The Secret Omega's Secret Baby (Babies for Broken Dads #8)

Here is Anna Wineheart's latest: "The Secret Omega's Secret Baby." It's the eigth novel in her series, Babies for Broken Dads (which is a spin-off series from her Closet Baby Chronicles series...which is also a spin-off series).

["Uriel has two
Secret #1: Even though he looks like an alpha, he’s actually an omega.
Secret #2: His baby’s other dad... is his enemy. And the alpha, Bruiser, has no idea that Cassie is his daughter.
It’s for the best.

When a rescue mission turns complicated and Bruiser is the only one left with Uriel and his baby, he starts to notice things about Cassie that seem... off. Things that remind him of himself.
Like the color of her eyes. The weird birthmark on her belly.
Uriel’s an alpha who wants nothing to do with Bruiser, so... What the heck is going on?"]

These two are sooo perfect! The banter, the chemistry, the group chats (goD, the group chats!!!). It was everything we wanted and SO much more!! 

This: “I have a baby,” Uriel said exasperatedly. “Whose do you think it is?” Followed by this: “More?” Thiago said slyly. “Bruiser, you dog.” Because what are friends for? ;) 

Not to be outshined by this gem: “‘You know I love you, right?’ // Bruiser stilled, his eyes growing wide with delight and pleasure. ‘Yes. Even though you’ve never said it in so many words before.’ // ‘Well, there you have it.’”

I canNOT wait for the next series!!

Trigger Warnings: gender dysphoria, past human experimentation, violence, and more. 

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Masked Deception

Here's Ashley Reyes's "Masked Deception."

["Kai Everett
When I went to that Halloween party, I thought I was hooking up with Andrew, a guy from my school. I chose him to take my virginity. But when the mask came off after, there stood my smug stepbrother...the one I ran away from years ago.

Carter Wraith
Kai stole from my family, and I tracked him down for revenge. I'd do whatever it takes to get the information I needed from him, but once I get a taste of him again, I'm not sure it'll ever be enough. As the night went on, he told me I was wrong about the past and that I would regret my decision, but could I trust the man who broke me six years ago?"]

Dark and twisty. Possessive and obsessive. Toxic love and toxic actions. But still somehow very fluffy and oddly sweet. If branding your true love (with and without hai Vincent) is sweet. Or committing murder to be with him (and committing murder to avenge him). 

“‘I did something extraordinary in my past life to deserve you.'"

Trigger Warnings: dubcon, mentions of child SA, child abuse, murder, violence, knife and blood play, self-harm, panic attack, stalking, drugging, and more. 

#maskeddeception #ashleyreyes #books #queerbooks #queererotica #bodicerippers #bookstagram #bookphotography #ilovebooks

Anchored To You (Creepin U: Season Two)

Here's Ashley Rayne's "Anchored To You." It's a novel in the multi-author series, Creepin U: Season Two.

["Beck
This year at Creepin U, I only have three priorities: get through my classes, play baseball, and work enough to make money for school. I don't have time for distractions, drama, and especially not hookups. Then I find out my new roommate is the one person I never expected to see again, and I know I'm screwed. After ghosting Talon last year, I told myself it was nothing more than a hookup. And it wasn't. I had too much going on back then, and I have even more going on now. But living with him makes forgetting impossible. We're sharing a small space, and the more time I spend with him, the more I want a second chance to prove I'm not the guy he thinks I am.

Talon
Getting ghosted hurts. But getting ghosted by the person who’s your new roommate is worse. But he doesn’t need to know that, so I lie. I tell him that night meant nothing and that I’ve moved on. But when he comes back asking for another night together, I can’t help but agree. No feelings, no expectations, only hooking up. But the more I try to prove to him and myself that it means nothing, the harder it is to ignore my feelings. Maybe the biggest mistake wasn’t hooking up again? Maybe it was believing that we could do it again without catching feelings."]

This book was really sweet! There were some cringe moments and awkward moments and moments you wanted to scream through the book to just “talk to each other,” but they were so adorable. There was fluff and innocence. Not to mention all of the amazing chemistry.

This universe is really interesting. I’ll have to check out the rest of these books soon!  

