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When wonder becomes a cage, love demands a choice that costs everything.
When the Tides Held the Moon
Romantasy · LGBTQIA+ · Teen + Young Adult · Gay Romance
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When wonder becomes a cage, love demands a choice that costs everything. In 1910s New York, a Puerto Rican blacksmith joins a Coney Island sideshow and forms a bond with Río, a captive merman whose quiet intelligence reshapes his sense of belonging. As affection deepens, the pull between found family, moral reckoning, and impossible love defines this cozy historical fantasy with a gentle, aching heart.
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The Shape of Water meets The Greatest Showman in this beautifully illustrated queer historical cozy fantasy, as a young Puerto Rican immigrant goes through a journey of love and self-discovery after capturing a merman for a Coney Island sideshow act in turn-of-the 20th century New York.
"A lushly illustrated historical romance . . . This book is a charming fable — an elemental dance of fire and water." ―THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
A Goodreads Choice Awards Finalist | BookRiot Best Books of the Year | Amazon Best Romantasy of the Year | Reader's Digest Top 10 of the Year
Benigno “Benny” Caldera knows an orphaned Boricua blacksmith in 1910s New York City can’t call himself an artist. But the ironwork tank he creates for famed Coney Island playground, Luna Park, astounds everyone, especially the eccentric side-show proprietor who commissioned it. Benny’s work earns him an invitation to join the show’s eclectic crew of performers—his first welcome in the city—and share in their astonishing secret: the tank Benny built is a cage for their newest exhibit, a living, breathing, in-the-flesh merman stolen from the banks of the East River under a gleaming full moon.
The merman is more than a mythic marvel, though. Benny comes to know Río as a clever philosopher, an observant traveler, and a kindred spirit more beautiful and compassionate than any human he’s ever met. Despite their different worlds, what begins as a friendship of necessity deepens to love, leading Benny’s heart into uncharted waters where he can no longer ignore the agonizing truth of Río’s captivity—and his own.
A cage is no place for a merman to survive. Though releasing Río means betraying his new family, bankrupting their home, and losing his soulmate forever, Benny must look within for the courage to do what’s right, and find a love strong enough to free them both.
“This is the start of something special.” —TJ KLUNE, New York Times bestselling author of The House in the Cerulean Sea
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At Hawksview University, two deeply scarred souls are drawn together by shared pain and quiet understanding.
Shattered Ice
LGBTQIA+ · Romance · Bisexual Romance · Gay Romance
Our take
At Hawksview University, two deeply scarred souls are drawn together by shared pain and quiet understanding. As Bohdi and the woman who sees past his walls grow closer, healing feels possible but never guaranteed. Old wounds threaten fragile trust, forcing them to confront whether love can mend what life has broken. Shattered Ice is an emotional new adult romance by P.S. Black.
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Hawksview University Series is written as an interconnected character series. If you were thinking of reading my Lost & Found Duet, I would suggest reading this first. Shattered Ice will give all the spoilers for my duet. Although you don't have to, you do get a deeper understanding of Bohdi who is the MMC in Shattered Ice.
What happens when two broken souls collide?
Do the damaged pieces have the power to make each other complete?
Or is their fate to be shattered?
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Old rivalry turns personal when the player who ended Owen Bosley’s career becomes the tenant living just next door.
One Last Try
LGBTQIA+ · Romance · Bisexual Romance · Gay Romance
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Old rivalry turns personal when the player who ended Owen Bosley’s career becomes the tenant living just next door. One Last Try follows a retired rugby legend and single dad forced into close quarters with the younger pro athlete tied to his past, as resentment gives way to attraction in a village that leaves little room to hide. This is a warm, slow-burn MM sports romance with forced proximity, emotional history, and small-town charm.
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When the rookie who ended your rugby career moves in next door.
