Nov. 9th, 2012

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Welcome to the 2012 Charity Sip Blog Hop from Torquere Press being hosted on glbtromance.blogspot.com!

Every year the authors from Torquere Press choose a GLBTQ charity and donate all the proceeds from the stories they write on a shared theme to the chosen charity. This year, our authors chose NOH8, a non-profit organization who protests bullying, misinformation, and persecution of all kinds. NOH8’s photographic protest is becoming a phenomenon, with duct-taped mouths and logoed cheeks appearing in photos of celebrities and average folks alike. See their efforts here: http://www.noh8campaign.com/

The Charity Sip authors are blogging this weekend about Leather and Love: How Romance Helps Stamp out Hate. Our theme this year was Leather, as Torquere turned nine, and nine is the leather anniversary. Check out how you can buy all the Sips here: http://www.torquerebooks.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=79_111

Please visit the authors linked to the blog hop and comment to let them know you appreciate them giving their time and money to support NOH8. Keep an eye out for contests, giveaways and opportunities to give your input.

In addition to all the great authors and their posts, Torquere will be giving away a $50.00 gift card to one grand prize winner from all the commenters throughout the hop!

Thanks so much to all of our readers and authors for proving that love is by far the most important force in the world.

Though really, leather isn’t all that bad, either!
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341) EM Lynley - Italian Ice
Paperback: 290 pages
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press (July 20, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1613724810
ISBN-13: 978-1613724811
Amazon: Italian Ice
Amazon Kindle: Italian Ice

Sequel to Rarer than Rubies. Precious Gems: Book Two. In this exciting sequel to Rarer Than Rubies, gay romance author Trent Copeland and former FBI agent Reed Action head to Italy for a Roman holiday. What should be a relaxing and romantic vacation is interrupted when Reed's not-so-former boss asks for his help with a case. Trent's shocked to discover in the six months they've been living together in LA, Reed hasn't been completely honest about his "retirement." Reed heads for Sicily on the trail of a suspected antiquities-smuggling ring and to find Peter Isett-a former FBI partner he also hasn't been completely truthful about. Stung by Reed's dishonesty, Trent questions what else Reed might be hiding. But when he overhears something that tells him Reed's life is in danger, Trent follows Reed to a remote chain of ancient volcanic islands off Sicily's northern coast. Soon Trent is caught up in the smugglers' web, and Reed must decide between his heart and his mission-a decision complicated by his past with Peter. Reed's position is perilous: unless he can learn to put the past behind him, he risks destroying everything he's built with Trent.

342) Freddy MacKay - Incubation
Paperback: 514 pages
Publisher: Silver Publishing (August 6, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1614957398
ISBN-13: 978-1614957393
Amazon: Incubation (Finding Peace #2)
Amazon Kindle: Incubation (Finding Peace #2)

David McCourt's makeshift family moves in together and forms a protective cocoon around him. But they don't know David's whole story, and he finds the constant noise a distraction instead of a help. Bobby, Chris, and Austin want to help David however possible--but he needs to open up. Jackson crossed a line he never thought he would. He wants to take a chance with David, even if his dreams of a normal life are firmly rooted with Alyssa. The group has the makings of a rag tag family, but secrets--old and new--threaten their fragile bond. The community takes sides and David ends up where he doesn't want to be: the center of everything.

343) Lavinia Lewis - Mobsters and Miracles
Publisher: LLS Books (July 21, 2012)
Amazon Kindle: Mobsters and Miracles

How can detectives Lucas Manning and Danny DeRossa form a relationship when they can barely stay alive long enough to solve their case? Narcotics detectives Lucas Manning and Danny DeRossa have been investigating the Valdez brothers' lucrative cocaine business for a little over a year. The case is as good as closed. The Valdez brothers are being held in custody while awaiting trial and Tony Reyes – general dogsbody and hired gun is in protective custody until he can testify against them. Time for Lucas and Danny to sit back and put their feet up? Not if Ramon Torres has anything to do with it. When Torres - a long-standing employee of the Valdez brothers kidnaps Lucas to discover the location of Tony Reyes, it’s up to Lucas’ partner Danny to rescue him. But during their escape, they witness a startling incident - a priest and a rabbi in a shoot-out with Ramon’s men. What possible connection could a band of drug dealers have with the church and the synagogue? Lucas and Danny have evidently stepped in the middle of something big, but can they stay alive long enough to find out what? To complicate matters further, out and proud Lucas has fallen hard for his straight partner Danny. But is Detective DeRossa as straight as he led Lucas to believe or could he return his partner's affections?

