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< Capital Games > < Diplomacy > < Caught Running > < The Assignment > < No Going Home > < When Adam Met Jack > G. A. Hauser

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Linden Bay Romance(2008-01-14)
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(Enjoyable Simple Pleasure)

(Don`t waste your time.)

(Games people play)

(Reconciling sexuality not an easy task.)

(Ambivalence)

This book was consistently recommended to me via my Kindle and given the synopsis, I thought I would enjoy an executive-based gay novel instead of the typical twink at a club type of story. What I didn't know was I began reading a gay version of a Harlequin Romance. This book is not for my straight friends. Potential readers are forewarned - this book is spends more time describing the intimate segments of the main characters relationship than developing a plot. If you are looking for a gay Harlequin Romance, this is for you.

What is unfortunate about this novel is it had the potential to be more than a romance book. Both characters are heavy hitters in their advertising agency and both characters are in the closet. As with any romance novel, of course both are extremely attractive and there is a power struggle. Without giving the plot or ending away, both have commitments to either family or significant others that they are dealing with as they become more attracted to one another. This could have been great - it had all the elements that could relate to readers.

Besides the number of pages spent describing the sexual escapades of the two, where this book fell apart for me is how quickly Steve falls in love with Mark. He declares his love for him after the first date. At that point, the character that Hauser had done such a good job developing totally fell apart for me. He became that obsessive twink instead of the masculine, mature character I had envisioned.

I'd be lying if I said I didn't enjoy the book at times. It isn't one that you will be raving about to friends but it is one that you may enjoy reading as a simple pleasure and a break from the typical complex novel. As long as you know you are picking up a gay version of a Harlequin ... your expectations will be correctly set and you will enjoy this novel so much more. I'll probably be picking up another one of Hauser's books in the future.
Poorly written. One dimensional characters. Dull predictable sex scenes. Plot holes big enough to drop bowling balls through. Mrs. Hauser`s worst effort to date.
Slow in the beginning but heated up after awhile leading to an emotionally charged ending. Overall fun read.
Following his resignation from the police force (and subsequent end of a relationship with a foxy female attorney), Steve Miller put his social life on "hold" as he competed for a promotion at a prestigious advertising agency. At a "team building retreat" in the New Mexico desert, Steve is teamed with his main competition at the firm, a charismatic and handsome Brit named Marc, and both men are very surprised by the turn of events when a night stranded in the desert turns into the most satisfying sexual experience either has ever had. Neither man had considered himself gay or bisexual, with macho Steve's past dating history and Marc's current engagement to be married. When it happens again (and again), with even more intense feelings, Steve is reconciled to the fact that he is indeed in love with Marc, but Marc - unwilling to confront his family, friends and fiancé - continues with his wedding plans, much to Steve's chagrin. It's a dilemma both men are agonizing over, with family and friends trying to help them make the right decision.

As usual, G. A. Hauser spins a realistic and engaging romantic tale, with just the right amount of erotic content that never gets in the way of the story she is trying to tell. There's a cute wink-wink to her devoted readers, when one of the characters, in trying to reconcile his gay leanings, picks up a gay romance novel called "The Kiss" ... one of hers, of course! My one "nitpick" here is that the title is a bit misleading, as one expects a story based in Washington DC or at least within the financial industry, but that doesn't merit any reduction of the rating, which is five stars out of five.
This book is about ambivalence of several kinds: over the sexuality of the two protagonists (straight or gay), and over their feelings for each other. Steve and Mark have each been the protagonist in two previous works by this author, in each case the guy found a hot lady to fall in love with, so they both (and everyone else) thought they were straight. Steve's relationship with his girlfriend had already devolved into a friendship without sex, but Mark, who lived with a beautiful gay roommate (in love with Mark) with whom he did NOT have sex, was engaged to and close to marrying his fiancee, Sharon. While Steve never had any difficulty resolving sexual orientation once he realized what he felt for Mark, Mark was on the verge of marriage to someone he'd once loved and had lots of ambivalence over what he should do about it in light of his exploding interest in Steve.

The two were competitors for an extremely valuable account for their advertising firm and hated each other instinctively because of the competition. Then they fell head over heels in love with each other and each had, at least early on, to fight strong ambivalence over their competing needs: to win the account (job) or to win the honey (love and steamy sex). More ambivalence.

It's a good book and I recommend it, but I can only give it four stars instead of five because I basically became disgusted with Mark well before the end of the story. I liked Steve and generally believe that he did what he had to do, except I wasn't sure why he went to the wedding after he'd realized he was being played. He was glad he did, but I didn't believe that Mark was brave enough or strong enough to do what he did at the end of the book, even though the author wrote his actions into the plotline. Enjoy; maybe you will have a different reaction to Mark than I did.
Let the games begin... Former Los Angeles Police officer Steve Miller has gone from walking a beat in the City of Angels to joining the rat race as an advertising executive. He knows how cut-throat the industry can be, so when his boss tells him that he's in direct competition with a newcomer from across the pond for a coveted account, he's not surprised...then he meets Mark Richfield.

Born with a silver spoon in his mouth and fashion-model good looks, Mark is used to getting what he wants. About to be married, Mark has just nailed the job of his dreams. If the determined Brit could just steal the firm's biggest account right out from under Steve Miller, his life would be perfect.

When their boss sends them together to the Arizona desert for a team-building retreat the tension between the two dynamic men escalates until in the heat of the moment their uncontrollable passion leads them to a sexual experience that neither can forget.

Will Mark deny his feelings and follow through with marriage to a women he no longer wants, or will he realize in time that in the game of love, sometimes you have to let go and lose yourself in order to really win.
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< Before Wilde: Sex between Men in Britain's Age of Reform > < The Greeks and Greek Love: A Bold New Exploration of the Ancient World > < Milk > < Pre-Gay L.A.: A Social History of the Movement for Homosexual Rights > < Bigger Than Life: The History of Gay Porn Cinema from Beefcake to Hardcore > < Desire: A History of Sexuality in Europe from the Greeks to the Present > Charles Upchurch

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(A MAJOR STEP FORWARD FOR GAY HISTORY!)

