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Rules Are Meant to be Broken
By N.J. Nielsen

The Lines of Marsden were born into existence for a reason: to right the wrongs that had once taken place. Destiny fated that they must destroy the Eldren before evil wins.

Michael Marsden wants to die -- for real this time. He wasn't meant to lead the half-life that he does. He chooses to let it go and let death take what it had already claimed.

But Christian Risely isn't about to let that happen. He is drawn to Michael and is willing to do anything to ensure that he lives, even if that means keeping him alive against his will.

Garcia and Me
978-1-60820-564-6
By Derek Adams

When Andy drops in on his good friend Jolene to vent about the sorry state of his love life, he soon discovers that she has troubles of her own. Her current relationship just isn't working out and she wants Andy to help her let the guy down easy. He reluctantly agrees, only to realize the target date is Valentine's Day, his least favorite holiday of the year. Then he meets Garcia and is immediately smitten -- and totally intimidated. After a few uncomfortable minutes of fantasizing what he'd like to do to the man, Andy is summoned to join him for a trip to the men's room. Will this end in bliss? -- or in a quick trip to the emergency room?

A Time for Secrets: Boystown 4
A Nick Nowak Novel
By Marshall Thornton

In the first full-length novel of the Boystown series, it's late summer 1982 and private detective Nick Nowak is asked to find a retired gentleman's long lost lover.

Instead, he finds himself embroiled in a decades old murder connected to the man who wants to be Chicago's next mayor. Meanwhile, an ambitious young reporter develops a friendship with Nick's lover Bert, making Nick wonder exactly what where their relationship may be heading.

Love Led Them
By Helen Beattie

When Marcus Sanders asks a statue of Cupid to help him fall in love with the man of his dreams... he never expected to fall in love with the man IN his dreams! Is Marcus destined to only ever find happiness while he's sleeping? Or will Cupid's plan truly lead Marcus to love?

Lights Out, Valentine
By Neil Plakcy

South Beach hairstylist Ryan hates Valentine's Day. But will this day of roses and chocolates end with him giving his heart away to his favorite client once the lights go out? Only Cupid knows!

A Little Kiss
By Karenna Colcroft

Braden Porter is a tow-truck driver in Anglesey, Maine, and is, as far as he knows, the only gay man in town. It's only when chocolate kisses start appearing around Valentine's day that he starts to get the feeling that he might not be alone after all.

Possibilities
By Kaje Harper

After the five years he spent with his last lover, Cade has come to regard Valentine's Day as irrelevant - just another day when romantic chumps spend money they can't spare to keep the chocolate and greeting card companies happy. But his lover, Lorin, has been dead for eight months. After struggling to get past his grief, and cope with his HIV positive status, Cade is beginning to think about getting on with his life. Joel, a young co-worker, is not the person Cade would have chosen to share his battered and tainted renaissance . But Joel may be just the man to unfreeze the romantic in Cade's soul.

Budding Hopes
By Vivien Dean

For eight months, Dr. Mark Vance has been visiting Sheehan's Nursery to buy flowers for his mother's grave, and every week, Hal Sheehan slips an extra lily into the bunch. Mark would love nothing more than to get to know the gentle giant better, but in 1954 Baltimore, a man just doesn't ask another man out. His fears are compounded when a visit the day before Valentine's casts doubts on Hal's intentions. Maybe he really was meant to live a life of secrets. Or maybe he just needs the holiday to discover the best secret of them all.

Home for Valentines
By Stevie Woods

Adrian and Elliot have been a couple now for over a year, but Adrian wants more. When Elliot is called away the day before Valentine's, Adrian trusts his lover will make it back to at least enjoy the evening with him - and to answer one simple question.

Hunting for Clay
By N.J. Nielsen

Two years have passed since Clay and Hunter met on that fateful morning in Tello's Diner. Getting passed the fact Clay was stalking Marlowe was the easy part. Clay Montgomery's life has changed for the better the day he found the man who was meant to be the other half of him. Hunter understood him well, and knew how to give him exactly what he needs to be happy. Hunter Weldon knows what he wants, and just how to get it. For two years he has loved the man in his arms and now it was time to up the ante.

