Verses for Deborah
In cities, pride is celebration.In country towns, it is courage.Verses for Deborah is a verse novel about visibility, consequence, and the quiet work that sustains equality.Across fifteen years of change, a group of connected lives move through the shifting landscape of queer visibility in Australia. Kathy Lang commands attention on stage. Her sister Bec calculates the policy and funding that keep community services alive. Dawn watches through the camera, documenting the movement as it unfolds. Journalist Darryll Davey learns that the stories behind the headlines are rarely simple. And far from the parade lights, Deb, working quietly as a volunteer in regional South Australia, keeps showing up to council meetings and funding negotiations to protect the young people most at risk of being forgotten.As pride grows more visible, backlash grows louder. Cameras can celebrate, but they can also expose. Media attention brings recognition, but also scrutiny. And the work of equality often happens far from the spectacle; through policy, persistence, and the courage of those who refuse to stop asking.Written in a flowing sequence of lyrical, reflective verses, Verses for Deb explores the tension between celebration and responsibility, spectacle and governance, city pride and regional survival.This is a story about what pride costs, and the quiet persistence required to keep equality alive once the parade ends.
Frightfully Futuristic Tales of AI, Horror, and the Unknown
Love, technology, and the supernatural collide in this chilling Silverbourne collection. From AI-linked minds to haunted rowing clubs, these queer short stories push boundaries-emotional, digital, and spectral.In Five Tales of Digital Desire, Aly and Finn's relationship is tested when a mysterious brain-enhancer fuses their minds, exposing every secret desire. Algorithm Angst turns technology into terror, showing how predictive AI and viral filters can blur reality and invade privacy. Finally, A Halloween Tryst: Titanic to Thames brings ghosts, romance, and historical mystery to a modern queer couple, questioning what-and who-truly lingers from the past.Perfect for fans of MM romance, Halloween horror, and tech thrillers. Dare to dive into a world where hearts, minds, and secrets are never safe.
Chameleon
FROM THE WINNER OF THE KINDLE STORYTELLER AWARD 2025.Chameleon is a story about vulnerability, slow-burn desire, and the courage it takes to let someone in - one brave step at a time.Dr Catherine Truscote has spent her life ordering other people's chaos while keeping her own under wraps. But when a scandal rocks her tightly controlled world, the careful walls she's built begin to crack - and the betrayal that froze her heart decades ago threatens to resurface.Then a new neighbour moves in upstairs - warm, magnetic, impossible to ignore - and a flirtatious stranger online starts slipping past her defences. Suddenly Catherine's rigid boundaries no longer serve her, and the life she's lived in the shadows of others no longer feels like enough. As desire, loyalty, and long-buried grief collide, Catherine must decide whether to retreat behind her walls... or finally choose herself.Chameleon is a spin-off story of Pyg. It can be enjoyed as a standalone story, or as part of the series.
The Pink
Lambda-Award winning author of the Boystown Mysteries, Marshall Thornton transports readers to early 20th-century Chicago, an era of developing queer subculture, a growing temperance movement and a legendary detective agency.It's 1913. Lewis Wait lives with his mother and hides behind scholarly texts, until his conservative middle-class life is thrust aside due to financial woes. Without his consent, Lewis' widowed mother arranges an interview for him with his father's last employer: the famous and unscrupulous Pinkerton Detective Agency. But his mother doesn't stop there, she's determined to find her son a wife among her fellow temperance ladies.Intending to fail so he can return to his studies, Lewis instead discovers a natural talent for deduction. Will he embrace a life as a Pinkerton agent? Amid this, his mother's latest romantic possibility has a few surprises of her own, offering a future he has not considered, as he solves cases that begin to endanger his very life.
