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June, 1852\. A preacher’s daughter with a secret. An outlaw running from the gallows. A love story spanning oceans and deserts and years. When Abby Proctor is kidnapped from a train in the middle of the desert halfway to her new life in California, she makes a promise to herself—she will escape. Because there’s a reason Abby is leaving Iowa and all its oppressions behind, and she refuses to be someone’s prisoner again. Especially when that someone is the infamous female outlaw Joey ‘JT London’ Taylor, Abby's brash, brooding, and inconveniently beautiful captor. But as Abby plots her escape, she stumbles upon a larger conspiracy at play behind her kidnapping—a complicated revelation considering the feelings she’s been having for Joey, who might not be the ruthless criminal everyone believes her to be. And when Abby realizes it’s all connected—her kidnapping, the secrets she left behind in Iowa, even her plans in California—she has to decide between returning to a life of obedience and unhappiness, or trusting an enigmatic outlaw who is bound for the gallows.

A story of love and duty set in San Francisco's Chinatown during the Red Scare. “That book. It was about two women, and they fell in love with each other.” And then Lily asked the question that had taken root in her, that was even now unfurling its leaves and demanding to be shown the sun: “Have you ever heard of such a thing?” Seventeen-year-old Lily Hu can’t remember exactly when the question took root, but the answer was in full bloom the moment she and Kathleen Miller walked under the flashing neon sign of a lesbian bar called the Telegraph Club. America in 1954 is not a safe place for two girls to fall in love, especially not in Chinatown. Red-Scare paranoia threatens everyone, including Chinese Americans like Lily. With deportation looming over her father—despite his hard-won citizenship—Lily and Kath risk everything to let their love see the light of day.

A vampire knight. A fated princess. Twelve Nights of Yule to fall in love. Princess Ilyra was never meant to rule, let alone become the heart of a sacred pact older than the crown she wears. As the youngest daughter of the royal line, she expected to spend Yule tucked into palace corners, left to her quiet studies. But when the vampire envoy arrives cloaked in crimson and kneels before her alone, Ilyra is thrust into a ritual bond that demands courtship, protection… and something dangerously close to devotion. Ser Virelle is the last blood-knight of a dying house, ancient beyond reckoning and sent to the Halden Court in service of an ancient truce. She came for duty, not desire—but the moment she meets Ilyra, something stirs. The princess bears the scent of covenant, marking her as Virelle’s fated mate. And Virelle? She is bound to her now, by blood and vow, until the final Yule fire burns to ash. Together, they must navigate a court glittering with candlelight and deception—where the Twelve Nights of Yule are as perilous as they are enchanting. As desire builds beneath snow and silk, one question Can love survive the fire lit by fate, or will it consume them both? ♥ ♥ ♥ A Vow Cold and Kindled is a standalone steamy sapphic vampire romantasy novella with a full arc and a HEA. It's part of an interconnected world, but can be enjoyed on its own. Some tropes you'll find Fated MatesVampire Knight/Human PrincessMasc/FemmeForbidden RomanceProtective FMCYule SettingTouch-starved Vampire Falls FirstCourt IntrigueSpicy Scenes + Magical Strap

Sparks fly and lovers dance in this gorgeous, yearning Cinderella retelling from bestselling author Freya Marske—a queer Gothic romance perfect for fans of Naomi Novik and T. Kingfisher. Ella is a haunting. Murdered at sixteen, her ghost is furiously trapped in her father's house, invisible to everyone except her stepmother and stepsisters. Even when she discovers how to untether herself from her prison, there are limits. She cannot be seen or heard by the living people who surround her. Her family must never learn she is able to leave. And at the stroke of every midnight, she finds herself back on the staircase where she died. Until she forges a wary friendship with a fairy charm-seller, and makes a bargain for three nights of almost-living freedom. Freedom that means she can finally be seen. Danced with. Touched. You think you know Ella's the ball, the magical shoes, the handsome prince. You're halfway right, and all-the-way wrong. Rediscover a classic fairy tale in this debut novella from "the queen of romantic fantasy" (Polygon). At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

It isn’t always lonely at the top. Noah Blue’s finally got her foot in the door. After clawing her way to the top of the charts with her webcomic, she’s garnered enough attention to earn a full\-time position at a comic company re\-launching their cult classic comic: Queen Leisah. Queen Leisah is predicted to be an instant bestseller with movie deals already in the making. Things are falling into place. There’s nowhere to go but up…as soon as she gets one person out of her way. Sage Montgomery has always been the best artist in every building she’s stepped foot in. Raw talent’s gotten her webcomic to the top of the charts every month for the past eight years. She’s been the best for as long as she can remember. Sure, her career has plateaued but that can be fixed with a big, mainstream comic. She was promised full creative control over Leisah. Instead, she got a shared credit with the one artist who’s been breathing down her neck since college. The one artist who has a fighting chance of being better than her. Sage and Noah have to work as a team—or, at least appear to work as a team. They thought the hardest part of the relaunch would be drawing together. But that’s easy in comparison to resisting their feelings for each other. \\ Outdrawn is a slow\-burn, rivals\-to\-lovers sapphic romance. This book is a standalone.

