Two Free LGBT Novellas from All Romance

Here's a pair of LGBT novellas that are free from AllRomance, in several DRM-free formats and both with five lips on the sensuality meter! Neither is on Kindle, but both have mobipocket versions that can be loaded without any conversion.

Sink or Swim, by Xara X. Xanakas and Lissa Kasey

Book Description
Beau has always been the center of attention, the first responder, dive master, and all around life-saver. When he gets a job overseas, Abram feels that he has to follow his lover, but he still harbors doubts of his own worthiness.

Those doubts come to a head during the long flight to begin their new lives. How far is Abram willing to go to keep Beau to himself? Sometimes in matters of the heart, you just have to dive in and sink or swim.

Wanting, by Piper Vaughn

Book Description
Jonah Beckett has been in love with his older brother's best friend, Laurie, for years. When his boyfriend, Dirk, breaks up with him for refusing to put out, Jonah uses his heartbreak over the situation to ask Laurie to teach him all about sex before he starts college. Problem is, he made Dirk up, and he has no idea what will happen when Laurie finally finds out.

Free Book (noDRM) - Bridges

Bridges, a LGBT novella by M.J. O'Shea, is free over on AllRomance today.

Book Description
With names like Dallas and Brooklyn they could've either been best friends...or worst enemies. The war started in third grade, with a surprise punch to the face and lasted until the summer after high school when Brooklyn and Dallas are stuck working at the same store. At night. Together. It should've been a recipe for disaster. But instead of outright war, they slowly start to notice that not only do they not hate each other, but perhaps they have more in common than either of them knew. Soon, amidst unexpected laughter and camaraderie, Dallas realizes that maybe the guy who used to be his number one enemy could actually be his perfect match.

Click HERE for the free book.

Free Book (noDRM) - The Telling

The Telling, a LGBT (m-m) novel by Eden Winters, is free from AllRomance this morning, although only in PDF format. I don't see it in the Kindle store, but you should be able to email the PDF to your Kindle for conversion.

Book Description
Time in Iraq cost Michael Ritter some of his hearing and a friend whose death he feels responsible for. He'd left Alabama hoping to escape a dull, small-town life, but now, four years later, he's returning, lugging a duffle full of personal demons.

Engineering student Jay Ortiz attends college in a place where his heritage and orientation aren't widely accepted. While adjusting to new surroundings he found a soldier's picture. During lonely times he confided in the image of the somber young man, giving his heart away to a stranger. Now that stranger is coming home...

Click HERE to get the free book from AllRomance.

Free Book (noDRM) - Luke

Luke ($3.03 Kindle), by Jan Irving, is free today from LGBT publisher Dreamspinner Press, in multiple DRM-free formats.

Book Description
Wandering cowboy Luke Walker is at the end of his rope after his girlfriend abandons their newborn daughter. A terrified new father, he’s grateful to meet Dr. Morgan Gallagher. Morgan recognizes that he and Luke could help each other: Luke can rebuild Morgan’s property and land so Morgan can have the horses he wants, and Morgan can provide the younger man with a safe place to raise his daughter. In theory, it should work out perfectly, except that Morgan is instantly attracted to Luke—a straight man—and sharing the same cabin and caring for the baby is a more intimate arrangement than he’d imagined...

Click HERE to get the free book from Dreamspinner. You will need an account and full contact info is required, but no credit card number.

Free Book (noDRM) - Love Means... No Shame

Love Means... No Shame ($5.38 Kindle), by Andrew Grey, is free today from LGBT publisher Dreamspinner Press, in multiple DRM-free formats.

Book Description
Geoff is in the city, living the gay life to the hilt, when his father's death convinces him to return to the family farm. Discovering a young Amish man asleep in his barn, Geoff learns that Eli is spending a year away from the community before accepting baptism into the church. Despite their mutual attraction, Geoff is determined not to become involved with him, but Eli has discovered that Geoff shares his feelings and begins to court him, neatly capturing first Geoff's attention and then his heart.

