mystery & thriller

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Summary: How far would you be willing to go to keep the one you love? Charlie Watts has found the perfect partner in Declan Hunt, and he hopes that they can spend the rest of their lives together. But when your boss is sexy and talented, sometimes you're not the only one who wants to tie him down. The Attercop, a clever adversary who is good with disguises, starts to spin a web of lies and deceit to get Declan for his very own. And as the two detectives look into a break-in where nothing is taken, and a random beating at a gay bar, their perfect partnership begins to unravel. Will Charlie be able to stop the worst from happening, or will The Attercop get his wish and take Declan away from Charlie forever?

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Summary: Ballet was my life. I alienated myself for it. I broke my body for it. I rose, I fell, I rose again. Three years carrying a struggling neoclassical company on a body that should have retired me at eighteen. I had become the dancer nobody wanted to follow. Then the company announced Carmen. The ballet of the season, and the role every dancer wanted. The cigarette girl, the seductress, the woman who chooses death over surrender. She was going to be mine. The part that would finally get me out, into the career I had bled twenty years for. Then she arrived from Russia. Perfectly trained. Beautiful enough that I should have known better. I didn't. She conquered the room. She danced like she was on fire. Not better than me—different. Different enough that I noticed. We measured each other across the studio. She moved like nothing in the room could touch her. I moved like the floor was mine and she was trespassing. When she danced angry, she danced better. When she danced better, I went to a place she couldn't follow. Then she smiled. She kissed me. We danced together and the room held its breath. I forgot what she was coming for. I stopped watching her like a threat. She wanted my role. I gave her too much. Somewhere between the studio and her bed, we stopped pretending we weren't destroying each other. Something broke. I still don't know which of us broke it first. By the morning of opening night, I had crossed a line I could not walk back from. Only one of us was dancing Carmen. The decision was mine to make. I made it. I'm Carmen. Don't ever call me anything else. A sapphic psychological thriller about ambition, obsession, and the violence of two women trained their whole lives to never be the first to stop. Enemies to Lovers / Sapphic Obsession / Morally Grey FMC / Unreliable Narrator / Ballet World / Forced Proximity / Ambiguous Ending (yes, really) / First Person POV

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Summary: Kiss Between the Roses: The Haunting of Kingsley One century of silence. One debt in blood. One man standing between a lawyer and his literal demons. Property lawyer Calvin Crawford deals in facts, deeds, and clear titles. His mission is simple: sell the crumbling Bellemare Mansion and bury the dark history that has haunted his family for generations. But he didn’t account for Kingsley Hayworth. Flirtatious, seductive, and dangerously charming, the youngest Hayworth brother is a living distraction and a reminder of a decade-old wound that never quite healed. As the mansion begins to bleed its secrets, the local ghost stories prove terrifyingly real. An ancient, possessive spirit has risen to claim a century-old debt, and it wants Calvin’s soul as payment. Kingsley is the only one standing in the way, but as the haunting intensifies, the man Calvin is falling for is transforming into a seductive vessel of ancient fury. Trapped within the collapsing walls of Bellemare, Calvin must fight to banish the ancient fury or lose the man he loves to the monster wearing his face. Note: A standalone M/M Gothic Romance novella with a guaranteed HEA. Part of the Horror Romance Stories Series. Contains adult content and is intended for mature audiences.

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Summary: Tempest’s music saved his soul. Now Max has to save the musician. Hunting a gang kidnapping music fans has cost Max Young his best friend’s life, his career, and his peace of mind. But he isn’t giving up. When the kidnappers appear to target Tempest – whose music saved Max’s soul – and Max is offered the job to protect him, he doesn’t think twice. Working with Tempest threatens Max’s heart and skews his priorities because Tempest is fighting battles of his own and needs a protector, not a man consumed by thoughts of revenge. Max’s choices? Find his best friend’s murderer or guard the man he’s falling for. Avenge the past or protect the future. Because he can’t do both.

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Summary: He's a psychopath trained to kill. Now he’s found someone he’ll break the world for. Novak can't do attachment. He calculates, controls, eliminates threats, and keeps everything exactly where it belongs. Until Caleb. With the hacker who hates him, every instinct tells him to protect, contain, and eliminate anything that gets too close. Novak knows exactly what that makes him. He doesn’t just want Caleb. He’s already decided Caleb is his. Finding two children before a fire destroys the evidence is one thing—but when Caleb follows the data, they uncover a trafficking pipeline buried beneath religion—victims catalogued, collared, controlled, and sold through a network so clean it disappears across state lines. Novak has seen this before. Lived it. Survived it. With less than twenty-four hours before a shipment disappears into the network, Caleb and Novak have a choice—wait for backup, which will take too long, or go in alone, take down the compound, and get the kids out before the system resets. With no guarantee they make it out alive. Novak is a dark MM romantic suspense featuring high-stakes survival, forced proximity, obsession, and a psychopath who doesn’t feel fear—but does feel ownership. Expect violence, razor-edged loyalty, “touch him and die” protection, and a love that doesn’t offer escape—only survival.

