COVER REVEAL & GIVEAWAY : Escaping Camp Roosevelt by Bryan T. Clark

Release Date: May 1 2019

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Length: 87,000 words approx.

Cover Design: Karrie Jax

“He’s a bad boy—cocky and damaged. So, why can’t I stop thinking about him?"

Broken Dreams
Sociable and unselfish, eighteen-year-old Tucker Graves loves two things—his darling little sister and the thrill of playing baseball. He never dreamed that he’d be homeless, but after a series of misfortunes, his life is nothing like he could have possibly imagined. Shocked and shattered, Tucker, his mother, and his baby sister now must brave the dangers of a dilapidated homeless encampment called Camp Roosevelt.

A Wounded Heart
Homeless since the age of fourteen, Dancer has mastered the tricks of living on the streets as a sex worker. The quiet, reclusive, and calculating ways of this twenty-year-old, green-eyed Adonis help him to survive. He hides his emotional scars from the world by interacting only with his clients, whose occasional bizarre requests he reluctantly fulfills. Dancer’s past has taught him to trust no one.

A Second Chance
When Tucker and Dancer come face to face on a stormy night, having been thrown together under the same roof, Tucker brings out a feeling in Dancer that he didn’t know still existed in him—desire. Neither man can deny the attraction he feels for the other. But some scars run deep, causing both Tucker and Dancer to question whether falling in love is even possible, especially when survival is on the line.

Bryan T. Clark is a multi-published, Rainbow Award-winning author and LAMBDA finalist.

*** One hundred percent of the royalties from the first year of this novel’s publication is being donated to the Larkin Street Youth Services/Castro Youth Housing Initiative. The CYHI provides transitional housing in the city of San Francisco, California, for LGBTQ youth experiencing homelessness. Fear of being raped, abused, or murdered should not be a part of anyone’s youth.

Bryan T. Clark is a Lambda Literary finalist and Rainbow Award winning author of gay romance, and contemporary books. He is also a funny, loving, family-oriented, and proud member of the LGBT community. Behind his computer, working on his next novel, Bryan writes romance with an emphasis on moral dilemma. His multicultural characters and riveting plots embody real life, filled with challenges, personal growth, and, of course, what we all desire—love.

In his work, he is known to push the boundaries with brilliantly crafted stories of friendship, love, complicated relationships, and challenges all woven into a hard-earned happily-ever-after.

When Bryan is not writing, he enjoys reading a great book, traveling, lying by a body of water soaking up the sun, and watching a good movie while snuggled up with his husband on the couch with their loyal companion Nettie, the Sheepadoodle.

Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Bryan has made his home and life in the Central Valley of California.

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REVIEW : A Dance too Far by H.L. Day

Title : A Dance too Far

Author : H.L. Day

Genre(s) : contemporary gay romance

Release Date : February 15th 2019

Rating : 4.5/5 Stars

Love can be dangerous!

Valentin Bychkov, rising star of contemporary Russian ballet, appears to have everything: wealth, talent, success, and a face and body to match. Not that anyone can get close. Bypass the entourage and there's still Valentin's sharp tongue and acerbic wit to deal with. He may give his body freely, but his emotions are kept tightly locked away.

Max Farley's life is a simple one. All he's interested in is work, drinking, and picking up the latest in a long line of one-night stands. The way he chooses to live may not be to everyone's taste but it suits him down to the ground. He's never met anyone who's made him want to confront the demons from his past. Until now.

A show in London brings the two together. Lust brings them closer still. But if rumors of Bratva connections turn out to be true, then dangerous men wait in the wings. One dangerous man in particular, who's used to people following his orders without question.

Difficult choices need to be made on both sides. Valentin and Max need to stop playing with fire and let each other go, or face the consequences. But letting go isn't that easy where love is concerned.

And some things are worth the risk.

Warning: This book contains a snarky ballet dancer with an aversion to clothes, a little too much wall sex and an overabundance of Russian heavies.

"Because...I keep thinking that somewhere behind that mask you wear, there's a living, breathing human being capable of actual emotions. So you can say whatever you want. It won't make me leave because I see you now. I see who you really are behind that mask you wear."

