Rating: 2.75 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Being the long lost heir isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. When Henric finds himself to be the son of a prince, he is whisked away into a world of magical powers, elves, and dragons. But he’s also being pushed into the farthest, darkest corners of the castles by his grandparents.

Today I am so pleased to welcome Lane Hayes to Joyfully Jay. Lane has come to talk to us about her latest release, Sweet Something. Please join me in giving her a big welcome! Exclusive Excerpt Viggo grunted and skirted around me to check out the bedroom. “Small bed.” “It said it was a queen online.”  “Looks like a double.” 

Rating: 4.25 stars Buy Links:  Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Nelson is a shadow jumper who has retired from working for the Supernatural Council and settled with the rest of his team in the supernatural town of Willow Lake. Nelson normally keeps mostly to himself, but ever since the oracle saw a vision of him with an injured unicorn shifter, Nelson has been trying to track the man down.

Rating: 4.5 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Birdie Cooper lives a pious life. It’s not really by choice, but her upbringing has her thoughts tied to the church and, with her parents gone and her twin sister needing all of Birdie’s resources, both money and a plan are absent. Birdie was barely hanging on with her sculpture commissions and an artist-in-residence teaching position at the local Jesuit college, but one moment of weakness with a student led to disastrous consequences for her.

Rating: 3.75 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Widower James moves back to San Francisco because it offers a change of scenery and a fresh start. Being close to friends helps, as does venturing back into the scene, but the weight of losing his husband still presses down on him. After an amazing flogging scene with Nolan, James can’t get the other man off his mind, but he knows he’s not in a place to start something new.

Rating: 4 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel When Tane reluctantly decides to attend a private set omega auction, he has no thoughts of claiming an omega for himself. Instead, he intends to purchase the omega for his son, Malin. Tane hopes the stability offered by a companion and family will settle his reckless and selfish child.

Rating: 4 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Humans don’t want Non-human Visitors (NVs) on Earth, because interspecies sex can cause human males who receive Giver seed to Hybridize and become pregnant. Hybrid humans experience cellular change at the DNA level, which causes physical growth, altered skin color (think rainbow hues), with enhanced strength and increased longevity.

Hi all, I hope you had a great week! I am so excited as one of my favorite weeks of the year is here ... the Rainbow Readers Cruise! This year we have about 240 people coming, which is amazing. We have so many great authors and narrators, plus a huge group of fabulous readers. It has been so long since I've been to a book event and I can't wait to see my reader family!

Rating: 4.25 stars Buy Links:  Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Denver has barely recovered emotionally from his experience with a stalker, and then he is attacked once again, this time outside the club where he does Deaf Drag. As his assailant attempts to choke him to death, Denver is pretty sure that this is the end for him, until a stranger comes to his aid, fights off the attacker, and disappears with hardly a trace.

Rating: 4 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Short Story Sebastian is a thirty-five year old insurance adjustor in Burbank, California, but twenty years ago he was reeling from the grief of losing his mother and found escape in the most unexpected place: a magical portal in a fantasy book that took him to the Perilous Realm.

Rating: 3 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Nathan is the golden boy, born with powerful talents. His father is devoted to pushing his son higher and higher, with endless training. Will is a loved child, whose parents and brother are blessed with magic, while he is not. Not that they care, and they make certain Will doesn’t care, either.

Hi all! Today we are here sharing our favorite books from all those we reviewed in July. These are the books we loved the most. We'd love to hear yours as well! Jay's Favorite Books The Same Flesh by Gregory Ashe Dead Heat by Alexander C. Eberhart Don't Fall by E.M. Lindsey Michelle's Favorite Books Sweet Devotion by Riley Hart…

Hi all, today we are sharing our July Favorite Covers post. These are the covers I loved the most out of all the books we reviewed in July. I'd love to hear any of your favorites!

