17 Black and 29 Red by Richard Rider
Sequel to Stockholm Syndrome - dangling plotlines (and Pip) will be tied up in part 3, promise. :P.
Aloha, Candy Hearts by Anthony Bidulka
From the calm Pacific to the storm-tossed prairie, a teasing puzzle turns into a frightening game of cat and mouse for gay PI Russell Quant. Russell can't be sure whether a dead man's surprising last gift will take him on a treasure hunt or a treacherous game of life or death. With a series of clues spanning decades — from a shocking modern-day murder to Saskatoon's dark, hidden past — he revisits the harsh realities of early homesteading, investigates the blackmail of one of the literary world's most esteemed writers, and digs for clues at the site of a never-forgotten scourge. As past reveals future, the hunter becomes the hunted. Racing to keep up with his latest case, Russell must balance his professional life with the demands of a wedding, a memorial, and at least one home-cooked meal at Mom's. With the Hawaiian sand barely shook free from his hair, Russell is confronted, professionally and personally, with the harsh consequences of indecision. Saying aloha is not always easy.
Amuse Bouche: A Russell Quant Mystery by Anthony Bidulka
A gay wedding gone bad. A missing groom. An unsullied reputation at risk. Enter Russell Quant -- cute, gay, and a rookie private detective. With a nose for good wine and bad lies, Quant is off to France on his first big case. From the smudgy streets of Paris, he cajoles and sleuths his way to the pastel-colored promenade of Sanary-sur-Mer. Back in Saskatoon, Quant comes face-to-face with a client who may be the bad guy, a quarry who turns up in the most unexpected place, and a cast of colorful suspects: the vile sister, the best friend, the colleague, the ex-lover, the lawyer, the priest, the snoopy neighbor -- are they involved? Or is someone else lurking in the shadows? As he works through his case, Quant juggles his detective gig with the responsibilities of a personal life full of captivating personalities.
Art Works by Rigby Taylor
Not for the faint-hearted, ArtWorks is a confronting thriller, at turns shocking, funny, romantic and thought provoking. When Max falls to his death from the dome of his new Art Gallery on Queensland's Sunshine Coast, his wife asks Max's ex-lover, Peter, to take over as Director. After rescuing a strange young man from a raging sea, Peter investigates an art swindle and all hell breaks loose. He is raped and left for dead, but escapes, only to discover that he and his new friend Jon are wanted for murder. What follows is a hair-raising chase to clear their names. Murder, torture, cyclones, tidal surges, snuff porn shows – are but a few of the complications to be navigated in their search for justice, happiness and love.
Bastards And Pretty Boys by K.Z. Snow
Offered by All Romance Ebooks. The price is $5.50, which changes to zero with the 12 Days of Christmas Discount when you add the book to your cart. Charles Larkin is finally happy with his life…for the most part. He’s happy with his new summer getaway—a rustic cottage he just bought on a small Wisconsin lake. He’s happy that his ex-wife, whom he divorced because he couldn’t play straight anymore, has become one of his best friends. He’s happy he can breathe again. It’s only Kenneth, Charlie’s boyfriend of five months, who makes this new life less than completely satisfying. Charlie feels they’ve never been quite right for each other, and Kenneth cements that conviction when he makes a disturbing confession. Charlie knows their time together is quickly coming to an end. Problem is, Kenneth doesn’t know it. And he tends to be rather possessive. Planning to spend a quiet, relaxing two or three weeks at Cloud Lake—fixing up his place, reading, even attempting to overcome his fear of water—Charlie is less than thrilled to discover his next-door neighbor is one hell of a looker. He doesn’t need that kind of distraction, especially since his issues with Kenneth haven’t yet been resolved. But there’s a ninety percent chance the neighbor is straight, has a wife or girlfriend, and could be leaving the next day. Charlie clings to those probabilities. Only, Booker isn’t going anywhere, and he isn’t that easily ignored. And neither is his unexpected, none-too-savory baggage. And neither, for that matter, is Charlie's. But when two people care enough about each other, they figure out how to help carry each other's baggage…or cast it aside. Added 12/19/09.