Their budding relationship is threatened by closed-minded, gossipy relatives and the society at large, a whole new world to Eli, and he must decide whether to return to the community, his family, and the world and future he knows or to stay with Geoff and have faith in the power of love.

A Love Means... story.

Click HERE to get the free book from Dreamspinner. You will need an account and full contact info is required, but no credit card number.

Free Book (noDRM) - His Hearth

His Hearth ($3.82 Kindle), by Mary Calmes, is free today from LGBT publisher Dreamspinner Press, in multiple DRM-free formats.

Book Description
Julian Nash should be excited: he’s just earned a huge promotion at work and is going out to celebrate. But his happiness fades when he discovers his date cheating on him an hour before. Suddenly alone when everyone knows he’s supposed to have a plus one, Julian is set for a long night until longtime acquaintance Ryan Dean bails him out of the embarrassing situation. During dinner, they discover they have more than just friendship between them: there is mutual admiration and heated attraction. But getting to know Ryan better—and finding a place in his life—will bring Julian frightening surprises and paranormal danger he never expected or dreamed existed.

Click HERE to get the free book from Dreamspinner. You will need an account and full contact info is required, but no credit card number.

Free Book (noDRM) - Promises

Promises ($5.38 Kindle), by Marie Sexton, is free today from LGBT publisher Dreamspinner Press, in multiple DRM-free formats.

Book Description
Jared Thomas has lived his whole life in the small mountain town of Coda, Colorado. He can't imagine living anywhere else. Unfortunately, the only other gay man in town is twice his age and used to be his teacher, so Jared is resigned to spending his life alone.

Until Matt Richards walks into his life, that is. Matt has just been hired by the Coda Police Department, and he and Jared immediately become friends. Matt claims he is straight, but for Jared, having a sexy friend like Matt is way too tempting. Facing Matt’s affair with a local woman, his disapproving family, and harassment from Matt’s co-workers, Jared fears they'll never find a way to be together—if he can even convince Matt to try.

Click HERE to get the free book from Dreamspinner. You will need an account and full contact info is required, but no credit card number.

Free Book (noDRM) - A Deadly Game

A Deadly Game ($6.64 Kindle), by J.P. Bowie, the first in his LGBT Nick Fallon Investigation series, is today's free book from AllRomanceeBooks.

Book Description
Nick Fallon, private investigator, gets a rude awakening when his past life unexpectedly catches up with him. Four years earlier, Nick, then a member of the Pittsburgh Police Department, was instrumental in arresting Francisco Garcia, a drug dealer and cold-blooded murderer.

Now, Garcia has escaped from death-row, intent on making good his threat of reprisal for the death of his son in the shootout that brought down his notorious empire---a confrontation that also claimed the life of Nick's close friend, Sam Valance.

Nick, only too aware of Garcia's ruthless and cunning tactics, fears for the safety of his family and his lover, Eric Jamieson. Nick knows in order to protect those he loves he cannot, for one moment afford to let down his guard, until Garcia is either apprehended---or dead.

A Deadly Game is an erotic thrill ride, filled with danger, excitement and suspense.

Click HERE for the free book. It may show full price until you click on Buy Now or Add to Cart; once you start to checkout, you will see a 100% discount and your total will be zero (if it isn't, stop and try again from their home page, as you need to see the discount to get it free). Available (DRM-free) formats are: Adobe Acrobat, Mobipocket (.prc), Epub.

Free Book - Brier's Bargain

Brier's Bargain ($0.99 Kindle), by Carol Lynne, the first in her LGBT Bodyguards in Love series, is today's free book from AllRomanceeBooks and steeply discounted in the Kindle store.

Book Description
Love is always special, but when you're a thirty-six year old man experiencing it for the first time, it's everything.