(Early Victorian Britain)

This is a very important book. It may even be a historic book, one with which gay history can arm itself with more sufficient factual veracity as to start vanquishing at last the devil known as queer studies. Queer studies is that stuff that is taught in place of gay history and which elevates theory over facts because its practitioners, having been unsuccessful in uncovering enough of the hard stuff, are haughtily trying to make do.

Well, here is a healthy dose of the hard stuff. Charles Upchurch, an assistant professor of history at Florida State University, and an American, has spent ten years of his life researching this book. It shows it. It overflows with case after case of hard, factual, irrefutable evidence that Englishmen did with other Englishmen pretty much what same-sex couplings do with each other all over the world to this day. The big difference here is that Upchurch begins his extraordinary documenting of these cases with the early nineteenth century, i.e. 1800 onward, heretofore not known as a time in history where such undeniable facts have made themselves known in such a crystal-clear way. (Upchurch reports to have collected over 1000 published newspaper articles documenting cases.)

Certainly nothing like this has appeared in America, thus allowing queer and gender studies to pretty much swamp, nay drown, the gay history field with their goobledegook theorizing of what might have happened. This ludicrous state of affairs prohibits making statements such as: "they did then what we do now," without the wrath of queer theorists raining down insults of an uncommonly vitriolic nature. You don't have a right to say that! say they. You can't prove it! say they. We've been here all along since the beginning of history, say many others of us. Well now it can be said, and proved, in Britain at any rate, thanks to Upchurch. Indeed, "an aching gap has been filled," British sexual theorist Jeffrey Weeks, proclaims in one of the blurbs on the back cover. Indeed.

One reads this book with grateful amazement. Here is a scholar, an academic, who has really done his homework. He has read, it would seem, almost every applicable British newspaper and court record from the early 1800's until about 1870. The amazing thing, of course, when his "findings" are exposed to the bright air of daylight, it can be seen that all this information has been there since it was created, in the files of The Times, in the court records of cases that The Times and other papers reported, quite often rather non-judgmentally, it is also interesting to note. Men accused of sodomy, attempted sodomy, of "indecent assault," at various times punishable by death, of cross dressing, of hustling, of cruising, of trying to set up house, of cohabiting in any way, of trying just to say Hello, oh all those things that gay men know all about and take for granted today.

It is not only breathtaking to read this all in a work the likes of which so many Americans long to have written about our own gay history, but when one finishes reading it, one utters an audible huge sigh of relief. Of course this is how it was! Why did we ALL not know and accept this instinctively without having to create and/or buy into the Foucaultian and Butlerian (to name but two) nightmares with the obtuse vocabularies they invented and demanded be utilized to pierce their dark inchoate spectacles of a world of their own imaginings. Homosexuality did not exist because there was no word for it, say they. What bushwa.

Well, one hopes, those days are fading fast. With more books like this one and more scholar/academics like Upchurch, we might one day even be able to say, unapologetically, and very out loud, that George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, to name but two, were our brothers in love. Would that American academics would hit those stacks like Charles Upchurch did.

(For futher elucidation on these arguments, see my essay on Huffington Post "Homo Sex in Colonial America" and my essay on The Daily Beast, "Yale's Conspiracy of Silence.")

Larry Kramer
Upchurch, Charles. "Before Wilde: Sex Between Men in Britain's Age of Reform", University of California Press, 2009.

Early Victorian Britain

Amos Lassen

Charles Upchurch has done outstanding research on the changing perspectives of sex between men in early Victorian Britain. There has not been much written about homosexuality during that period. Many changes occurred then; there was the first police force, there were new laws for the family and a national media was begun. Upchurch looks at the way there changes affected love between men and to do so he looks at sources that had not previously been used or even looked at. Interesting is that stories of homosexual relations in the mainstream press. We are now able to full the gap that was there and we learn what has been left out of other studies of gay life in Britain.
It was actually this period that gave rise to what came after it and by this it is understood to be the demise of Oscar Wilde which really ushered in the modern age. This is a study of family and community and of rapid change. Homosexual activity here is looked at in relation to the cultural, economic, political and social climate of Victorian England. More than that, Upchurch looks at when sexual acts became part of identity. We are very lucky to have this book so that we can a more complete picture of the history of gay life in the English speaking world.

This book examines changing perceptions of sex between men in early Victorian Britain, a significant yet surprisingly little explored period in the history of Western sexuality. Looking at the dramatic transformations of the era--changes in the family and in the law, the emergence of the world's first police force, the growth of a national media, and more--Charles Upchurch asks how perceptions of same-sex desire changed between men, in families, and in the larger society. To illuminate these questions, he mines a rich trove of previously unexamined sources, including hundreds of articles pertaining to sex between men that appeared in mainstream newspapers. The first book to relate this topic to broader economic, social, and political changes in the early nineteenth century,Before Wildesheds new light on the central question of how and when sex acts became identities.
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< Swish: My Quest to Become the Gayest Person Ever and What Ended Up Happening Instead > < Gay Haiku > < When You Are Engulfed in Flames > < Band Fags! > < Attack of the Theater People > < Candy Everybody Wants (P.S.) > Joel Derfner

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Broadway(2009-06-16)
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(Required Reading)

(A Great B-Time Read ;))

(Moving and funny memoir)

(Not just funny, and not just about being gay)

(A rare thing)

Rarely do I find myself taking the time to review anything (5 attempts at a blog and not one lasted more than a month!) but how could I not! While on a residency trip for grad school, I went to a bookstore to browse for diversion in the form of light reading or fashion magazines. How could it be possible for the cover not to completely draw you in! I read it on the plane ride from Virginia home to California. I laughed until I cried and then went online to order ten more copies to give away. Swish for everyone! I also recommend reading it out loud to someone you love, or like a lot, or just to complete strangers as a random act of kindness.
Picked it up based on the ridiculous cover and it hit the spot.... Hilarious in spots, insightful in others... a book about a part of one gay man's journey that has relevance for all of us.

Kudos to Mr. Derfner ;)
Swish is an excellent book, well-written and moving. It is considerably darker than you might expect, given the title and the author's previous book--Derfner's life story includes a dying mother and struggles with mental illness. Nonetheless Swish is well-leavened with humor and packed with insight.
Is Swish funny? It's hilarious.