The Black Heart by Adam Young
Leon Hart's writing something new, and it's not a new kind of gay romance novel. When he has a bad dream and begins to write it down, something happens. After he moves into an apartment with his long-time boyfriend Domino, Leon starts to see something. It's in the mirror, it's in the water ... it's even in the doorway on some nights. After Leon is nearly killed by the creature, Domino believes that Leon has a mental disorder, since Domino saved Leon from a fall that surely would have killed him. And after Leon goes to the doctor and is diagnosed with schizophrenia, he tries to fight back. The creature warns that if Leon does not tell its story, it will kill both him and Domino. Leon is then sent on a journey that defies reason, explanation, and even time itself.
Blood Relations by Zoe E. Whitten
Halfling and fledgling mage, Amber McKenzie, has fled from Arizona with Vicky the vampire to avoid the law. Marcus has walked out on Amber, and in his absence, Vicky and Amber find themselves growing closer together, each of them desperate to ease the ache of loneliness. While hiding out, Vicky encounters Emil, an ancient vampire and leader of a small coven. Vicky hopes to become a part of the coven to have children, until Emil drops the bombshell that Vicky is sterile. Believing she is the cause of Vicky's condition, a guilt-stricken Amber volunteers to become Vicky's surrogate mother. The process of carrying a vampire child is dangerous, and if it doesn't kill Amber, the developing fetus will still destroy her humanity by turning her into a blood drinker, the thing she fears most. Part of the Mystical World Wars series, Blood Relations is a stand alone novel which shouldn't require any prior knowledge of the world or the characters.
Callipygia by M.C. Envest
Stephanie Daniels, 28, journalist, asks only for a home, a job, a little fun and someone who truly loves her. She has never found good love with a man. Lately, women have been on her mind. Her editor sends her to the South Dakota Black Hills, where a large number of women have disappeared. Rumor has a lesbian slave camp hidden in the forest. She finds delicate Megan, who becomes her lover, and takes her to Callipygia—a hidden colony of beautiful women. The colony has a humanistic goal which is unbalanced by their somewhat disturbing methods. They abduct men who meet certain criteria, for breeding purposes, and wish to create a more sensitive man through proper child-raising. The Utopian world at Callipygia is disrupted when a prostitution ring attacks with the intent of selling these women into the worldwide sex slave market.
Contract with the World by Jane Rule
In Contract with the World, the setting is Vancouver, and the time is the mid-1970s. Told from six different characters' points of view, the novel describes the intersection between artistic motivation, personal fulfillment, and sexual politics. A portrait painter, a sculptor, a sound musician, a would-be writer -- these characters make choices, as Rule's title suggests, that sometimes leave others out in the cold, and sometimes provide a welcoming embrace. The Insomniac Library is proud to reissue Jane Rule's fifth novel, more than twenty years after its initial appearance in 1980. Originally published by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich in New York, the novel follows and anticipates numerous well-known works, like Margaret Atwood's Cat's Eye, that revolve around the life of the artist in contemporary society. The new Insomniac edition includes an introduction by noted Jane Rule scholar Marilyn Schuster.
Cowboy by J.M. Snyder
Offered by All Romance Ebooks. The price is $5.99, which changes to zero with the 12 Days of Christmas Discount when you add the book to your cart. Marcus was just passing through Texas when he met Kent. In his cowboy hat, low-riding jeans, and black boots, Kent looks like the type of guy Marcus desperately wants to love. But two years later, he’s discovered Kent is cold and distant, the quintessential American cowboy, and spends more time drunk than sober. Marcus can never predict his mood and blames himself for the flailing relationship. Then, one day when Kent rides into town, Marcus finds a young runaway hiding in their barn. Luke is warm, loving, and quick to please… everything Kent is not. Though the answer seems obvious, Marcus finds himself torn between the boy who demands his love and the man whose love he craves. Added 12/15/09.
