Hymn to Moray Eels
In a rigid postwar institution where friendships burn bright and heartbreak stings sharper than medicine, Mila must decide whether to retreat or risk everything for love. Within the cloistered world of a 1950s French sanatorium, sixteen-year-old Mila is learning more than just how to recover; she's learning how to want. Stranded among a cast of unruly girls, she navigates longing and the quiet defiance of being a young lesbian in a world that prefers silence. There's Marie, full of teasing bravado; the two Nicoles, who always weep; and Josette, who fills the air with accordion melodies. Then there's Paule, a striking staff member whose attention is intoxicating--until it isn't. Just as Mila begins to believe in the possibility of something real, Paule turns toward another, leaving Mila caught between jealousy and the aching pull of first love. Originally published in 1985, Hymn to Moray Eels is a rare and brilliant gem of queer literature, balancing wry humor with aching tenderness. Mireille Best's unsentimental prose captures the bittersweet contradictions of adolescence, creating a coming-of-age novel that is both deeply personal and strikingly universal.
Across the Stars
On the frozen world of Ampheres, young Ridley Camaro struggles for basic survival while pining for a better, more adventurous life.Mycroft, a Specter with the Cosmic Syndicate, has to bear the entire weight of the galaxy on his shoulders, and is single-handedly charged with ceasing the approaching war.When the two men's paths cross, they are thrust into the forefront of the grandest drama the galaxy has ever seen.
Evocation
From The Sunday Times bestselling author of B&N's best books of 2022 A Dowry of Blood, comes a spellbinding and vibrant new series. The Devil knows your name, David Aristarkhov. As a teen, David Aristarkhov was a psychic prodigy, operating under the shadow of his oppressive occultist father. Now, years after his father's death and rapidly approaching his thirtieth birthday, he is content with the high-powered life he's curated as a Boston attorney, moonlighting as a powerful medium for his secret society. But with power comes a price, and the Devil has come to collect on an ancestral deal. David's days are numbered, and death looms at his door. Reluctantly, he reaches out to the only person he's ever trusted, his ex-boyfriend and secret Society rival Rhys, for help. However, the only way to get to Rhys is through his wife, Moira. Thrust into each other's care, emotions once buried deep resurface, and the trio race to figure out their feelings for one another before the Devil steals David away for good...
A Good Happy Girl
A poignant, surprising, and immersive read about a young professional woman pursuing an emotionally intense relationship with a married lesbian couple, for readers of Kristen Arnett and Melissa Broder Helen, a jittery attorney with a self-destructive streak, is secretly reeling from a disturbing crime of neglect that her parents recently committed. Historically happy to compartmentalize--distracting herself by hooking up with lesbian couples, doting on her grandmother, and flirting with a young administrative assistant--Helen finally meets her match with Catherine and Katrina, a married couple who startle and intrigue her with their ever-increasing sexual and emotional intensity. Perceptive and attentive, Catherine and Katrina prod at Helen's life, revealing a childhood tragedy she's been repressing. When her father begs her yet again for help getting parole, she realizes that she has a bargaining chip to get answers to her past. A Good Happy Girl is interested in worlds without men--and women who will do what they can to get what they want. In her exploration of twisted desires, queer domesticity, and the effects of incarceration on the family, Marissa Higgins offers empathy to characters who often don't receive it, with unsettling results.
A Den Mate for Dylan
Welcome to Foxwood Hollow. In a world of fox shifters sits a small, quaint town where everyone knows your business. Often stifling, always safe, and forever a place to call home.DylanAxel is the love of my life; he just doesn't know it yet.Ten out of ten do not recommend spending your formative years pining after an alpha who's your brother's best friend. But alas, here we are.My only solution is to leave Foxwood Hollow and start afresh. So what do I do when I have no choice but to return home, only to realise all of those years and miles haven't doused the flame?Axel He's your best friend's little brother. He's your best friend's little brother. It was a mantra I'd repeated to myself for years, ever since my brain had shifted from omega smells good to omega smells like mine. I'm happy for Dylan when he leaves Foxwood Hollow to chase his dreams. I always knew he was destined for a life larger than this little town can offer him. But I feel his absence like a gaping chasm, and the silence that follows has my alpha instincts going into overdrive.When Dylan finally comes home, a lot has changed. But the soul-deep longing is as present as ever.Can I really let him slip through my fingers again?
The King's Bracelet
In 1904 colonial Kenya, power, faith, and forbidden desire intertwine in this historical political fiction. When British authorities confiscate a sacred brass bracelet-the omukasa-from the Wanga king, three men find their lives irrevocably connected. Wabala, the deposed chief elder of the Wanga people, crafts an ambitious plan to restore his position, aided by Sande, a servant with hidden loyalties. Their secret connection threatens to upend the colonial power structure. Meanwhile, French missionary Father Alain Fontaine's growing feelings for Wabala force him to confront his religious vows and true nature. Their developing bond-taboo in both African and European society-deepens as they share language lessons and intimate conversations. District Commissioner Harold Smith, threatened by their closeness, schemes to separate them while securing his own authority. As Smith tightens his grip on the region, he unknowingly becomes entangled in traditional power structures through a mysterious ritualist's ceremonies. This historical fiction love story explores the cost of ambition, the power of forbidden attraction, and the clash between duty and desire. As colonial politics mesh with traditional authority, each man must choose between the expectations placed upon him and the truth in his heart. Their choices will reshape not only their own lives but the future of an entire people. Themes of colonial power, cultural preservation, and the universal struggle for acceptance are masterfully woven in this African historical fiction, against the backdrop of a rapidly changing society where nothing is quite what it seems.
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...
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.
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"
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.
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.
