Available for Review: The Door Keeper by Hurri Cosmo

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Summary from Goodreads:

Although they’ve been labeled as a group of misfits, Minneapolis’ 77th police precinct has plenty of talent. The problem is, it’s Paranormal talent and no one’s supposed to know about it.

Nick keeps his officers busy chasing after all the creepy crawly things that tend to go “bump” in the night, thus insuring the twin cities are safe and totally unaware that other realms even exist. Nick is the Door Keeper and his job as the precinct’s captain is to maintain order in what would otherwise be chaos.

When said chaos rears its ugly head in the form of a ferocious and brutal vampire, the last thing Nick needs is to deal with a new partner, even if that new partner is as sexy as Arrain.

Available for Review: Blood Moon Rising (Tooth and Claw Book 2) by Amelia Faulkner

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Summary from Goodreads:

A pack in turmoil. A ray of sunlight. A moon that demands blood…

Tooth & Claw, Book 2.

Randall Carter is in love. If only he could say it to Ellis’ face, but he’s been too busy – or too much of a coward – and now he may never get that chance. With the threat of a blood moon looming in the night sky his Alpha is on the warpath against both a new pack invading his territory and the vampire lover he ordered Randall to destroy.

Ellis O’Neill’s problems are mounting fast. Randall’s Alpha wants to kill him, a vampire neighbour invites him to join some sort of coup, and his secrets are stacking up like firewood waiting for a single spark to set them ablaze. The last person he expects to betray his trust is the man he’s fallen in love with.

Torn between love and obligation, Randall soon realises that he can’t satisfy both. He’ll have to choose, but the cost may well be more terrible than he can imagine.

Available for Review: Kick at the Darkness by Keira Andrews

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Summary from Goodreads:

To live through the zombie apocalypse they have to survive each other first.

College freshman Parker Osborne is having the worst day ever. He humiliated himself trying to pick up a cute guy, he hasn’t made any friends at school, and his stupidly hot jerk of a TA gave him a crappy grade on his paper. He’s going to drop Adam Hawkins’ film class and start fresh tomorrow after he’s had a good sulk.

But Parker’s about to find out what a bad day really looks like—if he can survive the night.

A virus is unleashed, transforming infected people into zombie-like killers. After these quick and deadly creepers swarm campus, Parker only escapes thanks to Adam swooping him onto the back of his trusty motorcycle. Now they’re on the run—and stuck with each other.

When they’re not bickering, they’re fighting off the infected in a bloody battle for survival. Their only hope is to head east to Parker’s family, but orphaned Adam has a secret he’s not sure Parker will accept: he’s a werewolf. Can they trust each other enough to find some light in these dark days?

Available for Review: Crest Ridge by A.L. Boyd

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Summary from Goodreads:

It was supposed to be their big night! The opening of their movie premier. Robert Owens boyfriend abandoned him, and brought another date. Humiliated, Rob left Los Angeles, and moved to a quiet ranch in rural New Mexico only to face his high school bully Dane Johnson.

Rob never expected his high school tormentor to show up at his new home, but there the man was ordering him to evacuate from an oncoming wildfire. After Rob returned to his ranch, Dane offered an apology, and an explanation of his past actions. Rob has to decide if the bully he once knew has changed his ways. Will they overcome their past and find a new start?

Book Tour – Crest Ridge by A. L. Boyd

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Title: Crest Ridge
Author: A.L. Boyd
Publisher: Anna Larson
Release Date: 6/30/15
Genre: Contemporary, M/M Romance
Tags: Law Enforcement, Performance Artist
Heat Level: 3
Length: 38,000 words

Book Links:

Amazon | Smashwords | Goodreads

Book Description:

It was supposed to be their big night! The opening of their movie premier. Robert Owens boyfriend abandoned him, and brought another date. Humiliated, Rob left Los Angeles, and moved to a quiet ranch in rural New Mexico only to face his high school bully Dane Johnson.

Rob never expected his high school tormentor to show up at his new home, but there the man was ordering him to evacuate from an oncoming wildfire. After Rob returned to his ranch, Dane offered an apology, and an explanation of his past actions. Rob has to decide if the bully he once knew has changed his ways. Will they overcome their past and find a new start?

Tour Schedule

7/6 – Bayou Book Junkie

7/7 – My Fiction Nook

7/8 – Andrew Grey Books

7/9 – The Novel Approach

7/10 – MM Good Book Reviews

Author Bio:

A cartographer by day, A. L. Boyd spends most of her free time with her horses, gardening, or reading. She never intended to be a writer, but stories like this one sometimes just pop into her head. The writing came about as a way to get the stories out.