Is it about life as a gay man? Yup.

But that's really not the whole story. The heart of the book - for me - was about Joel's mother. His relationship with her, the way he tries to reconcile his love with the terrible things they experienced together (and that she said) broke my heart.

This is a very grown-up book. It's the kind of book where no one's really that great, much less perfect, but everyone receives a fair share of compassion from our gentle narrator.
This is that rarest of things: an honest book.
And that makes it a beautiful one.
A hilarious and deeply moving account of one man’s journey from stereotype to truth.

Joel Derfner is a knitter, an aerobics instructor, a cheerleader, a go-go dancer, and a musical theater composer, but when he realizes one day that he’s a walking gay cliché he embarks on a quest for deeper meaning. A very, very funny quest for deeper meaning. And whether he’s confronting the demons of his past at a GLBT summer camp, using the Internet to “meet” men–many, many men–or going undercover to a conference of ex-gays, he discovers that what he’s looking for–and sometimes even finds, hidden underneath the surface of everyday life–is his own identity. In the tradition of David Sedaris and Augusten Burroughs, yet with its own particular flair,Swishis a story told with not just wit but humor; not just candor but honesty; and not just compassion but humanity.
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< Horizons > < Zero at the Bone > < St. Nacho's > < Happy Onion > < The Best Revenge > < The Wolfe Proxy > Mickie B Ashling

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(A story about staying true to oneself)

(Sweet romance and coming out tale)

(A Sensitive Romantic Novel)

(Great Story, Great Characters, Great Book)

(Exceptional and touching romance)

What if you had to choose between the one you love and your family? Or your career? Mickie B. Ashling's Horizons is a novel of love and the struggle for personal identity. It is also a story about staying true to oneself in spite of the wishes and expectations of others.

In Horizons, the "I love you" is almost the easy part. The hard part is the struggle that the main characters have to go through in order to hang on to what they have found together. Ms. Ashling doesn't make love easy for them; she makes them earn it the hard way. Clark is not only conflicted regarding his homosexuality, but his ADD and especially his family's dismissal of him because of it has impacted his self-worth. Jody, who has been hurt by losing a lover in the past, doesn't want to be stuck in an illicit relationship with someone who refuses to publically acknowledge who they are. He knows that he cannot make Clark's decisions for him, though - Clark has had enough of that in his life already.

This story is told using two different points of view - both Jody's and Clark's. Jody's POV is done in the third person, which one might think of as "typical" narration. Clark, on the other hand, tells his story in the first person. I found this approach to be unique and also quite effective. Clark's narration brings the reader into his character on a very personal level. While he would be personable without this point of view, this makes Clark someone that the reader can truly care about. We experience his confusion, his joy, and his devastation on a very intimate level, and we are therefore quite invested in him winning his happiness.

Horizons is a well-written and emotional (but not maudlin) story, and I found myself becoming quite involved in the lives and travails of the heroes. I rooted for Clark to forget his obnoxious family and the expectations that others had placed on him and for him to grab on to the love that was being offered. I also hoped that Jody wouldn't give up on the young man and that he would understand the strain Clark was going through. If anyone deserves a happy ending, it is these two. Overall, Ms. Ashling has given us an enjoyable read with Horizons; I'll definitely be keeping my eyes open for more of her work.

Warning: This review might contain what some people consider SPOILERS.

Rating: 7/10

PROS:
- Lots of buildup and sexual tension before the characters get together for the first time. As a result, the scene is passionate and explosive. And because they care for each other so much by then, all of the sex is emotional and touching.
- Realistic treatment of a celebrity's struggle with coming out to his public versus pretending to be straight.
- Female character who starts out horrendous and turns out to be a decent person. I considered her one-dimensional at the beginning of the book and was just about convinced as to the reason for her early actions by the end.
- Great ending. Very dramatic and happy and fairy-taleish.

CONS:
- Puzzling and confusing POV choice. The scenes from Jody's POV are in third person, whereas the scenes from Clark's are in first person. They're consistent for the most part--although there is one first-person scene that begins by referring to Clark (the narrator) as "Clark/he" rather than "I"--but the switches from first to third never allowed my mind really to settle while reading.
- Painful, angsty couple of chapters when the characters are broken up and they're both suffering. I understand the necessity of such occurrences in stories, but I never enjoy reading them. (But they do, I admit, make for poignant make-up scenes.)
- One of the guys has a terrible, abusive family. Reading about people like that, even fictional ones, gets a rise out of me every time.

Overall comments: If you're looking for a book with really graphic and/or frequent sex, I don't know that this one will satisfy you. If, however, you enjoy romances that are emotional and sweet, this is a good read.
Ashling, Mickie B. "Horizons", Dreamspinner Press, 2009.

A Sensitive Romantic Novel

Amos Lassen

Clark Stevens at 23 is a popular football jock who is looking at a potential contract with the NFL. He also has a few problems---his girlfriend is very jealous, his father is narrow-minded and controlling, Clark has a problem with his attention span and he is strongly attracted to a male trauma doctor who treats him for a broken bone. His doctor, Jody gets mixed signals from Clark and he himself wants Clark a great deal and it is obvious to him that Clark feels the same toward him. The solution to the situation is quite complicated. Clark lives in a world where homophobia rules and he has had to deny his sexuality.
When Clark sees Jody for the first time he cannot stop flirting with him even though he has had to struggle for years with his feelings for men. Jody, however. falls right away for Clark who he supposes is straight. When the two men yield to their inner feelings, they cannot stay apart even while Clark tries to bury his feelings. He wants to love Jody and be loved by him.
"Horizons" is about a man, Clark, who lives in an egotistic homogenous world and does not know how to break away. The book essentially about the challenges that we face when we try to discover who we are and Ashling writes beautifully about the emotions that we experience.

Horizons is a story about a man living in the very egotistically homogeneous world of college football, who wants so desperately to love and be loved by his soul mate, a male doctor who has recently recovered from a broken heart after the man he planned to spend the rest of his life with tragically passed away. It tells about the challenges we all face when walking in the direction towards our true self. The author masterfully includes the natural progression of the emotional roller coaster we can all relate to: initial attraction, sensuality, lust, joy, concern, sexuality, anger, confusion, unconditional love, and the ultimate state we all seek...true happiness.

