Below you will find the links to the books participating in The Year Of Queer Lit Stuff Your Kindle day. Remember it is your responsibility to check the prices on the books. The books should be Free or $.99 in a couple of situations the books may be listed as $1.99 due to length and a weird glitch that authors are experiencing. Moral of the story, check the prices.
Romance
Fantasy
Contemporary
Bonus Books
Midnight Meadow Publishing
Born of Flame and Fury – Hannah Danielle
A shattered source. A broken realm. A false king.
It’s all her fault.
Ten years after Elea wakes with no memories in a realm that forbids solar and lunar magics, she is faced with a choice that will alter her life forever.
She must decide whether to use her unusual, emotionally charged flame to survive or be taken by the murderous king’s men and sent to the capital for execution.
With the help of rouge lunar fae twins, Callista and Atlas, the fire fae narrowly escapes her brutal fate, only to be subjected to a new world of unknown trials.
Elea must learn to control her powerful abilities, cope with overwhelming grief, and navigate the unusual pull she feels toward the frustratingly standoffish Callista.
If the fire fae can learn to tame her wild fire, she could be the key the resistance needs to restore the balance of power in Celvaria and free the citizens of the realm from the king’s reign of terror.
18+ for violence and sexual content
Pairings: m/f, f/f
Dowry’s Meadow – C. C. Gonzalez
At a young age, Alexandra has seen the horrors of men and greed forcing her to become someone else. Now, going by Alexander Dowry III, she has to live with the repercussions of her mother’s murder and uphold the lifestyle of a rich man in a small town during the Victorian Era. Meanwhile, Eleanor Stownar wants to believe that the reasons for her arranged marriage to her “husband” Alexander are for other reasons other than financial stability. Love blooms between the two women, but how long will Alexandra hide who she really is?
Pairings: f/f
Realm of Shadows and Demons – KF Starfell
Realm of Shadows and Demons is a fast-paced steampunk dark fantasy with a slow burn romance that will keep you begging for more. Follow Finn and Kit on their journey to freedom as they attempt to escape the dark elf dungeons and find their way out of the Under Realms.
Kit is an infamous tinkerer stolen in the night and carted off to the darkness under the mountain to serve the dark elf lord. Kit is AFAB, but has never connected to the pronouns/gender labels assigned at birth.
Finn Greystone is the thief who shares her cell. He has survived his years as the elves’ slave through wit and cunning. Together, they have to decide if they can trust each other enough to escape or if their own lives are more important than the pull they feel towards one another (even if they won’t admit it.)
Ever since he was a child, Finn has heard a dark voice whispering in his ear. He’s plagued by the demon of darkness that has helped him survive, even though it threatens to consume him. Kit, meanwhile, has built a cage in her mind to contain the thing that burns bright with fury. She’s killed before…and she’d give almost anything not to let the beast take over again.
You’ll find elements of horror and mystery alongside cozy fantasy characters like Gryvach —our resident goblin who just wants to get back to the surface for some books and a cup of tea—and Tok, the 10ft brass, steam-powered golem that loves to bring his friends trinkets and smash anything that tries to hurt his tinkerer. The last of this little found family is Braan, a mysterious dwarven ranger that tags along last-minute.
Pairings: M/AFAB
Woodborn – Heather Nix
Maelwen is a young witch trapped in a harsh and unforgiving life. Friendless and alone, she endures pain and abuse to survive in the desolate land of Iowain.
Cicerine, a sweet young faun, lives in the idyllic glade of Kanitosh Woods. Alongside her mother and closest friend, she grows up in reverence of the god, Idyth—led by the mysterious Father Farragen.
Escaping her tormentor and seeking a new life of her own, Maelwen finds a fresh start in the trade city of Konidas. Meanwhile, a terrible tragedy befalls the glade, and Cicerine must flee to the same seaside town, leaving behind all she has ever known.
As a dark force spreads across the continent, can Maelwen’s gifts and Cicerine’s developing power stand against the threat facing them all? Along with new friends and a crew of sapphic pirates, the line between good and evil is tested as the continent prepares for an epic battle.
Woodborn is a sapphic high fantasy novel, set in the shared world of Idythia—book one in the Song of Gods series.
