Tuesday, January 4, 2022

10th Day of Christmas Author Spotlight: Lorelei M Hart



Lorelei M Hart
Lorelei M. Hart is the cowriting team of USA Today Bestselling Authors Kate Richards and Ever Coming. Friends for years, the duo decided to come together and write one of their favorite guilty pleasures: Mpreg. There is something that just does it for them about smexy men who love each other enough to start a family together in a world where they can do it the old-fashioned way ;).



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The Grumpy Grizzly's Omega
Summary:
Male-Order Mates #1
My bear has had it with this alone stuff.

He’s ready for his mate...yesterday. My job and my side-projects have always dominated my life. As a ranger in the local national park, I’ve dedicated myself to helping people and animals, thinking that one day my mate would come along. But after years of being alone, I now know I have to make a move if I want the family I so crave.

My best friend Roman thinks this Male-Order App is the way. Order a husband? Like ordering books online? While I think he’s out of his mind, I fill out the questionnaire and wait for an omega to bite. Still don’t think one will.

My name is Aquila. When I left my ex, he didn’t even notice I was gone until he needed money. He’s been clear about not wanting children or getting married. And I was fine with it...until I wasn’t and neither was the animal inside of me. I wanted more. So I finally finished the questionnaire on the Male-Order App and the next day got a 90 percent match, but he lives on the other side of the country. Maybe a change of scenery is just what this omega needs.

The Grumpy Bear's Omega is a super sweet with knotty heat MM mpreg featuring a hotter than hot forest ranger, a cute, nerdy omega, and resulting in the cutest baby bear shifter ever. It is the first book in the Male-Order Males series but can be read as a stand-alone.



The Alien's Vacation Fling: Wolf
Summary:
Tourist Destination: Earth #1
If putting a little distance between you and your ex is a good idea, putting a galaxy between you must be an amazing one, right?

Nevol booked his “human” style vacation when he had a mate to travel by his side—before that mate left him for another. No ex of his was going to ruin a perfectly good adventure to a far-off primitive planet. Not when he could go alone. Nevol longs to explore all that humankind had to offer. He doesn’t expect his reservation to be at a resort away from the cities, and he sure didn’t expect to be drawn to his human neighbor who wasn’t quite human.

Omega wolf shifter Anderson needs a place to crash while he adjusts to being rogue. Leaving his pack and packlife was the most difficult decision he’d ever made, but it was one he refused to regret. His brother deserves to be alpha without any of the pack whisperings of it being Anderson’s birthright just because he was born five minutes earlier. When he stumbles upon River’s Bend Resort, he knows he’s found his temporary home. It offers everything he wants: a beautiful lake, the quiet wilderness, and a sexy stranger in the next cabin.

The Alien’s Vacation Fling: Wolf is the first book in the MM mpreg romance series Tourist Destination: Earth. It features an alpha who traveled across the galaxy looking for a holiday only to find his home, a rogue shifter looking for a new start, a mountainside resort like no other, some interesting ummm…appendages, fated mates, true love, an adorable baby, and of course, a happily ever after. If you like your alphas hawt, your omegas strong, and your mpreg with heart, download The Alien’s Vacation Fling: Wolf today.



Meat Pie Match
Summary:
Bake Sale Bachelors #5
The best pies are made with a lot of love…

Widowed Alpha Travis, owner of Dellburn’s butcher shop, Meat, has no desire to find love again. He already met and lost his one true love and has no desire to feel that pain again, but when Carin comes calling, he knows he needs to help with her fundraising event by donating the meat for the dinner. He won’t bid on any of the pies—he’s firm on that. The last thing he needs is a date with a bachelor.

Omega Aaron loves his job teaching at Dellburn Elementary. Knowing he makes a difference in the lives and futures of his students is his calling—or at least it is now. At one time he wanted nothing more than to be a father, his plans crushed when his alpha of four years admitted he never wanted children and never would. When his students tell him about their outdoor time at the community center being limited to just a corner of the pavement, he knows he must do something to help. He might have sworn off dating, but what could one date hurt if it could help the children?

When Travis gives in and bids on the most unusual pie at the fundraiser, he doesn’t expect to win. But he does—and his meat-pie prize becomes a total meat-cute when Aaron sets up a date to learn how to bake the pie...and more than the oven heats up.

