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Nov. 1st: All in December
Caleb
I’ve spent the years since my divorce raising my son, not figuring out who I am or what I want. Especially not romantically.
I’ve always known I’m attracted to men, but I never let myself explore it. Not until a handsome stranger asks to share a ski lift, and suddenly I can’t stop thinking about what I’ve been missing.
Nash makes me laugh, and more importantly, he makes me feel safe and seen.
And for the first time in a long time, I want to figure out who I am. With him.
Nash
Dating’s been a disaster since my divorce. Between raising two kids and dodging blind date setups, I’d pretty much sworn off the idea of falling for someone again.
But then I met Caleb.
There’s something captivating about him. He’s quiet, gentle, and wildly unaware of how easy he is to fall for.
Now all I want is to show him what it feels like to be cared for. To be chosen. And if he’s willing to take that leap, I’ll be right here ready to show him just how good we can be.
All in December is a cozy, low-angst sweet + spicy MM romance full of feel-good moments. It’s a 59k-word story about two single dads, an unexpected lift ride that changes everything, and the kind of love that sneaks up on you right in the middle of December.
Nov. 1st: Deepest Dive (City Boys)
Ciro Torres comes from a lineage of politicians, and he is bound to take the same path. But it’s not what he wants. Barred by the ideals of a perfect son, he is forced to play along to his family’s wants while he silently plans the future he intends to have — to pursue art and escape his family chains.
For him, the first step is to learn how to live on his own, and circumstances has put him under the same roof with Raziel Montalvo: another seemingly perfect son, successor, congenial, and bold with a lot of time in his hands to do everything he desires. Someone who has the freedom that Ciro craves.
Underneath the glitzy, corrupted world of the riches, two boys find themselves drawn to each other. But the closer they become, the riskier it is to go above the surface and face the spotlight.
How deep can you go for the ones you love?Deepest Dive is a sweet, friends-to-lovers, low-angst MM romance with a HEA. This story contains adult content and potential triggers.
Nov. 2nd: Books, Balls, and Cute Butts for Christmas
Frosty Bottoms, Vermont, is home of the largest Christmas festival on the east coast and the state’s hottest gay bar, Bottoms Up.
Two months ago, at the bar’s Halloween party, a wolf with abs like Adonis had a scorching hot hookup in the men’s room with a sexy, tattooed mouse. Now that Christmas is almost here, the burning embers of that night come roaring back to life.
International soccer superstar Jacob Rizzo is hiding out in Frosty Bottoms after being suspended for punching a referee. Laying low during his suspension, he starts up a contracting business, doing odd jobs for the locals, who’ve agreed to keep his whereabouts a secret.
Twilight-obsessed bookseller Edward Kane is moving to Frosty Bottoms to open Hot for Plot, a new romance bookstore. With the help of his bartender brother, he hires a contractor to bring his dream shop to life. Between the contractor’s sexy voice on their daily calls and his brother’s teasing about how hot he is, Edward can’t wait to meet him.
Despite wanting to make a good first impression, when the two finally meet, Edward ends up face first against Jacob’s bulge. Jacob instantly recognizes the top of that head: it’s the mouse from Halloween. But Edward has no idea they’ve met before.
Jacob is everything Edward is not—athletic, confident, and soccer-obsessed—while Edward is quiet, dresses in emo blacks, and hopelessly romantic. They couldn’t be more opposite. While Jacob is certain he can’t ever have a relationship, Edward carries around a personal Book Boyfriend List.
Playful teasing soon ignites into a secret holiday romance amid the town’s glittering Snowflake Festival. But if the media discovers Jacob’s hiding place it will mean the end of his privacy and the quiet life he’s built in Frosty Bottoms.
Books, Balls, and Cute Butts for Christmas is a high-heat MM romance filled with potent pineapple juice, a book boyfriend auction, and a foul-mouthed parrot.
Nov. 5th: Moonlit Nights & Northern Lights
Rory
Imagine my surprise when my missing ex-boyfriend’s phone pings back to life in the one place I swore I’d never set foot in again: home. Home to the pack I left years ago, where I’d learned I’d never be enough.
I’m probably mad for agreeing to go—after all, the pack gathering I’ve been invited to is definitely a trap—but even more crazily, I’m being sent with a man who hates my guts. The detective who threw me into a cell during a full moon, condemning me to an agony that I still have nightmares over.
It doesn’t help that he’s hotter than hell. Thankfully, he’s straight, otherwise the way he looks at me sometimes might put ideas in my head… If I were ever able to forgive him, of course.
