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Jeff Baker; Boogieman In Lavender: Peter Lefcourt’s “The Dreyfus Affair”

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The Dreyfus Affair by Jeff Baker A couple of decades before “Heated Rivalry” heated up bookstores and screens, there was the story of Randy Dreyfus and D. J. Pickett causing a stir among the sports-minded in Peter Lefcourt’s 1992 baseball novel “The Dreyfus Affair.” Set presumably in the early Two-Thousands and loosely patterned after the famous Ninteenth-Century political scandal that gives the book its title, the novel takes a lighter tone and was reportedly sold on a one-sentence pitch: a shortstop falls in love with his second baseman. Said Shortstop, Randy Dreyfus, has started noticing an attraction to Second Baseman … Read more

New Release: Inelegant Machines – D. A. Hamlin

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Inelegant Machines - D. A. Hamlin

QSFer D. A. Hamlin has a new queer dystopian book out (bi, gay): Inelegant Machines. In Lancut, debt is a death sentence. …and Julian is being crushed by it. His only escape is an internship he never wanted, working under President Sands, the architect of the surveillance discs that track every citizen and can end a life with a single command. The work betrays everything he believes in, stripping him to the bone and leaving him ready to vanish altogether. His one constant is Des: the brilliant, frustrating, and magnetic man he’s grown up beside. But Julian has spent years … Read more

New Release: Defiance – Cari Z.

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Defiance - Cari Z.

QSFer Cari Z. has a new mm fantasy romance out: Defiance. Two enemies, born into conflict, find love despite the odds. Their fight to stay together will define the future not just for themselves, but for the world. Petur Alloui is a powerful prince, a gifted shifter, and a fighter at the top of his game. He wants for nothing…except a challenge. He didn’t expect that challenge to come in the form of a trained assassin, immune to magic, who saves his life even though their countries are sworn enemies. If Deyvid was smarter, he would have let Petur die … Read more

Review: Forrest House – E.M. Hamill

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Forrest House - E.M. Hamill

Genre: Fantasy, Romance LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewer: Scott Universal Buy Link | Amazon About The Book Blood is Stronger Than Magic Ander Forrest renounced blood magic to become a nurse-healer in his rural hometown, far from the drama of wizardry and espionage his sister Kate craved. When Kate goes missing in action, Ander finds himself the legal guardian of her gifted twins and receives a cryptic warning from Kate’s husband to protect them before he, too, disappears. Six months later, his former lover crash lands in the kids’ bedroom via a spell only Ander’s sister could have cast. Druid Cai Piper doesn’t … Read more

Review: Soul of a Gentleman Witch – David Ferraro

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Soul of a Gentleman Witch - David Ferraro

Genre: Fantasy, YA LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewer: Ulysses Get It On Amazon About The Book To win back his soul from the Devil, a cynical witch must decide if his own freedom is worth delivering a selfless boy to damnation. Perpetually seventeen, Callum the green witch is indebted to the Devil until he fulfills 666 tasks. When Lucifer offers Callum an unusual job that will end Callum’s contract early and return his soul, Callum readily agrees. All Callum must do is ensure Augustus “Auggie” Sanderson makes it from London to New York by the next blood moon. This proves more … Read more

New Release: Majera – Gideon Marcus

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Majera - Gideon Marcus

QSFer Gideon Marcus has a new queer sci-fi book out (ace, bi, gay, lesbian, poly): Majera. Their last flight? Testing a new Jump drive far beyond the Frontier, Captain Kitra Yiilmaz and her friends plunge headlong into a rare first contact… …just a little too late. The world they find seems lifeless, shrouded in eternal silence—until it lashes out with lethal intent. Now, with danger all around, and emotions running high, can the Majera crew solve the riddle of the plagued planet in time to save a dying race? With illustrations by Hugo Finalist Lorelei Esther. Get It At Amazon … Read more

Reading “Heated Rivalry.” Jeff Baker, Boogieman In Lavender February 2026

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Heated Rivalry by Rachel Reid by Jeff Baker NOTE: Of course, this review contains a bunch of spoilers. “You know those guys on rival teams who act like they hate each other when the game is playing but are really good friends when the game is over? Well, this takes it to its logical extreme…” —-Kenny Blasco, explaining the TV show “Heated Rivalry.” It’s almost impossible to scroll through any LGBT social media or websites without seeing references to “Heated Rivalry.” The Canadian Gay Hockey Romance that has taken television audiences by storm. But before there was a TV show, … Read more

Review: Forrest House – E.M. Hamill

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Forrest House - E.M. Hamill

Genre: Fantasy, Romance LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewer: Rari Universal Buy Link | Amazon About The Book Blood is Stronger Than Magic Ander Forrest renounced blood magic to become a nurse-healer in his rural hometown, far from the drama of wizardry and espionage his sister Kate craved. When Kate goes missing in action, Ander finds himself the legal guardian of her gifted twins and receives a cryptic warning from Kate’s husband to protect them before he, too, disappears. Six months later, his former lover crash lands in the kids’ bedroom via a spell only Ander’s sister could have cast. Druid Cai Piper doesn’t … Read more

New Release: Lost in Dnara – Elaine White

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Lost in Dnara - Elaine White

QSFer Elaine White has a new MM paranormal book out, Surviving Vihaan book 3: Lost in Dnara. Grief sent Eliseo on a rescue mission to Dnara, hoping to regain his lost honour and purpose. An opportunity to work at VIMER – the Vihaan Infirmary for Medicine, Extraction and Research – gives him the chance to learn a skill he can take back to Vihaan. Lurking in the clinic is a medical anomaly: Malachi. Neither man nor beast, but a complex mix of abilities from both. Ever since he was attacked as a teenager, Malachi has been in danger, a threat … Read more

New Release: Tinheart – C.J. Dragon

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Tinheart - C.J. Dragon

QSFer C.J. Dragon has a new MM sci-fi book out: Tinheart. Carl Walker, 35, is a man whose heart is buried beneath layers of caustic wit and earned cynicism. He sacrificed everything for the one person who mattered, and he paid the price by being cut off from his wealthy family. Now a physician’s assistant on the frontier of Mars, Carl’s only defense against the world is his spectacular ability to insult anyone who crosses his path. Ezra Nolan is his antithesis: relentlessly sunny, quick-witted, and a dozen years his junior. An ambitious former heavy machine operator, Ezra crashes into … Read more