After spending his entire life in a hospital, Brier Blackstone is finally free to become the person he's always wanted to be. With the men of Three Partners Protection Agency as role models, how can he go wrong? And falling in love with bodyguard Jackson Benoit, is a dream come true, but the dream becomes a nightmare when Jackie is gravely injured in the line of duty. Feeling helpless, Brier makes a promise to God in exchange for his lover's life. One he intends to keep no matter what.

Jackie Benoit cherishes the love he's found with Brier. When his new lover insists on testifying against a violent man from his past in order to fulfill a promise, Jackie has no choice but try to stop him. If that doesn't work, Jackie will protect Brier with everything at his disposal.

Click HERE for the free book. It may show full price until you click on Buy Now or Add to Cart; once you start to checkout, you will see a 100% discount and your total will be zero (if it isn't, stop and try again from their home page, as you need to see the discount to get it free). Available (DRM-free) formats are: Adobe Acrobat, Microsoft Reader, HTML, Mobipocket (.prc), Epub.

Free Book - Bent

Landing in Love ($5.59 Kindle), by Sean Michael, the first in the LGBT Hammer series, is today's free book from AllRomanceeBooks, courtesy of Torquere Press.

Book Description
Marcus knows Jim is his minutes after meeting the snarly, jumpy ex-professor at the local bookstore. He thinks Jim is a natural submissive, someone who needs order and discipline in his life to help with Jim's anxiety and bad health habits. So Marcus decides to pursue Jim relentlessly, because even if Jim's mouth is saying no, his body is saying yes.

There's a lot more to Jim than meets the eye, and Marcus will have to be careful. Jim knows what it means to lose everything, knows what it's like to be without friends or family. Jim feels broken, and knowing that he likes the kinds of weird things Marcus wants to do to him only makes him scared that he's losing his mind.

Their chemistry is so real, so genuine, that Jim lets Marcus wear him down, lets Marcus take control. Eventually, his trust grows, allowing them to enter into the BDSM lifestyle together, learning about each other every day, with every scene. Jim is still uncertain sometimes, though, and he thinks Marcus might just want him because he's cracked. Can this top and bottom pair find a way to understand their wants and needs, and make a life that works for them alone?

Click HERE for the free book. It may show full price until you click on Buy Now or Add to Cart; once you start to checkout, you will see a 100% discount and your total will be zero (if it isn't, stop and try again from their home page, as you need to see the discount to get it free). Available (DRM-free) formats are: Adobe Acrobat, HTML, Microsoft Reader, Mobipocket (.prc), Epub.

Free Book - Cut & Run

Cut & Run ($5.38 Kindle), by Madeleine Urban and Abigail Roux, the first in their LGBT suspense/mystery series, is today's free book at AllRomance. This is a fairly long book, with over 142K words

Book Description
A series of murders in New York City has stymied the police and FBI alike, and they suspect the culprit is a single killer sending an indecipherable message. But when the two federal agents assigned to the investigation are taken out, the FBI takes a more personal interest in the case.

Special Agent Ty Grady is pulled out of undercover work after his case blows up in his face. He's cocky, abrasive, and indisputably the best at what he does. But when he's paired with Special Agent Zane Garrett, it's hate at first sight. Garrett is the perfect image of an agent: serious, sober, and focused, which makes their partnership a classic cliché: total opposites, good cop-bad cop, the odd couple. They both know immediately that their partnership will pose more of an obstacle than the lack of evidence left by the murderer.

Practically before their special assignment starts, the murderer strikes again – this time at them. Now on the run, trying to track down a man who has focused on killing his pursuers, Grady and Garrett will have to figure out how to work together before they become two more notches in the murderer's knife.

Click HERE for the free book. It may show full price until you click on Buy Now or Add to Cart; once you start to checkout, you will see a 100% discount and your total will be zero (if it isn't, stop and try again from their home page, as you need to see the discount to get it free). Available (DRM-free) formats are: Adobe Acrobat, Microsoft Reader, Mobipocket (.prc), Epub.

