IN 2025, I reached a momentous milestone with the release of my second Haunted Hearts Own-Voices Gay Paranormal Romance novel, I Will Always Find You. While the first series revolved around ghosts, this installment immerses readers in the spellbinding world of witchcraft in the collection we named Haunted Hearts: Season of the Witch. This multi-author […]
“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.” – Oscar Wilde A SIGNIFICANT milestone for me in 2024 was releasing my first Gay Paranormal Romance novel, The Night Belongs To Lovers, part of the ghost story-themed “Own-Voices” project: Haunted Hearts. This series features […]
“The hurt and sense of betrayal that Matteo had felt burrowed into his heart and refused to loosen its grip. As time passed, he grew to resent Ares more and more.” – Matthew Dante, The Chameleon I’VE been eagerly anticipating the full story of Matteo, proprietor of La Maison de Man, and Ares, the […]
AS I SAY by Matthew Dante is an incredibly gripping M/M Dark Romance Thriller that will hook you immediately. The novel’s tagline, “Sometimes the only person you can trust is the one person you despise the most,” is both chilling and thought-provoking, leaving you with an overwhelming sense of curiosity and intrigue. Not to mention […]
“And books, they offer one hope that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and falling into that universe, one is saved.” – Anne Rice AT THE beginning of 2023, I made a New Year’s Resolution to read more. Specifically, I wanted to choose reading over watching TV in my downtime. I’m […]
THE NOVELLA Love To Hate You by Matthew Dante is a heartfelt romance about a gay man living a fast-paced lifestyle in Los Angeles, who, when betrayed by his fiancé and so-called best friend, returns to his hometown of Chicago to try and pick up the pieces of his life and start again. I really enjoyed these […]
EVEN BEFORE reading these vacation-themed stories, I knew I wasn’t the target audience for this style of genre fiction. Despite enjoying M/M romance, I’ve never had much interest in “cruise culture.” The setting of this anthology is also not something I organically gravitate toward, having an aversion to deep water. I would probably be fine […]
Matthew Dante: “When I started writing, this was my opportunity to write the stories I would have loved to have read growing up.” I want to welcome Matthew Dante to the Blog. Matthew is the author of several novels, including two exceptional Queer Thriller Series: Fractured and Rough Edges. Fractured focuses on obsessive love, pathological behaviour, […]
PROTECTING HIS is the second installment in Matthew Dante‘s Rough Edges series. Once again, the author provides a sleek and sexy m/m thriller centred around the O’Brien Crime Family. This time, the fated lovers are Scott, a lithe, young, boisterous musical theatre performer, and Dominic, the hunky yet quiet Italian “money man” of the Irish […]
LAYING CLAIM is Book 1 of author Matthew Dante‘s gay/queer erotic crime thriller Rough Edges Series. This suspenseful opposites-attract love story is a credit to the author’s arsenal of seductive M/M nail-biters. Seth Richards, a 24-year-old gay man and amateur detective first introduced in Dante’s deliciously deviant Fractured Series, gets mixed up in the dangerous […]