As a heterosexual woman, I find this book not only tells an incredibly erotic story of forbidden love but it captures the essence of what it means to follow your heart, live with passion and most importantly to love just as hard as your heart will allow.

It's hot, it's well written and you won't want to put it down.

When Clark Stevens, a popular wide receiver with a potential NFL contract, winds up in the ER because of an injury, familiar ground for the young and troubled athlete, he is overwhelmed by his attraction for his male trauma doctor, Dr. Jody Williams. He can't stop himself from flirting with him, even though he's struggled for years with his forbidden desires for other men.

Jody also struggles to keep up a professional front with his patient, a young, beautiful man who he immediately empathizes with. But it's clear from Clark's mixed signals that he's hiding who he is, which Jody knows is disaster. He can't let himself fall for this 'straight' football player.

This story gives us the sympathetic and emotional struggles of both Jody and Clark as they can't seem to stay apart, even though Clark kids himself he can bury his want. It also features some of my favorite 'kinks,' an innocent-to-being-with-other-men young hero, a caring relationship that benefits both men, and lots of angst which is believable and grounded.

Jan Irving
Twenty-three-year-old Clark Stevens, a popular wide receiver with a potential NFL contract, has a few problems. He's got a jealous girlfriend, a narrow-minded and controlling father, an attention problem, and an unexpected and powerful attraction to the trauma doctor-the male trauma doctor-who treats him for a broken bone. Dr. Jody Williams is getting some really mixed signals. He can't ignore how much he wants Clark, because it's obvious Clark feels the same way. For the out and proud doctor, the solution seems very simple. For Clark, it's not! His world is not gay-friendly, and the obstacles he's faced have led him to deny his sexuality for years. It's the Super Bowl of disasters, no matter how you look at it. In the end, Clark has to decide if he's going to stick with the only life he's ever known or take a chance on a new one with Jody.
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< The Story of the Night: A Novel > < The Blackwater Lightship: A Novel > < Brooklyn: A Novel > < The Master: A Novel > < The Heather Blazing > < The South > Colm Toibin

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(Disappointed persistence)

(Well developed characters in an unusual time and setting)

(An evocative story, told with extraordinary sensitivity.)

(History and the AIDS epidemic)

(how disappointing...)

Even though I read the whole book, the main character's homosexuality did not interest me at all. I was hoping that it would be relevant to the story. I was thinking that Donald and his wife would try to use this feature of his character to achieve something through him for the US State Dept; but it turned out as far as I could determine that the American characters were not needed for the story. In other words, if there had been an aspect of intrigue in the story due to his homosexuality, I would have found it interesting and perhaps well written.
I just finished the book and in general enjoyed it. The setting of Argentina during the Falklands war was a unique setting for a gay themed novel. I thought the characters were well developed and they evolved in ways that I was not expecting. The basic tale held my interest and toward the end it caught me my surprise. But, I do have to say the ending was a bit of a disappointment and rather left me hanging in the middle of a very dramatic situation. Nonetheless it is in the upper 10 percent of gay novels that I have read and I think that is high praise. I think few will be disappointed.
Colm Toibin is one of my favorite Irish authors writing today. Among his books that I've read to date ("The South", "The Heather Blazing", "The Blackwater Lightship", "Mothers and Sons" and this one - I haven't read "The Master" yet), "The Story of the Night" is my favorite.

Set in Buenos Aires during the Falklands war and its aftermath, the novel tracks the development of Richard Garay, a gay schoolteacher, the son of an Argentine father and English mother. At the novel's opening, the generals are still in power, and Garay is closeted and emotionally stunted. Toibin, who covered the trial of General Gualtieri as a reporter, is extraordinarily effective in conveying the sense of menace that prevails, and the way people are forced to hold their emotions in check in order to survive.

The Falklands are lost, the generals lose their hold on power, and the story traces Richard's gradual emotional development in parallel with the opening of Argentine society. The aspect of Toibin's writing that I like best is his extraordinary emotional intelligence, which he deploys here to full effect, in a sensitive and moving account of Richard's story. Richard is a complex, and not entirely sympathetic, character, but Toibin draws us in to his story, and makes us care deeply about his fate.

An evocative and moving story, which I highly recommend.
The story of the night is a very interesting story set in Argentina post-Peron. There are many wonderful review on this site that will cover the plot and I encourage you to read them. To add to the already existing review I would like to discuss the way Toibin, the author, managed information regarding the beginning of the AIDS epidemic. Many are familiar with at least some aspect of the beginning of this epidemic in America and the frustrations and difficulties with the lack of available information. What is unique about this book is how the author treats the dissemination of this information to Argentina. The reader is placed in a position of understanding that information regarding AIDS in Argentina was scarce and treatment even less available. The author provides a looking glass from which we can view the beginning of the AIDS epidemic from a perspective other than our own. If this intrigues you at all, I encourage you to look at some further reviews of this novel.
The only other of Toibin's books that I have read was "The Master", which I thoroughly enjoyed. It is brilliantly subtle; my slight and confusing attraction to Henry James has, probably, more than something to do with my reaction. My thought was that such a profound writer should have a few more equally enjoyable books under his belt. I was, at least as concerns this work, horribly mistaken. I did try to like this book. I kept waiting for some depth or maybe some honest emotion. What I got was intolerably lackluster 1st person in short 7 word sentences that drove me /batty/, and a 'love' that is more based on lust than anything else. There is not one drop of feeling anywhere, and this includes the protagonist's reactions to his political situation since he doesn't actually /care/ at all. I skimmed to the end of the book to see if maybe I might be missing something worthwhile, but found nothing that would have made this book worth having bought in the 1st place.
A daring and deeply moving novel set in Argentina in the time of the Generals--a time when the streets are empty at night, and people have trained themselves not to see. Richard Garay lives with his mother, hiding his sexuality from her and from society. Stifled by his job, Richard is willing to take chances, both sexually and professionally. But Argentina is changing, and as his country edges toward peace, Richard tentatively begins a love affair. The result is a powerful, brave, and poignant novel of sex, death, and the diffculties of connecting one's inner life with the outside world.
In the past decade Colm Tóibín has garnered international fame for his fiction, reporting, and travel writing. Now, in his new novel,The Story of Night,he breaks new emotional ground with the story of a gay man coming of age in Argentina during the Falklands War. Tóibín weds his two themes--the ongoing Argentinean struggle toward democracy and the personal journey of a man coming out--with intellectual deftness and literary agility. Written with grace and understatementThe Story of Nightis Tóibín's best work yet.
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< Murder Most Gay > < Condor One > < Task Force > < First You Fall: A Kevin Connor Mystery > < The Good Thief > < The Assignment > John Simpson

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(Hot and tight.)

