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Title: Soul Bonds
Author: Lynn Lorenz
Genre: Paranormal/contemporary fantasy
URL:Loose ID
Price:US $5.99
Other Information/warnings: violence, graphic m/m, bad language
Summary [from the publisher]:
Mitchell Collins is the king of denial. Five years after the death of his lover, Steve, he finds himself in a gay bar, wondering why he’s even there. He has a rule he won’t break: Don’t take anyone home.,
Sammi’s trying to survive on the streets of Houston. It’s not easy for someone with no money, no identity, and no friends.
When Mitch meets Sammi, all thoughts of “safe” go flying out the window. He takes him home for the best sex of his life, not knowing that Sammi’s a sex slave on the run from a man who’ll do anything to get him back.
But Sammi and Mitch are soul bonds, And nothing, not even Donovan himself, is going to keep them apart.

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Title: Gold Warrior
Author: Clare London
Genre: M/M fantasy
URL: Dreamspinner Press

Warnings: explicit m/m sex, explicit het

Summary: Maen has always prided himself on being the perfect soldier, the perfect Gold Warrior, the perfect man. He has dedicated his life to his city and his Mistress and never dreams of any other life.
Then along comes Dax, a Remainder boy who manages, through sheer determination, to be Chosen into one of the finest Households in the City. All he’s ever wanted was a place to belong, a place to feel he isn’t second best.
Dax has awakened something in Maen the Gold Warrior has ruthlessly suppressed his entire life. He has kept it so well hidden, the last to recognize it for what it is is Maen himself. When a tragic attack from the Exiles on the city takes the lives of some of his men and leaves Maen and Dax prisoners outside the City and everything they’ve known, they have to rely on one another to find a way home. The trouble is, some doors, once open, can never be closed, and there’s truth in the saying, You can never go back.

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#15 of the free Boy Love/Yaoi ezine, Shousetsu Bang*Bang is now out here:

http://community.livejournal.com/bb_shousetsu/31933.html

Titled ‘Pop goes my heart’, the twenty-one stories have a musical theme. I particularly recommend ‘Songs you know by heart’ by Dr Noh, but this zine has very high writing and editing standards so there are bound to be more gems in this issue.

Title: Servant of the Seasons 2: Winter
Author: Lee Benoit
Genre: Fantasy
URL: Torquere Press
Price: US $2.49
Other Information/warnings:explicit m/m, some violence
Summary [from the publisher]:
Edor and his new friends, former slaves Tywyll and Lys, are still making the most of the land. Every day the two norvigi bring changes, improving Edor’s way of life. As is their way, Tywyll is growing stronger with the winter equinox, while Lys is growing weaker.
When Lys goes into his sleep, Edor finally gives into his attraction to his two friends with Tywyll, knowing Lys would give them his blessing if he were awake. When Lys finally wakes, the three men find their home in danger, and they must band together even closer to save their newfound happiness. Can they solve the mystery that their attackers leave behind, and stay safe at the same time?

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Title: King of Cats: A Life in Five Novellas
Author: Blake Fraina
Genre: Gay contemporary literature
URL: iUniverse
Price: Print: US$16.95 / Adobe e-book: $6.00
Warnings: Explicit m/m sex, non-con, drug use
Summary (from iUniverse): What makes a person fascinating? Is it what they hide or what they reveal? Is it who they are or who they appear to be? A struggling filmmaker believes he recognizes the face of a man in an old painting and becomes obsessed with finding him. On the cusp of his band’s success, a closeted guitarist walks out on his longtime male lover to live with a woman he hardly knows. After spending one fateful night in bed together, two youthful musicians enter into a bitter and emotionally devastating power struggle for control over their band and one another. And eight years later, tragedy forces both men to confront the inescapable and bitter legacy of their fathers’ influence. Peopled with vivid characters and told in sharp dialogue, the five stories that comprise King of Cats tell the provocative, sometimes heartbreaking story of luminous, enigmatic rock star Jimmy ‘Strange’ Lyons. Weaving back and forth through time, from a tenement in Alphabet City to a luxury co-op overlooking Central Park to a semi-detached in North London, Jimmy’s life unfolds like a mystery, gradually revealing his secrets and exposing the vast gulf that often lies between what appears to be and what is.

