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Thursday, February 20, 2025

Tiger Heir by Diana DeRicci

TIGER HEIR
The Prophecy of the Valda-Cree
Book Four

Author: Diana DeRicci
List Price: 6.99 e-book, Coming Soon in Trade Paperback
Published: February 20, 2025
Word Count: 102,399
Genres: Fantasy/Romance/Shapeshifter/Gay/M/M

Lord Jayce Morrow and his stalwart mage friends all feel the impending weight of the future bearing down on them. After successfully breathing life back into the keep through sweat and goodwill, the harder winter months are a perfect opportunity for everyone to catch their breaths, train, and finetune plans. Successful attacks against the sluggish army have freed several dragons, presenting new and surprising bonds with their arrivals. As each facet of their world comes together, humans, mages, skin shifters, and dragons are joining their support with Lord Morrow and his vision for Kielbos.

Then their fragile stability is shaken when someone close to the clan goes missing.

Captured in his tiger shifted form, Kygo Arin is to be sold to the highest bidder for ill-gains and blood sport. Forced to wear a magically spelled collar ruthlessly locked around his neck, blocking his ability to shift. And he’s not the only one.

Lord Oberion is on a mission to uncover the leader of the skin shifter poachers and destroy them. After the loss of his husband years before, his one goal is to decimate his murderers. Entering the secretive world of skin shifter poachers and magical slavers undercover, old scars will bleed as he delves into the sordid underworld to find answers. Becoming entangled in a war he knew next to nothing about, he will once again face losing it all.

When plans go awry and he becomes caught in a web of his own making, he will have to rely on his newly found allies and friends to see his plans succeed.

Two men caught in a spiral of depravity, seeking answers they both need. What will they risk to protect those they love?

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Tuesday, December 21, 2021

Lion Rising By Diana DeRicci

LION RISING
The Prophecy of the Valda-Cree
Book One

Author: Diana DeRicci
List Price: 6.99 e-book, 17.99 Trade Paperback
Published: February 12, 2022
Word Count: 107,233
Genres: Fantasy Romance/Shapeshifter/Gay/M/M

Jayce Morrow is like any other college student: part academic, part nerd, part dreamer. Adopted by the only family he’s ever known he has no idea of his true identity. Or what his unknown history means.

Saving the world wasn’t part of his college application, after all.

When a gorgeous mage appears out of thin air in his apartment, he’s positive he’s dreaming, convinced one of his friends has jumped the shark looking for players for their D&D dungeon by hiring LARPers.

Except there is no dungeon to strategize through. Mages and magic are real. And he’s about to learn his role in saving their world.

Note from the Author: This story is a slow burn MM romance with some really stubborn characters, a few comments about an elf’s amazing hair, and challenges that can mold the man regardless of plans.

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LoveBytes review by Sadonna

"...So let me start by saying that I’ve read this author for years – at least a decade. I have always enjoyed her contemporary romances. I was also fan of her contemporary shifter fantasy series. But this is something entirely new and I was kind of blown away..."

Read the entire review HERE.

Wednesday, September 30, 2020

Roman's Stand by Diana DeRicci

ROMAN'S STAND

Men of Silo

Author: Diana DeRici

List Price: 4.99

Published: November 7, 2020

Word Count: 49,000

Genres/Categories: Gay Erotic Romance, Paranormal, Shapeshifter:

Roman Volkov’s wolf laid claim to the abandoned little girl he discovered in a decrepit barn before he could turn sideways. Suddenly a new father, he had to find a way to balance his home life and his work life with a new baby. It wasn’t easy, but when Logan and his friend Adam arrive in Silo looking for sanctuary after being homeless and without pack, he thought he might have found an answer.

Logan never expected to find everything he’d ever wanted in one package deal.

Logan Bower and his best friend Adam Hollis were both searching for safety. Outcasts for different reasons, they both thought they’d finally found a home in Silo. A job for Adam was a great start, and meeting the Silo alpha had gone better than expected.

But powers outside of Silo aren’t happy about the possibility of having a gay alpha right at their border. When an unknown evil that has unknowingly influenced Silo throughout the last decade begins to interfere with Roman’s personal life and endanger his new daughter, it’s time to make a stand for all he believes in. For all those he loves, and protects.

