Amanda MeuwissenAmanda Meuwissen is a queer author with a primary focus in M/M or gay fiction and romance, dabbling in every subgenre. She is a board member for Big World Network, a non-profit publisher working toward education and growth opportunities for aspiring authors in underrepresented, economically disadvantaged, and rural communities.
As the author of LGBTQ+ Fantasy #1 Best Seller, Coming Up for Air, LGBTQ+ Horror #1 Best Seller and #1 New Release, A Delicious Descent, and #1 New Release in Fantasy Erotica and Gay Erotica, Last Courtesan of Olympus, Amanda’s extensive library of titles continues to grow.
Her organization of the massive 22-author series collaboration, Tales from the Tarot, has raised two thousand in donations for SAGE, a charity dedicated to advocacy and services for LGBTQ+ Elders, and her contributing title to the series, Cleric of Desire, continues to be an inspiration to readers as it delves into demi-gender identity.
She lives in Minnesota with her husband, John, and their two cats.
The Case of the Boy in Blue
Summary:Leonard Quill, private investigator, never expected a case to walk through his door quite like this one, complete with murder, a frame job, blackmail, and powerful players, especially coming from a man with bright blue eyes behind his glasses, a crooked bow tie, and an impossible smile.
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Single Dads All the Way
Real life is rarely a fairytale.
Beau de León only ever wanted the simple things in life. A steady job as a middle school history teacher, a faithful wife, and to one day become a dad. Recently, however, he lost out on all three.
Putting back the pieces of his life after his divorce, having discovered his wife was cheating on him and that their baby was not his, Beau’s luck continues to go from bad to worse when he can’t find a job in his field. Although his luck might be taking a turn for the better when he meets Arik, a single billionaire who did just become a father and needs a nanny.
Ariel “Arik” Anders only ever wanted the best in life. Success in his exceptionally lucrative business ventures, no serious relationships to tie him down, and to play as hard as he works. Recently, however, his priorities took a turn.
Rearranging his life after his ex informed him that she was pregnant and planning to have the baby but not raise it herself, Arik asked for full custody, which could be the biggest mistake he has ever made. Although he might be able to survive fatherhood after meeting Beau, the too cute for his own good out of work teacher he hires to be his nanny.
Spending time in each other’s company doesn’t mean they’ll fall into bed together. That would be a terrible idea! Worse would be if some magical holiday timing and circumstance causes them to catch feelings.
A Merry Penthouse Christmas is a standalone short story as part of the multi-author collaboration Single Dads All the Way. You can expect some mutual pining between boss and employee in this mostly sweet holiday romance with occasional hurt/comfort and a guaranteed HEA.
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Tinsel & Tentacles #8
If angels get wings, what do monsters get?
Brody Hawkins was living the good life. Unattached, young, attractive, with a great job at the Shangri-La La Land gay bar and bringing men and women back to his bed most nights without ever being tied down.
Until the night he stumbles upon an injured man in the snow.
Wary of the circumstances that might have left someone for dead so near to Christmas, instead of taking the man to a hospital, Brody brings him home. He dubs the man Goldie, having no other name offered to him when Goldie wakes, but his golden hair and eyes are like tinsel on a tree.
Goldie couldn’t have anything to do with the murders or missing person from a few blocks down. He couldn’t. He’s too sweet and soft-spoken and even a little sad. He’s no monster.
But he also might not be human.
It’s a Tenta-ful Life is part of the Tinsel and Tentacles multi-author collaboration and a complete standalone. Expect to find a lifelong bachelor who never planned to fall in love, an eldritch horror in disguise who longs for love, mutual pining, strangers to friends to lovers, dark and deadly secrets, tentacles with hidden talents, and more in this slightly darker take on a holiday MM romance. Want more tantalizingly tentacular winter holiday romances? Grab the whole series!
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Lovesick #1
Heroes aren’t meant to act like their villains—or fall in love with them.
The elements touch everyone on Earth—Fire, Water, even Light—but every so often someone becomes more attuned to their elemental leaning and develops true power. When an evil Elemental known as Thanatos arrived in Olympus City, it saw the rise of its first hero—Zeus. But the death toll caused by defeating Thanatos changed Zeus, who by day is young detective Danny Grant. It’s been six months since Thanatos terrorized the city at the start of Lovesick Gods. Danny should be used to his duty behind the mask, but the recent past haunts him. His girlfriend left him, he snaps at the barest provocation, his life feels empty—he needs an outlet, any outlet to pull him out of his depression.
Enter notorious thief Malcolm Cho, the Ice Elemental Prometheus. There was a time when Danny welcomed a fight with Cho, filled with colorful banter and casual flirtations that were a relief compared to Thanatos. Even as a criminal, Cho had recognized the threat Thanatos posed and promised to help Danny stop him, but the day Danny needed Cho, he never showed. Cho was the reason so many people died that day—including Danny’s mother.
Danny decides to teach the man a lesson and fan the fire of their attraction into something more. At worst, he’ll get some no-strings-attached sex out of the deal and finally blow off steam; at best, he’ll get Cho to fall in love with him and then break his heart to spite him.
Danny doesn’t expect to fall for Cho in the process, and he certainly can’t predict the much darker threat on the horizon.
*This 2nd edition of the series is for new covers only. No content changes were made.
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Haunted Love #3
Peter Thorne has a secret—he can bring the dead back to life.
When Peter’s mother died, she passed him the touch of life and made him promise to use his abilities wisely. Unable to bring her back and afraid of being caught or causing too much imbalance in the world, Peter vowed to use his gift only on plants. After all, with people, sometimes dead is better.
Or that is what Peter thinks until he takes a gardening job at Benes Manor. The mystery of a missing girl, an old gothic home, and the whispers and tempting caresses of a ghost in his room lead him to delve deeper into his powers than ever before. Perhaps he can find the missing girl and the origins of his ghostly visitor, if only he knew who to trust—and who and what to touch.
Gardening with a Ghost is part of the MM paranormal romance collaboration Haunted Love.
The Case of the Boy in Blue
Lovesick Gods
