The Gift
A turbulent telling of one woman's immersion in her faith, and one man's journey to acceptance.Seeking comfort in the isolation of the western landscape, young single mother Pansy Blackwell brings her son Butch to the Siskiyou Mountains. Fully engulfed in the Jehovah's Witnesses assurances for a soon-to-arrive end of the world, Pansy raises her son to conform to the constrictive requirements of their religion. But as Butch discovers the wonders of the world around him with an endlessly patient and kindhearted rancher, he embraces the cowboy culture and struggles to live as his authentic self.In the late 20th Century, rural communities in America were often hostile to the rising-awareness of LGBT people, and Butch is soon cast aside by his church for homosexuality. In The Gift, Scott Terry crafts a memorable and historically-accurate tale of religious extremism and the struggle for acceptance, before the truth of those times are swept under the forgotten rug of history.
A Ballad for Slayers & Monsters
Kas of Veldenier is a Slayer, a travelling monster hunter for hire.Claudia of Trulio is half-human, half-vampyric. Half monster.They should be nothing more than enemies. But when the long-lost remnant of the dragon Ombral turns up, and with it the possibility of unleashing the dragons to wreak havoc on Vil Tresar as they did long ago, Kas and Claudia's paths converge. Through a shared desire to keep the dragons from returning, they embark on a quest to see the remnant destroyed. Along the way, they will encounter fearsome monsters as well as a burgeoning desire for each other. Can a monster and a monster slayer truly find love together?Pursuing them from the shadows is Serisa, a vampyric who wishes to see the world burn. And she will need the remnant to make that wish a reality...
Butterfly Pinned
FINALIST for the 2026 Clue Award for Thriller and Suspense (Chanticleer International Book Awards)From award-winning author Leslie Liautaud comes a chilling psychological thriller about friendship, obsession, and the price of reinvention. Marin thought college would be her chance to start over - a new city, new friends, and a new life far from the shadows of her past.Then she meets Bette, the effortlessly sophisticated and dangerously captivating girl who seems to have it all. Drawn into Bette's alluring world of privilege and power, Marin quickly finds herself seduced by the glamour, but beneath the surface lies something far more sinister.As secrets unravel and dark truths emerge, Marin realizes she's entangled in a web of manipulation and deceit she never saw coming.With her sense of reality crumbling and her safety on the line, she must make an impossible choice - stay silent and survive or speak out and risk everything.
Celia's Room
When the freedom of the night turns to deadly obsession ...Two budding artists, addicted to a nightlife as dangerous as it is dazzling, explore the dark underbelly of Barcelona's nineties queer counterculture in this LGBT+ novel.Joaquim, a sensitive painter, and Eduardo, a cynical writer, fall under the aura of Celia, an enigmatic creature of the night. The games they are learning to play, against the backdrop of a city that is also rehearsing a new identity, draw all three into conflict, leading them inexorably towards the truth of Celia's Room.With echoes of Jean Genet's underworld and Pedro Almod籀var's gender-fluid chaos, Celia's Room explores the raw edges of art, desire and sexuality within the context of Spain's blazing transition from dictatorship to democracy."Successfully captures Barcelona's gay zeitgeist"
First Snow
What if you only exist because you're the splinter of someone else's soul? After spending his whole life in his brother's shadow, Zanoah gets banished from his home, paying the price for his brother's crime.Thrown into a world unknown to him, he'll have to find himself and a purpose to live for. Crossing a half-sentient jungle, he's bound to find his destiny-a forgotten deity of all things.
The Haunting Season for Love and Witches
Sometimes, the heart you're looking for is already deadFirst, she was called a witch. Now, they call her stupid. Eilidh wants nothing more than to spend her days working on her flower arrangements, but people call her a pariah. She's always seen them-seen more. Ghosts. But ghosts were not what put her on the town's List of Shame, a new movement that is destroying girls' reputations. Scotland is changing, and if Eilidh is not careful, she will burn like the old ways they came to purge. When a new love takes root where she least expects, and it is all but what she needs, Eilidh will have to decide exactly how far she's willing to go to save her life.Or not.The Haunting Season for Love and Witches is a story about the thin line between love, deceit, obsession, and one's perpetual cost of being true to oneself.
Stop Me If You've Heard This One
NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2025 BY PEOPLE, VOGUE, AND NBC TODAY From the New York Times bestselling author of Mostly Dead Things, a sparkling and funny new novel of entertainment, ambition, art, and love."Sweet, sexy, sad, articulate, and funny." - Vogue"As much heart, humor, and gritty realness as can fit between two covers." - People Cherry Hendricks might be down on her luck, but she can write the book on what makes something funny: she's a professional clown who creates raucous, zany fun at gigs all over Orlando. Between her clowning and her shifts at an aquarium store for extra cash, she's always hustling. Not to mention balancing her judgmental mother, her messy love life, and her equally messy community of fellow performers. Things start looking up when Cherry meets Margot the Magnificent--a much older lesbian magician--who seems to have worked out the lines between art, business, and life, and has a slick, successful career to prove it. With Margot's mentorship and industry connections, Cherry is sure to take her art to the next level. Plus, Margot is sexy as hell. It's not long before Cherry must decide how much she's willing to risk for Margot and for her own explosive new act--and what kind of clown she wants to be under her suit. Equal parts bravado, tenderness, and humor, and bursting with misfits, magicians, musicians, and mimes, Stop Me If You've Heard This One is a masterpiece of comedic fiction that asks big questions about art and performance, friendship and community, and the importance of timing in jokes and in life.
The English Tutor
A broken promise. A forbidden love. An act of redemption beyond imagining.In a poignant tale of love and conflict, Geoff Manderson-a weary English tutor from a privileged background-finds his life forever changed when he takes on Yusuf, a Libyan war refugee, as a student. Unaware of the challenges that await, Geoff soon discovers that their clashing cultural values will spark a crisis that tests the very foundations of their lives.What begins as a fleeting connection evolves into a passionate love affair as Geoff urges Yusuf to choose a future in Canada rather than risk returning home to a war-torn country where he faces persecution for being gay. While their beliefs may divide them, their love for one another becomes an unbreakable bond.Amidst the struggles against religious discrimination and societal pressure, Geoff embarks on a journey to free Yusuf's mind and spirit. But as tensions rise and choices become perilous, Geoff must confront the ultimate betrayal that could shatter everything they hold dear. Will love be enough to conquer the forces threatening to tear them apart? Dive into a story of resilience, passion, and the courage to be true to oneself."The English Tutor is a book yu will want 2 embrace n love as i dew a narrativ uv great subtletee n access looking at evreethiing hed on n thats alwayze changing n finding th way n wayze thru evreething working around th obstakuls n 2 th pleysyur n sorrow n joy all th serching n finding ths book is 2 embrace n 2 love" -bill bissett CM (Order of Canada), poet, artist, writer, musician"As you read The English Tutor, you realize it's a tale of fractures-those agonizing, irreconcilable rifts between people and cultures, East and West, heart and mind, and hope and horrors. It's a love story that is both timeless and timely in our divided world." -Saad T. Farooqi, author of White World
Jasper Springs Series Omnibus Volume Two
Jasper Springs Series Omnibus Volume 2 Includes: GraysonRileyMitch In the small town of Jasper Springs, M's Place is a local-run dive bar that hosts a bar bingo and karaoke event twice a month. This dreamy and sweet series follows six regulars from the group of M's Place patrons who meet their true matches and fall hopelessly in love. While characters may have cameos throughout the stories, each book in this series can be read as a standalone. Binge-read the series today for the guaranteed happily ever afters.
