The Best April 2024 M/M Romance Books
These are the M/M romance books coming out in April 2024 that I am most excited to read.
This month looks to have quite a few books that I think will be big hits.
If you are looking for more M/M romance books coming out in April, you can check out my list of every M/M romance book dropping in April 2024 here.
Let’s jump in!
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Absolute Best M/M Romance Books Releasing April 2024
An Unrivaled Off-Season by Ashlyn Kane & Morgan James
Any other year, hockey player Grady Armstrong would be licking his wounds after a disappointing playoffs exit. Somehow, this year, he’s in the stands as his rival-turned-boyfriend Max Lockhart competes for the Stanley Cup… and there’s nowhere he’d rather be. Well, except maybe lifting the Cup himself. So along with preparing his body for next season, Grady prepares to ask Max to stay in his life permanently.
Max figures it can’t be easy for Grady to watch Max cash in on his dreams, but if he’s struggling, he hides it well—which is great, because they don’t get much time together during the season, and it would suck if Grady spent the summer sulking.
But while Grady may still be a competitive bastard, he doesn’t sulk. He nurses Max through hangovers. He comes home with him for the summer. He loses fishing bets. He earns so many boyfriend points Max should really level him up. The question is, how?
I have loved the Hockey Ever After series by Ashlyn Kane and Morgan James. This is a continuation of Max and Grady’s story.
I think this will be a super sweet, low angst hockey romance. Also known as, the best way to start off a month of reading.
Painful Love by T. Ashleigh & Addison Beck
Whaley-
My life has been a series of one nightmare after another. Every day is a fight to be stronger as I try to outrun the past that refuses to give me peace. Somehow, I managed to keep myself under control…
Until Bunky messed it all up.
His soul screams to mine in a way that awakens every part of me, even the parts I’ve tried to keep buried. We’re a jagged fit, a match made in Hell, but I can’t have him because together we’d burn the world to the ground.
Bunky doesn’t see that. He’d rather fuel the toxic fire of obsession than give up, and I don’t know how much longer I can hold out before I cave to the demon that everyone should fear.
Including him.
Bunky-
I’m not what most people would consider normal.
Everything in my life is touched by darkness and shaped by my past. Living life constantly on the brink of being swallowed up by the monster that wants to consume me is exhausting, so I drowned myself in vices to try and smother the memories.
Until I realized all I needed was my missing piece.
Whaley flipped a switch in my brain, making me see he was meant to be mine, but he’s not letting us be together like we were made to. He’s too worried we’ll destroy everything in our path if we give in to the connection that tethers us together.
Good thing I have no problem watching the world burn if it means I get him.
I am so excited for this book.
I absolutely loved the first book in the Kings of Aces series, Hateful Love.
While reading Hateful Love, Bunky and Whaley’s side story was so compelling and exciting. When I realized that the second book in the series was theirs, I knew waiting for this book to drop was going to be tough.
I’ll be checking this one out ASAP.
Higher Demon by Louisa Masters
No matter the demon, the hunter’s role is clear…
A thousand years ago, my great-something uncle founded the Collective, a secret organization dedicated to protecting humanity from demons. The hunter tradition has been passed down over the generations, from parent to child, secure in the knowledge that the Collective is a community of safety and knowledge.
But betrayal sucks, and six years ago, it turned my world—and the Collective—upside down. After generations of deception, the hunters left behind are picking up the pieces and trying something we’ve never done before—working side by side with our enemy.
Demons, just to be clear. They’re apparently “misunderstood,” but the jury is still out on that. And I—a twentysomething archivist with an addiction to hoodies—somehow ended up as liaison to the demon ambassador.
If it sounds like a nightmare, that’s because it is. The demon ambassador is a stuck-up, pretentious twat… not to mention he could kill me with a thought. Worst of all, he’s getting under my skin in ways I never expected. But I’m the only hunter who doesn’t actively want to kill him, so… tag, I’m it.
I’ve already been betrayed by those I should have been able to trust the most. How hard can hanging out with a higher demon be?
Louisa Masters is a pro at M/M paranormal romance.
I love the concept of this book! It’s enemies to lovers, but make it demonic.
It’s always a lot of fun when two people who think there is a good chance that they will kill each other fall in love.
