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A confession on graduation night shattered a friendship neither of them ever truly left behind.
Hits Different
LGBTQIA+ · Romance · Bisexual Romance · Gay Romance · Sports Romance
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A confession on graduation night shattered a friendship neither of them ever truly left behind. In Hits Different, injured soccer star Brandon Carter reunites with Parker Di Rossi, the best friend who once broke his heart, at an elite rehabilitation facility. As old wounds reopen and unspoken feelings resurface, this M/M sports romance explores second chances, identity, and love that refuses to stay buried.
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Hits Different is a sports romance, filled with wholesome angst, enjoyable banter, and just a dash of spice. It’s best friends to strangers to lovers, between two down bad ex-best friends who reconnect after life throws them back together. It’s unrequited love. Until it’s not.
Parker Di Rossi and Brandon Carter were best friends until the last night of high school, when Brandon made a confession, and Parker broke his heart.
Three years later, Brandon is now the MVP of the college soccer scene. But after a career-threatening injury lands him in rehab, he’s thrown back into his old friend’s orbit and forced to confront not only Parker, but the feelings he thought were buried a long time ago.
Faced with a family scandal and growing media pressure, Brandon's determined not to fall back in love with the one person he can never have. Romance between best friends never works, especially when one of them is straight.
The only problem?
Nobody told Parker that.
Parker has one goal: make his family proud by honouring his late father's legacy as a mixed martial artist.
But after getting expelled from college and kicked out of his MMA gym, he's forced to take a job working for his disapproving cousin at Summit, an elite soccer rehabilitation facility, as he desperately tries to get his life back on track.
The one bright side? It gives Parker the chance to finally make things right with Brandon Carter - Parker's former best friend, who he can't stop thinking about.
As Parker determinedly pursues his MMA ambitions, he grows closer to Brandon in ways that he never expected. Now, he has to choose what he wants to fight for more: his father’s legacy, or Brandon’s heart.
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A single night leaves questions that refuse to stay buried when a killer returns.
The Murder Between Us
Mystery · LGBTQIA+ · Gay Romance · Police Procedural
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A single night leaves questions that refuse to stay buried when a killer returns. The Murder Between Us brings FBI agents Noah Downing and Cole Kennedy back together as a long-cold case resurfaces and their shared secret complicates every move. This M|M romantic suspense blends serial killer investigation, unresolved desire, and psychological tension as past choices collide with present danger.
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It was just one night.
It was just one mistake.
FBI Agent Noah Downing had questions about his sexuality that a single night in Vegas should have answered. But dawn finds him on a plane back to Iowa, back on the trail of a vicious serial killer who disappeared six years ago and has suddenly resurfaced. There’s nothing like a murder investigation to escape an existential crisis.
FBI profiler Cole Kennedy is still reeling after finding a heart-stopping connection with a seemingly perfect man, only for him to vanish. When he’s sent to Iowa to profile the killer terrorizing America’s heartland, he finds more questions than answers - both about the murderer and about Noah, the last man he ever expected to see again.
A twisted secret stretches between Cole and Noah, tangled with questions they both have about each other. But now, thrown together, they’ll have to unravel the killer’s profile and follow his trail... back to the very beginning, to where everyone’s questions are answered once and for all.
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A quiet campus hides a pattern of disappearances that pulls a former agent back into danger.
Fair Game
LGBTQIA+ · Mystery · Gay Romance
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A quiet campus hides a pattern of disappearances that pulls a former agent back into danger. Fair Game follows Elliot Mills, an ex FBI profiler turned professor, whose search for a missing student forces him to work alongside the lover he left behind. This gay romantic suspense weaves unresolved history, escalating threat, and psychological tension as the investigation turns intensely personal.
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A crippling knee injury forced Elliot Mills to trade in his FBI badge for dusty chalkboards and bored college students. Now a history professor at Puget Sound university, the former agent has put his old life behind himbut it seems his old life isn't finished with him.
A young man has gone missing from campusand as a favor to a family friend, Elliot agrees to do a little sniffing around. His investigations bring him face-to-face with his former lover, Tucker Lance, the special agent handling the case.
