Chicago Stars quarterback Dean Robillard is the luckiest man in the world: a bona-fide sports superstar and the pride of the NFL with a profitable side career as a buff billboard model for End Zone underwear. But life in the glory lane has started to pale, and Dean has set off on a cross-country trip to figure out what's gone wrong. When he hits a lonely stretch of Colorado highway, he spies something that will shake up his gilded life in ways he can't imagine. A young woman . . . dressed in a Continue Reading
Review: All of Us Murderers by K.J. Charles
All of Us Murderers by K.J. CharlesLGBTQ Historical Mystery RomanceOctober 7, 2025- Poisoned Pen Press Review by Angela I don't think I even read the entire blurb before requesting this book for review. All I saw was "The lush Gothic drama of Crimson Peak meets the murderous intrigue of Knives Out with an LGBTQIA+ love story to die for from award-winning author KJ Charles" and smashed that request button. This is indeed a twist on the Knives Out locked house mystery where pretty Continue Reading
New Releases- Week of October 27-31, 2025
Contemporary Romance/Romantic Suspense:Some Kind of Famous: A Novel by Ava WilderAMZ * BN * K * GP Cowboy, It's Cold Outside (Four Corners Ranch) by Maisey YatesAMZ * BN * K * GP Julia Song Is Undateable by Susan LeeAMZ * BN * K * GP Pickle Perfect by Ilana LongAMZ * BN * K * GP Yours for the Season: A Heartwarming Sapphic Holiday Romance (Puck Struck Book 2) by Kate CochraneAMZ * BN * K * GP When I Picture You: A Spicy Queer Romance of Rediscovered Creativity, Secret Identity, and Fame by Continue Reading
Monday Morning Book News!
I meant to include the Nalini Singh news last week--- the blurb from the final Guild Hunter novel. Coming out next year. (I am so excited, but so very sad to say goodbye to this series.) View this post on Instagram A post shared by Alexandra Kennington (@alexkenningtonwrites) View this post on Instagram A post shared by I.V. Ophelia (@ophallic) View this post on Instagram A post shared by Zoey Draven (@zoey.draven) Continue Reading
Sunday Smexy Deals!
A princess with a mostly useless magical talent takes on horrible monsters, a dozen identical masked heroes, and a talking lion in a quest to save a kingdom—and herself—in this feminist fairy tale satire.“The Princess Bride meets Shrek.”—Susie Dumond, author of Bed and Breakup“Exactly the sort of queer fairy tale for grown-ups that I have yearned to read.”—Ryka Aoki, author of Light from Uncommon StarsA MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK: Autostraddle, Fangirlish, Reactor, Book Riot, Reading Glasses Continue Reading
Weekly Wrap-Up
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Smexy Deals- Deals for books by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Kristen Vale, Justinian Huang, and more!
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Three women in three different eras encounter danger and witchcraft in this eerie multigenerational horror saga from the New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic.“In Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s sure hands, every uncovered secret is fraught with intrigue and creeping horror.”—Tananarive Due, Bram Stoker Award–winning author of The Reformatory“Back then, when I was a young woman, there were still witches”: That was how Nana Alba always began the stories she told her Continue Reading
Retro Review: Bountiful by Sarina Bowen
Originally posted 10/24/2017 by Tori. Bountiful by Sarina BowenSeries: True North, #4Contemporary RomanceOctober 20, 2017Self Published Favorite Quote: “New rule. Never use the term ‘baby daddy’ again.” A recent break up resigns Zara Rossi to the fact that she will always be the girl to date but not to marry. A steamy no-strings affair with a sexy out of towner is just the thing to cure her small town blues but a surprise pregnancy changes her tune. After searching for Continue Reading
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I will disguise myself as the vampire’s bride. I will win over his family. And then I will murder every last one of them.All my life I’ve been training to take revenge on the vampire who killed my parents. But Raziel Nostrom is a prince of the city’s most powerful mafia clan—completely untouchable.When I learn that Raziel is marrying a woman he’s never seen before, I know my chance has finally come…I will disguise myself as Raziel’s sacrificial bride. I will gain access to his vicious and Continue Reading
Review: Blind Date with a Werewolf by Patricia Briggs
Blind Date with a Werewolf by Patricia BriggsPart of Alpha and Omega & Mercy Thompson Urban FantasyOctober 21, 2025- AceARC Review by Angela Asil is a character who has appeared in the Mercy Thompson/Alpha and Omega world, but who readers didn't know much about. An ancient and solitary werewolf, known as The Moor, who has been waiting for the day his wolf finally breaks free and Bran, the Marrok, will finally have to put him down. He's reluctantly made friends within the pack, but Continue Reading