You can find A.L. here:

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Book Tour – Gunning For Marie by Tracey Steinbach

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Title: Gunning For Marie
Author: Tracey Steinbach
Publisher: Rooster & Pig Publishing
Genre: Erotic Romance, Military, Dystopia
Category: Novella
Length: 98 Pages

Book Links:

Amazon | Barnes & Noble | All Romance Books | Bookstrand | Goodreads

Book Description:

Several years after the third World War, resources are scarce. The poor are poorer and the middle class doesn’t exist anymore. A man with resources travels from city to town buying teenagers from desperate parents and orphanages. The teens are educated, fed and clothed as appropriate for their end purpose, Soldier or Breeder.

A strong, young woman, Marie Rice, falls for Gunnar Lincoln. Their attraction is forbidden, Marie meant for someone else. Disturbing events on the island lead to Gunnar and Marie looking for a way to escape and save everyone else. While they bide their time, attraction turns to something stronger. Will they escape? Will they save the others?

Tour Schedule

6/22 – Unrandom Randomness

6/23 – World of Diversity Fiction Reviews

6/24 – Reading, Writing, and What Not

6/25 – LAZ & LACHI Publications

6/26 – Lightening Books

Author Bio:

Tracey has been married for over twenty years to a man who’s broadened her horizons. He introduced her to NHRA Drag Racing in 1997. She’s been a fan ever since. Her three children call her Mom or Mama.

Tracey has an eclectic taste in music, enjoying everything from country to hard rock. Def Leppard is her favorite rock band.

Tracey enjoys watching Disney cartoon movies, action/adventure, and romantic comedies. Castle is her favorite TV show.

She loves watching NFL Football. Go 9ers and Saints!

Tracey has been an avid reader since her teen years. She started writing, seriously, after her first short story was accepted for an anthology in 2011. Reading books for a living had always been a dream of Tracey’s. She often jokes that she writes to fund her reading habit.

You can find Tracey here:

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Book Tour – Club Revenge by J.M. Dabney

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Title: Club Revenge
Series: Dysfunction at its Finest, Book 1
Author: J.M. Dabney
Publisher: Stiff Rain Press
Genre: Paranormal, Dark Fantasy, Vampires, Shifters, Cults, Horror
Heat Level: 5
Pairings: Female/Female (Part 1) Male/Female (Part 2)
Length: 82,774 Words

Book Links:

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Book Description:

Amora Medina-Jackyl and her son, Ripper, know one thing well–vengeance. They inflicted pain without mercy to those who deserved the punishment. Although, they lived by one motto, family is to be protected above all else. When a child, an ancient cult murdered Amora’s parents and siblings. They never knew the Hell they brought down on themselves that one brutal night.

Amora was many things in her four centuries. A daughter and a sister, a mother, yet she was best known as a killer. When she meets her end, Amora will have hundreds, maybe thousands of lives to answer for. Her only wish is to find one moment of peace. She denies her need as much as she fights to protect it. When the one woman who can bring her serenity comes into her life, can Amora destroy century old walls to let her in?

Ripper has watched his mother fight savagely for others. He learned lessons in revenge from the moment of his birth; Ripper was his mother’s son. Yet he has a curse hanging over his head. A prophesy that wouldn’t be denied. He wants some semblance of normal. When he can’t deny his need for the one woman he’s kept his distance from would his love cause pain or pleasure?

When some truths come to light, the very reality of the family changes. Can they know something other than the taste of revenge and loss?

Tour Schedule

6/8 – Bitches be Writin’

6/9 – Literary Nymphs

6/10 – Nessa’s Book Reviews

6/11 – Evelyn Shepherd

6/12 – Jolynn Raymond’s Dark Obsessions

Author Bio:

Author ImageBy day, she’s an introverted cook hiding out in her kitchen in the middle of nowhere Ohio, by night and any free time she may have, she is a writer of mainly LGBTQ Fiction and Erotica. Although, she’s equal opportunity when it comes to telling a story, she’ll even write a bit of straight erotic romance when the mood strikes.

She has been writing for years in old notebooks. At the age of eight, she wrote the worst poem in the history of poetry, but it sparked her love for writing. She reads too much and loves to get lost in other worlds and her favorite stories have to include laughter and at least one reader doing a double take.