Theodore
He’s loud. He’s infuriating. He thinks it’s okay to insult me to my face.
So why have I agreed to partner up with Rory Thorne to investigate missing shifters?
And even worse, why have I agreed to pretend to be his boyfriend?!
Being a telepath means I’ve always kept the world at arm’s length. I don’t have time for tiny wolves with chaotic energy and ridiculous hair and eyes that taunt me with their enigmatic colour—an ocean-forest riddle that distracts me more than I care to admit.
Can the two of us pull off our undercover mission? Possibly, if we don’t kill each other first…
Or, even worse, kiss.
Nov. 7th: A Grump In Moose Falls
Wanted: one fake boyfriend for the holiday season.
There are few things I need more in life than my work and my friends. Sure, I’m inexperienced in all things love, but who cares? My life is good.
When my coworkers try to set me up, I invent a fake boyfriend to get them off my back. But when the company holiday party comes around, I need a real boyfriend.
Who does a man turn to in his moment of need?
His best friend.
Hunter is the perfect person to help. One night. That’s it. We can pretend to date for a few hours. But when Hunter needs me to return the favor, it all starts to come too easily.
Kissing. Holding hands. Feelings. I want to experience everything with Hunter.
Can we keep this going after the holidays?
Maybe it’s time to make this whole fake relationship real…
Nov. 13th: Break the Rule
Charlie King:
As free-spirited as he is chaotic, Charlie’s rules to art and relationships are as follows: 1) get messy and 2) move on to the next piece. He lives for the thrill of the new, on canvas or in bed, and just because he’s over 30 doesn’t mean he needs to settle down. When a pretty boy wearing a scowl and a skirt, upends Charlie’s life, he brings one more rule: don’t fall in love. But when feelings splatter and paint spills, Charlie has to decide if his rules still apply.
Eden Montgomery:
Nothing in life is permanent. That Eden knows to be true. A safe haven baby abandoned into a broken foster care system that didn’t know how to handle a queer, gender non-conforming kid, Eden’s used to being discarded and used. At twenty years old, Eden’s clawed his way out of his traumatic past with paint chipped nails, a myriad of invisible scars, and mismatched tattoos. He doesn’t want or need anyone new in his life, but when a free spirited artist who isn’t put off by Eden’s prickly exterior finds his way past Eden’s defenses and into his heart there’s only one thing left for Eden to figure out, if he’s willing to risk everything for love or if he’s going to do what he’s always done-run.
Break the Rule is a character-driven, fast burn, standalone MM romance. It is the third book in the Kings of Heart series, each featuring one of the four King brothers on their sometimes messy, sometimes tender paths to happy ever after. Break the Rule features a chaotic playboy artist who falls into limerance and love with an equally queer, closed off black cat type. Get ready for an emotional rollercoaster, a runaway and someone willing to give chase, and eventually a guaranteed HEA.
Nov. 18th: 300 New Year’s Eves (This is the Day)
For fans of Timothy Javonsky and Ashley Herring Blake, a heartfelt and hilarious time-loop romance set in a snowy holiday retreat, where a charming playboy must fix his mistakes—or be stuck reliving New Year’s Eve forever.
Sergio Durand, renowned photographer and playboy extraordinaire, plans to welcome the New Year in style. Along with his brother Adrien, they’re off to the winter wonderland of Lake Placid, ready for a holiday filled with skiing, laughter, and good company. Their group includes best friend Holden, his wife Rose, and their charming son Henry—a perfect celebration… until it isn’t.
The festive spirit turns sour when Sergio crosses paths with Jeremy Owens, the one who got away. After a series of blunders leaves everyone around him fuming, Sergio finds himself caught in a bizarre twist of fate: a time loop forcing him to relive New Year’s Eve repeatedly. With each reset, Sergio scrambles to mend broken bonds with his brother, pacify a disgruntled Rose, and perhaps, rekindle a lost love with Jeremy.
Can Sergio navigate through his mistakes and salvage the relationships most important to him, or is he doomed to spend eternity making the same missteps on the last night of the year? Dive into 300 New Year’s Eves to find out if Sergio can discover the true meaning of the holiday spirit and secure a second chance at love.
Nov. 18th: Husband of the Year (Teachers in Love, 4)
Exploring themes of love, family, and parenthood, Husband of the Year is a trade paperback original publication featuring all the characters you’ve met and grown to love and is the highly anticipated final installment in the Teachers in Love series—from an author whose “stories are sweetness and spice wrapped into a big, warm hug” (Alice Oseman, bestselling author of Heartstopper).
