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Waiting On Wednesday (493) Off Key (Whispering Key #3) by May Archer

Off Key (Whispering Key #3)
by May Archer

Expected publication: May 14th 2021

Genre: M/M, Romance

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

Synopsis from Goodreads:

I’m about to sing you the saddest song in the universe, and it’s called “The Man of My Dreams Married My Sister.”

It’s kinda my theme song. And trust me when I tell you, it’s heavy on the violins.

Because the man in question? He’s not just any guy, he’s my former best friend.

The boy who made my summers on Whispering Key magical. The guy who inspired every love song that led to the chart-topping music career I have today. The man I always sort of figured would wait for me, while I pursued my dreams and finally found a way to tell the world I was gay…

Rafe and Aimee’s marriage has been over for a while now, but it doesn’t really matter. He doesn’t love me, even though I feel like I’ll love him until the day I die.

But when circumstances throw us back together on a crazy cross-country road trip, suddenly all kinds of secrets come to light that make it seem like maybe our show’s not over yet.

If I want a life with the man of my dreams, though, I’ll have to be honest--with Rafe and the rest of the world, too--and find the courage to write us a new song.

One that’s exactly like us: perfectly imperfect… and a little off key.

I've been waiting for this one! These two characters have been floating in the background of the previous 2 books, and I KNEW they had a more complicated history than just brothers in law.

What are you waiting on this week?

Split Shift (Night Shift #2)
by T.A. Moore

Published April 19th 2021 by Rogue Firebird Press

Genre: M/M, Paranormal, Romance

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

Synopsis from Goodreads:

The hard thing about Night Shift is when you realize werewolves are bad news, but people can be worse.

After Night Shift officer Kit Marlow solved the murder of child star Haley Jenkins, he figured he was due a little down time. Maybe even a dinner date with Cade Deacon, the sarcastic security consultant, very good kisser, and werewolf who'd helped with the investigation.

That was before someone in a Night Shift uniform drove them both off the road. With the full moon up the only dinner date Cade is interested in...has Marlow served up on a plate. And not in a sexy way.

It's the second time that corrupt Night Shift officers have tried to kill Marlow. If he has his way, it will be the last. Problem is he only has twenty-eight days before the next full moon. If he hasn't identified who wants him dead by then, he'll have to take to werewolf filled streets with a team at his back he can't trust.

First things first, though. Get through the next twelve hours alive and uneaten, and hope that if a second date is still on the cards it's less eventful.

I just finished reading the first book in this series, and I don't know if I liked it. Paranormal is not my usual thing, but it was difficult to follow along because there was no world building. None. The synopsis for the first book says that 80% of the city is werewolves. Other than that, readers weren't told anything, so I just had to read along and try to figure out how things work on my own. It also didn't help that the first book took place in a span of less than 24 hours, so I don't know what the city is like when it's not a full moon! Here's hoping this book answers all of my questions!

What are you waiting on this week?

Coddiwomple
by S.E. Harmon

Published April 13th 2021

Genre: M/M, Romance

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

Synopsis from Goodreads:

As a wildlife photographer, Journey “JJ” Sutton never stays in one place too long. The world is his classroom, and he’s living his dream. His only regret is that he had to sacrifice the love of his life to do it. But as the saying goes, you can never go home again. That’s until there’s a family emergency, and he has to…well, go home again. His easy breezy lifestyle gets complicated fast. It certainly doesn’t help that his ex-fiancé has bought the house next door.

After an unstable childhood, Cameron Foster loves small-town life. He has everything he needs in his vet practice, his friends, and his animals. Despite what numerous exes seem to think, he’s not still in love with Journey. And so what if they add “benefits” to their friendship? As long as he keeps his heart out of the equation, everything should be fine.

Too bad Journey's not onboard with that plan. With summer ending, he has to convince Cameron that this is more than just a fling. This time around, he knows what he wants. He wants a second chance. He wants forever. Most of all, he wants Cameron’s heart.