The Misadventures of Don Kee Dong & Phillip Mihol
What if international espionage were driven by chaos instead of control?A Hilarious LGBTQ+ Spy Adventure Packed with Global Chaos, Satire, and Shameless ExcessDon Kee Dong is on the trail of the elusive Phillip Mihol-but what begins as a routine pursuit quickly spirals into something far stranger.The chase leads to Budapest, where a flamboyant secret society known only as "HO" operates in the shadows. Between eccentric power players, shifting alliances, and dangerously tempting distractions, Dong is pulled into a world where nothing is quite what it seems-and no one can be trusted.The Misadventures of Don Kee Dong & Phillip Mihol is a bold, irreverent send-up of the spy genre-blending international intrigue with sharp satire, outrageous humor, and unapologetically explicit twists.This isn't a polished, by-the-book thriller.It's a chaotic, boundary-pushing queer adventure packed with excess, absurdity, and global intrigue.Perfect for readers who enjoy: LGBTQ+ fiction with humor and biteSpy stories that don't take themselves seriouslySatire that pushes limits-and then ignores themDeep-State Intrigue - Queer Travelogue - Sexy Adventure - Escapist Fun"An over-the-top gay...sendup of the secret-agent genre...with an absurd premise and pulpy fight scenes."- Kirkus ReviewsMeant for mature audiences.Unabridged Kirkus Review: Carter offers an over-the-top gay...sendup of the secret-agent genre.In a novel full of bawdily named characters, including Dutch operative Phillip Mihol, Bulgarian Ilov Giandik, and villainous Spanish mastermind Manuel Azramar, Vietnam-born spy Don Kee Dong sets out on a world-spanning mission to infiltrate a shadowy criminal enterprise known as HO. The espionage story is definitely secondary to the sex scenes involving the well-endowed hero, which are nonstop-and that's the point, as Carter himself explains in an author's note, in which he says that the novel is intended as a response to the antigay bias he experienced as a working librarian; he calls his book a "sexy adventure" that's "all pure globetrotting queer joy!" But try as he might to simply be as provocative as an author could possibly hope to be, Carter succeeds in infusing the sexcapades with some substantive weight as well. Sure, it's a world of wall-to-wall, floor-to-ceiling sex, but that's not all it is; the book also shows a clear renunciation and rebuke of sexual assault amid the wildness. The narrative's tongue-in-cheek tone is so pervasive that sudden serious allusions, as when Dong is asked to reconsider HO's true nature, can be jarring: "I won't say they're all good, but during various purges such as the Inquisition and the Holocaust, HO saved countless lives," says Mihol. "HO got thousands of queers and Jews out of Nazi Germany alone, and not only their members." There's also a lot of two-fisted violence in another nod to the secret-agent genre-particularly the brutality of Ian Fleming's James Bond capers: "I went in as if to punch with my left and instead I threw dirt in his eyes with my right. I then broke his kneecap. That'll hurt, I thought. As if on cue, he screamed in pain. I punched him again in the windpipe."...An absurd premise, pulpy fight scenes, and a few serious messages.Subjects: LCSH: 1. Gay men-Fiction 2. Spy-Fiction. 3. Satire-Fiction. 4. Secret societies-Fiction. LCGFT: Novels.
Quant
15 years later, the groundbreaking Russell Quant mystery series is back. Dealing with grave family matters and personal challenges, PI Russell Quant returns to his hometown of Howell, Saskatchewan. On a perfect spring day the body of a beloved local resident is found at the bottom of a gorge. There's a suicide note. Russell begins to question the cause of death and wonders if the bucolic village he once knew is hiding a more sinister reality. Russell searches for the truth from Canadian prairie to Caribbean paradise. As a once peaceful farming community struggles to survive, deception and greed wage war against resilience, hope, and family legacy.
Dear Benjamin Manwha Volume 3
Some battles are won with bullets. Others with the truth. When Benjamin is kidnapped, the fragile balance between Isaac and Felix shatters, setting the stage for a desperate search--one that could cost them everything. Isaac, revealed to be a former Navy SEAL now a fugitive, is ready to do whatever it takes to bring his son home, even if it means striking one last deadly bargain with Felix, a hyper-dominant alpha who is unknowingly Benjamin's father. As they navigate a web of deception, buried secrets come to light--secrets that reveal why Isaac's stepfather rose in the ranks while Isaac was forced into hiding. With every truth uncovered, the danger escalates. The fight for Benjamin's future has begun, forcing Isaac and Felix to confront their pasts, their desires, and a ruthless man who will stop at nothing to keep his power. Will Felix stand by Isaac when he learns the truth about their son, or will lies tear them apart once more? Volume 1 will contain season 1: Episodes 1-22 Volume 2 will contain season 2: Episodes 23-45 Volume 3 will contain season 3: Episodes 46-58 (different artist)
Bertram Cope's Year
Bertram cope's year presents a restrained portrait of academic life shaped by ambition, discretion, and social navigation. Set within a university environment, the novel follows a young instructor balancing professional advancement with the expectations and interests of influential supporters. Intellectual promise and personal charm attract attention from various circles, creating subtle pressure to conform while maintaining independence. The narrative unfolds through quiet interactions rather than dramatic events, allowing unspoken motives and coded behavior to guide meaning. Social rituals, mentorship, and patronage form an intricate web where opportunity depends on tact and awareness. The work explores identity through implication, using irony and understatement to reflect emotional complexity without direct declaration. Academic routine becomes a backdrop for examining belonging, self control, and private longing within public respectability. The novel challenges conventional perception by presenting difference as integrated rather than marginalized. Through controlled tone and measured pacing, it reveals how silence, suggestion, and social nuance shape experience, offering a study of inner life conducted beneath the surface of ordinary success.
Alexander
London, 1989. Six inevitable months. When the National Gallery acquires an impossibly damaged painting, a renowned artist from Warsaw crosses the Iron Curtain on a mission to restore both the mysterious masterpiece and himself. As historic change sweeps Europe and the Cold War drifts towards its end, Alexander enters the hypnotic, nicotine-fuelled haze of late-1980s London, where nothing is what it seems. Away from a continent in flux and his powerful, overbearing father, Alexander arrives in a world obsessed with his talent. It's the weekly Monday afternoon calls and his new friends that keep him sane. Not for long. And Tom? As history gathers speed, Alexander's world begins to unravel.Alexander is a story of battles: with time, with forbidden desire, with the inadequacy of language, with hope.