(J. Simpson)

(Murder Most Gay is a terrific read)

(An Erotic Thriller)

(An Easy Read)

I am a fan of the gay detective genre and Simpson presents us with a nice version; a very young cop who works in the closet but uses his instincts and his sexual identity to help solve a case. Simpson brings in some timely aspects to the piece and things just keep moving. It reads fast but is very engaging; I needed to keep reading. As an older person, I enjoyed reading the gay aspects of this from a writer of my generation but about characters of our children's generation. The issues of homophobia, prejudice and hate are still an issue even after so many decades of advancements. The sex is not gratuitous but is presented very naturally. I am ordering some of his other books.
Enjoyable mystery story with great sex scenes.

Sale went smoothly and all was as advertized. Thank you.
I have always been fond of police procedural stories but I hadn't seen this genre. I wasn't sure how the two went together. It all fit together very well. The gay part of the story line was interesting and made me want to know more about the future exploits of the men involved. The police story by itself really held my interest. I didn't want to put it down. I was very impressed with this story and intend to get more of John Simpson's books.
Simpson, John. "Murder Most Gay", Dreamspinner Press. 2008.

An Erotic Mystery

Amos Lassen

John Simpson's "Murder Most Gay" focuses on a serial killer who is using his evil ways to kill gay men. Patrick St. James. a rookie cop has been assigned to the case but he feels close to the victims. Even though he is gay, he is in the closet at the Police force and here is the irony that he is given the case. Pat's and his good friend fellow cop Hank hang out in the gay bars trying to get a lead as to who the killer is. Pat is also looking for someone to share his life as is Hank. Pat means a good friend of Hank's, Dean, and he wants to focus on him but must spend his time on the case. He realizes that his romantic involvement can cause trouble for himself.
Soon Pat and Hank become the center of the investigation and this puts them in danger. The action continues throughout the book and it is a page turner. Simpson is able to give us realistic characters who develop through the course of the novel. The guys find success at love and of course they solve the case. Simpson gives us a good first novel that definitely calls for a sequel.

I enjoyed this book. It is an easy read and not filled with a lot of unnecessary fluff. The story moves along at a reasonable pace. There are a couple sex scenes for the reader who enjoys that, but the entire book isn't about sex. The only downfall I would say is that the ending seems a little rushed. But even then, I enjoyed it to the very last word. I would suggest any reader who likes to read gay fiction, pick up this book and give it a shot. It's worth the read!
A serial killer is targeting gay men, preying on them in popular bars and parks. Assigned to the case, rookie cop Pat St. James feels all too close to the victims. He's gay and firmly in the closet at work. The fact that he's sent undercover as a gay man is a stroke of irony. Pat and his fellow cop, Hank, are hanging out in bars, trying to get a lead on the killer. At the same time, Pat's looking for Mr. Right - juggling three men, hoping he'll find the perfect match for himself. He picked up Bill at a bar, Dean's a longtime friend . and in yet another ironic twist, his partner, Hank, is also gay and on the list of possible beaus. As the killer continues to rampage, strangling and raping his victims, Pat has to focus on his work and hope that his personal life survives the stress. But when his hopes and dreams for happiness overlap with the investigation, Pat may be headed for big trouble.
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< Murder Most Gay > < Condor One > < Task Force > < First You Fall: A Kevin Connor Mystery > < The Good Thief > freaks

< Blessed Twice > < Uncommon Emotions > < Night Call > < Imagining Reality > < Homecoming > < Wasted Heart > Lynn Galli

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(An Entertaining and Unique novel)

(The Love of a Good Woman?)

(There is life after tragedy)

(can't wait for the next one!)

(Galli at her best)

This is the first book by Lynn Galli I have read, and on the whole, I enjoyed it very much. (it was recommended in the back of a Meghan O'Brien book)

Not having read "Imagining Reality", I am not familiar with the reappearing (and sometime annoying) "cast of characters", and as such, this is one of my only two complaints. Outside of the two main characters, (and ancillary walk-on parts) there are no less than twenty-eight reoccurring supporting characters! This, along with a difficult first chapter had me wondering if I needed a flow-chart to keep track of all of the players!

That said, I deliberately put my whining aside, and the book settled down into a very sweet, sometimes heartbreaking story, with two -very- surprising plot twists. (Sadly, one of these has been spoiled by several other reviewers.)

One of the other reviewers complained about one or two unrealistic points of emotional recovery. I can't speak to that, but I was willing to (as someone unfamiliar with these problems) suspend disbelieve for the sake of a well written story. I got weepy on page 70, and from page 176 on it was a semi-regular pause/sniffle type book (a very good thing).

On the subject of (ahem) "H.L.S.", there are a few BDSM scenes, but -very- tame, and not directly relevant to the main relationship. Other than that, the story is one where the relationship develops, and -then- the H.L.S. happens (which was _very_ tastefully done, BTW). How odd to read an alternative romance where people -aren't'- tearing their clothes off by chapter two!

Overall, A great book. (I almost gave it 5 stars, but after 2 Meghan O'Brien books, I'm a bit picky)

I had read Galli's Uncommon Emotions, and thoroughly enjoyed the humor, and relatively light hearted story line. I appreciate what she was trying for with Blessed, but have to wonder if she missed the mark.