Journey may have put away his passport, but things are just getting interesting.

I had to Google 'coddiwomple'. I had no idea. This author wrote one of my favorite books (series?) in recent history, so I kind of have to read this one just because. I hope I like it!

What are you waiting on this week?

Sweet As Honey
(Aster Valley #2)
by Lucy Lennox

Published April 6th 2021

Genre: M/M, Romance

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

Synopsis from Goodreads:

When I rode my bike into Aster Valley, it was supposed to be temporary. A quick, relaxing visit with friends. No entanglements. Zero drama.

But then I saw the bumblebee being harassed on the side of the highway.

More specifically, I saw Truman Sweet, Aster Valley’s resident botanist, spice merchant, and bee-costume enthusiast, being harassed. And the second I got involved, all my plans for a quick departure scattered like pollen on the breeze.

It turns out that Truman—adorkably shy, relentlessly sunshiny, hot as all heck, reluctantly-still-a-virgin Truman—has secrets. Secrets someone in this charming small town doesn’t want brought to light. Secrets that rouse every one of my protective instincts just as surely as his kisses rouse… other parts of me.

And before I know it, I’m thinking being entangled might not be so bad… if it’s Truman I’m tangled up with.

I’ll do whatever it takes to protect Truman from the dangers in his past, but after a lifetime of loneliness and disappointment, how can I possibly convince him to trust me with his future?

This is an author that I have been enjoying recently. I really, really liked the prequel novella for this series, but I haven't read book #1 yet (it only came out like a month ago). So now I need to catch up!

What are you waiting on this week?

Bell, Book and Scandal
(Bedknobs and Broomsticks #3)
by Josh Lanyon

Published March 30th 2021 by JustJoshin Publishing, Inc.

Genre: M/M, Paranormal, Romance

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

Synopsis from Goodreads:

Black Magic. Blackmail. Little Black Books. Must a witch break his vows to save his marriage?

Cosmo Saville loves that his husband has finally accepted his witchy ways. And in return, his promise to stay out of police business guarantees them a happily ever after. At least, until he discovers he might be responsible for a dangerous game of blackmail…

Police Commissioner John Joseph Galbraith feels relieved that his marriage is back on track. Especially since he has his hands full with a high-profile suicide and rumors of a city-wide extortion ring. But when he stumbles across Cosmo breaking his vow by playing cop, John agonizes over old wounds.

With the commissioner’s badge and family in jeopardy, Cosmo has no choice but to put his life on the line…

Can the witch expose a dark conspiracy, save John’s career, and return to love’s delicious spell?

Ooh, another 'surprise' release!! Sometimes, with Indie authors, release dates come and go. Even books that are up for pre-order on Amazon can get pushed back. So I try not to get my hopes up waiting for a book that may not be released on time. But YAY when I get a book that I can't wait to read. It's already on my Kindle, I just have to finish the book I'm currently reading first!

What are you waiting on this week?

The Quiet House
(Black & Blue #2)
by Lily Morton

Expected publication: March 26th 2021

Genre: M/M, Paranormal, Romance

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

Synopsis from Goodreads:

Levi Black has mostly recovered from the events of a year ago. The only lingering effects are that he’s much more well known in York than he’d like to be, and he’s a lot more cautious about walking around his house naked. However, those events brought him the capricious and fascinating Blue, so he’s not complaining. On the contrary, he’s happy, in love, and looking forward to Blue finally moving in with him. And if sometimes he wonders what Blue sees in a boring cartoonist, he keeps that to himself.

Blue Billings is finally ready to throw off the memories of his past and move in with the person who means the most in the world to him. His psychic abilities have grown in the last year to his mentor Tom's consternation, but Blue is determined to look on the bright side. He’s also focused on ignoring all the warning signs that he’s received lately.

