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Hi everyone! Sorry but there won't be a Digging update this week. I'm busy with Finding Isaac and needed to prioritize it. If I can get an update done early I'll post it Tuesday, if not there will be one next week.

The first Foggy Basin Season Two is out today! Also some of the books from season one will be on sale so be sure to check that out if you haven't read them yet. Our little town is growing and we have some new characters this season that I'm excited for you to meet. Isaac from Finding Isaac is in Nuts and Bolts, and Tig is in the holiday short so if you want to meet them you'll find them there until Finding Isaac is live.

Here's the good stuff!

NEW RELEASE!

OUT NOW!

Cookie

https://books2read.com/chandcookie

When Ryan Stone’s aunt asks for help with her bookstore, he leaves the city and moves to the small town of Grace, at least temporarily. He’s so busy cleaning and restocking the store he almost doesn’t notice the handsome mechanic that always seems to show up at the park at the same time he has his lunch.

Every day for the past few weeks, Charlie Castle has been going to the park across the street from the auto shop, hoping for a chance to meet the new guy from the bookstore with the shock of red hair and a penchant for pink sugar cookies.

Ryan wasn’t looking for love when he met Charlie, but meeting Charlie might just give him everything he never knew he needed. MM Small Town Romance, Opposites Attract, Found Family

New Audio!

New to Audio!

Blinding Light

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Easy Rian has been lead singer for Blinding Light since the band was formed. Through the years many things have changed. Not all of them good. When the lead guitarist leaves mid-tour, the rest of the band is left waiting to see if they’ll continue on to Rocktoberfest, or if this is where their tour ends.

Liam Tarrant has been playing guitar for as long as he can remember. When he gets the chance to audition for Blinding Light, he jumps at the chance. Meeting the band is surreal, especially the lead singer, Easy. Liam has always had a crush on Easy, but he never thought he’d get the chance to meet him, let alone spend time alone with him.

Easy is drawn to Liam, no matter how much he wants to deny it. When the two are thrown together over practice and planning the upcoming tour, attraction grows between the two of them that neither can deny. But falling in love on tour could be what finally ends Blinding Light, and both of them will need to choose what’s more important to them. Love or music, can they have it all? #Rockstar #mmromance #grumpysunshine #friendstolovers

Coming Soon!

Finding Isaac

Foggy Basin Season Two

Preorder for August 13

Finding Isaac: https://books2read.com/FindingIsaac

Series Link:https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DST7K6BR

Isaac Grant has lived in Foggy Basin for all of his twenty-three years. Everything was perfect until his favorite friend with benefits, Jack, met the love of his life. Sure, he was happy for Jack, but he missed him and wanted someone of his own to keep him warm at night, or to get into trouble with.

Tig Sawyer left Foggy Basin after only living there for a little over a year. He graduated from high school and moved onto an out-of-state college and, for the most part, never looked back. But memories of that slower pace always came back to him when he was neck deep in work, and his personal life.

Isaac was never looking for a relationship and was more than

happy to live his life loose and free, but since meeting Tig, he wonders why he never wanted someone of his own. He also questions why someone like Tig, who has his life together and always seems happy as hell, would want to take him on. But there’s something in the way Tig looks at him that says he’s more than willing.

Welcome to Foggy Basin Season Two. Just passing through? No problem. Here to stay, well, better find your place. Sit back, relax and get to know the townsfolk. They love hard and play even harder. Each book is a standalone but why not stay and get to know us and read them all.

Sale!

Get Nuts and Bolts for only $2.99 (Ends August 10)

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Jack Hulbert has worked at the hardware store Nuts and Bolts since he was sixteen. He had big dreams of leaving town and traveling, but five years later, not much has changed, and he worries he’ll end up living the rest of his life in the small town he was born in.

Hudson Carter has been working in Sacramento for the past ten years, managing a big box store. He left Foggy Basin for college in the city and he never once looked back. His parents have owned the hardware store in town for two generations, and he’d hoped to avoid the same fate, but when his father tells him his plans to either sell the store or close it, he has a change of heart.

Hudson has been single for years, and a few bad breakups have left him jaded about finding the perfect partner. But he’s not prepared for the cute, and much younger man who knows far more than he does about running the hardware store and isn’t afraid to tell him. It’s time for this city boy to embrace his country roots and find out what really matters in his life, and a certain country boy is more than willing to help. #age gap, #city/country, #workplace romance, #small town romance

Christmas Collection

99c ends August 3

https://books2read.com/u/bQnrLe

Enjoy this gay romance collection all set during the holiday season.

A Lot of Snow for Christmas

Two strangers with very different lifestyles stuck together in a snow-covered cabin with no heat or power. It might take more than a cute dog to help them survive it.

Try to Remember

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.

The List

Tommy Carter was just minding his own business, taking out the trash from his job at a local bar and grill, when he noticed the man hiding behind the dumpster. He couldn’t get a good look at the guy, and the less he can find out about him, the more curious he becomes. He’d lived through difficult circumstances in his past, and decides if he can help, he will.

