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Doing Life

June 14, 2025 By BA Tortuga

Book Cover: Doing Life
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Part of the Rockin' W series:
  • The Wounded Warrior
  • Doing Life

After a devastating explosion rocks their military mission, Lance and Sloan return stateside in rough condition. Lance has been blinded by the blast, and he breaks it off with Sloan, believing Sloan will be better off without him. He heads for small town Texas to recover at the Rockin' W and learn how to live again.

The thing is, Sloan has no intention of giving up on Lance. So he leaves his job in Santa Fe to go and convince Lance to give him a second chance. Both men have their scars and, while Lance's are more obvious physically, Sloan has his share to deal with. The men have to process physical therapy, PTSD, and re-entry into civilian life, all while trying to rebuild their relationship.

Can Sloan convince Lance they should be doing life together, or will they lose their chance at being happy together forever?

Published: June 17, 2025
Publisher: Turtlehat Creatives
Genres:
Contemporary, MM, Western

Zeke and Wesley

June 14, 2025 By BA Tortuga

Book Cover: Zeke and Wesley
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Part of the The Barn series:
  • Zeke and Wesley

Zeke and Wesley is an opposites attract romance set in Alaska at a resort for queer men. It features a professional songwriter who is haunted by a past relationship and a fundraiser/event planner who is looking for an adventure.

Wesley Dugan raises money for other people for a living, has finally decided he needs to spend a little on himself for a change. He wants an adventure, somewhere that he can indulge his appetites without making promises to anyone. The Barn is an exclusive Alaskan resort that is highly regarded in the scene and promises kinky delights, assuming Wesley can brave his fear of flying to get there.

Zeke Burrell is about to celebrate a major anniversary. At nearly a thousand days, he imagines he’s spent more time at the Barn than anyone but the owners. To Zeke, the resort is his home and his sanctuary, where he can write music and find peace in his routine.

When they meet, Zeke is surprised to be so curious about the resort’s newest guest. Wesley doesn’t expect to become so infatuated on the first day of his vacation. While their desires brought them to the resort for the same reasons, the rest of their lives couldn’t be any different. Zeke prefers quiet and solitude, while Wesley enjoys the company of others and a good party. Zeke has a complicated history, but Wesley’s couldn’t be more straightforward.

Is it possible for them to find the balance they crave both in-scene and out?

Published: May 20, 2025
Publisher: Turtlehat Creatives
Genres:
BDSM, Contemporary, MM

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With Jodi Payne

Outfoxed

April 9, 2025 By BA Tortuga

Book Cover: Outfoxed
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Part of the On the Ranch series:
  • Tending Tyler
  • Roped In
  • Diamonds in the Rough
  • Outfoxed

Outfoxed is an opposites attract, hurt/comfort, found family romance featuring an injured bull rider at the end of his career and a widower single dad derailed by a mental health crisis.

Bull rider Trent James might be a little broken. He’s a cowboy recovering from a terrible wreck, going through the grind of surgeries and physical therapy and trying not to have a meltdown. Thank goodness for his friends and neighbors Rope and Jude, who keep him up and moving and getting better.

Callum Fox is broken for a totally different reason. When he heads to Texas to visit his friends, he’s looking to get away from too many hours as a CEO and too many memories of his late husband. He wants to spend more time with his daughter, and he needs to figure out what he's going to do with the rest of his life.

The two of them come together and find kindred spirits in each other. But sometimes it’s tough to glue the broken parts back together, and they have to find out where they fit and what they can do to support each other, even when the storm gets bad. Can Fox and Trent make a life together, or will they be unable to mend their shattered pieces?

Published: April 22, 2025
Publisher: Tygerseye Publishing
Genres:
Contemporary, MM, Western

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With Jodi Payne

Solid as Gold

April 9, 2025 By BA Tortuga

Book Cover: Solid as Gold
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Chayce Fall just wants to play music, but someone out there has real problem with him. At least that’s what he assumes when the shooting starts at one of his concerts. Then the real problem shows up in the form of Waylon Hudson, a bodyguard hired by his mom.

