Audiobook Review: The Misfit Mage and Devilish Desires by M.N. Bennet Story Rating: 4 stars Audio Rating: 4.5 stars Narrator: Simon Dornet Length: 11 hours and 2 minutes Audiobook Buy Links: Amazon/Audible | iBooks Book Buy Links:  Amazon | iBooks Walter and Bez are happily settled in the diabolic…

Review: Divide By Two by Sandra Bard Rating: 4 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Commander Izaak Van Tassel is a commander no more. He has retired from the First Fighters to follow his lover, Vincent Hawthorne, to investigate the mysterious Divide planet, Cowrie. Along for…

Holiday Book Roundup! Hi all! As we approach the end of the year, I always find myself knee deep in holiday stories, and I'm sure that is the case for many of you. Even when reading about holidays I don't celebrate myself, there is something about the the idea of celebrations that work so well for…

Excerpt: The New Worlds by Jaye C. Watts Today I am so pleased to welcome Jaye C. Watts to Joyfully Jay. Jaye has come to talk to us about his latest release, The New Worlds. Please join me in giving him a big welcome! Exclusive Excerpt I sat on the floor of Butler Library’s history section,…

Review: A Thousand Kisses by K.L. Noone Rating: 4 stars Buy Links:  Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novella Cameron, Blake, and Ashley have settled into their lives together in London. Cameron's medical practice is thriving, people continue to be engrossed in Blake's tales of adventure, and…

Review: Christmas on Cosmic Avenue by Garrett Leigh Rating: 4.25 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Sab Dubois is a recovering drug addict who’s been clean for several years now. He’s a single dad raising his young daughter, Esme, with his former partner in jail for drug…

Review: Colliding Hearts by Jax Calder Rating: 4 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel When Felix’s car plunged off the highway, he was trapped for hours in the dark. Off-duty paramedic Jared was the first on the scene and his warm voice and steady presence kept Felix calm…

Audiobook Review: Just is Not Enough by Haleigh Falcon Story Rating: 3 stars Audio Rating: 3 stars Narrator: Liam DiCosimo Length: 6 hours, 45 minutes Audiobook Buy Links: Amazon/Audible | iBooks Book Buy Links: Amazon | iBooks Kaden certainly hasn’t found "the one" yet. His last relationship was…

Review: Knights of Magic by Jerry Moreno Rating: 3 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Raised by his grandmother in a quiet provincial town, Elian wished only to study magic so that he could best serve his community and his kingdom. After his tutor teaches him all he knows,…

Audiobook Review: Knight Blade Boys by Renee Kiser Story Rating: 3.5 stars Audio Rating: 3.75 stars Narrators: Alexander Cendese and Patrick Brawn Length: 14 hours, 33 minutes Audiobook Buy Links: Amazon/Audible | iBooks Book Buy Links: Amazon | iBooks When he was 13, Noel made a friend. This was…

Cover Reveal and Giveaway: Love on the Podium Multi-Author Series Today I am so pleased to welcome the authors from the Love on the Podium collection who are here to exclusively reveal the covers! The authors have also brought along a great giveaway. Please join me in giving them a big welcome!…

Review: I’ll Tell You What You Are by Cara Dee Rating: 3.75 stars Buy Links:  Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novella Reid and his best friend, Max, are closing the kink club they have owned together for many years. Max knows it is for the best, as things have been going downhill with the club…

Review: Madness of the Elder Vampire by Darby Vernon Rating: 3 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Adrian doesn’t like to be told what to do, especially by the new Regent he and his lover, Garrick, are currently serving. Adrian doesn’t want to be sent on missions, he doesn’t…

Review: Barons of Oartheca by James Siewert Rating: 4.5 stars Buy Links:  Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Having successfully rescued his captured crew after a violent a Pryok’tel attack, Rowland Hale is reeling to find himself back under the thumb of the Coalition of Allied Planetary Systems…

Review: The Gambler’s Prize by Lana Bright Rating: 2 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Grimes spent two years in prison and, now that he has been released, he is going to get his revenge on Lord Florian Southland, the man responsible for sending him there. Grimes knows that…

Review: Survival and Other Scars by T.J. Nichols Rating: 3.5 stars Buy Links:  Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Everyone is continuing to struggle in the aftermath of the collapse of the mythological Tarikian world into the human one. There are destroyed buildings, shortages of food and…

