By Charlie Cochrane. Cambridge Fellows Mysteries, Book 8. The Great War is over. Freed from a prisoner of war camp and back at St. Bride’s College, Orlando Coppersmith is discovering what those years have cost – all he holds dear. A commission to investigate a young officer’s disappearance gives Orlando new direction…temporarily. The deceptively simple case becomes a maze of conflicting stories – is Daniel McNeil a deserter, or a hero? – taking Orlando into the world of the shell-shocked and broken.
By Neil S. Plakcy. Someone wants to kill cute, sexy gay pop star Karif al-Fulan, and it’s up to bodyguards Liam McCullough and Aidan Greene to keep him safe. But will Karif destroy the burgeoning love between Liam and Aidan with his intimate advances? Between passionate romps in a private villa on the resort island of Djerba, off the coast of Tunisia, Liam and Aidan must face down bombs, guns, and the pressure of their own testosterone.
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 John R Gordon. A thrilling, hard-edged urban novel of gay Jamaican life in gangsta London. 'Foreign... me haffi go a foreign...' Outed and driven from his homeland by a murderous mob, gay Jamaican Cutty Munroe arrives in London penniless and desperate. At first he is relieved to be given shelter by Buju Staples, a petty crook on the White City Estate, and his girlfriend Cynthia, but Cynthia soon wants to be rid of this 'wasteman' crashing on her man's sofa. Cutty, however, has nowhere else to go. Traumatised and lonely, Cutty falls in love with Buju, and starts to believe that Buju might share his feelings. One night while out on the rob Cutty makes a move on his spar. And then his troubles really begin.
By Charlie Cochrane. Cambridge Fellows Mysteries, Book 7. When Jonty Stewart and Orlando Coppersmith witnesses the suspicious death of a young man at the White City exhibition in London, they’re keen to investigate – especially after the cause of death proves to be murder. But Police Inspector Redknapp refuses to let them help, even after they stumble onto clues to the dead man’s identity. Orlando’s own identity becomes the subject for speculation when, while mourning the death of his beloved grandmother, he learns that she kept secrets about her past.
By Hakan Lindquist. Samuel is a middle aged gay man. Mattias, a boy of twelve, has just fallen off his new bike. It is the beginning of a warm friendship. Almost thirty years later Mattias returns to attend Samuel’s funeral. He thinks about everything Samuel has taught and told him over the years. About the loneliness and his only love, the beautiful sailor, William. In their old hiding place in the tower of an old church, Mattias finds a letter addressed to him, written by Samuel, to be read after his death. Here Samuel reveals the dreadful secret that has tormented him all his life.
By Charles Brandreth. In 1892, an exhausted Arthur Conan Doyle, retires to the spa at Bad Homburg. But his rest cure does not go as planned. The first person he encounters is Oscar Wilde, and when the two friends make a series of macabre discoveries amongst the portmanteau of fan mail Conan Doyle has brought to answer – a severed finger, a lock of hair and finally an entire severed hand – the game is once more afoot. The trail leads to Rome, to the very heart of the Eternal City, the Vatican itself.
By Chris Owen. Warren, Silas and Tal, three friends who have grown up together, they’ve survived high-school plays, Tal’s girlfriends, Silas’ boyfriend, and Warren’s endless studying. College is more of the same, until Silas and Tal coax Warren out of the closet. For Warren nothing changes, but for Silas the world has unexpectedly changed forever. He had no idea he was in love with his best friend at all, and when he finally tells Warren the reaction is another surprise. Prove it. Warren knows that if they’re going to be together it’s got to be forever, and he can’t just risk everything for what might be another one of Silas’ whims.
By Jay Bell. Love, like everything in the universe, cannot be destroyed. But over time it can change. The hot Texas nights were lonely for Ben before his heart began beating to the rhythm of two words; Tim Wyman. By all appearances, Tim had the perfect body and ideal life, but when a not-so-accidental collision brings them together, Ben discovers that the truth is rarely so simple. If winning Tim’s heart was an impossible quest, keeping it would prove even harder as family, society, and emotion threaten to tear them apart. Something Like Summer is a love story spanning a decade and beyond as two boys discover what it means to be friends, lovers, and sometimes even enemies
By Nick Heddle. An illicit wartime romance materialises when presenters of Ghost! Haunted Live visit an old, disused airfield to make a TV broadcast. A scandalous affair between a Wing Commander and a junior Aircraftman during the Battle of Britain. Through the extended advertising breaks in the broadcast, we travel back to wartime Britain to learn how the Wing Commander ‘bends his kite’ at the end of the runway and later loses a leg to become ‘Wing Com. Tin Leg’. A chance meeting with Queen Elizabeth at the opening of the new operating theatre at the RAF Ely Hospital leads the couple into lofty English social circles where they are introduced to the likes of Clementine Churchill, Noel Coward and Glenn Miller.
By Cameron Michaels. Jeffrey's life is great. It is quiet, structured, and in a word-boring. He has good friends, a great job, and a nonexistent love life. That is all about to change with a lone bike ride and a chance meeting along the Chicago lakefront. Jeffrey's life is instantly placed on the dating fast track and takes him a bit by surprise. Peter is a tall, extremely handsome, well-rounded, and grounded kind of guy-a self-employed, confident businessman who is shy and nonassertive when it comes to matters of the heart, until that day at the lake.
By Vincent Lardo. A new re-print of the classic, originally published in 1987. As Mike Manning grieves over the heroic death of his lover, NY police officer Ken Farley, he gets a call from socialite Mildred Hamilton who confesses to killing her husband and his girlfriend. Drawn into a double murder on a snowy New Year’s Eve takes Mike from a Fifth Avenue penthouse to a gay strip bar, a ride on a corporate jet and, finally, to two humpy preppies who do their best to change Mike’s grief into unabashed passion.
By Max Pierce. It is 1899, and young Andrew Wyndham has accepted a position tutoring the unruly son of wealthy industrialist. But Seacliff is a dark and eerie mansion enshrouded in near-eternal fog, dark mystery and suspicion – perhaps a reflection of the house's master. An imposing Blackbeard of a man, brooding Duncan Stewart is both feared and admired. And his home, in which Andrew must now reside, holds terrible secrets – secrets that could destroy everyone within its walls.
By Neil S. Plakcy. The Russian Boy is a sexy, romantic story about older men involved with younger men, about art and love and the risks we take when we fall in love.A famous, erotically charged painting called The Russian Boy depicts a nude Russian noble named Alexei Dubernin, younger lover of painter Fyodor Luschenko. Their affair takes place in the elegance of a lost world, the Russian enclave on the Cote d’Azur in the years just before the revolution of 1917. The painting, owned by the New York Museum of Fine Arts, is stolen from a restorer’s studio in Paris, bringing together three very different men, each of whom must risk his life to return...
By William Masswa. John and Bret, two twenty-something athletes who separately endured abuse in their pasts, do what they know – they beat up themselves and each other in the wrestling league – until one boy turns their lives around with the question, “Why do you hurt each other?” Tender moments unfold for John and Bret, and the rookies are also brought together by a ragtag team of oddball wrestlers who know what all boys know: deep down, we all just want to be held.