Alexander
London, 1989. Six inevitable months. When the National Gallery acquires an impossibly damaged painting, a renowned artist from Warsaw crosses the Iron Curtain on a mission to restore both the mysterious masterpiece and himself. As historic change sweeps Europe and the Cold War drifts towards its end, Alexander enters the hypnotic, nicotine-fuelled haze of late-1980s London, where nothing is what it seems. Away from a continent in flux and his powerful, overbearing father, Alexander arrives in a world obsessed with his talent. It's the weekly Monday afternoon calls and his new friends that keep him sane. Not for long. And Tom? As history gathers speed, Alexander's world begins to unravel.Alexander is a story of battles: with time, with forbidden desire, with the inadequacy of language, with hope.
Unspoken
Two women. One fractured marriage. But if they don't fight for their family, they'll lose their children forever.Solo's world falls apart the morning Janie walks out the door. Left alone with their eighteen-month-old triplets, she vows to do whatever it takes to win her wife back, even if Janie won't tell her why she left.Janie thought leaving would keep everyone safe. But when her mother shows up, chasing custody and the triplets' inheritance, Janie realises the secret she's been drowning in alone might cost her everything.Their love might still be there, buried under secrets, fear, and too much pride. But if Solo and Janie can't find their way back to each other before it's too late, there won't be a family left to save.A sapphic second-chance romance about the love that holds on even when everything else is falling apart. Perfect for fans of emotional slow-burn reunions and families worth fighting for.
Bottle-Shock
Just don't call it a midlife crisis.Everett Vaughn divorced his husband, quit his job as a Chicago attorney, and spent a year wandering the country as he tried to decide what to do with the rest of his life. Now he's landed temporarily in the former gold rush town of Deadman Gulch, California, where he's helping his sister open a new bookshop just in time for the annual celebration of local wineries.When property developer Blake Cannon is in need of a handyman, it seems like an easy way for Everett to pad his dwindling bank account-until Cannon balks at paying him. As if that wasn't bad enough, Everett soon discovers him dead in Cannon's wine cellar.Eager to remove his name from the list of suspects, Everett starts to do a little nosing around, much to the displeasure of his sister and the insufferably smug and handsome investigating sheriff, Sergeant Cole McBeth. In a town where most people are happy to see the last of Cannon but otherwise seem like very nice folk, Everett faces a challenge bigger than any of his courtroom battles.
The Lies in the Lefse
On Salt Cliff Isle, the reopening of beloved patisserie Fjord & Fika is supposed to mark a gentle beginning-warm ovens, familiar faces, and a return to the quiet rhythm the community longs for.Cash Kristiansen, newly back on the island to honor his late aunt, has settled into the comfort of early mornings and the steady rhythm of a bakery that's beginning to feel like his own. For a moment, it seems as though the island might stay peaceful.But when a shocking discovery jeopardizes a friend's business, Cash is compelled to get involved. Small things feel slightly off, old stories resurface in half-spoken hints, and Cash has the uneasy sense that meaning is hiding just beyond his grasp. A quiet anticipation threads through the town, as if the island itself knows a secret it isn't ready to share.Relying on his recently uncovered knack for investigation, and a determination to help his friend, Cash begins to notice details others overlook: odd patterns, quiet contradictions, and pieces that don't sit comfortably together. What he uncovers isn't danger in the loud sense but something quieter, older, and threaded through the island in ways he never imagined.As the truth begins to surface-soft at the edges, unsettling at the core-Cash realizes that Salt Cliff's charm and its secrets are tangled far more tightly than he ever believed.
The Last Pharaoh
When a colleague is murdered in Aswan, famed archaeologist Dr. Cassandra Stillwell discovers the man had found a scroll that may reveal Cleopatra's elusive final resting place. As Cass pursues the truth on Philae Island, one that may forever change historical understanding of the Last Pharaoh's ultimate fate, dangerous rivals close in and the Nile's annual flood looms.Across the world, her partner, Ari Morgan, returns home to North Carolina to rescue a family friend trapped in a nursing home that isn't what it seems, fending off dangerous bureaucratic flood waters of her own.Two investigations-one ancient, one urgent-pull Cass and Ari into a race against time, testing their courage, loyalty, and the bond that holds them together.
Lighthouse Lovers
The Lighthouse Lovers Complete Collection is here!Featuring all 5 full-length novels, this series centers around the small town of Lovers, Maine and the events leading up to an end of summer wedding for one of the five friends. These books are jam-packed with plenty of steam, happily ever afters & more!The Collection includes: - Tour of Love: Sapphic Fake dating- Hate to Love You: Sapphic Enemies to Lovers- To Be Loved: Sapphic not her baby romance- Inn Love: Sapphic Friends with Benefits turned more- Love, Unexpected: Runaway bride & Sapphic awakeningImmerse yourself into the Lovers Universe and fall in love with these five best friends who have the summer of their lives.