Meat Pie Match is a super sweet with knotty heat mm non-shifter mpreg romance featuring a butcher who has the best meat in town, a teacher willing to go above and beyond for his students, a grandfather who isn’t quite willing to share all his baking secrets, a bossy one eared rabbit, and more than a pie in the omega's oven. Meat Pie is the second installment in season two of the popular Bake Sale Bachelor series. While each book is set in the same world, they can each be read as a standalone, giving you the happy feels.



The Omega's Alpha Manny
Summary:
Manny's Mannies #1
Manny’s Mannies: Where parents finds more than just childcare—they find everything.

Omega Ronnie thought he had everything until cancer stole his happily ever after. Left alone with his beautiful daughter, he soon discovered he was pregnant with baby number two, a child with a rare birth defect. He’s an amazing father to his two little girls, but he knows he needs help—so he turns to Manny’s Mannies.

But when Ronnie opens the door to see his college crush, Zave, he realizes he might be getting more than he bargained for.

Alpha Zave has never quite found his place in the working world. But even though he’s had bad luck at his jobs, he’s certain the perfect career is out there. He just doesn’t know where to look. When his current company has a temporary shutdown, he goes to work for Manny as a stopgap.

He never imagined his temporary position might lead to love.

The Omega’s Alpha Manny is the first book in a sweet with knotty heat contemporary MM Mpreg romance series of standalones featuring hot mannies, the men they love, and the families they grow to be a part of. The Omega’s Alpha Manny features an alpha who is very un-alpha, an omega who is all alpha, and two adorable little girls.



The Heat Is On
Summary:
At the Christmas Inn, not all presents are wrapped in a bow.

Innkeeper alpha Miller and his mate Winston have a merry life in the town where Christmas rules. When the holiday season rolls around, people come from all over the country to enjoy both their hospitality and the wonder that is their town. Guests spend their days building snowman, decorating wreaths, caroling, enjoying romantic sleigh rides, and indulging in every kind of Christmas treat anyone can imagine. But when an emergency forces a cancellation at the inn, it opens up a room for a certain omega whose misfortunes have piled high lately.

Omega Klaus's life is on a downward trend starting with the death of his uncle, who raised him as his own. On the way back from the funeral, Klaus is on his way to a blue Christmas when he finds himself in the middle of a winter wonderland. A wonderland he might enjoy more if his car wasn't broken down, and his pockets nearly empty thanks to his mean-spirited and scroogy employer, who decided that was the perfect time to let him go.

When the town's kindly mechanic offers to find him a place to spend the night, Klaus has no choice but to agree. He is dropped off at The Christmas Inn where he finds himself confronted by two alphas his every instinct insists belong to him. But they're married to each other, and trouples are rare. Besides, even if they felt the same, what does he have to offer two handsome, successful men like them? He's broke, recently unemployed, and alone.

When it becomes apparent that all three feel the connection, it triggers heat in this guileless omega, and a night of passion ensues. In the morning, the heat is over...which can only mean one thing. A Christmas present is on the way in the form of their baby.

The Heat Is On is a 16,000 word sweet with knotty heat non-shifter MMM Holiday Male Pregnancy Romance that takes place in a small Christmas wonderland.



The Grumpy Grizzly's Omega

The Alien's Vacation Fling: Wolf

Meat Pie Match

The Omega's Alpha Manny

The Heat Is On

Monday, January 3, 2022

9th Day of Christmas Author Spotlight: Sean Ashcroft



Sean Ashcroft
Sean Ashcroft likes rainy days, white hot chocolates (don't knock it 'til you've tried it!) and boys kissing in books. He currently resides in Australia, all the way down at the bottom of the mainland in a sleepy little seaside town.

He writes sweet, hot books about sweet, hot boys who absolutely deserve each other.



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Melting
Summary:
Otter Bay #1
Butt naked and dripping wet wasn't how I expected to meet the man of my dreams.

After a bad breakup, a rough year at his New York ice cream parlour, and no luck jumping back into the dating pool, celebrated pastry chef Hayden agrees to spend the summer with his dad in his childhood home on the Oregon coast to get away from it all.

He's not expecting the first thing he sees when he arrives to be a beautiful, naked, soaking wet man. Nor is he expecting this to be the famous Wes—his dad's live-in personal assistant and all-round sweetheart.

Wes doesn't do relationships, but Hayden turns out to be an itch begging to be scratched—even if he is the boss's son and they'll have to keep their summer fling a secret.

Sparks—and clothes—fly, but what Wes wasn't planning for was to find a sweet, warm, kind soul under Hayden's icy outer layer. Or to start falling for a man he knows he can't have...

