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Spell Cat

When Killian Barth, history professor, meets Blaine Genneau, quantum physicist, they ignite their own big bang. But sadly, Killian walks away. He doesn't do physics professors. In fact, he doesn't do humans, because Killian is the most powerful male witch in 10 generations and, though gay, he's expected to save his declining race by reproducing.

He can't even have sex with Blaine, because he's been taught that sex with humans depletes his power. But if that's true, why can young human, Jimmy Janx, dissolve spoons with a thought? Somebody's a lying witch.

With his powerful cat familiar, Aloysius, on his shoulder, Killian brings the lightning against deceit and greed to save Blaine from danger and prove love is the greatest power of them all.

Publisher's Note: This book contains explicit sexual situations, graphic language, and material that some readers may find objectionable: male/male sexual practices.

Reviewer: Terri
Review: Apr 6, 2012
Genre(s): Paranormal Romance, Erotic Romance, GLBTQ, M/M
Killain Barth and Lavender Karonoff are engaged to be married. It’s not like they decided this but there parents did. Killian’s mother is the most powerful female witch of her generation and Lavender’s father has immense power within the witch world and the human one. With the power that witches have diminishing with each generation, they, backed by the council, think this match will bring the most powerful

Mistletowed

Five friends, one piece of mistletoe. Christian Elliott has the perfect life -- right girlfriend, right job, right house and car. How come he's only really happy when he's with his best friend, Jason? Melanie Cantrell has everything she wants. Why can't she stop cheating on her boyfriend with her yoga teacher? Buttercup Allender adores her stable life with Winston. But she can't give up her secret desire for BDSM.

Stir them all together at a holiday party with a beautiful rock god and a submissive stockbroker and what do you get? It could be love or they could all be Mistletowed.

This book is predominantly a romance between two men and features primarily male/male sexual practices; however, it contains m/f and m/m/f scenes and therefore cannot be classified as strictly LGBT.

Publisher's Note: This book contains explicit sexual situations, graphic language, and material that some readers may find objectionable: anal play/intercourse, light BDSM elements (D/s, spanking), male/male sexual practices, menage (m/m/f).


Deceptive Attraction

Caleb Martin faces a life crisis -- and he's pretty embarrassed about it. A talented soccer star, he has the chance to sign a lucrative five-year contract and be rich and famous. Two problems -- Cal is gay and signing the contract means he has to stay in the closet, maybe for life. Plus, he'll have to spend his years diving for soccer balls when he'd like to be helping people, like the rest of his family.

A one-night stand with a beautiful man rocks Cal, but the guy vanishes only to reappear again later where Cal is house-sitting. Too much coincidence? Totally. And then a cute tomboy throws Cal's life choices into confusion. How could he wind up with a commitmentphobic guy and a woman, especially one dedicated to work in Africa? If that's not confusing enough, he gets a big surprise in a snowstorm. Cosmic joker strikes again.

Publisher's Note: This book contains explicit sexual situations, graphic language, and material that some readers may find objectionable: anal play/intercourse, male/male sexual practices, menage (m/m/f).

Series: Genetic Attraction; Previous Book: Genetic Attraction

Reviewer: Terri
Review: Dec 3, 2011
Genre(s): Erotic Romance, Contemporary, Menage / Multiple Partners
Caleb Martin is finishing the season as the goalie for the Rocket Dogs. He's an excellent goalie who is being offered a contract to continue playing with the Rocket Dogs for the next 5 years, But, he doesn't need to make that decision today and for know he's off the celebrate and then he's heading to his brother's house to housesit. Caleb decides to visit one of his old haunts, a gay bar near where he grew

Golden Dancer

Mac MacAllister is obsessed; the online news reporter needs enough evidence to write a story accusing billionaire art collector Daniel Terrebone of stealing The Golden Dancer, a priceless work of art, from son-of-a-Nazi Horst Von Berg. The story promises the recognition Mac craves, but then Mac meets a real golden dancer, ballet star Trelain Medveyev, and his attraction to the man rocks his formerly straight world.

When the mysterious Terrebone "collects" this beautiful dancer, too, Mac rushes to the rescue like a knight in shining cargo pants and plunges into a three-way passion that tears him between love and guilt. Can Mac keep investigating when his story could send one man to prison and another to the morgue? Will this reporter get his story or get his men?

Publisher's Note: This book contains explicit sexual situations, graphic language, and material that some readers may find objectionable: male/male sexual practices, menage (m/m/m).