Red Flags & Tuesdays by Nordika Night
Waking up to his one-night stand trying to flee the scene, Reid sits back to enjoy the show. This blond boy is all snark and quick-wit, but there’s an awkward side to him that intrigues Reid enough to want to con him into a second date. After numerous failed attempts, Atticus reluctantly agrees to an on-the-spot date, and things get quirky from there.
A philosophy major and a wayward son, these two work through their differences, battling red flags and a slew of Tuesdays that have them bonding in ways they never saw coming. There is no normal way to date Atticus, and Reid soon learns that this ‘romance lover’ has no idea what romance is, but he’s willing to put in the work.
Reid is taking back his life. Atticus is taking back Tuesdays.
Together, they’re a brilliant disaster.
I loved Garron Park enough that I will always give Nordika Night’s work a try.
Red Flags & Tuesdays looks to be a very different book than Garron Park, but I am hoping that the characters are just as compelling.
I think this will be a super sweet and fun read.
Bromantic Puckboy by Eden Finley & Saxon James
Bilson
The idea of moving away from Seattle was a joke at first.
I have too many failed relationships here. Too much baggage.
So when I find myself signing with Nashville and leaving everything behind, I’m hopeful a new start will cure me of my attachment problems.
I fall fast and hard, and I’m quickly realizing it’s not so easy to escape my emotional damage. That follows no matter where I go.
When my new teammate, rookie goalie Miles Olsen, attaches himself to my side, the media are excited to exploit our bromance. Little do they know, he’s doing me a favor by keeping me away from making mistakes with women.
That’s the deal we made at the beginning of the season, but as time goes on, and we’re both going through a dry spell, Miles suggests a different arrangement. One I’ve never contemplated. One I shouldn’t consider.
One I can’t stop thinking about.
Miles
My first day as starting goalie for Tennessee is made mildly more terrifying by coming face to face with NHL veteran Cody Bilson. Hero worship? Me? Never!
He reminds me of my old frat buddies; loyal, kind, easy to trade banter with. But my dude is lost and trying to find himself again–without getting married this time.
I want to help him, and while my suggestion might not be conventional, it sure as hell is effective. The only way to make sure he doesn’t marry a woman again? Blow off steam with a man instead.
We’re both straight, we’re both single, and we’re both down for a good time.
After all, what are teammates for?
Bilson! He has been a super memorable a side character, and now he gets his time to shine.
Bilson and Miles are really giving Dex and Tripp Irresponsible Puckboy vibes.
They are just two dudes who get off together because they don’t want anything to do with women. Sounds like your average straight hockey bro, right?
These two himbos are going to be so perfect together.
This is My Church by Sasha Avice
Mates with everyone and beholden to none, Lacy is a twenty-seven-year-old football superstar who parties as hard as he plays. It makes no sense for him to become best mates with their new ruckman, the bible reading, softly spoken celibate, Thaddeus Clay.
But from the moment the freshly traded twenty-three-year-old walks into the locker room, they do everything together.
Well, almost everything.
When Thad stumbles upon Lacy’s extracurriculars—a drug-fuelled gangbang where Lacy loses consciousness to the number of men who take him—he knows they can’t do that together.
But what Thad does next will change the course of their relationship in irreversible ways. Except Lacy doesn’t remember. And Thad is left with a secret that threatens his friendship and his faith.
So this is a really interesting one.
I typically don’t love when religion and M/M romance mix. However, the blurb of this book is so compelling that not reading this book is not an option for me.
I love M/M sports romances. I love friends-to-lovers books. I love an opposites-attract couple.
I really think this book could be the big winner of April 2024.
Leo is constantly getting photographed doing things he shouldn’t. Like multiple alphas at the same time, for instance. In a room full of other people.
The scandals are adding up, and his agent isn’t happy.
When he almost loses the lead role in a high budget film because of his wild behavior, he’s given an ultimatum: settle down with a boring alpha to clean up his image, or his agent won’t represent him anymore.
The problem is finding a respectable alpha who will have him. That’s where the Perfect Match Agency comes in. They promise to match him with an upstanding member of society in exchange for a little publicity.
Leo doesn’t expect to like the guy. He certainly doesn’t expect to be so drawn in by him that he goes into heat early.
But Leo has always been a little wild
I have always enjoyed Amy Bellows’ work. What makes this book even more fun is that it is a part of the multi-author series Perfect Match Agency: Springtime.
I will probably be trying out many of the books from this series some point soon.
This looks like a super solid ABO, opposites-attract romance to wrap up April.
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