Rating: 4 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Sam Bryant does not have good memories of growing up in Oakdale, Nebraska. He got out, went to college, and landed a prime marketing job. But the pressure was too great at a crucial point at work and Sam now finds himself back in Oakdale living in his childhood bedroom.

Rating: 4 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Perry Dean is a porn actor just shy of thirty who really wants a significant other. It seems the men he dates are always in for the sex, but not the staying around. Just because Perry has sex on camera as a career doesn’t mean he wouldn’t otherwise be faithful to a man who cared about him.

Rating: 4.25 stars Buy Links:  Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Rowan is a hellhound whose job it is to kill those who are hellbound with no chance of redemption. He has just finished setting fire to a cabin in the woods full of evil cult members when he encounters a guy stumbling along, noisily dragging a suitcase. The man clearly has no self preservation instincts -- and he is also adorable -- and so Rowan decides to keep an eye on him.

Rating: 4.75 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Clark Jensen is desperate to help his son, River, heal and to reconnect with him. Not knowing what else to do, Clark drags River to Snow Creek Ranch, a queer-owned dude ranch. Things start off kind of rocky, but River starts to thaw and Clark is more than grateful.

Rating: 4.25 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Richard of Ardenia is desperate for allies. The King of the Gloamvarn is quiet for the moment, but Richard knows that cannot last and it’s only a matter of time before Ardenia is once more under threat. But allies are hard to come by; even the most well meaning of nations has little interest in helping Richard, as doing so means war with an enemy few can possibly hope to fight.

Story Rating: 4.25 stars Audio Rating: 4 stars Narrators: Sean Crisden and Alexander Cendese Length: 8 hours, 55 minutes Audiobook Buy Links: Amazon/Audible | iBooks Book Buy Links:  Amazon | iBooks NFL tight end Andrew McAdams is a star player for the Outlaws, but this season things aren't going great for him. Not only is a knee injury keeping him off the field, but he is in some legal trouble as well.

Rating: 5 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel It’s been several years since Ayleth married the king, who, alas, seems to be in a coma, which forces her to be regent. Blodwyn, the king's daughter, has been away living with her aunt, both for her own safety and her health, as she was suffering a great malaise as she mourned her mother.

Rating: 3.25 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Liars in Paradise is the second book in the Ginny Dugan Mysteries series and contains spoilers for book one, Glitter in the Dark. Ginny Dugan has built a new life and started a private investigation agency with Jack Crawford; however, her heart is steadily bleeding. Gloria, the vivacious and mysterious woman she loves, betrayed Ginny and then vanished, and she missed that her best friend, Mary, was in fatal danger.

Rating: 4.75 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Jensen was delighted to find a well-kept art deco hotel near his architecture conference. Oddly enough, no one else booked a room there. He finds out why when one of the staff, Daniel, approaches him on his first night to flirt and invite him upstairs, for a fee.

Rating: 4.25 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Heal Me, Love Me is the second book in the Off the Mat series and picks up where the first book, Fight Me, Break Me, leaves off. This book is not intended to be read as a standalone, but as part of the duet. Rowan and Keaton were neighbors and best friends growing up and then their friendship caught fire.

Rating: 3.5 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Victor Grimsely worked hard to escape an abusive relationship and has rebuilt his life in Briarwood as a professor for arcane studies. Now, he is a home-owner, best friends with the medical examiner from the morgue, and finally ready to get back out there and look for his forever person.

I just wanted to give a big thanks to the fabulous folks who advertised with Joyfully Jay in July. Their support means so much and helps keep things running here on the blog. So please show them lots of love and check out their ads one more time. We do still have ads available for 2026 at various tiers. You can get more details on our Advertise page.

Hi all! I hope you had a great week! I am getting myself into vacation prep mode, as next week I leave for the Rainbow Readers Cruise! This is the first real time off I've had since last September, as I started a new job and am short on leave time. So I am so excited to be going away, and doubly excited it's for the cruise, as it is always a fabulous event.

