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  • You & Me by Tal Bauer

    You & Me by Tal Bauer

    Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 105 ratings
    A single dads, friends-to-lovers, bi awakening MM Romance.We're a puzzle made of two pieces.Landon Larsen is the envy of all the dads in Last Waters, Texas. He's cool, confident, and put together. He and his son—the high school's all-star quarterback—have the perfect father-son relationship. He’s such a Super Dad, it's almost sickening...
  • Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston

    Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 301 ratings
    A big-hearted romantic comedy in which the First Son falls in love with the Prince of Wales after an incident of international proportions forces them to pretend to be best friends... First Son Alex Claremont-Diaz is the closest thing to a prince this side of the Atlantic...
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  • Beautifully Unexpected by Lily Morton

    Beautifully Unexpected by Lily Morton

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 33 ratings
    Sometimes love comes when you least expect or want it.Magnus Carlsen is determined to grow old disgracefully. At fifty-two, he doesn’t believe in keeping anything. Men, sofas, books—everything gets jettisoned, eventually. He’s divided his life into happy compartments. A successful trial lawyer, he spends his days lecturing jurors, exasperating judges, and striding arrogantly around courtrooms...
  • The Rest of the Story by Tal Bauer

    The Rest of the Story by Tal Bauer

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 47 ratings
    Let me earn it.I keep things simple. I’m a classic one-night wonder. Relationships? Are you out of your mind? No. No way. Not interested. My heart is vulcanized rubber, puck hard, and that’s the way I like it.Then I'm traded to the absolute worst team in the NHL, the Rocky Mountain Outlaws, and I’m hit with a one-two punch...
  • Time to Shine by Rachel Reid

    Time to Shine by Rachel Reid

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 43 ratings
    A merry and bright hockey romance about finding your place, finding your people and finding your way back to the one you love the most.  For Landon Stackhouse, being called up from the Calgary farm team is exciting and terrifying, even if, as the backup goalie, he rarely leaves the bench. A quiet loner by nature, Landon knows he gives off strong “don’t talk to me” vibes...
  • The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen by K.J. Charles

    The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen by K.J. Charles

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 32 ratings
    Abandoned by his father, Gareth Inglis grew up lonely, prickly, and well-used to disappointment. Still, he longs for a connection. When he meets a charming stranger, he falls head over heels—until everything goes wrong and he's left alone again. Then Gareth's father dies, turning the shabby London clerk into Sir Gareth, with a grand house on the remote Romney Marsh and a family he doesn't know...
  • Entangled by Rebecca Quinn

    Entangled by Rebecca Quinn

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 43 ratings
    These men killed mine, and for that, they have to dieBristlebrook is up in smoke, my brutes are dead, and Sam’s camp is a powder keg begging for a flame.Injured and furious over their losses, the surviving hunters are preoccupied with their own problems. Their factions and allegiances. Their internal wars and pissing contests. The new world they want to forge...
  • The Hitman's Guide to Tying the Knot Without Getting Shot: by Alice Winters

    The Hitman's Guide to Tying the Knot Without Getting Shot: by Alice Winters

    Rated: 4.59 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Leland Is a nice little wedding with Blow-up Randy and Jackson My Love too much to ask for? Clearly, because someone’s trying to kill one of us… again...
  • The Scent of Us: Part One by Eliana Lee

    The Scent of Us: Part One by Eliana Lee

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 19 ratings
    The National Omega Commission has announced they are expanding their experimental clinical trials. This marks the first time omegas have the ability to dissolve bonds without their alpha’s consent. For Juno Liu, who has been forcibly bonded since she awakened, this changes everything. But it turns out breaking her unwanted alpha bonds is the easy part...
  • Until You by Briar Prescott

    Until You by Briar Prescott

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 35 ratings
    I’m the first one to tell you I have issues.Trust issues.Family issues.Probably a few others I haven’t discovered yet.Which is why I prefer to keep my life as simple and uncomplicated as possible.Until him.Blake McAdams barrels into my life and refuses to leave...
  • Heated Rivalry by Rachel Reid