Things ended badly with Tucker, and neither man is ready to back down on the fight that drove them apart. But they have to figure out a way to move beyond their past and work together as more men go missing and Elliot becomes the target in a killer's obsessive game...
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Born with a curse that erases magic, Erik grows up hidden and unwanted in a world defined by spellcraft.
The Ironlight
Fantasy · LGBTQIA+ · Coming of Age · Sword and Sorcery
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Born with a curse that erases magic, Erik grows up hidden and unwanted in a world defined by spellcraft. When a legendary mage offers him escape, he steps into danger, discovery, and self-determination. The Ironlight is a moving coming-of-age fantasy about identity, freedom, and finding meaning beyond fear. Rated 4.6 stars on Amazon.
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Erik has spent his life locked away, tormented by his family and burdened by a curse that neutralizes the magic around him; and in a world where magic is the way of life, his very existence feels like a mistake. But when a mage of legend arrives in his city, Erik's fate takes an unexpected turn.
Under his guidance, Erik will enter a world of extraordinary creatures, ancient magic, and the tantalizing promise of freedom. With the help of people from all walks of life, he will have to forge his own path under the embrace of uncertainty in order to discover the joy and meaning that have long eluded him.
The Ironlight is a captivating coming-of-age fantasy that blends magical wonder with poignant emotional depth, inviting readers on a journey of self-discovery amid an epic, unforgettable world.
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Miel grows roses from her skin, and Samir paints moons no one else understands.
When the Moon Was Ours
LGBTQIA+ · Teen + Young Adult · Lesbian Romance
Our take
Miel grows roses from her skin, and Samir paints moons no one else understands. Bound by love and secrecy, the two outcasts face dangerous attention when witches covet Miel’s magic. This lyrical young adult novel blends folklore, queer romance, and trans identity into a story of courage and self-acceptance. Winner of the Tiptree Award with 4.4 stars on Amazon.
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Winner of the 2016 Tiptree Award
Longlisted for the 2016 National Book Award for Young People's Literature
Stonewall Book Award Honor
"McLemore dances deftly across genres, uniquely weaving glistening strands of culture, myth, dream, mystery, love, and gender identity to create a tale that resonated to my core. It's that rare kind of book that you want to read slowly, deliciously, savoring every exquisite sentence." —Laura Resau, Américas Award Winning Author of Red Glass and The Queen of Water
At once a lush fairytale, an unforgettable queer romance, and a celebration of trans love, Anna-Marie McLemore's When the Moon Was Ours is a modern classic that proves there is magic in being yourself.
To everyone who knows them, best friends Miel and Samir are as strange as they are inseparable. Roses grow out of Miel's wrist, and rumors say that she spilled out of a water tower when she was five. Samir is known for the moons he paints and hangs in the trees and for how little anyone knows about his life before he and his mother moved to town.
As odd as everyone considers Miel and Samir, even they stay away from the Bonner girls, four beautiful sisters rumored to be witches. But now the sisters want the roses that grow from Miel's skin, convinced that their scent can make anyone fall in love. And they're willing to use every secret Miel has fought to protect to make sure she gives them up-- including Samir's past.
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Good for readers who like literary comedy, bittersweet romance, and messy midlife reinvention.
Less
Literary Fiction · LGBTQIA+
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a national bestseller, Less follows failing novelist Arthur Less as he travels the world to avoid his ex-boyfriend’s wedding, stumbling through literary events, mishaps, romance, and the loves he cannot quite escape, with a 4.1-star rating from more than 40,600 Amazon reviewers. Good for readers who like literary comedy, bittersweet romance, and messy midlife reinvention.
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A struggling novelist travels the world to avoid an awkward wedding in this hilarious Pulitzer Prize-winning novel full of "arresting lyricism and beauty" (The New York Times Book Review).
