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Book Blast: The Sins of the Righteous by Collin Smith

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BOOK BLAST

Book Title: The Sins of the Righteous

Author and Publisher: Colin Smith

Release Date: July 27, 2025

Genres: Contemporary LGBT fiction, Murder/mystery/suspense

Tropes: Forbidden love

Themes: Coming out, forgiveness, historical elements

Heat Rating: 1 out of 5 flames

Length: 17 675 words/71 pages

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Blurb

In this riveting mystery steeped in compassion and conviction, a former pastor—cast out by his church for being gay—finds himself drawn back into the community that rejected him when a beloved elderly congregant is found murdered. Bound by loyalty and grace, he refuses to turn away. As he hunts for the truth, his identity becomes both a source of scrutiny and strength. The Sins of the Righteous is more than a murder mystery—it’s a powerful reflection on redemption, injustice, and the courage it takes to embrace authenticity in the face of rejection. With surprising twists and an emotionally resonant journey, this story offers a gripping exploration of faith, identity, and the secrets that bind us. Ideal for readers who love character-driven suspense with spiritual depth and social nuance.

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99c / 99p Book Blast: Now Comes the Dark by Thom Collins

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99c/99p Book Blast

Book Title: Now Comes the Dark

Author: Thom Collins

Publisher: Pride Publishing / Entwined Publishing

Cover Artist: Claire Siemaszkiewicz

Release Date: February 11, 2025

Pairing: Contemporary Dark MM Romance

Tense/POV: Third person

Genres: Thriller/Mystery/Suspense

Tropes: Instant lust, serial killer, community

Themes: Erotic thriller

Heat Rating: 4 flames

Length: 63 000 words

It is the first book in a new series, but works as a complete standalone

It does not end on a cliffhanger.

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Two strangers fuelled by desire, and a killer consumed with lust.


Blurb

Roman Ballentyne is forced to make some changes. The city he loves is no longer safe. Tensions are high as a psychotic killer preys upon the LGBTQ community. Five men have been murdered in the last year. Every encounter is a risk. Anyone could be next. The Viaduct was once the shame of Blyham, an illicit club filled with private booths and dark rooms, sleazy in the extreme. Now it offers a secure space to hook up when it’s too dangerous to take a stranger home.

Mallon Garnier catches Roman’s eye. He’s moody and mature and the hottest man in the club, but as Mallon pairs up with someone else, Roman thinks he’s missed his chance. When Roman is the victim of a hate crime at the end of the night, Mallon is his saviour, taking on his attackers with savage efficiency. Their attraction is immediate and intense. Roman knows it’s wrong to go home with a stranger, but what harm can there be from the man who saved him?

The encounter is the start of an intense and passionate affair. But as the murders continue, Roman learns Mallon is keeping a deep secret, and the killer is closer than he thinks.

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New Release Blitz: Cosmo in Retrograde by A. Flowers

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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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Nothing has ever gone right for Cosmo Valencourt. After an automobile accident that left him permanently disabled, he lost most of his magical prowess and almost failed out of university. Left with only his talent for psychometry, which allows him to see the history of any object he touches, Cosmo has been working as an investigator at New Scotland Yard. A job that, in Cosmo’s opinion, is beneath him.

To make matters worse, Cosmo is tasked to investigate the threatening notes sent to his university rival, Blaise Howell. The notes, sent by a mysterious entity who calls himself the Third Eye, reveal a conspiracy to take down England’s Department for Marvels—starting with Blaise.

At first, every second with the disgustingly perfect Blaise Howell makes Cosmo’s skin crawl. But as the investigation continues, Cosmo finds himself falling for Blaise. Instead of the arrogant rich boy Cosmo remembers from university, he discovers the first person who truly understands him. There’s something sublime about Blaise that calms the chaos in Cosmo’s mind even as the investigation incites more chaos around him. From warding off magical attacks leveled against Blaise to interviewing prisoners at London’s most high-security prison, this investigation is Cosmo’s greatest challenge yet.

But Cosmo’s newfound love for Blaise is challenged when he discovers that Blaise is keeping a dark secret of his own. Between trying to save the Department for Marvels and attempting to keep Blaise’s heart beating, Cosmo is most definitely in over his head. In the end, he is left with a choice: save the Department for Marvels or keep Blaise Howell. There isn’t much chance of doing both.

But Cosmo plans to try. And if he fails, he will do so spectacularly.

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New Release: Millennium Bug by Yvonne Knop

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COMING SOON

Book Title: Millennium Bug

Author and Publisher: Yvonne Knop

Cover Artist: Ursula Roslon

Release Date: September 15, 2025

Tense/POV: third person, past tense, alternating POV

Genres: MM Romance, Fantasy/Sci-Fi

Tropes: Enemies to lovers, forced proximity, found family, chosen one

Themes: forgiveness, fate, grief, love, friendship, hope

Heat Rating: 2 flames

Length: 297 pages, Kindle Edition

It is a standalone book

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The book tells his life. The truth rewrites reality. His choice might end it all.