Fall Love by Anne Whitehouse
Fall Love tells the intertwined stories of four twenties-something artists and professionals adrift in the bad old pre-AIDS New York of 1980. From a summer of love through an autumn of deceit and regret, we follow the lives of Althea, Jeanne, Paul and Bryce from self-sacrifice to self-knowledge. We watch them as they travel in and out of the city, to Block Island, Connecticut, Mississippi, and Florida. Within the city, we are taken through public schools in Harlem and the far-flung reaches of the Bronx and Brooklyn. We learn about modern dance and theater companies in downtown Manhattan, and experience the contrasts of a life in a penthouse and a studio apartment.
Finitude by Hamish MacDonald
A lighthearted climate change adventure story about an insurance salesman at the end of the world. After a 30-year rationing plan called “The Effort,” the prime minister declares Victory over the Climate Day. But depressed insurance salesman Jeremy Chutter has some inside information: it’s all hot air. The end is nigh, and he can’t wait. Then Jeremy's world gets turned upside-down… This book contains content that may not be suitable for young readers 17 and under.
Flight of Aquavit: A Russell Quant Mystery by Anthony Bidulka
At the dead end of a desolate country road, a late night meeting suddenly becomes an ambush. Gay private detective Russell Quant is faced with personal threats he can't ignore, a friend who may be a foe and a cagey client with a treacherous monkey on his back. As Quant trails a menacing blackmailer known only as Loverboy, he finds himself immersed in the midnight world of e-dating and parking lot romance. Lured to New York City, Quant tests his wit, wisdom and wiles from the Old World grandeur of Fifth Avenue to the kaleidoscope world of Broadway's electric nightspots. The fast pace continues when Quant returns to Saskatoon where he grapples with decoys and deceit, realizing that no one is as they appear. Threat turns into deadly reality and the need to uncover the identity of Loverboy becomes increasingly desperate. Quant deftly maneuvers through the twists and turns of a perilous case and a personal life rife with its own mystique and mayhem.
Fortune is a Woman by Francine Saint Marie
Dr. Helaine Kristenson is not just talented and beautiful. She's the leading authority in the field of psychosexual relations and the bestselling author of the how-to bible "Keeping Mr. Right". Professionally, she deals with secrets of the heart everyday. Privately, she even has a few of her own to keep her busy... Added 12/10/09.
The Great China Journey by M.C. Ward
A gay guy and his lesbian wife travel to work and play in the heart of China in 1995 and on to Mexico for some strange tales.
Guilty by Sky Gilbert
Offered by Insomniac Press. Cassidy is dead and Jack is guilty, that's for sure. But of what, exactly, we're not certain. Guilty is a first novel, but more importantly, it is an outrageous, hilarious, tangentially revealed story of guilt, sex, fame, God, murder, danger, suspicion, love and hate. Jack and Cassidy had great sex. In fact, Cassidy may have been Jack's ideal sex partner, which is of great importance when your life revolves around sex. But then Cassidy would do things to drive Jack mad, which certainly could be a motive for murder. Also, Jack is a big man, which gives him the physical means to overpower Cassidy. And they were together on the night that Cassidy was killed, which provided the opportunity. Then there's the fact that Jack has dreamed of killing Cassidy and is not feeling too surprised or even too terrible about his death. But did he do it?
His Touch is of Ice by Kody Boye
Jason's had it rough his whole life. After recently breaking up with a boyfriend and losing his job on top of it, he decides to go down to a cafe he enjoys. There, he meets a man who turns out to be a vampire. When Jason, crazed with love, lets Guy turn him into a thief of life, they feed together for the first time. The victim dies. Now, on the run, the two must escape from the police, all the while trying to avoid the horrible truth that they might not ever escape. Author also sends PDF file if requested. Email to: kodyboye(at)q.com.
Inner Demons by Kody Boye
After moving away from a troubled childhood, Dean McAllen’s life begins to change for the better. He meets a guy that likes him, has a good job, and is slowly but surely makes a friend. But when Dean and his new boyfriend, Brad, start dating, things begin to happen. Brad calls in the middle of the night, complaining about teenagers that doorbell-ditch his house and throw rocks at his windows. What’s worse is that, after Dean moves in, Brad starts talking to something . . . Something that isn’t even there.