Retired legend Owen Bosley is used to the quiet life. After a career ending injury eight years ago, Owen leaves it all behind in exchange for a fresh start. Now he’s the landlord of his local pub in a chocolate-box village. The Little Thatch is the heart of the community, but there’s one problem. The pub needs work… expensive renovation work, so to help pay for the repairs, Owen rents out his cottage and moves into the tiny apartment upstairs.
But nothing could prepare him for who would move in.
Pro rugby star Mathias Jones never expected to be signed to the one team whose fans despise him, but some opportunities are too good to pass up. A few months with the Centurions seem like an eternity, but Mathias is determined to see it through. He’s here to play rugby, not make friends.
Seeking refuge in the quiet countryside, Mathias figures he can escape the fallout from his mistakes and the crowds who insist on reminding him. But when he meets his new landlord, it’s clear that running from his past won’t be easy.
For the former rivals, finding common ground on opposite sides of the bar should be easier than on the field. But with Owen overwhelmed by renovations and Matthias fighting to prove himself on the team, the weight of their shared history may be one challenge too big to tackle.
One Last Try is an age gap MM rugby romance with a cheery single dad pub owner and a grumpy sportsman. Expect slow burn, forced proximity, a barrel of rugby puns, and a village full of hilarious punters. One Last Try is the first in the brand-new Try for Love series of interconnected rugby standalones.
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Maple farmer Sam Caldwell lives a quiet life in rural New Hampshire until he rescues Ben Marshall, a guarded city man fleeing loss.
Love Story
LGBTQIA+ · Romance · Gay Romance
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Maple farmer Sam Caldwell lives a quiet life in rural New Hampshire until he rescues Ben Marshall, a guarded city man fleeing loss. Snowbound days become shared routines, found family, and an unexpected pull. As Ben’s past resurfaces, both men must decide if home can be built together. Love Story is a tender small town romance from author RJ Scott.
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Love wasn’t on Sam Caldwell’s agenda until a city boy with haunted eyes and no coat crashed into his world.
As a fourth-generation maple farmer in Caldwell Crossing, New Hampshire, Sam is rooted in tradition, family, and a quiet life filled with woodsmoke, laughter, and loyal friends. But everything changes when he finds Ben Marshall half-frozen on the side of the road. Ben is sharp, guarded, and running from his past—yet there’s a pull between them that Sam can’t ignore.
Ben never expected to end up in a snowy New Hampshire town, especially not after losing everything in Boston. Forced to leave his career and reputation behind, he retreats to the one safe place left—his great-aunt Harriet’s home in Caldwell Crossing. But safety doesn’t mean peace, and the last thing he needs is to catch feelings for the grumpy, gentle farmer who rescued him.
As winter thaws and maple flows, so does something deeper between Sam and Ben—trust, laughter, and the terrifying possibility of love. But when Ben’s past threatens to drag him back under, can two men who’ve built walls around their hearts find the courage to create something together?
Love Story features a city boy starting over, a maple farmer rooted in tradition, found family, best friends, early mornings that turn into something more, and the kind of love that feels like coming home.
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It fits fantasy readers who want queer romance, dragons, and identity-driven stakes wrapped in a lyrical, intimate adventure.
Brighter than Scale, Swifter than Flame
Fantasy · LGBTQIA+ · Epic Fantasy · Fantasy Adventure
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A legendary dragon hunter enters a kingdom that reveres the very creature she was trained to kill and begins to question everything she serves. In Brighter than Scale, Swifter than Flame, Yeva’s mission draws her close to a mysterious queen, forcing her to choose between sacred duty and her own heart. It fits fantasy readers who want queer romance, dragons, and identity-driven stakes wrapped in a lyrical, intimate adventure.
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With an armored, oath-bound hero reminiscent of The Mandalorianand the Asian-inspired epic fantasy of She Who Became the Sun, Neon Yang’s Brighter than Scale, Swifter than Flame is a stunning queer novella about a dragon hunter finding home with a dragon queen.
Few know the true identity of the masked guildknight of Mithrandon.
