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Footsteps in The Dark
Partners in Crime 3
By Josh Lanyon
    Sarah Black

I Spy Something Bloody
Espionage was always a game, but now British spy Mark Hardwicke wants to retire and settle down with ex-lover Dr. Stephen Thorpe -- if Stephen will have him. Unfortunately, Stephen has other plans -- and so do the terrorists who want Mark dead.

Murder At Black Dog Springs
Code-talker Logan Kee returns to his home on the Navajo Reservation from the battlefields of Saipan. But a new battle is waiting for him. Uranium mining has begun within the four sacred mountains. When the old hand-trembler dies at Black Dog Springs, rumors fly that Leetso, the yellow monster, has been set free to walk the land.
Due Out 06/2008

Cheating Chance
By James Buchanan

Vice Detective, Brandon Carr, despite his tattoos and bad-boy cool, lives in the closet with no intention of ever coming out. Then he meets Nevada Gaming Agent, Nick O'Malley, at a Goth convention and his perfectly constructed world starts to crack. Nick's passions for him, a restored hearse and rope bondage might drown Brandon's will. With the odds stacked against them they try to move from simply sex to something more. Sparks fly as the pair probes a world of cheating, murder, drugs and money laundering. The investigation repeatedly derails their relationship, finally forcing Brandon to choose between staying in the closet and saving Nick's life.
Due Out 07/2008

Hard Working Men
by William Maltese
    Victor J. Banis
    J.P. Bowie
    Jardonn Smith

No ties. No button-down shirts. Jeans and t-shirts. Sweat and dirt. These are combinations that can bring a man to his knees, or can it? In this collection, join four of our authors as they explore the blue collar world. William Maltese's TOW-BLOW, Victor J. Banis' IF LOVE WERE ALL, THE THOMAS COLEMAN FULL NELSON by Jardonn Smith and ONE BRICK AT A TIME by J.P. Bowie bring us to where denim, sweat and lust are everywhere.
Due Out 07/2008

Wet Skin
By William Maltese
Laura Baumbach

William Maltese again joins Laura Baumbach for several erotic tales that explore the first-time wonders of the flesh and water. From Maltese's exhilarating Love in Cascade, to Baumbach's playful Slippery When Wet, the amount of heat generated here will bring back the delicious pleasures of first-time experiences.
Due Out 08/2008

Snakes
By William Maltese

Internationally best-selling author William Maltese, known for his been-there, done-that expertise in bringing exotic locales into the bedrooms of his readers, does it yet again, in SNAKES, a tale of that super-dangerous side to Australia - not ballyhooed in any of the country's enticing tourist brochures - that includes indigenous deadly plants, animals, insects, marine life, and reptiles, that can and do out-kill any of their counterparts on the world's remaining six continents.
Due Out 08/2008

Mexican Heat
#1 Crimes & Cocktails Mystery Series
By Laura Baumbach &
    Josh Lanyon

A new romantic crime series from the combined, finely blended talents of popular award winning authors Laura Baumbach and Josh Lanyon.

Tough, street-smart SFPD Detective Gabriel Sandalini is willing to do whatever it takes to bring down West Coast crime boss Ricco Botelli -- including a dangerous, deep undercover gig as one of Botelli's hired guns. But Gabriel's best laid plans may come crashing down around him when he falls hard for the sexy, suave lieutenant of a rival Mexican drug lord. Turns out his new love interest may have a few secrets of his own: secrets that could destroy both men and the fragile bond between them.
Due Out 08/2008

Deadly Nightshade
By Victor J. Banis

Straight cop, gay cop, and a woman who "isn't real." Tom and Stanley are on the trail of a drag queen serial killer, and along the way, they find themselves engaged in a more intimate pursuit, trying to resolve another mystery: their unexpected attraction to one another.
Due Out 08/2008