Inner Sorrow by Kody Boye
When Pal escapes from an abusive father, his world is drastically changed. After moving in with a cousin, he thinks everything is going back to normal... that is, until his father is killed in a violent shootout. The onset of troubled thoughts and worries is only the first part of the hellish nightmare he will experience. After attending his father's funeral, Pal will learn that his father isn't truly gone. He's back... and ready to teach Pal a lesson.
Jackal in the Dark by David Patrick Beavers
Set in Los Angeles as the 1970s draw to a close, Jackal in the Dark is the story of a nineteen-year-old student whose life revolves around discos and parties, beach and campus, drugs and casual, virtually meaningless sex. But a chance encounter with the handsome but distant Rex causes the nihilistic hero to find himself yearning for love and possession. Meanwhile, into his chaotic life comes Taylor, a young hustler abused and brutalized by his pimp. Yet in this relationship it is he who cannot reciprocate, and an emotional matrix is established in which lover and love object rarely coincide, and obsession and rejection are component parts. Jackal in the Dark is a specifically gay account of a situation that each of us, whatever our sexual orientation, has to confront at some time in life.
Journey's End by Emily Veinglory
Castel is an elf stranded in human lands, slowly dying from lack of magical energy. Mendry is a human assassin descended from a line of vampire 'Dragon Knights' who seek to bring an evil dragon back to life. When Mendry's father steals a child he believes to be his grand-daughter, the seventh generation needed to carry out the resurrection ritual, Mendry and Castel come together to save an innocent life, facing evil mages and more. Together with the child's uncle and mother, they make an unlikely band of heroes, and find a whole new meaning to the word family. Note: this novella includes erotic M/M (gay male) content.
Legends by Mel Keegan
In an era of storm and chaos, One will be born who will command the Power, but the
ancient magic that flows in his veins like blood is his curse as well as his gift. In this time of cataclysm and ordeal, the upstart Empire of Vayal has placed a bounty on the heads of all scions of the lineage of Diomedas, for the oracle foretold the doom of Vayal, and it rides on the shoulders of the One. He lives and breathes already, hiding in the old city of Zeheft and in the slowly drowning outlands. He is Faunos, still dangerously young -- and he has one dread: the witchfinders of Vayal, who are charged with the hunting of those like himself. Twenty years, Faunos has hidden and learned, until the gods of sea, storm and earth take Zeheft; and one night destiny brings Vayal's young witchfinder to the camps of the water gypsies, where Faunos should not have been. The Empire of the Atlantan has one slender chance to survive, and its struggle will begin on this night.
Lilacs by Megan Derr
Gene has been dragged by his mother to an historical tourist spot, so that he can meet and get to know his new stepbrother. But the stepbrother is the last person he expected to see, and the history in the tower proves to be not as dead and buried as Gene would prefer.
The Long Drive Home by Stan Rogal
Offered by Insomniac Press. Gay middle-aged hit men, a pathological interior designer, an idiot savant child and a gun-toting donut shop manager are some of the disparate characters that populate Stan Rogal's first novel. Beginning at vastly different points, geographically and emotionally, these seemingly unconnected people are woven together in the taut fabric of a story that follows the sweet sadness of the search for lost youth. The characters' paths move together gradually until they ultimately converge in an explosive showdown in a sleazy, road-side motel parking lot in Magog, Quebec. Peppered with beauty, absurdity and Rogal's typical rapid-fire dialogue, The Long Drive Home makes for a wonderfully disturbing read.
The Mars of Malcontents by Jim Logan
Duncan Davies is perpetually vexed by circumstances woefully out of step with his sense of entitlement. Spoiled at a young age and frivolusly educated, he is now 28, a frustrated dilettante, and mired in a shop girl job he considers beneath him. Set in Chicago's Boystown at the end of the 1980s, The Mars of Malcontents is a picaresque tale chronicling the turbulent year of misfortunes, mischief and romances in the wake of Duncan's arrest for Public Indecency. Contains humorous sexual themes and language.
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