Hot Axe
Falling in love with my straight best friend? Tragically inevitable.Telling him? Completely out of the question.Everyone in Winsome knows Robbie and I are a matched set. A package deal. Ames and Robbie, Robbie and Ames. He's the calm to my chaos. The sun shining through my rain cloud. The guy who convinced me to be a firefighter. The man who's known every single thing about me since we were thirteen...Except for the teeny, tiny, inconsequential fact that I've been in love with him for years.I planned to take this secret to the grave. Robbie's straight. He's engaged. And I'm finally-finally-ready to move on.But one uncontrollable blaze, one daring rescue, one inconvenient injury, and one heavily-medicated, wildly inappropriate love confession later, my plan's up in flames.Suddenly helpful, perfect, shirtless Robbie is bathing me, dressing me, and nursing me back to health. And if being around my gorgeous bestie 24/7 wasn't torture enough, it seems I'm not the only one having un-platonic thoughts.But there's no way I'm letting myself fall into the fantasy again. Because if I let myself believe this is real and it isn't, it won't just break my heart... it'll break us. And I refuse to risk our friendship, no matter how tempting the man's hot axe might be.
Hot Axe
Falling in love with my straight best friend? Tragically inevitable.Telling him? Completely out of the question.Everyone in Winsome knows Robbie and I are a matched set. A package deal. Ames and Robbie, Robbie and Ames. He's the calm to my chaos. The sun shining through my rain cloud. The guy who convinced me to be a firefighter. The man who's known every single thing about me since we were thirteen...Except for the teeny, tiny, inconsequential fact that I've been in love with him for years.I planned to take this secret to the grave. Robbie's straight. He's engaged. And I'm finally-finally-ready to move on.But one uncontrollable blaze, one daring rescue, one inconvenient injury, and one heavily-medicated, wildly inappropriate love confession later, my plan's up in flames.Suddenly helpful, perfect, shirtless Robbie is bathing me, dressing me, and nursing me back to health. And if being around my gorgeous bestie 24/7 wasn't torture enough, it seems I'm not the only one having un-platonic thoughts.But there's no way I'm letting myself fall into the fantasy again. Because if I let myself believe this is real and it isn't, it won't just break my heart... it'll break us. And I refuse to risk our friendship, no matter how tempting the man's hot axe might be.
Second Helpings
Sam Adelson has spent over a decade pouring his heart into Silverman's Deli, the beloved Cleveland institution his family has run for seventy-five years. So when a scathing review tanks his business, Sam develops some strong feelings about the critic responsible. Fantasies involving expired clam juice may be involved.Then Jake Thompson walks through the door-Sam's first love, the one who got away. Reconnecting after twelve years feels like coming home, and having Jake around makes even the chaos of saving the deli feel manageable. But Sam's fought to move on from the disaster that tore them apart, and now pretending it never happened is becoming more impossible every day.As Sam falls harder than he ever meant to, Jake's past begins to catch up with both of them. Some recipes are worth perfecting, even when the first attempt was a disaster - Sam just hopes this one doesn't blow up in his face...Warm, funny, and delectably swoony-a second-chance romance with found family, a chaotic deli dog named Pastrami, and all the comfort-food you could ever want. Perfect for fans of Casey McQuiston and TJ Klune.
My Kind of Guy
He's a backup goalie with a broken game. The only thing he needs more than a win is the hot, grumpy bartender who pours his weekly beer.Becker James is having a spectacularly bad season. Once a top draft pick, he's now riding the bench in the minors, one failed save away from being cut. The highlight of his week? A lonely hour on a barstool at Sportsballs, Denver's queerest watering hole-and Forest, the bartender with flannel sleeves, a gruff voice, and a beard that stars in Beck's dreams.Opportunity strikes when Forest's LGBTQ hockey team-the Stickhandlers-loses their goalie last-minute. Beck makes Forest an offer: he'll help them beat the most hated team in the beer league, but he wants something in return-one night together.Cue the record scratch, because Seth Forrester doesn't do hookups. After his last one went horribly wrong, he swore off men for good. He's definitely not falling for the awkward hottie who just stammered through an indecent proposal.But Beck is prepared to press his case, no matter how awkward it gets. And one beer league game turns into something messier, sweeter, and so much harder to walk away from...
Hollister The Corridor
What begins as a routine tip about a missing girl quickly exposes a trafficking corridor that stretches from war-torn Kosovo to the streets of Canada. In Hollister: The Corridor, F.J. Anderson delivers a crime thriller that blends investigative journalism, international organized crime, and the harsh realities of human trafficking into a tense, socially grounded suspense novel. When retired investigative journalist Hollister looks into a suspicious massage parlor in London, Ontario, he uncovers a network built on silence, fear, and loyalty forged in war. At the center of the operation stands Milos Radovan, a former Balkan soldier whose past in the Kosovo conflict shapes a ruthless criminal enterprise. Meanwhile, Xinjue, a young immigrant promised opportunity, finds herself trapped in a system designed to erase her identity. As Hollister pushes deeper, the danger escalates, revealing how global conflict, refugee routes, and organized crime intersect in plain sight. For readers drawn to realistic crime narratives, layered antagonists, and contemporary social relevance, this novel delivers tension grounded in authenticity. Step into the investigation. Follow the truth. Discover what hides inside the corridor.