She barely remembers herself.
The masked guildknight—Yeva—was thirteen when she killed her first dragon. With her gift revealed, she was shipped away to the imperial capital to train in the rare art of dragon-slaying. Now a legendary dragon hunter, she has never truly felt at home—nor removed her armor in public—since that fateful day all those years ago.
Yeva must now go to Quanbao, a fiercely independent and reclusive kingdom. It is rumored that there, dragons are not feared as is right and proper, but instead loved and worshipped. It is rumored that there, they harbor a dragon behind their borders.
While Yeva searches for the dreaded beast, she is welcomed into the palace by Quanbao’s monarch, Lady Sookhee. Though wary of each other, Yeva is shocked to find herself slowly opening up to the beautiful, mysterious queen.
As they grow closer, Yeva longs to let Lady Sookhee see the person behind the armor, but she knows she must fulfill her purpose and slay the dragon. Ultimately, she must decide who—or what—she is willing to betray: her own heart, or the sacred duty that she has called home for so long.
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A harmless lie about a serious relationship pulls two lifelong friends into unfamiliar territory.
Maybe We Can Fake It
LGBTQIA+ · Romance · Gay Romance
Our take
A harmless lie about a serious relationship pulls two lifelong friends into unfamiliar territory. In Maybe We Can Fake It, small-town optimist Brenden Sanderson asks gruff loner Travis Reed to pose as his boyfriend for a family visit. As their arrangement deepens into something neither planned, this M/M romance explores chosen family, healing old wounds, and love that grows from friendship.
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Welcome to Mayweather...
Brenden Sanderson is known in his small town for his sunny personality and being friends with everyone. But when he accidentally tells his adopted daughter’s grandparents that he’s in a serious relationship right before they announce an unexpected visit, he goes into panic mode.
His longtime friend Travis Reed is known in town as a grumpy loner, but he has his reasons, and he also has a serious soft spot for Brenden. So when he offers to help Brenden out by being his fake boyfriend, Brenden isn’t going to turn him down.
What neither of them expect, though, is for fake boyfriends to turn into fake boyfriends with benefits, and then into something else that feels a lot less fake.
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In Pomegranate, Ranita Atwater prepares for release after four years of incarceration, determined to stay sober and reunite with her children.
Pomegranate
LGBTQIA+ · Literary Fiction
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In Pomegranate, Ranita Atwater prepares for release after four years of incarceration, determined to stay sober and reunite with her children. Leaving behind a transformative love, she confronts addiction, faith, and the fragile promise of freedom. Helen Elaine Lee delivers a fierce, humane portrait of recovery and reinvention, longlisted for the 2024 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction.
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LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN FICTION
A “deep and beautiful” (Jaqueline Woodson, New York Times bestselling author) novel about a queer Black woman’s fight for recovery, freedom, and redemption after incarceration—an unforgettable story of addiction, motherhood, and self-reinvention.
Ranita Atwater is “getting short.”
She is almost done with her four-year sentence for opiate possession at Oak Hills Correctional Center. Three years sober, she is determined to stay clean and regain custody of her two children. Ranita is regaining her freedom, but she’s leaving behind her lover Maxine, who has inspired her to imagine herself and the world differently.
My name is Ranita, and I’m an addict, she has said again and again at recovery meetings. But who else is she? Who might she choose to become? Now she must steer clear of the temptations that have pulled her down, while atoning for her missteps and facing old wounds. With a fierce, smart, and sometimes funny voice, Ranita reveals how rocky and winding the path to wellness is for a Black woman, even as she draws on family, memory, faith, and love in order to choose life.
Pomegranate is a complex portrayal of queer Black womanhood and marginalization in America from an author “working at the height of her powers” (Tayari Jones, New York Times bestselling). In lyrical and precise prose, Helen Elaine Lee paints a humane and unflinching portrait of the devastating effects of incarceration and addiction, and of one woman’s determination to tell her story.
