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November 11, 2025
New Release Blitz: To Beguile A Banished Lord by Fearne Hill
Title: To Beguile a Banished Lord
Series: Regency Rossingley, Book Three
Author: Fearne Hill
Cover Artist: Mandy Porto
Publisher: NineStar Press
Release Date: 11/11/2025
Heat Level: 3 - Some Sex
Pairing: Male/Male
Length: 294
Genre: Historical, historical romance/British Regency, gay, bisexual, age-gap, humorous, sunny/grumpy, hurt-comfort, humorous
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DescriptionRollo Duchamps-Avery, the high-spirited second son of the eleventh Earl of Rossingley, is not in his father’s best b...
November 4, 2025
New Release Blitz: Swallows of Mostar by Neira Fazlovic
Title: Swallows of Mostar
Author: Neira Fazlovic
Publisher: NineStar Press
Release Date: 11/04/2025
Heat Level: 2 - Fade to Black Sex
Pairing: Female/Female
Length: 216
Genre: Contemporary, YA/NA, sports, LGBT, sapphic, Sports romance, cliff diving, summer read, college, contemporary, Bosnia, Herzegovina
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Description
Two years after she moved to Mostar, a historic small town in Bosnia and Herzegovina, eighteen-year-old Franka Garcia still struggles with loneliness, language bar...
October 30, 2025
New Release Blitz: Two for Holding by S. B. Barnes
Title: Two for Holding
Series: Minor Penalties, Book One
Author: S.B. Barnes
Cover Artist: Tuisku Hiltunen
Publisher: NineStar Press
Release Date: 10/28/2025
Heat Level: 3 - Some Sex
Pairing: Male/Male
Length: 280
Genre: Contemporary, gay, athletes, coming out, enemies/rivals to lovers, in the closet, slow burn/UST, San Francisco, sports/ice hockey, self-esteem issues, “practice with me” trope, anxiety attacks
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DescriptionTom Crowler has been captain of the San Francisco Sea...
October 21, 2025
New Release Blitz: The Devil's Garden by Jack Bumgardner (Excerpt + Giveaway)
Title: The Devil's Garden
Author: Jack Bumgardner
Publisher: NineStar Press
Cover Artist: Mandy Porto
Release Date: 10/21/2025
Heat Level: 2 - Fade to Black Sex
Pairing: NB/NB
Length: 366
Genre: Contemporary, Crime, enemies to lovers, hurt/comfort, poetry, small town, law enforcement, mental illness, prison, fugitives, road trip
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DescriptionOtho Linker is a gay man living in a small Southern town. Long abandoned by his family, he refused to leave the area and subsequently beca...
October 12, 2025
New Release Blog Tour- Gear Child by Mark David Campbell
Mark David Campbell has a new queer YA sci-fantasy book out (gay, lesbian, homonormative) Gear Box book 1: Gear Child.
From our beloved teddy bear to our cherished first car, we form deep emotional bonds with inanimate objects. Will AI machines inevitably develop the capacity to love us in return?
In a post-apocalyptic world that survives on garbage left over from the Gawd Wars eight generations ago, Sunny Boy, a semi-organic machine initially made to emulate a thirteen-year-old, and later modifi...
October 7, 2025
New Release Blitz: Husky and Heartfelt by Jole Cannon (Excerpt + Giveaway)
Title: Husky and Heartfelt
Series: Big Boys of Gilroy, Book Two
Author: Jole Cannon
Publisher: NineStar Press
Release Date: 10/07/2025
Heat Level: 3 - Some Sex
Pairing: Male/Male
Length: 75100
Genre: Contemporary, Romance, family-drama, gay, bear, teacher, second chance, coming out
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DescriptionLoneliness has taken its toll on Sean’s life. He once loved Hugo but let him go after college. After twelve years, he misses what they had, but dating a man could end his career as a hi...
September 17, 2025
New Release Blitz: The Spellbinding Magic of You and Me by Timoteo Tang (Excerpt + Giveaway)
Title: The Spellbinding Magic of You and Me
Series: The Magicals' Alliance, Book Three
Author: Timoteo Tong
Publisher: NineStar Press
Release Date: 09/16/2025
Heat Level: 2 - Fade to Black Sex
Pairing: Male/Male
Length: 120800
Genre: Paranormal, Young adult, magic/magic users, high school, first love, supernatural war
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DescriptionIn a world where ancient magic is real and monsters roam, Santangelo Lo Geffo’s life is about to change forever.
After the mysterious death of his mot...
September 15, 2025
New Release Blitz: Consortium Of Dragons by Emily Carrington (Excerpt + Giveaway)
Title: Consortium of Dragons
Author: Emily Carrington
Publisher: Changeling Press
Cover Art: Angela Knight
Genres: Action Adventure, Dark Fantasy, Mystery & Suspense, New Releases, Paranormal, Romance
Themes: Elves, Dragons & Magical Creatures, LGBTQ+ /Bisexual, Nonbinary, Transgender, Multicultural & Interracial, Multiple Partners /Polyamory, Shapeshifters, Werewolves & Wolf Shifters
Series: Dragon Lost (#3)
Multiverse: SearchLight Academy (#13)
Book Length: Novella
Page Count: 113
T...
September 10, 2025
New Release Blitz: Cosmo in Retrograde by A. Flowers (Excerpt + Giveaway)
Title: Cosmo in Retrograde
Author: A. Flowers
Publisher: NineStar Press
Release Date: 09/09/2025
Heat Level: 2 - Fade to Black Sex
Pairing: Male/Male
Length: 98200
Genre: Fantasy, bisexual, gay, PNR-magic/magic users, investigators, mystery-police investigation, enemies/rivals to lovers, in the closet, disabilities, mental illness, politics, psychic ability, psychic medium, speech impediment/stutterer
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Description
Nothing has ever gone right for Cosmo Valencourt. After an auto...
September 5, 2025
Series Sale: Bay Area Professionals
If you like work place romances with a touch of spice, this series is for you. Sale applies to both Amazon US and UK. Check it out HERE.
