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  Drained by the Country Boy (Gay...

  Archer Vale

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  “Take it off. Show your body for the camera.” 
  My boyfriend watches as the straight cowboy stud films my naked, muscular body. This all began when the country boy showed us his guns—his rifles and his biceps. 
  He called us disobedient sissies. He said he could fix us. 
  We fell to our knees for him. He locked us into chastity and began feeding us a diet laced with his seed. 
  He’s reprogramming us. 
  Now he’s our master and we’re his devoted servants. We live to serve straight alpha males. 
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  CONTAINS EXPLICIT GAY SEXUAL CONTENT. 
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  Gooseberries

  Anton Chekhov

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  In Anton Chekhov’s haunting short story Gooseberries, a rain-soaked evening in the Russian countryside becomes the backdrop for a quietly devastating tale of comfort, delusion, and moral awakening. As Ivan Ivanovitch and his companion seek shelter in a landowner’s estate, a simple conversation unfolds into a powerful monologue about happiness, privilege, and the unseen suffering that underpins contentment. 
  Chekhov masterfully juxtaposes the rustic idyll of country life with a piercing reflection on the ethics of retreating from the world’s troubles. With its melancholic beauty, quiet irony, and philosophical weight, Gooseberries is a profound meditation on the illusion of peace and the price of personal fulfillment. Narrated with eloquent sensitivity by Ian Turrell, this classic resonates more deeply than ever in an age still divided between comfort and conscience.

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  King of Always

  Juno Heart

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  A fae prince with a poisoned heart. A mortal girl with a personal motto—when life gets weird, bake! 
   
   
   
  Isla, an aspiring baker, has just made the biggest mistake of her life. After bargaining her way into Faery, she meets the arrogant heir to the Seelie throne who insists she's his fated mate. But no matter how compelling the depths of his amber eyes, there's no way she's getting hitched to save him from some stupid curse. 
   
   
   
  Rafael, the Prince of Fire, is thrilled to finally meet his foretold queen, even if she is a disagreeable human whose pistachio nut cookies make his courtiers cry. Shame she doesn't like him much—or at all. Doesn't every girl want to marry a fae prince and be Queen of the Seelie Court? Apparently not. 
   
   
   
  After a kidnapping and a bungled rescue attempt land Raff and Isla in an Unseelie prison, Isla has to find a way to break them out before the dark court realizes she's a fraud and kills them both. 
   
   
   
  Life would've been simpler if she'd just stayed in the mortal world waiting tables and baking eclairs! 
   
   
   
  Contains mature themes.

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  Not What We Pictured

  Becca Kinzer

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  This is absolutely not how they pictured their summer going.McKenna Boston is feeling stuck. She’s spent years growing her photography skills only for her career to hit a wall. She’s ready to move on—and she will—just as soon as she helps her sister’s boyfriend stage the perfect proposal. But when her best laid plans go awry and a handsome stranger accidentally ends up with the heirloom ring, McKenna hops on a flight to retrieve it. Piece of cake, right?Nate Lambert was hoping to enjoy a relaxing summer before starting his new job as a literature professor, but he arrives in Tennessee to discover his mom’s bed and breakfast is struggling and there’s a long list of repairs to be tackled. The last thing he needs is a gorgeous, determined photographer searching for a ring he doesn’t have—since the airline lost his luggage somewhere on his route from Nebraska.With the ring nowhere to be found, all McKenna can do is wait and use the time to build her portfolio and plan her next career move. But she also can’t help getting swept up in Nate’s bed and breakfast renovations and in planning a community concert with the townsfolk.As both await news of Nate’s suitcase, it begins to seem their serendipitous meeting—and the proposal gone wrong—could actually be everything going right . . . and that this may be their chance at a love neither could have pictured.A clean, witty rom com with a forced proximity trope and a reluctant allies love story. Features laugh-out-loud humor and a sweet, endearing couple.This contemporary summer romance with a Southern small-town setting is great for fans of Sarah Adams, Pepper Basham, and Emma St. Clair.Includes discussion questions for book clubs.

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  Undertow

  Willa Blackmore

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  Three sisters, one power, and an evil out to destroy everything in its path. 
   
   
   
  The Whitlow witches often rub elbows with all things that go bump in the night, but what will they do when Hell itself comes calling? 
   
   
   
  A dangerous ritual, decades old, is about to set loose an evil on the town of Henley-on-Hale and the Whitlows are the only thing standing in the way. The sisters must untangle a web of lies to find the truth behind a series of brutal and horrific murders that are taking the lives of local teens and leaving very strange clues behind. Clues that say this is more than just your run-of-the-mill serial killer. 
   
   
   
  The witches must call on the aid of their allies—old and new—to confront a force unlike any they've ever faced before. The fate of the town and its inhabitants hangs in the balance and, should they fail, the evil that could be unleashed on the world would be cataclysmic. 
   
   
   
  Undertow is the second installment of the Carolina Files, by Willa Blackmore. 
   
   
   
  Perfect for fans of gritty, fun urban fantasy in the vein of the hit TV show Supernatural.

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  Skin Deep

  Tara Wyatt

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  Violet MacAllister is no stranger to rejection. Growing up with dyslexia, she was bullied mercilessly, making her feel as though she would never be good enough. And she believed it—until she found art and a new way of expressing herself. But her wounds run deep, and even though she’s been pining over her best friend Hudson for years, he has no idea, and she intends to keep it that way. He’s everything she could ever want—sensitive, artistic, hard-working, smart, and so, so hot—but she knows they’ll only ever be friends. 
  Hudson Prescott has been through a lot. He lost his father as a child, his fiancée jilted him, and six months ago, he was in a terrifying motorcycle accident that could’ve cost him his life. The one bright spot through the dark times has been his friend and co-worker Violet, who’s talented, driven to help others, and a total sweetheart. She’s his closest friend, and he’d be lost without her. 
  But one emotional night, everything changes, and suddenly Hudson’s seeing Violet in a different light. One that has him questioning how he could’ve been so blind to what was in front of him this entire time: Violet, with her curls, and tattoos, and her laugh that feels like sunshine. So when Violet has a proposition for him—one that involves her painting a nude portrait of him—he agrees. Because now that his eyes are open, he’ll do anything to make her see she’s the one for him. 
  Including bare it all.

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