Pairings: f/f, Nb/f
Feathers of Dawn – Jess Galaxie
After fighting and killing dragons for years, Asith Evourin is finally enjoying an early retirement, using his free time to trace the location of his father, who’s been missing since Asith’s youth. But all that changes when a Bronze dragon lands in a field of his small village. Asith is the only dragon knight who can step up to protect Cairn from the wrath of this beast, but in doing so, Asith is kidnapped by the dragon and brought back to their hoard.
Surprised he hasn’t become an instant meal, Asith interrogates the dragon, named Dradevai, to gather enough information to plan an escape. But he doesn’t expect Dradevai to be such a lonely, gentle soul. Everything he knows about the dragon knights might be wrong, and befriending this dragon might prove some shocking discoveries, such as the whereabouts of his father.
Recognizing that a close relationship with a dragon might jeopardize their safety, Asith must decide how close to keep Dradevai and how badly he wants to uncover the history of the dragon knights and his homeland.
Pairings: M/nb, f/f
Someone Else’s Shoes – Aldrea Alien
Stepping out in borrowed shoes has never been so dangerous.
Stripped of her inheritance as a child by a greedy stepmother, Alla’s future hovers between drudgery and slavery. Having spent years toiling in the mansion that was once her happy home, tending to her stepmother’s every whim, she has long since put aside any thoughts of a better future.
When a chance encounter in the marketplace leaves her with an invitation to the upcoming ball, her only opportunity to play out an old dream of seeing inside the palace walls is by being someone she’s not. A farce that could see her executed or sold.
But will she be able to maintain the illusion once she meets Princess Viktoriya?
Pairings: f/f
Wolf Healer – Huckleberry Rahr
A young shifter excited to take her place in the pack. A savage attack that could destroy her future.
Jade Stone cherishes her family. With loving parents and a supportive community, the fifteen-year-old queer soon-to-be-werewolf can’t wait to take her place in the pack as a healer. But when she’s invited to vacation in Florida, she discovers the shocking existence of werepanthers… after one bites her.
Returning to her native Wisconsin with feline blood coursing through her, Jade is confused and disappointed when former packmates shun her. As she navigates a brand of bigotry she never knew existed, Jade fears she may be exiled from the home and family she loves.
Ostracized and alone, will Jade find a place she belongs?
Wolf Healer is a book for anyone who enjoys urban fantasy books with werewolves, strong female leads, and unexpected twists and turns. It’s a book anyone and everyone can enjoy.
Pairings: f/f, m/m
Waylaid – J.M. Snyder
It’s only supposed to be one night. Until it isn’t.
When the Queen’s guardsman enters my inn, the last thing I expect is to be propositioned. But this far north, it can get lonely at times, and my bed fits two easily enough. The guardsman is lithe and fae, and I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t interested. Besides, what’s one night between grown men?
I don’t expect to see him again. But rumors of war bring him back to me, and what starts as a one-off soon blossoms into so much more …
Pairings: m/m
First Snow – Jake Vanguard
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.
Pairings: m/nb, m/m
The Blood-Born Dragon – JC Rycroft
A bond she didn’t choose.
A love she can’t escape.
A creature so powerful it bends the limits of time…
Smart, sassy, and sanguine, Des Mildue is a traveling sellsword in Rescalin, a dry and dusty kingdom full of rogues, opportunists, and thieves. She keeps her nose clean, brazens it out with a blade when she can’t, and keeps others at arm’s length where they can’t mess up her plans.
That is, until a sword fight gone wrong leaves her tied by blood to the first dragon hatched in centuries. Suddenly, Des has to contend with a new voice in her head: haughty, willful Esquidamelion. Des wants to leave Squid by the roadside, but the blood bond has other ideas.
With half the world on their tail – including Liv, her beautiful, faithless ex who Des is definitely over – Des must search for answers for why so many are willing to kill, maim and torture to get their hands on Squid. But she’s beginning to suspect her blood bond has tied her not only to a dragon, but to a fight for Rescalin’s future…
…and no one else even knows it’s at risk.
Pairings: f/f
Ruptured Light : A Destruction of Gods – Karli Richard
Assassin.
Executioner.
Butcher.
Call her what you will, but Orien’s life belongs to someone else. Someone who uses her as a tool, an asset to gain power and strength. Alister Altair, King of Univier, controls her every move.
The years of slaughtering for hire make her numb to herself and the beauty of the world around her – and within her – until her eyes land on a woman she has never seen before. A woman whose beauty sheds the scales from her eyes.
