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A good pick for fans of MM sports romance featuring forced proximity, workplace attraction, and opposites attract.
First to Finish
LGBTQIA+ · Romance · Erotica · Gay Romance · Sports Romance
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Formula 1 driver Johannes Muller is struggling to maintain his championship momentum when race engineer Caleb Hughes steps in to help him regain his confidence. As their professional relationship develops into something more, both must navigate their growing attraction and the demands of their careers, with a 3.7-star average from more than 1,700 Goodreads ratings. A good pick for fans of MM sports romance featuring forced proximity, workplace attraction, and opposites attract.
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The stakes have never been higher in this spicy F1 forced proximity romcom!
Race car driver Johannes Muller is on a hot streak this season and seems destined to claim the championship win … until his performance unexpectedly falters. Gone is his cool confidence – on the track he can barely qualify, let alone take home the trophy.
The team’s race engineer, Caleb Hughes, is determined to get his star driver back in pole position, but soon the sparks flying over the radio are more chemistry than competition.
In a sport where everyone gives it their all at all times, it’s not long before Johannes and Caleb realise that their racing line is leading them towards a collision they won’t be able to walk away from unscathed…
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Ideal for readers looking for queer YA horror with body horror, isolation, obsession, and an unsettling supernatural connection.
Scorpion Deep
LGBTQIA+ · Romantasy · Teen + Young Adult · Gay Romance
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Jonathan Covey wants to escape the isolated isle of Kelcarrow, but a desperate ritual awakens Scorpion Deep, an eldritch sea god whose growing obsession with him turns increasingly dangerous. It has a 4.6-star average from more than 600 Goodreads ratings. Ideal for readers looking for queer YA horror with body horror, isolation, obsession, and an unsettling supernatural connection.
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CG Drews, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of Don't Let the Forest In and Hazelthorn, weaves a disturbing and intoxicating siren-call in Scorpion Deep, about a lonely boy who accidentally awakens an obsessive eldritch sea god.
The only thing Jonathan Covey wants from the gloomy, moldering isle of Kelcarrow is to leave it. Summer is ending, and his friends are looking forward to college on the mainland, unaware that Jonathan was not accepted to join them. He'll be left behind with nothing but the ocean's haunts and a rising dread of being abandoned.
In an act of wild desperation, Jonathan pays a tithe to Scorpion Deep, an eldritch sea god who many of the locals have dismissed as myth. He wants to forget the past, he wants to follow his friends, and most of all he wants to finally escape.
To his shock and horror, the ritual works—Scorpion Deep awakens. And despite his terror, Jonathan can't help but feel drawn toward the ageless entity that seems just as mutually obsessed with him. As scales start growing down his spine and Scorpion Deep's adoration of him turns bloody, Jonathan realizes the only way to end the nightmare is to destroy the monster one way or another.
But once a god has awoken, the only way to be free is to pay a price of blood.
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A strong match for readers who like quest fantasy, unlikely companions, ancient weapons, and reluctant heroes.
Iron Axe
Fantasy · LGBTQIA+ · Epic Fantasy · Sword and Sorcery
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Danr, the half-human son of a hated troll, is treated as an outcast until Death calls on him to find the Iron Axe, the ancient weapon that once split the continent and could now save the world or destroy it, with a 3.6-star average from 300 Goodreads ratings. A strong match for readers who like quest fantasy, unlikely companions, ancient weapons, and reluctant heroes.
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Death asks a half-troll and his friends to save the world in this epic fantasy series debut by the author of the Clockwork Empire series.
Although Danr is the son of a human mother, his father was one of the hated Stanes, trolls from the mountains. Now the barrel-chested teenager is condemned to hard labor on a farm where he endures taunts of "Troll boy" from the others. Yet no matter how bad things get, he always remembers the advice of his recently departed mother: be gentle and do not unleash the monster inside.
One of Danr's few friends in the village, Aisa, was sold into slavery by her father and is now controlled by an abusive man. She keeps herself covered from head to toe and dreams of a better future. She and Danr hope to escape and make their way to freedom, but a series of dark events soon stirs up chaos.