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In Burn It Down, firefighter Kade returns home with a young son to protect and never expects to face Spencer, the first boy who broke his heart.
Burn It Down
LGBTQIA+ · Romance · Bisexual Romance · Gay Romance
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In Burn It Down, firefighter Kade returns home with a young son to protect and never expects to face Spencer, the first boy who broke his heart. Spencer has rebuilt himself as a teacher who refuses to disappear again. Old wounds resurface as duty, parenthood, and second chances collide in a tender small town romance by Nicole Dykes.
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Kade
I’ve always wanted to be a firefighter, and I never thought I would become a father, but it turns out—I’m both.
And while being a firefighter was the only career I ever wanted—being a father has become my greatest destiny in this world.
Now I need to do everything I can to protect my son, even if that means going back to my hometown. I won’t let my son down, no matter what, and I will do my duty as a fireman.
Hopefully, I can do it without everything else burning down around me.
Spencer
I never expected to see Kade again—my high school crush and my biggest heartache in adolescence.
I’m not the same person I once was. I’m stronger now. I won’t allow myself to be invisible.
I love being a teacher, and nothing will stop me from being the best one I can be. But Kade coming back into town with his adorable young son in tow—makes it a challenge.
All I can hope is to get through this school year without going back to that unsure, terrified kid.
I have to remember who I am—and when that fear comes back, threatening my newfound confidence—I hope I’ll find the courage to burn it down to the ground and come back stronger than ever.
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Ethan tries to summon Cupid to fix his love life and accidentally drags Hell’s most unimpressive demon to Earth instead.
Hell’s Most Incompetent Demon
Paranormal Romance · LGBTQIA+
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Ethan tries to summon Cupid to fix his love life and accidentally drags Hell’s most unimpressive demon to Earth instead. Malphas sees a chance to finally prove he’s evil by striking a deal for Ethan’s soul—after helping him get the guy. As chaos, feelings, and divine misfires pile up, neither is prepared for what goes wrong next. A lighthearted, laugh-out-loud romantic fantasy.
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Hell's most incompetent demon meets Earth's most hopeless romantic.
All Ethan wanted was someone who could help him find love—or at least someone to pop his cherry. A spell from an odd book he found at the library promised him a wish from Cupid. Sure, some of the ingredients weren't easy to get, but he could improvise. Was there really that much difference between dried laurel leaves and coriander?
He never meant to summon a demon.
Malphas hasn't been to Earth in a hundred years, not since he accidentally created a massively successful support group for gamblers and saved hundreds of souls from damnation. As punishment, he's stuck in Hell's archives filing dusty prophecies because his boss is convinced he's incapable of being properly evil.
When Ethan's summoning yanks him topside, he sees his chance to prove himself. He'll make a deal with the human—and collect that blindingly bright soul.
All he has to do is to help Ethan get together with his crush.
What could possibly go wrong?
Low angst, high comedy m/m romance. HEA guaranteed, no break-ups, no cheating.
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Cursed to feel no love, powerful witch Tamsin survives by stealing what she can never experience.
Sweet & Bitter Magic
LGBTQIA+ · Romantasy · Teen + Young Adult · Lesbian Romance
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Cursed to feel no love, powerful witch Tamsin survives by stealing what she can never experience. When a magical plague strikes, Wren—a hidden source desperate to save her father—offers Tamsin a dangerous bargain: help her stop the dark witch responsible, and she’ll surrender her own love. Their uneasy alliance sparks peril, possibility, and a bond neither expected.
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In this charming debut fantasy perfect for fans of Sorcery of Thorns and Girls of Paper and Fire, a witch cursed to never love meets a girl hiding her own dangerous magic, and the two strike a dangerous bargain to save their queendom.
Tamsin is the most powerful witch of her generation. But after committing the worst magical sin, she’s exiled by the ruling Coven and cursed with the inability to love. The only way she can get those feelings back—even for just a little while—is to steal love from others.