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Summary: When the chairman of London’s Thirteen Club wakes to find 13 dead rabbits in his bedroom, he hires Jack Merrit to track down the intruder. The questions are many: Why were the rabbits each missing a foot? How did someone break in through bolted doors, and what is the criminal’s goal? Jack and Baxter face a table of thirteen suspects. Among them are Jack himself and his lover, Larkin Chase. The case becomes a personal minefield as the mystery thickens, and when a more chilling threat appears in the same impenetrable house, a disturbing story from the property’s past intrudes into the present. As Will Merrit investigates suspicious events from thirty years ago, Jack and Baxter move in on their only suspect. Except, this is a game of opposites, superstitions and deception, and when the truth finally comes to light, Jack faces the most difficult decision of his career.

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Summary: The SIZZLING 3-Book Trilogy...all in one volume! Welcome to historic Eden, Pennsylvania, where old-world mansions and sprawling horse farms house the secrets of the wealthy Singleton family. For Chad Singleton, a gorgeous gay man who thought he’d left his complicated past behind, a surprise phone call draws him back to the family home, Edenwood. There he will face a series of challenges both personally and professionally, as he digs into the mystery of his hated father’s death. Filled with passion, drama, scandals and sex, Chad finds adversity as quickly as he discovers a reason to awaken his heart. Contains EDEN'S PAST, EDEN'S PRESENT, and EDEN'S FUTURE. In Eden, even the wealthy...especially the wealthy, die.      

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Summary: A modern day re-imagining of Sherlock Holmes' most famous enemies! Following his polite ejection from the SAS at the end of a decade-long military career, Captain Sebastian Moran is at loose ends. Between cheating at cards and freelance jobs as a security consultant, he's just barely managing to keep busy — but when a routine penetration test goes awry, Moran is thrown into the path of a brilliant, short-tempered hacker named Jay Moriarty. Up until now, Moriarty has worked alone. But Moran is clever, unpredictable, and unlike anyone Moriarty has ever met, and the attraction between them quickly escalates into an intense, confusing relationship. Together, Moriarty and Moran must face an aerospace executive covering up a deadly secret, a real estate developer who will do anything to climb the social ladder, a famous author funding a hate movement, a holiday resort full of international gangsters, and the treasonous leader of a rogue mercenary company. Collects the first five installments of Kit Walker's Casefile of Jay Moriarty series, revised and expanded, plus three bonus stories!

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Summary: Art thief Cole Dalton is not a team player. Aside from a handful of trusted associates, he doesn’t work with anyone, and he definitely doesn’t help out other thieves. Especially not the thief who stole his boyfriend. But when a high-dollar job goes south, his conscience won’t let him leave that very thief to the wolves. Will Yarmouth came for the legendary Iberian Puffin. He almost had it, too… until the most unexpected ally helps him escape before it all goes to hell. He isn’t stupid enough to think Cole has forgiven him for that incident with their ex, but he is feisty enough to tag along with him just to be a troll. Cole’s frustration with Will is funny… but their situation is very suddenly not. Now the Puffin is missing, an angry billionaire thinks Will and Cole have it, and they’re on the run. Worst of all, they’re on the run together. And the billionaire, their ex-boyfriend, and the cops may not have time to catch them before they kill each other. Framed is a 75,000 word M/M romantic suspense featuring two art thieves who are great at what they do and even better at trolling each other.

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Summary: 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 remember how he got there, but he knows he never stopped loving Ander, and that he was sent to protect him and the twins. Cai is strangely drawn to Forrest House and the land it stands upon. With the secrets of a clandestine wizards’ order hanging between them, Cai and Ander must remember how to trust each other as sinister forces move against the Forrest family—magical terrorists who want to exploit their rare sorcery and bring the world to its knees.

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Summary: THE NEW "JIMMY MCSWAIN FILES" NOVEL! A new year always teases new beginnings. Except for Jimmy McSwain, who, as the calendar turns, is about to come face to face with a person from his past. Bringing with him a case that will challenge the delicate line between guilt and innocence. Jake Sauter and Jimmy were best friends growing up and shared an intimacy few knew about. When Jake appears after years of silence, he’s come not to rekindle their relationship but to hire the private investigator to save him from the jaws of the law. He claims he’s about to be arrested—for the murder of his wife. Meanwhile, the NYPD is facing a case that is spreading fear throughout New York City. A body had been found floating in the Hudson River, and Captain Francis X. Frisano has been called to solve the crime. A sudden development throws both of their cases into one. What is truth? What is manipulation? What is fabrication? Is there such a thing as a perfect death?  