Strange creatures come down from the mountains, slaughtering villagers. Spirits of the dead haunt the land, terrifying those that are still alive. As rumors spread about the Stanes' involvement, Danr decides to find out the truth, taking Aisa and an amnesiac new friend with him. Soon they are called up by Death herself to set things right.
At Death's request, the group sets out to recover the Iron Axe. Crafted by the dwarves, it is capable of restoring balance in the world—and destroying it, too. Along the way, Danr must call upon the monster within to face fierce and fantastic creatures while discovering truths that will change their lives forever.
"[Turns] common tropes on their heads. . . . [Harper's] reinterpretations of trolls, giants, and fae folk give this series opener a fresh feeling, while his nods to Norse mythology and folklore root it strongly in fantasy tradition.Readers will be eager to see what's in store for Aisa and Danr." —Publishers Weekly
"Brought back fond memories of a classic fantasy book while still offering a wonderfully unique take on the genre. . . . Steven Harper created a world that I never got tired of exploring." —The Qwillery
"The story holds all of the adventure, magic, and mystery I have come to expect from the genre. . . .[It] follows a hero's journey . . . with energy and artfulness." —Wicked Little Pixie
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A strong match for readers drawn to character-centered space opera, political maneuvering, family ambition, and contested artifacts.
Provenance
LGBTQIA+ · Sci-Fi · Hard Sci-Fi
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Ingray frees a thief from a prison planet in hopes of recovering her family’s priceless artifacts and improving her chances of becoming heir, only to return home to political turmoil and an escalating interstellar conflict, with a 4.0-star average from more than 500 Goodreads ratings. A strong match for readers drawn to character-centered space opera, political maneuvering, family ambition, and contested artifacts.
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An ambitious young woman has just one chance to secure her future and reclaim her family's priceless lost artifacts in this stand-alone novel set in the world of the award-winning, New York Times bestselling Imperial Radch trilogy.
Though she knows her brother holds her mother's favor, Ingrid is determined to at least be considered as heir to the family name. She hatches an audacious plan -- free a thief from a prison planet from which no one has ever returned, and use them to help steal back a priceless artifact.
But Ingray and her charge return to her home to find their planet in political turmoil, at the heart of an escalating interstellar conflict. Together, they must make a new plan to salvage Ingray's future and her world, before they are lost to her for good.
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A quiet, reflective choice for readers interested in Japanese fiction, music, craftsmanship, and finding one’s path.
The Forest of Wool and Steel
LGBTQIA+ · Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · Magical Realism
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Winner of the Japan Booksellers’ Award, this novel follows Tomura, a young man who discovers his calling after hearing a piano being tuned at his school. He begins an apprenticeship under experienced craftsmen while learning to develop his own skill and purpose, with a 3.8-star average from more than 4,700 Goodreads ratings. A quiet, reflective choice for readers interested in Japanese fiction, music, craftsmanship, and finding one’s path.
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OVER ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD
''A mesmerising reading experience for all of us seeking a meaningful life' JAPAN TIMES
What he experienced that day wasn’t life-changing . . . It was life-making.
Tomura is startled by the hypnotic sound of a piano being tuned in his school. It seeps into his soul and transports him to the forests, dark and gleaming, that surround his beloved mountain village. From that moment, he is determined to discover more.
Under the tutelage of three master piano-tuners – one humble, one jovial, one ill-tempered – Tomura embarks on his training, never straying too far from a single, unfathomable question: do I have what it takes?
Set in small-town Japan, this warm and mystical story is for the lucky few who have found their calling – and for the rest of us who are still searching. It shows that the road to finding one’s purpose is a winding path, often filled with treacherous doubts and, for those who persevere, astonishing moments of revelation.
Mega-bestselling winner of the Japan Booksellers Award, selected by bookshop staff as the book they most wanted to hand-sell: A tender and uplifting novel for fans of A WHOLE LIFE by Robert Seethaler.
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A strong match for readers who want large-scale zombie horror focused on an outbreak, survival, and the collapse of society.
