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Because of the Brave
Laura Baumbach
Josh Lanyon
ZA Maxfield

This collection honors the men who've served in the military and labored with the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy.

In Laura Baumbach's Designated Target a soldier returns to his commander's hometown to tell his brother the truth. about what happened in the field.

Josh Lanyon's Until We Meet Once More pits a Naval Academy graduate against the Taliban and his own repressed past.

Finally in Z.A. Maxfield's Jumping Off Places a soldier returns home to be with his dying mother and finds more than he bargained for in the place he'd hoped to never see again.

Committed to Memory
Partners In Crime #5
Josh Lanyon
J.S. Cook

Two men: one with memories he can't escape, the other with memories he can't recapture -- both trusting strangers who lie.

Amnesiac Peter Killian, suspected art thief, can't understand why LAPD detective Michael Griffin takes his memory loss so personally.

American expatriate Jack Stoyles, exiled in a distant Atlantic outpost, is suddenly in love with a stranger who kisses him -- and then dies. With good reason Jack calls his place "Heartache Cafe".

Josh Lanyon Collected Novellas Vol. 2
Josh Lanyon

Dark Horse was Josh Lanyon's first foray into writing for the m/m romance market. It also turned out to be one of his readers' favorite tales.

In a Dark Wood and Ghost of a Chance explore the terrors of houses haunted by something far worse than ghosts: the toxic product of guilt and shattered memory.

British agent Mark Hardwicke is on the run from a mission gone horribly wrong, looking for shelter and care. But, in I Spy Something Bloody the only man who can offer that shelter and care is also the only man that Mark seems determined to push from his life.

This collection includes the bonus short story A Limited Engagement, written for a collection whose sales support funding for marriage equality in the United States.

Josh Lanyon Collected Novellas Vol 1
Josh Lanyon

In Dangerous Ground a casino robbery finds government agents Taylor and Will playing a game of cat-and-mouse with remorseless killers in the wilderness of California's High Sierras.

Snowball in Hell introduces police detective Lt. Matthew Spain and reporter Nathan Doyle, men thrown together by murder. But, in post-WWII Los Angeles consequences of their attraction are serious, even for good guys. Lanyon fans take note: It's around Matthew and Nathan that Lanyon builds his new mystery series.

Writer Tim North assures his lover, homicide detective Jack Brady, that there's little danger in researching a sensational Hollywood murder committed decades before either of them was born. But, with Cards on the Table, Tim discovers that he's very, very wrong. This collection includes the bonus short story In Sunshine or In Shadow.

Partners in Crime #4
The Art of Dying
Josh Lanyon
Jordan Castillo Price

Lovers and Other Strangers by Josh Lanyon Recovering from a near fatal accident, artist Finn Barret returns to Seal Island in Maine to rest and recuperate. But Seal Island is haunted with memories, some sweet, some sad; three years ago Finn found his lover in the arms of Fitch, Finn's twin brother. Since that day, Finn has seen neither Conlan nor Fitch. In fact, no one has seen Fitch. What happened to him? Did Fitch run away, as everyone believes? Or did he meet a more sinister fate? To put the past to rest - and see if there's any chance of a future with Con - Finn must discover the truth. But the deeper he digs, the more reason he has to fear Con is the only one who knows what truly happened to Fitch...

Body Art by Jordan Castillo Price His lover has betrayed and swindled Ray Carlucci out of everything he valued, including a tattoo business. Hounded by creditors, weary of heart, he accepts the job of chauffeur and body man for the dying owner of a remote estate. The island, minus its wealthy summer colony, is colorless in winter and Ray thinks he understands why staff on the estate periodically desert. But, he's baffled by, then drawn to, Anton, the eccentric artist who haunts the forest, bringing strange life to bizarre and disquieting sculptures amidst the ice and trees. When the body of a man who once held Ray's job rises from the frosty earth, Ray wonders what part Anton's wildness has in the escalating violence.

The Ghost Wore Yellow Socks
Josh Lanyon

His romantic weekend in ruins, shy twenty-something artist Perry Foster learns that things can always get worse when he returns home from San Francisco to find a dead body in his bathtub. A dead body in a very ugly sportscoat--and matching socks. The dead man is a stranger to Perry, but that's not much of a comfort; how did a strange dead man get in a locked flat at the isolated Alton Estate in the wilds of the "Northeast Kingdom" of Vermont? Perry turns to help from "tall, dark and hostile" former navy SEAL Nick Reno--but is Reno all that he seems?

Mexican Heat
#1 Crimes & Cocktails Mystery Series
Laura Baumbach
Josh Lanyon

A new romantic crime series from the combined, finely blended talents of popular award winning authors Laura Baumbach and Josh Lanyon.

Tough, street-smart SFPD Detective Gabriel Sandalini is willing to do whatever it takes to bring down West Coast crime boss Ricco Botelli -- including a dangerous, deep undercover gig as one of Botelli's hired guns. But Gabriel's best laid plans may come crashing down around him when he falls hard for the sexy, suave lieutenant of a rival Mexican drug lord. Turns out his new love interest may have a few secrets of his own: secrets that could destroy both men and the fragile bond between them.

Mexican Heat has won a coveted CataNetwork Reviewers' Choice Award for 2009. CataNetwork reviewers consider this book one of the best that they have read and reviewed for Sensual this year.

