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New Release and Giveaway! THE FIRST MAN by Alex Kelly (From Connemara With Love #2)

The First Manby Alex Kelly(From Connemara With Love #2)Publication date: February 25th 2021Genres: Adult, Contemporary, LGBTQ+, Romance Shane Do you want to know what it means to live like me? It means being forced not to look at him, not to touch him, not to be left alone in the same room as him. Not to seek him out. Not to want him. Not to love him. Do you know how it feels to spend your entire life pretending to be someone else? Do you know what it’s like to love someone who doesn’t want to be loved? I’ll tell you how it feels. It…

New Release Review and Giveaway! SPIN WITH ME by Ami Polonsky

I am thrilled to be hosting a spot on the SPIN WITH ME by Ami Polonsky Blog Tour hosted by Rockstar Book Tours. Check out my post and make sure to enter the giveaway! Title: SPIN WITH MEAuthor: Ami PolonskyPub. Date: February 16, 2021Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Byr)Pages: 224Formats: Hardcover, eBook, audiobook From the author of the critically acclaimed Gracefully Grayson comes a thoughtful and sensitive middle-grade novel about non-binary identity and first love, Ami Polonsky’s Spin with Me. In this elegant dual narrative, Essie is a thirteen-year-old girl feeling glum about starting a new school after her professor dad takes a temporary teaching position in a different town.…

New Release Review! FEEL THE FIRE by Annabeth Albert (Hotshots #3)

Title: Feel the FireAuthor: Annabeth AlbertSeries: Hotshots, #3Length: 336 pagesGenre: Contemporary RomanceImprint: Carina PresseBook On-Sale: October 26, 2020eBook ISBN & Price: 9781488076855, $4.99 U.S.MMP On-Sale: October 27, 2020MMP ISBN & Price: 9781335459527, $8.99 U.S. The third installment of Annabeth Albert’s Hotshots series—the emotions and intensity of Chicago Fire with the raw, natural elements of Man vs. Wild. When their career paths bring two high school sweethearts together again, the forest isn’t the only thing ablaze… Fire behavior specialist Luis Riviera goes where his job takes him. But when he’s assigned to an arson investigation in Central Oregon—the place he left…

New Release and Giveaway! THE REVOLUTIONARY AND THE ROGUE by Blake Ferre

The Revolutionary and the Rogueby Blake FerreSeries: n/a; standaloneGenre: Adult LGBTQ Romance (M/M) Historical RomancePublisher: Entangled AmaraPublication Date: August 24, 2020 Perrin deVesey knows pain. As a member of Crimson Rose, a secret club for men who love men, he’s taken the vow “to stand and shield.” Standing together during these perilous times is the only thing keeping their necks from the guillotine. Now their leader is using the club to rescue wrongly accused traitors. After losing a past lover to an unjust execution, the decision to support this treasonous cause is easy…until a devastatingly handsome Committee Officer complicates Perrin’s…

Release Day Review! BETTER THAN PEOPLE by Roan Parrish

Title: Better Than PeopleAuthor: Roan ParrishGenre: Contemporary RomanceImprint: Carina Press (Carina Adores)On-Sale: August 25, 2020Format: Trade Paperback (ebook & audio also available!)Price: $14.99 U.S.ISBN: 9781335542823 It’s not long before their pet-centric arrangement sparks a person-centric desire… Simon Burke has always preferred animals to people. When the countdown to adopting his own dog is unexpectedly put on hold, Simon turns to the PetShare app to find the fluffy TLC he’s been missing. Meeting a grumpy children’s book illustrator who needs a dog walker isn’t easy for the man whose persistent anxiety has colored his whole life, but Jack Matheson’s menagerie is…

Release Day Review! HIGH HEAT by Annabeth Albert (Hotshots #2)

Title: High HeatAuthor: Annabeth AlbertSeries: Hotshots, #2Length: 352 pagesGenre: Contemporary RomanceImprint: Carina Press Annabeth Albert’s Hotshots series continues—the emotions and intensity of Chicago Fire with the raw, natural elements of Man vs. Wild. Smoke jumping is Garrick Nelson’s life. Nothing, not severe injuries nor the brutal physical therapy that follows, is going to stop him from getting back with his crew. But when a lost dog shows up on his front porch, he can’t turn her away, and he can’t take care of her on his own. Thankfully, help comes in the form of his new sexy, dog-loving neighbor. As…

JUST LIKE THAT by Cole McCade (Albin Academy #1)

Title: Just Like ThatAuthor: Cole McCadeSeries: Albin Academy, #1Length: 320 pagesGenre: Contemporary RomanceImprint: Carina Press (Carina Adores)On-Sale: June 30, 2020Format: Trade Paperback *ebook and audio formats also available!Price: $14.99 U.S.ISBN: 9781335146458 Summer Hemlock never meant to come back to Omen, Massachusetts. But with his mother in need of help, Summer has no choice but to return to his hometown, take up a teaching residency at the Albin Academy boarding school—and work directly under the man who made his teenage years miserable. Professor Fox Iseya Forbidding, aloof, commanding: psychology instructor Iseya is a cipher who’s always fascinated and intimidated shy, anxious…

Release Day and Giveaway! CHASING RISKS by Maria Ann Green

Chasing Risksby Maria Ann GreenPublication date: May 22nd 2020Genres: Contemporary, Erotica, LGBTQ+, Romance Eleonora – Ellie or Nora or Leo, depending on who’s calling her name at the moment – has the exact life she wants. No really, she does. She couldn’t be happier with her job at the bar she owns with her best friend or her fantastic sex life with her boyfriend, Lucas. Or…with her girlfriend Theo. Hey, she never said it wasn’t complicated, just that she couldn’t picture it any other way. And, that’s not to say that Ellie doesn’t have struggles. Being proudly bisexual and openly polyamarouns, she knows what it’s…

A Conversation with Zachary Ryan, Author of THIRST TRAP (with a giveaway!)

Thanks so much for agreeing to be with us today! What 5 things should readers know about you? I live in Chicago, I have a twin, I’m originally from Maryland, I believe my characters are real, and I love a good fancy bottle of Jameson. Oooh, a twin—fun! And of course your characters are real…aren’t they? 😉 Where did the inspiration for this book come from? This book’s inspiration came from my friends in Chicago. I wrote a book five to six years ago about me moving to Chicago, coming out, and dealing with heartbreak. I wanted to keep that…

New Release and Giveaway! ALEX by A.M. Salinger (Twilight Falls #1)

Alex by A.M. Salinger (Twilights Falls, #1) Publication date: September 20th 2019Genres: Adult, Contemporary, LGBTQ+,Romance Alex Hancock needs money to salvage his career. Finn West needs a spouse to stop his aunt from sabotaging his future. Can the two men make more of the fake marriage they enter into? When Alex’s business partner runs off to Mexico with their company funds, the lawyer has little choice but to return to his hometown of Twilight Falls to marry someone he’d never met in order to raise the money to save his business. What he didn’t expect was that the woman he was meant to wed would turn out to…