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Come anima mai by Rossana Soldano
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 20 ratings“Come anima mai” è una storia ambientata nell'Inghilterra del secolo scorso, negli anni tra 1936 e il 1945. Lewis Ellsworth, futuro duca di Buccleuch e l’eccentrico Will Chase si incontrano all’università di Cambridge e si innamorano... -
How Tan Acquired an Apprentice by A.J. Sherwood, Cait Wade
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsDid Tan go looking for an apprentice? No. Is Tan going to keep Zi Rui? Yes... -
Boy Like Me by Simon James Green
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn the margins of a book's pages, sparks fly as a teenage romance begins. But in this time and place, sparks like these can only ignite trouble. It's 1994 and thanks to Section 28, there can be no mention of gay relationships in UK schools... -
Zone of Action by A.J. Sherwood
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsRen’s homecoming wishlist includes:•Arman not bashing everyone’s heads together (at least not without him)•Getting the fortress built before the Mongs attack (not at the rate they’re going with all the thefts happening)•Going home without incident (also, again, not likely)What it did not include was:•Social reform•A child•A raiding party•Arman actually using his wordsLife once again proved...Categorized as:
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The Taste of Love by Meara Platt, Dragonblade Publishing
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWill the mysterious Book of Love lead Penelope to her true love? Lady Penelope Sherbourne is not—absolutely not—going to fall in love with Thaddius MacLauren, Laird of Caithness, even if he is a big, handsome Scottish brute and ridiculously protective of her... -
One Fine May by Courtney McCaskill
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsOne Fine May…Furious that his son was featured in the notorious Rake Review column, Evander Beauclerk’s stickler father issues an give up his dissolute ways and marry a respectable woman by the end of the month, or the family fortune will go to his dimwitted cousin...Categorized as:
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A Gentleman's Position by K.J. Charles
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsPower, privilege, and the rigid rules of class leave two hearts yearning for connection in the sizzling new Society of Gentlemen novel from K. J. Charles.Among his eccentric though strictly principled group of friends, Lord Richard Vane is the confidant on whom everyone depends for advice, moral rectitude, and discreet assistance... -
Peter Cabot Gets Lost by Cat Sebastian
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSummer 1960:After years of scraping by, Caleb Murphy has graduated from college and is finally getting to start a new life. Except he suddenly has no way to get from Boston to Los Angeles. Then, to add to his misery, there's perfect, privileged Peter Cabot offering to drive him...Categorized as:
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The Lies That Bind by Marshall Thornton
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe eighth book of the best-selling Boystown Mystery Series begins with a phone call in the middle of the night. Private investigator Nick Nowak is pulled into the troubled world of freelance journalist, and all around pain-in-the-ass, Christian Baylor. When Christian can’t stop lying about the corpse in his bathroom things slip slowly out of control... -
Eryx: A Spartan Tale by Jaclyn Osborn
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMy father once told me, above all else... Live and die for Sparta. Honor. Loyalty. Duty. These were the things that mattered most. And then Axios came into my life, teaching me other lessons: humility, brotherhood... love. There were moments when the brutal training stripped me of my humanity, where it turned me into a mindless beast of flesh and muscle set to destroy everything in my way... -
Josh Lanyon Collected Novellas #1 by Josh Lanyon
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn Dangerous Ground a casino robbery finds government agents Taylor and Will playing a game of cat-and-mouse with remorseless killers in the wilderness of California's High Sierras. Snowball in Hell introduces police detective Lt. Matthew Spain and reporter Nathan Doyle, men thrown together by murder. But, in post-WWII Los Angeles consequences of their attraction are serious, even for good guys... -
The Captain's Heiress by Amy Jarecki
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCaptain Gibb MacGalloway might adore women, but he does not allow them aboard his ship…Females are too distracting for his crew—and too distracting for him, truth be told. But when his brother, the Duke of Dunscaby, asks him to provide safe passage to Miss Isabella Harcourt, the daughter of an old family friend, Gibb has no choice but to bend his rules...Categorized as:
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Only You by Leta Blake
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsJoin Peter Mandel on his final steps to love in Only You, the highly-anticipated final book of Leta Blake's ’90s Coming of Age series.Despite the lingering wounds of his past relationship, Peter is ready to take a chance on finding a faithful love and embracing his true self.Peter and Daniel explore their connection despite Daniel's complicated home life... -
The Ranch by Michael Robert