The Living Dead
Dystopian · Horror · LGBTQIA+
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George A. Romero’s unfinished zombie novel, completed by Daniel Kraus, follows a rapidly spreading outbreak through multiple survivors, from medical examiners and a trailer park to an aircraft carrier and cable news station, with a 4.2-star rating from more than 1,500 Amazon reviewers. A strong match for readers who want large-scale zombie horror focused on an outbreak, survival, and the collapse of society.
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“A horror landmark and a work of gory genius.”—Joe Hill, New York Times bestselling author of The Fireman
New York Times bestselling author Daniel Kraus completes George A. Romero's brand-new masterpiece of zombie horror, the massive novel left unfinished at Romero's death!
George A. Romero invented the modern zombie with Night of the Living Dead, creating a monster that has become a key part of pop culture. Romero often felt hemmed in by the constraints of film-making. To tell the story of the rise of the zombies and the fall of humanity the way it should be told, Romero turned to fiction. Unfortunately, when he died, the story was incomplete.
Enter Daniel Kraus, co-author, with Guillermo del Toro, of the New York Times bestseller The Shape of Water (based on the Academy Award-winning movie) and Trollhunters (which became an Emmy Award-winning series), and author of The Death and Life of Zebulon Finch (an Entertainment Weekly Top 10 Book of the Year). A lifelong Romero fan, Kraus was honored to be asked, by Romero's widow, to complete The Living Dead.
Set in the present day, The Living Dead is an entirely new tale, the story of the zombie plague as George A. Romero wanted to tell it.
It begins with one body.
A pair of medical examiners find themselves battling a dead man who won’t stay dead.
It spreads quickly.
In a Midwestern trailer park, a Black teenage girl and a Muslim immigrant battle newly-risen friends and family. On a US aircraft carrier, living sailors hide from dead ones while a fanatic makes a new religion out of death. At a cable news station, a surviving anchor keeps broadcasting while his undead colleagues try to devour him. In DC, an autistic federal employee charts the outbreak, preserving data for a future that may never come.
Everywhere, people are targeted by both the living and the dead.
We think we know how this story ends.
We. Are. Wrong.
At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
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Ideal for readers looking for literary dystopia centered on grief, parenthood, queer family life, government surveillance, and community resistance.
I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself
Dystopian · LGBTQIA+
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Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ+ Speculative Fiction, this dystopian novel follows Kris, a grieving mother raising a daughter in a surveillance state where people who break the law are marked with additional shadows and stripped of rights, with a 3.9-star average from more than 8,100 Goodreads ratings. Ideal for readers looking for literary dystopia centered on grief, parenthood, queer family life, government surveillance, and community resistance.
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Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ+ Speculative Fiction
Dept. of Speculation meets Black Mirror in this lyrical, speculative debut about a queer mother raising her daughter in an unjust surveillance state
In a United States not so unlike our own, the Department of Balance has adopted a radical new form of law enforcement: rather than incarceration, wrongdoers are given a second (and sometimes, third, fourth, and fifth) shadow as a reminder of their crime—and a warning to those they encounter. Within the Department, corruption and prejudice run rampant, giving rise to an underclass of so-called Shadesters who are disenfranchised, publicly shamed, and deprived of civil rights protections.
Kris is a Shadester and a new mother to a baby born with a second shadow of her own. Grieving the loss of her wife and thoroughly unprepared for the reality of raising a child alone, Kris teeters on the edge of collapse, fumbling in a daze of alcohol, shame, and self-loathing. Yet as the kid grows, Kris finds her footing, raising a child whose irrepressible spark cannot be dampened by the harsh realities of the world. She can’t forget her wife, but with time, she can make a new life for herself and the kid, supported by a community of fellow misfits who defy the Department to lift one another up in solidarity and hope.
With a first-person register reminiscent of the fierce self-disclosure of Sheila Heti and the poetic precision of Ocean Vuong, I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself is a bold debut novel that examines the long shadow of grief, the hard work of parenting, and the power of queer resistance.
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Best for readers who like MM romance with class differences, rivals, family pressure, and stormy forced proximity.