Briony is a college professor who lost her partner three years prior to the beginning of the book. She is raising their son, and working as a professor in the Washington D.C. area. Enter M... not a typo. M is sullen, shy and introverted... all the things that attract a single mother still mourning the loss of her partner. So that's not terribly believable, but what Galli does well is examine Briony's desire to move past her loss for her sake and her son's.

As the story progresses, it becomes obvious M has a few issues, not the least of which is her physical inability to touch or be touched. It comes as no surprise this issue's root is a past of abuse. What does come as a bit of a surprise is the author's assertion that the love of a good woman (Briony) can turn it all around for M. Anyone who has ever known an abuse victim knows that is rarely, if ever, the case.

Furthermore, I couldn't help wondering as I read the book, what's going to happen when M isn't so fragile? When it is clear that Briony is attracted, in part, to M's vulnerability and tragicness, how will the relationship survive M reconciling her pass?

Blessed Twice is a novel about experiencing life-shattering tragedy and discovering that you can survive it. Briony Gatewood lost her partner Megan in a rock climbing accident three years ago. She and her son Caleb have struggled through their grief and Briony is finally ready to move on with living. To try and make a new start, Briony has moved them from Vermont and all of their familiar surroundings and family to Charlottesville, Virginia, where she is a professor at the university. It's there that she meets M Desiderius who is as successful and interactive with her students as she is aloof and nonengaged with the staff. When both women are "volunteered" to work on a project in summer school, Briony discovers that M is withdrawn because she is shy. As they get to know each other better, it's revealed that M had a terrible early life that makes her unable to interact with people naturally. Briony realizes slowly that she is falling in love with the brilliant and tortured woman, but she also knows that any relationship they can hope to have is going to take a great deal of work and patience on her part. She sees a second chance at love if she can help M break out of the protective shell she's built around herself.

Galli has set another book in familiar surroundings with a supporting cast of characters she's introduced before. The book is skillfully developed as Galli deals with Briony's emotions as she tries to get over losing Meg and raise their young son properly. There is a lot of humor injected when Briony's friends decide to set her up with various women they know and she has to endure a series of "dates from hell." It's appallingly obvious to Briony and the reader why these women are still single and inappropriate matches, so the wonder is that her friends don't see it. M is the truly interesting character as a person who is so traumatized by her childhood that the simple touch of another person causes her excruciating pain. The "therapy" she dabbles with to overcome these feelings gives a view into the world of dominance and submission that is both informative and disturbing. The strength of the book is that Galli doesn't rush the development of the characters and the situations. These aren't two women who are destined to fall into bed the first time they're alone and they don't. They have to work to build the trust that will make any relationship possible and that takes time.

Blessed Twice is an interesting story about a couple that doesn't fit the normal pattern. That makes it refreshing and worth reading.

OK, first I'll nitpick: University of Chicago is NOT a state school!! Now that I've gotten that out of my system, I have to say that I greatly enjoy this author. As far as lesbian romance goes, Lynn Galli's books are very satisfying and re-readable. While I like Uncommon Emotions and Wasted Heart the best, all of her books are great and well worth reading.

Lynn Galli has always been a wonderful writer but I feel this is her best effort.She deals with a very difficult subject and does an excellent job of it.
The problem with starting over in another state after losing your partner is that your new friends don't understand why you can't just get over it. They never saw how you were together, how much you loved her, how she was your life. They only see a number: three, as in, the number of years since she died. That's all the evidence they need to begin pressuring you to get back out there again. It doesn't matter that you've told them to back off. No, they feel it is their duty to butt into your life and ambush you with blind dates.

This wasn't a predicament Briony Gatewood anticipated when she relocated for tenure at a prestigious university. Yet after a year with her new friends, they've ceased being merely concerned and moved on to obnoxious. As if being fixed up wasn't bad enough, the dean at her college just volunteered her to teach a potentially career damaging class. Along for the experimental course is the socially challenged M Desiderius, a fellow professor who won't ever win a faculty popularity contest. But as they start working together, Briony begins to understand M's aloofness and is intrigued by the shy, brilliant, passionate woman. Enough so that she's starting to believe her friends when they say it's time to move on. And M, as complicated as her past has been and reticent as she seems now, may be the perfect person to help Briony finally heal and love again.
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< Blessed Twice > < Uncommon Emotions > < Night Call > < Imagining Reality > < Homecoming > freaks

< Annie on My Mind > < Keeping You a Secret > < Dare Truth or Promise > < Empress of the World > < Girl Walking Backwards > < Pages for You: A Novel > Nancy Garden

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(A Must Read for All)

(Annie On My Mind)

(Very good for high school aged children)

(Great!!)

(A Story of First Love...)

I found this book because it was proclaimed a ground breaking book for homosexuality in teen. It interested me to read such a novel, and I have confidence that one day this book will be a classic.
It had that classic feel to a kind of outdated novel. The same you can feel from reading any "teen" novel that was written at least a decade before one's time as a teen themselves. It's a good feeling in a novel, a feels a tad historic.
Annie is adorable. She has a puffy fun personality, yet stays grounded and very real. I too, would fall in love with her. Liza is an a-typical trying to find herself girl. Yet, her adventure of finding herself and knowing what she wants is very heart warming.
The story was bliss but the true conflict does not come until the end. It is very frustrating once this comes about. Multiple times I wanted to throw the book across the room during this part. However, before that is absolutely lovely. I dreamed of living in the world that Annie and Liza created.
The setting was also enjoyable. Any book that takes place in New York City makes me smile. The two are constants at museums which I enjoyed as well. However, Liza's school, Foster, is absolutely dreadful. When they described it as being in an old housing building, I pictured my middle school. So the whole time, I pictured it as a very dingy place. Plus, her headmistress, Mrs. Pointdexter, is absolutely obnoxious.
Overall, I loved this book. It's heartwarming and bubbly, yet complete dishearting. But that gives it the opportunity to open eyes just as I'm sure the novel was written to do. Everybody should read this novel. The conservatives, the liberals, the young, and the old. This is a must read.
Annie On My Mind is an exceptional book. It really lets the reader see into the mind of a high school student dealing with feelings for the same sex. I know of many girls in the past and I'm sure of more in the future, have thought about being attracted to the same sex,and this book lets girls out there know that is okay. It doesn't not give only one side of the battle of the charcters,to admit that they are gay to family and friends , but to admit to themselves that they are who they are and that is best to love one another rather than fight it and cause themselves more pain. I would highly recomend this book to anyone looking to read a good book and to anyone who likes to see other's points of view to have a better understanding of what people of homosexuality go through.
If you're just getting into lesbian romance or are a high school student, this is a good first book. I definitely think it is best for those who want a short read. Not to put it down, but your taste will grow and so will your want for maturity. Definitely good, no doubt about it but more suitable for very young adults.
I thought this book was great, i mean yeah there was something missing more details or something not really sure, but i though the overall book was great. *SPOILER* I loved the part when they first kissed i meant the detail there was amazing i could really see them in my head.*END SPOILER* I recommend this beautiful love story.
I was hesitant at first to read what is essentially a young adult book, but the story told in Annie on My Mind captivated me. Nancy Garden tells the story of Annie and Liza, two seniors in high school, from different worlds and different socio-economic backgrounds.

