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MM & Gay Romance
Aug. 5th: Sparkly Nuts (Nuthatch Bay)
Age gap? Check. Off-limits? Double check. Still gonna climb him like a tree? Absolutely.
A small-town M/M age gap romance with sass, steam, and zero chill.
Sammy
I’m not saying I have daddy issues, but… I desperately want my best friend’s dad. Don’t judge me. Have you seen Cole? Seventeen years older, rugged as hell, and so kind it should be illegal. I’ve been low key in love with him since college. Now I’m back in town, shamelessly flirting and fantasizing. If something doesn’t happen between us soon, I might just leave because watching him from a distance while pretending I don’t want to climb him like a tree? Torture.
Cole
Sammy is trouble wrapped in glitter and sass. And I cannot stop looking. He’s my son’s best friend, which is basically the universe yelling “NO!” with a megaphone. He’s also younger, hotter, and way too sweet for a guy like me. But he’s not making this easy. Every flirty smirk, every swing of those hips, every sassy comment makes it harder to keep my distance. I’m about to break, and considering he just fell in my lap dressed in short-shorts and a crop top, it’ll be soon.
Aug. 6th: The Way Home: An MM Forbidden Romance
Ten years ago, when Riley met Jeremy, he fell hard. Jeremy was his first kiss, first love, first…everything. It started as a summer fling after Riley moved to a small town, but the fling came crashing to an end when Riley’s mom announced her impending marriage to Jeremy’s dad.
Riley forced his own feelings aside to put his mom’s happiness first. Being so close to each other but unable to act on it drove a wedge between him and Jeremy.
Now, as adults, Riley and Jeremy have a nonexistent relationship, avoiding each other at all cost. Not knowing their history, the parents decided enough was enough and devised a plan to get the two to spend time together at the family cabin.
Will they be able to move past the connection they once had to form a new kinship, or will their feelings ignite anew?
The Way Home is a second chance, nerd/jock MM romance. It is part of the Pathfinders Lake multi-author series that features forbidden romance. Each book can be read as a standalone but is better enjoyed as a series.
Aug. 26th: Pucking Strong (Jacksonville Rays Hockey)
My name is Teddy O’Connor, and I just made a terrible mistake. It’s been six years since I was an intern for the Jacksonville Rays NHL team. Six years since I wrapped ice packs on knees and played Mario Kart on chartered planes. And six long years since I first met him. Henrik Karlsson, star forward of the Rays . . . and king of my heart.
Oh god, I’ve got to get over this crush! I’m a doctor now, a respected professional. And Henrik doesn’t even know I exist. So you tell me why I’m risking everything to follow this man halfway around the world!
After receiving news of his sister’s tragic death, Henrik must fly to Sweden to retrieve his injured, grieving young niece. But with a new hockey season about to start, Henrik can’t possibly care for her alone. In fact, the Swedish government won’t let him. He needs me. They both do. I’d be heartless not to help—right?
Well, that’s what I told myself last week as I signed our Swedish marriage license. It’s what I told myself yesterday as I moved into his apartment. And it’s what I’m telling myself now as the Rays PR Director stares us down. They want this marriage to look real. The team’s public image, our jobs, and Henrik’s custody agreement all depend on it.
But my problem isn’t that I don’t love my fake husband. God help me, my problem is that I do.
Aug. 26th: Fated Winds and Promising Seas: A tender-hearted tale of forging fates, fantastic creatures, and found family
When a promise is made, a fate is woven.
Imprisoned for a crime he cannot remember committing, Lucky is more comfortable with the four walls of his cell than the world outside. That is until he’s ripped free from his prison and swept out into the ocean. . . and rescued by The Dreamer.
But The Dreamer is no ordinary vessel, with its crew of outcasts and heretics who possess the ability to manipulate water. Lucky is taken under the protective wing of a sailor named Gabriel, but when he recognises Gabriel from his past, Lucky suspects it may not be a simple accident that threw them together.
To understand their connection and prove Lucky’s innocence, they must navigate treacherous waters, avoid giant Leviathan, and outwit those seeking to arrest them. But some memories hide secrets that could destroy all that they love. And with the tides of fortune ever-changing, the quest for freedom is just the beginning.
THEMES AND TROPES! Mental health rep, MM romance, found family, magical ships, safe and cared for, sharing the same room, gay romance novel, happily ever after!