Spirit away with a whimsical fantasy filled with dark magic and flirty, polyamorous romance. Cursed to haunt the river running through the magical spa town where she drowned, Gisela is a water nymph who dreams of returning to the living world and the family she left behind. All it takes to regain her humanity is a kiss from a mortal...but everyone sees her as a monster. And then there’s Kazik, the brooding, interfering, spirit\-hunting grandson of a local witch. He's determined to rid the world of unholy creatures like Gisela. After Kazik botches Gisela’s exorcism, she strikes up a deal. She won’t tell the other spirits that he’s losing his magic, if he agrees to play matchmaker and helps her get a kiss. But Gisela’s plan goes awry when Kazik also falls for the devilishly handsome young man that she sets her heart on—someone who could be linked to Gisela’s troubled past. Finely crafted with a magical setting, this delectable quest through the spirit world is an enchanting read for fans of queer romantasy.

Two warriors shepherd an ancient god across a broken land to end the tyrannical reign of a royal family in this new epic fantasy from the author of The Vanished Birds. The people suffer under the centuries-long rule of the Moon Throne. The royal family—the despotic emperor and his monstrous sons, the Three Terrors—hold the countryside in their choking grip. They bleed the land and oppress the citizens with the frightful powers they inherited from the god locked under their palace. But that god cannot be contained forever. With the aid of Jun, a guard broken by his guilt-stricken past, and Keema, an outcast fighting for his future, the god escapes from her royal captivity and flees from her own children, the triplet Terrors who would drag her back to her unholy prison. And so it is that she embarks with her young companions on a five-day pilgrimage in search of freedom—and a way to end the Moon Throne forever. The journey ahead will be more dangerous than any of them could have imagined. Both a sweeping adventure story and an intimate exploration of identity, legacy, and belonging, The Spear Cuts Through Water is an ambitious and profound saga that will transport and transform you—and is like nothing you’ve ever read before.

_What is your Roman Empire? A sapphic, feminist romantasy, set in the age of ancient Rome._ The Roman Goddesses have grown weary of the rule of Gods and men. They seek to change the fortune of the world by backing a brilliant young woman. In Pompeii, Gia dreams of being a female Gladiator, but there is no such thing. When she wins the favour of Claudia – the beautiful daughter of the Emperor – her star begins to rise in the arena, but so does the risk to her life. Together, the girls must battle conspiracies to overthrow the Empire, and their growing feelings for one another. Feelings the Goddesses had not planned on. A scintillating and enchanting new series, perfect for fans of Powerless, Lore and Crescent City.

A small town, enduring love, a web of secrets. The Tell Tale has been watching and waiting, because there’s something queer about the village of Foel. Beth Griffiths has returned home to raise her daughter in the Welsh hills. They arrive to the open arms of the community, but not all is what it seems and Beth isn’t home for the reason she pretends either. Vicious notes start appearing that reveal harsh truths about the village inhabitants, stirring up ancient past and old loves. Not even local dignitary, the elegant and aloof Lady Melling, is safe from the accusations. But when Beth receives her notes, they aren’t what she expected. Is she being toyed with like the other villagers, or is she being guided to a long-sought truth?

Against the glittering backdrop of alternate modern-day Singapore, two teens must choose between love and loyalty in this sapphic urban fantasy. Part enemies-to-lovers rom-com, part high-octane action, the chemistry of Mr and Mrs Smith meets the high-stakes action of Iron Widow. Harper Leong is an engineering intern at a famous tech company, but she’s also Raven: the flirtatious probationary leader of the feared Foxes, descended from Chinese Nine-Tailed Foxes. To successfully graduate her probation and achieve the leadership she promised her late parents, Harper’s been assigned to kill the Sentinel that’s been hindering Fox missions—Lune, the youngest, the brightest. But as Harper gets closer to her target, she finds herself looking past the icy facade the Sentinel often fronts, and begins struggling with her loyalties and, horrifically, her burgeoning feelings. Descended from moon goddess Chang'e, Lune's real name is Tia, and she's an engineering intern with an annoying partner-slash-flatmate: Harper. In her civilian identity, Tia begins falling for her arrogant rival—without realising that Harper is secretly the Fox that Tia’s been trying to defeat for years. Desperate to prove herself as the youngest Sentinel, Lune throws herself into destroying the Foxes—until she witnesses Raven during a vulnerable moment, tends to Harper’s mysterious wounds in her civilian life, and begins yearning for the miscreant on both sides of the mask. As Raven's mission to kill Lune unravels to include the mysterious moonstones that hint at unprecedented potential to aid Singapore's climate crisis, low-level tensions become life-threatening. Harper and Tia begin to realise that the concepts of right and wrong can be just as complicated—and dangerous—as falling in love.