The two girls meet by chance and develop a friendship that evolves into something more intense and intimate. They fall in love with each other.

What Garden does in this book, and more successfully in her follow-up Good Moon Rising, is she allows the story to be about two people meeting, getting to know each other and having that first experience with love. Though at times, the novel addresses the challenges of lesbian love, and coming out, Garden manages to keep the story on track as a story of first love.

I imagine Annie and Liza could be any two teenagers, trying to find their way in the world and finding each other in the process.

Liza puts aside her feelings for Annie after the disaster at school, but eventually she allows love to triumph over the ignorance of people.
Rerations
< Annie on My Mind > < Keeping You a Secret > < Dare Truth or Promise > < Empress of the World > < Girl Walking Backwards > freaks

< Hot Ticket: A Serving Love Story > < Diving in Deep > < Court Appointed: A Serving Love Story > < Out Of My Mind > < Collision Course > < Handyman > K.A. Mitchell

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(A novella with depth!)

(HOT TICKET by K. A. Mitchell)

(Hot Ticket by K.A. Mitchell)

This may be short but it manages to achieve a lot on all fronts. Hot sex, 2 well developed characters who easily grow on you, tender, touching and emotional moments and a nice plot. I prefer this one to Diving Deep, the longer story from Mitchell. The initial setting is really amusing as both characters meet over a rubbish dump. Cade may be the more experienced, flamboyant and older one but his failed relationship with a "jerk" has left him vulnerable and lonely. Elliot is a young man, almost a virgin, but romantic at heart believing in finding one true love. They seem very different and you would have thought Cade would have preferred a more exprienced and older lover. But Elliot's persistence and sincerity would win the most hard hearted. Love the chemistry between the 2 men. I would love to read more about this couple making it lasts. A great novella.
I loved the wonderful Diving in Deep by K. A. Mitchell so much that I decided to check out her other work. HOT TICKET is a short, fun, and surprisingly emotional read by this great author.

This is a cute book with great characters. The beginning is a bit confusing because the author chooses to reveal background info very slowly, but the rest of the book flows smoothly as the pieces begin to fit together. Elliot is a sweet geeky guy, and Cade is sensitive and smart despite his rebel appearance. The men have more in common than they think, and they begin a steamy affair.

The sex in this book is extremely hot but still tasteful. The two men have fantastic chemistry, and they seem to understand each other on a deep emotional level. Despite their very different exterior appearances, they are kindred spirits.

The conflict in this book is mostly internal, and is mostly from Cade's end. He has been burned by bad relationships in the past, so he has trust and commitment issues. Elliot is much younger and very inexperienced, and Cade can't imagine Elliot wanting to stick around.

K. A. Mitchell is very good at character-driven romance. The tiny bit of external conflict is secondary to the relationship and the romance, and Ms. Mitchell puts a lot of focus on feelings and growth rather than on the external forces that interfere.

This is a short book, just under 80 pages. It will make a wonderful addition to your "Rainy Day" list.
Sometime is tender to read a very beatiful love story.

Elliot and Cade meet during community service. Elliot was condamned to have bought stolen items (even if without bad intention) and Cade to have vandalized his ex-lover car after finding the man cheating in their bed with a lot younger man.

Elliot is a 23 years old clerck. He has a simple and ordinary life, he is gay and he has a crush for a man he has barely spoken. And he is virgin (in his past only 3 blowjob...). Cabe is a 33 years old post-hippie. He has quitted with college and now he works has a waiter. Where Elliot is all next door good boy, Cabe has 14 piercing on his ears, one on his eyebrows, one on his toungue and one on his nipple. Where Elliot is classical music and 9 a.m. to 5 p.m work, Cabe is heavy metal and night shifts. Everything seems to drive them apart, but the sex is very hot. For Elliot it's not only the first lover thing or the thrilling to savour a different life style, but Cabe is not so sure of that. He was hurt in the past and to trust again is a long way. Will Elliot be patient enough?

Even if it's Cabe who call the shot, sexually speaking it's Elliot who is the top. And it's very tender to read of the first time of Elliot and of his eagerness which can be a real pain for Cabe, but which at the end is a really good experience for both and a very arousing scene to read. Without doubt for Elliot, the relationship with Cabe is a matter of growing, a journey in discovery his sexuality. Cabe on the other hand, has seen a lot and tried even more, but "training" Elliot, will give him a new perspective.

We don't know if the relationship will last: Elliot is very young and at his first experience with a lover... in the real life probably they will break in few year, but this is a romance, and I want to think that this two guy will find an everlasting love together.

Love's the last thing you expect to find in the trash.Elliot Graham doesn't make mistakes. So when he ends up serving community service at a recycling plant for inadvertently buying stolen property, he's certain it's the worst thing that's ever happened to him. That is, until he finds tickets to a sold-out concert in the trash, tickets that immediately disappear into the pocket of the hottest--and most exasperating--guy he's ever met.

Cade McKuen has never been one to follow society's expectations. That's why he's serving time sorting trash for destroying his cheating ex-lover's car rather than apologize. Finding those tickets is an unexpected bonus to an otherwise smelly sentence. But when cute, sputtering Elliot claims a share, Cade decides community service might be the best thing that's happened to him all year.