... but that isn't going to stop either of them from melting.

Melting is a full-length standalone MM romance novel. It ends with a very sweet HEA, and contains: many pints of ice cream, long summer days, hot summer nights, a very special pair of black skinny jeans, important tops vs. bottoms debates, an antique ice cream churn, a stuffed otter, a duck with anger management issues, and true love, ultimately, conquering all.



Prince Charming
Summary:
Things couldn’t get much more ridiculous for Andy over the holiday season. After agreeing to pretend to be his roommate’s boyfriend for a family Christmas in the English countryside, regular Brooklyn boy Andy finds himself thrust into a world of country manors, dukes, marquesses, earls, complicated titles, household staff, and delicate china.

Not only that, he’s also forced to tread the line between real and fake with Kit—a man he’s had a crush on since they met three years ago.

And it’s not even Christmas yet.

But mistletoe kisses are sweet, and knights in shining armour are sexy, and when Kit and Andy finally fall into bed together, everything seems right in the world.

Now they just have to survive the rest of the holidays.



Manny Makes Three
Summary:
Rule #1 of being a successful male nanny: do not fall in love with the straight, single father you were hired by.

Single father Mark doesn’t have enough hours in the day to both take care of his son, Dylan, and work his stressful marketing job by himself. Facing the prospect of having to leave Dylan with his aunt over the summer break, he realises that what he needs is a nanny.

Thankfully, Mannies Inc. have just the right guy for the job. Josh is qualified, good with kids, and more or less a human ray of sunshine. His resumΓ© speaks for itself, and when he and Dylan hit it off, Mark knows he’s the perfect person to hire.

Mark’s never thought of himself as attracted to other men, but Josh is so warm and kind and good to him, not to mention amazing with Dylan. He finds himself drawn to the other man in a way he’s never experienced before, but he’s been alone for so long that he can’t bring himself to care. So what if he’s suddenly attracted to a man?

Josh is also struggling with his attraction to Mark, a man who represents everything he wants in life--stability, companionship, and a family of his own. He knows better than to believe that Mark would want him like that, but it’s so easy to dream…

Both men have already been hurt by love, but can they open their hearts again before their doubts tear them apart? Or will their worlds prove to be too different for them to be together?

Manny Makes Three is a standalone gay romance, with a HEA and no cliffhanger. It does, however, have plastic dinosaurs, a perceptive six-year-old, explicit sex scenes, and a date at the zoo.




Guarded
Summary:
Guardian Angels Security #1
Hooking up with a hot bodyguard? Sounds awesome. Until you actually need one…

Miles: All I could think as I answered the door to my hotel room was jackpot.

Gray turned out to be a fun hookup—and a professional bodyguard, which was hotter than I ever would have admitted.

Then I suddenly needed one, and, well… who else was I going to hire? I didn’t think it was anything serious at first, but now my life is being turned upside down and I’m just as scared as I was when I was a kid. Gray’s more than just easy on the eyes—he’s safe. He makes me feel safe.

I know I can’t keep him when all this is over, I know he’d never want a skinny rich kid for a boyfriend, but it’s hard not to dream…

Gray: I’d given him my business card, hadn’t I?

Miles had been cute and fun when I first hooked up with him, and I’d been hoping for a call. What I hadn’t expected was for the call to end in a job offer, instead of another round in a hotel room.

But Miles really does need my help, and I need a new client to stop my fledgling security business going under. It’s a match made in heaven, right?

Or it would be if I didn’t want to wrap him up in a blanket and kiss him to sleep.

Guarded is a full-length, complete gay romance with a HEA ending, and the first book in the Guardian Angels Security series—wait until you meet the rest of the boys! It contains: a hotel room hookup, a self-defense dress shoe, a rainbow bookshelf, two jars of cookie butter, steamy sex scenes, a not-quite-mustache-twirling villain, and true love conquering all.



Taking a Knee
Summary:
“I need a hug, a drink, and a green card.”

Noah’s otherwise average life has just hit a wall. As an out-and-proud roller derby player, his team is right in the middle of qualifying for next year’s national competition when he suddenly loses his job--and therefore the work visa that was keeping him in the country.

Unexpected help comes in the form of Jace, his straight best friend and ‘derby husband,’ the guy who always looks out for him on the track. The solution to all of Noah’s problems? Get fake married to Jace, get his green card, and play out the rest of the season after all. It almost sounds too good to be true.

