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  The Gunpowder Plot

  Fyn Alexander

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  In 1605, King James I sat on the thrones of England and Scotland. A group of men, led by Robert Catesby, planned to blow up the Houses of Parliament in London to kill King James, Queen Anne, their children, and all the lords of England. The plotters were Catholics in a time when, at best, Catholics were fined into poverty, and at worst, they were burned at the stake.
  William Cranmore is one of those men. Lark Alleyne, who started his working life at court, has been recruited as a spy and is put under the direction of Cranmore, who is to teach him the sword as well as the craft of spying. During the course of their work, Cranmore, a man who has never loved anyone, falls deeply in love with the sweet natured, overtly loving younger man. 
  Can William and Lark foil the Gunpowder Plot before the king and his family are murdered?

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  Call It Quits

  Reese Knightley

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  Holden: The last time Beckett walked out on him, Holden knew it was time to let him go. 
   
   
   
  Since the day they'd met, he'd known they were meant for one another, but Beckett doesn't feel the same. Now, it's time to call it quits, only Beckett is in trouble and Holden can't walk away until the man is out of danger. If truth be told, maybe not even then. 
   
   
   
  Beckett: It's not easy fighting powerful forces and juggling things with Holden. 
   
   
   
  He knows Holden wants more, but he's skittish about commitment and he has his reasons. Right now though, those reasons take a back seat to the trouble he's got brewing. So he wants, no he needs, Holden fighting by his side and honestly, he doesn't want to think about Holden walking away. 
   
   
   
  It's all about the timing . . .  
   
   
   
  With time running out, it's a race to catch the bad guys before they start killing hostages. Can a commitment phobic, ex-army, talkative lieutenant and an active duty, easy going, patient sergeant put their rocky relationship on hold to take on corrupt law enforcement? And if they do, when the dust settles, will they fully commit to each other or call it quits? 
   
   
   
  Contains mature themes.

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  Animal God

  R.G. Hendrickson

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  Forever-young Oscar, in a present-day prison cell, tells a story from his early life. As Diver, one of the first Homo sapiens, he's the sole survivor of our people when our original home, Lake Makgadikgadi, dries up. Searching in vain for others, desperately lonely, he encounters a stranger with burning eyes, whose uncommon beauty calms Diver's fears.
  Fiery-eyed Geb is a godlike being allied with animals. At first, he's charged with orchestrating Diver's death. Nothing personal, he likes Diver, but duty comes first. For the moment, Diver is the last of our kind, and Geb is tasked with keeping it that way. 
  Before Diver outwits the prehistoric animals sent to kill him, Geb shows him their lives through the animals' own eyes. When he defeats the animals, Diver regrets their loss. This opens Geb's heart. He works to earn Diver's trust, a difficult task considering their history and Geb's spiritual constraints. 
  Courting Diver, Geb forsakes his duty and makes a big sacrifice to prove his love. Diver learns the secret of how our people might resurface, and Geb promises to always be with him. 
  In his cell, Oscar suffers a flawed romance, gives his blood for experiments, and meets a strange computer program, John Doe, struggling with amnesia. This AI being loves Oscar's story of two ancient enemies becoming lovers and saving humanity. When John remembers his lost identity, he helps Oscar escape.

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  Physical Magic

  William C. Tracy

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  Welcome to the Shifting Lands. 
   
   
   
  Silluka was born with only one arm and could never practice the exacting motions to summon the favor of the gods. Caught stealing, she is forced to test her powers or be branded an outcast. She fails, and loses citizenship to her village. In a fit of desperation, Silluka tries to steal a badge of citizenship from a mysterious elder, but instead, Elder Quilqi shows Silluka a different path to gain the powers of the gods, aided by an octopus-like technological wizard who worships their own eldritch divinities. Time is short for training however, because a new island is speeding toward the coastal town, throwing deadly hurricanes and tidal waves before it and threatening all who live there. 
   
   
   
  Only the gods and godlike storm warriors protect the village from destruction, but all of them fail when a mysterious creature bursts through the wall. It's only one forerunner for a species of terrifying turtlemen: fast, deadly, and ready to invade the larger island. The village must flee inland before the invasion, while Silluka is weighed down by her outcast status and her brother's failing abilities. To save herself, her family, and her village, Silluka must overcome stigma and self-doubt. She must learn the scope of the world outside her village. She must learn Physical Magic.

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  Deck the Palms

  Annabeth Albert

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  Nolan Bell has a very Merry problem this holiday season… 
  As a native New Yorker, I’ve always dreamed of my name in lights on Broadway. But when my Army officer brother calls in a favor, I wind up in Hawaii to help his family while he’s deployed. 
  A winter in paradise doesn’t sound too bad until I become the substitute choir teacher at a middle school near the base. Wrangling a bunch of tweens while planning the annual school holiday lights festival is a far cry from playing Peter Pan. 
  Enter Merrick “Merry” Winters, the school’s grumpy but hot shop teacher. I can win over any audience, but Merry’s a tough sell. And I need his help to make the festival successful. 
  The more time I spend with Merry, the less grumpy he seems, and the more I like the guy. He’s the third generation of a legendary North Shore surfing family. He’s committed to raising his twin boys on the island as a single dad. And like me, he doesn’t have time for an inconvenient but undeniable attraction. 
  As disasters pile up, the only holiday magic Merry and I seem to be making is with each other. What starts as a harmless fling becomes the only present I want under my tree. 
  If I want this romance to last past New Year’s, I have to decide which dreams are truly worth chasing. 
  Can Merry and I catch a wave for a future together before the sun sets on this holiday season?

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  One Night on Lanta - Part One of...

  Jern Tonkoi

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  Part One of Lanta: A Bittersweet MM Romance. 
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  On a hushed shore beneath a moonlit sky, where the tides steal away memories etched in sand, a kiss changes everything. 
  Silom is nineteen, a fisherman’s apprentice with calloused hands, a battered wetsuit, and questions he’s never dared voice aloud. Lester is older, from a colder world—an Englishman adrift in a life that no longer fits. When their paths cross on the island of Ko Lanta, a brief, impulsive kiss stirs something neither of them is ready to name. 
  What begins as a fleeting connection becomes something deeper—tender, quiet, and inescapably real—in a place where duty weighs heavy and words come second to glances, gestures, and shared silences. But paradise cannot shield lovers from the weight of the world. As the tides shift and lives drift apart, Silom is left with only memory—and the ache of a promise unkept. 
  Spanning decades of longing, distance, and quiet resilience, Lanta is a lyrical, bittersweet love story set against the lush, salt-soaked beauty of southern Thailand. It is about the boy who kissed a stranger, the man who never forgot, and the lives that unfold between one impossible moment and its long-awaited echo. 
  Part One tells Lester's story of a remarkable night on a quiet beach in Thailand.

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