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Weekly Spotlight

Weekly Spotlight

October 3, 2025

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Minor league hockey player Brandon Gatlin knows he has the on-ice skills to make it to the big league. The battle for NHL recognition is fierce, but balancing delicate hockey friendships, his family, and the online college class he’s taking might be harder than snagging a permanent roster spot.

Gabe Langley is working three jobs and desperately trying to graduate with his studio art degree this year. After joking with his roommates about finding a rich guy to foot his tuition bill, he meets shy Brandon in their creative writing class. Their friendship sparks as Brandon finds Gabe’s risqué drawings. Slowly, Gabe becomes Brandon’s safe space as Brandon becomes Gabe’s muse.

The more important their friendship becomes to both of them, the more their mutual attraction threatens to disrupt it. Gabe is conscious of the weight of Brandon’s trust. Brandon doesn’t want to take advantage of the man whose bills he’s been paying. It will take something big to make them both realize what they need to do.

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Jacked

by K.M. Neuhold

I'm starting to think hooking up with my gym bro roommate might be kind of gay…

The thing about guys is that we communicate on a physical, primal level. A hearty slap on the backside just means “good game, bro”.
Some good old fashioned roughhousing just means we’re comfortable with each other. Some late night stress relief? Just dudes being dudes…

Right?

We’re just friends. Just roommates. Just a couple of guys doing what guys do. So what if I can’t stop thinking about kissing him?

Is there a way I can “no homo” my way out of this? If I'm really honest with myself, I don't think I even want to. So… maybe YES, homo?

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Overtime Goal

by Ryan Taylor & Joshua Harwood

It began with a hookup. It ended with everything on the line.

Riley
As a single guy in professional hockey, my life has been about what you’d expect: hockey and girls, emphasis on the girls. And Logan, of course. He’s my best friend, my teammate, and the person who knows me better than anyone.

When a night on the road ends with us in bed, I don’t know how to explain it. I told myself it was a one-time thing, but it happened again. And again. Now I want more.

If I admit I’m falling for Logan, what does that mean? Everything changes: my identity, my public image, my entire life. But pretending it’s nothing gets harder with every kiss, every touch.

Logan
Riley’s younger and straight. Off-limits. At least that’s what I told myself when the feelings crept in.

Now we’re sleeping together, and I want this more than I should. Not just his body, but his heart, his trust, and his future.

But Riley’s confused, and I don’t want to push him. If he chooses me, it has to be real. If not, I’ll lose the man I love, my best friend, and maybe the only chance I’ll have at forever.

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His Heart Knows

by Riley Long

A rubber duck-collecting book nerd finally gets kissed by his maybe not-so-straight best friend. How can they turn the page on the past and write the HEA they both deserve?

Axel
I’m the saddest gay stereotype. I’ve been in love with my straight best friend for fifteen years. He, of course, is oblivious, and perfectly happy sleeping his way through half the women in town night after night.

Me, I’m not built for hookups. And when other men ask me on dates, I turn them down. They just don’t measure up to Sawyer. He’s the only one who supports my dream of being a bookstore owner, and he’s the only one who doesn’t make fun of my rubber duck collection. He even defends me to his overbearing mom.

But we’re thirty now. I need to let go of my romantic feelings for him and find someone who can love me the way I deserve.

Unfortunately, when you’ve let one person consume your unrequited feelings for so long, you don’t get much real-world practice with other men. Like kissing. And... other stuff.

Cue me drowning my sorrows with a bottle of gin and going off on an epic self-pitying rant. Who do I rant to? My best friend Sawyer, of course.

And then, who decides to prove I’m not as bad a kisser as I think I am? My best friend Sawyer, of course.

Wait a second.

I’ve dreamed my entire adult life about having Sawyer’s lips on mine, but I never expected it to actually happen. And… Why is he acting like he’s actually enjoying this kiss?

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Strawberry Moon

by Lily Morton

Clem has been in love with Harry since he walked into Harry’s bookshop and saw his Heathcliff curls and poet’s face.
 
That love has only grown stronger over the years of working for him, but unfortunately, Harry has never noticed. He considers Clem to be far too young for him and seems set on dating a never-ending line of unsuitable men.
 
Then Clem’s fortune changes. Harry needs a fake boyfriend to attend a family wedding, and Clem immediately steps up for the job. He has one weekend to change Harry’s mind and make him see that Clem could be the real thing for him.

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The Tex Hey

by Raquel Riley

The whole world is burning around me, and the only man who can put out the fire has me friend-zoned.

Tex
Twink. Flirt. Pushover. Shallow.
That’s what they see—a pretty face, a carefree smile.

Behind the crop tops and glitter lies a battered soul.

And there’s only one man whose touch can heal me.

But first, he has to heal himself.

Mandy
Pain is my constant companion—etched into my skin, buried in my heart, haunting my every breath. I survived the fire, but the scars run deeper than flesh.

Yet nothing hurts more than loving a man who only thinks of me as a friend.

Tex swears he doesn’t see my scars, but if that’s true… Why won’t he let me love him?

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The Island

by Briar Prescott

My heart is in his hands, and he doesn’t even know it.

Adrian Elias Olsen crashed into my world like a wrecking ball—adventurous, carefree, and impossible to resist. He gave me a home, a family, and a place to belong.

Somewhere along the way, I gave him my heart... And now it’s too late to take it back.
I crave, and I yearn, and I ache, and I want.

Always.

All the time.

And he doesn’t have a clue.

I promised myself I’d get over him. The trip we take together is supposed to be the end—the last time he’s mine before I finally let him go.

But when paradise unexpectedly turns into purgatory, we’re forced to only rely on each other.

Suddenly, every glance lingers. Every touch burns. And the pull between us only grows stronger—dangerously so.

Because no matter how much I want him, I can’t have him.
In the real world, Adrian’s heart isn’t mine to keep.

In the real world, it already belongs to someone else.

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