Ship Happens

Mason Deaver

From bestselling and award-winning author Mason Deaver comes a delightful second-chance romance with trans representation! Trapped on a cruise together, exes Owen and Jacob are forced to confront why their relationship went off course…but in such close quarters, maybe they’ll finally be able to right the ship. A year ago, Owen Henson had a close-knit group of friends who felt like family and a boyfriend who made his heart race just by walking into the room. But now? Everything’s unraveling. His friends seem to be moving forward without him, and his happily-ever-after shattered when his boyfriend Jacob packed up and left for North Carolina to join a research team. The last thing Owen needs is for Jacob to waltz back into the city like nothing happened, showing up at their friends’ annual Christmas party looking just as annoyingly handsome as the day he left. Or for their friends to spring a surprise six-day, seven-night cruise up the West Coast to Alaska as a bonding trip for the group. How is Owen supposed to keep it together around the man who broke his heart, all while pretending he’s fine? Totally fine. But then Jacob tells Owen that he’d like to be something even more complicated than exes. He wants to be friends. Skeptical, Owen agrees to the plan but as they spend time together among the gorgeous Alaskan backdrop and cruise-mandated activities, Owen feels his walls coming down and he might just discover that he can’t help but fall in love again. An emotional second-chance romance set on a breathtaking cruise, where two former flames must decide whether to let go or risk it all for a love that refuses to sink. Tropes Forced proximity Exes Second chance Cruises Dating in secret Meddling friends

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He Should Be Mine (My Mobster #1)

Jessica Jackman

The only man I want is the one man I can’t have. Molly is beautiful. Feisty. Sensual. Passionate. A pretty boy who knows his trade. He is also the very epitome of high-maintenance. Rude. Stroppy. Always aiming to unnerve people with his brazen words and attitude. It makes me want to hold him tight and show him he doesn't need to put on an act. Not with me. But he belongs to my boss. And when your boss is a mafia capo, that’s a line you do not cross. My role is to guard Molly. Keep him safe. Stop him running away. Prevent anyone from knowing my boss has a boy. I’m not supposed to crave him. I’m just supposed to watch him. Day after day. Night after night. Watch and never touch. I'm his jailer. He's my damnation. He Should Be Mine is a sizzling dark mafia gay romance with a guaranteed happy ever after. It includes the tropes you love, such as, Grumpy / Sunshine.Opposites attract.Forced proximity (only one apartment.)Rich / Poor. Age gap (Nine years. Early twenties & early thirties.)Gay awakening.A boy who needs a firm hand, and the man who is willing to give it to him.Slow burn (Not because they don't want to, because they can't.)Pining, so much pining.Hurt / Comfort.I will burn the world for him.

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Dirty Angel

Nora Phoenix

When bubbly wedding cake baker Charles (not Charlie…never Charlie) accidentally overhears a mob boss plotting a murder, he contacts the cops. Detective Eamon O’Rourke offers to protect him…by posing as his boyfriend. Soon, they’re cooped up in Charles’s cozy little house in the cute, small town of Charming, NY. Sparks fly, and it doesn’t take long before they give in to the attraction simmering between them. But Eamon isn’t a cop at all.He’s an angel.Charles’s guardian angel.And he’s anything but angelic, especially in what he wants to do with Charles… Eamon has his hands full with Charles in more ways than one. Especially when Charles discovers Eamon’s been hiding the truth from him because if there’s one thing Charles is allergic to, it’s liars. Is a happily ever after possible for the wedding baker and his Dirty Angel?

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How to Be Eaten

Maria Adelmann

This darkly funny and provocative novel reimagines classic fairy tale characters as modern women in a support group for trauma. In present-day New York City, five women meet in a basement support group to process their traumas. Bernice grapples with the fallout of dating a psychopathic, blue-bearded billionaire. Ruby, once devoured by a wolf, now wears him as a coat. Gretel questions her memory of being held captive in a house made of candy. Ashlee, the winner of a Bachelor-esque dating show, wonders if she really got her promised fairy tale ending. And Raina's love story will shock them all. Though the women start out wary of one another, judging each other’s stories, gradually they begin to realize that they may have more in common than they supposed . . . What really brought them here? What secrets will they reveal? And is it too late for them to rescue each other? Dark, edgy, and wickedly funny, this debut for readers of Carmen Maria Machado, Kristen Arnett, and Kelly Link takes our coziest, most beloved childhood stories, exposes them as anti-feminist nightmares, and transforms them into a new kind of myth for grown-up women.