Jace has two loves in his life: his career as a pediatric nurse, and his roller derby team. When he finds out that their star player is on the verge of being deported, he’s willing to do anything to stop it--including marrying the guy. It’s only for three years, and it’s not as though anyone's going to get hurt.

Things get messy when Jace begins to realise he may not be as straight as he’s always thought he was. Since when did Noah have such pretty eyes? And why the hell is he thinking about him all the time?

Between a jealous rival, Noah’s ex-boyfriend, and the mother-in-law from hell, Jace comes to realise that he wants more out of this marriage than the chance to head to the national championships.

All he has to do now is summon the courage to tell Noah that. And win the rest of the games in the season. And deal with his new mother-in-law. Easy.

Taking a Knee is a standalone contemporary gay romance novel. It does not contain a cliffhanger, but it does contain several minor injuries, the phrase ‘gay chicken’, derby names, great asses, explicit sex scenes, and a happily ever after.



Melting

Prince Charming

Manny Makes Three

Guarded

Taking a Knee

Monday's Memorial Moment: Yuletide Treasure by Eliot Grayson



Yuletide Treasure 
Summary:
Goddess-Blessed #3
There’s not enough Yuletide spirit in the world to fix this holiday disaster…

Eben Sypeman’s world is falling apart. It’s two days before Yule and his business partner is dead, leaving behind empty accounts and looming bankruptcy. And if that isn’t bad enough, his patron goddess is irritated with him. It seems she’s tired of his tendency to mince words and avoid conflict. She’s insisting—quite forcefully—that he start being totally honest with everyone, including himself. Divinely enforced honesty couldn’t have come at a less opportune time, especially when his clerk’s tall, dark and distractingly handsome son enters the picture.

The last thing on Tim Pratchett’s mind is romance. All the former soldier wants is to fill in for his sick father at work and recover from his war wounds in peace. But there’s something about the grumpy Eben that confounds and entices him in equal measure. Their timing couldn’t be worse. They’re complete opposites. And yet…none of that matters when he’s with Eben.

But if Eben and Tim have any hope of finding their very own happily ever after, they’ll have to survive a dickens of a truth curse and the machinations of a trickster goddess—all while searching for enough yuletide treasure to save them all.

A joyous, relaxing Yule indeed. Bah, humbug.

This is an M/M romance with explicit scenes, a voyeuristic pagan goddess, and an odious nephew. Despite any other possible similarities to A Christmas Carol, there are neither ghosts nor geese, but readers can expect a happy ending and at least one use of the word “dickens.”



Sypeman drew himself up, straightening his spine and lifting his chin. “I don’t think you can be of any assistance to me, Mr. Pratchett. You should —” He stopped abruptly, swallowed hard, and went on with, “I won’t dock your father’s pay. He’ll receive his usual week’s salary on Saturday. Just — just go.”

Timothy frowned down at him, and his fingers flexed around the knob of his cane. Oh, that wouldn’t do at all. It would be plain cruel to leave this sad slip of a man here alone to fret himself to death. “Not until you go too.”

That acted on Sypeman like a red cloak in front of a bull. He popped to his feet, glaring, standing perfectly straight like he was trying to draw himself up to the fullest height he could. The top of his glossy hair came just to Tim’s nose. And that might’ve been all right, except that Tim got a full breath of Sypeman’s scent, some kind of lavender soap, perhaps, and beneath that the faint impression of his skin and body. Tim’s cock gave another little twitch. Bloody hell.

“If you want your father to receive his full pay at the end of this week, you will leave,” Sypeman said slowly and clearly — so much so it’d have been insulting, if Sypeman’s pupils hadn’t been betrayingly huge, like a panicked deer face-to-face with a wolf. “Now. And perhaps I won’t see fit to tell him about your interference.”

And that was too much. He leaned forward, too fast and too far, and Sypeman stumbled back, catching himself with his trembling hands against the edge of the desk. Timothy followed, bending close enough that he could see nothing but Sypeman’s parted lips and wide eyes, and could feel his too-quick breaths against his own face. An inch or two more, and he could have sampled those lips, have seen if they tasted as soft and sweet as they looked.




Author Bio:
I’m an editor by day and a romance writer by night, at least on a good day. I’m more of a procrastinator by day and despairing eater of chocolate by night when inspiration doesn’t flow and my day-job clients are driving me to insanity. Go ahead and guess which of these is more common.

