Hi everyone! Lately I've been uploading more books to Draft 2 Digital. They're a distributor for other markets outside Amazon. I don't have all my ebooks there, only a few. But I may add more ebooks there since there's been such a decline in KU readers. If you want to know when I add books there, you can sign up here for alerts. https://books2read.com/author/bl-maxwell/subscribe/1/132942/

I can share coupons from this site, and I plan to do that as soon as I figure it out LOL.

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Beginning next week I'll be back to two Newsletters per week. Tues will be all my latest info, while Friday will be the link for Melting Darkness, Bookfunnel promos, and lots of news from other authors.

New Releases!

Midnight in the Renaissance Elevator

Multiple LGBTQ authors

https://www.amazon.com/Midnight-Renaissance-Elevator-Charity-Anthology-ebook/dp/B0C3Z1WHDG

Do you like mechanical devices with personality? Sure, who doesn’t? How about when they hold your life in the palm of their hands? Hmm…less sure now, yes? Don’t worry, you’re gonna love this.

At an LGBTQ literary retreat in October of 2022, a group of authors met a particularly cantankerous elevator. Doors slamming open or closed for no apparent reason? Check. Scary noises, also for no apparent reason? Also, check. Were we concerned for our lives? Okay, listen…

This cranky elevator figured heavily into conversations for the next few days, many of which included expletives in a dozen languages, but eventually, it became a (somewhat) beloved mascot. Some people actually chose it over the other elevators!

The resulting mayhem is over twenty-five different author takes on the underlying story behind the elevator’s peculiar behavior. Possession? Poltergeists? Personified mechanical objects? Vampires?

All these unique stories come together in one volume: Midnight in the Renaissance Elevator. Join us as we attempt to explain the unexplainable, rationalize the unrationalizable, and give imagination free rein.

Proceeds for the sale of this book benefit The Trevor Project, which provides crisis support services to LGBTQ young people. More information can be found about this worthy cause at https://www.thetrevorproject.org/

Out Now!  

Spirits, Teeth and Wings

A Taste of Paranormal Romance

BL Maxwell

https://mybook.to/SpiritsTeethWings 

https://books2read.com/u/3RYwzn

Try a small taste of three paranormal series featuring different creatures of the night. Ghost hunters, vampires, and gargoyles, all with their stories to tell. Each of them hoping to somehow find their other half in the strange world they live in.

Ghost Hunted:

Proving ghosts are real is something Jason Thomas had always dreamed of. Visiting the haunted places, he’d been obsessed with since he was a kid, and playing amateur ghost hunters with his best friend Wade, is a passion that’s only grown. As the years passed, Jason's fascination with ghosts was too big to contain, and he'd drag Wade along to different haunted houses or hotels, always hoping to see an actual ghost.

Wade Rivers has always loved spending time with Jason, even if it meant he'd have to endure another creepy, supposedly haunted location. Before he knew it, Wade's feelings for Jason deepened from friendship into something more. Unfortunately, so did his fear of the places Jason wanted to explore.

The chance to spend a weekend alone in a famous haunted house was too much for Jason to resist, and almost too much for Wade to endure. He knew going to the deserted house was everything Jason had ever dreamed of, so Wade tried to put his fears aside. But when strange things start to happen, admitting to Jason how he feels suddenly isn't the scariest thing Wade will encounter.

A friends to lovers, paranormal romantic thriller.

Burning Addiction:

His days are spent doing odd jobs for cash to pay for his habit. One night, he overdoses and nearly dies. Doctor Lucas Martel works nightshift in the emergency room at Eureka Hospital. He’s reclusive and brilliant at his job, and he’s all too aware that not everything in Eureka is as it seems. He’s also a vampire, one who chooses to blend in with humans rather than feed on them. Something strange is happening to the homeless and addicts on the streets of Eureka; many have gone missing or ended up dead, and others have overdosed on drugs so strong, no human cure can counteract them. Not normally concerned with human tragedies, the vampires can’t stand back and let this play out, or they risk exposing their world to the humans. Brennan must face his demons, and Lucas will discover many things about himself, and what he believes to be true: a seedy underground of rogue vampires and drugs that must be stopped, at any cost. *Warning: contains references to drug use and abuse.

Stone Under Skin:

Ankit has lived many lifetimes. Once, long ago, he was made of stone, and marked with symbols and sigils meant to safeguard him and allow him to protect and serve others. He’s a living gargoyle now, cursed to live as a human; always watching, at all times aware, and constantly searching for his fated one.

While walking home from his job as a librarian, Ethan Lewis is beaten and robbed. Ankit stumbles upon him, and instantly recognizes him as the man he’s fated to. He helps him back to his apartment, and after tending his injuries, watches over him.