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Where the Sun Rises Slow

Kennedy Kidman

Tucker Ever since my husband died, life has felt like one walking nightmare. It’s been three years, and the hallways of my family’s barns still echo with the sound of his laugh. Raleigh haunts me in both my dreams and waking thoughts, but it’s all I have left of him, so I endure the brutal torture. When I hire Jackson Arness to be the newest farmhand at Juniper Grove, I don’t expect the instant connection I feel to him. He’s sunshine personified, a bright light in the hole of grief I’ve been living in, and he fits in with everyone else on the farm like he’s been living here his whole life. Except he’s only supposed to be here for six months. Just long enough to get us through the foaling season. He tells me he wants to make Juniper Grove his forever home—wants to make me his forever home—and I don’t know how to handle that. I made vows to another man long before Jackson ever came into my life, and if him being my employee wasn’t bad enough, the man is eleven years my junior. Moving on from Raleigh was never in the cards for me, because a future without him is one I never wanted to consider. But Jackson has me picturing what it could be like to finally see the sunrise after the long nights of my grief. I still love my husband, though, so I’m left with an impossible choice. Let go of the man I buried my heart with, or watch the man who's made it beat again walk away.

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Just Wait

Jillian West

Lumen was raised by a musician—not that he ever made it big—but she knows what happens when someone gets the gleam of stardom in their eyes...it never works out well for her. As fate would have it, her longtime boyfriend signs a contract with one of the biggest record labels in the country, and he wants her to come along on tour. She understands it isn’t a good idea, but he’s so persuasive that she gives in. Things go about as well as she expects, but Ruined Records headliner, Liminal, comes to her rescue. The world-famous rock band invites her to travel with them, even going as far as giving her the bedroom at the back of their bus. Touring is brutal, and Malcolm, Riser, and Kincaid have damage of their own. The more Lumen gets to know them, the harder she falls, but she’s just coming out of a relationship, and she’s been burned twice by musicians in two very different ways. Can their broken pieces come together to create a whole? Or will everything fall apart before it even gets started? This masked rock star romance is a standalone with no cliffhanger. It's written in first person multi-POV. No character crossover to any of my other books or series, making it a great place to dive into my books. There is no cheating in the main relationship, no choosing, and the men always fall first. Please check the author's note if you have any things you prefer not to read about.

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The Last Dragon on Mars (The Dragonships Series Book 1)

Scott Reintgen

A boy living on Mars unexpectedly becomes a dragon rider in this first book in the sci-fi and fantasy mash-up The Dragonships series, sure to delight fans of Skandar and Eragon.Keep your eyes down and your feet moving, or this planet will rust you. That’s what Lunar Jones tells the other kids at the relocation clinic. All of them were born on Mars, a planet that never wanted people in the first place. With resources scarce and hope even scarcer, it’s easy to get distracted looking up. After all, their ancestors descended from the stars. Martian history always starts with Earth. The first astronauts discovered that space was already occupied. Not by little green men or flying saucers. It was full of dragons. One for every moon, every planet, every star. When humanity discovered that Earth’s dragon had sacrificed herself to make their home planet habitable, they set their sights on Mars. If one dead dragon could breathe life into a world, why not create another one? Mankind won the war that followed, but with one catch. As the dragon died, he whispered a curse over Mars. The first settlers found their crops wouldn’t grow. Animals hunted them. Storms raged endlessly. It took three generations to figure out the Mars was doomed. Lunar knows all the old stories about dragons and space, but no one up there’s planning to help him or his crew. Instead, he focuses on scrapping valuable gear that the storms uncover in the war zone. Until one day, a salvaging run goes wrong. Desperate to find shelter, Lunar goes underground in a restricted zone. What he finds there, buried in the Martian dust, might just be the only hope left for a dying planet.

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Aliens, Archaeology, and the Advantages of Falling in Love (Otherworldly Findings Book 1)

Rae Douglas

Ellie Benshoof loves human history. Certainly more than she loves the humans around her. To be fair, she might be the problem, with her brusque personality and general lack of patience. But when something totally out of this world crash lands in the middle of her research site, Ellie has all the secrets of humanity she’s ever wanted, right at her fingertips. The only thing in her way? Zarek. Zarek might study humans too, but he is most definitely not one. Hailing from the planet Terilla, Zarek was sent to Earth to observe humanity from afar, but his passion project impairs his objectivity. Seeking to change the course of his own species’ future, Zarek switches his coordinates to France, where he intends to capture a live sample of an edelweiss bloom. But the French Alps are a long way from Paris, and he'll need Ellie's assistance if he’s actually going to reach them. Making a deal, they agree to tolerate each other just long enough to get what they both need. While on the train ride of a lifetime, Ellie and Zarek must decide what they'll let this connection become—a neatly labeled set of samples, or a once-in-a-lifetime field study that proves some discoveries are better experienced than explained.Love just might be the greatest advantage of them all.