Just the Right Chord

Kai and Rory met a few months ago when Kai made a food delivery to Rory’s band. They’ve been together ever since, and neither of them has looked back and craved the single life. Now with the holidays fast approaching, both of them worry about giving the perfect gift to each other.

Two strangers stuck in a cabin during a blizzard, two friends who hope for more, a man who needs a little help, and a new couple spending their first Christmas together. Each story is gay romance and is guaranteed to have a happily ever after.

The Ultimate Sacrifice

99c Ends August 3

https://books2read.com/UltimateS

Fated mates. Forced proximity. A love worth risking everything for.

Grady Summerville has accepted his fate—until Max Steele’s blood offers him a second chance at life. As Grady’s strength returns, so does his heart’s vulnerability, and he finds himself falling for the reluctant wolf who saved him.

Forced to leave his pack, Max never expected to develop feelings for Grady. But as tensions between their packs rise, Max must choose: loyalty to his Alpha or the mate who’s stolen his heart.

Love demands sacrifice—but will their bond be worth the cost?

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Summer Lovin': M/M Romance in Kindle Unlimited

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Author News!

Finding Archie just released!

(Foggy Basin Season Two)

Brina Brady

https://books2read.com/FindingArchie

Series: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DST7K6BR

Keywords: MM Romance, Small Town, Proximity, Hurt &Comfort, Irish teacher, Blue Star Diner server

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Archie Star’s life had always been marked by loneliness. After losing his mother at eleven, he was left with a father who never quite knew what to do with him. Even after earning a literature degree, Archie felt like a ghost in his own home, unseen and unneeded. When his cousin Andrew offered him a job at the Blue Star Diner in Foggy Basin, he took it as a sign. With nothing but a duffel bag and a restless heart, he climbed onto his motorcycle and rode toward a fresh start, hoping to find a place where he could finally breathe.

Andrew secured him a room in the home of Brogan Finnegan, a charming Irish high school teacher with a storyteller’s soul. Brogan had traveled the world before settling in Foggy Basin, drawn to teaching after years of volunteering in communities abroad. His warm home and steady presence offered Archie something he hadn’t felt in years—comfort, safety, and maybe even belonging.

Finding Archie is a story of love, healing, and the unexpected places where we find home.

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A Daddy for Christmas 3: Benson

Brina Brady

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F734PKGW

https://books2read.com/Daddy-Benson

Grumpy /Sunshine, Truck Driver, Hitchhiker, Daddy Kink, Hurt& Comfort, MM Xmas Romance, Age Gap

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Thirty-year-old Benson McCoy hides behind a veil of precision and routine, his cab a sanctuary of order where every item has its place and every stop is timed to the minute. Beneath his tight-lipped smiles and mechanical schedule lies a man aching with loneliness, haunted by the time he never carved out for connection. As he hauls a load of toys cross-country from New York to Los Angeles, trapped in a cycle of work and his father’s expectations, Benson quietly yearns for something or someone to disrupt his solitude. He doesn’t expect that someone to be Kyle Foster, a charming storm of disarray who might just upend Benson’s rigid world and uncover the tenderness he’s tried so hard to bury.

Twenty-two-year-old Kyle, impulsive and reckless, runs from the chaotic mess of his own making with the sounds of sirens faintly echoing in the distance. Kyle shows up on the shoulder of some frozen NYC highway, hitchhiking toward California with half a plan and a backpack full of chaos. If anyone needs a daddy, it’s Kyle. He asks too many questions, laughs too loud, and doesn’t know how to shut down his heart or his mouth. Kyle’s presence is a messy explosion of honest emotion, impossible to ignore his whirlwind of unfiltered energy.

They hit the icy roads together—two strangers, one rig, and a growing tension neither of them knows what to do with. Between awkward silences, cheap diner meals, and late-night talks that get way too real, Benson and Kyle begin to crack each other open. Benson needs a boy, and Kyle needs a Daddy for Christmas. Neither of them was looking for love.

Love doesn’t always come knocking, but sometimes, it climbs into the passenger seat and refuses to shut up.

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A Daddy for Christmas 3 is a multi-author series. Holiday tales of lost boys in need of Daddy’s love and in some cases, a firm hand. Naughty or nice, it’s all in Santa’s hands now. So why not dive in and read each standalone and enjoy the holidays alongside our boys? The character’s theme is Grumpy and Sunshine.

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INTO HELL: PRELUDE: HOLDING CELL: RETURN TO THE ISLAND (Cowboy Gangster/The Base Crossover Series)

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Hot, fierce gay vigilantes

Established couples

Black-hearted villains

Dangerous situations

Rogue detectives and FBI agents

Human trafficking

"They thought they were done with that place. But Hell took new victims and their cries could not be ignored."

Months have passed since the gangsters and the men from The Base ventured to the island of horrors to rescue their loved ones stolen from them.

Abandoned after the rescue, the island has been taken over by human sex traffickers and turned into a “holding cell” for trafficked victims awaiting auction. Agent Alvarez and his band of rogue agents follow a lead to the rock of horrors just off the coast of Costa Rica. The former nightmare of The Island has grown, and this time, a lone team may not be enough to take down the ringleaders and rescue the innocent trapped in the bowels of the horror show.

