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In Rabu, where the Automae rule the humans they once served, Ayla secretly plots to kill Lady Crier to avenge her family.
Crier’s War
LGBTQIA+ · Romantasy · Teen + Young Adult · Lesbian Romance
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In Rabu, where the Automae rule the humans they once served, Ayla secretly plots to kill Lady Crier to avenge her family. But Crier—Made to be flawless and loyal—discovers unsettling truths about her father, her betrothal, and her own purpose. As rebellion brews and their connection deepens, the two girls face a choice that could ignite a revolution.
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From debut author Nina Varela comes the first book in a richly imagined epic fantasy duology about an impossible love between two girls—one human, one Made—whose romance could be the beginning of a revolution.
Perfect for fans of Marie Rutkoski’s The Winner’s Curse as well as Game of Thrones and Westworld.
After the War of Kinds ravaged the kingdom of Rabu, the Automae, designed to be the playthings of royals, usurped their owners’ estates and bent the human race to their will.
Now Ayla, a human servant rising in the ranks at the House of the Sovereign, dreams of avenging her family’s death…by killing the sovereign’s daughter, Lady Crier.
Crier was Made to be beautiful, flawless, and to carry on her father’s legacy. But that was before her betrothal to the enigmatic Scyre Kinok, before she discovered her father isn’t the benevolent king she once admired, and most importantly, before she met Ayla.
Now, with growing human unrest across the land, pressures from a foreign queen, and an evil new leader on the rise, Crier and Ayla find there may be only one path to love: war.
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Helen Brandt, an augur who sold her soul to save her brother, is offered the one thing she longs for—a future with the woman she loves—if she can…
Even Though I Knew the End
Fantasy · LGBTQIA+ · High Fantasy · Lesbian Romance
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Helen Brandt, an augur who sold her soul to save her brother, is offered the one thing she longs for—a future with the woman she loves—if she can hunt down Chicago’s infamous White City Vampire in three days. Navigating divine monsters, forbidden magic, and a ticking clock, she faces a final case where success means redemption and failure means hell.
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A USA Today Bestseller!
Winner of the Nebula Award!
Finalist for the Hugo Award!
Finalist for the World Fantasy Award!
A New York Times Best Romance of 2022!
C. L. Polk turns their considerable powers to a fantastical noir with Even Though I Knew the End.
“Eerie, sharp, and fiercely bittersweet.” —The New York Times
A magical detective dives into the affairs of Chicago's divine monsters to secure a future with the love of her life. This sapphic period piece will dazzle anyone looking for mystery, intrigue, romance, magic, or all of the above.
An exiled augur who sold her soul to save her brother's life is offered one last job before serving an eternity in hell. When she turns it down, her client sweetens the pot by offering up the one payment she can't resist—the chance to have a future where she grows old with the woman she loves.
To succeed, she is given three days to track down the White City Vampire, Chicago's most notorious serial killer. If she fails, only hell and heartbreak await.
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Fire witch and small-time swindler Dellaria Wells talks her way into guarding a wealthy bride-to-be, joining a motley crew of magically gifted women.
The Ruthless Lady’s Guide to Wizardry
LGBTQIA+ · Romantasy · Lesbian Romance
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Fire witch and small-time swindler Dellaria Wells talks her way into guarding a wealthy bride-to-be, joining a motley crew of magically gifted women. What begins as quick money—and a promising flirtation with the refined Winn Cynallum—turns perilous when undead threats and dark conspiracies emerge. With unlikely allies at her side, Delly must outwit an enemy with powerful connections.
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A Tor.com Reviewers' Choice Best Book of the Year
Sparks fly in this enchanting fantasy novel from the author of Unnatural Magic when a down-and-out fire witch and a young gentlewoman join forces against a deadly conspiracy.
Dellaria Wells, petty con artist, occasional thief, and partly educated fire witch, is behind on her rent in the city of Leiscourt—again. Then she sees the “wanted” sign, seeking Female Persons, of Martial or Magical ability, to guard a Lady of some Importance, prior to the celebration of her Marriage. Delly fast-talks her way into the job and joins a team of highly peculiar women tasked with protecting their wealthy charge from unknown assassins.
