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  Title: Hot Axe Series: Axford Brothers #2 Author: May Archer Genres: Contemporary Gay Romance/Small Town Tropes: Best Friends to Lovers, Firefighter Opposites Attract, Size Difference, Forced Proximity Hurt/Comfort, Bisexual Awakening, Found Family Release Date: March 17, 2026 BLURB Falling in love with my straight best friend? Tragically inevitable. Telling him? Completely out of the question. Everyone in Winsome knows Robbie and I are a matched set. A package deal. Ames and Robbie, Robbie and Ames. He’s the calm to my chaos. The sun shining through my rain cloud. The guy who convinced me to be a firefighter. The man who’s known every single thing about me since we were thirteen… Except for the teeny, tiny, inconsequential fact that I’ve been in love with him for years. I planned to take this secret to the grave. Robbie’s straight. He’s engaged. And I’m finally– finally –ready to move on. But one uncontrollable blaze, one daring rescue, one inconvenient injury, and one heavily-...

  HOT AXE Axeford Brothers - Book Two by May Archer Release Date: March 17, 2026 Review Delicious best friends to lovers. It’s a battle of stubbornness to the end! Ames knows loving his straight best friend is a cliché. Still…But he knows he needs to move on from it. Somehow. Robbie is a people pleaser through and through. He believes compromise is the secret to a good relationship. Except his idea of compromise is to cave to what will make others happy. Until he finally finds the one thing he really wants, worth fighting for.  Ames. They are wonderfully connected; you only ever want to see them together and happy.   Add to your TBR List GOODREADS LINK Synopsis Falling in love with my straight best friend? Tragically inevitable. Telling him? Completely out of the question. Everyone in Winsome knows Robbie and I are a matched set. A package deal. Ames and Robbie, Robbie and Ames. He’s the calm to my chaos. The sun shining through my rain cloud. The guy who convinced m...

  OWNING JETT Made Marian Legacy - Book Three by Lucy Lennox Release Date: February 17, 2026 Review Jett is a terrible operative, especially when Locke is around. A very Marian story. A Marian getting in a little over his head. In work and love. It’s an entertaining and wild story, involving a billionaire part of a secret, clandestine group of the wealthy and powerful people meeting to play a nerdy game, and a young and slightly idealistic agent trying to help the world. They can’t stay away from each other, even if they don’t mean to, but too many secrets and lies are bound to cause problems. Love and good win here! Add to your TBR List GOODREADS LINK Synopsis Two weeks. One villa. A dangerous game of seduction and lies. My job is simple: get close, get the intel, get out. Then Locke Maris walks into my op. He’s cold. Controlled. Heir to a billion-dollar shipping fortune. And so aggressively straight he doesn’t even look at me twice… Until he does. Locke makes me an offer: play hi...

  Title: Owning Jett Series: Made Marian Legacy #3 Author: Lucy Lennox Genre: Gay Romance Tropes: Accidental Rent Boy, Secret Relationship Billionaire, Intrigue, Late Bi-Awakening Release Date: February 17, 2026 BLURB Two weeks. One villa. A dangerous game of seduction and lies. My job is simple: get close, get the intel, get out. Then Locke Maris walks into my op. He’s cold. Controlled. Heir to a billion-dollar shipping fortune. And so aggressively straight he doesn’t even look at me twice… Until he does. Locke makes me an offer: play his assistant by day, be his secret lover by night, at a house party where the world’s elite will gather to sip champagne, enjoy the Italian sun… and play a dangerous game called Paxis.  In this ancient variation of chess, humans are pawns and each coded move could start or stop wars. I should report this to my agency immediately. Walk away clean. But I can’t walk away. Because in the privacy of his suite, the moves Locke makes are just as...