Fate has woven their lives together for centuries, but in every lifetime, they could never live freely, or love each other as Ankit has often dreamed of. To change their destiny, they’ll fight together with other gargoyles, and a young watcher, who is unaware of the tremendous power she possesses. This will be the last battle against their creator, and they’ll either die fighting for their freedom, or survive to live the life they’ve always yearned for. MM Paranormal Fantasy

(Includes book one from The Valley Ghosts Series, The Consortium Trilogy, and the Stone Series.)

***** 🧛‍♂️

This was a really great collection of books. The stories are all really fun and kept me addicted to the book. Each time I finished one I had that moment of no I want more but then there was another one to start right away. I am now going to be reading all the series for the books.

***** Great Series Starters

A great boxset giving you the opportunity to read three series starters. Ghost Hunted was an excellent read and is is a great first book in The Valley Ghosts Series. Fantastic characters and the ghost story was done brilliantly and kept you engrossed. Burning Addiction is the first book in the Consortium Trilogy and is another great story. A story of vampires and fated mates with the MC Lucas and Brennan's unexplainable connection making it an interesting story. Stone under Skin - book one in the Stone Series is different from anything I have read before and has an interesting storyline that spanned hundreds of years. Overall as with any BL Maxwell book definitely worth a read!

Out Now!

Try To Remember (A Small Town City Holiday Short Story)

Amazon: https://mybook.to/TryToRemember

Wide Stores: https://books2read.com/u/badZRv

Choosing to move to Occident to be with Erik wasn’t a hard choice for Sam. He’d loved him nearly as soon as he saw him but spending time with Erik’s friends is something Sam is still adjusting to.

It’s Christmas, and time for Andy and Link’s yearly party. Erik and Sam are going for the first time since Sam moved to town with him. He imagines a nice evening spent with new friends, but it soon turns out a little different.

Erik and all his friends look forward to the annual Christmas party at Andy and Link’s house. Well, mostly they look forward to what they call The Stealing Game. It’ll be a night of fun and games, and maybe a few pranks, but it’ll also be filled with love and good friends. #holiday romance, #christmas short, #holiday fun

Try to Remember is based on characters in the Small Town City series. You can read Remember When and Try to Forget here: 

https://mybook.to/RememberWhenST

https://mybook.to/TryToForget

***** Wonderful story!

I loved everything about this story. The love these two shared is amazing and inspiring. I definitely recommend this to everyone who loves mm hea’s.

***** Fun, short story

I loved this fun, short story, especially the "white elephant" style game. Loved the fun, but well-meant jokes and pranks. What a great bunch of friends to have!

Preorders

The Things We Lose

Mystical Markings Book Two

Preorder for September 28 Release! https://mybook.to/TTWLose

Dane Jones has been touched by the spirit world. Once his powers were awakened by a cursed object, he tried to find peace with them. But the forces from beyond don’t play by the rules, and soon he’s wondering why he thought he had any hope of control over them.

Griff Warren loves Dane, and no matter how weird things may seem, he’ll always be there for him. But strange occurrences make him question if Dane’s keeping a secret, or if there’s more to the strange marks Dane bears.

Dane and Griff are thrown into more supernatural trouble than they can handle, and Janis, their psychic guide, knows it. She arranges for help from The Running Scared Paranormal guys and two strangers from the morgue, Bran and Jordan. First, they’ll lose their abilities, next they’ll have their powers challenged, and if they can’t stop what has been put into motion, no one will survive. #mmparanormalromance #supernatural #ghosthorror #urbanfantasy #gayromance

Faded Dreams (Blinding Light Book Two)

https://mybook.to/FadedDreamsRTR2

Rory Smith has been playing bass for Blinding Light since the beginning. Sure, he left a few times temporarily, but he’s always gone back to the only life he’s really known. It was all fun and games in his twenties, but lately he wonders if there’s something more out there besides traveling show to show.

Jack Vance has always been a huge fan of Blinding Light, but the real reason he goes to every show he can sneak into is to get a glimpse of their hot bass player. Everyone else worshiped the lead singer Easy Rian. When they found out, he was out and proud, and in a relationship with the new guitar player, many hearts were broken. But not his. His heart only beats for Rory, the white-blonde haired rock god that he can’t get out of his head.

Rory’s played the rockstar game for many years. Not one time in all those years has he met anyone who made him feel the way the cute guy off to the side with the haunting blue eyes does. He’s always kept his heart of lockdown, but maybe it’s time for a jailbreak. His dreams have faded, but they’re not completely gone.

Author News!

A Little Christmas: Blaine’s Secret is on preorder.