This book come with a stunningly beautiful cover that took my breath away…

The author said that she saw the gorgeous cover picture on a stock photo site and she just knew that she had to write the story about the fabulous ballet dancer which picturing perfectly with the model, and that’s how Valentin Bychkov was born. And I couldn’t agree more that the cover captivating me since the first time I saw it! And need to say that it deserved my full five stars for pleasing my coverslut eyes!

The combinations of a snarky ballet dancer with the Bratva background and a freelance sound engineer enough to made me sold into the story instantly.

Max is a ‘fuck ’em and leave ’em’ type guy. He doesn’t do relationships and never fuck the same guy twice. He has his own reason why he stick to that rule for years. Trust me, when you know the reason behind it, it will broke your heart into pieces…

When he accepted his friend last minute offer as a sound engineer at a ballet show, he didn’t expect to meet this stunning and gorgeous ballet dancer that caught his full attention since the first time he saw him.

Ignoring his friend’s advice/warning to not screwing with the dancer, Max couldn’t resist his sudden attraction to one of the most outstanding look dancer he ever seen who turned out to be a rising star of the ballet world, Valentin Bychkov.

Valentin Bychkov is a prodigy in the ballet world. He’s arrogant, snarky and fabulous. But no one know what story he hide behind all the diva mask he wore. But then he meet Max…

At first Valentin always treat Max like any other men that came to his life…'fuck ‘em and leave ‘em’. But then he realize that Max had made him feels something that he never crave before. On their short quick encounter, Valentin start to lower his guard because he found out that  Max could see past all the façade he put behind his mask and snarky attitude, and love the real him behind all the diva glams he wears. And for the first time in his life he want more….

But with the bratva that came between them, could they escape the danger that shadowing their life?

This book come with good premise. The tensions is good enough to stir the anxiousness in me while reading it. It’s afraid me even more to know that both of the MCs is walking on a very thin lines when what they did will cost their life when it involved the bratva in it. I was anxiously waiting for the moment when will they get caught. What will happen next? Will they gonna make it? Will they survive and have their HEA?

This is my second H.L. Day's book I read, and she successfully hooked me again with her writing.

Even though I gave my high praises about this book, still I must admit that the ending of the book quite not satisfied me at some point, but overall this book successfully captivated me almost the entire reading and I will gladly recommend this book to you….

ARC REVIEW: The Coincidence by Felice Stevens

Title : The Coincidence

Author : Felice Stevens

Genre(s) : contemporary gay romance

Release Date : March 21st 2019

Rating : 5/5 Stars

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Nice guys always finish last, and Coby Epstein is sick and tired of being last. After his boyfriend dumps him, Coby vows to take it slow and not jump into another relationship, no matter what his ninety-five-year-old great aunt says. When Coby sees his ex has moved on, he goes on a series of disastrous first dates and swears off men, determined to be alone. His best friend disagrees and finds the “perfect man” for him online and arranges a date. The only problem? Coby has no idea what she’s done.

Since childhood, Eli Kaplan has been his father’s greatest disappointment, a fact he’s reminded of at every opportunity. For years, he’s struggled with the knowledge that dating women doesn’t work for him. A late-night confession to his brother changes everything and Eli realizes, maybe, just maybe, he can come out, find himself, and find love. Eli takes the plunge and creates a profile on a dating website, not knowing what to expect. One night he chats with an intriguing man, and despite his nervousness, they arrange to meet for coffee. No big deal. They’ll probably never see each other again.

On the day of their first date, nothing could surprise Coby and Eli more than to discover that they live in the same apartment building, on the same floor. In a city of eight million people, coincidences don’t get crazier than that. But as the two men begin to weave their lives together with cautious optimism and hope for a future, they find an even greater thread holding their families together—one born from the ashes of a final solution that couldn’t destroy their ancestors’ courage, leaving scars that remain almost a century later. Past lives torn apart can be pieced together by a future no one could have ever imagined, where love is more than fate or coincidence. It’s meant to be.

“It’s more than a coincidence. It’s fate.”