Mexican Heat has been nominated for the CAPA Award for 2009 in the Romantic Suspense catagory.

Death of a Pirate King
#4 Adrien English Mystery Series
Josh Lanyon

Gay bookseller and reluctant amateur sleuth Adrien English's writing career is suddenly taking off. His first novel, Murder Will Out, has been optioned by notorious Hollywood actor Paul Kane. But when murder makes an appearance at a dinner party, who should be called in but Adrien's former lover, handsome closeted detective Jake Riordan, now a Lieutenant with LAPD -- which may just drive Adrien's new boyfriend, sexy UCLA professor Guy Snowden, to commit a murder of his own!

Footsteps in the Dark
Partners In Crime #3
Josh Lanyon
Sarah Black

I Spy Something Bloody
Espionage was always a game, but now British spy Mark Hardwicke wants to retire and settle down with ex-lover Dr. Stephen Thorpe -- if Stephen will have him. Unfortunately, Stephen has other plans -- and so do the terrorists who want Mark dead.
Murder At Black Dog Springs
Code-talker Logan Kee returns to his home on the Navajo Reservation from the battlefields of Saipan. But a new battle is waiting for him. Uranium mining has begun within the four sacred mountains. When the old hand-trembler dies at Black Dog Springs, rumors fly that Leetso, the yellow monster, has been set free to walk the land.

Hostage
Anthology
Josh Lanyon
Sarah Black
Laura Baumbach

Three suspense-filled stories from a trio of the best authors in the M/M genre bring you tales of danger coupled with high intensity romance. What would you do if your lover had been kidnapped and you had to fight to get him back? Dangerous Ground By Josh Lanyon, Burn Card by Laura Baumbach and A Classic Story of Good and Evil by Sarah Black all visit the danger and passion of love and life torn apart by unforeseen circumstances This book also includes a bonus short from Black, The Second Indian Wars.

Man, Oh Man!
Writing M/M Fiction
for Kinks and Cash
Josh Lanyon

It can be more than just a dream...
To write the kind of stories that you love to read - that's what you really want. If only you knew how to get started.
Help from someone who knows...

I'll Be Dead For Christmas
Partners In Crime #2
Josh Lanyon
Sarah Black

Death of a Blues Angel by Sarah Black. It's Christmas, 1966. Deacon Davis is a veteran black reporter of the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement. But he doesn't know what to expect when three old men, legends of the Blues, bring a new Blues guitar out of Mississipi, and he's so white he glows. Rafael Hurt is hiding a dangerous secret, and the old men are trying to keep him safe. Then a young girl is murdered during Rafe's first gig at the Blues Angel. Rafe and Deke try to find the killer before the secrets around them lead more bloodshed to their door, and destroy any chance for the love growing between them

Snowball in Hell by Josh Lanyon. It's 1943 and the world is at war. Reporter Nathan Doyle is just back from the European Theater when he's asked to cover the murder of a society blackmailer--a man who, Homicide Detective Matthew Spain believes, Nathan had every reason to want dead.

The Hell You Say
#3 Adrien English Mystery Series
Josh Lanyon

The third novel in the Adrien English series finds the "ill-starred and bookish" mystery writer and bookseller battling demons--maybe literally. After bookstore clerk Angus flees following terrifying death threats, Adrien must contend with a mysterious Satanic cult, a hot and handsome university professor, and his on-again/off-again relationship with closeted LAPD Homicide Detective Jake Riordan. And, oh, yes, murder...

Scared Stiff
Ghost Anthology
Laura Baumbach
Josh Lanyon
William Maltese
Sarah Black

A quartet of inspired stories from best-selling authors William Maltese, Josh Lanyon, Sarah Black and Laura Baumbach. SCARED STIFF offers four very different tales of m/m ghostly doings that'll have readers panting (in more ways than one) under the covers. Maltese offers excitement and steamy pleasure in his Rendering Souls while Lanyon adds adventurous ghost hunters in his A Ghost of a Chance. Black gives you horrors from the past in Wild Onions, and Baumbach rounds out the volume with a hot tale of second chances in Soul Desire.

Boy Meets Body
Partners In Crime #1
Josh Lanyon
Sarah Black

   Cards on the Table
Fifty years ago a glamorous Hollywood party ended in murder-the only clue a bloody Tarot card. Timothy North is trying to find out what happened that long ago summer's night, but when a Tarot card turns up pinned to his front door, the only person Tim can turn to for help is his ex-lover, Detective Jack Brady.

Murder at the Heartbreak Hotel
Peter Moon, proprietor of a charming little get-away in the Land of the Midnight Sun, finds himself headed for less comfortable accommodations when he's accused of murder. Then his personal heartbreak showed up, fresh from six months in a Yukon River fish camp, determined to help.

A Dangerous Thing
#2 Adrien English Mystery Series
Josh Lanyon

Suffering from writer's block and frustrated with his tentative relationship with hot but closeted L.A.P.D. Homicide Detective Jake Riordan, gay bookseller and mystery writer Adrien English travels to northern California where he finds a body in his front drive. By the time the sheriffs arrive, the body has disappeared, and Adrien once again finds himself playing amateur sleuth. But when the game turns deadly, Adrien turns to Jake. Jake may be confused about some things, but keeping his lover alive is not one of them--no matter what the cost.