I, Debauchee
By William Maltese

This is the first in Maltese's m/m "I" SERIES of books that will eventually include I, HUSTLER; I, SATYR; I, VOYEUR; I, MASTER; I, SLAVE; I, CATAMITE... I, DEBAUCHEE takes Maltese fans on a roller-coaster ride into the depths of corruption by intemperance and sensuality as one man is led and, then, leads others, via seduction, on the all-too-easily-taken detour from duty and virtue to homosexual excess and self-indulgence.
Due Out 08/2008

Phoenix Rising
By Kimberly Gardner

On the night of his 36th birthday, the last thing Jimmy Trent expects is to meet the love of his life. But that's exactly what happens when a friend sends him a surprise birthday greeting in the form of a sexy young stripper. Beautiful, uninhibited and utterly comfortable with his sexuality, Adam Highland is everything Jimmy wants in a man. But the one thing Adam isn't, is willing to be a rich man's dirty little secret.
Release date 08/2008

Death of a Pirate King
#4 Adrien English Mystery Series
By Josh Lanyon

Gay bookseller and reluctant amateur sleuth Adrien English's writing career is suddenly taking off. His first novel, Murder Will Out, has been optioned by notorious Hollywood actor Paul Kane. But when murder makes an appearance at a dinner party, who should be called in but Adrien's former lover, handsome closeted detective Jake Riordan, now a Lieutenant with LAPD -- which may just drive Adrien's new boyfriend, sexy UCLA professor Guy Snowden, to commit a murder of his own!
Due Out 09/2008

Genetic Snare
#2 in the Details Series
By Laura Baumbach

Bounty Hunter Talos bows to family pressure to bring his new human mate home to meet the rest of the cashe, and Aidan, displaced 18th century pirate, still larcenous,light-fingered and very naive about life in the 26th century can't wait for the new adventure. Their relationship together faces many obstacles, including the fact that this is the first time in history an Oracan and human have ever mated. And the attraction is primal, overwhelming and increasingly more wildly passionate with each new day. Traveling to Talos' home planet only seems to feed the fire of their lusty desires.
Due Out 09/2008

I, Hustler
By William Maltese

Some guys have it, don't know how (or don't want) to flaunt it. Some guys have it, flaunt it, haven't a clue how to sell it. Occasionally, a guy comes along who knows he has it, knows how to flaunt it, and - most importantly - knows how to market it and himself to take full advantage of those potentially very lucrative and very few years in which he has to offer himself for sale as a viable commodity on the youth-oriented meat-rack marketplace. I, HUSTLER by William Maltese is the first-person narrative of one such knowledgeable individual.

MALTESE, an up-close-and-hands-on authority on the subject matter, who has already successfully taken us behind the scenes of the sex-for-hire business in his amusing and internationally best-selling (now in its second printing) novel DIARY OF A HUSTLER (as told by Joey), in his FOREIGN BOYS short story Wayne in Spain, and in several of the short stories in his collections CALIFORNIA CREAMIN', SUMMER SWEAT, and YOUNG CRUISERS, again pulls back the usually hard-to-maneuver curtain surrounding the sex-for-sale business in this book, the second in his popular MLR Press "I" series.

For those of you who think the smarmy sex trade is completely devoid of humor and only rife with oh-me-oh-my angst, Maltese once again proves you wrong. I, HUSTLER is often as amusing and as good-time as it is right-on-the-mark informative.
Due Out 09/2008

Shadow Harvest
by James Buchanan

Do you dream of men who shed their skin? Do spirits and demons whisper innuendo in your ear? Goblins, witches and skinwalkers haunt the pages of these seven sensual, seductive and scary stories. From Navajo cousin-brothers for whom the old stories hold more meaning than most to love spells gone awry in post-communist Russia and nightmare encounters with fallen angels along the Angeles Crest, terror and sex become one shivery tingle down your spine. Give in and let James Buchanan thrill you with his brand of homoerotic horror.
Due Out 09/2008

Death Vows
#9 in the Donald Strachey Mystery Series
By Richard Stevenson

Gay marriage in Massachusetts is a fine institution------except when it leads to murder, as it does in this taut, suspenseful Don Strachey private eye novel, the ninth in the classic series. Strachey and his loving foil, Timothy Callahan, are back in perfect form in this witty, ripped-from-the-headlines thriller.
Due Out 09/2008

