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Review: His Tomb Raider – Stephanie Lake

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His Tomb Raider - Stephanie Lake

Genre: Paranormal, Historical, Romance LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewer: Maryann Get It On Amazon About The Book Indiana Jones meets The Magpie Lord in this suspenseful MM Victorian era romance from award-winning author Stephanie Lake. Tormented by nightmares, and fighting to maintain his sanity, Kit Asplin struggles to keep his business afloat. He might sell the occasional ancient artifact to make ends meet, but he never mixes business with pleasure. And he certainly does not have time for an inexperienced, prickly Englishman with a flirty sidekick. Everything Dylan Mansfield holds dear is in jeopardy. If he doesn’t find a specific sacred object for his mentor, he and Bertie will lose their … Read more

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Review: Garden of Secrets – Drake LaMarque

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Garden of Secrets - Drake LaMarque - Misselthwaite

Genre: Fantasy, Historical, Gaslamp, Romance LGBTQ+ Category: Bi, Gay, Non-Binary, Poly Reviewer: D.B., Paranormal Romance Guild Get It At Amazon About The Book Alistair Lennox is disagreeable. Isolated and miserable, with parents who don’t care about him, his life has been equal parts privilege and loneliness. But when his parents die, his life is turned upside down. In order to gain his inheritance, Alistair is forced to attend a college he’s never heard of – for good reason. Misselthwaite College is a school for the magically gifted Alistair has no magical gifts – unless being magically inept counts. What were his parents thinking? And what is the mysterious affliction plaguing … Read more

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Review: The House of Ash – Hayden Thorne

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The House of Ash - Hayden Thorne

Genre: Historical Fantasy, Gothic Horror, Romance, Vampire Fiction LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewer: Maryann Get It At Amazon | Universal Buy Link About The Book A dark and deadly curse haunts a dying family, manifesting itself with neither rhyme nor reason in its frequency except for its victim: a male child who will then be born without a soul. Living in a great house designed specifically for entrapment, monsters and the women who become reluctant champions for their children carry on a tragic cycle shaped by an inexplicable mystery. And every final confrontation between the tainted and the protector is recorded in an old journal—a bloodstained volume handed down from champion to champion … Read more

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Review: Dark Horse – K. York

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Dark Horse - K. York

Genre: Historical, Romance LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewer: Maryann Get It On Amazon About The Book Daniel Barker’s seizures have made everyday life difficult, and they’re only getting worse. Affording treatment? Not easy when he’s limited in the jobs he can obtain. Body-snatching isn’t his preferred occupation, but with an employer like Henry Glass, he can’t complain. His life is held together by threads, and so the entrance of the charming, extroverted, gorgeous Theseus Blackthorn is the last thing Daniel needs to shake things up…so why can’t he stay away? Dark Horse is a novella and the second in The Resurrectionist series. The Review Daniel Barker survived a traumatic brain injury, which brought on … Read more

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Review: Lucky John – Ellie Thomas

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Lucky John - Ellie Thomas

Genre: Historical LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewer: Maryann Get It On Amazon About The Book Owen Montgomery has been a landless drifter since the Royalist defeat at the Battle of Worcester nine years previously when he was seventeen. Since then, he has lingered abroad as an insignificant follower in the retinue of exiled King Charles. In the spring of 1660, Owen travels across England as an envoy on behalf of the King. Despite this important diplomatic mission, Owen regards himself as little better than the highwaymen he encounters on the lawless roads. During a brief stop at an obscure roadside inn, he encounters Lucky John, a bullied skivvy with a sweet … Read more

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Review: Broadway Butchery – C.S. Poe

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Broadway Butchery - C.S. Poe

Genre: Mystery LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewer: Maryann Get It On Amazon About The Book The Cold Case Squad of the NYPD is overworked, understaffed, but receiving great press due to star detective Everett Larkin. His uncanny memory and Holmesian-like skills of deduction have already led to the capture of one serial killer. Now he’s identified a second predator and brought an end to their twenty-plus year reign of terror. Routine construction at a Broadway souvenir shop leads to the discovery of a mummified woman in the wall. And when Larkin receives a mysterious VHS tape that same night, he knows it’s no coincidence. Expecting a Victorian mourning artifact to surface … Read more

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Review: The Lighthouse Keeper – Liv Rancourt

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The Lighthouse Keeper - Liv Rancourt

Genre: Historical, Victorian Gothic, Romance LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewer: Maryann Get It On Amazon About The Book Twenty years ago, a thief stole the Ferox Cor, and now he’s dead. Vincent Fairchild, a witch with little power beyond his charm, is tasked with finding that dangerous magical object. He’s already been pruned from the family tree because “nice” people don’t possess even the lowest of magic. If he fails to return with the Ferox Cor, he’ll lose his place with the Witches’ Council. Determined not to be cast aside again, Vincent travels to the West Point lighthouse, where he learns that the Witches’ Council was mistaken. Martin Gallagher, the thief, … Read more

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Review: Samuel, Earl of Crofton – Rebecca Cohen

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Damuel, Earl of Crofton - Rebecca Cohen

Genre: Historical, Romance LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewer: Maryann Get It On Amazon About The Book Only the selected few get to attend the special evenings hosted by Samuel Redbourn, 9th Earl of Crofton, the Hellcat of the Ton. Despite his reputation, Samuel is not the man everyone thinks he is. He has lost a lot in his young life, and after recovering from his addiction to laudanum, it’s time to make the Ton take notice. There’s one thing he wants above all, Hugo, the only man he’s ever loved. But Hugo Cavalier was sent away by his father after he was caught in bed with Samuel, and when he returns … Read more

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Review: The Old Razzle Dazzle – Will Forrest

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The Old Razzle Dazzle - Will Forrest

Genre: Victorian/Edwardian-era Historical Romance LGBTQ+ Category: Gay, Non-Binary Reviewer: Maryann Get It On Amazon About The Book Love is a tightrope walk ~ sometimes you can’t help but fall… Some men are born for the stage. Some are born for nothing at all. How Izzy rose from the gutter to the heights of fame is a story he tells to few. A story as strange as any he’s staged in his four decades on London’s West End. A story of love and loss, heartache and forgiveness, of wanting what you cannot have, of daring to do the impossible. When an idealistic young singer joins his theatre company, Izzy finds himself … Read more

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Review: Just Love Enough – Will Forrest

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Just Love Enough - Will Forrest

Genre: Romance, Historical, Victorian LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewer: Maryann Get It On Amazon About The Book He wasn’t looking for love. He only wanted a job… The sixth son of a family who’d have been better off with none, Izzy wants more than the miserable life he’s been granted. Living by his wits in the slums of Whitechapel, he’ll take any escape, committing to a life of sin and luxury at anotoriousLondon pleasure house where the rich and powerful come to be humbled by the very lowest.  Yet there’s one man from his grim past he can’t leave behind. His oldest friend Noel is moral, modest, and law-abiding—everything that Izzy … Read more