Delly quickly sets her sights on one of her companions, the confident and well-bred Winn Cynallum. The job looks like nothing but romance and easy money until things take a deadly (and undead) turn. With the help of a bird-loving necromancer, a shapeshifting schoolgirl, and an ill-tempered reanimated mouse named Buttons, Delly and Winn are determined to get the best of an adversary who wields a twisted magic and has friends in the highest of places.
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Raised in the wild wood by her secretive mother, a young woman feels called to Artos’s court and sets out armed with a stolen spear and fierce, untested…
Spear
LGBTQIA+ · Romantasy · Lesbian Romance
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Raised in the wild wood by her secretive mother, a young woman feels called to Artos’s court and sets out armed with a stolen spear and fierce, untested magic. Along the way, she battles warriors and sorcerers, claims desire and destiny on her own terms, and forges a place in the world. Nicola Griffith’s Spear is a lush, modern, queer reimagining of Arthurian legend.
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Winner of the ADCI Literary Prize
Winner of the L.A. Times Ray Bradbury Prize
Finalist for the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction
Finalist for the Nebula Award for Best Novel
Finalist for the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel
Finalist for the HWA Gold Crown Award for Historical Fiction
"[A] queer Arthurian masterpiece for the modern era."—Los Angeles Times
"A pleasure to follow [and] a lovely flexing of Griffith’s strengths in short form." —The New York Times Book Review
“Spectacular—I've been waiting years for this book to exist.” —Maria Dahvana Headley, author of Beowulf: A New Translation
"If Le Guin wrote a Camelot story, I imagine it would feel like Spear: humane, intelligent, and deeply beautiful. It's a new story with very old bones, a strange place that feels like home." —Alix E. Harrow, author of A Spindle Splintered
A Shelf Awareness Best of the Year pick
A Vulture Best Fantasy of the Year pick
She left all she knew to find who she could be . . .
She grows up in the wild wood, in a cave with her mother, but visions of a faraway lake drift to her on the spring breeze, scented with promise. And when she hears a traveler speak of Artos, king of Caer Leon, she decides her future lies at his court. So, brimming with magic and eager to test her strength, she breaks her covenant with her mother and sets out on her bony gelding for Caer Leon.
With her stolen hunting spear and mended armour, she is an unlikely hero, not a chosen one, but one who forges her own bright path. Aflame with determination, she begins a journey of magic and mystery, love, lust and fights to death. On her adventures, she will steal the hearts of beautiful women, fight warriors and sorcerers, and make a place to call home.
The legendary author of Hild returns with an unforgettable hero and a queer Arthurian masterpiece for the modern era. Nicola Griffith’s Spear is a spellbinding vision of the Camelot we've longed for, a Camelot that belongs to us all.
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When a royal edict bans men from the stage, director Sabajan Hollant is determined to keep her all-female troupe out of trouble and in their patron’s good graces.
Some by Virtue Fall
LGBTQIA+ · Romantasy · Lesbian Romance
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When a royal edict bans men from the stage, director Sabajan Hollant is determined to keep her all-female troupe out of trouble and in their patron’s good graces. But rival players refuse to let old grudges die, dragging Saba into a spiraling feud of sabotage, schemes, and revenge. Now the Lord Chancellor’s Players must fight back—with style, talent, and grit.
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By the King’s Edict, men have been banned from performing on stage.
Everyone else is still out for blood.
Sabajan Hollant, director and co-founder of the celebrated Lord Chancellor’s Players, has one resolution: This time they’re going to do it right. If they want to keep their noble patron—hell, if they want to stay in the theater business at all—they’re going to have to keep their hands clean. No accidents, no rising to other troupes’ provocations and taunts, and certainly no more duelling in the streets.
But their arch-rivals have different plans, and soon enough, Saba and her troupe are caught up once again in an escalating drama of revenge, betrayal, and outright sabotage.
The men may have started this war—but Saba and her remaining players are going to end it.