Blurb

David Smith’s life is thrown into chaos when a mysterious book crashes through his window, telling the story of a life he doesn’t remember. A stranger, claiming to be a hidden scribe who weaves reality, demands the book back, warning that keeping it will unravel the world, but returning it will erase David from existence.

As the ancient order of storytellers is threatened to be overthrown by AI, David must reclaim his past and rewrite destiny itself to prevent the erasure of all reality. But if he succeeds, the cost may be too great—unlocking the truth of his fate gives him the power to destroy everything, including the only man he’s ever loved.

If the world was never meant to be real, does it deserve to exist?

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Book Blast: Interview with the Tarot Reader by Kathy Kaye

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BOOK BLAST

Book Title: Interview with the Tarot Reader

Author: Kathy Kaye

Publisher: Vanguard Press, Cambridge, UK

Cover Artist: Image licensed from Adobe Publishers

Release Date: May 29, 2025

Genres: Contemporary F/F Romance, Slightly Speculative

Tropes: Intrigue, romance, spiritual insight, wisdom of the universe

Themes: Human connection and loss, coincidence and destiny, self-discovery

Heat Rating: 3 flames

Length: 40 000 words/201 pages

It is Book 1 of 3. Books 2 and 3 are being written. Book 2, The Tarot Connection, will be published in mid 2026.

This book ends on a cliffhanger.

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A captivating tale of love, fate, and the power of the unknown.

Blurb

In the heart of San Francisco, two strangers find themselves inexplicably connected in a moment that transcends time and space. As they navigate this unexplainable bond, they are drawn into a world of mystery and self-discovery that will change their lives forever.

Interview with the Tarot Reader weaves a captivating tale of love, fate, and the power of the unknown. Join Marie Cameron, a renowned tarot card reader, as she delves into the depths of the human soul and uncovers the secrets that lie within. With a blend of intrigue, romance, and spiritual insight, this novel will leave you questioning the boundaries of reality and the true nature of connection.

Interview with the Tarot Reader is a mesmerizing journey, where the answers you seek may be found in the most unexpected of places.

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New Release Blitz: Dream Swimmers by Jo Carthage

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Title: Dream Swimmers

Series: The War Between Cedar and Oak, Book Two

Author: Jo Carthage

Publisher: NineStar Press

Release Date: 07/29/2025

Heat Level: 2 – Fade to Black Sex

Pairing: Male/Male, Female/Female/Male (Female/Female interaction)

Length: 47400

Genre: Historical Fantasy, anti-colonialism, bisexual, conflict, dark lord, dark prince, East Africa, Fantasy, historical fiction/1800s, hurt/comfort, insurgents, lesbian/sapphic, lit/genre fiction, mages/magic users, pirates, porqué no los dos, romance, sexual assault, torture/whips, woman mage, Yemen

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Every night, Noor saves a drowning prince.

In her dreams, she finds him drifting deeper, ever farther from the midnight stars of a half-remembered Gaza. She hauls him to the surface, forces him to breathe, to talk, to tell her where he is.

He doesn’t know.

Noor awakens on the Cormorant, a once-and-future pirate ship searching for Rami, the former prince of Yemen whom she aims to rescue from his British captors before it’s too late. While Rami fights to survive the secret British prison, Noor will have to use her magic, cunning, and skill to find him. But she won’t be alone. Her found family is with her. Lovers, inventors, pirates, rebels, and deserters, they all must come together as they hunt the Arabian Sea for the lost prince.

Dream magic connects Noor and Rami, but in the end, what saves him won’t be magic or science or even love, but the stars themselves.

Dream Swimmers is book two in the War Between Cedar and Oak Quartet and reading the books in order is advised.

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Book Blast: Death & Maia by A.C. Jolly

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BOOK BLAST

Book Title: Death & Maia

Author and Publisher: A. C. Jolly

Cover Artist: Alyssa Winans

Release Date: April 24, 2025

Tense/POV: first person, present tense, single POV.

Genres: FF Dark Fantasy, Historical, Paranormal

Tropes: Fated mates

Heat Rating: 4 flames

Length: Approx 35 000 words/184 pages

It is a standalone book and does not end on a cliffhanger.

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Can love truly conquer death when mortality stands in the way?

Blurb

A lush, sapphic romantasy.

In the shadowed streets of plague-ridden Athens, Maia lies on the brink of death. When the grim reaper appears to claim her, Maia makes a bold request: a kiss.

Ancient and enigmatic, Lady Death has guided countless souls into the unknowable afterlife. But Maia is different. Her resilience and humour—and that kiss—awaken a desire that Death has never known. What begins as a moment of terrified curiosity deepens into a passion as tender as it is consuming.

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Book Blast: The Man in Black by L.R. Liverpool

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BOOK BLAST

Book Title: The Man in Black

Author: L.R. Liverpool

Publisher: Black Cab Productions / Texas Poetrope

Cover Artist: Gabriel Sanche

Release Date: November 22, 2022

Tense/POV: First person, past tense, single POV

Genres: MM Historical Romance/Thriller

Tropes: Enemies to lovers, forbidden love, dangerous environment, solving mysteries

Themes: Old West, outlaws, mysterious pursuer, hurt/comfort, murders, emotional traumas, scary dreams

Heat Rating: 4 flames

Length: 897 pages in Kindle format

It is a standalone story and does not end on a cliffhanger.

