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Kyle Ryan Quinn’s golden summers on the island are marked by privilege, beauty, and a haunting tragedy.
Until September
LGBTQIA+ · Literary Fiction · Coming of Age
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Kyle Ryan Quinn’s golden summers on the island are marked by privilege, beauty, and a haunting tragedy. But when he meets Jack Averill during his fateful 18th summer, secrets unravel, and choices are made that will destroy lives and haunt them forever. Winner of the 2024 American Legacy Book Award for LGBTQ+ Fiction, this is a poignant tale of love and loss.
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Winner, LGBTQ+ Fiction — American Legacy Book Awards 2024 • Finalist, Legacy Fiction — American Writing Awards 2023
In the quiet lull between the conservative 1950s and the turbulent 1960s, Kyle Ryan Quinn lives a golden life. Rich, beautiful, and intelligent, he summers each year on the same idyllic island with the same close-knit group of friends. But beneath the surface of privilege and sun-soaked days, Kyle harbors the ghosts of a tragic past—losses and secrets that set him apart from his peers.
When he meets Jack Averill, a quiet, bookish newcomer, during his fateful 18th summer, Kyle’s world begins to shift. As the pressures of family, friendship, and burgeoning desires mount, Kyle and his friends make choices that will steal their innocence and haunt them forever.
This award-winning coming-of-age novel is a heartbreaking exploration of love, loss, and the fragile ties that bind us.
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Kidnapped at Christmas, Ari escapes, washes up on a private beach, and lands in the arms of Holden Amundsen—Hollywood’s fallen golden boy turned reclusive millionaire.
Sea Kissed
LGBTQIA+ · Romance
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Kidnapped at Christmas, Ari escapes, washes up on a private beach, and lands in the arms of Holden Amundsen—Hollywood’s fallen golden boy turned reclusive millionaire. Sparks fly, but their passion becomes a paparazzi scandal. As old enemies close in and Holden hides behind his walls, Ari must risk everything to prove their love could be the miracle neither saw coming.
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The last thing Ari expected for Christmas was to get kidnapped—and it only gets weirder from there. After escaping his captors, he wakes up on the private beach of reclusive millionaire Holden Amundsen, a former Hollywood heartthrob turned scandal-ridden recluse. Holden’s brooding charm is hard to ignore, but Ari discovers there’s more to the man than his public persona. Namely, Holden isn’t as straight as his fan base once thought.
When paparazzi catch a forbidden kiss, Holden’s reputation isn’t the only thing at risk. Ari’s kidnappers haven’t forgotten him, and danger is closing in. Holden swears to keep him safe, but Ari’s heart might not survive the fight. Can Ari convince the guarded ex-actor that their love is more than a holiday fling—or will this Christmas end in heartbreak?
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Fifteen-year-old Arizona faces poverty, prejudice, and family secrets in 1984 Louisiana.
Sins of Yesterday
LGBTQIA+ · Romance
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Fifteen-year-old Arizona faces poverty, prejudice, and family secrets in 1984 Louisiana. After a violent fight with his father tears his family apart, he vows to reunite his siblings and escape a haunting legacy. But can he rise above small-town judgments and the shocking truths about himself to rewrite his family’s fate?
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In 1984 Louisiana, fifteen-year-old Arizona fights to keep his family together while their father squanders his paycheck on booze and bad bets. Branded by small-town gossip and an unspoken family curse, Arizona struggles to protect his younger siblings in a world that’s stacked against him.
When a violent clash with his father shatters their fragile home, Arizona and his siblings are torn apart by Social Services. Determined to reclaim his family, he vows to become the man his siblings need, but the odds are grim. Prejudice, secrets, and haunting family truths lie in his way—truths that could unravel everything Arizona believes about himself.
Heartbreaking yet hopeful, this is a powerful story of resilience, redemption, and the courage it takes to rise above a legacy of pain.