Family isn’t only about blood. It’s about the people we choose.
Olan Stone wants nothing more than to spend the rest of his life with kindergarten teacher Marvin Block. And his daughter, Illona, can’t wait to call Marvin her stepfather. They’re bashert—meant to be. However, as the big day approaches, family tensions and unresolved issues put their future together in jeopardy.
Marvin thought he and Olan had everything all figured out. But he’s realizing that their whirlwind romance may not be the foundation for a lifetime commitment after all. As they struggle through the changes that life is throwing their way, will they be drawn closer together or farther apart?
Sapphic & Lesbian Romance
Nov. 1st: In Moments Like This
One amusement park. Two managers under pressure. Will they doom the resort to closure?
Chained to her father’s amusement park empire, Denise Farrington is ready for this project to be her last. Traveling to the Ozark Mountains, Denise has already shut the door on this part of her life. But when she meets Maddox, Denise quickly realizes it’s not for the first time. And the one dark secret she holds close to her heart could very easily unravel. She won’t let this alluring young resort manager crack open the door to the past she’s ready to leave behind.
Maddox Daniels is the fix-it person for everyone. They juggle caring for their aging grandmother along with numerous duties at the resort. When Denise barges into their life and stirs up old hurts from their youth, Maddox knows that she’ll tear apart the community they treasure.
Deep sorrow from their pasts collides with unexpected passion, and Denise and Maddox find themselves drawn together in a complex knot of desire and uncertainty.
Can they untangle themselves enough to see the moments they need to grasp?In Moments Like This is an age gap, workplace, one night to forever sapphic romance that’s bound to pull you in from start to finish.
Nov. 4th: Windburn (Crow’s Coven)
Never Forgive and Never Forget. Hunted as witches during the Salem Trials and haunted by their past sins, the Crowhart women carry a deep secret and an inescapable curse.
Rhiannon Crowhart, the renegade second sister of the notorious family, returns to Dragons Island and its sleepy town of Crow’s Nest in a flurry of storms and scandal. Her homecoming is not hospitable, as the townspeople and her own sisters are keen to hold onto old grudges. Not that Rhiannon requires their welcome. She left twenty-two years ago and has never looked back–until now. After all, she hated everything about the island, the town, and the old Atelier she recently inherited.Everything except a pair of gray eyes that look at her from the bookstore next door. Eyes that belong to the Mayor’s daughter. Eyes that Rhiannon keeps seeing in her dreams.
Prudence Fowler has never seen a more fascinating woman than the one who glides around town in four-inch heeled boots carrying the weight of the world on her shoulders. Rhiannon Crowhart is as beautiful as she is troubled. And, above all, Rhiannon Crowhart is dangerous.
When their connection upends both their lives, Prudence needs to choose between family loyalty and loving the woman who is Wind herself.
Nov. 6th: The Reluctant Romantic
She sells romance, but is she buying it?
Bestselling romance novelist Emery Parker (aka Emerald Pearl) has a secret: she’s hopelessly awkward around actual women. So when she accidentally demolishes a display in Eveline Auclair’s bookshop, it’s embarrassment at first sight. And then Eveline… offers her a job?
French bookshop owner Eveline despises romance novels and the “happily-ever-afters” they peddle. Little does she know, her new clumsy assistant is the acknowledged queen of the genre.
As Emery’s writer’s block dissolves and Eveline’s icy exterior thaws, their chemistry becomes impossible to ignore. But with every lingering glance and electric touch, Emery’s deception grows more impossible to confess.
When the truth inevitably spills, will their story end before it truly begins? Or can Emery convince Eveline that sometimes real love is better than fiction, even for the most reluctant romantic?
The Reluctant Romantic is an opposites-attract Sapphic romance featuring a very happy ending, from bestselling Sapphic writer Sienna Waters, author of The Wrong Date, The Almost Bride, and Teaching Hope.
Nov. 18th: Slow Cooked Feelings: A Slow Burn Sapphic Romance
Messy Love With A Side Of Drama
Noémie St. Pierre has spent years chasing one dream, opening her own restaurant. Her father, Hugo St. Pierre, the powerhouse behind the successful Poutine Heaven franchise, has offered to help. But his support comes with conditions, and Noémie must fit his definition of the perfect daughter.
When Noémie’s secret is exposed, that she’s been dating a woman, her father cuts her off, shattering everything she’s worked for. Lost and newly single, Noémie spirals until she finds an unexpected spark, Jordan Alexander, a hot barista she’s simmered a crush on for years.
