

Blurb: Seth Tanner and his brother Jesse's fun evening debunking local urban legends ends with Jesse's gruesome murder. Seth vows revenge on Jesse's killer - too bad the murderer has been dead for a hundred years. Seth uncovers a cycle of ritual killings that feed the power of a dark warlock's immortal witch-disciples, and he's hell bent on stopping Jackson Malone from becoming the next victim. He's used to risking his neck. He never intended to risk his heart.


Title: A King to be Claimed
Series: (Our king, Our Master Book 1)
Author: Brea Alepou
Length: 171 pages
Publisher: 

Genre: Romance / Paranormal / Poly / 

Notes: 

Blurb: Blessed by the gods and goddesses, edoli have lived alongside humans for thousands of years. While some hold such abilities as shape-shifting and controlling the elements, the rarest are the kings and queens who can bond through blood with keepers and amplify their power… and their own.

Titos has been seen as useless and weak his entire life. He’s never been able to bond with another edoli and has nothing of value to offer his queen. Exiled and alone, he’s spent years living amongst humans and away from other edoli in the hope of avoiding execution.

When a stranger saves him from certain death, Titos’s life will never be the same.

Seth isn’t just some random stranger: he’s absolutely gorgeous and claims to have been drawn to Titos to serve him as his keeper. He assures Titos he is a king, and a powerful one at that. Never in his wildest dreams could Titos have imagined he was someone special.

But a king isn’t all Titos is…

After nearly killing Seth during their bonding, Titos is terrified of his abilities. Luckily, Seth isn’t the only keeper drawn to Titos’s call, and Mazki knows what to do to save Seth’s life.

The connection between Titos, Seth, and Mazki is immediate and strong, and it isn’t long before Adom and Kail are drawn to Titos as well. But now that Titos has accepted his birthright, they all know that it won’t be long before the edoli council comes for him.

Running from homicidal hunters and trying to stay hidden from the council, Titos knows he doesn’t have long to prepare. Sooner than he’d like, he’ll have to fight to defend what he and his keepers are building.

And his very life.


A King to Be Claimed contains a HFN ending, scenes with multiple partners, poly-style harem mild blood play, and a king who just wants to be loved. 



Title: Four Ever
Series: 
Author: Sloane Kennedy
Length: 334 pages
Publisher: 

Genre: Romance / Contemporary / Poly / 

Notes: 

Blurb: Surrounded by a group of devoted four-footed and two-winged family members, Zak and Killian have built what should have been a dream life in their countryside farmhouse. But a cruel twist of fate and the re-emergence of old demons has frayed the edges of the men’s seven-year relationship until just one wrong move could end up severing their bond for good.

Seemingly content to walk on eggshells around one another, things come to a head when ER nurse Zak brings his work home with him… literally.

After being forced to leave their posh Southern California lives, homeless stepbrothers Liam and Noah are slowly losing themselves to the streets they can’t seem to escape. When twenty-one-year-old Liam is beaten up while protecting his younger “brother,” the pair find themselves being welcomed into a home where being a stray is considered a good thing. But Liam and nineteen-year-old Noah have learned the hard way that nothing is given for free and there’s no such thing as the kindness of strangers. Survival means only counting on and trusting in each other.

Will Zak and Killian’s offer of a no-strings-attached place to heal end up being more than any of the four men bargained for? Especially when feelings between Liam and Noah begin to crawl to the surface and the truth of what Zak and Killian’s relationship has turned into becomes harder to deny?

And what happens when lines begin to blur and needs start to change? Will Zak, Killian, Liam, and Noah end up going their separate ways?

Or will they learn that love doesn’t always come in twos?

*This is a novel about a foursome relationship, not just a story of two separate couples in physical relationships with one another. Thus, there is no “cheating” in this story. This is a standalone novel.

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Title: The Rowan
Series: Tower and Hive, Book 1
Author: Anne McCaffrey
Length: 
Publisher: 

Genre:

Notes: I wanted to read a couple of the later books in this series and found this on audio. 

Blurb: Told in the timeless style of Anne McCaffrey, The Rowan is the first installment in a wonderful trilogy. This is sci-fi at its best: a contemporary love story as well as an engrossing view of our world in the future.

The kinetically gifted, trained in mind/machine gestalt, are the most valued citizens of the Nine Star League. Using mental powers alone, these few Prime Talents transport ships, cargo and people between Earth's Moon, Mars' Demos and Jupiter's Callisto.

An orphaned young girl, simply called The Rowan, is discovered to have superior telepathic potential and is trained to become Prime Talent on Callisto. After years of self-sacrificing dedication to her position, The Rowan intercepts an urgent mental call from Jeff Raven, a young Prime Talent on distant Deneb. She convinces the other Primes to merge their powers with hers to help fight off an attack by invading aliens. Her growing relationship with Jeff gives her the courage to break her status-imposed isolation, and choose the more rewarding world of love and family.


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