Midnight Curfew
LGBTQIA+ · Romance · College Romance · Dark Romance · New Adult
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From New York Times bestselling author Penelope Douglas, this romance follows Dallas Jaeger and Callum Ames, two men from rival southern Florida communities whose conflict over a curfew complicates their forbidden attraction, with a 4.2-star average from 55 Goodreads ratings. Best for readers who like MM romance with class differences, rivals, family pressure, and stormy forced proximity.
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Two rivals from opposing families fight their forbidden attraction to each other in the brand new romance from New York Times bestselling author Penelope Douglas.
As the middle Jaeger brother, Dallas was often lost in the shuffle growing up. As a man, he’s prideful of his community on the wrong side of the tracks—Sanoa Bay—and aggressively protective of his land and his inner circle. He’s hungry and ready for a fight.
Callum Ames has a reputation in St. Carmen, the affluent neighborhood abutting Sanoa Bay. The hottest. The most popular. Rich. Powerful. Strong. The one all the women want. After four years away, he’s back, but for all his bravado, he’s got one major secret: he only looks at Dallas Jaeger.
Summer is storm season on the coast. Heat, wind, rain…
Lockdown and curfew.
As Dallas and Callum engage, out for each other's blood, they can't stop the consuming fire between them and the outcome they already see coming...
The storm of the century.
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A strong match for readers drawn to queer gothic horror, historical settings, folklore, secret love, and isolated winter landscapes.
As the Snow Gathers
Horror · LGBTQIA+
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In remote Aplin Shade, Dominic is forced to lead his family after his father dies, while he and logger Lex dream of escaping a town where their love must remain secret. When the Fanteur of the surrounding forest turn against the logging camp and begin threatening the living, winter becomes a fight for survival, with a 3.9-star average from more than 90 Goodreads ratings. A strong match for readers drawn to queer gothic horror, historical settings, folklore, secret love, and isolated winter landscapes.
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The forest doesn't just take what it's owed—it takes whatever it wants.
Dominic was born in Aplin Shade, a remote Canadian town built on the bones of another that vanished without a trace. Bookish and quiet, he never asked to lead his family, but after a carriage crash kills his father and leaves his sister forever changed, he has no choice.
The only person who truly sees him is Lex, a logger in the camp near town and the love Dominic must keep secret. Together they dream of escaping Aplin Shade, a place where isolation breeds judgment and every kindness hides a cost.
But the forest is no refuge. The Fanteur dwell there—shadowed beings who come at night to drain the dead of their blood and return them for burial by dawn.
They've never touched the living.
Until now.
As winter descends and the Fanteur strike back against the logging camp, Dominic and Lex must fight for their lives, their love, and a way out of the woods' tightening grasp.
Because the forest doesn't forgive, and it never forgets.
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A sharp fit for readers drawn to queer fantasy romance, court intrigue, bodyguard dynamics, anxiety representation, and slow-burn yearning.
A Taste of Gold and Iron
LGBTQIA+ · Romantasy · Gay Romance
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A Kirkus Reviews Book of the Year and Indie Next pick called “A delicious tangle of romance, fealty, and dangerous politics” by Tasha Suri, A Taste of Gold and Iron follows Prince Kadou and his newly appointed bodyguard, Evemer. Their investigation into a guild break-in uncovers a counterfeiting conspiracy that could destabilize the kingdom, while loyalty and proximity draw them closer, with a 4.3-star rating from more than 8,100 Amazon reviewers. A sharp fit for readers drawn to queer fantasy romance, court intrigue, bodyguard dynamics, anxiety representation, and slow-burn yearning.
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Now an Indie Next pick! A Most Anticipated Pick for BookRiot | FanFi Addict | The Nerd Daily | io9 | We Are Bookish | Buzzfeed
Book of the Year for Kirkus Reviews, Book of the Year for Gizmodo, Must Read for Book Riot, Best of pick for Bustle
“A delicious tangle of romance, fealty, and dangerous politics.”—Tasha Suri
The Goblin Emperor meets "Magnificent Century" in Alexandra Rowland's A Taste of Gold and Iron, where a queer central romance unfolds in a fantasy world reminiscent of the Ottoman Empire.