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAn Erotic Gay Romance Josh West left the family ranch at eighteen, swearing to never return to Cody, Wyoming again. After the untimely death of his parents ten years later, he leaves the mess of his soon-to-be-ex behind in Seattle and returns to the ranch as the now fourth-generation owner to handle the sale of the land... -
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Sweet Honesty by Joan Vassar
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAtlanta, Georgia, 1950–Michael can’t believe his eyes as he watches the man he loves marry a woman from the back row of Mount Zion Baptist Church. When the beautiful couple is pronounced man and wife, he leaves his home in Georgia for the chance of a better life in New York City.Alexander is just trying to exist in Queens, New York... -
The Defiant Wife by Jess Michaels
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe second book in this sparkling series by 10 time USA Today Bestselling Author Jess MichaelsPippa Montgomery never thought her life would go like this. When she found out her late husband was a bigamist and had been murdered, she thought nothing could ever be the same. When she met his brother Rhys, the Earl of Leighton, she knew it...Categorized as:
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Earl of Infamy by Tammy Andresen
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHe's been given a mission...The Earl of Infamy must escort one mourning lady out of London and hide her away in the country. Should be easy. But, from the moment he steps into her life, things get...complicated. Not only is she far too pretty for his liking, but she's got a knack for telling him no."No, I don't want to go to the country with you.""No, I won't share your room...Categorized as:
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Scot Under the Mistletoe by Caroline Lee
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA year ago, Nessa Oliphant FINALLY landed the man of her dreams in bed...but when her father, the laird, betrothed her to the first Henry, her lover failed to fight for her.Brohn, the housekeeper’s son, might be in command of the Oliphant troops, but knows his duty to the clan is to step aside and let Nessa make a strong betrothal contract... -
Alcott Hall by Emily Rath
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe Lady has an offer. The Vicar has a Confession.Lady Madeline Blair is on a mission. Her eccentric late aunt left her a small fortune with one condition: to claim it, Madeline must marry by New Year’s Eve…which is now only three weeks away! When she receives an invitation to spend Christmas at Alcott Hall, she sees this as the perfect chance to snag herself an unsuspecting beau...Categorized as:
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Sent to a Fantasy World and Now All the Men Want Me: Volume 1 by Jaclyn Osborn
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsEvan just wants a quiet life where he escapes into books, drinks a ridiculous amount of coffee, and devours every muffin in sight. But then he's transported to another world with magic, sword-wielding knights with big... hearts, and men who find him too adorable to resist.Complicated? Well, that's the understatement of the century.And for Evan, the adventure is only beginning... -
Late Fees by Marshall Thornton
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIt’s Thanksgiving, 1992 and Noah Valentine is late picking his mother up from the airport. When he arrives he discovers that she’s made a friend on the flight whose also waiting for her son. When women’s son doesn’t show up, they eventually take the woman home for breakfast with neighbor’s Marc and Louis... -
The Wolf and the Wildflower by Stacy Reid
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsUSA Today bestselling author Stacy Reid’s addictive tale of two lost people who are found…by each other.London is buzzing with the news that James Winters, the Duke of Wulverton—thought lost at sea a decade ago—survived in the harsh wilderness of the Yukon. Now he’s been returned to his family, his responsibilities, and a nightmarish world of artifice and noise...Categorized as:
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Peacocks of Pemberley: A Pride and Prejudice Variation by Laraba Kendig
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsDarcy is surprised that Elizabeth has won the friendship of his unusual sister, and he is shocked when he begins to fall for her as well.Mr. Darcy feels guilty that he was not there to prevent Mr. Bingley from marrying Jane Bennet, who no doubt was only after his money... -
Destination Unknown by Bill Konigsberg
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFrom Stonewall Award winner Bill Konigsberg, a remarkable, funny, sexy, heartbreaking story of two teen boys finding each other in New York City at the height of the AIDS epidemic.The first thing I noticed about C.J. Gorman was his plexiglass bra. So begins Destination Unknown. It's 1987 in New York City, and Micah is at a dance club, trying to pretend he's more out and outgoing than he really is... -
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When You Call My Name by Tucker Shaw
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsTucker Shaw’s When You Call My Name is a heartrending novel about two gay teens coming of age in New York City in 1990 at the height of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Named "this summer's most powerful LGBTQ+ novel" by GAY TIMES, this book is perfect for fans of Adam Silvera and Mary H. K. Choi.Film fanatic Adam is seventeen and being asked out on his first date—and the guy is cute... -
