Fairytail Farm
Dr. Hill McCall and her wife Alice dreamed of developing a sanctuary for unwanted cats and dogs to live out their lives as a retirement project. Hill has secretly worked on the project for months when a wealthy benefactor surprises her with a large donation, allowing Hill to be more aggressive with the project's opening. A group home operator approaches Hill about summer volunteer positions for four girls as Fairytail Farm becomes more than just a sanctuary for the animals. It creates an environment of love and kindness for the animals and all that support the project. Several love stories develop from first love to mature couples who have found their forever person. Fairytail Farm is more than a dream come true. It is a home for happily ever afters.
Pyg
Alice French is an emotional wreck. She's left her toxic lover. She's probably going to lose her job. She's even about to ruin her expensive heels when she stumbles upon a barely conscious stranger one night...All Alice wants to do is go home and lick her wounds, but she's compelled to help. Who is this strange man? Why is he mumbling about a pig? And why can't she stop flirting with Ash, the gorgeous A&E doctor? Alice needs to sort her life out, but when it comes to Ash and her disarming smile, things could be about to get a whole lot messier. As Alice delves into the mystery, she starts to see her life with newfound clarity, and unexpected possibilities bloom.Threaded with humour, heart, and intrigue, this sapphic story explores a life transformation with a side of romance!
How to Sleep at Night
"Funny, charming...you can do no better than to curl up with this sparkling book."--The Washington Post"By turns insightful, poignant and laugh-out-loud funny, How To Sleep at Night is a delight."-- J. Courtney Sullivan, New York Times Bestselling author of Friends and Strangers"This wonderful debut is about the rough and tumble road that true love represents for all of us." --James McBride, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store"This debut sparkles with wit and insight. I found myself laughing and gasping in equal measure. A true testament to the complexities of modern relationships--this book is a must-read for anyone who's ever wondered how to bridge the gap between who we are and who we aspire to be." --Dolly AldertonA witty and whip-smart novel about love, marriage, and family ties stretched thin by ambition.Meet Ethan and Gabe. A devoted couple for years, they have successful careers, an adorable daughter, and a house in the New Jersey suburbs. Sure, they may have drifted to different ends of the political spectrum, but their marriage still has its spark. Then one night Ethan makes an announcement: he wants to run for Congress as a Republican--but only if he has progressive Gabe's blessing. For weeks a slightly queasy Gabe struggles between supporting his husband and maintaining his own lefty ideals. He can feel himself slowly pulled under the tide of Ethan's ambitions, even as he becomes widely known as a conservative spouse. In a nearby town, suburban mom Nicole wonders what happened to her younger self--living in New York City, freely dating men and women, and on a path to a career in the art world. Nicole feels like an accessory in her husband's life and like she's given up on the goals she had for herself. Then an old flame re-enters her life unexpectedly. That woman is Ethan's sister Kate.A political reporter at a major newspaper, Kate has reached the top of her profession. But the adrenaline rush of chasing a story has lost its thrill. When Nicole--the woman who broke her heart--slides into her DMs just as her brother starts his controversial congressional run, Kate's life is thrown into a tailspin that threatens to derail the success she's worked so hard to achieve."A sharply funny exploration of marriage and ambition, How to Sleep at Night has the feel of whispered secrets exchanged over cocktails with your smartest friend."-Jenny Jackson, New York Times bestselling author of Pineapple Street"This wonderful debut is about the rough and tumble road that true love represents for all of us." -- James McBride, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store
Waiting for Something Else
The path to love doesn't always travel in a straight direction. Waiting for Something Else tells the story of James, a heterosexual man who unexpectedly falls in love-but not quite in lust-with his gay co-worker, Roger. "Martin Cloutier's prose is suffused with intelligence, wit, compassion, and a vision of the world uniquely his own but which also speaks to a potentially wide readership. This writer is on the cusp of an impressive literary career." -Andre Dubus III, author of House of Sand and Fog "Martin Cloutier understands that comedy -- the searing, real kind -- begins in an honesty as painful for the reader as for the author. We laugh when we read his work because we hear, fatally, the accents of our own abjection as it encounters the humiliations of daily life." -Edmund White, author of A Boy's Own Story Bald, bewildered, and Buddhist, James is struggling to adjust to life in New York City. Nine months into managing a Brooklyn gourmet restaurant, he's still friendless and dateless, and secretly pining for Sherry-a Wiccan vixen with a narcissistic streak-but too timid to act. One drunken night, while confessing his unrequited love to Roger, a playwright known for sex comedies, James unwittingly stumbles into one of his own when Roger makes a move on him.Roger, weary of sculptured thighs, pecs, and the superficial chicken parts of gay dating, is drawn to James's awkward sincerity-and his knack for puppet animation. James enjoys the ego-stroking attention of Roger's sexual advances, and envies his ability to make art in off-Broadway Brooklyn, but remains unsold on his hairy chest, prominent jaw, and unavoidable penis. Things become even more complicated when Sherry, escaping her bipolar boyfriend, moves in with Roger-only to catch feelings after a drunken night sharing his bed. In this era of shifting identities, sexual fluidity, and the messy modern search for connection, Waiting for Something Else tackles the complexities of attraction-the fine lines between gay, straight and questioning-exploring whether desire can transcend sexual orientation and our personal expectations.