However, even deeply buried secrets have a way of rising to the surface. And when a surprise from Blue’s past turns up and draws them away to a lonely house on the Yorkshire moors, Levi and Blue must fight for their survival once again.

Just like my WoW last week, this is another book that it seems I've been waiting forever for. Book #1 came out in Nov. 2019, but I didn't read it until Feb. 2020. However, I heard nothing about book #2 until last week when it showed up on Goodreads and Amazon! What a nice surprise.

And, once again, I will have to do a reread of book #1 to refresh my memory!

What are you waiting on this week?

Dark Mire
(Kildevil Cove Murder Mysteries #2)
by J.S. Cook

Expected publication: March 30th 2021 by Dreamspinner Press

Genre: M/M, Romance

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

Synopsis from Goodreads:

You never know what trouble will rise from the bog.

When the body of an unidentified woman is found in a Newfoundland bog, Inspector Danny Quirke must scramble his team of investigators to find her killer. But what initially seems like a straightforward case soon becomes mired in a tangled web of lies and deliberate obfuscation.

With the strange mutilation of the body—one eye gouged out completely—evidence seems to lead to a fringe religious group with bizarre beliefs. But while the pathologist indicates mushroom poisoning as the cause of death, Danny thinks circumstances point to something more sinister—especially when he begins to receive anonymous messages with links to horrific pictures of damaged human eyes.

Three more bodies join the first, with seemingly nothing to link them but a little girl in a yellow party dress who flits in and out of the mystery like a creature from the old legends. Then an old friend from his childhood reappears, and Danny is forced to confront uncomfortable truths about his own nearest and dearest.

On an island, everyone is a suspect…

I had almost given up hope that this series would be continued. It's only been a year since the first book, but this author hasn't released anything since then - not even under her other pen name. So this is a total surprise to me.
I DO remember enjoying the first book for the most part, although some of the time/place/happenings were a bit muddled, and the romance was mostly blah. I haven't read anything else by this author, so I think her writing style threw me off - too much heavy dialect and moody 'atmosphere'. I may have to do a reread of book #1 to refresh my memory.

What are you waiting on this week?

Indirection
(Borealis: Without a Compass #1)
by Gregory Ashe

Expected publication: March 19th 2021 by Hodgkin and Blount

Genre: M/M, Romance

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

Synopsis from Goodreads:

Rabid readers. Backbiting authors. A romance convention from hell.

Shaw Aldrich and his best friend, boyfriend, and partner, North McKinney, are doing great, thanks. The aftermath of their search for the Slasher has finally settled down. Their private investigation agency is thriving. And after years of missed opportunities, they’re finally together. Sure, work might be taking up every spare minute, and their time together as a couple might have evaporated—but that’s normal, right?

When an author asks for their help investigating threats against a gay romance convention, Shaw sees an opportunity to shake up their routine and maybe have some fun. But the convention isn’t what he expects. Between the rabid fans and the backbiting authors, the death threats—which seem totally baseless—are the least of North and Shaw’s worries.

Until, that is, a bestselling author is poisoned in the middle of a panel. Then Shaw and North must race against the clock to find the killer before he (or she) escapes—and before the convention ends. But romance authors are more complicated than either North or Shaw expects, and a treacherous web knits the suspects together.

Shaw and North will have to unravel a skein of lies and half-truths to uncover the killer. It doesn’t help that, on top of everything else, Shaw just wants to find his next favorite book—and, if it isn’t asking too much, have sex with North at least one more time in his current incarnation.

Indirection is the first book in a follow-up series; read North and Shaw’s first adventures in The Borealis Investigations, beginning with Orientation.

Ooh, a follow up series! Me likey!! I enjoyed reading the first series about these guys, so I was happy to find out their story is continuing.
This author currently lives in St. Louis, and this story is set there. I live in the suburbs of St. Louis (okay, it's the next county, but whatever) not downtown or south city, so it's interesting to see someone else's view of the area.

What are you waiting on this week?