Waylon expects Chayce to be a spoiled brat, but he finds a hot, decent man who isn’t necessarily the safest big name on earth, but he can’t imagine what Chayce has done to attract a stalker or a killer or whatever it is that’s going on here.

When he gets the chance to take Chayce into hiding, Waylon goes to ground, and he finds himself falling hard for the man. Can he keep Chayce safe and wrangle the fact that they have it bad for each other, or will he lose his shot at this solid gold man?

This is a fun and hot bodyguard MM romance. Previously published in a charity anthology.

Published: April 18, 2025
Publisher: Turtlehat Creatives
Genres:
Contemporary, MM, Western

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Stand-alones

Hats to Boots

February 22, 2025 By BA Tortuga

Book Cover: Hats to Boots
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When Trey Blanton left Westin McCoy, the cowboy life, and his family’s Colorado ranch forever, he just knew he was moving on to bigger and better things.

It sucked to be wrong.

When Trey comes back to the ranch, he brings a ton of baggage back with him. His grandparents are both gone, he’s losing his sight, and his best friend and housekeeper has passed from cancer, leaving him with her two kids. To make things worse, he can't keep a ranch foreman, and he desperately needs someone to run all the things he can't.

What he doesn't need is his ex to muddy up the waters.

Cowboy Westin McCoy leaps at the chance to work as Trey's ranch foreman when a mutual friend offers him the job. Trey is the one he let get away thanks to his own insecurity, and West finally feels like he might have something to offer Trey, something that he can do to help. He figures he's all Trey's, hat to boots.

Together they wrangle old hurt, new hope, and all the things a busy ranch and two growing kids toss at them. Can they get over the hurdle of the past and work through all of the new difficulties to find common ground, or is history doomed to repeat itself?

Published: March 11, 2025
Publisher: Turtlehat Creatives
Genres:
Contemporary, MM, Western

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Cozy Cowboys

Candy Hearts (Volume 2)

January 27, 2025 By BA Tortuga

Book Cover: Candy Hearts (Volume 2)
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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 are:
Anna Sparrows
BA Tortuga
Becca Seymour
Beck Grey
Bix Barrow
BL Maxwell
CD Rachels
Chantal Mer
D.K. Sutton
David Gray
E.M. Denning
Hinsel Meyer
Jem Wendel
Lee Blair
London Price
Marie Sinclair
Merry Farmer
Minerva Howe
Riley Long
Rye Cox
Stella Rainbow
Susan Scott Shelley
Victoria Gillilan
Zoe Lee

Published: February 4, 2025
Genres:
Contemporary, MM

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Anthologies

Lost Boy

January 27, 2025 By BA Tortuga

Book Cover: Lost Boy
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Part of the Les's Bar series:
  • Just Dex
  • Hide Bound
  • Wholly Trinity
  • New Tricks
  • Lost Boy

Lost Boy is an opposites attract, smaller top, size difference romance featuring a strong but gentle veterinarian and a police dog trainer with a fiery temper.

Veterinarian Leo Aetos adores animals, has a great apartment in Brooklyn, and even has a favorite bar. The only thing he doesn’t have is someone to share it all with. Finding that man is easier said than done because he’s searching for a partner with specific interests. He needs a man who steps out of the stereotype and that's tall order. Much like he is, at well over six feet.

Police dog-trainer Chris Kinney figures there’s no way he’d be anything close to what Leo wants. His last relationship failed miserably and he is sure it was his own fault. He just couldn’t be the kind of man his ex needed him to be. Worse, he struggles with his temper, and he’s not even sure he belongs in New York.

Leo decides to take Chris on despite Chris's misgivings, with some help from his friends from Les’s Bar. He knows pretty much right away he’s not going to want to let Chris go. But will he be able to convince Chris they can both get what they need, and that the ex can't threaten their new relationship?