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Summary: Some truths were never meant to be spoken. Augur Bryn Ashton’s touch reveals truth, and, in a world where genetic mutations grant enhanced abilities, that makes him both indispensable and a target. After a rare day off is cut short, Bryn and his lupine detective partner Gunnar Ericson are assigned to investigate Thanacrine, a synthetic drug that boosts gene-enhanced abilities but causes violent psychosis and death. The trail leads to mob boss Salvatore Russo and a biotech company with a suspicious agenda. To infiltrate their network, Bryn must team up with the enigmatic sanguine Giles Delacourt, his nemesis and former trainer, to pose as investors at a fundraising business event. As the operation unfolds, the team uncovers illegal experimentation and possible federal involvement. A raid on a lab ends in tragedy, and a mission in Philadelphia nearly costs Bryn his life. With the body count rising, the emotional toll deepens, and so does the bond between Bryn and Gunnar. The final showdown at a high-profile memorial turns Boston’s Cathedral of the Holy Cross into a bloodstained battleground. With tension mounting and a serial killer resurfacing, Bryn must rely on Gunnar and confront the cost of chasing truth when enemies are everywhere and nothing is as it seems. Pulse-pounding and tense, this second installment in The Augur series raises the stakes and leaves Bryn treading a delicate line between survival and the vulnerability that comes with opening his heart to love.

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Summary: The Triumvirate Murders (MM noir—glam & grit, established couple) A sunlit forest. A dragonfly’s flicker. A yellow sports car that doesn’t stop. One August hit-and-run shatters a family—and stains Helsinki’s winter long before the first snow. When celebrated editor Pekka Wall and his much-younger partner, rising sci-fi star Tuomas Ylivire, sweep into the President’s Independence Day gala, they’re Finland’s most-watched queer couple—glamour, gossip, a kiss seen round the nation—until a drunken whisper on live TV hints at bodies beneath the city’s polished veneer. What follows is pure Scandi-noir: a humid, overpacked castle reception turning sour; neoclassical streets and frozen harbors; a trail from luxury boardrooms to back-street bedsits. As Pekka and Tuomas are pulled into a lethal game, a power “triumvirate” of media darlings and tech money treats murder, sex, and blackmail like line items—evidence laundered, reputations traded, desire weaponized, whispers reaching the Kremlin’s door. Love makes them brave. Fame makes them targets. Darkly witty and unabashedly queer, The Triumvirate Murders is a taut, addictive slice of Finnish noir where intimacy and power collide—and where death, for some, is simply a business expense. Expect laughs and tears—sometimes at the same time. For Queer Romance Ink readers MM crime/thriller with an established couple (age-gap, sizzling banter) Scandi-noir atmosphere: Helsinki winter, high society vs. back streets Themes: fame, corruption, loyalty, the cost of truth Content vibe: darkly funny, tense, emotionally satisfying for the leads (no queer tragedy) Heat & heart: intimacy that matters; love as a throughline amid danger If you crave smart, stylish queer noir with bite and heart, start The Triumvirate Murders today and fall for Finland’s most unflappable—and most talked-about—sleuthing duo.

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Summary: Short M/M Horror Story with a touch of Romance Vance Hanshaw, visiting his childhood summer vacation home, never realized that the dark tales he once heard about the old Victorian mansion he now owns could ever be true. All he remembered were the happy moments he had in that house, the moments he shared with Jax, the neighbours’ boy. But on this visit when handsome Jax strides in, arousing Vance’s hidden desires, chaos follows, evoking the monster trapped in the room of mirrors. Note from the author: This is the first short story in the series. Part II of the same story will be published in this series. However, most of the stories in the series will be either stand alone or in two parts. Every story promises an HEA, or Happy for now ending. The stories in this series contain horror, death and violence. It is intended for mature readers only. Male on Male content in this story may not be explicit, but the coming stories may contain explicit content.

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Summary: Syd Dufort is heartbroken when he discovers his fiancé has been cheating. Not wanting to wallow in front of his family for the holidays he decides to take the trip they’d planned as a honeymoon. Upon arriving in Iceland during the dark of winter, he immediately questions whether it was such a good idea. Caleb Mies takes extra care to help the man he meets at the airport who is also staying at the remote hotel his family owns. Their family has a yearly tradition that’s not for the weak of heart, or those who choose evil deeds. Caleb is drawn to Syd in ways he’s never experienced, while everything in Syd tells him to avoid the man who has shown him nothing but kindness. Both men are hiding secrets that will be revealed during Yule. A dark holiday romance.