#anchoredtoyou #ahsleyrayne #firstkisswithamothman #boymeetsmonster #shadowsandstone #thegoldenreceiver #mysoultokeep #allorcnothing #operationogre #creepinu #creepinuseries #creepinguseasontwo #books #queerbooks #queererotica #bodicerippers #bookstagram #bookphotography #ilovebooks

Magpie (Forbidden Desires #5)

Here's "Magpie" by Virginia Kelly and Piper Scott. This is the fifth novel their Forbidden Desires series (and the second in the spin-off stories). I'm reading this one next instead of the next one next (fight me).

["Reynard Drake, solitary cybersecurity expert and curator of the Drake family fortune, would rather be chucked in the midden than forced to bed an omega, but as the selected Amethyst candidate for the mating experiment, he has no other choice. Resigned to his unhappy fate, he takes solace in the fact that one thing will never change—his virtual rival, Magpie, will always be there to keep him on his toes, even if he has been strangely absent from the internet lately…

Diamond Disgrace Misha Vasiliev has a secret. By day he learns what it takes to warm a dragon’s bed, but at night he’s Magpie, renowned hacker and dark web service provider who steals from dragons in his spare time. His favorite target? Reynard Drake, whom he's only ever seen in pictures, but whom Misha wants more than anyone else.

And now, with a faceless threat closing in on his cloister, quite possibly the only one capable of saving his life."]

The years of digital lead up? The totally-them meet-cute? How they had only ever wanted each other? Adorable. They knew they were fated before they even met, they loved each other before they were even in the same country. They had to prove it to people, but prove it they did. 

D: why do these baby dragons bonding with their pets make me so emotional. “Zakhar sat politely with his tail tucked around his legs and meowed. Well, meowed as best as a reptile could. One day Reynard would have to break the news to him that he was a dragon and not a cat, but today was not that day.”

#clutch #bond #mate #swallow #magpie #finch #peregrine #raven #ravenpartone #ravenparttwo #forbiddendesires #forbiddendesiresseries #piperscott #virginiakelly #books #queerbooks #queererotica #bodicerippers #bookstagram #bookphotography #ilovebooks

Finch (Forbidden Desires #6)

Here's "Finch" by Virginia Kelly and Piper Scott. This is the sixth novel their Forbidden Desires series (and the third in the spin-off stories). I'm reading this one next instead of the next one next (fight me).

["Hugh Drake, the most whimsical member of the Drake family, wants a clutch badly… and despite his sanctioned period to reproduce nearing its end, he just might get his wish. New information has emerged that suggests Disgraces are dragons and able to bear eggs. All that’s left to do is find one Hugh can tolerate, and who better to help him find his perfect match than his steadfast and faithful secretary, Finch?

If only Finch were a Disgrace, but alas. Some things simply aren’t meant to be.

Sensible and straightforward Finch has served as Hugh Drake’s secretary for over a decade, and secretly loved him for just as long. Hugh is the light of his life, but he’s also entirely too gullible, which is why Finch refuses to believe his claim that Disgraces are dragons. They’re not. Finch would know, since he is one. But that little fact will have to stay a secret, because Finch would rather his love go unnoticed than be the one who breaks his dragon’s heart when he fails to produce a clutch."]

The pining! Finch you adorable man! You put up with your unseeing dragon for so long. I mean seriously, he was basically (and literally) courting you for yeeeaaars. He couldn’t even listen to his dragon properly. 

Oh but when Hugh finally figured it out? When Finch stopped letting his imposter-syndrome rule? They were soooo cute! Even that little debacle in England (which brought some closure and even more family into their lives). 

Easily one of the most romantic lines I’ve read in a long time: “I had the sheets made to match your eyes, you know.”

#clutch #bond #mate #swallow #magpie #finch #peregrine #raven #ravenpartone #ravenparttwo #forbiddendesires #forbiddendesiresseries #piperscott #virginiakelly #books #queerbooks #queererotica #bodicerippers #bookstagram #bookphotography #ilovebooks

Swallow (Forbidden Desires #4)

Here's "Swallow" by Virginia Kelly and Piper Scott. This is the fourth novel their Forbidden Desires series (and the first in the spin-off stories).

["Grimbold Drake, influential patriarch of the Drake family, revels in his solitary life of order—a life which is thrown into chaos when his son pays him an unexpected visit, bringing with him a broken but gorgeous young man more than a millennium Grimbold’s junior. A man Grimbold instantly finds himself yearning to fix, to protect, and to claim.

