Rating: 4 stars Buy Links:  Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Jordan Carter is an event manager for his family's event planning company, 24 Carter Gold. They are branching out to wedding planning and are kicking off the endeavor with a high-profile wedding. Jordan is put in charge of the event, and this could be a chance to further prove himself and earn a big promotion.

Rating: 4 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Jaxon Grant didn’t want to get traded, but he vows to make the best of his situation on his new team. It doesn’t help that the captain of the San Francisco Sea Lions, Tom Crowler, is standoffish at best. When Tom catches Jax in a somewhat compromising situation, Jax is convinced that Tom is a homophobe.

Rating: 4.25 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Lukas Knight is a famous gay porn star who’s built his own successful production studio. Now in his 30s, Lukas is retired from performing, but he still scripts, films, and edits lots of movies for sale. He’s struggled most of his life, due to childhood neglect, severe dyslexia, and predatory contracts for his films.

Story Rating: 4 stars Audio Rating: 4 stars Narrator: Nathaniel Ames Length: 14 hours, 37 minutes Audiobook Buy Links: Amazon/Audible | iBooks Book Buy Links: Amazon | iBooks Roman Miller hasn’t had the best life so far. His mother disappeared when he was young and his father abuses him regularly. His house is falling apart and Roman doesn’t have a plan.

Rating: 3.5 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Kip and Robin Foster have given more than a couple of young, queer kids a sense of belonging and a family; it's what brought foster brothers Saint, Knox, Drake, and Royal together in the first place. When sixteen-year-old Memphis took shelter at the family gym, the Fosters extended the same acceptance to him as well.

Rating: 4.25 stars Buy Links:  Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Dario Cotogna is the heir apparent to his family's chocolate empire. Amorina Chocolates has been in his family for generations and Dario loves being a part of the company and its legacy. With his beloved grandfather's recent death, Dario is set to take over as the new head of the company, but when the will is read, Dario is shocked to learn his grandfather added a stipulation: Dario must marry by his upcoming birthday or his troublesome younger brother will inherit instead.

Story Rating: 4.5 stars Audio Rating: 5 stars Narrator: Joel Leslie Length: 9 hours, 34 minutes Audiobook Buy Links: Amazon/Audible | iBooks Book Buy Links: Amazon | iBooks Cary Sutton is a librarian working for a research consortium. He is on holiday with his boss, who’d like to be his lover, when he’s summarily dumped for not putting out fast enough.

Rating: 4.5 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Max Davis should probably be happier. After all, his marriage to Rick, his burbling, belching alien husband, has been formally recognized and the pair have made serious inroads into improving the reputation of Rick’s people, The Hidden Ones. And their three children are thriving; perhaps James does seem a little too focused on becoming an arms dealer and maybe Xander’s grasp of complex linguistics has enhanced his sarcasm, but they’re good kids.

Rating: 3.5 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Two weeks ago, junior PI Harriet Morrow acquitted herself admirably on her first case. She solved a supposedly open and shut mystery, befriended fellow detective Matthew McCabe, and experienced her first potential romance with Barabara Wozniak. However, there is no time to rest on her laurels, as Harriet’s thrown into the deep end.

Rating: 4.25 stars Buy Links:  Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel People fear Corvus Van der Horn -- and for good reason. He is part of the wealthy and powerful Van der Horn crime family, and Corvus is their chief poisoner and torturer. Corvus was taught by his late father to always be strong, always be in control, and never show weakness.

Story Rating: 4 stars Audio Rating: 4.25 stars Narrator: Nick J. Russo Length: 3 hours, 59 minutes Audiobook Buy Links: Amazon/Audible | iBooks Book Buy Links: Amazon | iBooks Tanner Spade is a proudly out, bisexual man who’s a co-owner of Oak Ridge Ranch in California, which has cattle, assorted livestock, a dude ranch, a farm, and a vineyard/winery. Tanner loves this working ranch, which was developed mostly as an homage to the farm his late parents lost to drought/blight in his childhood.

Rating: 4.75 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Sam Yarmark is a patrol officer, and he wants to be a detective. He has a mentor in John-Henry Somerset, he studies, and he takes extra trainings and works out regularly. But the one thing that could hold Sam back, according to the Chief of Police, is his lack of community involvement.