Mrs. Martin's Incomparable Adventure by Courtney Milan
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsMrs. Bertrice Martin—a widow, some seventy-three years young—has kept her youthful-ish appearance with the most powerful of home remedies: daily doses of spite, regular baths in man-tears, and refusing to give so much as a single damn about her Terrible Nephew. Then proper, correct Miss Violetta Beauchamps, a sprightly young thing of five and sixty, crashes into her life... -
Witches' Blood by Ginn Hale
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsWhen John opens a letter addressed to his missing roommate, Kyle, he expects to find a house key, but instead he is swept into a strange realm of magic, mysticism, revolutionaries and assassins. Though he struggles to escape, John is drawn steadily closer to a fate he share with Kyle—to wake the destroyer god, the Rifter, and shatter a world...Categorized as:
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The Jackal’s House by Anna Butler
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSequel to The Gilded ScarabSomething is stalking the Aegyptian night and endangering the archaeologists excavating the mysterious temple ruins in Abydos. But is it a vengeful ancient spirit or a very modern conspiracy…... -
The Rake's Insatiable Bride by Caroline Lee
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsShe’ll do things her way, or not at all…and that includes marriage!Industrialist Jade Thacker is used to being in control of her own life...Categorized as:
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Always the Matchmaker by Emily E K Murdoch
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAlways the matchmaker and never the bride - even when she's found her perfect partner…Miss Theodosia Ashbrooke does not believe there is anything greater than matching the perfect pair - and she's become rather expert in it. Never mind that she's never found the missing half to her own soul and body. Perhaps that's not her lot in life, even at the age of eight and twenty... -
Until the End of Time by Nicky James
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBeing a gay man in 1827, was not only frowned upon in England, but punishable by death. Magistrate Simon Stockley would know. He’d convicted men in his courtroom and sentenced them himself. Every time, it left a vile taste in his mouth because Simon was no different than the men whose lives he claimed...Categorized as:
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Just a Little Seduction by Merry Farmer
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDavid Wirth has made it his life’s work to fight for the rights of those who cannot defend themselves and to navigate England’s choppy legal waters for fellow members of The Brotherhood. Tracking down the three villainous noblemen, including a powerful duke, who have masterminded a child kidnapping ring promises to be the pinnacle of his career seeking justice for the helpless... -
Dusk's Devotion by V.L. Locey
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCan love warm the hearts of two enemies facing the wrath of a Wyoming winter storm?Kyle Abbott is slowly discovering that being midway through his thirties and being married to your job isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. There has to be more to life than random hookups, horses, and cattle... -
Diving In by Bianca Miller
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA heartfelt journey of loss, self-discovery, and one epic love story that will have you ready to dive in. Fly in, tie up loose ends, and fly out. Three days. Seventy-two hours. And not a second longer.At least that was the plan. Georgia Windsor has a good job in New York, a charming best friend, and a perfectly adequate man, but she also has an undeniable urge to control it all... -
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A Shimmer in the Night by Kelley York
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBenjamin Prichard has spent much of his life feeling like an outsider. Growing up, his odd behaviour and visions of ghosts left him isolated, not to mention being the child of an immigrant mother and an absent father. Benjamin walks the line between not being Chinese enough for one community, and not English enough for the other.Whisperwood School for Boys changes everything...Categorized as:
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Till Death Do Us Part by Tangstory
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSet in early-20th century China, this story takes off in the port city of Tientsin (Tianjin) that is divided into lands called concessions and owned by several foreign powers. Shen Liangsheng is a charismatic and cunning playboy, a son of a rich businessman, who has profits as his top priority... -
The Enraptured Heir by Merry Farmer
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHe has sworn off women. She falls in love with him at first sight. But can they fight the attraction between them? After a single, spoiled season five years before, Lady Angeline O’Shea cannot believe she has been invited to a house party where matches are certain to be made...Categorized as:
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All Roads Lead to You by Courtney W. Dixon