344) R.J. Scott & Jaime Reese - A Better Man
Publisher: Silver Publishing (July 21, 2012)
Amazon Kindle: A Better Man

Matthew Doner has been given a second chance. After a five-year prison term, he receives a bequest from an aunt on the condition that he uses the money to make things right. His challenge--create a safe place for people like him to find purpose and start a new life. Julian Capeletti likes challenges. He is confident, brash, and just what Matthew needs. Working as the contractor to renovate the crumbling house is the right job at the absolutely perfect time. What neither man realizes is just how dangerous it is to keep secrets, nor how hard it can be to open your heart. Is one year enough time to renovate the house and become better men in the process?

345) K.T. Grant - Cinderella and The Lady
Publisher: Ravenous Romance (July 23, 2012)
Amazon Kindle: Cinderella and the Lady

The sudden death of Ellie’s father leaves her with an uncertain future. Her stepmother, Geraldine and step-sister Mina treat her like a servant. The seductive Countess Tremaine wants to save Ellie from her life of drudgery, but all for a price—her innocence. Ellie feels all hope is lost until she meets a Lady who makes all her wishes come true. Lady Kristina, the Duke of Perrault’s daughter has returned home after five years abroad. She’s expected to marry, but her attraction to women stops her from carrying out her parents’ wishes. One night she meets a shy servant girl and becomes obsessed. She’ll do whatever she can to gain the trust of this mysterious woman and claim her for her own. With the countess pressuring Ellie into accepting her unscrupulous offer, and her step mother growing more unstable, she turns to Kristina for support. But then her whole world comes crashing down when she learns the truth behind Kristina’s identity and the lies Geraldine has kept from her. As Ellie falls victim to those dark forces set on ruining her, Kristina fights to save Ellie’s heart before she loses her forever.

346) Mickie B. Ashling - Daddio
Paperback: 250 pages
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press (July 23, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 161372621X
ISBN-13: 978-1613726211
Amazon: Daddio
Amazon Kindle: Daddio

Sequel to Taste. Horizons Series: Book Three. Six months after meeting at the Taste of Chicago, Lil Lampert and Grier Dilorio are living together. Their physical bond glows brighter than ever, but the couple soon realizes that it takes more than three magic words and outstanding sex to make a partnership work. Like any fledgling, Grier is learning how to navigate his new life. His problems should have ended when Jillian signed the papers acknowledging him as Luca's biological father and he got the opportunity to pursue a career in interior design. Instead, he's hampered by old fears and bad habits that are hard to let go. Adjusting to a small apartment in a four-season state-with a much younger man sporting a stubborn streak-is a challenge for Lil. His position as Luca's "Daddio" is a delicate balancing act between doing what he thinks is right and deferring to Grier's eight years of experience. Life is stressed enough, but now Lil and Grier also face an unexpected complication from a powerful, far-reaching ruling body. Suddenly Luca's safety-and their happiness as an emerging family-depends on Lil's keen understanding of human nature and Grier's willingness to learn.

347) Steve Berman - Wilde Stories 2012
Perfect Paperback: 236 pages
Publisher: Lethe Press (July 13, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 159021398X
ISBN-13: 978-1590213988
Amazon: Wilde Stories 2012: The Year's Best Gay Speculative Fiction
Amazon Kindle: Wilde Stories 2012: The Year's Best Gay Speculative Fiction

Prepare to skew your view of the world: where jinni in the clouds of a future Tel Aviv aren't spirits but powerful computer programs; where a suburban garden hiding unrecognizable bones; to a planet colony that outlaws color; or the night when a lonely lab tech finds a spambot flirting with him. The latest volume in the acclaimed Wilde Stories series has tales of hitchhikers on the run, dragons in the sky, swordsmen drawing their blades. These are stories fantastic and strange, otherworldly and eerie, but all feature gay men struggling with memories or lovers or simply the vicissitudes of life no matter how wild the world might be.