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Indigo | Angus& Robertson

Who will be safe when a dream figure becomes real?

Blurb

Naive dreamer Fenimore James goes west to become a famous outlaw, but his fantasies of glamorous robberies quickly evaporate when he joins the Red Evans gang, finding himself caught in a strange and bloody game, where gang members are suddenly being murdered one-by-one at the hand of a mysterious pursuer, who leaves cryptic signs scarifying their bodies. As his nights become plagued by a bizarre dream figure––the Man In Black, he also begins to question his sexuality, falling for a fellow male gang member, whom he feared just recently.

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New Release: The 39 Steps: A Contemporary Reimagining by L M Somerton

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NEW RELEASE

Book Title: The 39 Steps: A Contemporary Reimagining

Author: L M Somerton

Publisher: Totally Entwined

Cover Artist: Claire Siemaszkiewicz

Release Date: May 20, 2025

Tense/POV: third person, present tense

Genres: Contemporary MM Romance, Mystery/Suspense/Thriller

Tropes: Peril, self-sacrifice, accidental hero

Themes: Saving the world

Heat Rating: 4 flames

Length: 50 955 words

It is a standalone story and does not end on a cliffhanger.

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First for Romance | Pride Publishing

Uncover the conspiracy, outrun the enemy, and trust no one—survival is the ultimate test.

Blurb

Oberon Wycherley never thought his dull London life could take a deadly turn—until a frantic neighbour, American journalist Art Carew, claims to have uncovered an international conspiracy. A Greek industrialist is marked for assassination by a shadowy cabal called the Black Stone and that’s only the beginning.

When Carew is found dead in his flat, Oberon finds himself the prime suspect—and the only one who can stop the plot. Fleeing to the rugged Scottish Highlands, Oberon must decipher Carew’s cryptic notebook while dodging assassins and evading the police. Along the way, he forms an unlikely partnership with the enigmatic Syd Whatten, a man whose charm is matched only by his secrets.

As the Black Stone’s sinister plan accelerates, Oberon and Syd race against time to unmask the conspirators. From explosive escapes to a high-stakes standoff on a storm-battered coastline, every step brings them closer to the truth—and deeper into danger.

Will they foil the plot in time? Or will Oberon become another casualty of a deadly game?

A gripping blend of espionage, danger, and unexpected alliances, The 39 Steps will leave you breathless to the last page.

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Series Tour: Apocrypha of the Knight Shamans series by R. Roderick Rowe

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SERIES TOUR

Apocrypha of the Knight Shamans series by R. Roderick Rowe

“In Jamari’s time, the Knight Shamans were the glue that held the Elk Creek Tribe together.

In the beginning, the Knight Shaman was mystic, prophet, and wise man. Someone who could heal with a touch.

Before the beginning, there was a boy working to become a man and becoming legend in the process.”

The stories can stand alone, but will be better followed if read in order.

Overall Heat Rating for the series: 2 flames

BOOK DETAILS

BOOK 1

Book Title: The First Knight Shaman

Part One of the Apocrypha of the Knight Shamans Series

Publisher: RWCollins Publishing

Length: 103 pages

Release Date: November 2024

Tense/POV: third person, present tense /alternating POV

Genres: Fantasy, Paranormal, Dystopian, Post-apocalyptic

Tropes: Found Family, Post-Apocalypse survival

Themes: Coming out, forgiveness, fate, coming of age angst

It does not end on a cliffhanger.

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When his people are attacked by other villages, Rodney Knight uses his ability to interact with dead people’s spirits to help his community survive in a post-apocalyptic world.

Blurb

Rodney suffers through his earliest years in angst and rebellion when his father constantly rejects him. He enters young adulthood still bitter over how his father has treated him. Even so, his tribe needs the intervention of their only shaman in the Other Worlds for their very survival. As he acts out his anger, he accepts his duties and learns how to master them from a trusted mentor. Then he discovers that family isn’t limited to the blood ties, but can be so much more.

The San Francisco Book Review gave a nice summary:

“After the Great Quake of 2040, the forested lands and the lives of those in the Pacific Northwest are shaken. With both civil and social unrest still prevailing from the ideas of the 47th president, much of southwestern Oregon has been divided into tribal communities. Rodney Knight, the son of the founder of the Elk Creek Tribe, comes to age and into his own powers during this tumultuous time. At seven, he recognized his first spirits. First, a childhood friend was slain in an attack, and next, a beloved mentor lost during a battle. At seventeen, while on patrol with his unit, Rodney once again encounters a spirit that warns him of an ambush. Knowing that war is inevitable, the Elk Creek Tribe recognizes Rodney as their first Shaman. With advice from his Spirit Guide, Rodney helps lead his community through troubled times and towards the ideals that the founder had envisioned.”

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