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Candy Hearts
Volume 2
2025
First Published
4.45
Average Rating
154
Number of Pages

What's sweeter than a low angst queer romance at Valentine's Day? How about twenty-three of them in one anthology to help support a good cause? Each novella in the Candy Hearts Anthology, volume 2, is overflowing with red-hot romance and all the good feels. This volume is all about wrong numbers—wrong phone numbers, addresses, office numbers, seats, and more. If you enjoy serendipity, then you’ll love this collection. The Candy Hearts Anthology will be available for a limited time, and all proceeds will benefit the Rainbow Railroad. The participating authors in this volume: Anna Sparrows - Silver (Fox) Linings B.A. Tortuga - Drunk Dialing Becca Seymour - Falling for 42 Beck Grey - Wrong Place, Right Time Bix Barrow - Last Mango in Palm Springs B.L. Maxwell - Sixteen or Ninety-One C.D. Rachels - My Eel-ectric Valentine D.K. Sutton - A Crush on Coach David Gray - He's Perfection E.M. Denning - Wrong Number, Right Heart Hinsel Meyer - Fluttering Heart Jem Wendel - Blooming for You Lee Blair - It Must Be Fate London Price - Only Want to Be with You Marie Sinclair - Two Wrongs Make Mister Right Merry Farmer - Sugared Minerva Howe - Calling from the Heart Riley Long - Misdialed but Meant to Be Rye Cox - All I Want Is You Stella Rainbow - My Demon Keeper Susan Scott Shelley & Chantal Mer - Smitten Victoria Gillian - Five Little Numbers Zoe Lee - The Wrong Henry

Avg Rating
4.45
Number of Ratings
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Authors

Minerva Howe
Author · 66 books
Minerva Howe is the kinky alter ego of author Julia Talbot. Julia lives in the great Southwest, where there is hot and cold running rodeo, cowboys, and everything from meat and potatoes to the best Tex-Mex. A full time author, Julia has been published by Samhain as well as other publishing houses. She believes that everyone deserves a happy ending, so she writes about love without limits, where boys love boys, girls love girls, and boys and girls get together to get wild, especially when her crazy paranormal characters are involved.
Stella Rainbow
Stella Rainbow
Author · 46 books

Stella Rainbow is the pen name of a twenty something woman from India. Her heart is too full of rainbow colored stories to be limited by the lack of awareness in her home country. Stella spends her days cuddling up with her cat, typing out new stories, daydreaming and reading all the books she can get her hands on. She loves talking to her readers and other book lovers, so don't hesitate in contacting her on any of her socials or emailing her at authorstellarainbow@gmail.com

D.K. Sutton
D.K. Sutton
Author · 29 books

D.K. SUTTON has a background in social work. In her off time from writing, she enjoys crocheting and spending time with her family. As an introvert, she has always been a little awkward (and a lot geeky). Turns out, those are handy traits for a writer. Her Broken series is M/M fiction, full of love and angst, and it challenges the rhetoric around being gay and religious. Her Trials of Love series and Sloan Brothers series are both M/M romance. She doesn't believe in hate and believes that people have a good side within them. She enjoys writing about slightly flawed characters in compromising situations. She has a passion for writing LGBTQ+ stories, because the world needs more love and inclusion. Connect with DK Sutton on Social Media Facebook @dksuttonwrites Facebook group facebook.com/groups/dkcafe/ Twitter @debraelq

Beck Grey
Beck Grey
Author · 10 books

Beck is a non-binary writer of sweet, sexy, LGBTQ happily ever afters. Why? Because everyone deserves all the happy! They live in the Northeastern United States with their two adorable dogs. Weekdays are spent working their day job, but nights and weekends are devoted to writing stories involving hot characters, favorite tropes, and happy endings. Any additional time includes reading, laughing with friends, drinking red wine, and playing D&D. If there’s cake involved at any point it’s a win!

Merry Farmer
Merry Farmer
Author · 221 books
USA Today Bestselling author Merry Farmer lives in suburban Philadelphia with her two cats, Justine and Peter. She has been writing since she was ten years old and realized she didn't have to wait for the teacher to assign a creative writing project to write something. It was the best day of her life. Her books have reached the top of Amazon's charts, and have been named finalists for several prestigious awards, including the RONE Award for indie romance.
Riley Long
Riley Long
Author · 23 books
Riley lives in central Virginia with her husband, son, and very silly dogs.
C.D. Rachels
C.D. Rachels
Author · 16 books

CD Rachels has been coming up with stories since he was little. At first it was all about superheroes and pocket monsters, but his genre of choice has expanded since puberty. He’s been consuming young adult gay fiction since he was a teen, but within the past five years moved up to the big leagues of gay adult romance. In 2020 during quarantine, he burned through more male/male romance books than he ever had in the previous 29 years combined. He lives in New York City with the love of his life and works in health insurance. When he’s not reading and writing, he’s playing board games and practicing music. He is honored to become a self-published author, and if you’re reading this, your support means so much to him that it’s giving him a tingly feeling (in a good way).