Free Book - A Time Before Me

A Time Before Me ($3.99 Kindle), by Michael Holloway Perronne, is free, this weekend only, from Rainbow Books.

Book Description
In this poignant coming-of-age novel, a gay teen struggles to find his identity in the contrasting worlds of rural Mississippi and the big city of New Orleans.

Growing up in a small Mississippi town in the early 1990s, shy and inexperienced Mason spends much of his time with his best friend and secret childhood crush, the charming and daring Billy. When a six-pack of beer leads to a passionate encounter between the two teenagers, Mason believes his dreams may have finally come true. Billy’s apparent disregard for the incident, however, leaves Mason feeling confused and betrayed.

When Billy slips off to glamorous New York City immediately after high school graduation, Mason fears he’s doomed to spend another humid Mississippi summer scooping ice cream. But Mason’s life changes dramatically when vivacious Aunt Savannah invites him to live with her in New Orleans and work in the box office of her drag queen cabaret. It’s there—in the decadent and liberating French Quarter—that Mason begins to fall for Joey, a strikingly handsome and sweet nineteen-year-old, who may just be ready to open his heart to someone new.

A surprise visit from Billy hints that he may be ready to return Mason’s feelings, and Mason faces a difficult choice. With the help of his spirited aunt and a sassy drag queen, Miss Althea, Mason learns that sometimes it’s best to roll life’s dice and take a chance.

Click HERE for the free book from Rainbow. Available DRM-free formats: PDF, EPUB.

Free Book - Deadly Nightshade

Deadly Nightshade ($4.79 Kindle), a LGBT novel by Victor J. Banis, is today's free book at AllRomance. He is also one of the authors in the anthology Charmed Lives: Gay Spirit in Storytelling (White Crane Wisdom Series) ($1.00 Kindle), if you want to sample more of his writing (it's a penny cheaper at AllRomance, but only in PDF, so the Kindle version is a better choice, as it's DRM-free and can be easily converted for other ereaders).

Book Description
Straight cop, gay cop, and a woman who "isn't real." Tom and Stanley are on the trail of a drag queen serial killer, and along the way, they find themselves engaged in a more intimate pursuit, trying to resolve another mystery: their unexpected attraction to one another.

Click HERE for the free book. It may show full price until you click on Buy Now or Add to Cart; once you start to checkout, you will see a 100% discount and your total will be zero (if it isn't, stop and try again from their home page, as you need to see the discount to get it free). Available (DRM-free) formats are: Adobe Acrobat, Mobipocket (.prc), Epub, HTML.

Free Book - Acting Naughty

Acting Naughty ($4.99 Kindle), the first in the LGBT Action! series by GA Hauser, is today's free book at AllRomance.

Book Description
Keith O’Leary has been trying to break into acting for ages. When a part in the newest cable television drama, Forever Young, is offered, Keith struggles with the idea of playing a gay man. Adam Lewis, his agent, persuades Keith to accept the role, knowing it’s a chance to star in the biggest new hit on TV. Keith reluctantly agrees, dreading working in a diner like his roommate/girlfriend, Patty, to make the rent money. When Keith meets his fabulous co-star, Carl Bronson, his anxiety is piqued. He has to kiss this man on camera, and much more.

Luckily for Keith, Carl is warm, understanding and willing to coach Keith during some nerve-wracking scenes. Soon the episodes sizzle with their erotic contact and declarations of love.

For Keith those words are beginning to feel like the truth as he grows to love the man he is kissing and touching in very passionate ways. And going through the same exact experience, Carl feels the same way.

As their romance blossoms on and off camera, someone threatens to expose them as real lovers, putting a shadow of doubt on their future in the business. Will they follow the advice of Adam Lewis, and deny, deny, deny, their true feelings to the tabloids? Or take the chance and expose themselves and their love and possibly risk their careers? In part one of two, Carl and Keith learn there’s more to a relationship, than acting.

