Friendly reminder: The LGBTQIA+ BookBlast happens on August 26, 2026. If you’re shopping ahead of time, some books may not be on sale just yet. All participating titles will be free, $0.99, or $1.99 on 8/26/26, so be sure to check the price before you buy.
Edging Sanity – Kestrel Martin (Pre-Order)
What would you do if a notorious serial killer was intent on breaking you?
Rowan discovers the answer to exactly that in this erotic thriller when a notorious serial killer is transferred to her care in the psychiatric ward.
Rep: F/F, Neurodivergent, Butch/Femme
Amazon
Jewel Cave – Elizabeth Noble
In a dark cave, Clint must rely on the skills he learned from Griff to survive.
Rep: M/M
Amazon
I Am Danvers – Kate Kaminski
A seductive conman recruits streetwise grifter Danny, promising easy money and glamour. Instead, she’s trapped in a cutthroat Hollywood game of lust, desperation and unhinged ambition. Part crime novel, part intimate portrait of a complex antiheroine, “I am Danvers” is a darkly comedic, twisty read.
Rep: F/F, M/M, Bi, Pan
Author Direct
Wake the Dead – sophie Mutiara Nova
An ominous supernatural presence awakens in a small town. One ace siren detective, Lili, is dragged back into defending her turf…and hopefully, she doesn’t die this time around.
Rep: Sapphic, Asexual, Neuordivergence
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All That We Burn – Marisa Billions
A defense attorney caught between a detective and a tattoo artist as secrets and lies are exposed.
Rep: Lesbian, Femme/Butch
Amazon
Till Death Do You Part – Marisa Billions
A lesbian love triangle in a hotel for a three day destination wedding. One doesn’t make it out alive.
Rep: Lesbian, Femme/Butch
Amazon
Out of the Blue – Marisa Billions
I AM HAUNTED. I LIVE A HAUNTED EXISTENCE.
Sophia Martin and Eli were married for almost a decade, ran a successful spiritual empire bringing “a bespoke spiritual living experience” to vulnerable people looking to find a purpose in life. Then, Sophia meets a woman who turns her soul, and heart, inside out. Suddenly, Eli’s empire is put at risk.
I DANCE WITH THE PAST ON A DAILY BASIS.
After escaping the marriage, and Eli’s demands, Sophia starts again in a new town, and she can reclaim her identity. When she meets Frankie, a woman who teaches her that she is worth love and happiness, Sophia finally begins to heal and rediscover what it means to have peace. Until the bodies of murdered women wash ashore.
I RELIVE MY MISTAKES AND QUESTION MY PRESENT AND DOUBT MY FUTURE.
When she spots Eli in her newfound hometown around the same time the bodies have been showing up, Sophia knows it’s not a coincidence. However, no one will believe her. Not even Frankie. Can she prove Eli is out to terrorize her for destroying the empire he built?
Rep: Bi, Lesbian, Butch/Femme
Amazon
Into the Blue Again – Marisa Billions
Emma Landry must now navigate life post-Bailey. The role she played in her ex-wife’s untimely death still haunts her. Also, she needs to understand the mystery that is Morgan. A woman who came into her life at a most inopportune time. Emma is left pondering the reasons their lives intersected, and whether or not they truly belong together.
When these women start to explore the consequences of their decisions, everything changes.
You have to understand Jonathan is a demarcation in my life.
Morgan Hale was once free-spirited and fun-loving. She avoided serious relationships and falling in love. Until she met Jonathan. A tortured and mercurial writer who turned her world upside down.
There was my life before him. And the utter mess left in his wake.
Emma is left to figure out how the broken pieces of their shattered lives are meant to fit together as she learns through Morgan’s story not only their lives’ parallels but how love can be both destructive and rehabilitative.
Will the ghosts of Morgan’s past drive Emma away or bring them closer together?
Rep: Bi, Butch/Femme
Amazon
Like Sapphire Blue – Marisa Billions
Your eyes are amazing. I’ve never seen a blue like that.”
Emma Landry is tough, independent, beautiful, and smart. Being an outcast unable to identify with her classmates, she was willing to do whatever it takes to climb her way out of poverty.
“What color would you say they are?”
Like Sapphire Blue
Having never known a mother’s love, her father “Bear”, raised her on the wrong side of the tracks in a wealthy town.
When success beckons, the woman she’s been in love with is, finally, within her grasp. Life is now worth living and loving.
That is, until a dark family secret is revealed. A secret tied into the very fabric of who she is, and what she spent a lifetime working to overcome.
Faced with a foundation shattering treachery, Emma finds herself at the crossroads. Can she overcome a destiny stronger than death, destitution, and murder, to prove she is more than just her father’s daughter? Or will this new knowledge lead her to destroy the world she’s spent a lifetime building?
Rep: Bi, Lesbian, Butch/Femme
Amazon
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