Hi everyone! I’m looking for contemporary MM romances featuring trans men, whether one or both MCs are trans. I’d love recommendations with characters at any stage of their transition, before or after any kind of surgery (top surgery, bottom surgery, etc.), as well as characters who haven’t had or don’t want surgery.

I’m open to different contemporary romance tropes, and I’d love both books where being trans is a central part of the story and books where it’s simply one aspect of the character’s life.

I’m not into fantasy or omegaverse, and I’d prefer to avoid large age gaps between the MCs.
Bonus points for sweet, affectionate romances with lots of reassurance, praise, and a supportive relationship!

Please share any recommendations you have, and if possible, let me know the tropes your rec includes!!🩵🤍🩷

Smut is okay as long as it doesn’t take too much space.

I would prefer the characters to be young adults (between 18-30 years old).

Thank you :)

I see that this book is a spinoff from the North Shore Titans series - would reading those add important context or does this work totally separate?

{Monstrous Serpent by EV Olsen}

Hi!

I'm looking for books that have similar dynamic to {Season's Change by Cait Nary}.

By that I mean that the two MC are friends (one of them may or may not be gay) and they're very cuddly and sweet to each other without it necessarily being "gay" (although one would argue that it is quite gay and I'm all for it) or them being together. The one MC is still straight and doesn't question this need and how it's not "normal" in our society.

A more specific example from this book:

Benji (the straight MC) cuddles and sleeps (real sleep, not sex) with his friend (gay MC) when they're in hotels during their games. Or later when they're in Mexico on holiday with their friends and nobody questions them being so sweet with each other (e.g. Benji grabs Olly and makes him sit on beside him or even on his lap). Although at that point they do have sex.

This specific book is about hockey, but I don't really care whether it's about sports or not. Only that specific dynamic. I'm not into mafia/police and similar genres, although that may be of interest to other people who look for the same dynamic, so feel free to recommend those as well. :)

P.S.: I searched for this book in this subreddit, but those recommended books weren't really what I was looking for... hence this post.

Update: Thanks, guys, for so many great recommendations! I think my "Want to read" list is filled for the entire 2027 😄

Hi everyone! I’m looking for MM romances where the relationship is absolutely, completely forbidden. I don’t care what makes it forbidden, as long as the stakes are high and the romance feels intense.

It could be rival families, sexuality, forbidden circumstances, taboo relationships like stepbrothers or incest, or anything else that makes their relationship something they’re absolutely not supposed to have.

Give me the kind of romance where being together feels impossible, the stakes are high, and they want each other desperately anyway.

BUT THERE’S ONE NON-NEGOTIABLE REQUIREMENT: A HAPPY ENDING (HEA)!

I want all the forbidden, messy, intense drama, but I refuse to suffer through an entire book just to get a tragic ending.

I usually see this type of scene in straight romances where the guy makes the girl get naked and parades her around fully nude, so I'm accepting any recomendation that is MLM

Any type of scene where he makes the guy take off all his clothes and walk around, It can be a empty public space with the risk of being seen or with actual people, he is embarrassed but also kinda turned on, he can steal his clothes, win a bet that makes him get naked, pranks him, orders him to do that while he is reluctant etc...

I always cross reference reviews on Audible (or Kobo) against Goodreads.

{Frost & Fire by Ana Ashley} came up in audible plus. The reviews on Goodreads was 4.12 with 55 opinions and on Amazon.ca it shows 4.4 with 394 reviews.

On audible it has 2 reviews. It's a Christmas story not Shakespeare so the one review was hmmm with a 2 for story and a 4.for narration but okay...but the other review was a 1 and 1....and the narrator was Alexander Cendese. I think it was someone who didn't know they were reading an mm or something else is going on because that does not compute for me. So I am listening to it just to leave an honest review because this feels vindictive to me. It's not the first time I have seen out of wack reviews that don't make sense to me. Anyone else notice this?

I know the author’s note says the sexual assault doesn’t happen between the MCs, but does one of them get sexually assaulted by someone else, or does it happen to a side character? And if it happens to one of the MCs, is it in the past or present?

{Embriagado by Tal Lewin}

I’m looking for a contemporary MM romance, possibly college/NA, that may be part of an interconnected series or a spin-off.

At this point i feel like it’s something I’ve made up in my mind 😅

MC1 has a falling-out with his best friend and the friend’s boyfriend in an earlier book. In his own book, he shows up unexpectedly at MC2’s doorstep, upset and needing somewhere to go. MC2 is someone he knows peripherally, possibly a friend-of-a-friend. Both MMC are introduced in earlier book.

They start a casual, sex-focused relationship, with MC1 gradually catching feelings and becoming more emotionally attached, while MC2 is initially more detached and wants to keep things casual.

I remember the vibe being similar to Lover Boy by Brianna Flores, especially the messy friendship drama and emotional fallout.