Click HERE for the free book. It may show full price until you click on Buy Now or Add to Cart; once you start to checkout, you will see a 100% discount and your total will be zero (if it isn't, stop and try again from their home page, as you need to see the discount to get it free). Available (DRM-free) formats are: Adobe Acrobat, Microsoft Reader, HTML, Mobipocket (.prc), Epub.

The author has a handy guide to her characters and stories here, The Guide to Hauser's Erotic Universe, and a free holiday-themed short story here, Fun with Dick, for anyone who's interested in trying out more.

Free Book - A Savage Lust

A Savage Lust ($3.00 Kindle), by H.C. Brown, is today's free book at AllRomance.

Book Description
Prince Rio of Knight Watch's mission is to visit London, to retrieve the Lady's Book of Knowledge. He encounters Humans for the first time and his life freefalls into chaos. Torn between his love for a magnificent Fae male and an unusual Human female, he must complete his task or fall foul of Nox, King of the Faerie.

Click HERE for the free book. It may show full price until you click on Buy Now or Add to Cart; once you start to checkout, you will see a 100% discount and your total will be zero (if it isn't, stop and try again from their home page, as you need to see the discount to get it free). Available (DRM-free) formats are: Adobe Acrobat, Microsoft Reader, HTML, Mobipocket (.prc), Epub.

Free Book - Handcuffs and Leather

Handcuffs and Leather ($3.50 Kindle), by Kim Dare, the first in the Rawlings Men LGBT erotica series, is today's free book at AllRomance.

Book Description
All Constable Hadley wants to do is put the last few weeks behind him. As if being taken hostage wasn’t bad enough, he’s had to deal with all the stupid publicity that’s surrounded him ever since. And the fact that he hasn’t slept since that night isn’t helping him feel any better about the world, either.

The last thing Hadley needs is a shrink wandering around inside his head trying to dig up all his dirty little secrets. When he finds out he’s being sent to Dr. Rawlings—the man he’s had a crush on for months—Hadley knows his life has finally hit rock bottom.

The only thing that could make things worse for Hadley would be Dr. Rawlings finding out how Hadley feels about him. But fate wouldn’t be that cruel to him—would it?

Click HERE for the free book. It may show full price until you click on Buy Now or Add to Cart; once you start to checkout, you will see a 100% discount and your total will be zero (if it isn't, stop and try again from their home page, as you need to see the discount to get it free). Available (DRM-free) formats are: Adobe Acrobat, Palm DOC/iSolo, Microsoft Reader, HTML, Mobipocket (.prc), Rocket, Epub.

Three Free Erotica Shorts

Xcite books joins in on what appears to Free Erotica Day, with three newly free short stories (each from longer anthologies) free today, in addition to their regular free reads section. Some of their stories are m/f, while others are varying shades of LGBT or group erotica. You have to create an account for the free books, but no payment information will be required.

The Way to Will, by Drew Hunt

Book Description
Just before rushing off to catch his plane home after a two-week bus tour of Florida, Will Thompson tells Graham Knight that he loves him.

Stunned, not least because before meeting Will he thought himself straight, Graham watches Will leave. Realising he feels the same way, Graham has to journey across the US to tell Will he loves him, too. But with little money and travelling in a strange country, the way to Will is not an easy one.

The Party, by Steve Nugent

Book Description
Life with an older man has its complications, and things are about to get even more complex when, following a secret encounter in Acapulco, one of the party guests spots some irregularities in the vacation photos.

This story appears in the collection Attractions.

Kinky Girls - free story, by Miranda Forbes

Book Description
Enjoy a complete free story from the fabulous Kinky Girls collection.

Kinky girls come in many shapes and sizes, but all share some common qualities. They live for pleasure - both to give it and receive it - and they're definitely not afraid to push the sexual boundaries to realise their goal. Whether it's bondage, role play, toys or al fresco loving, nothing comes between a girl and her kink - unless she wants it to, of course! For these wild women, variety is the spice of life and sexperimentation is the key to finding complete satisfaction.