Prisoner.
Pairings: f/f
Through the Embers Volume 1 – Adriana Sargent
For 10 years Titaia secretly took refuge in the Palace of the King who killed her family and stole their crown. She had been safe, until the Prophecy that made her the most dangerous person in the Realm was discovered. Now the Kings deadliest assassin is in the Kingdom and Titaia fears she’s being hunted. However, when secrets are exchanged, and truths revealed new fears set in. Titaia had been hiding from her birthright, but it has come to the point that she has no choice but to fight. The King has set his sights beyond their Realm with plans to conquer and rewrite the world and she is the only one with the power to stop him. With the help of someone who is not what she seems Titaia faces two questions, can she win? Can she keep her heart safe?
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Aife is the Realms most accomplished assassin. It is no surprise that she is brought in to eradicate the traitor believed to have infiltrated the King and Emperor’s circle. But that’s not her only job. Aife secretly works with the Rebellion fighting against the Kings reign and is tasked to obtain information on what the circle knows about the Druids and Rebellion. Secrets have littered Aife’s entire life, world changing and insignificant alike. What she finds out in her search is enough to change her motivations and loyalty. After 20 years of torture, Aife finally has something to fight for. Nothing comes without a cost, will that cost be her life, her heart, or both?
Pairings: f/f
Awakening Sapphire – Jonathon Hawker
Camelot is fallen. King Arthur is dead. The world carries on, slouching toward its final breath.
“I do what I have to just to stomach this cesspool I woke up to!”
Seventeen hundred years after the events that shaped him into a villain of legend, Morgan le Fay wakes, little more than flashes of his life past to guide the way. Thus, he dons the mantle the world has fashioned for him, cloaking his true identity beneath the guise of a mercenary—teaching the neon city of Etna that he is not one to be trifled with.
“And me? What about my life helped you stomach this place?”
Aaron Jones will never know a land beyond this one, and while it may not be a place of fairytales, he does everything within his limited power as an officer with the ECPD to make it safe. That is until his efforts lead him to a dark alley in the middle of a city-wide blackout, and a jab to the neck lands him on Etna’s missing persons list.
The past and future collide in Etna—one of the final bastions of humanity—as Morgan navigates the schemes of the corporate giant, Esotech, the politics of the Occult Community—and the notion that he could be so much more than the world remembers.
Pairings: m/m
Order of Terra – Cara Blaine
In this dystopian world, the past has left a haunting legacy and elemental energy pulses through the veins of a chosen few. Those once known as witches are now hailed as kinterra, guardians of the delicate harmony between humanity and the natural world.
As Zoi approaches her fifteenth birthday, her life takes a fateful turn when she is chosen to embrace her kinterra heritage. Zoi is reluctant to accept her magical lineage, dismissing it as mere fantasy. But Zoi’s belief in magic ignites as she trains with her aunt, a powerful kinterra. She also meets Basil, a fellow apprentice with a burning desire to find his long-lost sister, kidnapped years before. Amidst their shared pursuit of mastery over the elements, an undeniable spark ignites between them, kindling a romance that flickers amidst the shadows of their challenging quest.
When several kinterra disappear under questionable circumstances, Zoi, Basil, and their friends unveil a sinister plot driven by one man’s thirst for and hatred of magic. With innocent lives hanging in the balance, the ultimate battle awaits.
Can Zoi and her companions save their kind from the dire consequences sparked by the inevitable prejudice of human society?
Pairings: f/f, m/f, f/f/m/m
Duality – Becca Fogg
Jex thought she was an average, post-college girl—until she crippled a drunk and nearly incinerated a gas station. When her elemental powers manifest, she becomes a chess piece at the center of a war between good and evil. The Duality Series is a completed why-choose, urban romantasy series that is plot-forward with escalating spice. Book one is medium burn, and the series is a slower burn why choose that builds over time with woman in the group. Our FMC is both bisexual and Jewish.
Pairings: f/f, m/f/f/m/m/m
The Aether Awakens – C.G. Wynn
Years after negotiating her freedom from service, a reluctant paladin is summoned back to duty during a period of perceived peace. Unbeknownst to Ophiera, a rising power is spreading across Tanvik and, with it, a growing sickness, leaving destruction in its wake. As if disruption of her quiet retirement wasn’t burdensome enough, she is also tasked with escorting a hapless diplomat across the sea. Reckless, smug, and frustratingly charming, her new charge challenges more than just her patience.