Brina Brady

Release date: December 5th

US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CGKRPTK1

International: https://mybook.to/BlainesSecret

Keywords: Billionaire Daddy, Poor Boy, Daddy Kink, Grumpy/Sunshine, 5-day Xmas Mixer, Hurt/Comfort, Spankings, Cuddles, Age Gap, and HEA

Looking for a Daddy? Looking for a boy?

This Five-Day Christmas Party mixer is for you. (Males 18+ only)

This could provide the perfect solution for Blaine and Davie, whose minimum wage job has left them struggling to afford any housing except a dilapidated motel room with a single bed.

It could also provide the perfect solution for Daddy Jacob, a co-sponsor of the mixer who’s decided it’s time to find a boy.

Blaine and Davie are too poor to afford transportation to the mixer, but life in the group home they recently aged out of has made them determined and resourceful, so Blaine bravely calls the number on the poster and explains their problem. Jacob has never had to worry about money and something in Blaine's honesty intrigues him, so he sends a car for them.

Daddy Jacob immediately knows he wants Blaine, but several things stand in his way. First, there's a rule that he must mix with all the prospective boys for the five days and only make his choice on Christmas Eve, and second, he has to make Blaine choose him over the other daddies and finally; he knows Blaine won't abandon Davie without a daddy of his own. 

When Blaine reveals a secret, will it further complicate their situation? Can they overcome all these obstacles with the help of some Christmas magic?

Each book in A Little Christmas is a standalone. But each boy is silly, unique, lovable, and downright adorable, so why not read them all?

This book is part of A Little Christmas: Season Two 2023 multi-author series with themes loosely based on the classic book A Secret Garden.

Baby Bear 

Brina Brady

US Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0893L5694

International Amazon: https://mybook.to/BabyBearBB

🧸Daddy/boy

🧸Age Gap

🧸Diner Owner

🧸Pole Dancer

🧸Hurt and Comfort

🧸Teddy Bear Ceremony 

Abel’s heartbreaking childhood contributes to his emotional baggage; his life has been one of hate, denial, and secrecy. His father, a polygamist cult leader, sends young men away from the compound in Utah so at eighteen, his mother drives him to the city. A dancing job opportunity finds Abel moving to Minnesota. Two years later he’s mysteriously fired. Without savings, Abel needs a Daddy to take care of him, and he’s found the perfect one at the Blue Diamond Diner.

Diner owner Darius Eriksen’s dream is to find a boy who needs a Papa Bear to take care of his needs. Darius belongs to the Bearded Papa Bears. Membership requires Papa Bears to want to be a daddy to a boy; they pledge to love, care, and discipline their Baby Bear. Two years after Darius’s Baby Bear leaves him for another Papa Bear, he’s ready to find a new Baby Bear and commit again.

Baby Bear is about two damaged souls, realizing that the other is exactly what they need at the right times of their lives. This story is a stand-alone MM romance that follows their relationship. It has some D/S elements and a guaranteed HEA.

🧸🧸 🧸🧸 🧸🧸

Available in E-book, KU, Audio, & Paperback.

Terrible Lovely Demon

https://books2read.com/TerribleLovelyDemon

Ten years ago, Maxton Grant was a frail sixteen-year-old slowly being consumed by an aggressive form of childhood cancer and teetering on the brink of death. Until suddenly, he wasn’t.

The doctors called it a miracle, but Maxton knew the truth. An act of divine intervention wasn’t what saved him. It was Beau, his hot-as-sin night nurse—a demon in disguise who was willing to make a deal with a dying teenager that gave him a second chance at life.

Now, a decade later, a chance encounter reunites Maxton with the demon from his past. Neither can fight the questionable chemistry that has always existed between them, but they struck a bargain, and Maxton must pay the price.

Is it such a terrible fate to owe a lovely demon a favor?

The end of the trilogy is here.

#NewRelease

This weekend only books 1 and 2 are on sale for .99!

#Sale ends 9/4/23

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Resurrection

Book 3 of The Elders Trilogy

From Author Raven Kitts

Cover by Covers by Jo

https://books2read.com/ET3Resurrection

Jess is dead.

It’s been three days since we found her and nothing.

Mother’s execution comes at sunrise.

Father is an empty shell of the strong man he once was.

How am I expected to keep it together?

Bloodshed amongst our kind was frowned upon, but the hideous crimes my mother and her band of rogues committed left the council with no other recourse.

An eye for an eye.

Blood for blood.

Now what was once will be no more. Everything changed in the blink of an eye and there is no turning back now.

Revenge will be mine, and they will all die.

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Pre-order NAUTI OR NICE, A Voyagers Christmas Novella, releasing December 5: https://mybook.to/qrzdsl

Bi-awakening

Friends to lovers

Steamy first times

A yachtie who loves to take charge

A bodyguard who longs for protection

This is book 5 in my Voyagers' series, where everyone who boards the superyacht Now, Voyager meets their match!