Kadou, the shy prince of Arasht, finds himself at odds with one of the most powerful ambassadors at court—the body-father of the queen's new child—in an altercation which results in his humiliation.
To prove his loyalty to the queen, his sister, Kadou takes responsibility for the investigation of a break-in at one of their guilds, with the help of his newly appointed bodyguard, the coldly handsome Evemer, who seems to tolerate him at best. In Arasht, where princes can touch-taste precious metals with their fingers and myth runs side by side with history, counterfeiting is heresy, and the conspiracy they discover could cripple the kingdom’s financial standing and bring about its ruin.
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Best for readers who like explicit MM romance with enemies-to-lovers tension, forbidden attraction, forced proximity, and complicated family dynamics.
For The Fans
LGBTQIA+ · Romance · Bisexual Romance · College Romance · Gay Romance
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College stepbrothers Kyran and Avi have spent years hating each other, but financial trouble leads them to create adult content together for paying subscribers. Their arrangement forces them to confront an attraction that complicates their hostile relationship and their shared family. Best for readers who like explicit MM romance with enemies-to-lovers tension, forbidden attraction, forced proximity, and complicated family dynamics.
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Kyran Harbor is everything I’m not.
Rich. Popular. A superstar football player who’s awfully broody for someone who has it all. Basically, he’s a preppy jock who hates me. Oh, and he’s also my stepbrother.
That’s right. We’re stuck together, sharing a school, a house… A bathroom. Honestly, I wouldn’t care… If he wasn’t such an uptight control-freak who messes with me just because we’re different.
I had every intention of avoiding him when we got to college… Until abrupt misfortune forces us both into a compromising position.
Now the grouchy jerk I was hoping to evade might be the only person who can help me out of it.
Avi Vega is everything I despise.
A dreamer. A flake. An artist who smokes too much weed and thinks aliens exist. And by some sick cosmic joke, he’s now my stepbrother, following me on what should’ve been my escape plan.
It was already a disaster. Add a sudden financial disruption to the mix, and let’s just say my options are heavily limited.
If I want to stay an all-star quarterback on the way to the NFL, I’ll need to do something drastic. Unfortunately for me, and my desperate desire for control, the perpetually smiling stoner has a plan.
Maybe we can stop hating each other just enough to pull this off. As long as we remember we’re only doing it… for the fans.
**For The Fans is a full-length standalone MM forbidden romance with an HEA. This book contains sensitive subject matter that could make some readers uncomfortable. Please heed foreword warnings and proceed with caution.
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Readers who enjoy character-driven young adult fiction about first love, identity, family, and belonging should find plenty to like here.
Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World
LGBTQIA+ · Teen + Young Adult
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A #1 New York Times bestseller called “Messily human and sincerely insightful” by Kirkus Reviews, this sequel follows Ari and Dante as they build a relationship while navigating family changes, grief, prejudice, and queer life in 1980s El Paso. Readers who enjoy character-driven young adult fiction about first love, identity, family, and belonging should find plenty to like here.
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A #1 New York Times bestseller
Four starred reviews!
“Messily human and sincerely insightful.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
The highly anticipated sequel to the critically acclaimed, multiple award-winning novel Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe is an “emotional roller coaster” (School Library Journal, starred review) sure to captivate fans of Adam Silvera and Mary H.K. Choi.
In Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, two boys in a border town fell in love. Now, they must discover what it means to stay in love and build a relationship in a world that seems to challenge their very existence.
Ari has spent all of high school burying who he really is, staying silent and invisible. He expected his senior year to be the same. But something in him cracked open when he fell in love with Dante, and he can’t go back. Suddenly he finds himself reaching out to new friends, standing up to bullies of all kinds, and making his voice heard. And, always, there is Dante, dreamy, witty Dante, who can get on Ari’s nerves and fill him with desire all at once.
The boys are determined to forge a path for themselves in a world that doesn’t understand them. But when Ari is faced with a shocking loss, he’ll have to fight like never before to create a life that is truthfully, joyfully his own.
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