348) L.J. LaBarthe - No Surrender, No Retreat
Paperback: 256 pages
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press (July 25, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1613726155
ISBN-13: 978-1613726150
Amazon: No Surrender, No Retreat
Amazon Kindle: No Surrender, No Retreat

Sequel to No Quarter. Archangel Chronicles: Book 2. Seventy years after it began, the war between angels and demons is over. Archangels Gabriel and Michael reunite at last, but a dangerous new challenge stands in the way of their happiness: someone is kidnapping angels and selling them as trophies on the black market. When Raphael, Archangel of Healing, goes missing, his tearful lover joins with the Brotherhood of Archangels and their lieutenants to rescue him. Without Raphael's healing touch, disease spreads quickly through the world's human population. The situation only worsens when the angel Agrat is kidnapped: the number of sex crimes begins to rise and her husband, Gabriel's lieutenant, loses himself to his grief. As they mount a rescue mission, Gabriel and Michael's relationship will be put to the test. With the threat of the world dying around them and tragedy looming overhead, can Gabriel and Michael keep love and hope alive?

349) Dorien Grey - Dante's Circle
Paperback: 204 pages
Publisher: Zumaya Boundless (July 27, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1612710654
ISBN-13: 978-1612710655
Amazon: Dante's Circle
Amazon Kindle: Dante's Circle

An Elliott Smith and John Mystery Book 4 Dante Benevetti is the darling of the music world...and why not? He's handsome, talented-and arrogant as only a man convinced of his own brilliance can be. As far as he's concerned, the rest of the world exists for his benefit. So, when he hears Dante is dead, a victim of murder, Elliott isn't really surprised. Nor is he surprised when Dante comes for a post-mortem visit, demanding Elliott find out who killed him. Was it the well-known lyricist who was the only one in the house at the time? The talented young musician whose work Dante plagiarized? Or some unknown the great pianist had mortally offended?

350) Belinda McBride - The Bacchi
Publisher: Loose Id LLC (July 30, 2012)
Amazon Kindle: The Bacchi

The Bacchi Lefi Dhrahn lives a life of luxury and decadence, but is tortured by memories of a lost love. He survives the pain by surrounding himself with sex, beauty, and all forms of self-indulgence. When he meets the alluring Inspector Afton Teris, Lefi believes the detective will make a very nice addition to his string of conquests. Afton Teris is a Valoran hermaphrodite, and like all members of his species, is stern, cerebral and disapproves of the frivolous prostitute. Afton orients as a male, but the beautiful Lefi Dhrahn stirs him sexually, making him question everything he knows about himself. To further confuse his emotions, Afton finds himself tempted by the forbidden pleasures surrounding the Bacchi. When a kidnapping ring strikes close to home, the two go undercover on a brothel barge to investigate a slavery operation. There, Lefi is confronted by painful memories from his past, while Afton is faced with a horror that threatens his future, and perhaps his very life. Their survival lies with one another, but only if Lefi can set aside his pain and listen to his heart.
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351) Greg Hogben - The British Devil
Paperback: 290 pages
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press (July 30, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1613726198
ISBN-13: 978-1613726198
Amazon: The British Devil
Amazon Kindle: The British Devil

British national Greg Stephens knew there would be challenges in his new relationship with handsome American Navy officer Danny Taylor: long distance; Don't Ask, Don't Tell; the Defense of Marriage Act; US immigration.... But he didn't anticipate his greatest obstacle: Danny's born-again Christian mother, Vivien. A secretary in a small-town Southern Baptist church in Texas, she bristles at Greg's secular beliefs. Through passive-aggressive manipulation, subtle deceit, or outright battle, Vivien resolves to banish Greg and return Danny to the fold, come hell or high water. Greg's hold on Danny's heart is pitted against Vivien's crusade for Danny's soul. All the while, Greg devotes himself to keeping Danny happy while negotiating the cultural differences of his life in America. Danny's new career as a lawyer takes them from his native Texas to New York. But with Vivien testing Greg's stiff upper lip at every turn, something has to give. The British Devil is a semiautobiographical novel exploring culture, religion, and love in a binational relationship.