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Marion Shaw escapes the slums by accepting a position as a bloodmaid in the opulent, dangerous House of Hunger, where nobles drink the lifeblood of their servants.
House of Hunger
LGBTQIA+ · Romantasy · Lesbian Romance
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Marion Shaw escapes the slums by accepting a position as a bloodmaid in the opulent, dangerous House of Hunger, where nobles drink the lifeblood of their servants. Captivated by the alluring Countess Lisavet, Marion is drawn into a world of decadence and peril. As dark secrets emerge, she must learn the house’s brutal rules before she becomes its next sacrifice.
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WANTED - Bloodmaid of exceptional taste. Must have a keen proclivity for life’s finer pleasures. Girls of weak will need not apply.
A young woman is drawn into the upper echelons of a society where blood is power in this dark and enthralling Gothic novel from the author of The Year of the Witching.
Marion Shaw has been raised in the slums, where want and deprivation are all she know. Despite longing to leave the city and its miseries, she has no real hope of escape until the day she spots a peculiar listing in the newspaper seeking a bloodmaid.
Though she knows little about the far north—where wealthy nobles live in luxury and drink the blood of those in their service—Marion applies to the position. In a matter of days, she finds herself the newest bloodmaid at the notorious House of Hunger. There, Marion is swept into a world of dark debauchery. At the center of it all is Countess Lisavet.
The countess, who presides over this hedonistic court, is loved and feared in equal measure. She takes a special interest in Marion. Lisavet is magnetic, and Marion is eager to please her new mistress. But when she discovers that the ancient walls of the House of Hunger hide even older secrets, Marion is thrust into a vicious game of cat and mouse. She’ll need to learn the rules of her new home—and fast—or its halls will soon become her grave.
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A sharp fit for readers drawn to Egyptian-inspired fantasy, elemental magic, women's rights movements, and political change.
The Daughters of Izdihar
LGBTQIA+ · Romantasy · Lesbian Romance
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Waterweaver Nehal wants to study her magic but is forced into marriage because of her family's debts, while earthweaver Giorgina secretly works with the Daughters of Izdihar, a movement fighting for women's rights. Their lives converge as they push for greater freedom in a society where elemental magic and women's independence are both restricted, with a 3.7-star average from more than 3,700 Goodreads ratings. A sharp fit for readers drawn to Egyptian-inspired fantasy, elemental magic, women's rights movements, and political change.
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From debut author Hadeer Elsbai comes the first book in an incredibly powerful new duology, set wholly in a new world, but inspired by modern Egyptian history, about two young women—Nehal, a spoiled aristocrat used to getting what she wants and Giorgina, a poor bookshop worker used to having nothing—who find they have far more in common, particularly in their struggle for the rights of women and their ability to fight for it with forbidden elemental magic
As a waterweaver, Nehal can move and shape any water to her will, but she’s limited by her lack of formal education. She desires nothing more than to attend the newly opened Weaving Academy, take complete control of her powers, and pursue a glorious future on the battlefield with the first all-female military regiment. But her family cannot afford to let her go—crushed under her father’s gambling debt, Nehal is forcibly married into a wealthy merchant family. Her new spouse, Nico, is indifferent and distant and in love with another woman, a bookseller named Giorgina.
Giorgina has her own secret, however: she is an earthweaver with dangerously uncontrollable powers. She has no money and no prospects. Her only solace comes from her activities with the Daughters of Izdihar, a radical women’s rights group at the forefront of a movement with a simple goal: to attain recognition for women to have a say in their own lives. They live very different lives and come from very different means, yet Nehal and Giorgina have more in common than they think. The cause—and Nico—brings them into each other’s orbit, drawn in by the group’s enigmatic leader, Malak Mamdouh, and the urge to do what is right.
But their problems may seem small in the broader context of their world, as tensions are rising with a neighboring nation that desires an end to weaving and weavers. As Nehal and Giorgina fight for their rights, the threat of war looms in the background, and the two women find themselves struggling to earn—and keep—a lasting freedom.
