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  Side Order of Love

  Tracey Richardson

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  Every week millions of viewers tune in to watch Grace Wellwood transform basic ingredients into delicious cuisine. Her latest cookbook is flying off bookstore shelves and her trendy Boston restaurant is booked months in advance. She knows how to cook up success, but overlooks the basic ingredients to transform her private life into anything delicious—or even remotely satisfying. 
   
   
   
  Grace is deeply annoyed when a long overdue vacation is interrupted by catering a women's pro golf tournament. Torrie Cannon, the Tour's young hotshot, takes one look at the famous chef and embarks on her usual plan of seduction—hot tonight, gone tomorrow. 
   
   
   
  Torrie's bewitching charms are undeniably enticing. In spite of the sizzle between them, however, Grace is done with fast food relationships. What Grace wants is the one thing that has never been a specialty on Torrie's menu: love. 
   
   
   
  The glamorous worlds of haute cuisine and professional golf collide as Tracey Richardson explores the trust and sacrifice required before two women can choose more than a side order of love. 
   
   
   
  Contains mature themes.

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  Hello Stranger - Musings on...

  Manuel Betancourt

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  Manuel Betancourt's Hello Stranger explores modern queer romance and the expansive possibilities of ephemeral intimacies 
   
   
   
  "Hello stranger." As an opening line, you really can't ask for better. 
   
   
   
  Hello Stranger is a book about chance encounters—at a bar, through social media, in a bathhouse—and what a stranger can reveal about who we are and who we could still yet be. A stranger, after all, is a site of endless possibilities. 
   
   
   
  As Manuel Betancourt looks back on his past relationships, he turns to characters and narratives that helped him question notions of what monogamy and coupledom (and relationships and marriage) can and should look like. From films like Before Sunrise and Cruising to the poetry of Frank O'Hara and the musicals of Stephen Sondheim, Betancourt uses pop culture to make sense of the alluring prospect of forging intimacies with strangers—even, or especially, the strangers within ourselves. 
   
   
   
  At once a personal excavation and a broad cultural critique, Betancourt grapples with everything from online sexting and real-life cruising to divorces and throuples. Hello Stranger examines the intimacies we crave, value, and oftentimes destroy with rote familiarity.

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  Beyond the Smoke

  Stacy Lynn Miller

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  Old flames. New secrets. Delayed justice. 
   
   
   
  Now private investigators, Manhattan Sloane and Finn Harper have just landed their very first big job—a contract to clean up a hefty load of unsolved crimes in San Francisco. On day one, the two women step into a political quagmire that pits them against powerful competing forces in the city. 
   
   
   
  Feeling like a pawn in a high-stakes chess game, Sloane stumbles across an unsolved murder with ties to her past—the police officer who rescued her from her parents' deadly accident. When evidence points to someone close to her, she becomes determined to solve the twenty-two-year-old murder. But her progress is slowed by old flames and new secrets that threaten to unravel her new life with Fin and her daughter Reagan. 
   
   
   
  Will cutthroat politics prevent her from getting justice for her hero? Will Sloane finally get her happily ever after?

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  Unburied

  K.A. Bauer

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  Some secrets should really stay buried. 
  Ethan is off to college. He really wants to put his hard-earned anatomy knowledge to the test, academically of course... 
  Ric is having trouble letting go after everything that happened last summer. Having a bodyguard with Ethan at school isn't so bad, but insisting he attends classes with him might be pushing it. 
  When Ethan doesn't show up after his night class, Ric goes on the search for his boy. Together, they find there are more secrets to Ethan's past that need to be unburied.

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  Footsteps of the Past

  Felice Stevens

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  It was like in the movies: their eyes met from across the room and they fell in love. 
  Nine years later, Chess and André are the envy of all their friends. 
  But this is real life….and things are never what they seem. 
  Still waters run deep—the better to hide Chess’s ugly past. He’s worked hard to bury the troubled teen he once was and is living a life he never imagined possible. André’s love is a gift that makes him believe in second chances, and Chess is grateful for it every day. The only thing he wants is what André finds impossible to give: his time. Six months apart might be the breaking point, even for Chess. 
  One horrible night changed André’s life forever. Formerly a party boy of the Hamptons social scene, André buries himself in work for years until he meets Chess and learns to enjoy the simple things. He’s tired of being away from home all the time and ready to step down from his role as CEO of the family business, no matter how they try and pull him back in. But old habits die hard…and so do memories. 
  Photos from the past and present surface, shocking Chess and André out of their carefully constructed dream life. They are forced to face the unthinkable: the love they thought would last a lifetime may be on the brink of falling apart. Secrets are exposed, opening a Pandora’s box both men hoped would stay locked forever. Now Chess and André face the hardest question: do you ever really know the person you’re living with?

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  Clueless Romeo

  Baylin Crow

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  Roman—I'm not your typical matchmaker. For one, I'm a man who's covered in tattoos. 
   
   
   
  Despite my appearance, there's a reason ninety-five percent of my clients seek out my services based on referrals. I'm good at what I do. But lately I've grown bored with the same daily routine. Then an unexpected request piques my interest. 
   
   
   
  CJ, the former college basketball star who recently rented the office suite next to mine, isn't looking to place a ring on someone's finger any time soon. He's interested in something else entirely. It's a challenge. Something new. 
   
   
   
  He wants to date casually and explore his curiosity in other men—but that's not my end goal. I specialize in forevers, and I'm determined to find him the perfect guy. 
   
   
   
  There's an unforeseen problem with my plan. After spending time with him, I find myself a little curious too. 
   
   
   
  I've never been with a man. I've never been annoyed to see my strategy working. And I've never deliberately set a client up for failure. 
   
   
   
  Contains mature themes.

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