Ride The Man Down
#1 in A New World Shaman series
By William Maltese

The Brentridges are wealthy and influential New Mexico Territory landowners. Their status purportedly purchased by seemingly inexhaustible capital provided by their reputed Deadmen Hills' gold mine. It only human nature that others would like to share in such bounty. That these others have to die has less to do with keeping the "mine" location a secret than with concealing other mysteries bequeathed by the long-lived and elusive native-American shaman Queequeega. Secrets even the Brentidges can likely never fully comprehend.
Due Out 10/2008

Double Trouble
By Josh Lanyon

DON'T LOOK BACK
Museum curator Peter Killian wakes from a coma to find himself accused of stealing a valuable artifact. Not only does Peter not remember stealing the artifact, he doesn't remember tough, sexy Police Lt. Matt Griffin--but Griffin remembers him, and seems determined to see Peter behind bars.

THE DARK HORSE
Detective Dan is a dark horse--and maybe Sean is betting too much on this relationship. It not just Sean's acting career at stake or his relationship or even his sanity--it's his life.
Due Out 10/2008

Esprit de Corps
    Victor J. Banis
    Josh Lanyon
    Samantha Kane
    J.L. Langley & Dick D.

This anthology explores military life of our past and presnt into four gay romantic military stories that will throw you back in time to WWI, WWII, the Vietnam conflict and then bring you back to contemporary times aboard Naval submarines.
Due Out 10/2008

Army Boy:
A ONE-HAND READ®
By William Maltese

Supposedly, the U.S. military remains an exclusive men's club, no queers knowingly allowed.

Author William Maltese, though, in this, his informative and sexy novel, ARMY BOY: A ONE-HAND READ®, peels back that façade to reveal the true gay subculture existing just beneath the Army's pseudo he-man surface.

Based on personal experience that saw internationally best-selling Maltese proceed from enlistment as lowly PVT to honorable discharge at the rank of SGT (E-5), the author, in ARMY BOY: A ONE-HAND READ®, reveals the sometimes blatant homosexuality of steamy sex in fog-shrouded Ft. Ord seaside glens, fiery sex in coal-stoked Ft. Benjamin Harrison barracks, heated orgies in Seoul-Korea rented resort villas, one-on-one gay sexual combustion in the locker room of the Army Examination and Enlistment Station (AFEES) in Portland, Oregon ... and hot-hot more.

At this present-day time of the military's hypocritical Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy, Maltese and ARMY BOY: A ONE-HAND READ® dare tell all, whether you've ever thought to ask the inflammatory question or not.
Due Out 11/2008

Lovers & Other Strangers
Partners in Crime 4
By Josh Lanyon &
    Sarah Black

Murder In Plein-Air by Josh Lanyon
Reclusive artist Drew Bryant owes his life and sanity to Detective Steve Hurst. Steve, who helped Drew work through the brutal attack that left him crippled physically and emotionally two years earlier, always promised they'd eventually get the guys who shattered Drew's life -- and now someone is. One by one, Drew's accused attackers are being executed -- and to Drew's horror, everything points to Steve.

Burning Up the Night by Sarah Black
Kevin Callahan comes home from war moody and withdrawn, but Bram believes that time and hard physical work will bring him back to himself. Firefighters, Bram and Kevin grew up together, went to the Academy together. After 9/11, they tried to enlist in the Marine Corps, but only Kevin passed the physical. Bram's trying to bring Kevin back, to uncover the man he's know all his life. But a suspicious series of fires in the Arab ghetto points to a military veteran, and Bram is forced to look at Kevin and investigate if his lover is the torch burning up the night.
Due Out 11/2008

Ripples on the Moon
#2 Out There Series
By Laura Baumbach

Another chapter in the changing lives of new werewolf Dr. Connor Jacy and his Native American mate Adam, alpha male and pack leader of Guardians of the Night.
Due Out 12/2008