My steady childhood diet of pulp science fiction, classic tales of adventure, and romance novels surreptitiously borrowed from my grandmother eventually led me to writing; I picked up my first M/M romance a few years ago and I’ve been enjoying the genre as a reader and an author ever since.


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Sunday, January 2, 2022

8th Day of Christmas Author Spotlight: Sara Dobie Bauer



Sara Dobie Bauer

Sara Dobie Bauer is a bestselling author, model, and mental health / LGBTQ advocate with a creative writing degree from Ohio University. She lives with her hottie husband and two precious pups in Northeast Ohio, although she’d really like to live in a Tim Burton film.


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He Sees You When You're Sleeping
Summary:

We met when you were just a child, but you’re a man now and need my protection.

With Christmas Eve approaching, I’ll watch over you.
Whether you know it or not.

Because no one is allowed to hurt you.
No one but me.

At 20K words, He Sees You When You’re Sleeping is a twisted take on Santa, featuring M/M romance, horror, and the holiday season.



A Lord to Love
Summary:
During negotiations for a truce between the feuding Price and Morgan families, Lord John Morgan makes a shocking offer: he will give the Price family their land, in exchange for Harrison Price's hand in marriage.

John has long been enamored with Harrison, the beautiful son of his late rival. Harrison is nineteen, inexperienced, and known for being cold and bitingly brilliant. The union seems impossible, but John is determined to win the affections of his young obsession.

Will the frigid Harrison concede, or will the object of John's adoration leave him alone at the altar?



Broken News
Summary:
He was supposed to hurt him. Ruin him. Instead, he fell in love.

In the big, bad city, Eric West holds the reins. A mafia king, he is feared, ruthless, and obsessed with a man half his age. 

Will, his favorite whore, is young, beautiful, and the only person to ever bring him to his knees. 

Will is a man to kill for.
A man to change for.
But what if Will isn’t what he seems?

**Broken News is a standalone M/M romance featuring age gap, detailed adult content, violence, and hurt/comfort.**



Abstract Love
Summary:
I hate Sam Shelby. So why do I want to kiss him?

Sam never expected to move back to Cleveland.
Donovan never expected to be attracted to a man.
Well, shit happens.

After high school, Sam Shelby moved to New York. Eight years later, he returns to Cleveland and lands a job at the best ad firm in town. It would be the perfect gig, if his boss weren’t such an ass.

After his wife leaves, Donovan Cooper questions everything. The arrival of a young, arrogant, gifted graphic designer at Donovan’s firm is the last straw.

Tempers flare over office gossip, and following a nasty argument and scathing kiss, Donovan flails away from heterosexuality while Sam struggles to keep his “no relationship” rule intact.

Despite ugly socks, fiery fights, and their best intentions to not fall in love, these bullheaded coworkers can’t deny their chemistry. Donovan seeks happiness while Sam seeks success, but is there room for more?

ABSTRACT LOVE is a 71,000 word enemies-to-lovers romantic comedy with an age gap.



Handsome Death
Summary:

I’m not hunting him; I’m protecting him.

At least, that’s what I tell myself.

In New York City, a beautiful creature like Tristan Clement should not be walking the streets alone, and I’m the perfect vampire to watch his back.

But what if keeping him safe isn’t enough anymore? What if I want to touch? And taste?

I need him. But I’ve never needed anyone.

In a world where paranormal creatures live amongst us and must follow certain laws, living life as a dangerous loner works for vampire Ethan. Inhabiting his gleaming apartment, wearing his designer suits, jetting around the world as a fanged killer-for-hire, Ethan does it all alone.

That is, until he literally runs into Tristan. Tristan, who is clearly trouble wrapped in skinny jeans and an oversized sweater. Tristan, with his shock of angelic blond curls. Tristan, who plays piano more beautifully than the old masters-- and Ethan would know; he saw Beethoven.

Tristan is gorgeous, a little sassy, and irresistible. Also, Ethan is horrified to note, Tristan has no idea how incredibly tempting he is to things that go bump in the night.

Overcome by the urge to keep Tristan safe, Ethan begins to... well, stalk is such a strong word. What starts as an obsession quickly becomes something more, something that Ethan needs. And to his surprise, Tristan seems to need him, too...

*This darkly romantic tale delivers steamy passion and a happily ever after. Be advised that Handsome Death includes explicit m/m content, stalking, mentions of past abuse, and graphic violence.* 



He Sees You When You're Sleeping

A Lord of Love

Broken News

Abstract Love

Handsome Death