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Book Title:  Changing His Tune: Road to Rocktoberfest 2022 Author and Publisher: Blake Allwood Cover Artist: Natasha Snow Release Date: October 18, 2022 Genre: Contemporary M/M Romance Tropes:  Rock star romance, first love  Themes: Coming out Heat Rating: 4 flames Length: 77 600 words It is a standalone story and does not end on a cliffhanger. Goodreads Buy Links -   Available in Kindle Unlimited Amazon US   |   Amazon UK Tired of being lonely, Hayden decides to take his music and his identity back. Will these transformations be worth the risk, or will they destroy everything he’s ever worked for? Blurb Hayden Koal’s life has been… different. He was just a boy living on his grandpa’s Iowa farm when his parents whisked him off to LA and thrust him into teenage stardom. Now that he’s an adult, he’s ready to make his own choices about his life, his c

Book Title:  Three of a Kind (The Road to Rocktoberfest 2022) Author and Publisher: Nic Starr Cover Artist: Natasha Snow Release Date: October 21, 2022 Genre:  Contemporary M/M Romance Tropes: Rock star, Menage, Friends to Lovers, Second Chance Themes:  Coming out, Insecurity Heat Rating: 4 flames       Length:  approx 45 000 words It’s part of a multi-author series but can be read stand-alone. It features the same band who featured in the first Road to Rocktoberfest series. That book was called Wild Card and maximum enjoyment would be achieved by reading that one first. It does not end on a cliffhanger. Goodreads Buy Links - Available in Kindle Unlimited Universal Link   |   Amazon US   |   Amazon AU Amazon UK   |   Amazon DE   |   Amazon FR What happens when friendship becomes love, and you’re presented with seemingly impossible choices while the world is watching? Blurb What happens when fri

Book Title:  Prince of Flowers  (Wild Hearts Book 1)  Author and Publisher: Nazri Noor Cover Artist: Christian Bentulan Release Date: September 30, 2022 Genres: Contemporary MM, Fantasy M/M Romance  Tropes: Enemies to lovers, forced proximity, shared bed, found family Themes: Trust, truth (Both MCs spend a good amount of the book deceiving each other, and have to learn that maybe they shouldn’t!) Heat Rating: 4 flames Length:  approx 62 000 words This is book 1 in a series and does not end on a cliffhanger. HFN. Goodreads Buy Links - Available in Kindle Unlimited Universal Link   |   Amazon US   |   Amazon UK Also available on audio - narrated by  Greg Boudreaux Audible US   |   Audible UK  He captured a fae prince, but can he capture his heart? Blurb  Lochlann Wilde walks in the shadow of his father, a legendary summoner who commanded mythical beasts in battle. But Locke isn't legendary. H

Book Title:  Hidden Blade: The Road to Rocktoberfest 2022 Author and Publisher: Kaje Harper Cover Artist: Natasha Snow Release Date: October 4, 2022 Genre: Contemporary M/M Romance Tropes: First-time, clinical anxiety Themes: Coming out, hurt-comfort Heat Rating:  3 flames  Length: 86 000 words It is a standalone story and does not end on a cliffhanger.  It is part of a shared-world series. This is the first release from this year's set. Goodreads Buy Links  - Available in Kindle Unlimited   Amazon US   |   Amazon UK Sometimes willpower isn't enough. Blurb  Cam  Social anxiety's been my constant companion for twenty-three years, sometimes in the background, sometimes silencing me and yanking my guts out in the nearest trash can. No matter how much I love playing music, I'm never going to get up on a stage and perform in front of a crowd. But since I met Erik, and was asked to join h

BOOK 1 Book Title:  The Bandalore - Pitch & Sickle Book One Cover Artist: Deranged Doctor Designs Release Date: February 25, 2021  Genre:  Historical Fantasy MM Tropes: Slow, slow burn, opposites attract Themes: Loneliness and friendship Heat Rating: 2 flames     Length:  285 pages It is not a standalone book. This is the first book in the Gaslamp Fantasy series,  The Diabolus Chronicles. It has an unresolved storyline rather than an outright cliffhanger. Goodreads Buy Links - Available in Kindle Unlimited  Amazon US   |   Amazon UK Silas Mercer died once. He’d rather not do it again. Blurb  1885 London, England Silas Mercer died once. He’d rather not do it again. On his return to the world of the living, Silas finds himself in the hands of the mysterious Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. The Order has London society clamouring for their services, with tarot readings, seances and exorc