Thirty-something, forever restless, she uses her stories to ground herself, and find her place of peace.

You can find J.M. here:

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Book Tour – The Door Keeper by Hurri Cosmo

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Title: The Door Keeper
Author: Hurri Cosmo
Publisher: Amber Quill Press
Genre: Gay / Dark Fantasy / Vampire / Paranormal / Mystery / Detective / Suspense / Thriller / Action / Adventure
Heat Level: 3
Category: Extended Novella
Length: 140 Pages

Book Links:

Amber Quill Press | Goodreads

Book Description:

Although they’ve been labeled as a group of misfits, Minneapolis’ 77th police precinct has plenty of talent. The problem is, it’s paranormal talent and no one’s supposed to know about it.

Nick keeps his officers busy chasing after all the creepy crawly things that tend to go “bump” in the night, thus insuring the twin cities are safe and totally unaware that other realms even exist. Nick is the Door Keeper and his job as the precinct’s captain is to maintain order in what would otherwise be chaos.

When said chaos rears its ugly head in the form of a ferocious and brutal vampire, the last thing Nick needs is to deal with a new partner, even if that new partner is as sexy as Arrain.

Tour Schedule

5/25 – Unrandom Randomness

5/26 – Bitches be Writin’

5/27 – My Fiction Nook

5/28 – The (Really) Naughty Corner

5/29 – Carly’s Book Reviews

6/1 – Drako’s Den

6/2 – MM Good Book Reviews

6/3 – Prism Book Alliance

6/3 – Love Bytes Reviews

6/4 – Sinfully Sexy

6/5 – GGR

Author Bio:
Hurri Cosmo lives in Minnesota where she holds tight to the idea that there, where it’s cold a good part of the year, she won’t age as fast. Yep, she avoids the truth as much as she avoids mirrors. But one of the reasons she loves writing is reality doesn’t always offer up a “happily ever after” and being able to take control of that is a powerful lure. Being a happy ending junkie, writing just makes them easier to find. Oh, she doesn’t mind “real life” and she does try to at least keep it in mind when she writes her stories, but she truly loves creating a wonderful couple, knowing they will fall in love and have their HEA. Every – single – time. And, of course, that is exactly the reason she loves reading this genre, too. Give her a glass of red wine, some dark chocolate, and her computer, whether she is reading or writing, and she will entertain herself for hours. The fact she actually gets paid to do it is Snickers bars on the frosting on the cake.

You can find Hurri here:

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Other books by Hurri Cosmo:

Amber Allure:

How West Was Won
The Superior Jewel
Ice Dragon Tales (contains the first two books in the series, The Servant Prince and The Servant King)
The One
Forgetting Yesterday
Saving Jack
Talasar’s Elixir (Book one in the Dragon for Hire series)
Amber Moon (Part of the Intoxicating Fantasies series)
Chase and Capture
Baby, Think it Over

Secret Cravings:

The Astral Mage (Book one of The Captains of the Wolf)
Ladders

Fireborn Publishing:

Until You

Upcoming:

I Believe Now (Until You, #2) – Available June 26th
Riven Creek Ranch
A Place to Belong

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Review Copies Available – Gay Shifter Mate

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TITLE: Gay Shifter Mate (Gay Werewolf Romance)

PUBLISHER: Tabatha Austin

RELEASE DATE:  January 10, 2015

GENRE:  Gay Paranormal Romance

TAGS: Gay, Shifter, Paranormal, Romance

HEAT LEVEL: 5

PAIRING: Male/Male

LENGTH: 7,630

BOOK LINKS: Amazon | Goodreads

BLURB:

Every smart Southerner knows to be careful in the Louisiana bayou. There’s strange critters about and some might take a liking to you – if you’re lucky.

After getting lost in the bayou and pursued by sadist hunters, only one thing can save Wesley, a hot muscled gay shifter mate.

This 7,600+ word gay werewolf shifter romance contains detailed descriptions of sex, including oral and anal with a gay Cajun shifter. It is intended for the enjoyment of adult readers only (especially those who love man on man shifter romance with a touch of adventure).

EXCERPT: Just shy of the five-minute mark, I saw a large mostly white two-story brick house. It stood off the ground by at least ten feet. A shiny red pickup truck parked under a room on brick stilts to the left. Faded green iron work lined the edges of the balcony. Long winding metal stairs went to the second floor – or first depending on how you look at it. My eyebrow rose at the well-manicured lawn and flowers.