The universe works in mysterious ways and nothing is coincidence if the universe want it….

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Coby and Eli are stranger lived in a city of eight million people, but them serial coincidences happen to them in a very unique and unbelievable way that lead them to the one true love of their life…

“You need to find somebody to love who’ll love you back the way you deserve. You need someone to care about you...”

After break up with his ex, Coby made a promise to himself to not to jump into any relationship again for a moment and put himself first after being treated as less important person all these time. But that’s not what his best friend, Addie think, because she’s insisted that to forget the old ones Coby should find a new guy to move on. She then decided to find a new perfect guy for Coby through the dating online site…

All my life, I’d kept my emotions hidden. People called me the strong and silent one, but that wasn’t the real me. Only now, in this moment, could I expose my true self. Now, with Coby touching me. He unlocked the passion I hadn’t even known existed inside me…

For years Eli had accustomed for being the black sheep in the family. Whatever he did never satisfied and fulfill his father standard of success. After he come out to his brother and have serious talk with him, Eli then taking his brother advice and decided to join the dating online site. When a stranger profile caught his eyes he brave himself to made a contact and then…one by one coincidence start to happens…

One thing that always made me fall in love with Felice's works is her capability to turn a very simple things that happen in our daily life into something extra ordinary through her writing and made us keep falling and falling in love again and again with the story she wrote and all the main characters she created.

I already falling in love with the blurb before I even read the book, and I’m fall deeply in love more when I started the book. The dynamic of the story, the connection, the slow burn and the two adorable main characters had stolen my heart right away. The coincidence by coincidence that happen in this book work like magic and warmed my heart. But what I love the most in this story is the way the author always put a family love into the story, and this is what made this book successfully warm my heart to the fullest.

The Coincidence is no doubt another good read from Felice Stevens. And I recommended this book to YOU!!

Felice Stevens has always been a romantic at heart. She believes that while life is tough, there is always a happy ending around the corner, Her characters have to work for it, however. Like life in NYC, nothing comes easy and that includes love.

Felice has written over twenty books in the gay romance genre. Her books been translated into German, French and Italian. Her novel. One Call Away, part of her Soulmates series, was mentioned in Buzzfeed as one of the best “Out for You” gay romances of 2017.

Felice lives in New York City with her husband and two children. Her day begins with a lot of caffeine and ends with a glass or two of red wine. She recently retired from the practice law and now daydreams of a time when she can sit by a beach somewhere and write beautiful stories of men falling in love. Although there are bound to be a few bumps along the way, a Happily Ever After is always guaranteed.

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RELEASE BLITZ & REVIEW TOUR : A Body in a Bathhouse (A Mitch O’Reilly Mystery #1) by Brad Shreve

Title : A Body in a Bathhouse
Author : Brad Shreve
Series : A Mitch O’Reilly Mystery book one
Genre(s) : gay romance, crime/mystery/suspense
Release Date : March 14th 2019
Rating : 3/5

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Nearly bankrupt, wise-cracking private investigator, Mitch O’Reilly, divides his time accepting any investigation gig that comes his way, while half-heartedly running his Eye Spy Supply shop in a forgotten Los Angeles strip mall,

Two tours in Afghanistan have left Mitch a broken man whose social life amounts to enduring his fun-loving sister, Josie, and hooking up with anonymous men he meets online. That may change when he gets his big break. A beloved comedy scriptwriter is murdered at a bathhouse, and Mitch is hired to prove the innocence of the club custodian. In addition, the flirtatious club manager, Trent Nakos, has Mitch reexamining his belief that there should be no emotional entanglements associated with sex.

While Mitch investigates the bathhouse murder, he learns there’s more to investigate than just a dead body. He must choose between continuing a case that could finally put him on the map or drop the case to protect the one he loves.

A crime mystery thriller is not my usual cup of tea in book genres, but I don’t know why the blurb of this book had caught my attention and raised a deep curiosity in me. And the next thing I know I signed for the arc of this book and I must preparing myself for any challenges this book gave me.

The first thing I notice when I read the first few chapters is…I have a bit struggling with the author's writing and the ‘humors’ he put in this thriller mystery. I was expecting the story will grab me in, but I find myself can’t connected with the main characters and the story quite well.