Aug. 26th: The Entanglement of Rival Wizards (Magic and Romance)
Will they conjure love, or evoke chaos? Two rival wizards are about to find out.
Sebastian Walsh: Evocation Department. Human. The first of his family to pick college over the military.
Elethior Tourael: Conjuration Department. Half-elf. Pretentious asshole. The latest legacy Tourael at Lesiara U.
Both: Mageus Research Grant finalists.
Sebastian refuses to let anyone snatch this away, least of all a snob riding on old money. But what’s worse than a nemesis stealing your grant? You could both get it. Under the condition you work together.
Sebastian is in hell. Thio’s broody. Takes up their shared lab space with his projects . . . and biceps. Brings treats for Sebastian’s familiar . . .
. . . and is nothing like Sebastian thought.
When Sebastian’s past with the Touraels forces him to choose his research or Thio, the decision should be simple. But while working with his rival is volatile . . . falling for his rival might blow up Sebastian’s future.
Sapphic & Lesbian Romance
Aug. 1st: Beaches, Bagels & Babes
Sapphic Slow-burn Summer Romance!
In the fun-loving vacation town of Wonderwood, New Jersey, Daisy DeMarco’s life revolves around beaches, bagels, and babes. She resists the tides of change better than a mud-stuck jetty, but when her boardwalk breakfast counter faces closure, she must find a way to weather the storm. A way that doesn’t involve teaming up with her childhood ex-crush, the spoiled “Pier Princess,” Candace Perry.
Candace spent years trying to cover the sunburn scars Wonderwood left on her body and heart. However, after being fired, she has no choice but to return to the seaside destination. There, forces from her past collide as she learns of her uncle’s underhanded plans to expand his boardwalk empire.
Candace and Daisy’s history hangs heavy in the seaside air. The fact that they need each other—along with their lingering attraction—is impossible to deny.
Can Candace convince Daisy to accept her help? Or is she the salt taffy promise Daisy thinks her to be?
Over one sizzling summer, they’ll both find out!
Aug. 4th: Summer Breakdown (Training Seasons)
This summer is Frankie’s. She’s an overprepared Black lesbian, and her rugby team is a few months away from doing the unthinkable: being promoted to the premiership. Somehow, she’s still happy, healthy, and at least half alive. To get here, she’s spent her entire life with structure. All she needs to do is stick to it: take her pills, coach the Titans, and sleep with a different woman each week.
Follow the play, and it all works out.
Jasmine is using this summer as a fresh start. She’s spent her life hiding who she is, and she’s not doing it anymore. She packs up her children and runs to the prettiest place she can find. Toulshire is cute, so starting her life over at almost thirty isn’t the worst thing she’s had to do. But making friends as an adult may be…
Then she meets Frankie at a bar, and Jasmine thinks she’s finally figured it out.
That is, until Frankie leaves without a word, and Jasmine attempts to forget all about her and her ridiculous arms.
Jasmine’s son joining the Titans’ junior team is something neither saw coming.
This summer was supposed to change their lives, but will it be for the better, or are they headed for a breakdown?
Aug. 12th: The Sun and the Moon
Like the sun and the moon, these opposites can’t escape each other’s gravitational pull in this enchanting romance.
Cadence Connolly grew up in the cosmic shadow of her mother, the renowned psychic Madame Moira. Now, as a park ranger in Maine, she’s carved out her own life far away from her mother’s many premonitions and tarot cards . . . until she receives an invitation to Moira’s engagement party. Cadence doesn’t know what led to the thawing of her mother’s heart, but she’ll have to return home to discover the truth.
Sydney Sinclair’s schedule as a pilot makes long-term relationships difficult, but at least she can fly anywhere in the world for free with only her emotional baggage as a carry-on. After her mom passed, it’s always been Sydney and her dad against the world, so it’s no wonder she doesn’t trust the enigmatic Madame Moira—his newly minted fiancée.
When Cadence meets Sydney, they realize they share similar suspicions about their parents’ impending nuptials. As they begin scheming to break up their parents’ engagement—they can’t possibly be in love after such a short time together—Sydney and Cadence discover an irresistible chemistry with each other instead. Despite not believing in fate, Cadence might just have found her soulmate in Sydney.