Charlie: Being a first officer on board the superyacht Now, Voyager is a dream come true. And my personal life? I’m in and out and on to the next port, so to speak. I don’t have the inclination for a boyfriend. So when my boss asks me to work over the Christmas holiday, I’m happy to say yes. 

And then Kiernan Doyle arrives… 

The Irish bodyguard is a brawny grump with sad eyes and a shy smile. And I’m a sucker for a tough guy with a big…heart. Only, I’m pretty sure Kiernan told me he’s straight and I’ve been down that road before, falling for a man who can’t return my feelings.

But I won’t deny that something is building between us. And once we get under that mistletoe, I know. Christmas, and my life, will never be the same.

Kiernan: I’m a former MMA fighter turned bodyguard and while the fight money was great, my body knew it was time to leave. And being a bodyguard has its perks. Guarding billionaire Rowan Carter, and his husband Andrew is hardly work at all. His entourage of friends and family have become my friends too. 

Including Charlie Cates, the First Officer on Rowan’s yacht. 

Charlie’s not intimidated by my size or my grumpy demeanor. He’s the first person in years that I feel any kind of connection to. And I don’t know if it’s me or the mistletoe, but suddenly, I’m having naughty thoughts about the cute yachtie with killer dimples. Thoughts I’ve never had about a man before.

It turns out, all I want for Christmas, all I want always, is…Charlie.

Nauti or Nice is a friends to lovers, bi-awakening, MM romance filled with first times, found family, and a HEA that will warm your Christmas spirit.

 Alpha's Awakening

Link: https://dl.bookfunnel.com/l9uq9vm8sk

Blurb: 

"He’s the kind of alpha dreams are made of, but I can’t make another mistake.

After a bad breakup, I can’t get out of town fast enough. I’m headed north to the peace and quiet of a borrowed cabin in a small town. It’s time for a clean slate and a chance to reinvent myself.

But with my mother calling to remind me that I must keep looking for a mate, I have no choice but to mingle with the locals.

A secret romance with a hot ginger alpha wasn’t what I had in mind, but the sweet wolf sweeps me off my feet with the love and affection I've always craved.

That is until my ex begins to harass me, and a string of nearby murders have us both scrambling to figure out what exactly is going on.

There’s also the matter that Chance is next in line to lead the pack and will have to produce an heir…

WARNING: This spicy shifter romance contains jaw-dropping twists, sizzling love scenes, a cinnamon roll alpha, and a happily ever after that will leave you speechless. It should only be read by those who like their werewolves hot and their broody boys shown the love they deserve."

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Complete Series

Brown Eyed Boy 

BL Maxwell

https://mybook.to/BrownEyedBoy

Lance and Billie met and fell in love over their mutual love of food and their drive to have a successful business in the small town of Stoney Brook Maine. Both are driven to succeed, but now it’s time for a vacation, a real vacation.

Billie plans a trip to Dublin, Ireland to explore Lance’s Irish roots, he takes a little convincing. But when Billie tells him they’ll be spending time with an uncle who also runs a small café, it’s more than Lance can resist.

They spend their days trying new foods, exploring ancient wonders, and meeting more new relatives than either of them could have imagined. And at an ancient castle, Lance discovers that everything he needs is right in front of him.

What starts as a vacation ends up being life changing, and something Lance and Billie will never forget.

#VacationRomance #WorkplaceRomance #MMRomance #GayRomance #FriendsToLovers

Book One, Green Eyed Boy: https://mybook.to/GreenEyedBoy

One Last Chance

BL Maxwell

https://mybook.to/OLCSmalltown

Book Three in the Small Town City Series

Stu Lawson had always lived in the small town of Occident. He’d been born a farmer, and he was more than happy to stay a farmer even when his dad decided it wasn’t the life for him. He’s been raising his daughter since the day she was born, and he’s never regretted being a single dad, but Stu has a few secrets.

Morgan Grant was born into a life he never wanted and had done everything he could to avoid. Staying drunk helps him forget and numbs the pain he can’t bring himself to face. After a long night of drinking, he ends up dumped in a small town north of Sacramento without money, his phone, or a way to get back to the city he calls home.

Stu’s focus has always been his daughter, but he can’t control his curiosity about the stranger who shows up in Occident alone in the middle of the night. He offers to help, even when he knows he shouldn’t. Old feelings rise to the surface and he’s helpless to ignore them, or Morgan. This stranger could be his chance at happiness, or his downfall. #singledad #gayromance #stranded #smalltownromance #secrets

Book One, Remember When: https://mybook.to/RememberWhenST 

Book Two, Try To Forget: https://mybook.to/TryToForget