Rating: 4 stars Buy Links:  Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Anthology Jem and Tean: Guys Gone Wild, Volume 2 is a collection of four short stories set within the timeline of The Lamb and the Lion: Wolves Among Us series. The first three stories were distributed previously through other sources, and the fourth one, "Wedding Day," is exclusive to this collection.

Rating: 4 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Arthur Throckmorton lives quietly in the declining village of Seacliff as a clock repairer and caretaker to his niblings. The villagers are intolerant of non-conformity; thus, Arthur's looks, demeanor, and “unmanly” constitution make him an object of abuse and disdain. Unlike Arthur, Charlotte is the epitome of a Seacliffer—an outwardly stoic healer who conforms.

Rating: 3.75 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Wylie doesn’t really mind his summer job at the barbecue restaurant. He gets to work with his best friend, Hannah, and the new employee, Diego, is so nice to look at. Wylie just graduated from college and is looking to go to law school. He has been on his own since his mother died when he was a teenager and, while Diego might look like a bad decision, Wylie sees something beneath the rough exterior.

Rating: 4 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Cole is a crab fisherman. It’s in his blood and his lineage. Together with his husband, Morgan, and older brother, Seb, they run a fishing boat in the Bering Sea. It’s dangerous all of the time, but this year Morgan has a specific feeling and asks Cole to stay home.

Rating: 3.75 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Liam Davies is a British walking disaster working his way across Australia to keep his visa intact. He has no desire to return to drab old England, and truly wants to experience the breadth of the continent. In his latest job, Liam’s a gopher for the Broome City council and is sent off on a three-hour supply drop to the remote Merino Downs station.

Rating: DNF Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Aliens seize control of Earth, descending without warning, cutting off communication systems and crushing military resistance. Aidan and his friends flee home from Chicago to rural Michigan, but learn the aliens control the entire planet. Their leaders have dark intentions that Aidan and his friends uncover when they fall in with a revolutionary faction of aliens who desperately seek to save humanity.

Rating: 4.25 stars Buy Links:  Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Dead Heat is the third book in Alexander C. Eberhart's excellent Second Awakening urban fantasy series. There is an overarching plot that connects the series and the books should be read in order. This review will have spoilers for events in the prior book, so new readers should start with the fabulous first story in the series, …

Rating: 4.25 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Rowan Rangecroft is the hulking guard captain for his family’s fortress and duchy. Gravegarde, one of nine strongholds protecting the populace from the carnivorous Drachifel amphibians, is located in the far northern boundary of their country. Drachifel live in the waters in the coastal regions and have been attacking for centuries, which was why the fortresses were originally built.

Today I am so pleased to welcome Kiera Andrews to Joyfully Jay. Kiera has come to talk to us about the Kickstarter campaign she is running for a special edition of her book, Kidnapped by the Pirate. Please join me in giving her a big welcome! This summer is my 20th (!) anniversary of publishing M/M romance. It blows my mind that Love Match was first published by now-defunct press Loose Id in August 2006.

Rating: 4.25 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Jocasta Thorne was alone on The Avalon when Earth collapsed. He’s spent sixty-four days alone, certain his husband has died, isolated on the tiny space station his husband so lovingly built with Jocasta’s limitations in mind. When there’s a knock on the bay doors, Jocasta is both terrified and relieved to find a stranger there.

Rating: 5 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel All Brown wants is a sweater for the upcoming cold months, and with the prices at the local thrift store too high and the options too few, Brown decides to buy some yarn and make one. Their grandmother taught them a few stitches years ago, and they’re pretty sure they can manage something.

Rating: 4.75 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel People have been speculating on Drew Oberlin’s sexuality ever since he rose to fame after playing a gay chef in a sizzling hot TV show. His girlfriend, Jessica, convinces him that fanning those flames is the best publicity he can get. That’s why she tells Drew to hire the services of Rent-A-Boyfriend while he’s in London filming his latest project.