Reviewer: Terri
Review: Nov 8, 2011
Genre(s): Erotic Romance, Contemporary, GLBTQ, Menage / Multiple Partners, M/M
MacKenzie MacAllister or Mac works as a reporter for an online news site. He can usually be found roaming war zones or investigating unsolved crimes. When his boss, Woo, interrupts his research into a stolen statue, the Golden Dancer, he's annoyed, especially when she asks him to cover the ballet. Mac's parents are professional ballet dancers which means he actually knows something about it making him the

Volley Balls

Two alpha males are better than one.

David Underwood needs to go to AA - Alpha-lovers Anonymous. His last attraction to an alpha male got him into an abusive relationship, and now ogling two hot members of the Australian volleyball team on Laguna Beach gets him harassed yet again. But he can't resist the allure of the delicious Gareth Marshall. even if the man isn't gay.

Australian Gareth Marshall needs to come out. A lifetime of hiding his orientation from his best friend and volleyball partner, Edge, as well as everyone else around him, has left him hurt and frustrated. When Gareth gets a load of David posing nude as the Michelangelo statue in the famous Laguna Pageant, he knows his days in the closet are numbered. And David is more than willing to help him take the first step out of the dark.

But Gareth's teammate, Edge, has secrets of his own, and David's ex-lover will never be happy without David under his thumb. With everything stacked against him, can a gay Laguna man find happiness with an alpha male - or two?


The Scientist and the Supermodel

Genre: Contemporary Menage; please see Publisher's Note
Length: Short Novel
Series: Prequel to: Genetic Attraction

Geneticist Jake Martin has brilliant scientific vision, but he’s blind to his own nature. Despite his flagging interest in women and his past experience with a man, he’s convinced himself he’d be happy if he could just have his older boss, Emmaline Silvay, as his lover. Living in his closeted dream world, he’s unprepared for the powerful attraction he experiences to supermodel Roan Black, “the most beautiful man in the world.”

Jake can’t resist the gorgeous, androgynous creature. Who could? he thinks. But Roan refuses to accept him until Jake admits that it’s a man he wants and this man in particular. Jake tells himself it’s just sex, but his refusal to understand what he really needs threatens the best chance at happiness he’s ever had. Is there a future for a PhD scientist who refuses to see and a high school dropout supermodel who understands all too clearly?

Publisher's Note: This book is predominantly a romance between two bisexual men and features primarily male/male sexual practices; however, it contains m/f and m/m/f scenes and is therefore classified as menage, not strictly LGBT. 

Reviewer: Terri
Review: Jul 21, 2011
Genre(s): Contemporary, GLBTQ, Menage / Multiple Partners, M/M
Jake Martin was in LA for a genetic medicine symposium with his boss, Dr Emmaline Silvay. He's thrilled that she's added him as a partner in her research and as a young, good looking man; many of the women at the symposium want him in their beds. Jake isn't interested, he's only interested in Em and that is an impossible dream. While sitting at the hotel bar, Jake notices the most gorgeous man he's ever se

Genetic Attraction

Length: Short Novel

At a conservative Long Island University, renowned researcher, Dr. Emmaline Silvay, has two great loves -- her life-saving work, and her younger research partner, Jake Martin. The romantic love is impossible. She’s his boss and he lives with his girlfriend. But his “girlfriend” is actually a boyfriend; the beautiful and infamous supermodel, Roan Black.

Resigned to a platonic relationship, Em accepts a weekend invitation to their home, but the men have a ménage on their minds. She can’t resist, doesn’t even want to. But their intentions go far beyond passion. They want her to “be a part of them.” Their three-way love defies propriety and the standards of the University that funds their work. The supermodel’s fame makes secrecy impossible. Their ménage threatens to crumble all she’s worked for. What will give way to make room for genetic attraction?

Publisher's Note: This book contains explicit sexual content, graphic language, and situations that some readers may find objectionable: Anal intercourse, male/male sexual practices, menage, (m/f/m, m/m/f). 

Reviewer: Terri
Review: Apr 17, 2011
Genre(s): Erotic Romance, Contemporary, Menage / Multiple Partners
Dr. Emmaline Silvay is a gifted researcher, showing promise to find the cure for cancer. Her lab is located at a very conservative college with a president that demands everyone toe the line or leave. Though Em grew up in a very different type of life style, she is willing to toe the line so she can continue her research. This includes not acting on her very unboss like feelings towards her much younger as

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