Cade is determined to keep Elliot off balance and tap into the passion he senses is hidden under that buttoned-down exterior. Elliot is fascinated by Cade's outrageous way of thumbing his nose at the world.

Opposites attract, but can passion be the ticket to something lasting?

Warning, this title contains the following: explicit male/male sex, graphic language.

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< Hot Ticket: A Serving Love Story > < Diving in Deep > < Court Appointed: A Serving Love Story > < Out Of My Mind > < Collision Course > freaks

< Thirteen Hours > < Uncommon Emotions > < Heart of the Matter > < Night Call > < Lethal Affairs (Elite Operatives Romance Intrigue) > < The Lonely Hearts Club > Meghan O'Brien

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(Great Love Story)

(Thirteen Hours)

(I LOVE THIS FREAKING BOOK!)

(HOT! NICE AND SWEET!)

(Hot and Cold)

This book was wonderful read. I actually enjoyed how the raw attraction of the two woman and how being open and accepting of ones emotions can lead to a healthy and loving relationship. Two thumbs up i thoroughly enjoyed the compassion and the raw lovemaking.
This book is interesting in that it has a great premise, but it never manages to develop it into a good story. This read likes several plot-less sex scenes strung together and written by a person with little experience, at that. I found the novel titillating but pretty much empty of characterization, insight, or even good erotic writing.
This book was too good. It almost made me rethink writing for a little bit. It's pretty much about a lonely, bitchy, workaholic and very closeted woman named Dana who gets a lapdance from a really hot stripper with a phenomenal pair of breasts as a birthday present from an AWESOME friend named Scott. Then an angry,surprised (and very turned on) Dana gives her an earful, commanding her to put her clothes back on and get out of her office. When the stripper does so, Dana insists on escorting her out of the building. So they get into the elevator and it gets stuck. Dana and Laurel the stripper are stuck in the small room for 13 hours. During this time, they learn a lot about one another. Dana stops being too afraid to live and Laurel basically charms her way into Dana's "power dyke suit". After they get out of the elevator, they pursue a serious relationship. And it works out for them happily ever after. I loved this book because it revealed the changes that they both endured in order to be ready to be in a relationship with another person. THis was a very funny book with quite a few gems. Dana's comment "Come like a ninja" about masturbating in her parent's house with her room being in between her brother's and her parents' was one of them. Throughout this book, I kept waiting for the other shoe to drop, much like Dana and Laurel. But that's the best part. No fallout! I would advise anyone to get this book. And if I ever meet a Scott who gives me as awesome a gift as Dana's, he'd be my bestest friend forever.
I bought the book because i read the reviews, and the day i got it in the mail was my day off and i took me less than 4 hours to read it! i was hooked and could not put it down. I finished in less than 13 hours, he.he :)
I selected this book from Amazon along with about a half dozen other lesbian-themed books to read over the holidays so I could explore some new lesbian authors out there. I wasn't expecting anything deep or literary with a plotline about a stripper hired for a lonely, uptight workaholic on her birthday. Just a fun ride. And that's pretty much the sum of it.

Yes, I gave it only 3 stars because the second half of the book is poorly developed... but the sex scenes overall are so incredibly well done that you will be forgiving... so I do recommend it.

What surprised me is that I was really sucked into the story right from the start as I could really visualize the scene. This author knows how to write some steamy, playful erotica! And you really do develop an interest in her characters. The dialogue is the strongest device here. Unfortunately, this book does not run with these strong points and evolve into a really good story. It reads like a porn flick... sex scene after sex scene and a rather shallow storyline. However, no skanks in sight. Both characters are not at all what they seem upfront and the duality here is just gorgeous... at least during the first half of the book anyway.

The book kind of went downhill once they got out of the elevator. There are glaring implausibilities that distract you from the story and the sex scenes begin to morph into an instructional manual for light BDSM and anal play. While there is something truly appealing about a stripper who turns out to be the brainy girl-next-door (even if there is little support of this as their work lives are so poorly developed)... this relationship turns into a sappy tribute to the perfect long term relationship where people have no issues and never, ever, and I mean EVER fight or have conflict (um... anyone know lezzies like that?!) and of course they get a dog and don't get me started on lesbians and their pets. :P

I struggled to get through the last few chapters... BORING BORING BORING. No real depth or development here. Just seemed to be a rush to show how perfect their lives turned out. Laurel's perfect breasts: awesome. Dana and Laurel's perfect happy ending relationship: BORING. I have never heard two lesbians apologize so much over nothing. The author calls it fantasy... I call it lazy writing.

Ms. O'Brien... you have some real potential and I'll forgive ya 'cause you're like 29, right? (That and your editor at your makeshift publishing co. screwed you.) You're better than this. Or you can be. You know how to bring characters to life... now you need to work on giving them a real life span and a plausible setting. Screw the porn script structure (serves nothing but masturbatory purposes anyway). Be the first in your neighborhood to thread your awesome erotica with a well-developed story. We lezzies want 'em both!

Can you fall in love in thirteen hours?

It's her birthday but lonely workaholic Dana Watts is at the office late, drafting a proposal. The very last interruption she expects comes in the form of the most beautiful breasts she has ever seen. These belong to an incredibly hot woman, who is standing in front of her, stripping to music.

Laurel Stanley performs strip-o-grams to pay her way through school. She has never encountered a more ungrateful recipient than Dana. The uptight project manager makes it clear that she is furious to be distracted from her work by the "gift" a colleague sent and equally appalled by Laurel's occupation.

After Dana is rude and insulting, and insists on escorting Laurel from the building, the two women take an elevator ride that changes everything. Stuck with each other for thirteen long hours after the elevator breaks down, they discover how wrong first impressions can be and how right two strangers can feel together.

Can everything change in less than a day? Dana and Laurel set out to discover if their passionate elevator encounter can mean more in this fast-paced, erotic story of lust, loneliness, fantasy, and desire.
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< Thirteen Hours > < Uncommon Emotions > < Heart of the Matter > < Night Call > < Lethal Affairs (Elite Operatives Romance Intrigue) > freaks

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