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE
National Bestseller
A New York Times Notable Book of 2017
A Washington Post Top Ten Book of 2017
A San Francisco Chronicle Top Ten Book of 2017
Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence, the Lambda Award, and the California Book Award
Who says you can't run away from your problems? You are a failed novelist about to turn fifty. A wedding invitation arrives in the mail: your boyfriend of the past nine years is engaged to someone else. You can't say yes--it would be too awkward--and you can't say no--it would look like defeat. On your desk are a series of invitations to half-baked literary events around the world.
QUESTION: How do you arrange to skip town?
ANSWER: You accept them all.
What would possibly go wrong? Arthur Less will almost fall in love in Paris, almost fall to his death in Berlin, barely escape to a Moroccan ski chalet from a Saharan sandstorm, accidentally book himself as the (only) writer-in-residence at a Christian Retreat Center in Southern India, and encounter, on a desert island in the Arabian Sea, the last person on Earth he wants to face. Somewhere in there: he will turn fifty. Through it all, there is his first love. And there is his last.
Because, despite all these mishaps, missteps, misunderstandings and mistakes, Less is, above all, a love story.
A scintillating satire of the American abroad, a rumination on time and the human heart, a bittersweet romance of chances lost, by an author The New York Times has hailed as "inspired, lyrical," "elegiac," "ingenious," as well as "too sappy by half," Less shows a writer at the peak of his talents raising the curtain on our shared human comedy.
"I could not love LESS more."--Ron Charles, The Washington Post
"Andrew Sean Greer's Less is excellent company. It's no less than bedazzling, bewitching and be-wonderful."--Christopher Buckley, The New York Times Book Review
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A burned-out pop superstar and the manager who loves him collide under relentless fame, desire, and pressure.
Code Red
Romance · LGBTQIA+ · Gay Romance
Our take
A burned-out pop superstar and the manager who loves him collide under relentless fame, desire, and pressure. As a world tour threatens to break them both, devotion becomes a lifeline and a risk. This emotional celebrity romance holds 4.6 stars on Amazon with more than 3,000 ratings. It blends vulnerability, loyalty, and hard-earned intimacy under unforgiving public scrutiny.
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Maddox Kershaw is the main vocalist of the world’s biggest boy band. He’s at the top of every music chart, every award show, every social media platform, and every sexiest-man-alive list. He’s the bad boy, the enigma, the man everyone on the planet wants a piece of.
He’s also burned out and exhausted, isolated and lonely. Not in a good headspace at the start of a tour.
Roscoe Hall is Maddox’s personal manager. His job is high-flying, high-demand, high-profile, and he loves it. Maddox has consumed his entire life for the past four years. Roscoe knows him. He sees the real Maddox no one else gets to see.
He’s also in love with him.
When the tour and stress become too much, when the world begins to close in, Roscoe becomes Maddox’s lifeline. But as Maddox knows already, and as Roscoe is about to learn, the brighter the spotlight, the darker the shadow.
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A dying girl denied entry to a magical academy is given an ultimatum: become an assassin for the elite or be executed.
Queen of Faces
Fantasy · LGBTQIA+ · Teen + Young Adult · Dark Fantasy
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A dying girl denied entry to a magical academy is given an ultimatum: become an assassin for the elite or be executed. As rebellion ignites and loyalties fracture, survival demands bloodshed and impossible choices. Praised by Chloe Gong and Marie Lu, this dark academia fantasy explores power, identity, and the cost of staying alive.
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"The ruthless, remarkable world you’ve been waiting for." —Chloe Gong, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of These Violent Delights
"A twisty, dark academia fantasy . . . I was hooked from the very first page." —Marie Lu, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of Skyhunter
This dark academia fantasy follows a desperate girl at a cutthroat magical academy who faces a choice between life and death: become an assassin for the enchanted elite or watch her decaying body draw its last breath. For fans of Leigh Bardugo, Brandon Sanderson, Lev Grossman, and R.F. Kuang.
Anabelle Gage is trapped in a male body, and it’s rotting from the inside out. But Ana can’t afford to escape it, even as the wealthiest in Caimor buy and discard expensive designer bodies without a thought. When she fails to gain admittance to the prestigious Paragon Academy—and access to the healthy new forms the school provides its students—her final hope implodes. Now without options, Ana must use her illusion magic to try to steal a healthy chassis—before her own kills her.