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As demons breach the Hokkaran Empire’s borders, two young warriors—Shefali of the Qorin steppes and the imperial heir Shizuka—must unite the strength of their intertwined destinies.
The Tiger’s Daughter
LGBTQIA+ · Romantasy · Lesbian Romance
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As demons breach the Hokkaran Empire’s borders, two young warriors—Shefali of the Qorin steppes and the imperial heir Shizuka—must unite the strength of their intertwined destinies. Raised together yet divided by culture and prophecy, they face an ancient evil threatening their world. The Tiger’s Daughter launches K Arsenault Rivera’s sweeping, romantic epic of devotion, power, and gods on the edge of war.
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K Arsenault Rivera's debut, The Tiger's Daughter, the beginning of a new epic fantasy trilogy
"Rich, expansive, and grounded in human truth...simply exquisite."—V. E. Schwab, New York Times bestselling author of the Shades of Magic series
Indie Next List October 2017 Pick
Paste Magazine's 10 Most Anticipated Books in October 2017
io9's Best Books Coming in 2017
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Even gods can be slain
The Hokkaran empire has conquered every land within their bold reach—but failed to notice a lurking darkness festering within the people. Now, their border walls begin to crumble, and villages fall to demons swarming out of the forests.
Away on the silver steppes, the remaining tribes of nomadic Qorin retreat and protect their own, having bartered a treaty with the empire, exchanging inheritance through the dynasties. It is up to two young warriors, raised together across borders since their prophesied birth, to save the world from the encroaching demons.
This is the story of an infamous Qorin warrior, Barsalayaa Shefali, a spoiled divine warrior empress, O Shizuka, and a power that can reach through time and space to save a land from a truly insidious evil.
A crack in the wall heralds the end…two goddesses arm themselves…K Arsenault Rivera's The Tiger's Daughter is an adventure for the ages.
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When healer Ophelia is ordered to convert her enemy, the captured knight Lupa Nox, faith turns to obsession.
Holy Wrath
LGBTQIA+ · Romantasy · Lesbian Romance
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When healer Ophelia is ordered to convert her enemy, the captured knight Lupa Nox, faith turns to obsession. As forbidden love blooms and her city’s holy facade begins to crack, Ophelia must choose between the Saints she worships and the woman who defies them. Holy Wrath is a fierce, sapphic fantasy of passion and rebellion.
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In a city of light built on lies, faith can be as dangerous as love.
Ophelia, a devoted healer, longs for a Saint to claim her and grant her divine power. When she is ordered to care for a captured enemy knight, the infamous Lupa Nox, she sees her chance to prove her worth to the Church. Converting the fearsome warrior could make her a Saint at last.
But as the knight’s words and the city’s secrets begin to unravel everything Ophelia believes, devotion turns to doubt and desire. The truth behind Lumendei’s golden walls may destroy them both or set them free.
Victoria Mier’s Holy Wrath is a dark sapphic fantasy about love, heresy, and the power of vengeance wrapped in faith.
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A sharp fit for readers drawn to queer literary fiction, dark humor, social anxiety, and awkward predicaments.
Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead
Literary Fiction · LGBTQIA+ · Coming of Age · Lesbian Romance
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A finalist for the Amazon Canada First Novel Award, Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead follows Gilda, an anxious lesbian atheist who unexpectedly takes a receptionist job at a Catholic church. A mistaken identity and continued emails to a deceased employee’s friend pull her into an increasingly difficult deception, with a 4.0-star rating from more than 3,800 Amazon reviewers. A sharp fit for readers drawn to queer literary fiction, dark humor, social anxiety, and awkward predicaments.
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In this “fun, page-turner of a novel” (Sarah Haywood, New York Times bestselling author) that’s perfect for fans of Mostly Dead Things and Goodbye, Vitamin, an anxious young woman stumbles into a job as a receptionist at a Catholic church and soon finds herself obsessed with her predecessor’s mysterious death.
