Best Gay Romance (2015)

Reader, I Married Him Gay romance is coming into full bloom in the wake of DOMA s fall and the spread of marriage equality across the land. New series editor Felice Picano has rounded up the luminaries of gay fiction for their takes on the promises of new love and the surprises of long-term relationships. Known for changing the landscape of gay literature, Picano reveals himself at his finest when it comes to the subject of love and sex. The stories in this volume range from the gritty to the fantastic, from the sweet and dreamy to sidewalk hard, with tales of missed connections, fantasies of vengeance and even a coolly sexy cowboy yarn. Tom Baker s Jury Duty brings new meaning to the concept of jury tampering when deliberating over a case goes from ho-hum to a thrilling undercover romance. Two cowboys find a Brokeback love for each other while in pursuit along the Rio Grande in Dale Chase s Matters of the Heart. In a meet cute for our times, Jay Mandal s To Dye For follows two former classmates who bump into each other, and discover they like exactly the same thing men! In B"est Gay Romance 2015," Felice Picano gathers a sweepingly romantic collection of short fiction that is long on love. "