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Drake A.M. Salinger (Twilight Falls #5) Publication date: April 30th 2021 Genres: Adult, Contemporary, LGBTQ+, Romance Roman Campbell. Wild Child. Rebel. Rockstar. Broken. At the age of twenty-eight, Roman Campbell has the world at his feet. Young, successful, and brutally beautiful, his facade of an uber-cool rockstar hides deep scars that have tormented him for years. After finally putting the pieces of his broken life back together, Roman attends the wedding of his famous movie star friend Carter Wilson in Twilight Falls, where he meets Drake Jackson. Their attraction is instantaneous and Roman hooks up with the sexy builder for one intoxicating night. Drake Jackson. Wickedly Hot. Serial Heartbreaker. Reformed (mostly) Bad Boy. Having put behind his difficult childhood, Drake Jackson is content with his life. His one regret remains his lost chance at a relationship with his childhood friend Alex. After a torrid encounter with Roman at Carter’s wedding leaves Drake hungry ...

Death Watch Annie Anderson (Soul Reader #2) Publication date: April 27th 2021 Genres: Adult, Urban Fantasy A prison break, a secret admirer, and a boatload of lies. Just about everything Sloane Cabot knows about her past is a big old pile of malarkey. Couple that with the blank spot of how her family died, and she needs answers, like, yesterday. But when a man shows up dead on her family’s grave, she knows it somehow has to be tied to that fateful night a year ago. Too bad you can’t question the dead… or can you? Goodreads / Amazon / Bookbub — EXCERPT: A pair of guards opened the giant doors, bowing at Thomas as he guided me through. It was an actual struggle not to freeze at the entrance and stare. But man, did I want to. This place—while definitely what I would consider on-brand for a vamp nest—was one of the most magnificent buildings I’d ever been in. I wasn’t particularly interested in other churches, but this cathedral was just a beauty. A gallery of pews sat t...

Publication Date:  May 3, 2016 Format:  Audio Genre:   AA Fiction Narrators:  Shayna Small  Publisher:  Penguin Audio         Length:  11 hours 34 min Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, Southern Black community and running away at age 16, it's not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it's everything: their families, their communities, their racial identities. Many years later, one sister lives with her Black daughter in the same Southern town she once tried to escape. The other secretly passes for White, and her White husband knows nothing of her past. Still, even separated by so many miles and just as many lies, the fates of the twins remain intertwin...

Crossing the Touchline Jay Hogan (Auckland Med. #2) Publication date: December 30th 2020 Genres: Adult, Contemporary, LGBTQ+, Romance, Sports What if you’ve worked your whole life for a dream, to play rugby for the most successful sports team on the planet, the New Zealand All Blacks? What if that dream is so close you can smell it? What if you meet someone? What if you fall in love? What if your dream will cost the man who’s stolen your heart? And what if the dream changes? Reuben Taylor has a choice to make. Cameron Wano is that choice. Goodreads / $2.99 on Apple / All Retailers — Currently on sale for only $2.99 on Apple ! Author Bio: I​ am a New Zealand author writing in m/m romance, and romantic suspense. I have traveled extensively and lived in the US, Canada, France, Australia and South Korea. In a past life I have been an Intensive Care Nurse, Counselor, and a Nursing Lecturer. I'm a cat aficionado especially of Maine Coons, and an avid dog l...

  Publication Date:  June 8, 2021 Format:  Kindle Genre:  Biography Publisher:  St Martin Press Length:  320 pages Buy:  Audio  |  Kindle  Synopsis In June 1953, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, a couple with two young sons, were led separately from their prison cells on Death Row and electrocuted moments apart. Both had been convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage for the Soviet Union, despite the fact that the US government was aware that the evidence against Ethel was shaky at best and based on the perjury of her own brother.  This audiobook is the first to focus on one half of that couple for more than 30 years, and much new evidence has surfaced since then. Ethel was a bright girl who might have fulfilled her personal dream of becomi...