    Heated Rivalry by Rachel Reid

    Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 200 ratings
    Nothing interferes with Shane Hollander’s game—definitely not the sexy rival he loves to hate. Pro hockey star Shane Hollander isn’t just crazy talented, he’s got a spotless reputation. Hockey is his life. Now that he’s captain of the Montreal Voyageurs, he won’t let anything jeopardize that, especially the sexy Russian whose hard body keeps him awake at night...
  • The Long Game by Rachel Reid

    The Long Game by Rachel Reid

    Rated: 4.59 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 96 ratings
    The sequel is finally here! Shane and Ilya’s story, first seen in Heated Rivalry, continues in this long-awaited hockey romance from Rachel Reid...
  • Wolf in Sheep's Clothing by Charlie Adhara

    Wolf in Sheep's Clothing by Charlie Adhara

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 49 ratings
    Agent Cooper Dayton and his partner, Oliver Park, are going undercover—at a retreat for couples who need counselling. They do say the best cover story is one that’s close to the truth…Agent Cooper Dayton is almost relieved to get a phone call from his former boss at the Bureau of Special Investigations...
  • Ravensong by T.J. Klune

    Ravensong by T.J. Klune

    Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 68 ratings
    Gordo Livingstone never forgot the lessons carved into his skin. Hardened by the betrayal of a pack who left him behind, he sought solace in the garage in his tiny mountain town, vowing never again to involve himself in the affairs of wolves. It should have been enough. And it was, until the wolves came back, and with them, Mark Bennett...
  • Wolfsong by T.J. Klune

    Wolfsong by T.J. Klune

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 135 ratings
    Ox was twelve when his daddy taught him a very valuable lesson. He said that Ox wasn’t worth anything and people would never understand him. Then he left. Ox was sixteen when he met the boy on the road. The little boy who talked and talked and talked...
  • Him by Sarina Bowen, Elle Kennedy

    Him by Sarina Bowen, Elle Kennedy

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 214 ratings
    They don’t play for the same team. Or do they? Jamie Canning has never been able to figure out how he lost his closest friend. Four years ago, his tattooed, wise-cracking, rule-breaking roommate cut him off without an explanation. So what if things got a little weird on the last night of hockey camp the summer they were eighteen? It was just a little drunken foolishness. Nobody died...
  • Brothersong by T.J. Klune

    Brothersong by T.J. Klune

    Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 56 ratings
    In the ruins of Caswell, Maine, Carter Bennett learned the truth of what had been right in front of him the entire time. And then it—he—was gone. Desperate for answers, Carter takes to the road, leaving family and the safety of his pack behind, all in the name of a man he only knows as a feral wolf...
  • The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune

    The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 149 ratings
    A magical island. A dangerous task. A burning secret.Linus Baker leads a quiet, solitary life. At forty, he lives in a tiny house with a devious cat and his old records. As a Case Worker at the Department in Charge Of Magical Youth, he spends his days overseeing the well-being of children in government-sanctioned orphanages...
  • A Monstrous Christmas in the Camp by Lily Mayne

    A Monstrous Christmas in the Camp by Lily Mayne

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 34 ratings
    This short sees the Nebraska camp celebrating a (late) Christmas, with lots of food and gift-giving and *ahem* other stuff.Christmas novella featuring the POV of every Monstrous lad so far...
  • Paladin's Hope by T. Kingfisher

    Paladin's Hope by T. Kingfisher

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 56 ratings
    Piper is a lich-doctor, a physician who works among the dead, determining causes of death for the city guard's investigations. It's a peaceful, if solitary profession…until the day when he's called to the river to examine the latest in a series of mysterious bodies, mangled by some unknown force.Galen is a paladin of a dead god, lost to holiness and no longer entirely sane...
  • Take by Ella Frank

    Take by Ella Frank

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 58 ratings
    TAKE – verb: to reach for and hold in one’s hands or get into one’s possession, power or control. Logan Mitchell is a man who’s always been more than happy to take what he wants. It’s a philosophy that’s proven lucrative in both his business and personal life, and never was it more apparent than the night he laid eyes on Tate Morrison...
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    queer  contemporary  alpha male  m-m  bisexual  anal sex  tycoon  angst
  • The Hourglass Throne by K.D. Edwards