352) Sage Marlowe - Knives and Feathers
Publisher: Total-E-Bound Publishing (July 30, 2012)
Amazon Kindle: Knives and Feathers

They say that love can heal all wounds - even the ones that are self-inflicted? When best-selling author Chester Banning requires inside information on the life of a forensic pathologist, he comes across an enticing yet rather unwilling study subject in the shape of sinfully attractive Dr Nicolas Sheridan. After a hot and slightly unsettling one night stand, Sheridan turns out to be as inapproachable as he is intriguing but clearly not interested in intensifying the liaison. Chester however finds himself falling head over heels in love and doesn’t rest until he succeeds in cracking Sheridan's icy shell. What he discovers underneath is a man who is well capable of love and affection but caught up in a web of lies spun by his abusive and possessive partner, Jake Simmons. Led to believe that he is responsible for the death of his past lover, Sheridan's sense of guilt makes him tolerate the mistreatment he receives from Jake and seek punishment in self-harm. Will the love and support Chester can give be enough to help Sheridan free himself from the demons that haunt him or is all Chester can do watch him go further down the road to self-destruction?

353) Caethes Faron - Measure Of Devotion
Paperback: 306 pages
Publisher: Branwen Press (August 1, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0615669107
ISBN-13: 978-0615669106
Amazon: Measure of Devotion
Amazon Kindle: Measure of Devotion

Jason Wadsworth is finally headed to university. Leaving behind his father's cattle ranch in favor of the posh, gaslit streets of Perdana, Jason is determined to climb the social ladder and forget his country roots. If only his father had gifted him with a more upscale slave. Kale's been a country slave his whole life. All he wants is to keep his head down and live as comfortable an existence as possible. Unfortunately, his dramatic master despises him and makes life difficult at every turn. Humbled by his first breakup, Jason grows to appreciate his ever-faithful slave and soon discovers that Kale is everything he's ever wanted. Now he needs to prove to Kale that his love is genuine. Kale, meanwhile, tries to convince himself that he simply feels the devotion of a slave to his master, but his actions prove what his mind is unwilling to accept: he's falling in love. When Jason's future happiness is in jeopardy, Kale sets himself on a course to make Jason's dreams come true, even if it means facing up to the fact that, for the first time in his life, he loves someone else more than he loves himself. Measure of Devotion is a bittersweet love story that contains explicit sex and adult language. The sequel, Measure of Strength, is now available on Amazon.

354) UKMAT - Lashings of Sauce
Paperback: 270 pages
Publisher: JMS Books LLC (August 2, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 161152380X
ISBN-13: 978-1611523805
Amazon: Lashings of Sauce
Amazon Kindle: Lashings of Sauce

We Brits love our sauce, whether it's what we lash on our food, read on our seaside postcards, or write in our stories. Come and enjoy a buffet of tasty LGBTQ treats! From marriages to reunions, via practical jokes and football matches, to weresloths and possibly the oddest Tarts and Vicars party in the world, join us as we celebrate the UK Meet in the best way we know: telling the story. As a follow-up to the critically acclaimed British Flash and Tea and Crumpet anthologies, our talented writers bring you sixteen stories about gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and genderqueer characters enjoying what Britain and mainland Europe have to offer, with their wonderfully diverse range of cultures and landscapes and some incredibly colourful and quirky people. Contributors include: Tam Ames, Becky Black, Anne Brooke, Charlie Cochrane, Rebecca Cohen, Lillian Francis, Elin Gregory, Clare London, Sandra Lindsey, JL Merrow, Emily Moreton, Josephine Myles, Zahra Owens, Jordan Castillo Price, Elyan Smith and Robbie Whyte. Edited by: UK MAT (UK Meet Acquisitions Team: Alex Beecroft, Charlie Cochrane, Clare London, JL Merrow and Josephine Myles). This anthology is a souvenir of the 2012 UK Meet, an occasion for GLBTQ supporters to get together in a relaxed setting to celebrate and chat about the fiction community they love. Funds from the sale of this anthology will go towards future UK Meets, to which all are welcome. Please visit the website at http://ukglbtfictionmeet.co.uk/ for details, or contact UK MAT through the publisher.

