Parlor Games #1

Welcome to Maverick Molly’s—for the Victorian sex rebel in all of us.

Toby Dunn has a fun job.

As a server-slash-performer at a newish establishment called Maverick Molly’s—a gaming parlor and kink club in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada—he dons bloomers and a corset to serve drinks and perform burlesque skits for the men who frequent the place. Maverick Molly’s hearkens back to a darker time, when sodomy was illegal and men who loved other men could be thrown in jail, or worse, for daring to be true to themselves and each other. Maverick Molly’s brings all the positives from that period—the daring dress and ribald performances, the joy in safe spaces and the resilience of people who didn’t let anything stop them—and leaves the negatives in the past, where they belong.

Toby’s life isn’t all fun, and he’s determined to move out of the home he shares with his alcoholic mother and keep up his average in his BA program at the University of Ottawa. Oh, and he’s going to quit smoking…eventually.

But everything changes when charming Alastair Kenney walks up the stairs to the club and invites Toby for a casual hookup at the most prestigious hotel in Ottawa, surprising them both with the intensity of their chemistry.

What happens after that is up to them.

TW: Discussions of physical abuse, some verbal/emotional abuse by a secondary character, smoking (character is trying to quit)

MM, young server x club member, age-gap, kink virgin, Dom/sub

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"AE Lister has captured my imagination once again and hooked me on yet another series! Set in Ottawa, the idea of Maverick Molly's captured me from the start, harkening back to a different era in queer history, but definitely giving it a modern twist.

I can't wait to see what happens next at Maverick Molly's in future Parlor Games books!" ~ MM Romance Reviewed

Sometimes you have to kneel to find yourself again.

Fletcher Marin is grieving. He’s holding things together for the sake of his daughter and has come a long way since his husband, Daniel, passed away in an accident three years ago. But something’s changed, and Fletcher finds himself remembering parts of his life with Daniel that he’s been suppressing.

A new romantic possibility with Aiden Thompson, a supply teacher whom he meets at his daughter’s school, and the fact that Maverick Molly’s, the ‘restaurant’ where his nephew Patrick works, is a gay kink and burlesque club have made Fletcher aware of everything he’s missed since Daniel’s death.

Aiden helps Fletcher step back into the world of submission and domination and takes him places even Daniel didn’t go. Is it possible that fate would give Fletcher another person to love and cherish, who fulfills him and seems as caring as his late husband? And will he ever be able to remember Daniel without pain?

Grief can be a tricky thing to bear, and there are times when you have to fight the ones you love for the freedom to be a whole person.

TW: This book contains animal role play, medical play, a child custody disagreement, threat of suicide and some minor instances of homophobia/transphobia.

MM, widowed single parent x elementary school teacher, grief recovery, Dom/sub

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"The world building of Maverick Molly’s is such that it is the perfect backdrop for Fletcher and Aiden’s kinky times, and sounds like the perfect place for gay men to gather and relax, plus it just sounds like a fun place, gay or not. There is a lot of kink in the book, but it fits into the story seamlessly, a natural progression to Fletcher and Aiden’s growing relationship. The book held my interest, I was invested in the characters and their growing closeness, and I was very pleased with the conclusion. A very entertaining read." ~ Goodreads

When people are placing bets, maybe you’re not so straight after all.

Angel Barnett always assumed he was straight. Sure, he’d had an occasional fantasy about sex with a man. But he’d never contemplated having sex with two men, until he met Gideon Foster and Vihaal Petrovsky.

Now he can’t get them out of his head, and the casual friendship that’s developed between them is heading into unknown territory. It seems like everyone he knows, including his aging mother, has known for years he’s ‘not so straight’. And it turns out that Gideon and Vihaal have been deliberately trying to seduce him.

But they’re married, and Angel isn’t sure about sex with men to begin with. It only takes a few instances of physical intimacy with Vihaal and Gideon, who seem to live a very kinky life with few boundaries, for Angel to finally accept and start to explore his bisexuality.

But can Angel be a third to Vihaal and Gideon’s twosome? They seem to want him. But the two of them are kinky as hell so not only is Angel embarking on a same-sex relationship for the first time, he’s also being initiated into the kinky world of dominance and submission. And since Vihaal is a die-hard Dom, it looks like Angel had better get used to submission—a mindset that comes surprisingly easily.

MMM, accountant x homecare worker x antique store owner, age-gap, bisexual awakening, Dom/sub/sub

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"Beautiful read. Vihaal, Gideon and Angel were just charming. Watching Angel flourish as he explores this new side of himself of was wonderful.

These books are filled with such a kink positive view and I love that. It’s so realistic and shows the less seen side of kink that is lived. Sometimes something happens that’s out of your control and you have to safeword. Sometimes you’re introduced to something you never knew you liked. And sometimes you fall in love without even realizing it." ~ Goodreads