Dreamspinner Press’ releases for the week of August 5, 2013
Valley of the Dead by J.S. Cook
The Second World War rages: it touches Newfoundland in unprecedented ways, throwing spies and patriots together inside expatriate Jack Stolyes’s Heartache Café and forcing uncomplementary bedfellows into alliances. It’s all in a day’s work for Jack, whose introduction to the Island included corrupt cops, a murder on the doorstep of his restaurant, and more than one attempt on his life.
When exotic and alluring Egyptian diplomat Samuel Halim enters Jack’s small corner of the world, Jack’s life will change forever. Then, on his voyage home, Sam disappears along with the code key to decipher a Nazi radio command that will set Rommel’s troops in motion.
Jack finds himself with nothing to go on except a fragmented late-night phone call from Sam and a handful of disparate clues. In the teeming heat of Cairo—a city rife with romance, secrets, sex, and danger, where no one is who he seems and violent death waits around every shadowed corner—it’s up to Jack to find the new love of his life and deliver the code that will change the course of history.
Length: Novel (226p.) | Genre: Historical, Mystery/Suspense | Release Date: August 5, 2013
Buy as eBook ($6.99 ISBN: 978-1-62380-630-9) | Buy as Paperback ($14.99 ISBN: 978-1-62380-629-3)
When Love Takes Over by Jacob Z. Flores
Zach Kelly’s life is a shambles. His boyfriend of three years dumped him, and his writing career is going nowhere. On a whim, he heads to Provincetown, Massachusetts, to nurse his broken heart and figure out his next step. He’s expecting to find rest and relaxation on the sandy beaches of Cape Cod. Instead, Zach meets a hunky porn star during a chance encounter at a leather shop he mistakes as a place to buy a belt that is definitely not for whipping.
Van Pierce is smitten when shy and inexperienced Zach crashes through a shelf of fetish gear. Though Van’s got an insatiable appetite for men on and off the set, his porn persona, Hart Throb, hides a broken heart. He’s struggling to find the reality the porno set doesn’t offer, and Zach is fighting to find the fantasy that will set his writing on fire. The odd goofball and the suave beefcake may either find love amid Provincetown’s colorful pagentry where summer never seems to end—or more heartbreak than either can imagine.
Length: Novel (270p.) | Genre: Contemporary, M/M/M or More | Release Date: August 5, 2013
Buy as eBook ($6.99 ISBN: 978-1-62380-023-4) | Buy as Paperback ($16.99 ISBN: 978-1-62380-022-7)
Syrah by Nessa L. Warin
All Shawn Neale is looking for when he stumbles into All Corked Up on Christmas Eve is some wine recommendations. What he finds is an instant attraction to Royce Wilkinson, the shop’s owner. After a few weeks of flirting during shopping and some semi-dates at Royce’s wine tastings, they decide on a real date. It goes well, but life isn’t that simple.
Shawn wants to buy Delicto, the local pub he manages. He’s been planning his life around this for years, but when the owner, who believes being gay is an illness, discovers Shawn went out with Royce, he gives Shawn an ultimatum: stop dating guys or he won’t get to buy Delicto. It’s a heartbreaking quandary: Can Royce and Shawn be happy with a secret relationship until Shawn buys Delicto or is Shawn going to have to choose between his dream job and his dream guy?
Length: Novel (200p.) | Genre: Contemporary | Release Date: August 7, 2013
Buy as eBook ($6.99 ISBN: 978-1-62380-031-9) | Buy as Paperback ($14.99 ISBN: 978-1-62380-030-2)
Taking Chances by John Goode
A Tales From Foster High Story
Fearing the backlash of living as a gay man in Foster, Texas, Matt Wallace runs away to California, only to find it isn’t the Promised Land he’d hoped for. Christmas sees Matt returning to Foster, where he bumps into his old flame, high school jock Tyler Parker.
Now that they’re older, it doesn’t take Matt too long to figure out that love at first sight is a very real thing. The only problem is neither Matt nor Tyler seems to know what to do after that. They’re both running from the past—and each other—requiring some reverse engineering to actually spur the relationship past the false start.
Length: Novel (200p.) | Genre: Contemporary, Coming of Age, Humor | Release Date: August 7, 2013
Buy as eBook ($6.99 ISBN: 978-1-62380-059-3) | Buy as Paperback ($14.99 ISBN: 978-1-62380-058-6)
Blessed Curses by Madeleine Ribbon
Though he’s a sorcerer with a talent for creating blessings, David can do very little with any other magic. He works the night shift for his cousin’s magical supply shop because he’s cursed—his brother did it when they were kids—and now people can’t stand to be near David since he inspires irrational fear. Many experts have tried to remove it, but the curse has proven completely binding. Then David meets Vaughn at his brother’s wedding.