Meek, subservient, and eager to please, Wally Brand doesn’t doubt the tales he’s been told of the cruel and deceitful Amethyst clan, so when he’s forcibly taken from his home and entrusted to Grimbold Drake—the most powerful Amethyst dragon of all—he knows he won’t be long for this world. Only there’s a gleam in Grimbold’s eyes when he looks Wally’s way and a tenderness to his touch that Wally can’t understand.

All he knows is one thing: whether Grimbold means him harm or not, if he can be good to his dragon captor, maybe, just maybe, he’ll get out of this mess alive."]

Whelp, it looks like Grimbold is getting his redemption arc (he wasn't horrible in the last book, not like the previous two). And damn him, he's actually a secret softy (well, more like his children being fucking awesome people and changing the world helped Grimbold change his).

These two were SO freaking cute! Patient and kind and soo sassy (Wally, which was a beautiful transformation). Both of their transformations were utterly perfect. As was Beatrice. And the redemption of Wally's given name. 

#clutch #bond #mate #swallow #magpie #finch #peregrine #raven #ravenpartone #ravenparttwo #forbiddendesires #forbiddendesiresseries #piperscott #virginiakelly #books #queerbooks #queererotica #bodicerippers #bookstagram #bookphotography #ilovebooks

Mate (Forbidden Desires #3)

Here's "Mate" by Virginia Kelly and Piper Scott. This is the third novel their Forbidden Desires series.

["Spitfire Disgrace Matthieu Boudreaux has one wish: to age out of the Pedigree he despises, then destroy it. With one year left before he achieves the first step of his goal, Matthieu finally has some hope for an independent future… until a surly Amethyst dragon by the name of Geoffrey Drake and his entourage show up at Matthieu’s cloister and inform him he’s been selected to be part of an ‘experiment.’

Geoffrey Drake, proud and stuffy legal counsel for the Amethyst clan, has been charged with ruining his own life. His mission? Deliver a potential mate to the son of the Amethyst clan’s most despised enemy—and the man he’s loved in secret for the last hundred years—Topaz dragon Ian Brand. Refusal is impossible. Dragons don’t consort with dragons, and should Geoffrey decline, he risks exposing them both.

Ian Brand, charming black sheep of the Topaz clan, is trapped between his forbidden love for an Amethyst dragon centuries his senior and his duty to his family. Chosen by his unhinged father to be the Topaz candidate for the mating experiment, Ian is faced with a terrible choice: run away with the man he loves and face the deadly consequences, or accept his fate with a broken heart.

But dragon magic, as Matthieu, Geoffrey, and Ian soon discover, works in mysterious ways. When an unforeseeable circumstance draws them all together and puts their futures at risk, they have no choice but to set their differences aside and work together to prove a new, startling truth…

What the dragon world knows about mates has been wrong all along, and it will be up to the three of them to prove it."]

Immediate thoughts after reading the blurb: Stupid G-Daddy Drake is going to haaate this (good). And I hope he suffers for it (and Ian's father, too--why the hell not). And maybe Matthieu gets some comeuppance?  

Secondary thoughts: Matthieu should get his degree, damnit! Ian's father should die, a really horrible death. Geoffrey's dad better fucking surprise us with his redemption arc soon, or he'll have to die as well. Intermixed with sooo many happy, glittery explosions that is Harry being Harry.

These three felt more slow burn than the other two couples so far. Even if, timeline wise, it wasn't all that much longer. But there was a lot more angst between the three of them (not to mention how the rest of the dragon world will take it all) before their shared loves exploded.

Granted, as readers, we knew that the bond would grow between the three of them and that Matthieu's heat would be shared between the three of them and that Matthieu would produce a clutch and just how perfect that clutch would mirror their relationship. And I think, as a reader, knowing there would be HEAs in all of those places, I didn't take their pessimism seriously (and was subsequently annoyed by it). But that's a me thing, not a reflection of the novel itself. 

I looove that each of these little families have some off-the-walls, not common pet(s). Obsessed. 

#clutch #bond #mate #swallow #magpie #finch #peregrine #raven #ravenpartone #ravenparttwo #forbiddendesires #forbiddendesiresseries #piperscott #virginiakelly #books #queerbooks #queererotica #bodicerippers #bookstagram #bookphotography #ilovebooks