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Triple Threat

Katie Chandler

From the author of the “exquisite” (The New York Times) Backhanded Compliments, a steamy sports romance about a disgraced tennis star, the ex-pro who becomes her coach, and the soulmate they share. Perfect for fans of Challengers and Carrie Soto Is Back. Octavia Ricci has spent her entire life proving she doesn’t need anyone—especially not her father, the controlling coach who built her career and broke her spirit. But after a public meltdown at the Australian Open, the icy Grand Slam champion isn’t sure if she ever wants to play again. She agrees to take it one tournament at a time, now under a new coach, determined to find her footing and love of the game again. Ariel de Cordova was once the next big thing in tennis until a devastating injury ended his career. Now, with his confidence shot, he’s not sure he can handle another player’s comeback story—especially not a player as volatile as Octavia. But as they practice, they both tentatively open up about their experiences and begin to heal their deepest wounds. The only stable, grounding presence in Octavia’s life is her soulmate and partner, Leo Mantovani. But he has two soulmarks on his wrist, and when Leo shakes hands with Octavia’s new coach for the first time, Ariel turns out to be Leo’s other soulmate. Knowing the optics of a player and coach relationship aren’t ideal, they decide to keep their relationship secret and surface-level. While Octavia, Ariel, and Leo fight to keep their relationship private, the tennis world is watching their every move. But when the spotlight turns harsh and old wounds resurface, they’ll have to decide if love is worth risking their careers, their reputations, and their hearts.

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Moss'd in Space

Rebecca Thorne

USA Today Bestselling author Rebecca Thorne delights in a brand new cozy science-fiction series...for fans of Martha Wells and Olivia Waite! Features original inside art! Torian Razner finally bought a starship, and contrary to Amelia’s assessment, it was not “a meteoric sign of stupidity.” Sure, the alien starship may have been abandoned for a century, and it may be covered in moss now… but it’s Torian’s ticket to freedom, regardless of what her ex… ah, captain… said. Except Torian’s first flight reveals a surprise passenger: the moss is actually an organic computer with a snarky attitude and serious abandonment issues. The target of its loathing? The immortal alien who built it (and then parked the starship, with Moss inside, and forgot about it). The same alien who just found Torian and accused her of “stealing” the ship. It’s entirely possible that Amelia was right about this meteoric stupidity.

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The Intimacy of Finding You

C.W. Scott

Callum StantonTen years had gone by since the love of my life had left in the middle of the night. No note. No reason. No trace. Ten years of sleepless nights and searching for obituaries, just in case. Ten years of trying to pretend like it didn't bother me and like I'd moved on. Ten years ago, I'd lost the only man I'd ever loved. Ten years later, I was staring at the husk of him in my best friend's bar, drinking himself into oblivion. The Tobi I once knew wouldn't even go near alcohol. But this wasn't the Tobi I once knew, and he refused to tell me the truth.I'd find it out eventually, though. I'd find out the truth, and I'd find Tobi. Even if it was the last thing I ever did.Tobias WeaverI was stuck in a never-ending cycle of hurt and misfortune. Destruction and devastation followed me wherever I went, only further proving my point.I'd lost everything.The only thing that made the pain bearable was to drown in vodka and forget that I used to have friends. I used to have a family. I used to be worthy of loving and being loved. That was the old me, though, and I hadn't seen the old me in over a decade now.I saw a glimpse of him in Callum's eyes, though. Just a spark of what I could've had if I hadn't broken his heart in order to spare him.He claimed he's going to find out the truth, but I'm far beyond saving, and that's all he really wants to do. Callum had saved me once before. I wasn't going to burden him a second time.Not when he deserved so much better than I could give him.The Intimacy of Finding You is an MM hurt/comfort second chance romance featuring two souls brought together by fate, handmade rocking chairs, and a dog named Fishbowl who deserves all the love… Just don’t forget to bring a Swiffer mop.The Intimacy of Finding You is an interconnected standalone in the Intimacy of series. It can be read alone, but it is best enjoyed after reading book one. This book contains heavy themes that could potentially be triggering. A detailed list of trigger warnings is included in the Content and Trigger Warnings section.