Dear Benjamin Manwha Volume 1
An omega in hiding and an alpha with a dangerous past meet in a collision of desire and danger. Isaac has always lived as a beta, but his world turns upside down when he discovers he's a recessive omega during an undercover operation. As he experiences his first heat cycle, he encounters Felix, a notorious and hyper-dominant alpha arms dealer. In the midst of a chaotic raid, Isaac, overwhelmed by his heat, seeks relief from Felix. Four years later, Isaac has reinvented himself as a modest florist in San Diego, trying to escape his tumultuous past and conceal his omega status. His peaceful life is shattered when Felix reappears. Felix is immediately infatuated with Isaac and, upon discovering that Isaac needs protection from an unknown threat, offers a dangerous but tempting deal; his protection in exchange for Isaac's body. A flower shop isn't the safest place for an omega with a past, especially when Felix is around even more so when Issac's most precious secret may be uncovered...
Give My Love to Berlin
"Set against the glittering decadence and impending doom of Weimar Germany, Give My Love to Berlin chronicles a forgotten chapter of LGBTQ history with remarkable depth and humanity. Katherine Bryant has crafted a heart-wrenching and unforgettable tale of forbidden love and moral defiance, offering readers a glimpse of beauty and brutality and reminding us of love's endurance through history's darkest chapters. - Paul Levine, bestselling author of the Jack Lassiter series and the Solomon vs. Lord series "A moving story about ordinary people caught up in historic events, with devastating results. It is poignant and disturbing, with chilling parallels to our own time. Katherine Bryant's debut will stir your anger and touch your heart." - Al Pessin, multi-award-winning author of the international spy thrillers, Sandblast, Blowback, and Shockwave. Give My Love to Berlin follows the lives of two gay couples in the late 1920's Weimar Republic as it slowly gives way to the Nazi's Third Reich and one young woman in America in the 1990s where she grapples with the onset of her grandmother's dementia and discovers secrets her grandmother kept hidden for decades. In 1920s Germany, Tillie and Ruth and their best friends, James and Ernesto, navigate falling in love, thriving in their community, and coming to terms with the danger they're in just by being who they are, even as Tillie watches her father, a prominent lawyer, become more and more entrenched in the Nazi Party. Ruth, a performer at one of the nightclubs in the city and Tillie, working in her father's law office where she meets Joseph Goebbels and Hermann G繹ring, become convinced that her and her friends' lives are in danger as the Nazis take over Berlin one neighborhood at a time. Decades later in America, the shocking truth about Tillie, Ruth, James, and Ernesto and life under the deadly specter of hate and bigotry is finally revealed as a timely story about love, sacrifice, and the choices one must make in the face of danger.
A Week Away
"You're my dad." That's the first thing teenager Cass Reilly says to Dom after crashing his housewarming party. The boy is not his son, but could throw Dom's life into complete disarray by exposing his false identity. Cass agrees to let Dom be if he helps find the killer of the real Dom Reilly. He wants to kill him. That leads Dom and Cass to Reno and then to Detroit where he encounters Cass's larcenous mother, his mob-connected family and eventually the killer himself. Dom struggles to keep the kid from murdering anyone while trying to protect the life he loves.
A Language of Limbs
"The prose is textured, viscous almost, an ooze of sweet honey shot through with golden light . . . A Language of Limbs is a novel of (impeccable) vibes and mood, a gay hymnal written from inside the guts of the two protagonists."--Yves Rees, Australian Book Review A beautifully inventive, tender novel--the author's first to be published in the U.S.--following two lives as they almost intersect over three heartbreaking yet euphoric decades A Language of Limbs is a breathtaking spin on a will-they-won't-they love story; it is a tender epic that explores the weight of a choice, the love of community, and how joy is found in even the darkest corners. Newcastle, Australia, 1972. On a sticky summer night, a choice must be made: to give in to queer desire or suppress it? To venture into the unknown or stay the course? In alternating chapters, poetically called Limb One and Limb Two, we trace the two versions of a life that follow. In Limb One, a teenage girl is caught kissing her neighbor and is kicked from her home; in continuing to run, she chooses a new life for herself. She lands at a queer communal home in Sydney called Uranian House, where she meets the people who will forever become her family. Meanwhile, in Limb Two, a teenage girl pushes down her lustful dreams of her best friend and eventually makes her way to a university in Sydney to study English literature. During pivotal moments, the physical space between Limb One and Limb Two closes and they almost intersect--like when they each meet the first great loves of their lives in 1977 at a protest, or when, almost a decade later, they are both rushed to the hospital with only a curtain between them. Through the AIDS crisis--and from classrooms to art galleries, beds to bars, and hospitals to homes--we witness these two lives shadow each other until, finally, they collide.