As Ophiera confronts an unknown menace on the road, she simultaneously battles her suffered past while questioning the choices of those who command her. But regardless of shifting ethos and growing threats to her charge, her Oath must be upheld. She must protect him at any cost-even if the price is her own soul.
Pairings: m/f
The Price of Surrender – C.J. Dragon
The war with the Daranii, instigated by Earth, was short and brutal.
Outgunned by superior weapons, the obliteration of the military outpost on Jupiter’s moon, Io, ended with Earth’s unconditional surrender.
Captain Jonathan Thomsin of the warship Excalibur was the only Captain of Earth’s combined forces to successfully destroy Daranii ships, not by confronting them, but with guerilla warfare. Outraged by Thomsin’s dishonorable tactics, the Daranii demand the captain as part of Earth’s reparations to Daran.
Captain Thomsin was given to Daran to protect Earth from Daranii vengeance.
A Sacrifice.
He expected to be tormented by loss and grief.
He expected to be tortured and die on Daran.
He never expected to fall in love.
Pairings: m/m
The Hoard of Savragora – David Grey
A whimsical tale of dragons and dentistry
Galen’s life is turned upside down when he makes a house call to a magical patient: the dragon Savragora. The men who serve Savragora are looking for a new Healer, but Galen must first survive six Trials of Will and Strength, in competition with the most famous paramedical practitioner in the world. May the best contender prevail!
Pairings: m/m polyamorous
Devil of the Deep – Falencia Jean-Francois
Nnenna Delahaye, a fearsome pirate captain with a particular taste for Fleet ships, lives according to no law except her own until she discovers a most unusual treasure in the belly of her most recent Fleet capture: a young girl. Against her better judgment (and the wishes of her first mate), she takes the girl on as a passenger. When Nnenna learns the girl has an artifact that the Fleet is desperate to get their hands on, she vows to do everything in her power to stop them.
Duty and honor have been Lu Ortega’s creed since the day he joined the Fleet. Now that he has finally achieved the rank of Captain, he is eager to prove himself worthy of the honor. Lu accepts a mission to retrieve the missing girl and help to bring about the Fleet’s great destiny.
What begins as a game of cat and mouse over land and sea quickly becomes a race to unlock an ancient secret with divine consequences.
Pairings: m/m, f/f, m/f
The Gaunt – Genta Sebastian
A haunting love beyond time.
Emmaline, a frontier butch burned alive as a witch in 1720, still haunted the place where she was murdered when a young suffragette of the 1920s, Beatrice, tried to help her cross over. They fell hopelessly in love instead. Trying to join Em in death, Bea committed suicide and found herself chained to the room where she died.
For over a century, they haunted separate rooms of the same house, able to see each other only from a second story window, yearning forever for their lost loves. Their mournful cries gave life to stories of the Gaunt, a ghost who haunts the old Campbell house.
V, a handsome, masc presenting, ghost hunter and Sapphic romance author, now owns the house. On Halloween night, when beautiful kick-ass girly-girl, Nell, shows up Trick-or-Treating, V is totally enchanted. She offers to show her around the haunted house…and introduces Nell to its two resident ghosts.
With the friendly persuasion of a neighborhood witch, will the two living women give the ghost lovers their one last chance to pass over together; a day of life…in their bodies? After a century of loving and lusting from afar, what will that mean?
And if V and Nell do give up their bodies for a twenty-four-hour period, how will they be able to act on their undeniable attraction for each other?
Pairings: f/f
Jordan’s Pryde (Pryde Shifter Book One) -Giovanna Reaves
All he did was apply for a job and then his world was turned upside down.
Thrust into the world he had no idea about, Jordan Sutton’s only goal was to get a job working for Duncan Pryde of Pryde Industries. He thought werewolves, vampires, and faes belonged in fairy tales, not in the real world. What will he do when he finds out that there’s more than meets the eye to his boss and his family?
Duncan Pryde had too much going on in his life. He became the sole guardian of his twin niece and nephew along with the addition of his pack and company. He had no time to think about a mate when trouble came to his front door. What happens when the man he hired for one job turns out to be his destined mate? Does he deny what he feels or embrace it?
