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Title: The Silent Hustler
Author: Sean Meriwether
Genre: contemporary literary fiction, erotica, single author anthology
URL: Amazon
Price: US$15.00
Other information/warnings: Explicit content.
Summary (from the publisher): Best known for being the editor of edgy gay fiction of the Velvet Mafia website, Sean Meriwether has quietly been writing short fiction and building up a body of his own work. The Silent Hustler collects his short fiction published over the last decade. Meriwether’s fiction spans in range from the literary (“Things I Can’t Tell My Father”) to the revolutionary (“Burn the Rich”) to the downright raunchy (“Sneaker Queen”). Slip into bed with The Silent Hustler. You won’t feel guilty in the morning.

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Title: Sweet Oblivion 5: Elixir
Author: Jordan Castillo Price
Genre: Paranormal/vampires
URL: Changeling Press
Price:US $4.49
Other Information/warnings: Violence, explicit m/m, gore and graphic medical details
Summary [from the publisher]:
Wild Bill and Michael might have thought they made it out of the subterranean vampire nest unscathed, but in her anger, Silk left Michael a taste of her wrath that’s impossible to shake.

It’s a race against time to cure Michael of a bizarre affliction, and though the hunter and his favorite vamp have few enough friends, Bill can’t ash a cigarette without burning another bridge. Now Wild Bill must decide what he’s willing to sacrifice to save his lover.

His friends? His scruples? His pride?

His humanity?

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Title: His Convenient Husband
Author: J.L. Langley
Genre: Gay contemporary erotic romance
URL: Samhain
Price: US$3.50
Other Information/warnings: Explicit sex
Summary:
The Bar D is losing money. Fast. It’s also losing its patriarch. Micah Jimenez, the nephew of the ranch’s foreman and practically adopted grandson, is doing everything he can to keep it afloat, but when a relative comes out of the woodwork, threatening to take the ranch once it’s up for grabs, Micah is forced to take drastic measures. The only person he knows with the kind of money that might bail them out is the man who left the ranch four years earlier and broke Micah’s heart. Tucker Delany has moved on with his life, working hard in Dallas, but he’s never really forgotten Micah or his past. When a condition of the will states the ranch will go to the first to get married – even if it’s just a civil union – Tucker does what he thinks will save them all…
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Title: Edinburgh
Author: Alexander Chee
Genre: Contemporary literature
URL: Amazon
Price:  US$11.20
Other Information/Warnings: Possible sexual abuse triggers
Summary (from the publisher): As a child, Fee is a gifted Korean American soprano in a boys´ choir in Maine. Silent after being abused by the director, he is unable to warn the other boys or protect his best friend, Peter, from the director´s advances. Even after the director is imprisoned, Fee continues to believe he is responsible, and while he survives into adulthood, his friends do not. In the years that follow, he struggles to bury his guilt and grief, until he meets a beautiful young student who resembles Peter, and he is forced to confront the demons of his brutal past.

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Title: The Chancellor’s Bride
Author: Kirsten Saell
Genre: Fantasy menage erotic romance
URL: Samhain
Price: US$5.50
Other Information/warnings: Explicit sex including m/m, m/f, and m/m/f, as well as BDSM; attempted rape; sadomasochistic scenes; sexual slavery
Summary:
Chancellor Collin sur-Gaerig is on the verge of political greatness, which means he should very soon take a wife. His reluctance has little to do with the women he meets, and more with the fact that he’s in love and totally devoted to his servant, Harral. When he discovers a woman, unconscious and half-dead, in the street on a rainy night, he takes her home so she might receive medical attention. But Aelis takes both him and Harral by quiet storm, burrowing into their lusts and affections in spite of the fact that her future isn’t exactly secure. Someone is determined to strike her down. The question remains, however, whether it will take all three of them at the same time…
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Title: Healing Heart
Author: Thom Lane
Genre: Fantasy slave fiction
URL: Loose Id
Price: US$6.99
Other Information/warnings: Violence (inc between lovers), graphic depictions of illness, explicit m/m
Summary [from the publisher]:
Coryn is the rarest of mages, a young man with the gift of healing. A chance encounter with a sick slave on the road leads to love unimagined, a match for his gentle heart, and the two to a town riven with plague. It’s too much for one inexperienced healer—but still, Coryn will break himself with trying and his new boy’s heart in the process. What will it take to heal a healer’s heart?