But even though I have some troubles connecting with the story, I must admit that there’s a part of me that still enjoying it. The guessing part and the way the author trying to blurring the suspect and drove the readers to multiple suspects are fun enough. Well at least it almost satisfied the Sherlock side in me.

Overall the book is interesting enough to follow, but the way the author ‘solved’ the mystery at nearly end of the book was far from what I expected and that quite a bummer for me.

After growing up in Michigan and North Carolina, Brad Shreve criss-crossed the country while working in the hotel industry. In addition to working in hotels as a bellman, front desk clerk, and reservation call center director, he’s managed coffee houses, waited tables, sold potato chips off a truck and even hocked pre-burial funeral plans. 

He credits Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak for developing his interest in art and storytelling. He’d spend hours on the floor sketching and painting and writing stories. My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George gave him his first inklings that he’d like to be a novelist someday.

In addition to perpetually thinking of how to kill people, he’s a proud dad, a beach bum, and coffee house squatter.

He currently lives in the Los Angeles South Bay with his husband, Maurice.

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RELEASE BLITZ & REVIEW : Perilous Hearts (Deviant Hearts #3) by A E Ryecart

Title: Perilous Hearts
Series : Deviant Hearts #3

Author: A E Ryecart

Publisher: Self-Published

Cover Artist: Meredith Russell

Genre/s: MM Romance (friends to lovers with psychological suspense)

Heat Rating: 4 flames 

Length: approx. 95 000 words

Release Date: March 8, 2019
Rating : 4/5 Stars

It’s the third in the Deviant w series, but can be read as a standalone. There is no need to have read the other books in the series first.

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You can lock your door, but can you lock your heart?

Finding the courage to end his relationship with his manipulative and vicious boyfriend, Jamie Wheeler turns to his close friend Ed Corrigan to help him get his life back on track.

Jamie and Ed have been inseparable for years, and all it would take is a small step to cross the divide from friends to lovers.

It would be the biggest mistake they could make. 

Jamie seeks the security of a settled long-term relationship, but Ed vows never to put his heart on the line again after a devastating betrayal. Anything beyond friendship is a risk, and could break them forever.

As Jamie’s vindictive ex causes trouble from the side-lines, a face from the past makes an unwelcome return. Jamie’s life isn’t getting back on track, it’s coming off the rails, as a series of seemingly random events lead to only one of two conclusions: either somebody’s playing a dark and sinister game, or Jamie’s losing his mind.

Tensions rise and danger approaches, drawing Jamie and Ed closer than ever. But time is running out as they race to discover not only what is happening, and why, but also what they truly mean to each other.

The third book in the Deviants Heart series, Perilous Hearts is a slow burn friends to lovers romance intertwined with dark psychological suspense. It can be read as a stand-alone and there is no need to have read the previous two books in the series. No cliff hanger and HEA guaranteed.

Mind games are so much more effective in the long run because they pick away at a person. They make even the most down-to-earth and stable types start to question and doubt themselves. Violence is too crude, though it has its place of course. But attack a person’s self-belief, and you attack and destroy the very core of them…

I must admit that I jumped into this book FIRST because the guy at the cover caught my attention. The SECOND is because the blurb had successfully intrigued me. And I’m really afraid that I will not catch the story because this is actually book three in the series. But the warning said that even this is part of the series, it still can be read as stand alone. So I decided to give this book a try….

The story successfully caught my attention right from the very beginning. The tensions and suspense the author trying to build right from the start made this book hard to put down. The main reason why I like the story is the friends-to-lovers trope this book offered me and when it combined with a psychological thriller, it made the reading become more and more interesting.

The mysteries are a bit predictable for me, I even know ‘the who' behind all the terrors right away, but I must admit the whole story still interesting enough to follow and I do enjoying every part of it.

And now I’m curious about the two previous books in this series since the guys from the previous books make some appearance in this book.

If you looking for friends-to-lovers story with a bit of psychological suspense touch, this book is one good choice.