Pairings: m/m
Pacific Pack – Hannah Willow
A pack’s honor in question. A werewolf leader off on her own. A reporter trying to get to the bottom of a story. Can they get past the monsters to let another into their hearts?
Tamsin Hath, the rightful leader to her family’s werewolf pack, left them in the care of her older, more experienced beloved uncle. She now lives in Chicago and is at the mercy of the local pack. The death of her uncle in a dominance fight left her angry, but she understood. When her aunt was found dead, due to supposed natural causes, Tamsin suspects her pack’s new leader is at the bottom of it all. Unable to count on the police, with their lack of insight into the werewolf world, to whom can she turn?
Paige Glass spent her days monitoring the beaches of Santa Cruz and her nights reporting on crime. On the trail of information into a local murder, she finds herself in a world people only read about in books. One in which vicious beasts attack you for coming too close to the truth. Can she find an ally in this world of monsters and murders?
Neither Tamsin nor Paige was looking for love when they found each other. Theirs was a mission to solve the murder of Tamsin’s aunt. Will their forced proximity and conjoined efforts bring them more than the pleasure of solving the crime?
Pairings: f/f
The Pendragon Wytch – C.C. Davie
As long as I can remember my shadows have whispered to me, speaking in a voice both young and ancient. I have learned to mind them, let them guide me through life even when I do not understand their messages. They whisper now to me, a song of sorrow and heartache that weaves itself around the woman I love. A song I do not want to listen to, yet know I cannot run from.
King Arthur has taken this land. Aided by his advisor Merlin and the legions he commands, he has swept over this once prosperous Kingdom like a plague, chasing the last of the Sylvyns into the far south in his quest for power.
They have nowhere to run now, there is no further to go and I fear the bargains that will be made to protect them are ones that will haunt me for the rest of my immortal life.
I was born touched by Nimmet, both a blessing and a curse.
Pairings: f/f, m/f
Rare Temptations – M.L. Eaden
When a very curious fire dragon approaches a demi-goddess for a job in her BDSM club, a subtle chemistry only a dragon can sense leads to a surprising attraction for both of them. As the resort’s summer season ends, they each have to sort through their feelings for the other and decide if this was a fling or something more.
Pairings: f/f
A Glorious Mess, Silver Locket Origins, Book 1 – Kennedy Sutton
Mickey Compton’s life trends towards disaster, always. When Helena Digby offers him a place to stay in Alouett in exchange for doing odd jobs around her inn, he thinks luck might finally be on his side.
Helena’s son, Hugh, has always done what’s best for everyone and it’s worked out well for him. He’s the master’s mate on the naval brig, King’s Glory, and will soon become a sailing master in his own right.
Every time King’s Glory anchors, Hugh and Mickey find themselves drawn towards one another, something that is definitely not in Hugh’s plan. While Mickey is busy falling for Hugh, the master’s mate keeps Mickey at arm’s length. All the while, Louisa Digby, Hugh’s sister, is quickly falling in love with Mickey.
Nursing a broken heart is so much easier when there’s someone else to fill the void, so when Hugh’s ship sails once again, Mickey uses Louisa as a balm on his heartbreak. When he finds she’s in the family way, he does the only honorable thing he can think of. He marries her and takes a respectable job.
A job aboard King’s Glory with Hugh.
Hearts are fickle things and fates aren’t done with Mickey, yet. From parenthood to transformation from respectable sailor into pirate, the twists of Mickey’s life never really go as he expects, or hopes, but one thing remains true through it all… Hugh holds the keys to Mickey’s heart. Maybe someday Hugh will forgive Mickey enough to realize it.
Maybe.
If the troubles that follow Mickey throughout life don’t catch up with him first.
Pairings: m/m
Devoted – J.T. Howell
Matthias, the first-born son of the House of Helianth, has one path to inherit his family’s power and wealth: marrying a respectable woman and fathering children to carry the bloodline. Despite his obligations, the young noble jeopardizes his family’s honor to devote himself to his lover, Anton. But when Anton refuses to sacrifice his familial duty and marries a random noblewoman, Matthias finds himself without a lover, title, or future.