  Publication Date:  March 19, 2019 Format:  Audio Genre:   AA Lit/Womens Lit Narrators:  Shvorne Marks Publisher:  Simon & Schuster Audio         Length:  9 hours 45 min Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis Queenie Jenkins is a 25-year-old Jamaican British woman living in London, straddling two cultures and slotting neatly into neither. She works at a national newspaper, where she’s constantly forced to compare herself to her White middle-class peers. After a messy breakup from her White long-term boyfriend, Queenie seeks comfort in all the wrong places...including several hazardous men who do a good job of occupying brain space and a bad job of affirming self-worth.  As Queenie careens from o...

A Shadow in the Light Keary Taylor (Parallel Verse Guardians, #1) Publication date: April 20th 2021 Genres: Adult, Paranormal, Romance “You went and fell in love with an ultralight? That’s like a spider falling in love with a butterfly. They’re both arthropods, but the entire universe knows they don’t belong together.” I needed an out. I needed to be someone who wasn’t trapped in Las Vegas, marooned in the LightVerse where I didn’t belong. I went to that club looking for nothing and everything, and there he was. Jaxon’s hands on my hips were just what I needed, and for one night, it was easy to be someone I wasn’t. Then our signals went haywire. We’ve been looking for the gatekeeper for a long, long time so we can go home to the DarkVerse. We test every new ultralight in hopes they will be the key. It’s my job to bring them in. It feels like a cruel joke when it’s him. Turns out Jaxon Gray comes from one of the most dangerous crime families in Sin City. I’m not the ...

Publication Date:  October 8, 2019 Format:  Audio Genre:   AA &  LGBTQ + poetry Narrators:  JD Jackson Publisher:  HighBridge         Length:  1 hours 0 min Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis Jericho Brown's daring new book  The Tradition  details the normalization of evil and its history at the intersection of the past and the personal. Brown's poetic concerns are both broad and intimate, and at their very core a distillation of the incredibly human: What is safety? Who is this nation? Where does freedom truly lie?  Brown makes mythical pastorals to question the terrors to which we've become accustomed, and to celebrate how we survive. Poems of fatherhood, legacy, blackness, queerness, ...

My Forever Kira Adams (Infinite Love, #3) Publication date: April 16th 2021 Genres: Contemporary, New Adult, Romance Madalynne Life can be cruel and unexpected, ripping your heart out when you least expect it. You never think it can be you, and then it happens and you’re left to pick up the pieces of your broken life. I was grieving, understandably so, each stage pushing me further and further from him. There was never a doubt in my mind that Parker and I were soul mates. No one had ever made me feel the way he did, and I didn’t want them to. Through all the hard times, he was there. Parker was the only person I could lean on, the only person I could talk to about my feelings. He pulled me out of my depression. He helped me see the light again. Parker She was hurting, and I wanted to be there for her. When my brother Bo passed, I slipped into a deep depression, and even though I pushed Madalynne away at every turn, she never gave up on me. I owed her my life, and I wanted to...

  Publication Date:  October 8, 2019 Format:  Kindle Genre:   British Fiction/Police Procedural  Publisher: Hamilton Press                                       Length:  259 pages Buy:  Paperback  |  Kindle  Synopsis When a body is found on a lonely cliff top path, the angelic face of a murdered teenager lies facing the rising sun. Strangled by the hands of an unknown killer, it falls to DI Tom Janssen and his fledgling team to find out how she came to be there. Destined for a career in medicine, one to rival that of her parents, Holly Bettany’s future was as bright as it had been privileged. Seemingly, all that could threaten this promising teenager’s life was Holly herself. In an idyllic coastal setting,...