The Ghost Wore Yellow Socks
By Josh Lanyon

His romantic weekend in ruins, shy twenty-something artist Perry Foster learns that things can always get worse when he returns home from San Francisco to find a dead body in his bathtub. A dead body in a very ugly sportscoat--and matching socks. The dead man is a stranger to Perry, but that's not much of a comfort; how did a strange dead man get in a locked flat at the isolated Alton Estate in the wilds of the "Northeast Kingdom" of Vermont? Perry turns to help from "tall, dark and hostile" former navy SEAL Nick Reno--but is Reno all that he seems?
Due Out 12/2008

Nazi Boy
By William Maltese

Maltese once again intrigues, fascinates and, even, against all odds, arouses us, by capitalizing upon his fascination with the dark side of Hitler's Germany. NAZI BOY provides every indication that homosexuality continued to thrive, sometimes none too clandestinely, within the ranks of the Aryan elite even as less fortunate and less-well-connected gays were callously and hypocritically turned to smoke in the concentration camps of a Third Reich gone stark-raving mad.
Due Out 01/2009

Monster
By Laura Baumbach

A young metal music band hires a dynamic but dark, new manager who promises them fame and fortune if they invest a little blood, sweat and tears into their careers. He wasn't kidding about the blood. But then, vampires never do.
Due Out 04/2009

The Danube Divide
by Jardonn Smith

Rome's Eastern Empire, AD 378, Gothic Tribes versus Roman Legions, The Battle of Adrianople. For Rome, a disastrous defeat. For two men on opposite sides of the battlefield, a love not to be denied.
Due Out TBA

Tequila Sunrise
#2 Heat Series
By Laura Baumbach &
    Josh Lanyon

The only light in Gabriel Sandalini's life is former FBI agent, Antonio Lorenzo. Six months earlier a hail of bullets left Gabriel blind, helpless - and suicidal. Only Antonio's unfailing love and protection gave the young ex-undercover cop the courage to face a lifetime of unending night. But now Antonio is missing, and no one can -- or will -- tell Gabriel what's happened to him. Never one to wait patiently on the sidelines, Gabriel sets out on a dangerous path to find his missing friend and lover. But there are old enemies waiting in the darkness for Gabriel, and before long the hunter becomes the hunted.
Due Out TBA

Sangria White Bull
#3 in the Heat series
By Laura Baumbach &
    Josh Lanyon

It was supposed to be a long-awaited and much deserved romantic getaway: a week in California wine country. Good food, good wine, sunshine and lots of sex. Just what ex-FBI agent Antonio Lorenzo and his lover, ex-SFPD detective Gabriel Sandalini desperately need. But trouble is in the making at the White Bull Vineyard -- and Gabriel believes someone in Antonio's family may be getting in too deep with some very dangerous people. Not an attitude that's going to endear him to his newly acquired in-laws -- or Antonio. Or some very dangerous people...
Due Out TBA

Switched
By Claire Thompson

Dane is reigning king in the Austin BDSM scene. Nathan sees beyond Dane's swaggering persona to the hidden submissive beneath. Can Nathan convince Dane of his place at his feet? As the two come together, the sexual sparks fly. It's only a matter of time before a spark catches and bursts into flame.
Due Out TBA

The Man from C.A.M.P.
By Victor J. Banis

Resourceful as James Bond, flamboyant as Austin Powers, and gay as a Christmas goose, there's never been a secret agent quite like Jackie Holmes, the Man from C.A.M.P.

These fast-paced stories, written and set in the swinging sixties introduce a new generation of readers to the fabulous adventures of gay superspy Jackie Holmes, the Man from C.A.M.P. Armed with a cache of secret weapons, a body that just won't quit, and a white poodle called Sophie who's trained to kill with her razor-sharp teeth, the blonde bombshell with a license to thrill known as Jackie Holmes will blow you away!

Espionage! Danger! International Intrigue! And Hot Gay Sex!
Due Out TBA