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Saturday, August 26, 2017

Feel the Fire by Diana DeRicci

FEEL THE FIRE
Author: Diana DeRicci

List Price: 4.99
Published: Jun 27, 2012
ISBN # 9781612920412
Word Count: 46,942
Genres/Categories: Romance>Paranormal

Rob's been working like the proverbial dog for months when he takes a trip to Granier Falls with his sister. Grateful for the break, he can't believe his good fortune when he meets Maddie. She’s playful, fun, unpretentious with a beguiling innocence and unlike any woman he's met in recent memory.

A long distance friendship soon turns into a torture of its own for Rob who shows up on her doorstep with nothing more on his mind than the hope of a wild weekend with the woman he can't forget.

Cursed from birth, both he and his sister share a trait that they can't explain, and have feared since their very power forced them out on the run. When there is a faint flicker of hope for a normal life, it crashes around him when his sister is yanked out of her home. Trouble from his past collides with the force of Maddie's over-protective family and Rob is faced with the challenge of a lifetime--save his sister, love Maddie, or lose them both.

All he wants is a normal life with Maddie in Granier Falls. But the truth about his power could ruin it
all before the end of the weekend.

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After the Fire by Diana DeRicci

AFTER THE FIRE
Author: Diana DeRicci

List Price: 4.99
Published: Apr 25, 2012
ISBN # 9781612920344
Word Count: 48949
Genres/Categories: Erotic Romance, Paranormal
Series: Granier Falls: Book 1

Shar Brenna is a hard-working woman, a respected member of her witch Kin clan. At least until she's held under suspicion of arson by the local police for the demise of Mystic, a Kin hotspot for the witch clans in Granier Falls.

As clues bring dangers bearing down on her and more of her friends begin to look as though they are in jeopardy too, she must find out who was behind the fire and then face the hunters who are determined to capture a witch.

Fleeing has never been her style when fighting back is so much more satisfying.

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Birthday Wishes by Diana DeRicci

BIRTHDAY WISHES
Author: Diana DeRicci

List Price: .99
Published: Jan 14, 2015
ISBN # 9781612921280
Word Count: 5,907
Genres/Categories: Erotica/Multiple Partner

Accidentally reading one diary page turns into a birthday present Dylan can’t wait to give.

Lauren's birthday is next weekend. Dylan has planned out a gift she'll never forget with his best friends. An uninhibited sexual fantasy that he's willing to give the love of his life for one night of pleasure.

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Delany's Catch by Diana DeRicci

DELANY’S CATCH
Author: Diana DeRicci
List Price: 4.99
Published: Sep 29, 2010
ISBN # 9781936165568
Word Count: 27,788
Genres/Categories: Gay Paranormal Erotic Romance

Can love overcome the destructive force of an unnatural secret?

Alone since his boyfriend left him for another man, Jake Holiday has been working his bookstore, treading water, and keeping to himself. It was simple and uncomplicated.

Delany Coltrane changed that.

Turning a corner looking for an address, Del wasn’t expecting to find the hot guy hidden under the stack of boxes, but couldn’t regret needing to ask for directions. Not when Jake was his wolf’s mate, and too damn sexy to ignore even if he weren’t.

But with money problems and safety at the bookstore an issue, can Del and Jake find a middle ground to let their attraction flourish? Because trust is essential to share Del’s largest secret with Jake. A secret that encompasses not just Delany, but his whole family.

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First Christmas by Diana DeRicci

FIRST CHRISTMAS
Author: Diana DeRicci

List Price: 3.99
Published: Nov 17, 2010
ISBN # 9781936165643
Word Count: 18,696
Genres/Categories: Gay, GLBT, Erotic Romance, Paranormal, Shapeshifter, Christmas, Holiday Theme

A stranded wolf. A cougar shifter to the rescue. Can the magic of one Christmas cure both their pain and loneliness?

Exhausted and injured, Jason is driven as a rogue wolf right into the arms of Lyndon, a man that by all he knows, he should never reveal his heart to. Yet when patience and compassion prove size can hide the heart of a gentle giant, a wounded Jason begins to heal. And to love again.

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Swept Away by Diana DeRicci

SWEPT AWAY
Author: Diana DeRicci

List Price: 3.99
Published: Nov 20, 2013
ISBN # 9781612920894
Word Count: 19,747
Genres/Categories: Romance>LGBTQ>Gay Romance>Erotic Romance

A broken engagement, a kiss with a stranger, and now he might be...gay?