Zoe Lee
Zoe Lee
Author · 12 books
Zoe writes contemporary romances and believed everyone will get extraordinary love stories since before she ever fell in love. She lives with her family near the mountains in Colorado, where she writes while listening to music, never drinks coffee, reads books in one sitting, and watches too many movies and tv shows. She’s been writing since she was a kid, but luckily she knows how grown-ups work now. Mostly.
Becca Seymour
Becca Seymour
Author · 42 books

Becca Seymour is the #1 gay romance best seller of the True-Blue series. Known for "steamy and endearing" and "emotionally profound love stories" (InD'tale Magazine) her books have been nominated for multiple RONE Awards. Becca lives and breathes all things book related. Usually with at least three books being read and two WiPs being written at the same time, Becca's life is merrily hectic. She tends to do nothing by halves so happily seeks the craziness and busyness life offers. Living on her small property in Queensland with her human family as well as her animal family of cows, sheep, chooks, and dogs, Becca appreciates the beauty of the world around her and is a believer that love truly is love. TRUE-BLUE Let Me Show You (Carter & Tanner) It's Not You (Davis & Scott) Becoming Us (Davis & Scott) Thinking It Over (Jasper & Austin) Always For You (Ted & Jason) It's Not You (Lawrence & Billy) Our First And Last (Ian & Frankie) Next For Us (Carter & Tanner) OUTBACK BOYS Wobble (Perma-free) Stumble (Mark & Trey) Bounce (Riley & Aiden) ZONE DEFENSE No Take Backs No More Secrets No Wrong Moves FAST BREAK Rules, Schmules! Facts, Smacts! Regular, Smegular! FANGS & FELONS Thicker Than Water Weaker Than Instinct STAND-ALONES Realigned (perma-free) Amalgamated Not Used To Cute High Alert Under the Blazing Stars REVIEWS: "WOW! Simply, Wow! A funny, steamy and endearing story that should be put into your family of books. Something that you can read over and over again when you need a pick me up." The Book Fairy Reviews "An intense connection that smolders" - JayReads "This book was a slow burn and I loved it." - Steamy Book Momma "Characters to pull for, a romance to give you feels, and enough steam to keep you turning pages..." - Romantic Reads and Such "Emotionally profound love story with many laugh aloud moments." - InD'tale Magazine "Becca had me cracking up laughing and smiling ear to ear." - HeidiLynns BookReviews Newsletter: https://landing.mailerlite.com/webfor...

David Gray
David Gray
Author · 6 books
David Gray is a retired scientist who finally has time to explore the adventure of writing fiction. His novels and short stories live somewhere in the intersection between romance, fantasy, and science fiction, with cozy themes and happy endings. He lives with his husband in sunny San Diego, where they dote on their jungle kitty Bagheera.
Bix Barrow
Bix Barrow
Author · 14 books
When Bix Barrow got an idea for her first book, it ended up turning into her second—and thus the first two stories in the Bent Oak, Texas series emerged. An aspiring author for most of her life, it took a foray into the MM romance genre to spark the steamy scenes and blazing banter Bix now weaves into her novels. Accompanying her on her writing exploits are her two dogs and multitude of cats (six at last count). An avid traveler, Bix has started to view her expeditions as interviews for her future home. Born and raised in Texas, she is eager to move somewhere with fewer politicians, hurricanes and flooding.
Susan Scott Shelley
Susan Scott Shelley
Author · 34 books

USA Today bestselling author Susan Scott Shelley writes stories with heat and heart, where love always wins. Her romances give readers lighthearted and emotionally satisfying escapes into happily ever after. In addition to crafting stories, she is also a professional voiceover artist and enjoys lending her voice to a wide range of projects. She lives in Philadelphia with her husband and is an avid fan of her hometown sports teams. Her favorite things include running (honestly, it's more like jogging), sports (especially hockey), hard rock (but will listen to anything from heavy metal to show tunes), and writing about people from all walks of life finding their special someone. Learn more at http://www.susanscottshelley.com

Rye Cox
Rye Cox
Author · 21 books

Be sure to follow to stay updated on latest release: https://www.bookbub.com/profile/rye-cox Rye is an M/M Romance author who is a romantic at heart. She believes that love conquers all, and that's why her stories are guaranteed to always have an HEA. When she's not writing, she escapes to the world of books or daydreams about becoming a future cat lady.

B.A. Tortuga
B.A. Tortuga
Author · 207 books

Texan to the bone and an unrepentant Daddy's Girl, BA Tortuga spends her days with her hounds and her beloved wife, texting her grandbabies, and eating Mexican food. When she's not doing that, she's writing. She spends her days off watching rodeo, knitting, and surfing Pinterest in the name of research. Following their own personal joys, BA and Julia heard the call of the high desert and they now live in the New Mexico mountains. BA's personal saviors include her wife, her best friends, and coffee. Lots of coffee. Really good coffee. Having written everything from fist-fighting rednecks to cowboy daddies to werewolves, BA does her damnedest to tell the stories of her heart, which is committed to giving everyone their happily ever after. With books ranging from hard-hitting BDSM, to fiery passions, to the most traditional of love stories, BA refuses to be pigeon-holed by anyone but the voices in her head.

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