Vaughn works for the magical enforcers, picking apart complex curses and making sure sorcerers stay within the law. He has the ability to dampen magical effects around him and loves solving supposedly irreversible curses like David’s. He quickly develops a more personal interest in David. Despite the distance David attempts to keep between them, he finally realizes when Vaughn is injured on the job that he doesn’t want to stay away anymore. But what about the curse?
Length: Novella (168p.) | Genre: Contemporary Fantasy | Release Date: August 7, 2013
Buy as eBook ($4.99 ISBN: 978-1-62380-057-9)
Cashing The Reality Check by Lex Chase
Checkmate: Book Two; Sequel to Pawn Takes Rook
Even after eleven months of keeping the mean streets of Axis City safe, superduo Checkmate—Hogarth Dawson—and his boyfriend, Memphis Rook, still receive the cold shoulder from the Power Alliance. Undeterred, Hogarth brings his intense focus to bear on Rook, and after Hogarth makes an accidental marriage proposal, it becomes all too clear Rook isn’t quite at the same place. But before life gets awkward, duty calls.
Booted-off female contestants of the romantic reality show Single and Super are being found in comas, and Checkmate needs to get to the bottom of it. As part of Rook’s plan, he cleans up his bad boy image and goes undercover as a bachelor looking for love among twenty-five frenzied women. Against Rook’s wishes, Hogarth sneaks onto the set as a cameraman to investigate the case on his own. With questions unanswered between them, emotions run high, distracting them and feeding a trap of their own making.
Length: Novella (138p.) | Genre: Contemporary, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Humor
Release Date: August 7, 2013 | Buy as eBook ($4.99 ISBN: 978-1-62380-060-9)
Love Comes in Darkness by Andrew Grey
Howard Justinian has always had to fight for his freedom. Because he was born blind, everyone is always trying to shelter him, but he’s determined to live his life on his own terms.
When an argument with his boyfriend over that hard-won self-reliance leaves Howard stranded by the side of the road, assistance arrives in the form of Gordy Jarrett. Gordy is a missionary’s son, so helping others is second nature—and he does it in such an unassuming manner that Howard can’t say no.
Life is barely back on track when Howard receives shocking news: his sister died, leaving him her daughter to care for. Howard now faces his greatest challenge yet: for Sophia’s safety, he’ll need to accept help, but will he learn to accept it from Gordy, the one man who will not curb his independence?
Length: Novel (204p.) | Genre: Contemporary | Release Date: August 9, 2013
Buy as eBook ($6.99 ISBN: 978-1-62380-952-2) | Buy as Paperback ($14.99 ISBN: 978-1-62380-951-5)
The Race Is On by Lily Velden
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Book Two: How the Light Gets In
Hollywood heartthrob Jaxon Moncrieff and Liam Lassiter are finally on the same page: committed and in it for the long haul. Now they just have to prepare for the inevitable fallout when they reveal their relationship. Between Jaxon’s career and Liam’s need to prepare for a life in the limelight, they decide to wait until filming of Jaxon’s latest project has wrapped.
Unbeknownst to them, the relentless paparazzi photographer Rafael Cacciatore, aka the Hunter, notices a change in Jaxon and is determined to be the first to break the story of who has captured Jaxon Moncrieff’s heart. In the meantime, Liam and Jaxon have enough on their plate working out the not-so-little issue of how and when Jaxon will come out to his family. The paparazzi aren’t even on their radar. The race to out Jaxon is on, and Liam and Jaxon don’t even know it.
Length: Novel (350p.) | Genre: Contemporary | Release Date: August 9, 2013
Buy as eBook ($6.99 ISBN: 978-1-62380-622-4) | Buy as Paperback ($17.99 ISBN: 978-1-62380-621-7)
Harmony Ink Press’ releases for the week of August 5, 2013
Pitch by Will Parkinson
The day Jackson Kern walks into Taylor Andrews’s classroom is a momentous day in Taylor’s life. He’s had crushes before, sure, but as time goes on, this is starting to look a whole lot more serious. Still, Jackson doesn’t return Taylor’s feelings.
Taylor has his own admirers, though. Kevin Richards is used to getting what he wants, and what he wants right now is Taylor, so when Taylor rejects him, Kevin retaliates. At first Taylor’s entourage rallies around him, but then Kevin takes his deception one step further and Taylor sees his support dwindle, teaching him the valuable lesson about who he can truly consider a friend.
Length: Novel (180p.) | Genre: Contemporary, Coming of Age, Gay, YA
Release Date: August 8, 2013 | Buy as eBook ($6.99 ISBN: 978-1-62380-035-7) | Buy as Paperback ($14.99 ISBN: 978