Luke Fletcher’s engagement with Sandy has gone bad, and it was all his fault. He’d kissed a guy, and he’d liked it. Luke thinks he can move on and write it off as the drunken, bachelor-party prank it was meant to be, until a virtual clone of Kissy-Face Guy shows up on his doorstep.

Seth Rusko has been a friend of Sandy’s brother for ages, so when he’s asked to drop off a box of Sandy’s ex’s stuff, he figures the least he can do is help the girl out. But he hadn’t planned on Sandy’s ex being so tongue-tyingly, breath-catchingly hot. Of course, being hot is irrelevant—the guy is clearly straight.

At least, he seems straight... until he tells Seth just what he did to cause the breakup... and until Seth remembers the last time he lost his heart to a straight guy who didn’t know what he wanted...

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The Winter Moon's Wolf by Diana DeRicci

THE WINTER MOON’S WOLF
Author: Diana DeRicci
List Price: 5.99
Published: Dec 20, 2013
ISBN # 9781612920931
Word Count: 54,257
Genres/Categories: Romance>Paranormal/Horror Romance>LGBTQ>Gay

Cade’s life is about to be changed forever, but he may lose the man his wolf has chosen before he accepts it.

Cade Rose is the youngest of three. When his twin finds his mate before Cade, a gnawing impatience begins to tear him apart. A disruptive urge that he can’t calm, cure, or find an outlet for. It comes to a head one dark, winter night. Looking for a fight to release the strangled tension, what he finds sends him into a terror-filled spin instead. Because he soon learns the wolf is never wrong.

Dean Eckler is grateful for Cade’s help on a rare night when it all goes to hell at the bar he owns. Cade’s offered help not only saves the bar but Dean from serious injury. Invited to share breakfast on Christmas Eve with Cade’s family, he’s enveloped without question by the caring and support. When an unknown danger begins to stalk Dean, threatening his life, Cade along with the whole family have Dean’s back.

Can Dean and Cade make what they found work? Will Cade find the courage to tell the truth about his family’s legacy? He’s got a lot more to lose now, and if Dean’s unknown threat isn’t stopped in time, Cade may never have the chance to take the risk.

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Run with the Moon by Diana DeRicci

RUN WITH THE MOON
Author: Diana DeRicci

List Price: 5.99
Published: Oct 31, 2012
ISBN # 9781612920566
Word Count: 56,876
Genres/Categories:
Romance>Werewolves/Shifter Romance>LGBTQ>Gay

Jamie Ness is homeless and on the run. After divulging his deepest, guarded secret, his father attacked him, which left no choice but for Jamie to leave everything behind he'd once known.

His greatest fear is that his father will realize the mistake he made in throwing away the only real income coming into their home and hunt for Jamie. Putting distance between his father and wherever he stops is his only priority. After walking for days, putting one foot in front of the other, it's impossible to turn down a hot meal when Chris Rose pulls up at his side on the outskirts of a town he doesn't know.

Offering the young man a helping hand is ingrained in Chris. Something to eat, a warm bed, and safety, even if he could only get Jamie to grudgingly agree to one night. He would have offered that and more to the young man with the shadowed eyes, except more trouble was looming for Jamie. It isn't just Jamie's dad that Jamie has to worry about, because there is nothing in his life that could have prepared him for Chris's secrets.

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Finding Family by Diana DeRicci

FINDING FAMILY
Author: Diana DeRicci
List Price: 5.99
Published: Feb 11, 2015
ISBN # 9781612921327
Word Count: 45,259
Genres/Categories: Romance>LGBTQ>Gay

Can Parker have the family and future he craves when his past won't let him go?

Parker and Will have found that rare peace that comes with sharing a life with the man he loves, and Parker is ready to inject something a little more...rambunctious into their lives. After spending so much time with his adoptive family, he realizes what's missing is the addition of a child, to make their house a home for someone that needs what they can give. Safety, support, and love. What those in Jasper have given him without question.

Only he learns it's not as easy as signing a few documents and taking a test or two. Rigorous applications bring them to a hurry and wait for that phone call that could change their lives forever. Except, one becomes two and suddenly their world has doubled!

When his past shows up on his doorstep, will it jeopardize his family? How far is Parker willing to go to keep his family together?