    The Hourglass Throne by K.D. Edwards

    Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 22 ratings
    As Rune Saint John grapples with the challenges of assuming the Sun Throne, a powerful barrier appears around New Atlantis’s famed rejuvenation center. But who could have created such formidable magic . . . what do they want from the immortality clinic . .
  • Us by Sarina Bowen, Elle Kennedy

    Us by Sarina Bowen, Elle Kennedy

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 125 ratings
    Can your favorite hockey players finish their first season together undefeated? Five months in, NHL forward Ryan Wesley is having a record-breaking rookie season. He’s living his dream of playing pro hockey and coming home every night to the man he loves—Jamie Canning, his longtime best friend turned boyfriend...
  • The Hanged Man by K.D. Edwards

    The Hanged Man by K.D. Edwards

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 26 ratings
    The last member of a murdered House tries to protect his ward from forced marriage to a monster while uncovering clues to his own tortured past. The Tarot Sequence imagines a modern-day Atlantis off the coast of Massachusetts, governed by powerful Courts based on the traditional Tarot deck...
    Categorized as:
    queer  fantasy  urban fantasy  magic  m-m  paranormal  mystery  dark
  • Crash & Burn by Abigail Roux

    Crash & Burn by Abigail Roux

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 36 ratings
    It’s been five years since Special Agents Ty Grady and Zane Garrett first worked together to solve the Tri-State murders, and time has been both harsh and kind. Engaged now, they face the challenge of planning a deeply uncertain future together. Zane is at the pinnacle of his career with one last mystery to solve, while Ty is at sea in a world where he’s no longer the tip of a spear...
  • Blood & Thunder by Charlie Cochet

    Blood & Thunder by Charlie Cochet

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 42 ratings
    When a series of bombs go off in a Therian youth center, injuring members of THIRDS Team Destructive Delta and causing a rift between agents Dexter J. Daley and Sloane Brodie, peace seems unattainable. Especially when a new and frightening group, the Order of Adrasteia, appears to always be a step ahead...
  • Seraph by Lily Mayne

    Seraph by Lily Mayne

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 91 ratings
    I’ve already mentally prepared myself to kill the screaming, murderous monster in the cage outside our camp.I’m used to it. It’s what I do here. Kill monsters and other people. And this monster, Seraph, is particularly unstable—has been since the moment he arrived from Collector Mary’s monster menagerie to the west, where the military stashed him away.He’s in pain. I can see it...
  • Heaven Official's Blessing: Tian Guan Ci Fu Vol. 5 by Mò Xiāng Tóng Xiù

    Heaven Official's Blessing: Tian Guan Ci Fu Vol. 5 by Mò Xiāng Tóng Xiù

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 24 ratings
    LAST GHOST STANDING, FIRST LOVE BLOSSOMSGhosts are converging on the cursed Mount Tonglu for a massive battle royale, the sole survivor of which may become a Ghost King, a being of unimaginable power. Xie Lian is sent to secretly infiltrate and try to prevent this–by destroying any ghosts strong enough to stand a chance...
    Categorized as:
    queer  fantasy  historical  m-m  magic  mystery  young adult  humor
  • Flight of Magpies by K.J. Charles

    Flight of Magpies by K.J. Charles

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 66 ratings
    Danger in the air. Lovers on the brink. With the justiciary understaffed, a series of horrifying occult murders to be investigated, and a young student who is flying—literally—off the rails, magical law enforcer Stephen Day is under increasing stress. And his relationship with his aristocratic lover, Lord Crane, is beginning to feel the strain...
  • Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation: Mo Dao Zu Shi Vol. 1 by 墨香铜臭, Mò Xiāng Tóng Xiù

    Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation: Mo Dao Zu Shi Vol. 1 by 墨香铜臭, Mò Xiāng Tóng Xiù

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 27 ratings
    Wei Wuxian was once one of the most powerful men of his generation, a talented and clever young cultivator who harnessed martial arts and spirituality into powerful abilities. But when the horrors of war led him to seek more power through demonic cultivation, the world's respect for his abilities turned to fear, and his death was celebrated throughout the land...
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