By Jon Wilson. Everyone knows Jack Tulle as a widower, a doting father, and an honest businessman. The problem is, it’s all a lie. For years Jack has enjoyed the quiet life in the sleepy town of Bodey, Colorado where he owns the General Store. But when the local saloon announces plans to host a grand prize poker tournament, Jack realises it could spell trouble. One of the many secrets is that he used to be a con man – mainly underhanded poker. He’s worried that the contest will attract men from his past like Tom Jude. Tom wasn’t just Jack’s partner-in-crime, he was also the love of his life. And Tom knows things – like the fact that the little girl Jack is raising, really isn’t his.
By Abdellah Taïa. The mid 1980s. A lower-class teenager is running until he’s out of breath. He’s running after his dream, his dream to become a movie director. He’s running from this neighbourhood – which is a place the teenager both loves and hates, the home at which he is not at home. Running is the only way he can stand up to the violence that is his Morocco. Irresistibly charming, angry, and wry, this autobiographical novel spans 20 years, and moves from Sale, to Paris, to Cairo, tracing the emergence of Abdellah Taia’s identity as an openly gay Arab man living between cultures.
By Mark Zubro. Paul Turner returns. In his first appearance since 2007, this gay Chicago detective and father of two sons gets caught in a tangle of intrigue and corruption. A brutal Chicago cop is found murdered at a gay leather festival. Turner, plus his police department partner, Buck Fenwick are assigned the case. Through a rising tide of danger, they need to find the truth among police corruption and cover ups. Some top cops and A-list leather queens are among those whose lies and fears drive the web of desperation and deceit that Turner and his partner must unravel.
By Paul Waters. By the middle of fourth century A.D., Britain and the Roman Empire had been ruled for a generation by Christian emperors. Now, at last, with the force of the state behind it, the Church was strong enough to suppress all opposition to its power. But in Britain there was still resistance.Seen through the eyes of Drusus, a young British Roman, and set against the backdrop of....
By Tom Williams. Peter Harris is 44, prosperous, and a player in New York’s contemporary art scene. He has been married to Rebecca for close to 20 years. Their marriage is sound, in the way marriages are. Peter might even describe himself as happy. But then Rebecca’s much younger brother Mizzy shows up for a visit. Beautiful, 23-years-old, with a history of drug problems, Mizzy is looking for direction. And in his presence, Peter finds himself questioning his marriage, his desires, his career – the entire world he has so carefully constructed for himself.
By Mark Wildyr. Homosexuals have been with us forever; queers, pansies, and fags are inventions of European civilizations. But, many 'new world' native cultures view “Two-Spirit” people through more respectful eyes. Cut Hand is a romantic action epic set in the early 1800s about an unorthodox love between a white youth on the American frontier, escaping his Tory family’s past, and a young Indian warrior destined for the leadership of his tribe.
By Zavo. Derrick Steele, a hard-drinking, over-sexed private detective, is being framed for the murder of a hustler in downtown LA. Despite Derrick’s efforts to solve the crime, the body count continues to rise. The action escalates when best friend Daniel McAllister returns from New York. Still reeling from a tragic past relationship, Derrick struggles with his developing feelings for the handsome McAllister.
By J. H. Trumble. Some people spend their whole lives looking for the right partner. Nate Schaper found his at high school. In the eight months since their cautious flirting became a real heart-pounding relationship, Nate and Adam have been inseparable. Even when local kids take their homophobia to brutal levels, Nate is undaunted. But when Adam graduates and takes an off-Broadway job in New York, that certainty begins to flicker. Don't Let Me Go captures the giddiness of first love, whilst also presenting a timely discourse about bullying, bigotry and hate that is rife in schools today.
By Darryl Wayne. A tale in an inner city ghetto, a young boy is imprisoned in a dark world where molestation, poverty and self loathing are a daily way of life. Repeatedly raped, an event that foreshadows a life of struggle with self identity and dysfunctional relationships with men. The inevitable happens as he takes many risks trying to find himself, until one day he does, becoming, not forever vulnerable.
By Drew Zachary. EMT Brian is surprised when his friend, ER doctor Stephen, confesses that not only is his marriage on the rocks, but that he’s bi as well. In fact, Stephen prefers men. Brian suddenly sees a chance for them to be more than just friends when Stephen’s split from his wife becomes official and he needs to find a new place to live. Stephen is sexy and hot, and just beginning to explore his desire for men.
By Haley Walsh. #2 in the Skyler Foxe Mysteries. High school English teacher Skyler Foxe finally hooks up with gorgeous assistant football coach Keith Fletcher. But is the man what he seems to be? Skyler still has his doubts when he spies Keith in some shady circumstances. And there are still some unanswered questions as to what exactly is going on at the high school. Who thought high school could be so sinister?
By Haley Walsh. #1 in the Skyler Foxe Mysteries. Skyler Foxe is the new High-School English teacher. He loves literature, loves his students, loves his friends, especially his best friend Detective Sidney Feldman. But he doesn’t love keeping his orientation a secret, afraid of the backlash in this conservative county. But will murder thrust him into unwanted limelight? Who killed his principal’s son outside a gay dance club? And what’s the connection to James Polk High? Is the macho football coach or his mysterious and gorgeous new assistant coach involved?
By Claire Thompson. Handsome, sexy and gay, Will Spencer used and discarded lovers as easily as he made his Wall Street stock trades. He was used to taking what and who he wanted. Jack Crawford, a recently widowed handyman, never thought of himself as gay. Frightened by an erotic encounter years before, Jack had never embraced his deepest sexual longings. In an unlikely pairing,
By Clare Thompson. When artist Sam Jamison finds himself stranded on an island with dark-haired, blue-eyed Donovan McNair he knows he’ll have to keep a tight rein on his rising passions. Donovan’s straight – or so he assumes. Survivors of a cruise shipwreck, the two men are thrown together in a desperate struggle to survive. Alone with no idea if they’ll be rescued, Sam and Donovan forge a bond far stronger than mere friendship. Experiencing a freedom not possible back in “the real world”, desire boils over, inhibitions melt away and passion burns a clear, loving flame.
By Emily Veinglory. Three armies are converging on the isolated town of Ballot’s Keep, and a harsh, icy winter is just around the corner. Xeras and his infant dragon are heading out of town, but not to escape. It was his meddling that caused all this trouble for his lover, Carly, and for the town. And it’s his job to set it right. Or, as his companion ghost likes to remind him, get killed trying.
