Waiting For Wentworth: 05/01/2025

Waiting On Wednesday (706) Delicious: An MM Charity Anthology by Various Authors

Delicious: An MM Charity Anthology
by Various Authors

Expected Publication: May 27, 2025

Genre: MM, Anthology

Waiting On Wednesday is a weekly event that is hosted by Tressa at Wishful Endings
that spotlights upcoming releases that we are eagerly anticipating.
(WoW was previously hosted by Breaking The Spine.)

This is my favorite day of the week because I love sharing and discovering new books.

Synopsis from Goodreads:
Love is delicious…

Join a fabulous group of authors for a brand new charity anthology that’s sure to make you hungry!

We’re serving up hot dishes, lamington kisses, cheesecake roses, and plenty of delicious indulgences. Accompanied by a buffet of your favourites like best friends to lovers, meet cutes, second chances, small towns, enemies, hot bosses, long time crushes, plenty of spice, and melt-in-the-mouth sweetness.

With taco trucks, celebrity chefs, bakers, pizza shops, and plenty of treats, Delicious has seventeen brand new contemporary short stories for you to savour!

I didn't originally have this anthology on my tbr, but I regularly read a lot of these authors, so I'll be checking this book out.

What are you waiting on this week?

Devil and the Deep Blue Fish
(Fish Out of Water #8)
by Amy Lane

Expected Publication: June 3, 2025

Genre: MM, Romance

This is my favorite day of the week because I love sharing and discovering new books.

Synopsis from Goodreads:
PI Jackson Rivers and Henry Worrall have gotten used to throwing themselves into danger as a team, so when Henry is hurt badly one night defending a friend and her teenage ward, it’s all hands on deck for Jackson, his fiancé Ellery Cramer, their firm, and their friends. Henry is battling for his life. The least they can do is hunt down Henry’s shooter and keep the intended victims safe.

Knowing Jackson will dedicate himself to tracking down a very dangerous assailant with no regard to his own safety, Ellery makes one stipulation: Jackson needs a temporary partner. Jackson finds a good one in someone from the firm’s past, but while Jackson’s figuring out a new rhythm on zero sleep and a lot of desperation, Ellery and their friends are putting together a puzzle with a lot more pieces than Henry’s random shooting. Somebody in their city is preying on teenagers in a most insidious way, and nobody in their circle is going to let this stand.

Jackson has spent a year and a half trying to heal from physical and emotional wounds, and this case is going to make him look at every choice he’s made to survive. Ellery―and Ellery’s mother―will do anything to help him, but does Jackson finally have emotional defenses to fight his own demons while he’s slaying dragons for the family he’s found, or will he drown in his own remorse? Sometimes, when you’re a kid on the streets, living past tomorrow means choosing between the Devil and the Deep Blue Fish.

I love this series so much. However, as the series has progressed, there has been WAY too much crossover with characters from her other series (that I haven't read). So I'm forced to read about a bunch of people that I don't give a crap about. I would seriously prefer focusing on the original couple and their personal and professional growth.

What are you waiting on this week?

The Complication
(Executive Suite Secrets #2)
by Jocelynn Drake

Expected Publication: May 30, 2025

Genre: MM, Romance

This is my favorite day of the week because I love sharing and discovering new books.

Synopsis from Goodreads:
It was just a fling.

A bit of fun on the weekends. Definitely not permanent.

Not that I wouldn’t love to crack the ice around rich and sexy Declan Foster’s heart.

And he was the last person I expected to ride to my rescue when I found myself suddenly homeless and a father.

Now he’s spoiling my daughter and me at every turn, offering the perfect life on a silver platter.

Should I risk my heart on a man who once said he never wanted kids?

I had never read anything by this author prior to this series, which I like enough to want to continue. It's not gritty and dark like I believe her other works are. (Evidently book covers and titles mean a LOT to me, because I haven't found her other books interesting enough to want to read. Oops.)

What are you waiting on this week?

Copper Script
by K.J. Charles

Expected Publication: May 29, 2025

Genre: MM, Romance, Historical

This is my favorite day of the week because I love sharing and discovering new books.

Synopsis from Goodreads:
Detective Sergeant Aaron Fowler of the Metropolitan Police doesn’t count himself a gullible man. When he encounters a graphologist who deduces people’s lives and personalities from their handwriting with impossible accuracy, he needs to find out how the trick is done. Even if that involves spending more time with the intriguing, flirtatious Joel Wildsmith than feels quite safe.

Joel’s not an admirer of the police, but DS Fowler has the most irresistible handwriting he’s ever seen. If the policeman’s tests let him spend time unnerving the handsome copper, why not play along?

But when Joel looks at a powerful man's handwriting and sees a murderer, the policeman and the graphologist are plunged into deadly danger. Their enemy will protect himself at any cost--unless the sparring pair can come together to prove his guilt and save each other.

I may not have explored a lot of this author's works yet, but I have adored everything I’ve read so far! I can't wait for this one!

What are you waiting on this week?

Pages

Waiting On Wednesday (706) Delicious: An MM Charity Anthology by Various Authors

Waiting On Wednesday (705) Devil and the Deep Blue Fish (Fish Out of Water #8) by Amy Lane

Waiting On Wednesday (704) The Complication (Executive Suite Secrets #2) by Jocelynn Drake

Waiting On Wednesday (703) Copper Script by K.J. Charles