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Megan’s unspoken love for her flatmate Addie takes an unexpected turn when a surprise birthday gift leads to a life-changing kiss.
Kissing Addie
LGBTQIA+ · Romance
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Megan’s unspoken love for her flatmate Addie takes an unexpected turn when a surprise birthday gift leads to a life-changing kiss. With their friendship on the line and feelings laid bare, Megan must confront her deepest desires. Can one kiss rewrite their future—or will it shatter everything they’ve built?
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For two years, Megan has harbored a secret: she’s hopelessly in love with her flatmate, Addie. Addie, who’s straight, sees Megan only as her best friend—and Megan has accepted that… mostly.
But as Addie’s birthday approaches, Megan pours her heart into planning the perfect party and picking out a meaningful gift. What Megan doesn’t anticipate is how one present—and one impulsive moment—could upend everything between them.
When a single kiss sparks possibilities Megan never dared to dream of, their friendship is thrown into uncharted territory. As emotions unravel and lines blur, Megan faces the question: was that kiss a mistake or the start of something extraordinary?
In this heartfelt story of love and courage, one birthday might just change everything.
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Readers who enjoy thought-provoking speculative fiction about mortality, relationships, choice, and society should find plenty to like here.
The Measure
LGBTQIA+ · Literary Fiction
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An instant New York Times bestseller, this speculative novel imagines a world where every person receives a box containing a string that reveals how long they will live, following eight people as they decide whether to know their fate and how that knowledge should shape their lives, with a 4.2-star rating from more than 45,000 Amazon reviewers. Readers who enjoy thought-provoking speculative fiction about mortality, relationships, choice, and society should find plenty to like here.
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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The Read With Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick!
"A story of love and hope as interweaving characters display: how all moments, big and small, can measure a life. If you want joy, love, romance, and hope—read with us." —Jenna Bush Hager
A luminous, spirit-lifting blockbuster of speculative fiction that asks: would you choose to find out the length of your life?
Eight ordinary people. One extraordinary choice.
It seems like any other day. You wake up, drink a cup of coffee, and head out.
But today, when you open your front door, waiting for you is a small wooden box. The contents of this mysterious box tells you the exact number of years you will live.
From suburban doorsteps to desert tents, every person on every continent receives the same box. In an instant, the world is thrust into a collective frenzy. Where did these boxes come from? What do they mean? Is there truth to what they promise?
As society comes together and pulls apart, everyone faces the same shocking choice: Do they wish to know how long they’ll live? And, if so, what will they do with that knowledge? This compelling book club fiction explores that very question.
The Measure charts the dawn of this new world through an unforgettable cast of characters whose decisions and fates interweave with one another: best friends whose dreams are forever entwined, pen pals finding refuge in the unknown, a couple who thought they didn’t have to rush, a doctor who cannot save himself, and a politician whose box becomes the powder keg that ultimately changes everything.
Enchanting and deeply uplifting, The Measure is an ambitious, invigorating story about family, friendship, hope, and destiny that encourages us to live life to the fullest.
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This is an intimate, emotionally intense read for readers drawn to raw grief and fractured healing.
History Is All You Left Me
LGBTQIA+ · Literary Fiction · Teen + Young Adult
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Grief becomes its own kind of obsession in History Is All You Left Me, a young adult novel about love, loss, and the damage of holding on too tightly. After Theo’s death, Griffin spirals through heartbreak, compulsions, and buried secrets while clinging to the future he believed was still possible. This is an intimate, emotionally intense read for readers drawn to raw grief and fractured healing.
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"This book will make you cry, think, and then cry some more."
—Nicola Yoon, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Everything, Everything
From the New York Times bestselling author of More Happy Than Not comes an explosive examination of grief, mental illness, and the devastating consequences of refusing to let go of the past.
When Griffin’s first love and ex-boyfriend, Theo, dies in a drowning accident, his universe implodes. Even though Theo had moved to California for college and started seeing Jackson, Griffin never doubted Theo would come back to him when the time was right. But now, the future he’s been imagining for himself has gone far off course.
