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Playing for Keeps by Avery Cockburn ($3.99 on Amazon, first in the Glasgow Lads series). I loved this one! Secret anguish! A horrible rift that was more complicated than just a silly misunderstanding! Awesome secondary characters! This is set in Glasgow, as the series title indicates, and deals with religious and class tension between and around the two heroes, plus the adventures of a (mostly gay) amateur football team. I can't wait to read the next one! <3
Getting His Wolf by Isabelle Arden (99 cents on Amazon, first in a series but the only one out so far). Alpha/omega werewolf shenanigans that start with a werewolf on the run from his criminal pack and a straitlaced (human) Mountie looking for an injured wolf in his small town and finds something else entirely. This had some really interesting worldbuilding (I just somehow love the idea that a lot of werewolf packs are involved in organized crime?) and reeeeeally hot A/O werewolf porn. :D
Another Place in Time: A Collection of Historical Short Stories ($3.99 on Amazon for 6 stories). I bought this for "The Ruin of Gabriel Ashleigh," by KJ Charles, because it's part of the Society of Gentlemen series and oohhhhh man that story did NOT disappoint. (It is kind of funny, when you get used to the rhythm of m/m novellas or novels, to read a short story and be like--oh okay WE'RE HERE, LET'S GO. It feels a bit more like fic except, of course, you don't have all the built-in setup fic gives you, so it's just--whoosh!) I also really enjoyed "Unfair in Love and War" by Kaje Harper, set in a small town in Wisconsin during WWII and featuring two men who are, for assorted reasons, unable to be off fighting. (There's also a story in this collection from Jordan L. Hawk's Whyborne and Griffin series but I'm saving it until I've read the three books that come before it.)
Songs You Know By Heart, Music in a Dry Country, and Singing in the Wilderness, by Eleanor Kos (99 cents, $1.99, and $3.99 on Amazon, although I got Book 2 free for signing up for the author's mailing list via a link at the end of Book 1). Ohhh man, this was kind of a wild ride. Our hero, David, has a kink for really, genuinely unsafe sexual situations (like, 'several dudes in an alley' unsafe), which leads to him coming on to the nervous young guy trying to mug him in the park... and then going back to the park for more... and, well, then having to deal with all the fallout that comes from trying to make something sanely ongoing out of a relationship that started at knifepoint. (Jazz isn't a bad guy, really, but he is definitely out of his depth, and David is not really helping him navigate.) Really interesting kink dynamic with a younger, less experienced guy domming an older, much more experienced one (reminded me of Alexis Hall's For Real, in a very good way!) This is definitely one of those that would have all kinds of tags and warnings on it if it were fic, but it's original, so... whee!
Other things I've bought recently and am excited about but haven't read yet (because the TBR collection on my Kindle goes on forever and I am a chronically indecisive weirdo who usually chooses the next book to read from it via random number generator):
The Country Omega by Penelope Peters
A Queer Trade by KJ Charles
Silver and Gold (a collection of May-December romance stories, including one by Eleanor Kos!)
Getting His Wolf by Isabelle Arden (99 cents on Amazon, first in a series but the only one out so far). Alpha/omega werewolf shenanigans that start with a werewolf on the run from his criminal pack and a straitlaced (human) Mountie looking for an injured wolf in his small town and finds something else entirely. This had some really interesting worldbuilding (I just somehow love the idea that a lot of werewolf packs are involved in organized crime?) and reeeeeally hot A/O werewolf porn. :D
Another Place in Time: A Collection of Historical Short Stories ($3.99 on Amazon for 6 stories). I bought this for "The Ruin of Gabriel Ashleigh," by KJ Charles, because it's part of the Society of Gentlemen series and oohhhhh man that story did NOT disappoint. (It is kind of funny, when you get used to the rhythm of m/m novellas or novels, to read a short story and be like--oh okay WE'RE HERE, LET'S GO. It feels a bit more like fic except, of course, you don't have all the built-in setup fic gives you, so it's just--whoosh!) I also really enjoyed "Unfair in Love and War" by Kaje Harper, set in a small town in Wisconsin during WWII and featuring two men who are, for assorted reasons, unable to be off fighting. (There's also a story in this collection from Jordan L. Hawk's Whyborne and Griffin series but I'm saving it until I've read the three books that come before it.)
Songs You Know By Heart, Music in a Dry Country, and Singing in the Wilderness, by Eleanor Kos (99 cents, $1.99, and $3.99 on Amazon, although I got Book 2 free for signing up for the author's mailing list via a link at the end of Book 1). Ohhh man, this was kind of a wild ride. Our hero, David, has a kink for really, genuinely unsafe sexual situations (like, 'several dudes in an alley' unsafe), which leads to him coming on to the nervous young guy trying to mug him in the park... and then going back to the park for more... and, well, then having to deal with all the fallout that comes from trying to make something sanely ongoing out of a relationship that started at knifepoint. (Jazz isn't a bad guy, really, but he is definitely out of his depth, and David is not really helping him navigate.) Really interesting kink dynamic with a younger, less experienced guy domming an older, much more experienced one (reminded me of Alexis Hall's For Real, in a very good way!) This is definitely one of those that would have all kinds of tags and warnings on it if it were fic, but it's original, so... whee!
Other things I've bought recently and am excited about but haven't read yet (because the TBR collection on my Kindle goes on forever and I am a chronically indecisive weirdo who usually chooses the next book to read from it via random number generator):
The Country Omega by Penelope Peters
A Queer Trade by KJ Charles
Silver and Gold (a collection of May-December romance stories, including one by Eleanor Kos!)