  Publication Date:  April 6, 2021 Format:  Hardcover Genre:   Addiction/Recovery/memoir Publisher: Gallery Books                               Length:  272 pages Buy:  Hardcover  |  Kindle  Synopsis When he was two years old, Hunter Biden was badly injured in a car accident that killed his mother and baby sister. In 2015, he suffered the devastating loss of his beloved big brother, Beau, who died of brain cancer at the age of forty-six. These hardships were compounded by the collapse of his marriage and a years-long battle with drug and alcohol addiction. In  Beautiful Things,  Hunter recounts his descent into substance abuse and his tortuous path to sobriety. The story ends with where Hunter is today—a sober married man with a new baby, finally able to appreciate the beautiful things in life. Review:  I didn't know that much about Hunter Biden bef...

Jagged Line Paradise Brynn Ford Publication date: April 15th 2021 Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Romance A single moment of human brutality marks the difference between heaven and hell. It’s a rapid free fall from paradise and the drop is catastrophic. Back then, we were just a couple of dirt poor teenagers who had nothing except for our friendship. I wanted it to be more and one night I made my move. Everything was perfect then, but perfection is fleeting. For one brief shining moment, everything was beautiful, but an inconceivable nightmare sent us straight to hell…to depths from which we could never return. I left our hometown—a place she once called paradise—to flee the aftermath of that brutal event that broke us so completely. I left her behind to pick up the broken pieces of her soul that had shattered irreparably. And now, I’m going back to face the wreckage that I thought I’d put behind me—my father’s gruesome legacy, the trauma of our past, and the girl who survived i...

Publication Date:  March 3 2021 Format:  Kindle Genre:   LGBTQ Romance, YA Publisher:  Independently   Published                                        Length:  271 pages Buy:    Kindle  Synopsis Kyle is a swaggering bully; Lenny strives to be invisible. Kyle has been left alone in the world; Lenny is the world’s biggest loner. When Kyle saves Lenny from drowning, their lives will never be the same. After a brutal encounter with school bullies, Lenny swims out into the ocean, determined to let the current whisk him away. Next thing he knows the meanest kid in town is pulling him from the waves, promising to ...

Pressure Chiquita Dennie (The Driven World, #2) Publication date: April 8th 2021 Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Romance Pressure is a hot, enemies-to-lovers romance, contemporary romance written in K. Bromberg’s Driven World Project. Malik Pierce lives with his family’s high expectations in his head. He does his best to make them proud. Slated as the next CEO for a billion-dollar racing company and on track to become its top strategist, he should be on top of the world, but life has handed him a cheating scandal that won’t be simple to solve. Sarai Lambert wants a man she can trust to do the right thing, but right now, Malik isn’t that man. Not yet, anyway. She can’t sit back and wait as life passes her by. She has to move on, but when she does, the happy life she thought she’d get in exchange for leaving her hometown is nothing but a dream… until or unless Malik can pull himself together and fix the problems in his life. Will they find a path forward together or are Malik’s...

Publication Date:  May 3, 2016 Format:  Audio Genre:   Literary Fiction Narrators:  Anne Flosnik Publisher:  Simon & Schuster Audio         Length:  10 hours 41 min Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis The lives of a sixteen-year-old Nigerian orphan and a well-off British woman collide. We don’t want to tell you too much about this book. It is a truly special story and we don’t want to spoil it. Nevertheless, you need to know something, so we will just say this: It is extremely funny, but the African beach scene is horrific. The story starts there, but the book doesn’t. And it’s what happens afterward that is most important. Once you have read it, you’ll want to tell everyone about it. When you do, please don’t...

Publication Date:  March 29 2021 Format:  Kindle Genre:   LGBTQ Romance, Ghost Fiction Publisher:  Independently   Published                              Length:  254 pages Buy:  Paperback  |  Kindle  Synopsis Levi Black has mostly recovered from the events of a year ago. The only lingering effects are that he’s much more well known in York than he’d like to be, and he’s a lot more cautious about walking around his house naked. However, those events brought him the capricious and fascinating Blue, so he’s not complaining. On the contrary, he’s happy, in love, and looking forward to Blue finally moving in with him. And if sometimes ...