Hollister The Corridor
What begins as a routine tip about a missing girl quickly exposes a trafficking corridor that stretches from war-torn Kosovo to the streets of Canada. In Hollister: The Corridor, F.J. Anderson delivers a crime thriller that blends investigative journalism, international organized crime, and the harsh realities of human trafficking into a tense, socially grounded suspense novel. When retired investigative journalist Hollister looks into a suspicious massage parlor in London, Ontario, he uncovers a network built on silence, fear, and loyalty forged in war. At the center of the operation stands Milos Radovan, a former Balkan soldier whose past in the Kosovo conflict shapes a ruthless criminal enterprise. Meanwhile, Xinjue, a young immigrant promised opportunity, finds herself trapped in a system designed to erase her identity. As Hollister pushes deeper, the danger escalates, revealing how global conflict, refugee routes, and organized crime intersect in plain sight. For readers drawn to realistic crime narratives, layered antagonists, and contemporary social relevance, this novel delivers tension grounded in authenticity. Step into the investigation. Follow the truth. Discover what hides inside the corridor.
Criminal Casanova
Criminal Casanova was previously published as Mob's Seduction under the author name Alyson Root. This edition is a revised/adapted version for MM readers, published under the pen name C.L. Harper.A steamy MM rom-com full of heart, heat, and hilarious twists.Bookworm Benjamin Moss likes life calm, quiet, and drama-free. His idea of excitement? A fresh shipment of novels at Baker's Writing Emporium. Between his best friend Kevin, their party-loving pal Penny, and his doting mums Phillipa and Mary, Benjamin's world is small, safe, and perfectly predictable.Then Cielo Mannucci-a devastatingly handsome mafia enforcer with a smile that spells trouble-crashes into his life like a Mediterranean hurricane.Suddenly, Benjamin's cosy routine is replaced with high-stakes chaos, shadowy figures, and one very dangerous man he can't stop thinking about. Cielo is everything Benjamin isn't: bold, brash, and bound to the mob. But sparks fly, tempers flare, and between the banter and the bullets, Benjamin starts to wonder if he's the one being seduced-or the one doing the saving.As danger closes in and hearts get tangled, one question remains: Can a good boy fall for a bad man and still get his happily ever after?
Bonds
Bob Abramson and his partner, Prof. Marcus George, have been together for more than 30 years, and over that period they have evolved along with American society. From the Back Bay of Boston to the sunny oceanfront of San Diego, they have found themselves thrown into four different murder invevstigations. Bob is an attorney who began his career with the San Diego District Attorney's office, but after his investigations implicated the DA and his wife, he went into private practice. Now he is about to take a job as the chief Assistant DA under a new, untested DA-a man determined to make his mark. But as he prepares to shutter his successful private practice to over, he must first defend one of his closest friends against an unexpected, questionable murder charge, brought by his soon-to-be boss. It's a case that draws him deeply into the political cauldron of the United States military establishment during the waning days of Don't Ask, Don't Tell.
Silenced
It's murder when free speech collides with free enterprise.Still bearing the psychological scars from her reporting of his assault by an ex-lover and the subsequent departure from the Rancho Linda Police Department it caused, Deputy Chief Vasily Korsokovach has - at best - a chilly relationship with the award-winning local reporter Vivian Grandchester. Well known for being a frequent critic of law enforcement, Grandchester's annoying propensity for injecting herself into any high-profile case in Southern California often brought with it the sort of media exposure Vas had only previously experienced while competing as an Olympic swimmer. So he's not sure if it's some sort of karmic revenge for dodging her repeated requests to sit for an exclusive interview about the murder of actor Rebecca McClure when Grandchester's body is found beneath a pallet of building supplies at an affordable housing construction site in the heart of the city. Discovering why the reporter was at the construction site reveals a missing trove of research Grandchester had compiled, preparation for a planned multipart expos矇 on a Rancho Linda real estate development firm long rumored to have questionable financial ties to the shadier countries of Eastern Europe. Having himself been on the receiving end of just such an article, Vasily has no problem assuming the persistent Grandchester uncovered something the firm - and its enigmatic head - would prefer to keep from seeing daylight. As Vas digs through a tangled web of finance deals and the dark money backing them, it becomes clear Grandchester was silenced before she could publish a single word. And when clues begin to point to a killer capable of coldly calculating how targeted murder can benefit their bottom line, Vasily is forced to take questionable steps to protect everything he cares about in order to solve the case...
Caught Up
With a heart of gold, Mahogany Fox is a rookie to love who is excited to travel on the road of life. Eager to leave home, she begins a dazzling relationship filled with bitter betrayal. From childhood innocent to extraordinary woman, Mahogany triumphs over heartbreak. Her best friend Shanice is just as passionate to spread her wings in life and find love. While entangled in their own breathless romance, they are unaware of an obsessed madman lusting for murder. Mahogany and Shanice are fighters, women who rule by their heart and love to take chances...ultimately finding themselves Caught Up.