But Ana is caught by none other than the headmaster of Paragon Academy, who poses a brutal ultimatum: face execution for her crime or become a mercenary at his command. Revolt brews in Caimor's smog-choked underworld, and the wealthy and powerful will stop at nothing to take down the rebels and the infamous dark witch at their helm, the Black Wraith.
With no choice but to accept, Ana will steal, fight, and kill her way to salvation. But her survival depends on a dangerous band of renegades: an impulsive assassin, a brooding bombmaker, and an alluring exile who might just spell her ruin. As Ana is drawn into a tangled web of secrets, the line between villain and hero shatters—and Ana must decide which side is worth dying for.
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Locked out of a magical ivy league, three teens steal their way inside and awaken dangerous power.
Sibylline
LGBTQIA+ · Romantasy · Teen + Young Adult · Bisexual Romance
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Locked out of a magical ivy league, three teens steal their way inside and awaken dangerous power. As secrets, desire, and resentment unravel their bond, a deadly corruption spreads through the university itself. Written by #1 New York Times bestselling author Melissa de la Cruz, this dark academia romantasy blends magic, romance, and betrayal with mounting emotional stakes.
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Three teens infiltrate the magical ivy league in this heart-stopping dark academia romantasy, the first in a young adult duology from #1 New York Times bestselling author Melissa de la Cruz.
Raven, Atticus, and Dorian have dreamed of attending Sibylline for as long as they can remember. But when the magical ivy league rejects them, the friends’ plans of a future together studying the arcane begin crashing down.
Until they decide to steal an education.
Getting jobs on campus, they sneak into lectures and swipe forbidden texts, dodging the administration’s watchful eye. In the quiet of night, in the thrill of secrecy, their magic awakens. And so do long-buried attractions that turn their friendship into something more.
But like magic, love can create, and it can destroy. As unrequited feelings and resentment threaten to fracture their bond, the trio discovers an insidious magic that has sunk its claws into Sibylline, killing students and corroding the very bones of the university. Now the three intruders may be the key to saving the institution from wreckage . . . if they don’t wreck one another first.
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A closeted hockey captain risks his career after one night with his openly bisexual teammate.
Rylan
LGBTQIA+ · Romance · Bisexual Romance · Gay Romance · Sports Romance
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A closeted hockey captain risks his career after one night with his openly bisexual teammate. As pressure builds on and off the ice, attraction collides with fear, loyalty, and buried pain. Rylan delivers a high-stakes M/M sports romance driven by secrecy, emotional vulnerability, and hard-earned trust, earning 4.3 stars on Amazon and strong reader praise.
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Rylan
One hot night with my teammate threatens to expose my secret and end my career.
I've spent my entire hockey career hiding who I really am. Between trying to lead my struggling team, dealing with an alcoholic father, and living in the shadow of my brother's legacy, my life feels like one endless fight. The last thing I need is for anyone to discover my secret. Then Jamie Pirelli arrives—young, talented, and openly queer. He sees through all my walls, and suddenly everything I've built is at risk.
Jamie
I'm more than just the first openly bisexual player in the league.
After a disastrous start to my pro hockey career in Florida, Seattle is my last chance. I can't afford any more scandals, but the chemistry between me and my deep-in-the-closet captain is impossible to ignore. Our connection on the ice is what hockey legends are made of. Off the ice... is a different game altogether.
A high-stakes hockey romance between the team captain with loads of baggage and the superstar struggling to be taken seriously. An impossible-to-resist forbidden relationship between a wounded control freak with a tragic backstory and a sunshiny free spirit with a tarnished reputation.
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Ideal for readers looking for queer historical fantasy with a second-chance love story, demons, and a bloody monster hunt.