And what are you doing here in the middle of the swamp?

I wondered if it was one of those old money houses. It probably belonged to some old blue-haired lady.

I pulled into the circular driveway and gravel crunched under the tires. I slowed to avoid spraying rocks all over their lawn.

Several of the rooms were lit, and I looked for a hint of anyone within. I stepped onto the red brick porch at ground level. I knocked a few times on a white door with a window pane on top. Nobody answered. I knocked louder.

After a few minutes, I stood up on my tiptoes and glanced through the door window. A white muscular guy with a thick red mustache and goatee stared back. I stepped back, and the door opened.

I stared up even though we were both at ground level. He had a slight Cajun accent when he spoke. “What do you want?”

Damn. I never realized how sexy a French country accent could sound. Who are you?

He was taller by several inches and wider. He was dressed camouflaged hunter style but his clothing was clean and new. Chest muscles pressed out against his tight fitting black and green striped shirt.  

His skin had a tint of red from the sun. He was someone that spent hours outdoors but not so much he turned brown. His muscles were thick like those branches out over the swamp. They weren’t showy and defined like some of the men on my err websites. They were thick and saw use every day. The sort that throw a bale of hay far.

Hell, those muscles could wrestle a gator.

Or pin me down.

My cock pressed out against my jeans and I shifted my stance. Glad I’m not wearing those tight shorts from the party.

His eyes narrowed and his mustache and goatee rose. “I said why are you on mah property?”

I pointed to my jeep. “Trying to get to New Orleans. Got lost… uh… wondering if there’s some gas I could buy?”

His forehead furrowed, and he gave a crooked smile. “You see any gas station around here?”

I sucked in a huge breath. Damn, that accent was an underwear dropper. Well, that and his thickness. Damn, I could get lost in those arms.

I shook my head and blinked myself back to reality. “If you have a hose, I can suck the…”

His eyes went down to my rainbow wristband and then to my shirt with rainbow lettering. “Afraid there ain’t nothing for you to suck around here.”

My face flushed with heat.

He looked over at the jeep and sighed. “How much you got?”

I pulled out my wallet. “At least a hundred.”

He frowned and waved it away. “Don’t want your money. Not gonna take someone like that. How much gas you got?”

“An eighth.”

His eyes went up as if chasing a thought. “For that model, that should be at least three gallons. Half that take you to the next station. Long as you don’t go sightseeing.” He jerked his hand further down the road. “You get gas there, filler up, go on straight, and get into town.”

“Which town?”

“The Town. Nawlins.

My eyebrow rose. “New Orleans?”

He smirked and made a point of saying it like I did. “Yes, New Orleans.”

“Sorry.” I took a step back and extended my hand. “Well thanks uh?”

His thick hand went out and his bicep bulged out. The camouflage shirt sleeve stretched out as he held out his hand. “Mason.” Although he said it like Mah-soon.

His grip was strong, but he wasn’t a jerk about it.

Gooseflesh rose along my arm as his heat pressed against my palm. Damn. Wonder how that hand would feel around my dick?

Are you kidding? A man like that gets other men to jerk him off.

Wonder if there’s a job opening?

He jerked his thumb behind him. “Watch out for the creek. It’s not raining hard here, but it is up yonder. Jeep be fine if you take it slow.”

I nodded and thanked him. Damn, he was a looker. Couldn’t be sure if he was gay or not. I’m one of those unlucky gay men with no gaydar. Unless my lips are around the guy’s dick, I’m not sure if he’s gay.

Even if he was, a man like that wants someone big and built. He wants Huge Homo, not Gay Geek. I swallowed away the lump in my throat. Well, I can see you in my dreams tonight.

AUTHOR BIO:

71OJeQIH7LL._UX250_Tabatha Austin is an Austin, Texas transplant settling down after finding a city she can finally call home. She’s a part-time freelancer who writes about everything from Michigan travel, fish tank equipment, toothpaste, to the occasional restaurant review. Whatever her clients send her.

“I take what I can get!” Just like some of the people in her stories!

After years of in-depth erotica “study,” she’s ready to create the stories she wanted to read, but couldn’t find.

Specializing in domination with occasional splashes of fem-dom, gay male erotica, t-girl/transgender erotica, sci-fi pulp erotica, and the just plain “out-there,” she’s having fun and getting paid for it.

When she’s not in front of her keyboard, she enjoys playing with her (now four) dogs, martial arts, SCUBA diving and working in her garden.