Published: January 28, 2025
Publisher: Turtlehat Creatives
Genres:
BDSM, Contemporary, MM

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With Jodi Payne

Covering the Cowboy

December 10, 2024 By BA Tortuga

Book Cover: Covering the Cowboy
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Part of the Cowboy Wanted series:
  • Cowboy Healing
  • Second Chance Cowboy
  • Covering the Cowboy

The last thing Austin Williams needs is for his just-like-him nerdy son Dallas to get into a fight at school. The last thing he expects is to get to school to find that Dallas has a new best friend, a miniature cowgirl named Paige. The final shock of the day comes when he realizes that his son’s new best friend’s dad is the cover model he just hired for all of his novels.

Kyler Hale is a cowboy. He’s used to rough and tumble folks, and he lives for his daughter. Which is why, when she makes a good friend in kindergarten, he’s going to do everything he can to help them stay friends. Between play dates and outings, Kyler discovers he also wants to be friends with Dallas’s dad. Austin is kind, smart, interesting. And hot. But Kyler has never figured out how to date a guy before, so he has to really put some thought into it.

As these single dads navigate kindergarten, dating, and finding ways to tell each other the truth, things might get tough. Can they find a way to cover all their bases and give everyone a happily ever after?

Published: December 10, 2024
Publisher: Turtlehat Creatives
Genres:
Contemporary, MM, Western

Thawed Out

December 10, 2024 By BA Tortuga

Book Cover: Thawed Out
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Part of the Merry Everything series:
  • Window Dressing
  • Cowboy Protection
  • Cowboys and Cupcakes
  • Thawed Out

Thawed Out is an opposites attract, second chance romance featuring an established couple on the edge of divorce, a ferocious snow storm, precocious children and a healthy dose of holiday magic.

Kiren knows there is a storm coming when he goes to the cabin to deliver divorce papers to his husband Flynn, but he doesn’t plan to stay long. He hates that it’s come to this, but they just can’t seem to do anything without arguing anymore. When he finds Flynn looking so skinny and unhappy, he ends up staying to talk.

And maybe to try harder not to break up their family.

Flynn knows Kiren is just as tired as he is. They both work hard. They both take care of their two kids. He doesn’t want to give up, but between his long hours and going to school, he always seems to be in trouble when gets home.

Before they know it, they’re snowed in with nothing but time on their hands. The two of them decide that they don’t want to be frozen in the worst time of their married life. But can they work together to find the balance they need to start again?

Published: November 26, 2024
Publisher: Tygerseye Publishing
Genres:
Contemporary, MM, Western

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The Cowboy’s Texan

September 16, 2024 By BA Tortuga

Book Cover: The Cowboy's Texan
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Part of the Foster Ranch series:
  • The Cowboy Contract
  • The Cowboy Guardian
  • The Cowboy's Texan

When Nathan Greene lost everything from his restaurant and reputation to the man who was supposed to love him, he packed up his life and headed from Texas to New Mexico, where he took on the job of ranch chef. On paper, it sounded pretty easy, but in reality, he ends up on a horse headed to a high camp with a cowboy who really doesn’t seem to like him.

And it’s mutual.

Ames Paulson hates the idea of having to take on the greenhorn chef and make a temporary cowboy out of him. But he soon finds out that Nathan can give as good as he gets, and when Ames’s teenage cousin shows up needing a home, Nathan is incredibly kind to her. Which makes it impossible to dislike the guy.

Both Ames and Nathan have their pasts to contend with, and Ames has to worry about building a life for his cousin as well, but the men finally find common ground and start something wonderful, they think. As long as work, distance, and that past catching up with Nathan don’t put too many roadblocks in their way.

Published: September 17, 2024
Publisher: Turtlehat Creatives
Genres:
Contemporary, MM, Western

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