Review: Canceled for Christmas by Oliver Takely Rating: 4 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Ryder Quinn is a playboy who makes his living as a fitness influencer. He has a huge following, no trouble getting a date, and a group of friends he adores. But Ryder's friends are…

Review: The Lucky Ones by Felice Stevens Rating: 4 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Bailey Marks is a successful lawyer with his own independent practice in New York City. He has a few good friends with whom he attended law school, but while Bailey is pretty jealous about…

Excerpt: The Talking Cure by Kathy L. Brown Today I am so pleased to welcome Kathy L. Brown to Joyfully Jay. Kathy has come to talk to us about her latest release, The Talking Cure. Please join me in giving her a big welcome! Exclusive Excerpt In the 1920s supernatural noir novel, The Talking…

Coming This Week Hi all! I hope you had a great week! After a series of busy weekends, this weekend I am enjoying being lazy! I took a nice cold weather walk yesterday, but have mostly been just hunkering down and reading and relaxing. We are also making much use of our gas fireplace, which my cat…

Review: Better Off Dead by Alexander C. Eberhart Rating: 4.25 stars Buy Links:  Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Better Off Dead is the second book in Alexander C. Eberhart's excellent Second Awakening series. This story continues directly following the events of Dead Wrong and so the…

Review: The Roommate Game by Lane Hayes Rating: 4.5 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Gus is the captain of the hockey team and a consummate partier. His role, as he sees it, is to make everyone happy and keep their spirits up. And when he’s doing that, he can forget all…

Review: Love at Frost Sight by Charlie Novak Rating: 4.25 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Toby Darling is bored. Less than four years since his boyband, Underground Dreaming, broke up, he’s living a comfortable life pursuing projects he likes and keeping in touch with his…

Review: Powder by R.J. Scott and V.L. Locey Rating: 4 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel With a painful divorce and a rough season on the ice behind him, Jack O’Leary, Captain of the Harrisburg Railers, knows he need to get his head back in the game. The team needs him…

November Favorite Books Hi all! Our year is winding down and today we are sharing our favorite books from the month of November. These are the books our team rated most highly this month. Be sure to check out any you missed. And we'd love to hear your favorites as well! Jay's Favorite Books The…

November Favorite Covers Hi all! I hope you had a great month! Today, we are sharing my favorite covers from the month of November. We'd love to hear your favorites as well!

Review: Sugar Rush by L.A. Lambert Rating: 3.5 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Jordy Nolan has just finished high school and, as he waits to begin college, he has one big goal for his summer: to make Kieran James fall in love with him. Because Jordy is an omega and Kieran…

Excerpt: The Roommate Game by Lane Hayes Today I am so pleased to welcome Lane Hayes to Joyfully Jay. Lane has come to talk to us about her latest release, The Roommate Game. Please join me in giving her a big welcome! Exclusive Excerpt “Oh. You’re still here.” Rafe paused in the doorway, cradling…

Review: Christmas Mafia Prince by K.A. Merikan Rating: 3.5 stars Buy Links:  Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Killian has always had bad taste in men, and he has dated a succession of guys who cheat, lie, and otherwise hurt him. Killian has broken things off with his latest guy, but his…

Audiobook Review: The Outcast by E.M. Denning Story Rating: 4 stars Audio Rating: 4 stars Narrator: Kirt Graves Length: 7 hours, 36 minutes Audiobook Buy Links: Amazon/Audible | iBooks Book Buy Links: Amazon | iBooks Ethan Bennett is a widower in his late forties. He’s raised his three sons on his…

Review: Boyfriend without Benefits by Riley Hart Rating: 4 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Anthony’s life blew up when he found out in a viral moment that his now ex-boyfriend was cheating on him. Ever since, Anthony has been labeled as part of the Jilted Exes’ Club. The…

Excerpt: Ruthless Titan by E.V. Olsen Today I am so pleased to welcome E.V. Olsen to Joyfully Jay. E.V. has come to talk to us about their latest release, Ruthless Titan. Please join me in giving a big welcome! Exclusive Excerpt My teammate stares out of the window as he stretches his arms and…

Review: Festive Fugitive by K.A. Merikan Rating: 4 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Eli is a homeless man in his twenties who’s reached his breaking point. A gangster named Sullivan co-opted his family’s tree farm as a burying ground for his enemies. Sullivan eventually…

Review: MistleFoe by Cambria Hebert Rating: 3.5 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Toby hasn’t spent the holidays with his family in Vermont in years. He does visit, but the traditions of the holidays bring back the worst moment of Toby’s life and he has no interest in…