Wren is a source—a rare kind of person who is made of magic, despite being unable to use it herself. Sources are required to train with the Coven as soon as they discover their abilities, but Wren—the only caretaker to her ailing father—has spent her life hiding her secret.
When a magical plague ravages the queendom, Wren’s father falls victim. To save him, Wren proposes a bargain: if Tamsin will help her catch the dark witch responsible for creating the plague, then Wren will give Tamsin her love for her father.
Of course, love bargains are a tricky thing, and these two have a long, perilous journey ahead of them—that is, if they don’t kill each other first.
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Princess Valda is destined to meet her soulmate on her twenty-fifth birthday—until sudden blindness shatters the prophecy.
The Curse of the Goddess
LGBTQIA+ · Romantasy · Lesbian Romance
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Princess Valda is destined to meet her soulmate on her twenty-fifth birthday—until sudden blindness shatters the prophecy. Assigned a caretaker, she finds herself drawn to Maris, a wary young woman hiding her Sealian heritage and a tragic past. As desire grows and old wounds resurface, both must confront buried truths that could reshape the Sky Kingdom and their fates.
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The eyes are the windows to the soul.
The Oracle foretold that Princess Valda Aither of the Sky Kingdom would discover her mate on her twenty-fifth birthday. They would lock eyes and find each other, as has happened since the dawn of time. Valda desperately wanted to believe the Oracle, but her hopes of finding her soulmate were shattered when she inexplicably lost her vision during her birthday celebration. Needing time to heal and adapt to her new reality, she was assigned an assistant, a young woman named Maris Era, who set her body and mind ablaze.
Maris just wanted to navigate life as quietly as possible. After her home in the Sea Kingdom was destroyed, she was adopted as a baby by a Skylian soldier and his wife. Maris was kept hidden for most of her life until tragedy struck. Alone and struggling to survive in a kingdom where Sealians are unwelcome, Maris found herself working in Oberon Castle, face-to-face with the man she believes is responsible for her suffering, while also caring for the next queen of the Sky Kingdom.
Despite her reluctance to accept a mate, Maris cannot resist her attraction to Valda and the need to be with her at all times. Yet, she must uncover the truth about who was behind her family’s demise, but how can she do so when Valda consumes her every breath?
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Aboard the pirate ship Dove, Flora lives as Florian to survive a brutal world—until she meets Lady Evelyn, bound for an unwanted marriage.
The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea
LGBTQIA+ · Romantasy · Teen + Young Adult · Lesbian Romance
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Aboard the pirate ship Dove, Flora lives as Florian to survive a brutal world—until she meets Lady Evelyn, bound for an unwanted marriage. Their unexpected bond sparks an escape that entangles a captured mermaid, an ambitious witch, the Pirate Supreme, and the willful Sea itself. The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea blends swashbuckling adventure with a tender, transformative love story.
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In a world divided by colonialism and threaded with magic, a desperate orphan turned pirate and a rebellious imperial lady find a connection on the high seas.
Aboard the pirate ship Dove, Flora the girl takes on the identity of Florian the man to earn the respect and protection of the crew. For Flora, former starving urchin, the brutal life of a pirate is about survival: don’t trust, don’t stick out, and don’t feel. But on this voyage, Flora is drawn to the Lady Evelyn Hasegawa, who is headed to an arranged marriage she dreads. Flora doesn’t expect to be taken under Evelyn’s wing, and Evelyn doesn’t expect to find such a deep bond with the pirate Florian. Neither expects to fall in love.
Soon the unlikely pair set in motion a wild escape that will free a captured mermaid (coveted for her blood) and involve the mysterious Pirate Supreme, an opportunistic witch, double agents, and the all-encompassing Sea herself.
Deftly entwining swashbuckling action and quiet magic, Maggie Tokuda-Hall’s inventive debut novel conjures a diverse cast of characters seeking mastery over their fates while searching for answers to big questions about identity, power, and love.
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