Acting with little thought for his safety, Matthias condemns himself to the bloody and demanding life of a soldier. His survival will depend on mastery of an arcane weapon, trust in the other soldiers of his unit, and a captain with a mysterious past. When the machinations of a neighboring city-state and a group of ambitious nobles threaten the peace they have fought so hard to maintain, Matthias and his companions discover their actions will either save their world or destroy it.
Pairings: m/m
Unworthy – Jennifer Vodvarka
Capture one harmless fugitive. What could go wrong?
Nyssa Blacksea is eager to silence her doubters. The only warrior in her guild without magick, she’s forced to rely solely on her martial arts mastery, unwavering confidence, and charisma. When given the chance to hunt down a mysterious woman named Quinn, and earn the coveted title of Ashcloak, Nyssa seizes the opportunity. Track down a fugitive? An easy task.
There’s just one problem—Quinn isn’t receptive to Nyssa’s charms and refuses to go down without a fight. Dangerous secrets swirl around Quinn and a treacherous guild leader, rattling Nyssa’s faith in the very system that raised her.
Though troubled by the sinking feeling she’s not meant to survive the mission, Nyssa confronts the dangers awaiting her, clashing with pirates, assassins, and undead horrors. Duty pulls her in one direction, but a strange, undeniable spark of connection draws her towards Quinn. With only her heart and code of honor to guide her, Nyssa risks death to stay true to herself.
Pairings: f/f
The Blood Curse – Jessica McMinn
Amika has left Holania in ruins.
Grief-stricken and betrayed, she is on a fiery path to set things right—even if it means submitting to prophecy’s chain. Emboldened by her growing powers, Amika heads towards the wastelands of Qhoraak to rescue her brother and drag another Chosen into destiny’s sick game.
With demonspawn mobilising in unprecedented numbers, she and Rei-Hai Shaw must confront the dangers awaiting them beyond the western border… and those lurking within their shadows.
Kriah, adrift at sea, struggles with the aftermath of breaking the first seal. Now, Azet’haal and his Meah-Hyren army know of the plan to revive the Goddess and it’s only a matter of time before they make their move on the mainland.
But as a new threat spreads across the east, Kriah must uncover the origins of the deadly blood plague and convince the vulnerable people of Whyt’hallen that it is not the old Sickness they fear.
Or did breaking the first seal release more than just a lock on the Goddess’s soul?
Pairings: m/m
Incarnate – Justin Scheulke
“Murder me once, shame on you. Murder me twice…”
Emery Luple hunts monsters, solves crimes, confronts myths, and does it all in style. So it’s downright embarrassing when he’s killed in the unforgiving desert while hunting a monster that never should have been there.
The good news? He reincarnates into a new life—and not for the first time.
The bad news? Someone knows who he is and how to kill him. Within minutes of reincarnating, he’s nearly killed again. And Emery doesn’t know anything about his murderer. All he has are his instincts and a voice in a sandstorm.
But a string of grisly murders in New York draws him back into the world of investigation, mythical creatures, and mystery. Unexpected feelings, a rival monster hunter, and supernatural beheadings soon have Emery questioning if his death isn’t a part of something bigger. Can he solve the current crimes before his murderer finds him again?
Pairings: m/m
Assassin – Katy Haye
Kit was sent to the Sudharainian court with one purpose: kill Prince Talal, heir to the sultanate.
Kit’s never wavered in his duty before, but he’s taken aback by a sudden, powerful attraction to the man he’s been sent to assassinate.
The attraction appears mutual, so perhaps Kit can use it to his advantage: seduce the prince to get close enough to murder him.
There’s just one problem: Kit knows a hundred ways to kill someone, but since he’s never even been kissed, he has no idea how to begin a seduction…
Isolated by being both prince and heir, Talal has been eager to meet his soulmate since the age of two.
He knew his soulmate would come from across the sea where customs are different, but he couldn’t have guessed the man would be a feral killer who considers soulmates an abomination.
The only place they’re compatible is the bedroom. Talal will use that connection to forge their bond. Since soulmates are united for life, he’ll have plenty of time to establish a relationship … won’t he?
Pairings: m/m
Snow Before Sunset – Lisse Kirk
A sapphic novella; two women who work in a remote mountain lodge go out to assess the avalanche risk. Unfortunately, the avalanche risk decides to assess them, leaving them injured and trapped as a storm approaches.
Pairings: f/f
A Prophecy of Flowers and Lightning – Michael Ferguson
“I would rather die at your side than watch the world burn from inside your embrace.”