355) Kiki Archer - But She Is My Student
Paperback: 218 pages
Publisher: lulu.com (September 8, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1471718972
ISBN-13: 978-1471718977
Amazon: But She Is My Student
Amazon Kindle: But She Is My Student

Miss Katherine Spicer started her first day at Coldfield Comprehensive, confident, enthusiastic and very well qualified; that was until she met the eyes of the student sat hidden in the corner of her classroom. Kat's final weekend of freedom was about to turn her life upside down and threaten everything she had been working for; how was she to know those mesmerising green eyes would reappear here? Great lesbian chick lit. A cross between Notes on a Scandal by Zoe Heller and Sugar Rush by Julie Burchill. The novel deals with the many issues of sexuality in a gripping, yet funny manner, pulling the reader back into a world of teenage nostalgia and school day memories.

356) Catt Kingsgrave - One Saved to the Sea
Publisher: Circlet Press, Inc. (August 5, 2012)
Amazon Kindle: One Saved to the Sea

In the Orkney Islands, mothers tell their children of the selkies, seals who can shed their skins and dance on land. They also tell that whoever holds a selkie girl's skin can trap her for a wife. From the lighthouse where she was raised, Mairead has watched the selkie girls secretly since she was small. She longs to leave the home that has never really been hers and join them. She could never have guessed that a limping selkie girl has been watching her too, nor what wildness the shapeshifter would draw her into. Their paths collide when most of the men including Mairead's brothers have been called to war, the village idiot decides to catch himself a wife, and Mairead is the only one who can stop him. Drawing on myth and history, Catt Kingsgrave writes a tale of the clash of the modern age with magic, of loss and searching, a tale that will sweep you away to a past that never was, and into a sapphic love story just this side of impossible.

357) Susan Laine - Genie's Wish
Paperback: 200 pages
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press (August 6, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1613726732
ISBN-13: 978-1613726730
Amazon: Genie's Wish
Amazon Kindle: Genie's Wish

Sequel to The Wolfing Way. Lifting the Veil: Book Two. Ten years ago, the Great Unveiling revealed the presence of supernatural beings living on Earth. But the residents of the ruined city discovered in Majlis al-Jinn are long dead-or so junior archaeologist Pip Butler thought until he accidentally unleashed a very naked genie named Jinn. Even though he's been shyly pining for his charismatic supervisor, Val Velde, Pip has a hard time refusing Jinn's flirtatious advances. He barely has time to even consider the fact that he has an all-powerful genie and three glorious wishes at his fingertips when ruthless mercenaries sweep down on the dig to collect the most valuable artifact of all-Jinn's lamp. So Pip, Val, and Jinn have to work together in a race against the clock to discover the secrets of the ancient city, free their captive colleagues, and keep Jinn from the mercenaries' clutches-all while trying to sort out their romantic tangle.

358) Josephine Myles - Barging In
Paperback: 288 pages
Publisher: Samhain Publishing (August 7, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1609287142
ISBN-13: 978-1609287146
Amazon: Barging In
Amazon Kindle: Barging In

When the boat's a rockin', don't come knockin'! Out-and-proud travel writer Dan Taylor can’t steer a boat to save his life, but that doesn’t stop him from accepting an assignment to write up a narrowboat holiday. Instead of a change of pace from city life, though, the canal seems dull as ditchwater. Until he crashes into the boat of a half-naked, tattooed, pierced man whose rugged, penniless appearance is at odds with a posh accent. Still smarting from past betrayal, Robin Hamilton’s “closet” is his narrowboat, his refuge from outrageous, provocative men like Dan. Yet he can’t seem to stop himself from rescuing the hopelessly out-of-place city boy from one scrape after another. Until he finds himself giving in to reluctant attraction, even considering a brief, harmless fling. After all, in less than a week, Dan’s going back to his London diet of casual hook-ups and friends with benefits. Determined not to fall in love, both men dive into one week of indulgence…only to find themselves drawn deep into an undertow of escalating intimacy and emotional intensity. Troubled waters neither of them expected…or wanted.

