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Bad Aim

by Kai Ashford

Tropes: enemiestolovers, banter, mm

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I'm the best shot in the trade. The first time I ever miss, it's the man I was paid to kill — and he's smiling like he knew I would. Two hundred kills. A hand that has never once betrayed me. Then I put my crosshairs on Dax Quade, and he turns to a window he can't possibly see through, taps two fingers over his own heart, and dares me to do my job. My finger moves. The round goes a foot wide. In the trade, a miss isn't a mistake. It's a confession. By sunrise we're both on the same list — the executioner and his target — and the only thing keeping either of us breathing is the other one. He used to work the wrong end of a rifle, so he reads me like weather. He knows my hand chose him before I did. I should put him down. I can't stop wanting to keep him alive. The Quiet Trade Book 1. Cliffhanger ending. Duet — read in order. [Read More]

Top Shelf

by Nate Winslow

Tropes: sports, hockey, mm

My smile works on everyone in the league. Then they traded for Grant Hale, and he looked at me like he already knew exactly what I was hiding behind it. I'm Ollie Reyes — golden boy, top-line winger, the guy the whole room angles toward. Being loved is my superpower and my survival plan; you don't get bounced through seven foster homes without learning how to be easy to keep. It has worked my entire career. It does not work on Grant Hale. He's thirty-three, freshly traded, growls one word at a time, and comes with a locker-room-problem reputation I'm ninety percent sure is bad press. Coach has forty-three days to get him integrated before the trade deadline — so he bolts us together. Same line. Same road room. Every hotel between here and March. The trouble isn't that Grant won't buy the smile. The trouble is what's under it: a guy who's terrified he's one bad season from being sent back, who has never once shown anyone the real thing and gotten to stay. And somehow the grumpiest man in the building is the first person to look straight past the sunshine and actually see me — and not leave. Turns out getting solved by Grant Hale feels a whole lot less like losing and a whole lot more like being found. Top Shelf is a bright, low-angst M/M hockey romance: grumpy-sunshine, forced-proximity linemates, a golden boy with a secret and a gruff closeted vet who says everything with an assist, banter for days, and found-family warmth. Standalone with a guaranteed happy ending. Steamy and swoony. Book 1 of the Northport Sentinels. [Read More]

Marked in Blood

by Emmett Vance

Tropes: forcedproximity, darkromance, dualpov

He cut his own hand instead of mine. It was the kindest thing he ever did to me. They sold me to the Sasso syndicate to seal ninety days of peace — a hostage, a clause in a contract, blood witnessed across two open palms while two armies watched. The new boss was supposed to be a monster. Kiril Sasso is worse than that, and better: a wreck of a man with shaking hands and a cruel mouth, so certain he ruins everything he touches that he'd rather bury me than risk keeping me. He locks the doors. He swears he'll end me when the ninety days run out. And when he reaches for me in the dark, he does it rough, like a man taking the one thing he's sure he isn't allowed. I was thrown away once, a long time ago. I learned the wrong lesson from it: I don't leave. Not when he's cruel. Not when he shoves me toward the door. Not when there's a debt in a ledger neither of us has seen, waiting a very long time to come due. So I'll do the one thing that terrifies a man who's never been kept. When the doors finally open — I'll stay. ═══════ WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT ═══════ ✦ Dark M/M Mafia Romance — Enemies to Lovers, Blood Vow ✦ Self-destructive boss × hostage who won't break (he cuts his own hand instead of yours) ✦ Forced Proximity — ninety days, one locked house ✦ Hurt/Comfort, Dual POV (Kiril + Eli) — broken man held, not fixed ✦ Explicit, on-page, 18+ — rough turning tender ✦ HEA guaranteed — Book 1 of a trilogy ═══════ CONTENT NOTES ═══════ Explicit on-page M/M sex (18+ / rough turning tender) / self-harm at the blood vow (he cuts his own palm) + blood / captivity + hostage / organized-crime violence / past child abandonment / HEA — not a cliffhanger, but one open season-thread. ═══════ FOR ARC READERS ═══════ If you're here for the dark, welcome home. Marked in Blood is for readers who want the broken one held instead of fixed. Book 1 of three. The Tally trilogy. HEA guaranteed. — Emmett Vance [Read More]