In a world of gods and monsters, a prophecy is made, a war is waged, and a legend is born. Cursed from birth by the gods with the power of foresight, Cadence is ostracised. Hated by his father, berated by his brothers, and shunned by his community, Cadence leads a lonely existence.
Destinies collide when Cadence meets Arlo, the demigod prince of the Luciferian Empire, and the two have no idea how deeply connected they really are by the Great Cosmic Web of the Fates. A friendship quickly blooms into something more as the two youths navigate the worlds of duty and their emotions together.
The Empire of Luciferian is ruled over by the iron fist of the power-hungry Emperor Abydos, and by his side is Arsinoe, mysterious sorceress and Empress of Luciferian. In his never-ending quest to dominate, he awakens a dark force that will bring famine, war, and ultimate devastation to the Empire.
Arlo and Cadence have an integral role to play in the war to come, one in which their combined demise has been prophesied. Can Cadence and Arlo break the web the Fates have woven for them, or will they become entangled by it?
Pairings: m/m
Design of Darkness – RD Pires
The shadow of the great usurper, King Fogosombre, has kept the East in darkness for twelve long years. Made paranoid by a foretelling of his downfall, the king’s indiscriminate violence reaches a new zenith, leaving twins Arsenio and Mariana orphaned and homeless, their village burnt to the ground.
Now, as the dying embers of their rebellion fade into the night, the twins make a promise to find aide for their people in foreign lands. To get out from under the king’s reach, they must venture across the Great Ocean into a world they had only dreamt about through travelers’ stories. From their perilous quest arises a tale of emperors and queens, marauders and mysticism, fortitude and forbidden love.
Meanwhile, King Fogosombre conducts profane rituals driven by his lust for indomitability. Toiling with malign magic that may yield dire consequences for all the known world, he seeks a pact with the shadows, a plan to cement his reign indefinitely: a design of darkness.
Pairings: m/m, m/f
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The Sorceror’s Lament – Sam Dogra
A talented young Magician must choose between power or love as she investigates a dark conspiracy that could unravel magic itself.
Pairings: f/f
Wanted – Shalaena Medford
Tsingsei ‘Song’ Gould is a brat. As the only child of the richest, most influential family in Andalise, could she really be anything else? Unfortunately for her senator father, she also has an eye for the ladies, which is why no one but Song knows. One stupid mistake later and Song flees in panic, rather than bring the shame on her family. She leaves her home and sets sail on a stolen skyship.
However, the owner of the skyship isn’t the forgiving sort.
Now caught up in the world of pirates and scoundrels, Song must fight for her life. Luckily, she has an advantage. Somehow, somewhere, the mysterious kijæm has chosen her. Armed with this deadly power, she must learn to wield it, or be consumed by it.
Pairings: f/f
A Market of Dreams and Destiny – Trip Galey
Enter the bazaar of the bizarre where fate and fortunes are for sale in this high-stakes magical adventure across a London not quite like our own, perfect for fans of Neverwhere and The Night Circus.
Below Covent Garden lies the Untermarkt, where anything and everything has a price: a lover’s first blush, a month of honesty, a wisp of fortune. As a child, Deri was sold to one of the Market’s most powerful merchants. Now, after years of watchful servitude, Deri finally spots a chance to buy not only his freedom but also his place amongst the Market’s elite when he stumbles into the path of a runaway princess desperate to sell her royal destiny.
But news of the missing princess and her wayward destiny spreads. Royal enforcers and Master Merchants alike are after it. Outmanoeuvring them all would all be hard enough had Deri not just also met the love of his life, a young man called Owain, whose employers are using the Market for their own nefarious schemes.
Deri soon finds that the price of selling the royal destiny, making a name for himself, and saving the man he loves is dear. The cost of it all might just change the destiny of London forever.
Pairings: m/m
The Untouchable Sky – Will Forrest
After a lifetime of cruel treatment, all Jaime wants is to be ordinary. Too bad he’s heir to a magical legacy with the power to reshape the world. So says the most extraordinary man he’s ever met.
Adrian is charming, persistent, and convinced that Jaime is a water-worker, able to bend the element to his will. Too strange to believe, yet when their lives are put in danger, Jaime’s untested power may be their only hope to survive.
Pairings: Ace/Aro, m/m
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