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Title: Boys of Summer
Author: Cooper Davis
Genre: Gay contemporary erotic romance
URL: Samhain
Price: US$3.50
Other Information/warnings: Explicit m/m sex
Summary:
Hunter Willis is on the brink of discovering the depth of his feelings for his secret lover, and coming out in order to keep him…
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Title: Kelland
Author: Paul G. Bens Jr.
Genre: Mystery, horror, family drama
URL: Casperian Books
Price: US $12.50
Other Information/warnings: Contains depictions of sexual abuse
Summary [from the publisher]:
When the Truth Is All That Matters

The truth begins with a family evacuated from Saigon during the final days of the Việt Nam War. Or perhaps it begins later, with a devoutly Catholic child with the voice of an angel who is troubled by visions both sacred and profane. Or perhaps later still, with a couple drifting apart following a tragedy.

Kelland appears to them all in the guise of a small boy, a lover, a priest…Kelland is an enigma, a puzzle, and an almost imperceptible presence. Kelland is violence, sorrow, and joy. Kelland is the common thread tying five disparate strangers together.
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Title: Ghost Star Night
Author: Nicole Kimberling
Genre: Fantasy/magic
URL: Samhain Publishing
Price: US $4.50
Other Information/warnings: Violence
Summary [from the publisher]:
Thomas Myrdin knows that intrigue is part of life at court, but that doesn’t make his king’s betrayal any easier to take. Yet heartbreak troubles him less than the apocalyptic visions that haunt him. Fiery premonitions that show the world burning in ruins—and the cause, the king’s daughter. Visions and vengeance awaken a strange new power within him, but not even he is sure if he is the kingdom’s savior, the king’s pawn.
Lord Adam Wexley harbors a secret longing for the elegant Thomas, but his duty is to protect the newborn princess. When a sudden threat arises, Adam seeks to procure services of Grand Magician Zachary Drake. Even if it means sacrificing his own soul—and his body.
Drake has seen the worst of kings and courtiers. Now he protects himself with powerful sorcery and the adamant refusal to affiliate with any of the Four Courts. But the grand magician isn’t without weaknesses and Adam may be the one enticement that could draw him to ruin.
In a rising storm of magic with the power to strip away men’s souls, the thread of desire connecting three men could be the kingdom’s last lifeline…

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Title: Hemovore
Author: Jordan Castillo Price
Genre: Paranormal (vampires), mystery
URL: Samhain Publishing
Price: US $5.50
Other Information/warnings: Gore, violence, explicit m/m, animal abuse
Summary [from the publisher]:
Ten years ago, the Human Hemovore Virus blazed through the world, and left the few victims who survived unable to eat, allergic to sunlight and craving the taste of blood.
Mark Hansen used to think V-positives were incredibly sexy with their pale, flawless skin and taut, lean bodies. Not anymore. Not since he’s been stuck procuring under-the-counter feline blood for his control-freak boss, Jonathan Varga. Why cat blood? Mark has never dared to ask.
It’s not as if he’s usually at a loss for words. He can dish an insult and follow it with a snap as quick as you can say “Miss Thang”. But one look at Jonathan’s black-as-sin gypsy eyes, and Mark’s objections drain away.
So he endures their strange, endless routine: Jonathan hiding in his studio, painting solid black canvases. Mark hurling insults as he buffs the office to a shine with antiviral wipes and maps out the mysterious “routes” he’s required to drive.
Then a blurb in Art in America unleashes a chain of events neither of them saw coming. As secrets of Jonathan’s past come to light, it becomes clear all his precautions weren’t nearly enough.

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