Review: The Lonely War by Alan Chin
The key issue keeping the U.S. armed forces from going beyond Don’t Ask Don’t Tell to give gay servicemen equal rights is a blind fear of love relationships forming, not between enlisted soldiers but...
View ArticleReview: Because You Despise Me by J S Cook
When Feldwebel Horst Stussel is murdered in Jake’s Plenty’s brothel, local police chief Captain Nicholas Renard suspects Jake’s involvement in the crime – but with an Allied invasion of North Africa...
View ArticleReview: Heartache Cafe by J.S. Cook
J.S. Cook debuts haunted American expatriate Jack Stoyles, whose numb exile in an unexpected Atlantic outpost is suddenly brightened by a stranger who kisses him — and then dies. Betrayal, graft, a...
View ArticleReview: It Takes Two by Elliott Mackle
A “who and why-done-it” mystery set in 1940s Florida, Dan Ewing is the manager of the Caloosa Hotel, which privately caters to the very special needs of its guests, and Bud Wright is a police detective...
View ArticleReview: Per Ardua by Jessie Blackwood
Addicted to the soaring skies, brash high-flier Arthur Edward “Jack” Ratigan returns to Britain to fly bombers when his birth country goes to war against Germany in World War II. It also means a return...
View ArticleReview: Soldiers:A Soldier’s Story by Allen Cross and Arius de Winter
Product description from Amazon: Soldier – This is the story of a soldier finding himself in the time of battle, falling in love and not being able to express it. This is the story of how soldiers...
View ArticleReview: Wingmen by Ensan Case
HEROES IN HELLCATS Jack Hardigan’s Hellcat fighter squadron blew the Japanese Zekes out of the blazing Pacific skies. But a more subtle kind of hell was brewing in his feelings for rookie pilot Fred...
View ArticleReview: A Faint Wash of Lavender by Lucius Parhelion
Post World War Two finds Laguna Beach in its heyday as an artists’ colony. Tony runs his uncles’ Grocery store in the town where a man of his bent can hide among the eccentrics who call the place home,...
View ArticleReview: The Painting by FK Wallace
Stefan, a naive young Pole, meets Gunter, an artist in 1930s Berlin. Their passionate love affair is overshadowed by the rise of the Third Reich. Denounced to the Nazis, they are sent to Auschwitz as...
View ArticleReview: The Last Tallyho by Richard Newhafer
Fighting air battles over Wake Island, Tarawa and Truk Lagoon, the U.S. Navy pilots of Air Group Two blazed a trail of flaming Japanese planes and hard-won glory across the Pacific skies. Yet among the...
View ArticleReview: As Time Goes By by Anna Lee
In 1944, Matt Jackson, a wounded RAF pilot, ends up in the Royal Infirmary after his squadron is attacked. When he meets Doctor Trynt Andrews, both men’s lives are changed with the instant connection...
View ArticleReview: Vagabond Heart by A J Llewellyn
Book one in the Pearl Harbor Series Gay prostitute Tinder McCartney thought he had it made in WWII Honolulu…until true love and an attack on Pearl Harbor turned his life upside down. Tinder McCartney...
View ArticleReview: Butterfly Dream by Dave Lara and Bud Gundy
At 6 years old, long before he discovers that he is gay, Banat Frantz learns that being Jewish in Hitler’s Germany is a bewildering crime for which he and his family must pay. Fire and loathing greet...
View ArticleReview: The German by Lee Thomas
From the Lambda Literary Award and Bram Stoker Award-winning author Lee Thomas come a new thrilling novel. 1944 – Barnard, Texas. At the height of World War II, a killer preys on the young men of a...
View ArticleReview: Quatrefoil by James Barr
Phillip Froelich and Tim Danelaw are irresistibly drawn to each other. Both are in every obvious respect what is generally considered masculine, and live and work in a completely normal man’s social...
View ArticleReview: Shadowboxing by Anne Barwell
Can physicist Kristopher and Resistance member Michel find love and safety in the middle of World War II? Berlin, 1943. An encounter with an old friend leaves German physicist Dr. Kristopher Lehrer...
View ArticleReview: Unspoken by R.A. Padmos
Stefan is a working-class man – or would be, if there was any work! – when he meets Adri and they begin an affair. Married with children, Stefan resists this development in a society where...
View ArticleReview: Gypsy Heart by A.J. Llewellyn
Tinder McCartney thought he left behind his life as a gay male prostitute but soon learns returning to his old life may be the only way to save the man he loves…Tinder McCartney and his lover, Jason...
View ArticleReview: Skybound by Aleksandr Voinov
Love soars. Germany, 1945. The Third Reich is on its knees as Allied forces bomb Berlin to break the last resistance. Yet on an airfield near Berlin, the battle is far from over for a young mechanic,...
View ArticleAuthor Interview – Aleksandr Voinov
My guest today has many strings to his bow with a successful publishing history in both German and English and now, additionally, as part owner of a highly successful publishing house, Riptide...
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