To make things worse, the only person who truly understands his heartache is Jackson. But no matter how much they open up to each other, Griffin’s downward spiral continues. He’s losing himself in his obsessive compulsions and destructive choices, and the secrets he’s been keeping are tearing him apart.
If Griffin is ever to rebuild his future, he must first confront his history, every last heartbreaking piece in the puzzle of his life.
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Friendship becomes both refuge and reckoning over the course of a lifetime.
A Little Life
Literary Fiction · LGBTQIA+ · Contemporary Fiction
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Friendship becomes both refuge and reckoning over the course of a lifetime. In A Little Life, four friends build their lives in New York, bound by ambition, loyalty, and their devotion to the enigmatic Jude. As years pass, love and success coexist with addiction and unresolved trauma. The novel offers an unflinching exploration of chosen family, endurance, and the lasting impact of suffering.
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A stunning “portrait of the enduring grace of friendship” (NPR) about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. A masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century.
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE
A Little Life follows four college classmates—broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition—as they move to New York in search of fame and fortune. While their relationships, which are tinged by addiction, success, and pride, deepen over the decades, the men are held together by their devotion to the brilliant, enigmatic Jude, a man scarred by an unspeakable childhood trauma. A hymn to brotherly bonds and a masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century, Hanya Yanagihara’s stunning novel is about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves.
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Evelyn McKinnon stumbles upon 104.6 FM, a radio station that’s more than just a broadcast—it’s Pinehaven’s lifeline.
A Lonely Broadcast: Book One
Horror · LGBTQIA+
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Evelyn McKinnon stumbles upon 104.6 FM, a radio station that’s more than just a broadcast—it’s Pinehaven’s lifeline. But as fog blankets the forest and creatures emerge to hunt, Evelyn realizes she’s unprepared for the dark responsibilities tied to her new role. The forest demands vigilance, and survival isn’t guaranteed.
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If you’re driving down a deserted mountain road near Pinehaven, you might stumble on 104.6 FM—a radio station that shouldn’t exist.
Evelyn McKinnon, a struggling radio host, thinks it’s a strange but lucky break. But she soon realizes the station isn’t for entertainment—it’s a warning beacon. Stalked by an eerie bird with human eyes and saddled with a strange co-host who won’t stop singing, Evelyn learns that Pinehaven hides monstrous secrets. When thick fog rolls in, the creatures lurking in Pinehaven Forest begin their deadly hunt.
As terror strikes, Evelyn faces something scarier than supernatural threats: the weight of responsibility.
Will she find the courage to protect her friends from the horrors of the night—or become their next victim?
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Skepticism and fear collide inside a house that refuses to let its dead stay forgotten.
The Forgotten Dead
Paranormal Romance · LGBTQIA+ · Gay Romance
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Skepticism and fear collide inside a house that refuses to let its dead stay forgotten. In The Forgotten Dead, Jordan L. Hawk follows parapsychologist Nigel Taylor and ghost hunter Oscar Fox as a paid investigation exposes bloodstains, buried tragedy, and a spirit still waiting in the dark. This paranormal mystery blends haunted house tension, psychic awakening, and MM romance as both men confront the pasts they have tried to outrun.
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Parapsychologist Dr. Nigel Taylor doesn’t work with psychic mediums. Until, that is, a round of budget cuts threatens his job and an eccentric old woman offers him a great deal of grant money. The only catch: he must investigate a haunted house with a man she believes to have a true gift.
Oscar Fox, founder of the ghost-hunting team OutFoxing the Paranormal, has spent his life ignoring the same sort of hallucinations that sent his grandmother to an insane asylum. When he agrees to work with the prestigious—and sexy—Dr. Taylor, he knows he’ll have to keep his visions under wraps, so his team can get a desperately needed pay day.
