contemporary

Title: Cake
Author: Harper Kingsley
Genre: contemporary fiction
Character: Dahlia Quinzant

During her break at work, Dahl wrote out a plan in her small memo book. She ignored the looks she received from other people moving in and out of the break room and focused on her task, her pink and white pill pen clenched in her hand.

Dahl felt good about the plan taking shape in front of her. She didn’t try to get creative and she kept things to what she could reasonably accomplish. She didn’t want to be like Sharon and her failed cabbage soup diet–she’d lost fifteen pounds, but gained back twenty, and that had been the end of that.

Title: Cake
Author: Harper Kingsley
Genre: contemporary fiction
Character: Dahlia Quinzant

They say that the first step to solving a problem is to acknowledge it. Dahl wished her problem wasn’t that she was fat, but there wasn’t much she could do about it. Problems were what they were.

After a day at work where she self-consciously felt as if everyone was looking at her–judging her–she came home to begin doing some online research. She wanted to know the best way that she could lose weight and not completely blow her monthly budget.

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Title: Cake
Author: Harper Kingsley
Genre: contemporary fiction
Character: Dahlia Quinzant

CAKE 01-

One day, Dahl looked in the mirror and hated what she saw. The person looking back at her did not look like her, the person she was in her head.

She didn’t know when it had happened, but at some point she had stopped taking care of herself. She’d ceased grooming unless she was going somewhere, and her eyebrows had grown bushy and out of control. She could see the shadow of a mustache on her upper lip and there were even hairs bristling from her chin.

But what really got her attention was that somehow she had become fat. Not “pleasantly plump” as she’d always called herself, but unhealthily overweight. She didn’t know how she could have missed it happening, but there it was.

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Hot Head, by Damon Suede Title: Hot Head
Author: Damon Suede
Cover Art: Anne Cain
Genre: mm, romance
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
ISBN:9781615819485
Source: Scribd subscription

Description from Dreamspinner Press: Since 9/11, Brooklyn firefighter Griff Muir has wrestled with impossible feelings for his best friend and partner at Ladder 181, Dante Anastagio. Unfortunately, Dante is strictly a ladies’ man, and the FDNY isn’t exactly gay-friendly. For ten years, Griff has hidden his heart in a half-life of public heroics and private anguish.

Griff’s caution and Dante’s cockiness make them an unbeatable team. To protect his buddy, there’s nothing Griff wouldn’t do… until a nearly bankrupt Dante proposes the worst possible solution: HotHead.com, a gay porn website where uniformed hunks get down and dirty. And Dante wants them to appear there — together. Griff may have to guard his heart and live out his darkest fantasies on camera. Can he rescue the man he loves without wrecking their careers, their families, or their friendship?

Purchase links: Amazon, Dreamspinner Press.

During a party for the ten year anniversary of 9/11, Griff realizes there’s something going on with his buddy Dante, who he has secret feelings for. After a bit of a confrontation, he finds out that Dante has squandered all of his money and is about to lose his house. Griff is willing to loan him money, but Dante needs more than Griff can afford.

Enter Alek, a Russian that runs a gay porn website that caters to the fetish of straight men in uniform. Griff is reluctant, but he’s willing to do anything to help his buddy out, which is how he ends up in front of the camera with the man he loves.

This was a surprisingly good story. Seriously, this kind of thing isn’t usually my kink, but Damon Suede did … Read the rest “RE BOOK: Hot Head, by Damon Suede [mm, contemporary]”

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