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Grab these great #SmallTown romances on sale the month of August. This deal ends 8/31/2025.

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Grab these great #SmallTown romances on sale the month of August. This deal ends 8/31/2025.

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Grab the Omega Island books on #Sale for $2.99 each until 8/31/2025

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Omega Island:

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Book 1 – Empty Heat

Book 2 – Broken Heat

Book 3 – High Heat

Book 4 – Senta’s Heat

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#Preorder book 2 at the #sale price of $3.99 while you can!

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Book 2, Emerald Waves – coming 9/19/2025

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From Authors Layla Dorine & TL Travis

Series Page: https://books2read.com/rl/Dragons

How does one achieve a firm but gentle hand with talons?

Well, step one involves keeping the claws in check.

And avoidance.

Both of which my big brother told me would fail.

I tried them anyway. Several times, several different ways.

No matter the method, Ionus was right—just don’t tell him I admitted to that.

Fate dropped sweet, timid Emerson into Caro’s err, wings? Arms? Clutches? Now it’s up to Caro what to do with him.

Emerald Waves is book 2 in the Primordial Protectors series. An omega with a haunting past, a protector with zero clue how to be a mate. How can they be what each other needs when they don’t even know what they need themselves?

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Christmas in July Sale!

 5 sweet and sassy littles

 6 stern, protective Daddies

 Cupcakes, cocoa, snowball fights and wrapping paper

 Found Family, Closeknit Family, Extended Families and Close Friends

 All the magic of the holiday season and so much more

• On sale for $2.99 A Little Christmas3: Zachy 

 Zachy doesn't’ mean to be naughty, and with Christmas coming up, he's’ doubling his efforts to be good, despite nagging feelings that it's’ much too late for his efforts. Will this overly excitable little finally find the Daddy of his dreams beneath the tree or will Santa skip Zachy's’ house again this year, and leave him with nothing to celebrate.

• A Little Christmas 3: Zachy is here: https://books2read.com/u/315ZgM
• Littles loose in a waterpark. Christmas shopping and decorations a k!nky carnival just for littles and pets Mini-golf, bowling, an epic seafood feast  Non-disclosure clauses    

• On sale for $2.99 A Daddy for Christmas 2: River

 Lux had been without a boy for years now. After moving fifteen hundred miles away from the site of his biggest failures, he hopes he's left his track record for failure behind him. River is a ray of sunshine from the tips of his curly pink hair to the soles of his pink Converse. He is an unapologetic blend of sassiness and snark and he's not about to tone it down for anyone, including the colorful new Daddy who has caught his eye. Lux might be an art teacher, but River has made an artform out of making sparks fly and with Christmas right around the corner, there's nothing he'd like more than to celebrate the season by rolling up a bit of Christmas Magic after a night of rolling in the sheets.

 A Daddy for Christmas: River can be found here! https://books2read.com/u/4Np6rY

 Christmas novel sunshine boy New Daddy in Town  Return to Foggy Basin holiday romance Artist and Art teacher Drawing together Tasty Treats Family Game Night

• On sale for $2.99 A Little Christmas: Ajay’s Secret  

 Walker Remington hates the holiday season. He didn't always feel that way, but tragedy has a way of changing things and making a man bitter. Carols, lights, the sight of people with their packages and bags all tip him over into Bah Humbug mode, that is, until Ajay comes along. With his piercings and wildly colored hair, he is everything Walker is not. Young, fun-loving, and on the hunt for a Daddy, something Walker has been before, and longs to be again, if only he'll stop sabotaging every chance he's offered.

• A Little Christmas: Ajay’s Secret can be found here: https://books2read.com/u/47wnMq

 One sale for $2.99 A Daddy for Christmas: Ryu 

 When a Secret Santa matchup sends Ryu to the wrong Daddy, will it be a pleasant surprise for both of them or will grumpy Kissmass Daddy Hank prove why he's been alone for over a year? The moment Hank lay eyes on the basket outside his door he figured someone down at the club was playing a joke on him. The boy was adorable but certainly not meant for him. Learning who Ryu was meant for changed everything though, and suddenly the man who wasn’t interested in the package on his doorstep was loudly declaring Ryu his.  

 A Daddy for Christmas: Ryu can be found here: https://books2read.com/u/m22WL7

 Twisted Chassis Holiday Short Story $.99 

 Pillow forts. Fairy lights. The magic of the season is alive in this return to Foggy Basin and the lives of Haven and Maddox. From risking their 'tastybuds' on jellybeans that may, or may not be the flavor they look like, to destination planning their next big adventure, they pass their time with snark and steamy innuendos; while celebrating the season with their rescue pets, Loki-Bear and The Notorious S.O.X. Laughter, snow, and berry blue implements of pleasure round out this return to Twisted Chassis. 

 Twisted Chassis Holiday Short Story can be found here: https://books2read.com/u/4E2QLe