I may be mixing up some details, so the doorstep scene and the connection to an earlier book are the clues I’m most confident about.

I remember it having some d/s-kink flair but not a downright BDSM book.

It could be a standalone by an author who writes interconnected series, like Eden Finley and Saxon James, or a spin-off where a side character from another book becomes an MC.
Does this ring a bell?

It’s not:

Lover boy by Brianna Flores

Virgin flyer by Lucy Lennox

Project hero by Briar Prescott

Whiskey sour by Addison beck

So I've read {the lookout ghost by A. Nightly} and {Motel. Pool. by kim Fielding} and the thing they have in common is that at the end the ghost partner becomes human/alive again I love them both but I think that's what didn't get me because the authors didn't explain how it worked. I love their journey together but endings like these left me feeling unsatisfied. Don't get me wrong I love HEA and I'm actually trying to avoid books with sad endings.

But what I want to happen at the end of the book is that it's the human who dies and joins the ghost and they either continue on earth as ghosts and go on adventures or move on together. That's what I call a HEA for me in ghost romance.

Maybe you guys know books like this? The human could be sick and it's only revealed at the end or for some angst the human dies a horrific death.

I want to cry from happiness 🙏🏻❤️‍🔥

(I'd prefer it if the ghost is a lonely ghost who just followed the human or the human stays in a place where the lonely ghost stays, but anything is fine.)

New Releases & Sales - Thursday 15 Oct

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MM Romance

Kindle Unlimited

• Jalon (Van Doren Series Book 5) by Crea Reitan - 419 pages - Amazon - (head of the family, part of a series, age gap, hookup to lovers, cheating not between MCs)
• Siren Song (Clash of Creatures) by Taylor E. Weston - 246 pages - [Amazon](ttps://a.co/d/01cBCRzM) - (shifting siren x swimming coach, fated mates, hard earned HEA, trans rep)
• The Backup Husband by Noah Wylder - 131 pages - Amazon - (best friends to lovers, Thanksgiving romance, mutual pining, found family, forced proximity, only one bed)
• You See It Too (Extremities Book 3) by AJ Malachite - 155 pages - Amazon - (MMM, horror, second person POV, university in Texas, creepy swamp)
• The Feeder Legacy (The Vampire Dominion Book 1) by Louisa Masters - 251 pages - Amazon - (vampire x human selling his blood, clueless human, legacy of vampire feeders, supernatural )
• Shake Your Boo Thang (ExorSquad) by Chloe Archer - 286 pages - Amazon - (grump x sunshine, detective turned ghost hunter, supernatural romcom, disco loving ghosts, grumpy Scotsman and cheerful American)
• Eternal Devotion by Nicky James - 394 pages - Amazon - (cranky vampire x gamer nerd human, gothic romance, impossible rescue mission, high stakes, HEA)
• Hail Mary (Crystal Falls Football Book 2) by Kaleigh Whitford - 284 pages - Amazon - (former friends and teammates, second chance romance, football, first love and first heartbreak)

Kobo Plus

No new releases.

Other

• Myro (related to Van Doren) by Crea Reitan - 206 pages - Amazon - (set at the Van Doren Estate, mystery, unclear if it is MM or FM or what)

Other Queer Romance

Kindle Unlimited

• The Gift (Supernatural Secrets Book 1) by Annalise Clark - 196 pages - Amazon - (FMM, paranormal romance, themes of grief, ghost boyfriend and living boyfriend and seer FMC)

Kobo Plus

No new releases.

Audiobooks

MM Romance

• The Charioteer by Mary Renault, narrated by Joe Jameson - Audible - (injured corporal, historical, coming of age) - 14 hrs 47 min
• The Restoration by P.S. Kirby, narrated by Taylor Nguyen - Audible - (restorer x bartender, themes of grief, guardedness) - 7 hrs 23 min
• Keystrokes and Kittens (Foggy Basin Season #3) by Gabbi Grey, narrated by Taylor Mahpiya - Audible - (opposites attract, interracial romance, litter of kittens) - 4 hrs 45 min
• Yes, No, or Maybe? (Light Novel #3) by Michi Ichiho, narrated by Derek Prince - Audible - (newscaster x animator, established relationship, light novel) - 5 hrs 3 min
• When It Rains, It Pours by Michi Ichiho, narrated by Derek Prince - Audible - (anonymous online exchange, slow build relationship, light novel, my computer wouldn't let me copy the right link I'm sorry) - 8 hrs 5 min

Queer

• Bearly Together (The Midwest Weres #2) by Ryann Fletcher, narrated by Penni Stoker - Audible - (FF, sapphic shifter story) - 4 hrs 32 min

Kind of a specific request, but I just love the beginning of books, and after reading pit stop, I desperately need a longer book with the same kind of vibes. Doesn't have to be omegaverse, just something that starts off with a meetup thats anonymous but turns out to be their enemy? Don't know if I described it well lol. Would prefer no shifter books unless they really fit the description