Excerpt: Down the River by J. Scot Coatsworth Today I am so pleased to welcome J. Scott Coatsworth to Joyfully Jay. He has come to talk to us about his latest release, Down the River. Please join me in giving a big welcome! Exclusive Excerpt Chapter Two Pane e Tulipani Carmelina di Rosa stirred…

Thank You to Our November Advertisers! Thank you so much to the fabulous folks who advertised with Joyfully Jay in November. Their support helps keeps things running here, so please show them lots of love. We still have advertising spots at various tiers for all months of 2026, as well as volume…

Review: After Hours at Dooryard Books by Cat Sebastian Rating: 4.5 stars Buy Links:  Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel 1968 New York City Patrick isn't surprised when Mrs. Kaplan shows up at Dooryard Books with another of her "strays." After all, ten years ago Patrick was one of those…

Review: My Princeling Brat by Laura Lascarso Rating: 4.25 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Cedrych is the prince of the fae, and quite a troublemaker. He’s always getting into fights and making a spectacle of himself. As punishment, and in hopes of changing him, his…

Excerpt: Baby, It’s Cod Outside by Kat Cassidy Today I am so pleased to welcome Kat Cassidy to Joyfully Jay. Kat has come to talk to us about her latest release, Baby, It's Cod Outside. Please join me in giving her a big welcome! Exclusive Excerpt As they make their way down the hall, Jackson…

Coming This Week Hi all! I hope you had a great week and a good Thanksgiving holiday to all those celebrating! I had a nice holiday and got to spend some quality time with my girls. Things were pretty low key, but we had brunch and watched the national dog show, which has strangely become a…

Review: Facade by Sam Burns Rating: 4.25 stars Buy Links:  Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Flynn Knight is enjoying his new business and his new friendship with his partner, Davin Byrne. Flynn is also making friends with the twins who are renting the other half of his building to house…

Review: Everything After by Opal Andrews Rating: 4 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Jamison and Henry meet at a bar and can't help but act on their fantastic chemistry. But they get lost in the heat of the moment and forget the prophylactics. The morning after, the men…

Review: The Pushy Pixies are Going Down (Hopefully) by Michele Notaro Rating: 4.5 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Miles and Winter, who are newly dating, are being brought into another case! Or at least, Miles is invited to help his ex partner, Detective Higgins, with a…

Guest Post: Love Is Magic: An MM Holiday Gift Anthology with Eliot Grayson Today I am so pleased to welcome Eliot Grayson to Joyfully Jay. Eliot has come to talk to us about Love Is Magic: An MM Holiday Gift Anthology. Please join me in giving her a big welcome! Hello, lovely Joyfully Jay readers!…

Review: The Last Inch of Ice by Sasha Lewis Rating: 4 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Nazar Rykov hates Kaisyn Callahan. It’s been six years since Kai took one of the top 5 spots in the draft, altering Nazar’s career, and everyone thinks they know that it’s because of who…

Review: Boolgarrin by Jude Rule Rating: 2.5 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel When Ben’s ill-tempered, bigoted father died, he didn’t expect to inherit anything. Ben's older brother, Nate, is clearly the best caretaker for their family farm. However, not only does the will…

Excerpt: Finding Harbor by Duncan Gaye Today I am so pleased to welcome Duncan Gaye to Joyfully Jay. Duncan has come to talk to us about his latest release, Finding Harbor. Please join me in giving him a big welcome! Excerpt Farrow’s crew had gone quiet, their earlier bravado replaced by focused…

Review: Fight or Flight by Willow Dixon Rating: 3.5 stars Buy Links:  Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel For their three years at Silvercrest University, Jace has driven Shane crazy. Jace is smug and arrogant and seems to go out of his way to annoy Shane -- and it works. What's even more…

Audiobook Review: Always Murder by Gregory Ashe Story Rating: 4 stars Audio Rating: 4.5 stars Narrator: Andrew Gibson Length: 6 hours, 46 minutes Audiobook Buy Links: Amazon/Audible | iBooks Book Buy Links: Amazon | iBooks Dash is realizing that when people in town see him, they think there is a…

Review: The Sword Unbroken by Sorcha Sam Rating: 5 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Battleboxing comes in many forms, but all across Inofar, the bloodsport is seen as lucrative and as prime entertainment. Imalroc had long been a crowd favorite for his ruthlessness in the…