Hi all! I hope you had a great week! Like many in the U.S., we are bracing for a huge snow and ice storm in our area. I am writing this on Saturday and the snow is supposed to start tonight. By the time you read this, we will know whether we are buried or got off lightly. But our area is right in the snow/ice line, so we spent Saturday charging our devices, finding our flashlights, and downloading books and movies in preparation in case we lose power.

Rating: 4.5 stars Buy Links:  Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Ani Avakian's is working hard to make her wedding planning business a success. After she was swindled by a former client, Ani's struggling under a load of debt and, while she is getting bookings, she needs something big if she is ever going to get back in the black.

Rating: 4.25 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Nicky and Liam were the best of friends. They didn’t have much, but they had each other. Liam was the popular one and everyone wanted to be in his orbit, especially Nicky. Everyone thought Liam would make it out of the neighborhood and make something of himself, but one terrible night and one terrible decision lands Liam in prison for five years.

Rating: 4 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novella Sable is a Loss cupid, which means his arrows help unwind bound humans when their love has ended. He encounters Wynn, a Love cupid, one day while manipulating the bond of a man who deeply loved his wife, but was too self-sacrificing to allow his own happiness. Sable’s unique loss magic helped the couple communicate better and have an even stronger connection, much to Wynn’s surprise.

Rating: 3.5 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Keller Hartman has worked hard to reach the Starfield Fleet’s elite Sixth Legion. As an orphan raised under the tutelage of a wise Master, he could have taken a different road, one of devotion and contemplation. But Keller's natural skills as a marksman and a desire to help others have led him to the Sixth.

Rating: 3.5 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Vale knows music. It was drilled into him at a young age with no reprieve. Now, he likes to think he can recognize raw talent and mold the artist into the performer Vale wants them to be. Kiernan lost his family and then was in foster care. When he aged out of the system, he started playing his guitar outside for the change that would land in his guitar case.

Story Rating: 4.5 stars Audio Rating: 5 stars Narrator: Andrew Gibson Length: 7 hours, 25 minutes Audiobook Buy Links: Amazon/Audible | iBooks Book Buy Links: Amazon | iBooks It’s not often that a new restaurant opens in Hastings Rock, and Dash and his friends have secured a reservation. But when they arrive, they are surprised to find Indira upset and even more surprised to find out that her ex-husband, Mal, is a partner in the new venture.

Rating: 4.25 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Louis Tremblay is a star goaltender for the mediocre Seattle Sasquatch hockey team. He’s the king of the crease and the life of the party, always keeping the team in high spirits. And he’s very straight. At thirty-four, Louis should know his own sexuality, right? But he’s been having thoughts, and more importantly dreams, lately that maybe point to something else.

Rating: 3.5 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel In the small mountain village of Elm, Danial and Erin wait patiently for day their lives will join them together as husband and wife and, in time, as a father and mother. But first, Erin has to finish her training as Herbwise, something that should be done in time for their wedding next spring. 

Rating: 4.25 stars Buy Links:  Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Leland never thought he would have a quiet life with the man he loves and their (sort of illegally) adopted teen son, Waylon. They are running their own private investigations firm, have a group of close friends, and things are surprisingly normal. And even more surprising, Leland actually loves this normal life.

Rating: 4 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Chloe is mostly fine with her life. She has a job bartending at her aunts’ pub and her jewelry making business is keeping her in supplies. Chloe's turning thirty and she and her two best friends have a tradition of spending their birthdays together. Chloe has a secret wish and, when she reveals it to her friends, they are on board to make it happen.

Rating: 4.5 stars Buy Links:  Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Cedric Bérard and Austin Grimm have been best friends since they were kids. The two have come up through competitive skiing together and are now elite athletes competing for Canada in ski cross. With the Olympics only a year away, both men are focused on their goal of making it to the Games, hopefully together.

Rating: 4 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Ronald “Nally” Hawthorne is the youngest of the large and celebrated Hawthorne family of artists. His father is a peer of the realm, though the family home and fortune has dwindled. The manor home, Hawthorne House, had been used as dormitories for a now-defunct boarding school, and is currently a community school for the arts.