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Summary: AN ALL-IN-ONE COLLECTION! 3 BOOKS IN ONE VOLUME! Scandalous, sinister, suspicious, the Cane's Inlet Mystery series is a tour-de-force tale of two families, one secret, and, ultimately, one man's discovery of his own true self. For Noah Sanders, the story of his birth comes as a surprise to him, and it's as devastating as it is secretive. A web of lies that goes back over one hundred years could reveal a truth Noah doesn’t want to know. Who stole him at birth, and why did his family not come searching for him? Contains the stories: Scandalous Lies: A secret rocks Noah Sanders' life, sending him back to a coastal town he never knew, one in which he may have been stolen from. Sinister Motives: When another murder shocks the coastal village of Cane's Inlet, Noah realizes what's happening no longer concerns only himself. With a mystery dating back to the village's founding, no one is safe. Suspicious Truths: Noah Sanders is forced to make a decision that will change everything he's strived for since arriving in Cane's Inlet, one that jeopardizes not just his relationship with his family, but with his lover.

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Summary: For Jack and Gareth, family is everything. But justice comes a close second. A death from natural causes that might just be murder. A dance coach with wandering hands. Holiday jobs, birthday party plans, and a request for help that calls Jack to Tokyo. Between family, work, and their freelance jobs Jack and Gareth’s summer leaves little room for private time. At least their personal issues are solved. Or so they think until a threat to their family tests all their certainties once more. For fans of found family, edge-of-your-seat suspense, and stories where justice is never simple, A Simple Mistake delivers a powerful exploration of resilience, loyalty, and the choices that shape us. Will Jack and Gareth’s family emerge stronger, or will the fractures of the past finally tear them apart? Discover the answer in A Simple Mistake.

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Summary: Mark Vincent, who’s WBIS, and Quinton Mann, who’s CIA to the core, have been adversaries since the day they crossed paths while on assignment, and by rights, it should have been no problem for the one to shoot the other. But for some reason, neither ever does, even when it causes them problems at their agencies. However, someone resents the respect they have for each other, and sets out to teach Quinn a lesson, having him attacked one night on his own front lawn. Quinn is able to escape the situation, in spite of how badly beaten he is, but he needs a safe place to shelter in. He won’t endanger family or friends. Where does that leave him? Mark answers his door one night to find Quinton Mann barely able to stand, looking nothing like the suave spook he’d used to crossing swords with. After he makes sure there’s no one lurking in the area, Mark brings Mann into his apartment and calls a friend to take care of him. Mann might be a spook, but he’s Mark’s spook, and no one hurts him and goes Scott-free. While Quinn begins to recuperate, Mark goes after the “director” who’s responsible for this situation. But will the man Mark assumes is behind the attack on Quinn be the right one? And if he isn’t, will Mark be able to keep Quinn safe?

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Summary: The action-packed sequel to the best-selling thriller, The Road to Montepulciano On the night of the ninth of June 1944, four days after the Allied liberation of Rome, four nuns are murdered in a railway carriage at the Vatican City railway station. Sixteen years later, returning to Tuscany after a gruelling book signing tour of Australia, Damson O’Reilly finds his partner, Giancarlo (no longer a detective but now a well-known and successful lawyer) engrossed in a slander case between Italy’s screen heartthrob, Mario Celestino, and a high-profile, fascist industrialist, Giovanni Scavola. The case uncovers buried secrets, secrets that bring to light the involvement of both men in the WW2 crime and which lead to kidnapping, torture and murder, culminating in a dramatic, bloody outcome that will rock the Italian nation to its core.

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Summary: A mystery. A romance. An ocular adventure. Tom's a data analyst. It's not a passionate affair. Neither is his relationship with Mario, although Mario thinks it is. That's Tom's way. He makes things work, whether they work for him or not. With anyone else it would be called low expectations. Not Tom. His passion lies elsewhere. He's a secret writer. The commitment is unusual and he keeps it to himself. Life has already dealt a few blows and he's reluctant to test its limits. Undemanding relationships. Unpublished books. A job that requires little thought. A bad attitude. These are the markers that keep him in place. But when an accident leads him to discover he's losing his sight, life screeches to a halt. His writing, his career, his very independence are at stake. Time, once the future, is turning into the past. Then a man appears. Beautiful yet damaged, Hanif brings light to Tom's darkness. The irony isn't lost on him, if it's irony at all. Just when he's about to give up on life, he finds a new reason to live. But things may not be as they seem. Lies can be told. Accidents can be arranged. Identities can be assumed. Tom's story is a trip down a nebulous road. From an easy life to an erotic adventure, from a modest employee to a man on the run, he must see the truth while he still can. Ophthalmologists. Optometrists. Lovers. Friends. Some wish him well. Some don't. Played out against a backdrop of political intrigue and haunted by ghosts from the past, is this story of love at first sight no more than a game of blind man's bluff?