Soon after Nigel, Oscar, and the OtP team arrive at the house, the questions begin to pile up. Why is there a blood stain in the upstairs hallway? What tragedy took place in the basement? And who is the spirit lurking in the closet of a child’s bedroom?
One thing is certain: if Oscar can’t accept the truth about his psychic abilities, and Nigel can’t face the demons of his past, they’ll join the forgotten souls of the house…forever.
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Ariadne O’Neill and her crew are deep in space, transforming themselves to survive on alien worlds.
To Be Taught, If Fortunate
LGBTQIA+ · Sci-Fi
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Ariadne O’Neill and her crew are deep in space, transforming themselves to survive on alien worlds. But as they explore, a chilling truth unfolds: Earth may have moved on without them. Blending wonder with eerie isolation, this is the story of those who dared to leave—and risk being forgotten.
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They left Earth to reach new worlds—now Earth may have left them behind.
Ariadne O’Neill and her team are no ordinary explorers. Equipped with revolutionary somaforming tech, they can transform their bodies to survive brutal environments across the galaxy: absorb radiation as food, generate antifreeze for icy planets, and bend to gravity’s pull. In short, they’re humanity’s best bet for exploring exoplanets long rumored to harbor life.
But fifteen light-years from home, as they marvel at strange ecosystems, Ariadne senses a troubling shift. Earth’s culture seems as distant as the stars themselves. Alien worlds may now be safer than the planet they left behind.
With each planetary encounter, Ariadne documents her mission, hoping someone is still listening back home. The question is—when they return, will there be anyone left to remember them?
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Newly crowned Empress Malini faces a deadly ultimatum: burn to seal her legacy or sacrifice another in her place.
The Lotus Empire
Fantasy · LGBTQIA+ · Historical Fantasy
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Newly crowned Empress Malini faces a deadly ultimatum: burn to seal her legacy or sacrifice another in her place. Meanwhile, Priya, now imbued with ancient magic, must confront a spirit demanding her life. Once allies, Malini and Priya find themselves on opposing paths—until an ancient enemy forces them to unite or risk total destruction.
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A prophecy fulfilled. A deadly choice. Two women caught between love and destiny.
Newly crowned Empress Malini has claimed her throne, but the priesthood loyal to the fallen emperor demands a terrible price: she must burn to seal her legacy—or find someone willing to take her place on the pyre.
Meanwhile, Priya has emerged from the deathless waters with powerful magic, but a mysterious yaksa demands a sacrifice in exchange for protecting her homeland. The chosen offering? Priya herself.
Once bound by fate, Malini and Priya now stand on opposing sides. But as an ancient enemy threatens to destroy their kingdoms, they must come together once more—before everything they love is reduced to ash.
Will they defy fate to protect their world, or lose everything in the flames?
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Adam Binder’s Sight lets him see the hidden world of spirits and ancient curses — a gift that’s brought him only trouble.
White Trash Warlock
LGBTQIA+ · Urban Fantasy
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Adam Binder’s Sight lets him see the hidden world of spirits and ancient curses — a gift that’s brought him only trouble. But when a malevolent spirit possesses his sister-in-law, Adam is drawn into a deadly confrontation. To save his family, he’ll have to make dangerous bargains… and face his past.
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Adam Binder never asked for magic — especially not the kind that lets him see into a hidden world of spirits, elves, and ancient curses.
Growing up in the backwoods, Adam’s Sight has only caused trouble, isolating him from family and landing him in a psych ward, thanks to his brother Bobby. But Adam’s ready to reclaim his life and use his powers for good, starting by tracking down his missing father.
Following a trail of cursed artifacts to Denver, he uncovers a terrifying truth: an ancient spirit has possessed Bobby’s wife, and Adam is next on its list. To protect his family and survive, Adam must make dangerous bargains with dark forces — including one that holds his heart.
Will Adam’s powers be enough to defeat an evil older than time?
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