Daughters of Frankenstein
In the field of mad science, women have for too long been ignored, their triumphs misattributed to mere men. Society has seen the laboratory as the province of men. Jacob's Ladder, electric arcs, death rays, and even test tubes have phallic connotations, subliminally reinforcing the patriarchy. Mary Shelley's mother, the author of Frankenstein, advocated that women adopt a more masculine appearance to earn respect. If Marie Curie had been allowed to develop her Atomic Gendarmerie for the Institut du radium, surely she would have been awarded her third Nobel Prize, for Peace. Thankfully, the women working to dangerous and/or questionable ends in the pages of Daughters of Frankenstein are unafraid of the patriarchy--indeed, as lesbian mad scientists, they prefer the company and comforts of their own gender. Androids? Pfeh, the gynoid is superior. Etheric dynamos have a more pleasing design, one that is vulvar, than Tesla coils. Eighteen imaginative, if not insane, women; eighteen stories told by some of the finest writers working in queer speculative fiction.
Fantasies of the Body
In this short, masterful gem of a novel, David Plante's seasoned narrator contemplates the connection between physical beauty and love, drawing on literary references and personal experiences to explore these themes.The unnamed narrator of this brief, urgent novel, a young novelist making his way in the literary world, writes of his fascination with two enigmatic, troubled young men, one a Boston Brahmin and the other a lofty undergraduate at England's Cambridge University whom the narrator meets during his writer-in-residency. With each young man the narrator engages in a complex relationship filled with intellectual and erotic tension and each relationship leaves him feeling unfulfilled. By contrast, the narrator relates the story of his deep and abiding romantic life with an English poet, who introduces him to the remaining members of The Bloomsbury group as well as E.M. Forster and who guides him toward the publishers who bring out his early work. However, the poet dies young, and the narrator is once against cast adrift and his quest to find new, intimate interactions with the tragic young men he encounters causes him to reflect on the nature of beauty, love, and the intellectual life, emphasizing the transient and often unfulfilled desires that drive human connections.
Pulp Literature Winter 2026
Beneath the dark sky of Jeff Sturgeon's Jupiter Rising Over Europa, ponder what exists beyond our world with 'You See But You Do Not Observe' by feature author Robert J Sawyer.Through magic and loss, discover how family histories inform the future in 'Her Mother's Smile' by JM Landels, 'Maybe We Once Were Birds' by Benny Lawrence, and 'The Pilfer Imp' by Cadence Mandybura. Join Russell Hugh McConnell and Lauren Stein for some truly unusual work days in their stories 'Salty Dave and the Voice of the Brazen Head' and 'Return to Office'. Then take a trip back to the past with 'Smile' by DP Snyder and 'Sunrise at Paradise Gardens' by Mel Anastasiou. Gain a new perspective through 'Christmas Trappings' by Emily Drake and 'Nightwalks' by Jordan Bray. And return to the stars at last with a constellation of shining work from Kingfisher winners Atma Frans, Sarina Sullivan, and Maryam Imogen Ghouth and Hummingbird winners Kirsty Campbell and JA Logwood.
Three Days Grace
Explore the complexities of love and loss through an LGBTQ+ lens in this emotionally layered novel about family, identity, and long-suppressed truths.On the eve of their trip to South Africa, Lynne and her wife, Susan, await three guests in a Paris hotel: Nick, Lynne's distant son; Laslo, Susan's effusive friend; and Marc, a former professor living on borrowed glamour.What begins as a bon voyage soon becomes a clash of old wounds and fresh resentments. As night falls, long-buried secrets surface, threatening to dismantle the facades each has built.Through the winding corridors of Paris and the tangled landscapes of memory, five people must confront the truths they've spent decades avoiding. At the heart lies the tragic story of two brothers-one present, one absent-and the lingering trauma that continues to shape their lives.Set over three days, this unflinching exploration of family, betrayal, and silence asks whether we can ever truly escape our past-and what it takes to finally face the truths we've spent a lifetime running from."Compelling, eloquent and insightful... a book which has stayed with me long after the final page." - Emma Woolf
The Least of These
When survival is the only rule, Grace can still break through!Sam Izbicki entered the world fragile and unwanted, the third child of seven in a family where survival meant silence and fear was the common language. His father-a hardened Marine-ruled with a strap in one hand and a bottle in the other, while his mother, weary and overworked, offered only scraps of comfort. In the shadows of that house, Sam learned early to run, to hide, and to question if he was worth loving at all.As he grew, Sam discovered that the battles inside his home mirror the battles inside his heart. School offered both refuge and torment. Church promised holiness but often delivered betrayal. Yet even in the darkest corners, moments of kindness and loyalty flickered-siblings who shielded him, teachers who noticed, and a God he wasn't sure he could trust.The Least of These is more than a coming-of-age story. It is a haunting portrait of a childhood fractured by violence and shame, and a powerful exploration of identity, family, and faith. Told with piercing honesty and unexpected beauty, Sam's journey asks the questions we all carry: Can the past ever be escaped? Can love truly heal the deepest wounds? And is grace strong enough to reach even the least of these?Readers will be drawn into a story that is both heartbreaking and hopeful-one that lingers long after the final page.