359) Lauren Gallagher - Who's Your Daddy?
Paperback: 296 pages
Publisher: Samhain Publishing (July 2, 2013)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 161921282X
ISBN-13: 978-1619212824
Amazon: Who's Your Daddy?
Amazon Kindle: Who's Your Daddy?

Everyone’s bringing baggage to this baby shower… After her divorce, Carmen James is still trying to get back on her feet when fate pulls the rug out from under her. She’s pregnant—and she’s not sure who’s the father. Just one more thing for her impossible-to-please family to worry about. On the bright side, there are only two candidates: her best friend, Donovan, and Isaac. His boyfriend. A little too much wine and the desire to comfort led Donovan and Isaac to a night they both hope Carmen doesn’t regret. When she drops the B-bomb, though, Donovan’s plate, already crowded with a teenage son and a disapproving father, gets fuller. And Isaac, who’s already on the fence about his sexuality, wonders how he’ll handle fatherhood at forty. Above all, both men worry that whatever the answer to the ultimate question—which of them got her pregnant—it will forever alter their longstanding friendship. While they’re waiting, continuing their casual sexual relationship feels natural. But when emotions get involved, the cracks in their logic begin to drive them apart just when they need each other the most.

360) Julia Alaric - Dreamer
Paperback: 220 pages
Publisher: Less Than Three Press (August 1, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1620040395
ISBN-13: 978-1620040393
Amazon: Dreamer
Amazon Kindle: Dreamer

Jonah considers himself the most boring person in existence. Even his dreams are boring; the most exciting dream he's ever had involved folding laundry. But then, in the middle of a dream about eating cereal, everything changes. A faint memory of an unseen visitor, impressions that vanish upon waking, become dreams that leave Jonah exhausted, afraid, and determined to figure out who is turning his boring dreams into a terrifying game of cat and mouse ...
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361) Ranae Rose - Haunted Passions
Paperback: 226 pages
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (August 10, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1478341726
ISBN-13: 978-1478341727
Amazon: Sleepy Hollow: Haunted Passions and Whiskey Dreams
Amazon Kindle: Sleepy Hollow: Haunted Passions and Whiskey Dreams

A dangerous romance unfolds between two men and the woman who's captured both of their hearts, but their love is haunted by the ghosts of the Revolutionary War in 1784 Sleepy Hollow, New York. This print edition includes the novel Haunted Passions, as well as the novella-length prequel, Whiskey Dreams, both part of the Sleepy Hollow Series. Whiskey Dreams: The war that won the country its independence also lost many of the men who fought to achieve it, including Brom's lover. Years later, he still feels as if he left half of himself on the battlefield. When a new schoolmaster comes to Sleepy Hollow, a spark and a whiskey-flavored kiss ignite feelings he thought were long dead. But in order to be with John, he'll have to let the past be the past, or risk letting it destroy his opportunity to start over. And even then, loving another man is a dangerous endeavor. Haunted Passions: Losing one’s heart to another man is dangerous enough without the added threat of a supernatural terror. But that hasn’t stopped John Crane and Brom Bones from falling hard in love – with each other, and with the alluring Katrina Van Tassel. When Brom becomes engaged to Katrina, John is sure the wedding will tear him and Brom apart, and their love sparks a struggle between passion and loyalty. But Brom is determined to keep both of his lovers, and Katrina has some secret desires of her own – desires that haunt only the wildest of John’s dreams and blur the lines they’ve all been fighting not to cross. Is it possible for three people to be in love? Their passion won’t be enough to keep them together if something isn’t done about the evil that’s haunting Sleepy Hollow: a headless horseman who rides to kill.

362) Kaitlin Maitland - Encore
Publisher: Loose Id LLC (August 13, 2012)
Amazon Kindle: Encore (Boston Avant-Garde)

A full time cellist and part time stripper, Suri O’Callaghan views love a lot like she does unicorns. Her consuming family issues barely leave her time to sleep, much less chase rainbows. When a chance encounter gives her a night of no holds barred sex with her boss and his head of security, she figures it’s a one-time thing. She’s just glad her dry spell is officially over. She never expected to fall for two men who come complete with their own sets of baggage. Dante Torres and Jericho Davies have spent years watching each other’s backs. Their lives depend upon it. One night of shared sex with one of the strippers in their upscale club will change everything. They will reconsider everything, their sexuality, their trust issues, and even their own safety for a chance to make Suri a permanent part of their lives. Normal relationships are hard enough. If all three people involved have multiple identities, nutty families, and psycho stalkers, it’s enough to make a girl go crazy. When the end result is the chance to spend a lifetime loving the two hottest guys on the Boston club scene, the perks are to die for.

