Review: In Too Deep by CF White

Rating: 5 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel In Too Deep is the second book in the Whitton and Black Mystery series and the books are intended to be read in order. This review may naturally reveal plot points for the series. DI Harrison Black has complicated feelings about Jake Whitton. He knows he shouldn’t get involved with Jake, but Jake is the first man that has turned Harrison's head in the three years since his husband has died.

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Audiobook Review: Problem Child by D.J. Jamison

Story Rating: 4.5 stars Audio Rating: 4.5 stars Narrator: John Solo Length: 8 hours, 36 minutes Audiobook Buy Links: Amazon/Audible | iBooks Book Buy Links: Amazon | iBooks Bailey Steele is in his first year of college, pressed into accepting thousands in scholarships and grants by his three older foster brothers, who run the family garage and auto yard in rural Riverton, Nebraska.

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Review: Just This Kiss by Garrett Leigh

Rating: 4.75 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Oscar is fairly content with his life. He has a young son who is everything to him and a job on a fishing boat with his good friend, Sol. It’s been two summers since Oscar kissed Poet Whitlock and that touch is like a brand on his soul, as he cannot stop thinking about Poet.

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Review: The Liar in Room 5 by Kerry Kilpatrick

Rating: 4.25 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Andrew Greene had no idea he’d accidentally become a kept man. For half of his life, he moved from rich boyfriend to rich boyfriend, thinking he was in a relationship. But when Andrew's most recent boyfriend pulls the plug, he’s left without resources or a place to stay.

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Review: Comfort Read by Dylan Morrison

Rating: 4 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Kit Forrest has spent his life in Cedar Falls, a small town in upstate New York. He dated his high school boyfriend from about age fourteen until the day he proposed, and Kit wasn’t prepared for their relationship to crumble on the spot. Kit had actually given up his teaching job and invested all his life savings to buy Sawyer’s Books, the bookstore/community hub he and his then-boyfriend had worked at and loved as an engagement gift, thinking they’d work there together and live happily ever after.

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Review: SORRY by D. Lilith

Rating: DNF Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel ALEX I spent years in a marriage where love faded, or maybe never even existed. Where love should have been there were cruel words, criticism, and the quiet ache of never feeling like enough. SAM I am familiar with pain. The kind of pain that leaves scars on my body…

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Review: Backwoods Banshee by David R. Slayton

Rating: 4 stars Buy Links:  Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Backwoods Banshee is the fifth book in David R. Slayton's fabulous Adam Binder series. While each book does feature a new adventure for Adam, there is also a series arc and key story elements that carry across the books. Therefore, these should be read in order and this review may have spoilers for earlier books in the series.

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Review: Off the Edge by A. Nash

Rating: 4.75 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel It’s been 18 months since Cam and Ren won their ice dance category at a highly publicized competition and it’s been that long since they have seen each other. Yet, the memories are strong and linger. It’s now time for the Winter Olympics in Japan and Cam and Ren are rivals once again.

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Review: The Killing of a Chestnut Tree by Oliver K. Langmead

Rating: 4.25 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Havelock Harper and his lover and partner, Sebastian Wright, have endured and survived a terrible case, the kind that leaves more than one type of scar. Their recovery has been slow and neither man is quite sure how to recapture the ease and comfortable familiarity they used to share.

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Review: Under Water by E.M. Lindsey

Rating: 4 stars Buy Links:  Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Rune has been crushing on his co-worker, Easton, for a while, but the man also drives him crazy. Rune manages IT for the firehouse and Easton is forever breaking things and causing trouble. Rune's life is complicated enough, between his medically complicated pre-teen son and his soon-to-be ex husband causing trouble; the last last thing he needs is a messy situation at work.

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Review: Every November by Bec Benson

Rating: 4 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel For Marcus, going home to Bloomington, Indiana every Thanksgiving and Christmas is an exercise in extreme patience. His family is religious and emotionally distant, and his mother has a way of making him feel like he is never good enough. The negative reinforcement has affected his mental health and there is never ending commentary about how his actions reflect poorly on her.

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Review: One Night with the Herd by Allyx Wood

Rating: 4.25 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novella Kitten is a sex worker ready for his first centaur orgy. He’s already trained on minotaurs and ogres and werewolf orgies, and he is certain he can handle a centaur cock or three. And while this is an orgy, it’s not a wild event; it’s controlled, with each of the “mares,” as the six sex workers are called, under the protection of one of six studs, who serve as their Dom for the event.

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Review: What a Nightmare by Rebekah Faubion

Rating: 3.5 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Haven Powers is a woman built from violence, repression, and oppression. Once a high-spirited little girl, the culture in her small insular town tried to break her into a proper, controllable woman. At nineteen, she escaped after a final act of violence. Nine years later, she’s still an enigma to herself and forced to keep running by memories visible and hidden—all her nightmares trapped in a mental box, but able to seep out and enact vengeance.

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Coming This Week

Hi all, I hope you had a great week! This weekend, I am enjoying a few days at the beach with my sister. I went up early and worked from here and she joined me Friday afternoon. My sister and I talk all the time and see one another often, but we don't usually get a lot of hang out time just the two of us, so this has been a great weekend.

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Review: Knocked Sideways by C.A. Gardner

Rating: 4.5 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Remy has only just signed on to the NHL when he is traded mid-season from Montreal to Colorado. Not only does he have to leave his sister, who was attending school in Montreal to be closer to him, but the guy he was casually seeing — his former hockey coach, Mike — breaks off their relationship so Remy won’t have as many ties holding him back.