Jordan is emotionally unavailable, impossible to read, and afraid to chase her own ambitions. Yet watching Jordan finally break free inspires Noémie to carve out her own path. But as their connection heats up, Noémie wonders-will Jordan ever let her in, or is she destined to love from a distance?
Nov. 25th: Tethered
One boy, his mother, and a captain with secrets from her crew. Amongst the stars, all things lost are found.
Marlowe Rose has been fighting her ex, Dominik, for a decade. When he kidnaps their son, she sneaks onto his starship, planning to give him hell. Instead, she ends up caught, sequestered and questioned by the captain. But Tanisira Sekmith isn’t what Marlowe thought she was, and when it becomes clear that they’re all just puppets in Dominik’s eyes, Marlowe convinces the stoic captain to help rescue her son.
Tanisira promised herself she’d make no waves, catch no one’s attention, and cruise under the radar. Misplacing her trust once changed the trajectory of her whole life. After the fallout from her last job, flying a pleasure yacht is supposed to be boring and easy-exactly what she wants. But finding Marlowe on the ship changes everything. Marlowe sees her, shadows and all, and it forces Tanisira to face things she tried to leave behind.
Marlowe doesn’t expect to find, on this journey that she dreaded, something she’d given up. And Tanisira doesn’t know if she deserves happiness, but she doesn’t want to lose this: a kid with big, green eyes and his fierce, captivating mother.
Queer
Nov. 11th: Next Time Will Be Our Turn
A grandmother tells her granddaughter about her twisty, often surprising, journey to who she is now in this sweeping love story by USA Today bestselling author Jesse Q. Sutanto.
Izzy Chen is dreading her family’s annual Chinese New Year celebration, where they all come together at a Michelin-starred restaurant to flaunt their status and successes in hopes to one up each other. So when her seventy-three-year-old glamorous and formidable grandmother walks in with a stunning woman on her arm and kisses her in front of everyone, it shakes Izzy to her core. She’d always considered herself the black sheep of the family for harboring similar feelings to the ones her Nainai just displayed.
Seeing herself in her teenage granddaughter’s struggles with identity and acceptance, Magnolia Chen tells Izzy her own story, of how as a teen she was sent by her Indo-Chinese parents from Jakarta to Los Angeles for her education and fell in love with someone completely forbidden to her by both culture and gender norms—Ellery, an American college student who became Magnolia’s best friend and the love of her life. Stretching across decades and continents, Magnolia’s star-crossed love story reveals how life can take unexpected turns but ultimately lead you to exactly who you’re meant to be.
Nov. 11th: The Dramatic Life of Jonah Penrose: A Novel
Red, White & Royal Blue meets the theater world of London’s dazzling West End in this nuanced, queer debut romance in which a fake dating publicity stunt between rival co-stars results in romantic sparks neither of them expected.
After winning his first Olivier Award for his performance in the West End’s top musical, The Wooden Horse, fabulously talented Jonah Penrose is the new shining star of London’s theatre scene. But Jonah’s success can’t erase the pain of a recent breakup, fix his self-doubt, or remedy his father’s ailing mind.
Enter stage right, Dexter Ellis: the West End’s golden boy, the newest cast member of The Wooden Horse, and someone Jonah finds to be intolerable and arrogant.
Everything about Dexter is infuriatingly perfect, from his dashing looks and casual but cutting notes on Jonah’s performances to his obnoxious sweaters that cost more than Jonah’s rent. Worse yet, while Dexter was supposed to play Jonah’s enemy in the show, his role switches to his love interest after a bout of illness temporarily sidelines half of the cast.
Jonah’s plan to stay as far away from Dexter as possible is thwarted when fans mistake their on-stage tension for romantic chemistry and tickets start selling like hotcakes. With fans desperate to catch a glimpse of the West End’s ‘hottest couple,’ the show’s producer pushes the co-stars to put on a show of their own and convince the world that they are in love.
While pretending to be head over heels for his co-star is the last thing Jonah wants, he reluctantly agrees. Yet as he gets to know Dexter better, he learns there’s more to him than meets the eye. As the lines between fiction and reality begin to blur and Jonah’s feelings become less of an act, he must decide if he’s willing to entrust his heart to someone again.
At turns both passionate and poignant, heartfelt and intimate, The Dramatic Life of Jonah Penrose is a love letter to the theater, to life in your thirties, and to what happens when you throw out the script and improvise the life you want.
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