Gilda, a twenty-something, atheist, animal-loving lesbian, cannot stop ruminating about death. Desperate for relief from her panicky mind and alienated from her repressive family, she responds to a flyer for free therapy at a local Catholic church, and finds herself being greeted by Father Jeff, who assumes she’s there for a job interview. Too embarrassed to correct him, Gilda is abruptly hired to replace the recently deceased receptionist Grace.
In between trying to memorize the lines to Catholic mass, hiding the fact that she has a new girlfriend, and erecting a dirty dish tower in her apartment, Gilda strikes up an email correspondence with Grace’s old friend. She can’t bear to ignore the kindly old woman who has been trying to reach her friend through the church inbox, but she also can’t bring herself to break the bad news. Desperate, she begins impersonating Grace via email. But when the police discover suspicious circumstances surrounding Grace’s death, Gilda may have to finally reveal the truth of her mortifying existence.
With a “kindhearted heroine we all need right now” (Courtney Maum, New York Times bestselling author), Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead is a crackling and “delightfully weird reminder that we will one day turn to dust and that yes, this is depressing, but it’s also what makes life beautiful” (Jean Kyoung Frazier, author of Pizza Girl).
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Doctor Walden runs England’s most prestigious magic school, protecting its students from demonic incursions.
The Incandescent
LGBTQIA+ · Romantasy · Lesbian Romance · Urban Fantasy
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Doctor Walden runs England’s most prestigious magic school, protecting its students from demonic incursions. But when a sinister force begins to awaken, she fears the danger may be closer than anyone suspects. The Incandescent delivers a haunting blend of dark academia, power, and desire from Hugo and World Fantasy Award winner Emily Tesh.
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Power is easy to teach. Controlling it is another matter entirely.
Doctor Walden is the Director of Magic at Chetwood School, where six hundred students study within wards that keep the demons out. Brilliant, composed, and fiercely dedicated, Walden holds the line between order and chaos. Her days are filled with lessons, meetings, and the delicate art of keeping the dark at bay.
But something inside the school is stirring. As her gifted, unruly sixth formers grow stronger, so does the entity that watches from the shadows. Walden knows the danger better than anyone. The question is whether the threat comes from beyond the walls—or from within her own soul.
The Incandescent is a lush, sapphic dark academia fantasy from Hugo and World Fantasy Award winner Emily Tesh.
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Perfect for fans of The Witch’s Heart and Nettle & Bone.
North Is the Night
LGBTQIA+ · Romantasy · Lesbian Romance
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In North Is the Night by Emily Rath (4.7 out of 5 stars), two women defy gods, death, and destiny in a Finnish folklore–inspired fantasy of love and courage. When Aina is stolen to the underworld, Siiri’s perilous journey to save her sparks a mythic battle of heart and will. Perfect for fans of The Witch’s Heart and Nettle & Bone.
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Two bold young women defy the gods and mortals, living and dead, in this darkly mythical, Finnish folklore-inspired fantasy duology for readers of T. Kingfisher's Nettle & Bone, Danielle L. Jensen, Thea Guanzon, Jennifer L. Armentrout, and The Witch’s Heart by Genevieve Gornichec.
“A romantic, adventure-filled tale that will enrapture readers with a transportive saga of love, friendship, and magic.” —Adrienne Young, New York Times-and USA Today-bestselling author of The Unmaking of June Farrow
In the Finnish wilderness, more than wolves roam the dark forests. For Siiri and Aina, summer’s fading light is a harbinger of unwelcome change. Land-hungry Swedes venture north, threatening the peace; a zealous Christian priest denounces the old ways; and young women have begun to disappear.
Siiri vows to protect Aina from danger. But even Siiri cannot stop a death goddess from dragging her friend to Tuonela, the mythical underworld. Determined to save Aina, Siiri braves a dangerous journey north to seek the greatest shaman of legend, the only person to venture to the realm of death and return alive.
In Tuonela, the cruel Witch Queen turns Aina’s every waking moment into a living nightmare. But armed with compassion and cleverness, Aina learns the truth of her capture: the king of the underworld himself has plans for her. To return home, Aina must bargain her heart—as Siiri plots a daring rescue of the woman she loves the most.
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