Sealed in Blood
Love Was Never Safe in Iran...Ghazal never chose this life. A gifted computer science student, she is trapped under her father's iron control where even makeup earns punishment and obedience is expected. Sepideh, a bold social media influencer, refuses to bow to anyone. She lives loud, fearless, and free until her heart collides with Ghazal's quiet defiance.What begins as friendship ignites into forbidden love. But in a country where morality police prowl the streets and women are silenced with bullets, their bond becomes both a sanctuary and a death sentence.Every heartbeat is rebellion.Every choice carries risk.Every kiss could be their last.Sometimes, surviving together is the greatest act of strength.From stolen moments of beauty to streets filled with protest, Sealed in Blood is a sweeping sapphic romance and political thriller that explores forbidden love, women's rights, and resilience in modern-day Iran.
Kill Your Darlings
At this mystery conference, murder is more than just another plot twist...Nobody likes conferences, but they're part of the job.Millbrook House senior editor Keiran Chandler has spent years curating the best voices in crime lit, but when an unsolicited manuscript is handed to him at the Noir at the Shore mystery conference, truth collides with fiction. I Know What You Did is more than just another slush pile submission-it's a direct threat. U.N. Owen seems to know what really happened in Steeple Hill all those years ago. Who is Owen? How does he know these things? Clearly the mysterious author is after more than a book deal. But what? With a potentially career-ending publishing merger on the horizon, the end of his affair with bestselling author and former homicide detective Finn Scott, and not so subtle threats from someone in his past, Keiran has a lot bigger problems than coming up with something witty to say on discussion panels.
Speak Softly Among Icebergs
A grief-wrought creature comes to terms with the suicide of his only child and a subsequent marital demise. He tries any and nearly every aid possible to buoy his sanity: drugs, sex, talk therapy and family gossip; travel near and far (real+imagined?), church and family traditions; other occupations and more schooling; literary therapy: writing to vent and better understand the world he wonders, wanders should he live in--Recalling his own childhood, the man settles on those formative years with the lesbian/gf Berry--what nearly ended with a pregnancy unresolved. A child born and given away.MEANWHILE, he happens upon an inheritance, a trunk containing a long-dead family member's unpublished travelogue: centering largely on that man's own secrets, we explore the dead relation's escapades in the former Constantinople, a continent-straddling city of many names and conflicting histories....IF "1" place can be so many, perhaps there's hope for me, our Main Man reasons in confession.
Besties in Crime
Childhood best friends Jay and Gia haven't spoken since Gia's marriage drove them apart, until one tearful night when she shows up at Jay's door with devastating news: her husband, Frank, is leaving her. Rekindling their bond over heartbreak and bad decisions, the pair hatch a reckless plan for a weekend escape to Atlantic City, funded by some "borrowed" cash from Frank's home office.But when the house goes up in flames, and Frank is found dead in the wreckage, their impulsive getaway turns into a full-blown manhunt.Before Jay and Gia can clear their names, they're caught in a dire twist of fate when mobsters kidnap them, claiming Frank owed them money. Soon, the former besties are swept into a chaotic whirlwind of car chases, gunfights, bank robberies, and...burlesque shows? But as they scramble to outsmart the crooks, one question remains: will the FBI find this ridiculous mix-up as humorous as their quick-witted candor?
Meetings with the Minotaur
Big horns. Big secrets. Even bigger... chemistry.JamieMy five-year plan did not include impersonating a high-level executive to impress the big boss, but here we are. One day I'm slinging mail, the next I'm in a meeting trying not to drool over the CEO's thighs like a disaster in khakis.He thinks I'm a brilliant strategist. The truth? I'm just trying to keep my 'professional' smile in place while staring at his horns. But the more time we spend together in late-night work sessions, the more I realize the heat between us isn't just my imagination. Can I help win the company's biggest account and the Minotaur of my dreams, or will my little lie get me sent back to the basement?MagnusDiscipline is my salvation. As CEO of Labyrinth Solutions, I maintain control. In the boardroom, in my life, and over the beast that lives inside my suit. Then Jamie Torres walks into my world.He's a new junior strategist; sharp, ambitious, and so distractingly handsome it makes my head spin. His scent is peppermint and temptation, and his shy glances at my horns make my possessive instincts roar to life. But keeping my hands off him might be the one merger I'm not powerful enough to negotiate.Meetings with the Minotaur is the spicy and funny first book in the Love at Labyrinth Solutions monster romance series. If you like fated mates, significant size differences, and workplace shenanigans, you're in for a treat. Begin your next adventure with Meetings with the Minotaur now.