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The Cage and the Cure

D.N. Bryn

"Do you feel dirty, drinking my blood?” Imprisoned in a secret laboratory, Isaiah’s captors use him as a guinea pig to test the cure for vampirism. His only companion is the lab's second prisoner: the fiery young vampire the lab was built for. They are as powerless as Isaiah, doomed to curse and shout as Isaiah suffers beneath the touch of a shameless scientist who casts him lustful glances when he thinks Isaiah isn’t looking. Despite the pain and despair of his situation, Isaiah is determined to endure if it brings about his friend’s salvation. When his experimenter changes their torturous routine for the better, Isaiah discovers the man’s amor of logic and reason has a soft crack of desire he can pry into. For everything he gains though, Isaiah finds himself giving just as much. Trapped between his desire for the touch of a man who’s more monster than anyone with fangs and the shame that mounts with each secretive escapade, Isaiah battles to make the little life he has left count, both for himself and his fellow prisoner. The more he gives in to his physical needs, though, the more he uncovers a complicated and contradictory man within the scientist: one who may yet be his only salvation. Because he knows, when the cure is found and his friend in the other cell is whisked back to their old, human life, he won’t be going with them. Isaiah will be buried, along with all the other evidence of this terrible endeavor... unless he can convince one troubled scientist to find the key to his cage. The Cage and The Cure is a novella in the Guides For Dating Vampires world, with medium spice, a lightly toxic scientist/lab rat paring between a sweet vampire and the incarnation of a trash can with a man bun, and a separate vampire x vampire queer platonic relationship. While it is a great entry point into the universe and follows similar beats to the other romances, the relationships do not receive their happy ever after until the following book in the series.

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Singing Sands

C.L. Blossom

Once a promising competitive swimmer, twenty-one-year-old Mason Burke never imagined his life would look like this. After a family crisis pulled him back to his hometown, he’s now a college dropout working as a lifeguard on the shores of Lake Michigan, scraping by on bills while raising his teenage sister.Then Hunter Davis shows up. A botany grad student, Hunter’s in town for the summer to research lakeshore plants. But it feels like his real mission is to get under Mason’s skin, and it’s working. Mason tells himself he doesn’t have time for distractions—especially ones with sharp eyes, a sharper wit, and a smile he can’t seem to stop noticing. But as the summer heats up, so does the tension between them. It’s clear the beach isn’t big enough for the two of them… and neither is Mason’s carefully guarded heart.

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Mothman Is My Boyfriend: Ten Tales of Cryptid Love and Lust

McKayla Coyle

Fall in love with a secret town and its mysterious inhabitants in ten charming tales of human–cryptid romance, from the author of offbeat lifestyle guide Goblin Mode.Welcome to Cryptid Creek, a secret town full of undiscovered creatures, from yetis to lake monsters. Only very special humans can find their way here, but when they do stumble in, they can’t resist the allure of this cozy locale—or its fascinating citizens.Join the humans of this inclusive fantasy community as they browse the bookshop with Mothman, hit the skate park with nightcrawlers, wander the botanical garden with the Jersey Devil, and go on other dream dates that offer new spins on classic romance tropes. Stories A friends-to-lovers slow burn with the Loveland FrogA fake dating scheme with a swamp monsterA butch/femme hookup with SasquatchA second-chance drama with the Michigan DogmanAnd more fun trysts with your favorite creatures!If you loved Legends and Lattes and That Time I Got Drunk and Yeeted a Love Potion at a Werewolf, get ready to dust off your cryptozoology equipment and put on your cutest outfit—because monster lovers, misfits, and anyone who relates to cryptids will never want to leave this mountain town.

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Don't Fall (Storm Season Book 1)

E.M. Lindsey

That’s it. My neighbor has to die. There’s no other way around it. The man must be killed—and I’ll even find a way to do it gently, but this cannot go on.Okay, maybe I’m a bit dramatic, but living next to my brother’s best friend who decided to befriend crows who spend all week spreading garbage across my lawn is not I signed up for.I wanted quiet.I wanted peace.I wanted to stop fantasizing about the gorgeous man I couldn’t stand.Unfortunately for me, North is a big presence with an annoyingly sunny smile and a way of making life sound like it’s worth living. And as a widower who wants to spend the rest of my life wallowing, the last person I want around is one who makes me question my new life’s purpose.But these feelings can’t be real, can they? I had my great love, and I lost him. So that’s supposed to be it for me.Isn’t that the way things go?I can’t seem to stay away from North, even when I know I should. And when he starts to make me feel like maybe there’s another happily ever after out there, I find that as cautious as I’ve taken each step, I’m on the verge of falling once more.Don’t Fall is the first book in the small town, enemies to lovers, heavy yearning, MM romance series, Storm Season. It features a virgin EMT whose smile is hiding a lot of things, a disgruntled, grieving writer who just wants solid sleep and a good meal, neighborhood crows wreaking havoc, cooking lessons, hurt/comfort, and a toe-curling happily ever after.

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