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Finding Home by Diana DeRicci

FINDING HOME
Author: Diana DeRicci
List Price: 5.99
Published: Sep 25, 2013
ISBN # 9781612920863
Word Count: 47,284
Genres/Categories:
Romance>LGBTQ>Gay

Sometimes that imaginary line in the sand is the only thing stopping you from loving.

Parker is homeless. He's hot, tired, hungry, and thirsty. He has never expected miracles in his short life. They don't happen to him. When he's picked up on the side of the road by a well-meaning grandfather, he's driven to Jasper. Another small town on another long stretch of highway. One that would be nothing but a place to get a meal with the twenty he reluctantly accepts from the compassionate driver.

Ian can well remember the sight of his niece that long ago morning Caleb brought her shivering, terrified, and homeless to his door. Unable to leave the young man, he offers the first kindnesses Parker will have known in more than three years.

Through Ian, Caleb, and their family, Parker regains his dignity, and his ambition to reach goals taken from him. It's a slow process for him because trust doesn't happen overnight. But by the time he's found a family, love, and dreams, he also realizes he may have found home.

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Second Chance Summer by Diana DeRicci

SECOND CHANCE SUMMER
Author: Diana DeRicci

List Price: 5.99
Published: Jan 30, 2013
ISBN # 978612920634
Word Count: 47,349
Genres/Categories: Romance>LGBTQ>Gay

Brice has a crush. Unfortunately it’s on a friend’s straight younger brother, Jake. Brice knows chances are between slim and none for anything more between them, but no one says he can’t fantasize about the hunky guy. When Jake’s teenage daughter, Rebecca, enlists Brice’s help for a final paper for school, Brice and Jake get the chance to really know one another, bonding over Brice’s garden into friendship.

Except their friendship gets tested and reshaped when Jake volunteers to come stay with Brice for a couple of days after he’s injured by a student. Jake has a history no one knows about. And Brice is the one man capable of reawakening dormant feelings in Jake.

Will Jake be able to embrace yearnings he hasn’t experienced in twenty years? Can Brice trust Jake’s changes to be real? It’s a challenge for the both of them, but no one said love would be easy.

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Tougher to Love by Diana DeRicci

TOUGHER TO LOVE
Author: Diana DeRicci
List Price: 5.99
Published: Feb 01, 2012
ISBN # 9781612920290
Word Count: 47,611
Genres/Categories: Romance>LGBTQ>Gay Romance>Contemporary Romance>Erotic Romance

The snow hasn’t even attempted to thaw when Ian’s life is turned upside down. His only sister is murdered, leaving him as the sole family to his 14 year-old niece. As an uncle, he’d been there for them, but he is clueless when it comes to actually seeing to Terra’s wellbeing. Muddling through, they become closer, healing together through the trauma, and slowly begin to feel like family.

Ian has a deep secret though. Not even Terra’s mother knew, and when Caleb is the officer to deliver a freezing and terrified niece to his door, that secret is in jeopardy of being blown sky-high.

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Doing Love Right by Diana DeRicci

DOING LOVE RIGHT
Author: Diana DeRicci

List Price: 5.99
Published: Apr 20, 2011
ISBN # 9781936165919
Word Count: 51,189
Genres/Categories: Gay Erotic Romance

Trust when life knocks you to the ground and things look their worst, Fate has something better in store.

RJ Sommers has been dumped, his best friends have just tied the knot, and the final nail—his roommate’s lover just arrived from Texas to sweep him off his feet. Life just loves laughing at RJ. That is until Julian arrives.

Julian has been watching RJ, waiting for the chance to meet the vibrant entrepreneur. When RJ’s beau leaves for greener pastures, Julian takes the chance to crash a party RJ planned. When finding him in the crowd turns more into a rescue mission, Julian does what’s necessary to keep the other man from becoming a victim of an over-zealous suitor.

Discovering himself along the way through the love and support of his friends, RJ opens himself up to more than just the love of a new boyfriend. When he thinks life doesn’t like him anymore, something bigger and better than he’d ever dreamed is in store. If he can survive Julian’s persistence, his friend’s interference, and the loving affection of one yellow lab, he just might find more than he’s ever known his entire life.