363) Abigail Roux - Stars and Stripes
Paperback: 292 pages
Publisher: Riptide Publishing (August 13, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 193755158X
ISBN-13: 978-1937551582
Amazon: Stars & Stripes: Cut & Run, #6
Amazon Kindle: Stars & Stripes: Cut & Run, #6

Special Agents Ty Grady and Zane Garrett have managed the impossible: a few months of peace and quiet. After nearly a year of personal and professional turmoil, they're living together conflict-free, work is going smoothly, and they're both happy, healthy, and home every night before dark. But anyone who knows them knows that can’t possibly last. When an emergency call from home upsets the balance of their carefully arranged world, Ty and Zane must juggle family drama with a perplexing crime to save a helpless victim before time runs out. From the mountains of West Virginia to a remote Texas horse ranch harboring more than just livestock and childhood memories, Ty and Zane must face their fears—and their families—to overcome an unlikely enemy and bring peace back into their newly shared world.

364) Gun Brooke - Speed Demons
Paperback: 264 pages
Publisher: Bold Strokes Books (August 14, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1602826781
ISBN-13: 978-1602826786
Amazon: Speed Demons
Amazon Kindle: Speed Demons

A year ago, NASCAR star Evangeline Marshall barely escaped death in a tragic crash. Evie is plagued by nightmares and fears racing again, but she doesn’t want to give up her dream. Blythe Pierce, renowned photographer, struggles with her own demons, having worked in one warzone after another. Blythe witnessed Evie Marshall’s crash through her camera and is impressed by Evie’s courage. She persuades Evie to allow her to document her recovery and return to racing. Blythe finds Evie irresistibly attractive and fears she can’t hide it. Evie in turn is mesmerized by the loving but enigmatic Blythe. But as Blythe’s past catches up with her and Evie’s fears grow as her first race nears, can they find the strength to triumph over their pasts and find love together?

365) Winter Pennington - Summoning Shadows
Paperback: 264 pages
Publisher: Bold Strokes Books (August 14, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 160282679X
ISBN-13: 978-1602826793
Amazon: Summoning Shadows: A Rosso Lussuria Vampire Novel
Amazon Kindle: Summoning Shadows: A Rosso Lussuria Vampire Novel

The second Rosso Lussuria Vampire Novel. Epiphany has risen within the ranks of clan status. Declared Elder and Inamorata before the Rosso Lussuria vampires, to raise a hand against her is to raise a hand against Queen Renata herself. She has taken Iliaria, the Great Siren Dracule, as her lover and ally, wearing Iliaria’s sigil as a sign of their unlikely alliance. While Epiphany bears her mark, Iliaria upholds her oath and hunts one of her own—the traitor Damokles who seeks to destroy the vampire-kind. Yet Damokles is not the only renegade Dracule who wants to see the fall of the Rosso Lussuria. The Draculian society is split in two—those who seek to protect Azrael’s Gift and those who seek to eliminate it. The Rosso Lussuria face enemies both old and new. Dismantling a reign of impending terror and uniting a clan is not so easily done when those close to you are all too adept at keeping their own council and agendas.

366) Yvonne Heidt - Sometime Yesterday
Paperback: 264 pages
Publisher: Bold Strokes Books (August 14, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1602826803
ISBN-13: 978-1602826809
Amazon: Sometime Yesterday
Amazon Kindle: Sometime Yesterday

Natalie Chambers is a successful artist who, after her divorce, impulsively buys a Victorian house overlooking the Pacific Ocean. Immediately, she begins to dream of Sarah and Beth, two lovers from the past and the Dark Man who controlled their lives. When she begins to look for explanations for the things going bump in the night, the only answer she can get from the locals is that several previous owners had fled screaming into the night. Van Easton hasn’t had a serious relationship since her partner died several years ago. Content to let other women and alcohol distract her, she is surprised at the intensity of emotion that bubbles to the surface after she meets Natalie. Contracted to restore the gardens at Natalie’s house, she refuses to believe that the mansion is haunted. Until the Dark Man follows her home. It appears he will stop at nothing to keep the new lovers apart, and the violence continues to escalate. Can they solve the mystery that will set Beth and Sarah free and banish the evil presence in the house? Or will they have to run to survive as well?

