Review: The Matelot by Ariel Tachna
Their pirate vessel destroyed, Captain Amery White, ship’s surgeon Gavin Watson, and quartermaster Quinn Davies are left without a livelihood or a home. The three men have served together since they...
View ArticleReview: The High Class Highwayman by Julia Talbot
When Julian is forced to turn to crime after he loses his inheritance, he decides that he can do better than the incompetent highwayman who tries to waylay him one dark night. That’s how the High-Class...
View ArticleReview: The New World by G.S. Wiley
Toby’s life is simple and uneventful. He spends most of his time working alongside his brother at the Blue Boar Tavern, welcoming travelers and serving locals. Occasionally, he indulges in illicit,...
View ArticleReview: Game of Chance by Kate Roman
When the young Duke of Avon takes a back exit at a masquerade ball, expecting to find like-minded players to share a high-stakes game of cards or dice, nothing can prepare him for what he finds. But in...
View ArticleReview: A Strange Love by Georges Eekhoud
A very early gay novel, originally published in 1900, by a Belgian writer with the first English translation in 1908, set in 19th Century rural Flanders. A gay count returns after years abroad to an...
View ArticleReview: Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin
Baldwin’s haunting and controversial second novel is his most sustained treatment of sexuality, and a classic of gay literature. In a 1950s Paris swarming with expatriates and characterized by...
View ArticleReview: Colonel’s Treasure by Dirk Hessian
Young Rob Winston is deemed too small of stature and unsoldierly to take his place in the military ranks of the American Revolution. All he is seen fit to do is to become the sexual comfort and...
View ArticleReview: Keta Diablo – The Devil’s Heel
Five years ago Drew Hibbard dismissed Rogan Brockport from his life. Now, they meet again at the Governor’s Ball and Rogan will know the reason for the abrupt, unexplained cut. After Rogan saves Drew’s...
View ArticleReview: Cross Bones (short story anthology)
Ahoy, me proud beauty, shiver me timbers! I ask ye to sail me jollyboat on the high seas, lubber, but will ye dare to accept? On offer be a pirate’s life full of danger and risk, and not just to yer...
View ArticleReview: Sail Away by Lee Rowan
Corrupt governments, divided loyalties,lovingly exchanged gifts, astral travel and sensual love; not to mention a sailors unwanted little lodgers are all combined in this charming and entertaining...
View ArticleFilm Review: Victor/Victoria dir. Blake Edwards
In 1934 Paris, trained coloratura soprano Victoria Grant, a native Brit, can’t get a job as a singer and is having trouble making ends meet. She doesn’t even have enough money for the basics of food...
View ArticleReview: Shadowboxing by Anne Barwell
Can physicist Kristopher and Resistance member Michel find love and safety in the middle of World War II? Berlin, 1943. An encounter with an old friend leaves German physicist Dr. Kristopher Lehrer...
View ArticleReview: The Absolutist by John Boyne
September 1919:20 year-old Tristan Sadler takes a train from London to Norwich to deliver some letters to Marian Bancroft, letters that she’d sent to her brother Will. Will and Tristan trained and...
View ArticleReview: Unspoken by R.A. Padmos
Stefan is a working-class man – or would be, if there was any work! – when he meets Adri and they begin an affair. Married with children, Stefan resists this development in a society where...
View ArticleReview: Undefeated Love by John Simpson
Can love survive the horrors of a dictatorship and a concentration camp? Two young men fall in love just as the Nazi Party is coming into power in Germany. One man is talked into becoming involved with...
View ArticleReview: Solemn Contract by Morgan Cheshire
Connecticut, 1720: In an attempt to give his family financial security, school master Jem Bradley hires himself out as an indentured servant – and thus begins an odyssey which will take him to the...
View ArticleReview: His Heart’s Obsession by Alex Beecroft
Kingston, Jamaica, 1752 Robert Hughes, a lieutenant–and rogue–in the British Royal Navy, is in love with his gorgeous fellow officer, Hal Morgan. Hal only has eyes for their captain–a man who’ll never...
View ArticleReview: Lord and Master by H.C. Brown
Lord Reynold Wilton, fearing exposure after a public argument with his sex slave, Lord David Litchfield, leaves England for the Americas. On his return, he finds his delicious man in the hands of a...
View ArticleReview: Beyond the Spanish Road by Annie Kaye
Javier is fulfilling his parents’ wishes by serving as a soldier in the Spanish army—a duty that will take the young swordsman far from his beloved home and family to a planned invasion of England. In...
View ArticleReview: On a Lee Shore by Elin Gregory
“Give me a reason to let you live…” Beached after losing his ship and crew, and with England finally at peace, Lt Christopher Penrose will take whatever work he can get. A valet? Why not? Escorting an...
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