A E Ryecart – or Ali as she’s known to many of her readers – writes contemporary mm romance and gay fiction. From the warm, sweet and fuzzy to the gritty, hard-hitting and challenging, Ali doesn’t hold back from making life just that little bit (or a lot) difficult for her men. But then who said the road to love and happiness was an easy one?

Ali’s stories are often set in London, where she was born and raised, providing the perfect metropolitan background to the main action. Now she’s older, if not wiser, and lives just outside of the big bad city with her husband, an overactive imagination, and a huge pot of coffee as she pounds the keyboard of her trusty laptop.

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ARC REVIEW : The Ghosts Between Us (The West Hills #1) by Brigham Vaughn

Title : The Ghosts Between Us
Author : Brigham Vaughn
Series : The West Hills book one
Genre(s) : contemporary gay romance, hurt-comfort-healing
Release Date : March 3rd 2019
Rating : 5/5 Stars

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Dr. Christopher Allen knows how to deal with death. He’s a psychiatrist who works with hospice patients and their families, helping them cope with grief and letting go. But Chris’s job doesn’t prepare him for the sudden death of his devil-may-care brother Cal.

At Cal’s funeral, Chris is completely thrown when he meets Elliot Rawlings, an artist Cal has been dating. Chris is hurt to discover that the brother he knew as straight was actually bisexual. Elliot is angry and resentful of having been kept hidden from Cal’s family.

After the funeral, a night of drinking at the bar with Cal’s friends leads to Chris and Elliot falling into bed together. The next morning, they’re overwhelmed by guilt and grief and agree to never speak of it again.

But Cal’s apartment needs to be packed up and Elliot reluctantly agrees to help Chris, as well as answer some questions about Cal’s life and their relationship. Despite their guilt and initial dislike for one another, they sort through the pieces of Cal’s life and begin to fall for each other.

Despite his best efforts to fix things, Chris’s family seems to be crumbling around him and he begins to question who he is and what his role with them is. As his feelings for Elliot grow, Chris must decide if they’re worth further damaging his fragile relationships with his friends and family.

Elliot’s rough upbringing has left him distrustful of getting close to anyone, much less another man who isn’t willing to acknowledge him in public. The odds seem stacked against Chris and Elliot, but if they can overcome them, they may be able to lay Cal’s ghost to rest, along with their own demons.

Reader Advisory: This story deals with themes related to alcoholism, death (of secondary characters), and past abuse/neglect.

…despite the guilt and regret, there was no denying that a big part of me still responded to Elliot. And the more common ground Elliot and I found, the more difficult to ignore the attraction I felt to him. Nothing about him was my type and yet something about him drew me in.

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This book come with super maddening slow burn pace, but trust me it’s worth every second of your patience and time!

I know that this book will gonna be something since the first time the blurb caught me. And I’m so glad that the book had fulfill my expectations.

The emotional journey about the grieving and how the two main characters trying to cope it had successfully gripping my heart right from the very first page to the end. I have this constant ache in my heart during the reading. The raw emotions the author trying to portrayed through some emotional scenes had success put me in constant gloomy. I cried, mad and my heart broke for both Elliott, Chris….and Cal….

I mad at Cal for what he did to Elliott, but completely understand why the guilty eat him slowly from inside. I mad at Chris for almost hurt Elliott like what his brother did, but again I understand the dilemmas and the guilt he feels about his attraction to his brother boyfriend, and I have this constant urge to hug Elliott almost the entire reading because this poor guy didn’t deserve for being a dirty little secret. Elliott deserve all the best in his life, that include love...

The way the author woven the conflicts between the two main characters and people around them feels believable and squeeze my heart again and again, the main characters raw emotions and vulnerability are strip bare to the reader through the dynamic of the ups and down of their fragile relationship. And it’s all combined beautifully with the good writing that made this book feel stellar.

Brigham Vaughn is a new author to me and this is the first time I read her work, but I’ll make sure it won’t be the last…

That was the odd thing about all of this. I hardly knew him, yet Elliot understood me better than anyone else in my life. 

....the way he’d held me, let me grieve, anchored me. I had to believe it had meant something.  

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