RATING 5 out of 5 stars More than a decade after leaving Colorado to attend college and escape his past, Isaiah Greene moves back and builds a life in Denver as a special education teacher. When he meets Ben Woods, the mentor of one of his students, the attraction is immediate. The revelations that they’ve… Continue reading A Stella Review: Under a Sky of Ash by Brandon Witt
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A Stella Review: Until September by Chris Scully
Rating: 5 out of 5 stars ★★★★★ As a teenager, Archie Noblesse clawed his way out of the poverty, heartache, and abuse of the reservation and left his family behind. Desperate to shake the shadow of his past, he reinvents himself as Archer Noble, an outspoken blogger and controversial author who lives… Continue reading A Stella Review: Until September by Chris Scully
A Stella Review: Farm Fresh (Naked Organics #1) by Posy Roberts
RATING 4 out of 5 stars Jude Garrity visits the farmers market every Saturday. As an environmental engineering student, he’s curious about living off the grid and sustainable agriculture. And one particular farmer. Hudson Oliva has worked hard to support his commune, where queer people live without fear of harm or retribution. When Jude asks… Continue reading A Stella Review: Farm Fresh (Naked Organics #1) by Posy Roberts
A Stella Review: Prickly By Nature (Portland Pack Chronicles #2) by Piper Vaughn and Kenzie Cade
RATING 4 stars out of 5 In the four months since hedgehog shifter Avery Babineaux started investigating the disappearance of a young female werewolf from the Portland Pack, he’s discovered his life’s passion. Now he’s apprenticing under established PI Corbin Reid. Avery hopes his training with Reid will help him finally bring Lacey home, but… Continue reading A Stella Review: Prickly By Nature (Portland Pack Chronicles #2) by Piper Vaughn and Kenzie Cade
A Stella Review Redux: Blueberry Boys by Vanessa North
Rating: 4. 5 stars out of 5 Connor Graham is a city boy—a celebrated fashion photographer in New York. When his uncle’s death drags him back to the family blueberry farm, all he wants to do is sell it as quickly as he can. Until he meets his uncle’s tenant farmer. Jed Jones, shy and stammering,… Continue reading A Stella Review Redux: Blueberry Boys by Vanessa North
A Stella Review: If I Were Fire by Heloise West
Rating: 4 stars out of 5 In 18th century Siena, Count Salvesto Masello returns home to find the family villa and his father’s estate deeply in debt. In order to save it, he sells valuable heirlooms, but he is running out of silverware. Somewhere in the villa, his deceased father has hidden the art treasures that… Continue reading A Stella Review: If I Were Fire by Heloise West
A Stella Review: THE WINTER SPIRIT by Indra Vaughn (a two review novel)
Rating 5 stars out of 5 ★★★★★ Nathaniel O’Donnelly likes his life quiet, his guests happy, and his ghosts well-behaved. Although a boyfriend wouldn’t go amiss. Someone to share his beautiful B&B with, even if it is in the middle of nowhere and he’s long past the wrong side of thirty. Problem is, Nathaniel’s living… Continue reading A Stella Review: THE WINTER SPIRIT by Indra Vaughn (a two review novel)
A Stella Review: What Happens at Christmas by Jay Northcote
Rating 4 stars out of 5 When two friends pose as boyfriends, could what happens at Christmas turn into something more? Justin is recently and unhappily single. Christmas is coming, and he doesn’t want to face his ex alone at their office party. So Sean—Justin’s best mate and long-time secret crush—volunteers to go with him… Continue reading A Stella Review: What Happens at Christmas by Jay Northcote
A Stella Review: Betting on Forever (The Breakfast Club #2) by Felice Stevens
Rating 5 stars out of 5 ★★★★★ A weekend fling in Atlantic City couldn’t be more out of socially shy Zach Cohen’s comfort zone, but a bet with his best friends forces him to put aside the humiliation he’s hidden for years, stepping away from his computer screens and on-line world. When… Continue reading A Stella Review: Betting on Forever (The Breakfast Club #2) by Felice Stevens
A Stella Review: DEAD RINGER by Heidi Belleau and Sam Schooler
Rating: 4 stars out of 5 Brandon Ringer has a dead man’s face. His grandfather, silver-screen heartthrob James Ringer, died tragically at twenty-one, and Brandon looks exactly like him. But that’s where the resemblance ends. Brandon is unknown, unemployed, and up to his ears in bills after inheriting his grandparents’ Hollywood mansion. He refuses to… Continue reading A Stella Review: DEAD RINGER by Heidi Belleau and Sam Schooler
Scattered Thoughts and Rogue Words 