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Review: Reclaimed by Liv Rancourt

Rating: 3.5 stars Buy Links:  Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Robin of Loxley has been in love with Marian Fitzwilliam, aka Fritz, for centuries. But now Fritz has betrayed Rob, siding with the evil billionaire Leander de Lisle. However painful the situation, however, Rob is not going to be deterred from his battle to bring down de Lisle once and for all.

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Review: Boy Meets Monster by Leslie McAdam

Rating: 4 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Twenty-ish years ago there was a “Halloween Wave” that hit Earth and turned about a third of the humans into mythical monsters. Creelin University, aka Creepin U, has historically been a monster-only university, but has recently begun enrolling humans, too. Caleb is a huldrekall, a Scandinavian forest spirit, who’s the scion of an extremely wealthy family.

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Review: Because It’s True by Will Okati

Rating: 3.75 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Ford Tremaine is a big believer in signs. Learning at his grandfather’s side, Ford knows how to read the world and go where it points. When he sees a penny on the sidewalk, Ford knows instantly it’s his lucky day. When other signs present themselves, Ford knows he’s about to meet the love of his life.

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Review: The Lockdown Mann by Riley Hart

Rating: 4.25 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Desmond and Oakley met one summer on vacation when they were sixteen and spent two weeks together. Those two weeks changed things for both of them and left an incredible mark on their lives. Oakley had just broken up with his girlfriend, Serena, and kissing Desmond was a revelation.

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Review: Took You Long Enough by Zillah de Rigaud

Rating: 3.75 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Nathan is a successful barrister. He’s handsome, tall, rich, obnoxious, arrogant, and full of himself. He’s also quite happy with his life. Nathan’s nearing forty and he has fallen into a comfortable rut: cases during the week, then off to the country to fuck his best friend for a long weekend.

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Review: Thief Taker by Sally Malcolm

Rating: 3.75 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Elias Cole has spent months chasing a clever highwayman, calling himself Wessex, only for the fellow to slip away time and time again. Elias thinks Wessex might be the Earl of Ashbourne and decides to take a position in the man’s house, hoping to learn more while undercover.

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Review: Salva Me by Autumn Montague

Rating: 3 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel For twelve years, Morgan Holland has served as a contracted blood donor, or host, to Jeremy Takeshi Colbourne, a baron and head of the most powerful vampire family in England. Despite the length of his service, Morgan has kept himself apart from some key aspects of the world of vampires.

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Review: Heart of the Mountain King by C.J. Pines

Rating: 3.25 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novella Rask has lived alone for quite some time. He has his goats, his mountain, and the silence left behind when Hjarta died. That silence is broken when a human begins to pester him, nattering about the vættir in the mines and how the humans need Rask’s help — his magic, his power, his authority as a fae — to stop them from causing accidents.

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Excerpt: Deck the Halls with Bratva Brawls by Gianni Holmes

Today I am so pleased to welcome Gianni Holmes to Joyfully Jay. Gianni has come to talk to us about her latest release, Deck the Halls with Bratva Brawls. Please join me in giving her a big welcome! Exclusive Excerpt A crack of breath, a crooked smile, the old mask tilting back into place. “Well.” I shifted to sit up. “That was—”

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Review: Babygirl by Lucy Lennox

Rating: 4.5 stars Buy Links:  Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel On the outside, Bett is the privileged son of a wealthy and powerful senator and the star kicker on his college football team. But Bett's father is controlling and cruel and has planned Bett's entire life without his input. Not to mention he has cut Bett off financially as punishment for getting caught in a bar fight the summer before, meaning Bett is now living in a dorm on his football scholarship rather than the apartment with his friends he had planned for his senior year.

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Review: Wrong Date, Right Mates by Thalia Flume

Rating: 3.75 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Alden and Tyler are the best of friends, roommates, and consider each other family. They have an attraction to each other, but they have never discussed it and, besides, they are both alphas. Tyler is wary of relationships after his childhood with his parents and he doesn’t want to believe in scent matches.

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Review: The Two Wills by Blair Fell

Rating: 4.5 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Willy Hughes, bastard son of a woman fallen on hard times, has the face of an angel and the fingers of a skilled pickpocket. A keen mimic with a good voice, Willy often uses his looks to fool customers, pretending to be a woman to lure them in, then chasing them away with his maleness — minus their purses.

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Review: Lethal Kiss by Taylor Grothe

Rating: 3.75 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel In the almost millennium Marcella has been a draugr, there have been two constants—her love of knowledge and patriarchally endorsed monstrousness. She targets the readily available pool of predatory misogynists for food, and in academia, it’s a banquet. Still, it’s a small banquet, and Preston University offers a new hunting ground.

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Review: Marked by Love by Margot Primrose

Rating: 3.5 stars Buy Links:  Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Theodore has spent his last few years on the run. He is constantly changing names and moving from place to place, trying to stay ahead of the alphas who are hunting him. Theodore’s latest stop is the small town of Elk Grove where he has gotten a job as the local veterinarian.

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Review: The Lipstick Flip by Gregory Ashe

Rating: 4.25 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel When Howie Cartwright was a police officer, he went by Cart. He doesn’t use that name anymore, as he’s not that person anymore, and he’s working to get past his mistakes. Howie now works renovating and flipping houses, walking the line of recovery, and he’s single…well, he thought he was single.

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