The Red Winter
Horror · LGBTQIA+ · Creature Feature
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Called “Charming, haunting, ambitious” by T. Kingfisher, this dark fantasy follows centuries-old monster-slayer Sebastian Grave, who hosts a demon and returns to France in 1785 to hunt the Beast of Gévaudan alongside his estranged lover. Ideal for readers looking for queer historical fantasy with a second-chance love story, demons, and a bloody monster hunt.
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A devastating love story. A bewitching twist on history. A blood-drenched hunt for purpose, power, and redemption.
In 1785, Professor Sebastian Grave receives the news he fears most: the terrible Beast of Gévaudan has returned, and the French countryside runs red in its wake.
Sebastian knows the Beast. A monster-slayer with centuries of experience, he joined the hunt for the creature twenty years ago and watched it slaughter its way through a long and bloody winter. Even with the help of his indwelling demon, Sarmodel – who takes payment in living hearts – it nearly cost him his life to bring the monster down.
Now, two decades later, Sebastian has been recalled to the hunt by Antoine Avenel d’Ocerne, an estranged lover who shares a dark history with the Beast and a terrible secret with Sebastian. Drawn by both the chance to finish the Beast for good and the promise of a reconciliation with Antoine, Sebastian cannot refuse.
But Gévaudan is not as he remembers it, and Sebastian’s unfinished business is everywhere he looks. Years of misery have driven the people to desperation, and France teeters on the edge of revolution. Sebastian’s arcane activities – not to mention his demonic counterpart – have also attracted the inquisitorial eye of the French clergy. And the Beast is poised to close his jaws around them all and plunge the continent into war.
Debut author Cameron Sullivan tears the heart out of history with this darkly entertaining retelling of the hunt for the Beast of Gévaudan. Lifting the veil on the hidden world behind our own, it reimagines the story of Europe, from Imperial Rome to Saint Jehanne d’Arc, the madness of Gilles de Rais and the first flickers of the French Revolution.
“An absolute feast of a book: rich, red, sinfully delicious. I've rarely been this satisfied—or this hungry for more.” —Alix E. Harrow, New York Times bestselling author of Starling House
“So bloody good. The Red Winter is absolute ripper entertainment—miss it at your peril!” —Shelley Parker-Chan, bestselling author of She Who Became the Sun
“A gorgeous tangle of history and fresh-made myth. You'll eat this one up.” —Cassandra Khaw, bestselling author of Nothing But Blackened Teeth
“Charming, haunting, ambitious, and a great deal of fun.” —T. Kingfisher, New York Times bestselling author of A Sorceress Comes to Call
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In a university built on rivalry, ambition turns combustible when two wizard grad students are forced into partnership.
The Entanglement of Rival Wizards
LGBTQIA+ · Romantasy · Gay Romance
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In a university built on rivalry, ambition turns combustible when two wizard grad students are forced into partnership. In The Entanglement of Rival Wizards, Sebastian must share a grant, a lab, and far too much tension with the half-elf rival he cannot stand. It lands squarely in fantasy academia with enemies-to-lovers chemistry, magical competition, and a romantic arc shaped by pride, legacy, and old wounds.
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Ali Hazelwood meets Dungeons & Dragons in this enemies-to-lovers fantasy academia romcom where rival grad student wizards are forced to work together without killing—or falling for—each other.
Will they conjure love, or evoke chaos? Two rival wizards are about to find out.
Sebastian Walsh: Evocation Department. Human. The first of his family to pick college over the military.
Elethior Tourael: Conjuration Department. Half-elf. Pretentious asshole. The latest legacy Tourael at Lesiara U.
Both: Mageus Research Grant finalists.
Sebastian refuses to let anyone snatch this away, least of all a snob riding on old money. But what’s worse than a nemesis stealing your grant? You could both get it. Under the condition you work together.
Sebastian is in hell. Thio’s broody. Takes up their shared lab space with his projects . . . and biceps. Brings treats for Sebastian’s familiar . . .
. . . and is nothing like Sebastian thought.
When Sebastian’s past with the Touraels forces him to choose his research or Thio, the decision should be simple. But while working with his rival is volatile . . . falling for his rival might blow up Sebastian’s future.
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