Rating: 3.75 stars Buy Links:  Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Gregory is the fourth in line to the British throne, raised for a life of duty and responsibility. But he dreams for some freedom to be himself and experience life without being in the public spotlight. Gregory's whole life is planned for him, including an eventual marriage to a woman, and Gregory hasn't worked up the nerve to tell anyone he is gay.

Rating: 3 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Joey Rossi has a crush on his neighbor; Remy Marceau is tall, handsome, smart, funny, and all the things that make any man desirable. But Joey isn't gay. No, of course not. There’s nothing gay about admiring another man, or even about — after quite a few drinks too many — giving another man a blowjob, right?

Hi all, I hope you had a great week! We enjoyed a lovely long weekend at the beach. It was gorgeous and in the mid-70s, which is unseasonably mild for this time of year in our area. For the first time in forever, I took a half day off work on Friday, so I was able to enjoy Friday afternoon and all day Saturday on the beach (I started a new job last fall so my leave has been super limited since I have two upcoming trips).

Rating: 4 stars Buy Links:  Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Out of the Dark is the third book in the Tenebrae Cove series by N.R. Walker. The books connect with one another and so this story and review will have some spoilers for previous book. Salem is gravely injured from the fight with Lusca, and he and Aurin are with Cern as the old god tries to help heal Salem's injuries.

Rating: 4 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Evan and CJ were college teammates who fell in love. With both of them eyeing playing professional baseball in the MLB, they kept their relationship quiet and hidden. When they were spotted, CJ got scared, avoided Evan, and then broke up with him without a conversation. It’s now seven years later and, while they are both successful baseball players, neither of them has fully recovered from the end of the relationship.

Today I am so pleased to welcome A.J. Church to Joyfully Jay. A.J. has come to talk to us about their latest release, Feral Hearts. Please join me in giving a big welcome! Excerpt I notice the bartender’s eyes flitting to me and decide to make my way over there. “What can I get you?” he asks with an easy smile.

Story Rating: 4 stars Audio Rating: 4.25 stars Narrator: Savannah Rivers Length: 8 hours, 24 minutes Audiobook Buy Links: Amazon/Audible | iBooks Book Buy Links:  Amazon | iBooks Archeologist Kelly Pierce loves her life of travel and adventure. She moves from one dig to another, experiencing new places and new people, with no interest in being tied down or stuck at a desk job.

Rating: 4 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Anthology Complications is a collection of short stories featuring a group of men who work for the same family. Whether they weren’t looking for love, or were trying to avoid the feelings they developed, each man had a reason not to get into a relationship. Until the one man they couldn’t stay away from ended up in their lives.

Rating: 3.5 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Ember is a rare phoenix omega who is simply one more mouth to feed for his farmer parents, when there’s even enough food to go around. Farming is hard work and Ember isn’t fond of it, and with his first heat coming … well, he isn’t fond of the thirty-year-old farmer sniffing around him, either.

Rating: 4.75 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Aubie loves being the center of attention. The thrill of all those eyes on him, all those people seeing his carefully constructed image and falling for the persona he presents. It’s a rush, it’s addictive, and it pisses off his father like nothing else he’s done. Club Eros, where Aubie is the star entertainer, is the best thing that ever happened to him.

Rating: 4.5 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Jonathan knows his addiction has stolen just about everything from his life. Now that he's clean, Jonathan is ready to earn his place in life. He starts by reconnecting with his brother, their family, and his brother’s girlfriend’s family—including her rigid, prickly brother, Ashley. Something about Ashley calls to Jonathan and Jonathan to Ashely, but their families only get together for a week in the summer and a week at Christmas, so it takes years for them to really get to know each other.

Rating: 4.5 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Dexter Navarro’s life took a hard turn, but now he’s happy and ready for the next phase. He loves the small town of Wood Hollow, loves making donuts, especially the interesting and creative ones, and the stars have finally aligned for him to become a dad. Using a surrogate is Dexter's best option, and he’s gotten the news that she’s pregnant.