You can find out more about Tabatha (including her other books), at tabathaaustin.com or contact her via Twitter at @ImTabathaAustin .

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Proud Parenting – HAHABT 2015

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Today is International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia and IndiGo is proud to participate in the Hop Against Homophobia, Biphobia, and Transphobia (HAHABT).

When deciding what to write about in today’s HAHABT post, I started thinking about what it meant to be an ally, an activist and the mother of a gay son.  You might think that the gay son came first, and the activism came second, but it was the other way around for me.   I was already performing with an LGBT friendly community chorus, attending Pride events and helping to build a community of allies in the Goodreads M/M Romance group before I knew my son was gay.

My son and I have always been extremely close. I raised him alone, made him my priority and fostered a sense of “we got this” and a “let’s get er’ done” attitude that served us both well over the years.  We joined a water ski show team when he was 12 and found a second family that included great male role models who helped teach him to be fearless when skimming over the water on bare feet at 40 miles an hour or doing flips over a jump with only inches between you and the skier next to you.  He loved cars and music and going camping. He had a lot of friends and was a loving, kind person.  I never suspected he was gay.  Not even when a gay friend of ours suggested that he probably was. I just figured he was a late bloomer and he’d eventually discover girls.

When he was 15, I finally worked up the nerve to ask him if he was gay and he admitted that he thought he might be.  That night I cried myself to sleep.  I was so surprised at my reaction.  It shouldn’t have upset me.  I was an outspoken, button wearing, card carrying member of the gay rights movement.  And the next day when he came home from school and said that after thinking about it, he had decided he wasn’t gay, I was ashamed at the feelings of immense relief that I felt.

We didn’t talk about it again until three years later, right before he was going to be leaving for college.  I knew in my heart that he was gay and I knew that going away to school would afford him the freedom to be who he really was.  So I sat him down and had the ‘honey, I think you’re gay” talk.  He cried, I cried and he said the words that echoed the thoughts that had so upset me years before “this is not how I imagined my life would be”.  He wanted to get married, have children and the proverbial white picket fence.  I wanted those things for him too and as he said them, I realized that someday, he could have all of those things.

His coming out was a very slow process and even after three years of college, some of his closest friends still didn’t know he was gay.  How and when a person comes out is a very personal decision and while I truly believe that, it was hard for me as a parent to watch him struggle so much.  I felt strongly that his friends would be supportive and that it would be a non-issue, but he was so afraid that it would change things that even his best friend didn’t know. I did my best not to push but I could see how much suffering it was causing him.  Keeping a secret, whether it’s anyone’s business or not, is stressful and exhausting.  The immense relief he felt when he finally sat the best friend down and told him was immediate and emotional for both of them.  He suspected of course.  Here’s a good looking guy, outgoing, lots of fun, lots of friends…but no girlfriend.  No midnight bootie calls, no hooking up at parties, none of the typical behavior of a “life of the party” college kid.  I would have been more shocked if he hadn’t suspected.  But, most importantly, he reassured him that it didn’t matter, didn’t change anything and that he loved him the same, no matter what.

As a parent, isn’t that what we want for all of our kids?  To be loved, respected and accepted for exactly who they are…no matter what?  Unfortunately, that’s not the reality for a lot of kids.  I started a parent’s support group a few years ago at the local LGBT youth center.  I had a woman in one of my meetings who had recently found out that her son was gay.  He was a great kid, full ride scholarship to Yale, plans on becoming a doctor…and she wished he’d never been born.  i struggled to find any compassion for this woman who sat across from me, the mother of a gay son, and told me that she would have had an abortion if she had known her son was going to turn out to be gay.  All I could do was encourage her to get some professional counseling because obviously her homophobia was far more serious than I was equipped to deal with.

So today, International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia, I want to encourage everyone to reach out to those that are struggling, either with their own journey or the journey of a loved one, and offer support and encouragement.  I will never understand, or be able to relate to the parents who turn away from their own children, but I will always be there to encourage them to get help, get support and find it in their heart to love their children just the way they are.

My son and I at GayRomLit 2014

My son and I at GayRomLit 2014

In an effort to help those that need support find it, I’ll be donating $25.00 to PFLAG, the nation’s largest organization uniting people who are LGBTQ with parents, families, friends, and allies.  If you’d like the chance to have the donation made in YOUR name, leave a comment and you’ll be entered into a random drawing.

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