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Iris Print
http://boyslovebooks.com

Are paying authors with bouncing cheques, and refusing to answer emails
http://dearauthor.com/wordpress/2008/06/12/update-on-iris-print-now-with-bounced-royalty-checks/#comment-164898

But they are still selling the books that they are not paying the authors for:
http://kiriko-moth.livejournal.com/181918.html

The  unpaid artists and authors of this publisher ask you NOT to buy products from them, as they will not receive the money owed to them. Please do NOT support this publisher in any way.

Title: Surrendered Victory
Author: KC Kendricks
Genre: Gay contemporary erotic romance
URL: Amber Allure
Price: US$4.00
Warnings: Explicit m/m sex
Summary: Reed Kauffman is thirty-three years old and only now starting to come to grips that he’s attracted to men. For the past six weeks, he has been “running into” competitor Alan Dalton on Friday evenings at a local bar, and for six weeks, he’s gone home, too frightened to push what feels like a flirtation any further than that. Until now. Now, he’s willing to take that extra step, and before he can change his mind, he accepts Dalton’s invitation to go back to his place…
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Title: Fallen Angels
Author: Marty Rayne
Genre: Contemporary romance, crime
URL: Loose ID
Price: US$5.99
Other Information/warnings: Explicit m/m, violence, bad language
Summary [from the publisher]:
Adam Hardy’s assignment was clear: Infiltrate the pseudo-biker gang Fallen Angels and bring back the dirt on their big boss, Lucifer. Nowhere in the mission statement did it tell him to fall for the local leader, Mammon, named after the fallen angel of greed.
Marc, aka Mammon, thought that a quick dip would sate the lust he held for the newest Fallen Angel. After all, Adam would never be his now that Lucifer had taken an interest in the pretty boy. Was intent on making him a golden boy.
Who knew sex and an unexpected bond of trust would bring Adam and Marc together while they tried to take Lucifer down and out of their lives forever?

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Title: Hart and Soul
Author: Nica Berry
Genre: Historical fantasy romance
URL: Torquere
Price: US $5.95
Other Information/warnings: explicit sex, non-con, violence
Summary [from the publisher]:
Orphaned Niann has one wish, to go up the mountain to seek a spirit guide like the rest of his peers. Instead, he’s forced to wait until frustration drives him to go without permission on his eighteenth birthday. There, he meets his guide–the kala deer, the tribe’s patron animal and one that grants its disciples the ability to heighten the power of others’s animal spirits. Unbeknownst to him, the tribe’s shaman, Heyka, plans to use Niann to harvest enough spiritual energy to transcend into the spirit world.
Jennar, a talented carver and hunter who’s cared for Niann since Niann’s infancy, has a secret of his own; he went up the mountain to seek his spirit guide, but none came, and he’s been lying about his spirit animal ever since.
Jennar leaves to find the reason for his lack of a spirit guide, but returns to find Niann under the sway of Heyka and living as a woman, as those with the deer totem usually do. Jennar’s focus turns from saving himself into saving the man he loves, but all his love and determination may not be enough to stop the relentless ambition of Heyka and his snake patron.
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Title: Forever Today
Author: Willa Okati
Genre: Gay contemporary erotic romance
URL: Loose Id
Price: US$5.99
Warnings: Explicit m/m sex
Summary: Travel writer Rick Sullivan is swept off his feet by Adriano Dominici, the heir apparent of the Italian vineyards he’s researching for his latest work. Life together is sun and sex drenched, but in spite of Rick’s best attempts, circumstances and fear drive them apart. He doesn’t realize it’s not over, though, not when Adriano shows up on his doorstep a year later with no memory and only the burning desire to find his love Rick…
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