367) Bobbi Marolt - Coming Attractions
Paperback: 272 pages
Publisher: Bold Strokes Books (August 14, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 160282732X
ISBN-13: 978-1602827325
Amazon: Coming Attractions: Author's Edition
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It's been three years since Helen Townsend has made love to a woman, three years that she's buried herself in work as a successful columnist for one of New York's top newspapers. At last, she admits she's tired of loneliness, of being closeted, and her column reflects her restlessness. Enter Princess Charming in the shapely form of gifted concert pianist Cory Chamberlain, and Helen embraces love once again. But when notables from Hollywood to Broadway give Helen their approval to perform in a star-studded, all lesbian and gay show, will Helen and Cory find happiness when one yearns to break out of the closet and breathe free, while the other fears that will destroy her career?

368) Mel Bossa - Into the Flames
Paperback: 264 pages
Publisher: Bold Strokes Books (August 14, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1602826811
ISBN-13: 978-1602826816
Amazon: Into the Flames
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There are those we'd run back into the flames to save. Jamie spends his days counseling patients who suffer from anxiety disorders. To his patients, he is Dr. Jamie Scarborough—a brilliant psychiatrist. Yet secretly, Jamie is losing his own battle against an acute panic disorder. Ever since Basil—his lover of five years—left him, Jamie has been in misery. Still hopelessly in love, he's faced with a choice: heal or lose Basil for good. After a particularly revealing session with Dance Young—Jamie's most challenging patient—Dance disappears without a trace. For the last two years, Jamie has been trying to crack the compulsive liar's hard candy surface, but to no avail. When Dance's identical twin, a trans woman who calls herself September, comes out of seclusion to ask for his help, Jamie can finally shed light on the Young twins' tragic past. But as he and September begin to collect the pieces of their dismantled lives, a few streets away, captive of a mentally unstable firefighter, Dance is fighting for his own life. And to find Dance, Jamie will have to confront all of his monsters... Including those he unknowingly helped create.

369) Radclyffe & Katherine E. Lynch - OMG Queer
Reading level: Ages 13 and up
Paperback: 264 pages
Publisher: Bold Strokes Books (August 14, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 160282682X
ISBN-13: 978-1602826823
Amazon: OMGQueer

Hope. Fear. Desire. Despair. Promises. Betrayals. Lesbian. Gay. Bisexual. Transgender. Questioning. Intersex. This anthology of short stories gives voice to the rising generation as they define what it means to grow up queer in the twenty-first century. What is it like to grow up in a society that embraces you in certain ways but discriminates against you in others? How do you choose a label from the alphabet soup, and should you even have to? By turns heartwarming and heartbreaking, comical and caustic, these stories, imagined and told by youth across America, provide a snapshot of queerness at the dawn of the new millennium.

370) Dusk Peterson - Law of Vengeance
Publisher: Love in Dark Settings Press (August 14, 2012)
Amazon Kindle: Law of Vengeance (The Three Lands)

"For many years, I have wished to make a memoir of my life to pass on to future generations of Emorians who desire to learn what it means to have complete dedication to the Chara and his law. This is not to be the memoir I intended, but I find the time passing slowly here in the Chara's dungeon . . ." For over twenty years, Lord Carle has told the heir to the Emorian throne that vengeance is only the other side of mercy, and that disobedience and treachery should never be forgiven. Finally it seems that his message has been received. Which makes it all the more unfortunate that Carle should have chosen this moment to break the law. As war threatens and the foundations of his life crumble, his only hope for rescue lies with a man who has every reason to hate Carle. This 150,000-word novel can be read on its own or as part of The Three Lands, a fantasy series on friendship, romance, and betrayal in times of war and peace.

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