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NOVELS
Sports
Elite Athletes
Olympics!
*Here Comes the Flood (A swimmer/recovering alcoholic has one last shot to prove himself; he meets a diver who just came out of the closet)
*Stick the Landing (A brilliant gymnast who always chokes when it counts wants the gold medal; he meets the ex-figure skater correspondent for the American TV network.)
*Race for Redemption (A sprinter falsely accused of doping wants to rehab his reputation; he meets a nerdy hurdler who uses math to succeed in athletics)
Rainbow League
About the players in an LGBTQ+ amateur baseball league in NYC
*The Windup (A guy who left NYC for good reasons comes back and joins the baseball league to meet other people; he meets a guy who seems carefree on the surface but suffers from anxiety.)
*Thrown a Curve (One of the players meets an out gay hairdresser who he worries will be a big problem for his homophobic family.)
*The Long Slide Home (Two best friends connect when one helps the other escape an abusive relationship.)
Standalones
*Out in the Field (NYC, baseball) A closeted superstar in the twilight of his career falls for his team’s hot rookie.
Contemporary
Whitman Street Cat Café
Setting: A cat café in Brooklyn
Books are chronological with overlapping characters but can be read as standalones.
Book 1: Like Cats and Dogs (The cat café manager clashes with the grumpy veterinarian next door.)
Book 2: What the Cat Dragged In (The cat café’s events manager falls for her boss’s brother—with some complications.)
Book 3: Chasing Your Tail (A food writer is assigned to write about the cat café’s new chef, who happens to be her ex.)
Restoration Channel
Setting: NYC
HGTV inspired!
*Domestic Do-Over (The popular (closeted) host of a house flipping show meets a foxy contractor.)
*Residential Rehab (A veteran designer who recently lost his partner is paired with a young up-and-comer on a new home renovation show.)
Stars
Setting: NYC
Opposites attract when partners in a contracting business meet teachers at an elite performing arts school.
*The Stars that Tremble (A teenage prodigy gets into a program with a renown opera star who can’t sing anymore, which puts him in orbit with the girl’s father, a contractor/army veteran.)
*The Silence of the Stars (An ex-soldier with PTSD meets a violin teacher, who hires him to renovate his apartment)
Standalones:
*Damage Control (NYC: A senate candidate is accused of murder and hires his ex to be his lawyer.)
*See the Light (NYC, Broadway: Best friends move in together, get close.)
*Four Corners (Chicago: Old friends reconnect after a falling out)
*Blind Items (NYC: An out journalist meets the closeted son of an anti-gay politician)
*The Boy Next Door (Connecticut suburbs: Childhood friends who haven’t talked in years are neighbors when one moves back to their hometown)
*In Hot Pursuit (Florida: A cop who has fallen on hard times hooks up with a man who then disappears.)
*When the Planets Align (NYC: Old friends and sometimes lovers navigate friendship and betrayal over several years)
*The Greek Tycoon’s Green Card Groom (NYC: Harlequin Presents style romance in which an immigrant marries a wealthy man for convenience and a green card)
Historical
Night Fire Series
Time Period/Setting: Regency UK
Four close friends determined to put off marrying as long as possible unexpectedly find love. (I recommend reading in order to get the full secondary romance plot that spans all three books.)
Book 1: I Never Forget a Duke (a spinster helps a duke with amnesia)
Book 2: Everything but the Earl (two people enter a marriage of convenience with the intention of living apart, except whoops, they fall in love)
Book 3: No Less than a Marquess (two best friends who are dumb about love begin to think they aren’t just friends)
Standalones:
*Ten Days in August (Gilded Age NYC—detective Hank investigates a murder at a queer dance hall with the help of a female impersonator)
*Such a Dance (Jazz Age NYC—a vaudeville performer falls for the owner of a night club with ties to the mob who runs an establishment for men seeking men)
Fantasy Elements
*Across the East River Bridge (NYC, paranormal: Rival academics team up to rid a haunted museum of some ghosts.)
*Show and Tell (NYC, light romantasy based on Celtic mythology: two men meet when one brings something to be appraised at the other’s antique shop, and then weird stuff starts happening.)
New Adult
WMU
Setting: a university in Massachusetts
*There Has to Be a Reason (A guy who thinks he’s straight finds himself attracted to an out gay classmate.)
*What’s the Use of Wondering? (Roommates who intensely dislike each other nevertheless get close when one of them breaks his leg.)
NOVELLAS
*Love 101 (contemporary new adult; a man with zero relationship experience enlists his best friend to teach him how to date so he can snag the man he has a crush on, things don’t go as planned)
*Rebels at Heart (historical, Revolutionary War; two men are in New York City when the British take over the city and have to make tough choices to stay together)
*One Man to Remember (historical, Jazz Age, baseball; a sports writer meets the new hot rookie and learns they have some secrets in common)
*Lead Us Not (currently out of print; contemporary; young couple moves to NYC to be stars, but nothing turns out as planned)
*Devin December (contemporary; a flight attendant meets a famous actor when they’re snowed in together at an airport at Thanksgiving)
*Save the Date (contemporary; a man needs a date to his ex’s wedding)
*Kindling Fire with Snow (contemporary; exes get snowed in together)
*What There Is (contemporary; a sports writer and an ex baseball player become roommates)
*The Butler and the Bodyguard (contemporary; part of an anthology based around a royal wedding, the butler charged with teaching the new American princess etiquette clashes with her bodyguard.)
*Primary couple is gay