Silverbourne
Welcome to a proper British gay wedding.Helford Creek, Cornwall. June 2026. Thirty-five guests, two grooms, and a chosen family that defies every convention.This isn't a romance about falling in love. Brian and Archie already have that. This is about what comes after: the chaos, the champagne, the ex-boyfriends holding oars aloft as you walk towards forever, the police crashing your ceremony, the dogs getting married alongside you, the Celtic blessings and sea shanties and sticky nightclub floors at 2am.Experience a week in the life of British rowers preparing for a wedding at a centuries-old Cornish manor. Early morning outings on glassy water. Champagne for breakfast. Stag parties that end in kebabs and collective boat races. An eccentric Dowager Baroness quoting Oscar Wilde whilst drunk on port. A polyamorous throuple navigating seating charts. Homophobic families who won't attend, and chosen families who show up with literal boats full of alcohol.From Thames boathouses to sub-tropical Cornish gardens, from Falmouth harbour pubs to ancient parish churches, this is British gay life rendered without filter. The rowing culture. The class dynamics. The reality of being queer in a country that's both progressive and still learning.Raw. Authentic. Joyful. Messy.Written by a gay man who spent a decade rowing on the Thames, who knows what Silverbourne Manor feels like at dawn, who lived this world and wants you to experience it too.No sanitised romance. No neat endings. Just real queer joy in all its chaotic, champagne-soaked, deeply British glory.Step into the wedding. Experience the life. Feel what it's really like.
A Forbidden Love
A Forbidden Love: Book Four - The Grand TourGeorge Langley's Grand Tour is meant to be a rite of passage-a journey through the glittering capitals and ancient ruins of Europe, preparing him for the duties of inheritance and the expectations of English society. But when George arrives in Paris, a chance encounter with the passionate artist Auguste Durand changes everything. Their friendship quickly deepens into a love that must remain hidden in a world where discovery means disgrace, exile, or worse.As George and Auguste travel from the salons of Paris to the sunlit piazzas of Rome and the stormy shores of Genoa, they are forced to navigate not only the temptations and freedoms of the continent, but also the ever-present dangers of scandal, blackmail, and betrayal. Every city brings new risks: the threat of exposure by informers and extortionists, the pressure of family duty, and the constant fear that a single misstep could destroy their lives.Returning to England, George faces the ultimate test-balancing the demands of his inheritance, the expectations of his family, and the love he cannot deny. As secrets unravel and enemies close in, he must decide whether to sacrifice his happiness for the sake of duty, or risk everything for the chance to live-and love-on his own terms.Sweeping from the candlelit galleries of Paris to the windswept cliffs of Italy and the shadowed halls of Langley Hall, A Forbidden Love: Book Four is a powerful story of courage, resilience, and the fight to claim one's true self in a world determined to keep you hidden. For anyone who has ever longed for freedom, or dared to love against the odds, this is a journey you will never forget.
After the Story
TV journalist Mattie Elliott lives for the rush of a breaking story-until she becomes one. Scarred by injury and sudden fame, she retreats to England's south-west coast in search of peace. Chief inspector Nell Abraham values calm, control, and solitude. The last thing she needs is a headstrong reporter prying into her world or stirring something she thought she'd buried long ago.But a suspicious fire forces them together, and as attraction deepens, secrets and old wounds resurface.Can two guarded hearts learn to trust again, or will fear keep them from a love that could change everything?
Hosts
A glorious collection of stories, cause for celebration and gratitude. The final one, "Providence," gestures toward all the others, suggesting the hidden design lying just beneath the surface of our lives connecting us all. Stories of children, of wounded veterans and lonely widows, of gay men and remembered blue roses painted on a ceiling. Of parasites and paradise. But the story I hope never to forget is called Kick and must have been written at the dictation of the gods. All honor. -Kathleen HillAlfred Corn's stories are just as elegant, complex, and perceptive as are his poems, full of surprises and passages of melancholy and yearning that recall the great short-fiction boom of the 1950s and 1960s. What a pleasure to read such a rewarding and sophisticated collection. -Rick Moody Alfred Corn has an eye, and he uses his acute vison to great effect, an ability to make the reader aware of a whole world, and, too, the wonder of being aware, which luminous wonder is the pleasure of these stories. Having read a story by Alfred Corn, I look about at all that is around me for being suddenly magically there. -David Plante
Politics and Poly
Rus doesn't think there's anything wrong with punching bigots. Some call it anger issues or impulse control; he sees it as clearing away the cesspool of hateful idiots. All the same, he doesn't want his rage to control him or push away the two people he's beginning to care deeply for. Dylan's fa癟ade of joy is so masterful, he even deceives himself most days. Underneath that worn smile, though, is a frightened man who doesn't trust the world. Now, he has to navigate taking care of the queer youth home that gave him a life worth living while exploring the life he'd like to live if he wants to pursue romance in this new relationship. Kaiden struggles to accept himself, wayward and insecure most days. So, when two men express how much they see him, he feels like a complete and total imposter. He's convinced himself this awkward throuple would be a much happier couple if he took a step back. But despite his reservations, he doesn't want to give up. These three will have to come together, work through their personal fears, and be real with one another if they hope to explore this romance.