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA 1980s Stepbrother Road Trip RomanceA road trip that turned into a journey. LoganNicholas Theodoropoulos had been my stepbrother since I was fourteen. Mom died when I was twelve, and I resented Dad remarrying so soon. Even worse, my stepbrother had grown into a gorgeous man. I hated looking at him, reminding me every day of what I could never have. No one knew I was gay and never would... -
Alpha's Oath by Claire Cullen
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsPlagued by strange symbols he doesn’t understand, Prince Cleo agrees to the only path open to him—a life of solitude in the priory. But fate has a very different plan.With their kingdom fighting for survival, a wedding isn’t on the cards for Thorne. A good brother and fighter, he’s willing to do anything to protect his home... -
One Glimpse by Lydia Gastrell
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFor years Sir Samuel Shaw has secretly lusted after the handsome and popular Lord John Darnish, a man known for his good humor, expert riding prowess, and very female mistress. Certain that John is an unattainable fantasy, Sam is shaken when an accidental discovery reveals John might not be as unattainable as he once thought... -
A Reckless Runaway by Jess Michaels
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe second in the bestselling series by USA Today Bestselling Author Jess Michaels Anne Shelley has always been known as the “wild” one of the infamous Shelley triplets, and never has that been truer than when she ran away from her engagement with a scandalous man...Categorized as:
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Lord of the Masquerade by Erica Ridley
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA fun, fast-paced interracial romance full of banter, scandal, and devastating secrets, from a New York Times bestselling author:Entrepreneur Miss Unity Thorne helped two different men amass their fortunes—only to end up on the street. She’s scraping by at the theatre, but this isn’t the show she plans to star in. The next fortune Unity builds will be hers alone... -
How Goes The World? by K.J. Charles
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe Positively Final Appearance: a two-part epilogue with Daniel and Archie at a house party and Kim and Will in a gentleman's club, because those are definitely settings that go well for them... -
An Embroidered Spoon by Jayne Davis
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWales 1817After refusing every offer of marriage that comes her way, Isolde Farrington is packed off to a spinster aunt in Wales until she comes to her senses.Rhys Williams, there on business, is turning over his uncle’s choice of bride for him, and the last thing he needs is to fall for an impertinent miss like Izzy – who takes Rhys for a yokel... -
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The Fake February Rake by Charlie Lane
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe ton thinks Hades is a rake. He’s not.Before the Brazen Belle’s gossip column named him February’s rake, Dr. Hades Jones was the ton’s most trusted doctor, proper in every way but for his family’s scandalous past. But the rake the Belle named wasn’t him. I t was someone wearing his distinctive silk-lined coat, which was stolen from him months ago...Categorized as:
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Daniel Cabot Puts Down Roots by Cat Sebastian
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsNew York City, 1973Daniel Cabot doesn’t really know what he’s doing with his life. He’s lost faith in himself, his future, and maybe the world. The only things he knows that he cares about are the garden in the empty lot next to his crumbling East Village apartment building and his best friend.Alex Savchenko has always known that he’s…difficult. Prickly, maybe, if you’re feeling generous... -
To Dance with a Devil by Emma V. Leech
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsGirls who dare – Inside every wallflower is the beating heart of a lioness, a passionate individual willing to risk all for their dream, if only they can find the courage to begin. When these overlooked girls make a pact to change their lives, anything can happen.Ten girls – Ten dares in a hat. Who will dare to risk it all?To Dance with a DevilA young woman desperate to escape her fate...Categorized as:
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Luke and Billy Finally Get a Clue by Cat Sebastian
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsNorth Carolina, 1953Billy Reardon’s spent the past five years trying and failing to keep his teammate Luke Novak at arm’s length—or at least a normal, friendly distance. Or, failing that, he’d like to not make a fool of himself... -
The Duke and the Dressmaker by Eva Devon
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA duke becomes unraveled by love in this delightful historical romance from USA Today bestselling author Eva Devon…Dressmaker Miss Lily Martin knows too well the sordid dealings of London’s corrupt underbelly. She should have known borrowing from one of the city’s most reviled moneylenders was risky. Horribly so...Categorized as:
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The Parfit Knight by Juliet Blyth, Stella Riley
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWhen the Marquis of Amberley's coach is waylaid by highwaymen and his coachman shot, he is forced to take shelter at the first house he finds and is subsequently trapped there for a week by a severe snowstorm...Categorized as:
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