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The Charlie Factor by Diana DeRicci

THE CHARLIE FACTOR
Author: Diana DeRicci

List Price: 6.99
Published: Mar 18, 2011
ISBN # 9781936165841
Word Count: 64,752
Genres/Categories: Romance>LGBTQ>Gay Romance>Erotic Romance

One, recovering from near deadly injuries; the other, unaware of what he’s been missing in his life. What one man can do, may heal them both.

Charlie Baker is recovering, slowly. Nearly dying tends to make a man reflect on each day. Take into account that his injuries were caused by a premeditated murder attempt, and he certainly isn’t looking for a lover. He is barely welcoming to a friend unable to trust anyone, preferring to hide from the world hours and miles away from the memories.

Gregory Anders hadn’t intended to disturb the man in silent contemplation on the beach, but when his pup, Samson, takes matters out of his hands, he’s forced to at least apologize for his pet’s behavior. There’s no doubt for Gregory that Charlie could use a friend. Clearing the air up front that he isn’t gay helps Charlie to relax, allowing for the cautious beginning of a friendship.

Two men, both alone, for different reasons. What happens when friendship bears more? When support and affection turns into attraction?

Do you take the chance of a lifetime, for the love a lifetime?

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Glitter by Diana DeRicci

GLITTER
Author: Diana DeRicci

List Price: 5.99
Published: Apr 11, 2012
ISBN # 9781612920337
Word Count: 52,777
Genres/Categories: Romance>LGBTQ>Gay Romance>Contemporary Romance>Romantic Literature

Since the day Josh met Laurence, he was positive the man was a preening peacock escaped from the Exotic Bird Exhibit. There was something raw and bright, eye-catching and absolutely, unashamedly gay about Laurence. He was outrageous, outgoing, and wild enough to drive Josh up a figurative wall. Josh didn’t expect Laurence to be anything other than who he was, so long as he did so a good ten feet away from him.

Josh and Laurence's friendship was more like two enemies circling each other around mutual friends. Their arguments were legendary.

Until one night, fate stepped in and changed everything. There was a hard truth waiting for Josh around the next corner. An attraction that could not be denied. One that refused to be ignored.

Would their tenuous friendship survive the fallout between these two reluctant friends? Could a love that took four years to emerge be stronger than either had ever anticipated? Or were they destined to remain merely frenemies?

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Wolf's Seduction by Diana DeRicci

WOLF’S SEDUCTION
Author: Diana DeRicci

List Price: 15.99
Published: Aug 29, 2010
ISBN # 978-1936165575
Three Story Collection in Print
Genres/Categories: Shapeshifter, Anthology, Collection, Werewolf

Where passion and adventure collide... Three sexy wolf-shifter stories that will capture your heart in a twisted web of suspense, lust and true love. Howling optional. Includes the novellas: Watching Her Every Move, Alpha Awakening, and Love's Learning Curves.

WATCHING HER EVERY MOVE Agent Jonas Dreyer has been working night and day to intercept valuable memory chips before they are delivered into the wrong hands. A happily confirmed bachelor with good reason, he never expects for the woman who is struck by his suspect in a wild foot chase to be the one, his mate. Neither do they expect her to be targeted as the only person who may know where the vanished chips may be.

ALPHA AWAKENING An afternoon spent avoiding his sister places Rush Donovan on a collision course with Fate. Interrupting a possible violent disturbance brings him face to face with the one woman he never wanted to meet. His mate.

LOVE'S LEARNING CURVES Dario Acardi has enough stress in his life. His family is hounding him to marry, his father wants him to take over as head of the pride, and his cousin needs to borrow the car. All he wants is a little peace. But now that a certain cougar has decided Sheridan is the woman he needs, Dario has to convince her that what she believes isn't true at all. That size isn't what rules the heart. And perfection really is in the eye of the beholder.

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Watching Her Every Move by Diana DeRicci

WATCHING HER EVERY MOVE
Author: Diana DeRicci
List Price: 4.50
Published: Jul 08, 2009
ISBN # 9781936165179
Word Count: 27,154
Genres/Categories: Romance>Werewolves/Shifter Romance>Suspense/Mystery/Thriller Romance>Erotic Romance

Agent Jonas Dreyer has been working night and day to intercept valuable memory chips before they are delivered into the wrong hands. A happily confirmed bachelor with good reason, he never expects for the woman who is struck by his suspect in a wild foot chase to be the one, his mate.

Neither do they expect her to be targeted as the only person who may know where the vanished chips may be.

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