It's Magic
By William Maltese

William Maltese's "It's Magic" relates the tale of an unexpected love between a young magician and king, along with the attending circumstances that possibly don't allow the insufficient magic of the times, without compromise, to provide any kind of extended happy-ever-after ending.

Laying Down For The Law
By J.P. Bowie

Steve Reynolds has a great job, a snazzy apartment in Los Angeles, and some good friends. What he doesn't have is a date for the upcoming office Valentine's Day party. When he tackles a burglar in his apartment, he winds up in the arms of LAPD Officer Richard Malone. Has Cupid brought Steve the ideal Valentine's date-or a man who might just turn Steve's ordered life upside down?

Victorian Valentine
By Riley Shane

When Lord Christopher Norcutt finds a valentine in his bedroom, he believes it must have been left there by mistake; fourth sons of earls who prefer the company of other men are not the sort to attract admirers. But the secret valentine only marks the beginning of an unusual day for Christopher. As Christopher sets off to fulfill an obligation to his brother, a second valentine comes into his possession - this one discovered in a place that has meaning only to Christopher and his lover, Jack Ashton. Does a Valentine's Day surprise await Christopher at the end of his journey?

Video Store Valentine
By Geoffrey Knight

Cal Nichols' idea of the perfect Valentine's Day is to spend it alone—until he finds himself in the middle of an armed robbery and locked inside his local video store with hunky store clerk Taylor. Now being in the wrong place at the wrong time has never been so right!

Somewhere Only We Know
By William Neale

Grayson Wagner is a classical pianist who was unemployed, hungry, and on the brink of being homeless until he's hired by a big-hearted former country music star as her new piano player. Gray loves his job but his new life is threatened when a near fatal accident delivers him into the brawny arms of Jacob Kent, a reclusive park ranger. Their physical attraction quickly turns into much more. But can their love survive Jacob's secret? Or, a shocking revelation that threatens to tear down the very house that love built?

Kissing Joan Collins
By Lex Valentine

Gay suspense author Logan Moore fell in love with the most perfect gay man ever during his freshman year in college. But his roommate and best friend Chase Courtland never showed an interest in him. Twelve years and a handful of failed relationships later, Logan acknowledges that he still loves Chase. When Chase puts on a designer dress, four-inch heels and a wig and transforms himself into Joan Collins for a Valentine's Day masquerade party, Logan's libido rockets out of control. One look at Chase's perfect ass in the skin tight dress and Logan is ready to drag him off to bed. But can two best friends bridge the gap of a dozen years of denial and build a life together after one amazing night of revelations, confessions and love?

Theme of Heart
By K-lee Klein

Gage Galeano's career with Glitter Fox is soaring: he has his best friend, bandmate and lover by his side. Rylan Rivers knows Gage hates the duality of Valentine's Day but he’s determined to make this year's dreaded day memorable in a very good and sexy way.

Reflections
By Barry Brennessel

Brian Caleb made a lot of mistakes chasing his first love. A fleeting, confusing love that disappeared forever. He wishes it were a lifetime ago, but the pain is fresh and raw. Now he's running away from love. And everything else in his life.

Then a chance encounter takes an unexpected turn: Brian finds himself falling for someone after something falls on someone!

They say true love comes when you're not looking for it. That's precisely what scares Brian. Can he find the courage to follow his heart again?

China House
By Vincent Lardo

High on a hill in Salem, Massachusetts CHINA HOUSE, an elegant mansion, stands deserted. Something happened there twenty years ago that prompted the wealthy Evans family to abandon the house, never to return. Now haunted by the memory of his dead twin brother, Scott Evans inherits CHINA HOUSE and its secrets. With his lover, Michael Armstrong, Scott invites an authority on the Supernatural, Dr. Howard Roth, to spend a week in CHINA HOUSE. Other invitees are the doctor's son, Ken, and the doctor's assistant, Alice Miller. Three hot young men and a lady in love with her boss account for the sexual tension in CHINA HOUSE when the party is isolated by a winter storm. But WHO, or WHAT, is responsible for the mysterious sights and sounds orchestrating this erotic tableau?