I put up my own website.

Author: Dolores Esteban

URL: Home Page

Blurb: I mainly write historical fiction. My stories are set among historical events and usually center on fictional characters. They focus on the characters’ life paths, their quest for love and happiness and their struggle for acceptance in society and survival in an often hostile world. I also write poetry. I’m writing modern fiction more recently.

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Title: The Bones of Summer
Author: Anne Brooke
Genre: Modern mystery/horror
URL: Dreamspinner Press
Price: US $6.99 (also available in print)
Other Information/warnings: Child physical abuse, violence, explicit m/m, violence
Summary [from the publisher]:
When Craig Robertson’s religious fanatic father disappears, Craig is forced to return to the home he’d left behind after an underage affair in order to look for answers. His new lover, private investigator Paul Maloney, agrees to help so they can continue to enjoy their fledgling relationship.

During his initial search, Craig finds items that belonged to Michael, his lover in that long-ago ill-fated affair, and soon discovers that Michael has disappeared as well. The search becomes an investigation into Craig’s past, and, because of distressing gaps in his memory, he’s terrified of the truths he might find. Finally Craig tells Paul his deepest fear: that Michael is dead and he himself is responsible.

While Paul refuses to believe his lover is a murderer, Craig’s obsession with uncovering clues grows, and their fragile relationship begins to disintegrate. Now on his own, haunted and stalked, Craig has to face down the horror of his memories if he wants to have any hope of a future at all.

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Title: NEG UB2
Author: Rick R. Reed
Genre: Gay contemporary romance
URL: Amber Allure
Price: US$5.00
Summary:
Six months into what he thinks is the relationship he’ll have for the rest of his life, Ethan Schwartz gets bad news. He’s HIV positive. Since he’s been monogamous for the duration of his relationship, and had next to no love life beforehand, there’s only one way he could have been infected. His shock and anger at his diagnosis bleeds into the rest of his daily life, and the only way for him to vent any of it is to start an anonymous blog. The question remains, though, is it enough?
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Title: Chasing Smoke
Author: K A Mitchell
Genre: Modern mystery
URL: Samhain Publishing
Price:US $5.50
Other Information/warnings:Angst, explicit m/m, language
Summary [from the publisher]:
In the best of times, Daniel Gardner hates visiting his family. With his boyfriend pressuring him for a mortgage-serious commitment, Christmas in Easton, PA sounds, for once, like a welcome escape. His old house holds more than memories of a miserable adolescence, though. It has Trey Eriksson.

At seventeen, Trey was taken in by the wealthy Gardner family after his father was jailed for his mother’s murder. Until he left for the Army, he fought a double-edged battle—for proof of his father’s innocence and against his attraction to Daniel.

Fifteen years later, things haven’t changed. Trey is still looking for the real killer. And Daniel has never forgotten how Trey used to sneak into his room at night.

Now new clues to the murder are resurfacing—and so is Trey and Daniel’s sexual chemistry. Except this time, Trey has come to terms with his orientation.

But their connection may not be enough to overcome the mistakes of the past. Not while a murderer still walks free…

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Title: Somebody Killed His Editor
Author: Josh Lanyon
Genre: Gay erotic romantic mystery
URL: Samhain
Price: US$5.50
Other Information/warnings: Mildly explicit sex, mild violence
Summary:
The last thing Christopher Holmes wants is to spend the weekend at a writer’s conference, but his agent insists it’s the only way to save his flagging career. When the first thing he does there is discover a dead body, his fears about the course of the next couple days become founded, especially when he’s brought face to face with the editor he loathes, an ex-lover determined to accuse him of murder, and a killer on the loose…
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Title: Blind Desire
Author: ID Locke
Genre: Gay, Paranormal, Erotic
URL: Torquere Press
Price: US$5.95
Other Information/warnings: Some violence (no violent sex play), some cuss words, hot male, male sex.
Summary: Man meets Incubus- sex and love ensues.

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Title: Feral
Author: Joely Skye
Genre: Gay shapeshifter erotic romance
URL: Samhain
Price: US$5.50
Other Information/warnings: Explicit sex, violence
Summary:
When cougar Ethan gets captured by a werewolf pack, he expects the same thing to happen that happened eight years earlier – that he’ll be contained and tortured, brought to the brink of death over and over again. He is forced to shift to his human self after eight years as a cat, but the torment he expects never comes. Instead, the young wolf Bram provides comfort, even if he helps to keep Ethan contained. But when Bram learns that his pack leader plans on giving Ethan over to others to study, he knows he can’t just sit idly by. It goes against his standing as the pack omega, but he still knows right from wrong. And he’ll do what he can to help the cougar who needs him…
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Title: Shadow of the Templar (series)
Author: M. Chandler
Genre: Modern heist/caper
URL: Author’s Site
Price: Free (but also available as cheap print/downloads from Lulu)
Other Information/warnings: Violence, bad language, explicit m/m in short stories only
Summary: Simon Drake is a hard-arsed FBI agent, and dedicated to taking down people like Jeremy Archer, jewel thief supreme. On their first encounter, Archer comes off the winner, but thanks to Archer’s own strict code of honour, Drake has a second chance to get back what was stolen – and Archer gets a second chance to pursue his own strange fascination with his nemesis

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Title: MASTER Book 1: Crimson (1st installment in a multi-book series)
Author: Jane Bled http://www.janebled.com
Cover Artist: Aoi Shu http://aoishu.deviantart.com

URL: http://www.loveyoudivine.com

http://www.allromanceebooks.com

http://www.mybookstoreandmore.com

Price: US $6.50
Promo:
Raiden, a popular musician, has led a double-life for over five years. By day, he’s an adored celebrity; by night, a vicious vampire. As if deceiving the world weren’t enough of a problem, he gains an even one: Gabriel, a well-known TV actor who happens to have an obsession with him.
Though Raiden initially plans to dismiss Gabriel at the soonest chance, fate forces him to change his plans. After a case of mistaken identity results in blood, the two celebrities become unwitting partners. When Gabriel gains deeper insight into Raiden’s true nature, he starts to reexamine his own views on humanity and the society in which he lives.
As the two grow closer, they both struggle for dominance over the other, but each has clearly met his match. The end result of their strife will either break them apart for good…or save their damaged relationship from its predicted doom.

Please visit http://www.janebled.com to read 3 free excerpts from MASTER Book 1: Crimson.  Also, at http://www.youtube.com/janebled , I read aloud from the book in my podcast posts.