Review: My Dearest Holmes by Rohase Piercy
‘… The accounts of these cases are too bound up with events in my personal life which, although they may provide a plausible commentary to much of my dealings with Mr Sherlock Holmes, can never be made...
View ArticleReview: When Love Walked In by Charlie Cochet (short story)
Bruce Shannon is a Private Investigator dealing with case after case of missing persons and infidelity. None of which inspire warm, fuzzy feelings during the week of Valentine’s Day. Then again, Bruce...
View ArticleReview: Alike as Two Bees by Elin Gregory
Horses, love, and the tang of thyme and honey… In Classical Greece, apprentice sculptor Philon has chosen the ideal horse to model for his masterpiece. Sadly, the rider falls well short of the ideal of...
View ArticleReview: The Sartorialist by Cecilia Ryan
When royal sartorial adviser Beau Brummell meets a pretty soldier at a ball full of people who have begun to bore him, he’s only thinking of a brief affair and the opportunity to prove that clothes...
View ArticleReview: The Forgotten Man by Ryan Loveless
In 1932, after Captain Joshua Pascal’s family loses its fortune, the Great War veteran’s sense of duty compels him to help his mother convert his childhood home into a Jewish boarding house. He’s lived...
View ArticleReview: The Amethyst Cat Caper by Charlie Cochet
Two years ago, Remington Trueblood left England and everything he held dear for the chance at a new life. Now the successful owner of The Purple Rose Tea House in Manhattan, Remi has come across the...
View ArticleReview: On the Trail to Moonlight Gulch by Shelter Somerset
It’s 1886, and Chicago is booming, but for nineteen-year-old Torsten Pilkvist, American-born son of Swedish immigrants, it’s not big enough. After tragically losing a rare love, Tory immerses himself...
View ArticleReview: Protection by S.A. Reid
When Gabriel MacKenna enters Wentworth Prison in 1931, he promises himself two things: never to be buggered and never to turn prison queer. Tough, smart, and ruthless in a fight, he quickly makes a...
View ArticleReview: Gypsy Heart by A.J. Llewellyn
Tinder McCartney thought he left behind his life as a gay male prostitute but soon learns returning to his old life may be the only way to save the man he loves…Tinder McCartney and his lover, Jason...
View ArticleReview: Solemn Contract by Morgan Cheshire
Connecticut, 1720: In an attempt to give his family financial security, school master Jem Bradley hires himself out as an indentured servant – and thus begins an odyssey which will take him to the...
View ArticleReview: The Auspicious Troubles of Chance by Charlie Cochet
Chance Irving is a young man with a gift for getting into trouble—not surprising, as trouble is all he’s ever known. After losing everything he held dear one fateful night, he decides to leave New York...
View ArticleReview: His Heart’s Obsession by Alex Beecroft
Kingston, Jamaica, 1752 Robert Hughes, a lieutenant–and rogue–in the British Royal Navy, is in love with his gorgeous fellow officer, Hal Morgan. Hal only has eyes for their captain–a man who’ll never...
View ArticleReview: The Last Concubine by Catt Ford
When Princes Lan’xiu’s brother delivers her under duress into General Hüi Wei’s harem as a political offering, her only question is how soon her secret will be discovered. She is under no illusions:...
View ArticleReview: The Pleasuring of Men by Clifford Browder
In New York City in the late 1860s, Tom Vaughn, a respectably raised young man, chooses to become a male prostitute servicing the city’s affluent elite, then falls in love with Walter Whiting, a...
View ArticleReview: Virgin Airmen by Michael Gouda
After a short hiatus we are back and I’m kicking off with a short story set during the early 50′s in England. It’s a bitterly cold Saturday evening when Michael Duggan, RAF aircraftsman second class,...
View ArticleReview: The Celestial by Barry Brennessel
Hardened beyond his nineteen years, Todd Webster Morgan is determined to find gold high in the Sierra Nevadas. But his dream is violently upended. Complicating matters even more, he meets a young...
View ArticleReview: And There Was Silence by Louise Blaydon
Two years after the horrors of the Great War, Robert and Harry are fellow students at the University of Oxford, spending an idyllic day on the banks of the river. Robert idolizes Harry, though he’s...
View ArticleReview: Roses in the Devil’s Garden by Charlie Cochet
In a city overrun by lawlessness and corruption, best friends and lovers Prohibition Agents Harlan Mackay and Nathan Reilly, are fighting a losing battle. With bootleggers running amuck and countless...
View ArticleReview: Secret Light by Z.A. Maxfield
Rafe Colman likes his life. He has a nice home, a good job, and a wonderful dog. But he’s exhausted by living a lie. When his home is vandalized because of his perceived German ancestry, he can’t even...
View ArticleReview: The Actor and the Earl by Rebecca Cohen
Elizabethan actor Sebastian Hewel takes his bow at the proscenium only to embark on the role of a lifetime. When his twin sister, Bronwyn, reneges on the arrangement to marry Earl Anthony Crofton,...
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