Twenty mixed and varied stories by your favourite authors.

Two Free Books from Rainbow EBooks

This weekend's the free gay-themed downloads from Rainbow EBooks are two short stories, both available in DRM-free formats.

Secret Santa, by Deanna Wadsworth, is free this weekend only.

Book Description
It's Christmas Eve and Adam has a special gift for Paul--himself, wrapped in a big red bow.

Blindfolded and ready for a magical holiday, Adam anxiously waits for his boyfriend to come and unwrap him. Just when he thinks their date has been forgotten, the door bursts open and his lover arrives. They have the best sex of Adam’s life, but afterward Paul disappears before Adam can catch his breath or remove the blindfold.

Left with only the memory of a tender kiss, a mysterious Santa hat, and a tray of half-eaten cookies, Adam soon discovers his lover was not who he thought it was...

The Zagzagel Diaries: Forsaken, by Bryl R. Tyne, is free all month.

Book Description
An unconventional guardian angel attempts to keep his gay charge from committing suicide, while wrestling with his own personal issues. This is the first in the Zagzagel Diaries series.

Free Book (nook) - Michael Tolliver Lives

Previously free in the Kindle store and elswhere (Nov '10), B&N has a new (and free) edition of Michael Tolliver Lives ($9.99 Kindle), by Armistead Maupin. Confusingly enough, they still have the $9.99 selection also, so be sure to follow the link below for the free download.

Book Description
Michael Tolliver, the sweet-spirited Southerner in Armistead Maupin's classic Tales of the City series, is arguably one of the most widely loved characters in contem-porary fiction. Now, almost twenty years after ending his ground-breaking saga of San Francisco life, Maupin revisits his all-too-human hero, letting the fifty-five-year-old gardener tell his story in his own voice.

Having survived the plague that took so many of his friends and lovers, Michael has learned to embrace the random pleasures of life, the tender alliances that sustain him in the hardest of times. Michael Tolliver Lives follows its protagonist as he finds love with a younger man, attends to his dying fundamentalist mother in Florida, and finally reaffirms his allegiance to a wise octogenarian who was once his landlady.

Though this is a stand-alone novel—accessible to fans of Tales of the City and new readers alike—a reassuring number of familiar faces appear along the way. As usual, the author's mordant wit and ear for pitch-perfect dialogue serve every aspect of the story—from the bawdy to the bittersweet. Michael Tolliver Lives is a novel about the act of growing older joyfully and the everyday miracles that somehow make that possible.

Click HERE for the free download from B&N.

Free Book - Brier's Bargain

Brier's Bargain ($6.13 Kindle), by Carol Lynne, the first in her Bodyguards in Love series, is free from AllRomance today.

Book Description
Love is always special, but when you're a thirty-six year old man experiencing it for the first time, it's everything.

After spending his entire life in a hospital, Brier Blackstone is finally free to become the person he's always wanted to be. With the men of Three Partners Protection Agency as role models, how can he go wrong? And falling in love with bodyguard Jackson Benoit, is a dream come true, but the dream becomes a nightmare when Jackie is gravely injured in the line of duty. Feeling helpless, Brier makes a promise to God in exchange for his lover's life. One he intends to keep no matter what.

Jackie Benoit cherishes the love he's found with Brier. When his new lover insists on testifying against a violent man from his past in order to fulfill a promise, Jackie has no choice but try to stop him. If that doesn't work, Jackie will protect Brier with everything at his disposal.

Click HERE for the free book. You will have to choose a format after purchase (when downloading) and that format choice is locked in; if you need/want multiple formats, you'll need to purchase the book more than one time (free each time). The book is DRM-free, however, so you can also convert the format you download using Calibre or another free tool.

Available formats: Adobe Acrobat, Microsoft Reader, HTML, Mobipocket, Epub