Aug. 12th: Uncomplicate It
When an office attraction threatens her career, Hollis Reed’s carefully laid plans demand revision.
After a painful breakup, Hollis is determined to climb the corporate ladder by charting a meticulous three-year plan. Just as she vows to keep love at arm’s length, her new boss threatens to disrupt everything. Ainsley Jones is a force to be reckoned with—brilliant, sophisticated, and irrefutably attractive.
As Hollis navigates her new role, she can’t deny the magnetic pull between them. But workplace policies against fraternization, Hollis’s doubts about mixing business with pleasure, and Ainsley’s micromanaging style prevent their budding romance from blooming. With the unwavering support of her best friend, Harrison, Hollis must risk everything she thought she wanted to have the love she can’t live without.
Aug. 15th: Her Majesty’s Captain
On the day of her arranged marriage, Princess Ahrin Caldwell is stolen from the altar-not by an enemy fleet or a jealous rival, but by pirates. Among their ranks is their daring captain, who turns out to be Maura, Ahrin’s presumed-dead childhood friend.
Forced aboard the ship, Ahrin is thrust into a world she’s only dreamed of-a life untamed by courtly rules, filled with danger, wit, and the irresistible lure of the open sea.
As they navigate treacherous waters, evade royal privateers, and face the tempestuous truths that lie between them, Ahrin must decide who she is meant to be: a dutiful princess bound by tradition or a woman bold enough to claim her freedom.
Queer
Aug 5th: Ghost Fish: A Novel
A tender coming-of-age novel about a young woman haunted by her sister’s death, who starts to believe that her beloved sibling has returned to her—in the form of a ghost fish, for fans of Sweetbitter and Our Wives Under the Sea.
Alison is mired in loneliness and grief. Freshly twenty-three and mourning the loss of her younger sister, who has drowned at sea, she’s moved out of her hometown and into a cramped apartment on New York’s Lower East Side. Now she’s living the cliché, barely making rent as a restaurant hostess and avoiding her roommates, while watching the bright, busy passersby from her bubble of grief. She doesn’t need originality; she just needs to be alive.
Then, late one night, she rounds the corner and sees a shape in the air—a ghost. And how strange, it looks like a fish. What is it? Alison knows, without hesitation: it is her beloved sister, finally returned to her side. Safe in a pickle jar filled with water, the ghost fish goes wherever Alison does: in an alcove at the restaurant; in a tote bag on the subway; in her room at night as her roommates chatter outside. She knows she has to keep her safe from the world, the way she didn’t before. She knows that, together, they will never be lonely again. But as Alison’s new life in New York begins to grow, and as she navigates the murky waters of dating, friendship, and desire, she must ask: what if her sister is keeping her away from a life outwardly lived?
With tenderness and heart, stretching from New York City to Key West, Ghost Fish is a meditation on grief and loneliness, and the strange, kaleidoscopic ways we help ourselves—and those we love—through them.
Aug. 5th: The Build-a-Boyfriend Project by Mason Deaver
Bestselling and award-winning author Mason Deaver’s adult romance debut follows a journalist in a dead-end job who agrees to teach his disastrous blind date how to be a better boyfriend. Readers will delight in this sweet and steamy queer romance with trans representation!
Eli Francis is stuck. Stuck in an assistant position at the online magazine Vent when he should be a writer. Stuck with a boss who dangles a promotion but would rather he just fetch the coffee. Stuck working alongside the ex who has had no trouble moving up at work…or moving on.
When Eli’s roommates push him to date so he can get over his ex once and for all, they set him up with Peter Park. Tall, handsome, and unbelievably awkward. The date is a complete disaster, and further proof to Eli that love isn’t for him. But when his boss overhears Eli recounting the catastrophic night, he suggests teaching Peter to be a better boyfriend through a series of simulated dates so he can write an article about it.
But Eli has other ideas…Eli plays along, pretending to write the article, while secretly interviewing Peter about growing up queer in the South and coming-of-age dating wise in adulthood. Eli hopes writing this sort of piece will finally get him the promotion he deserves. And in exchange, he will teach Peter how to be a better boyfriend.
But the more time Eli spends with Peter, the closer they become, and the lines between what’s real and what’s fake begin to blur. Before long Eli is forced to face his greatest fears to become the writer he wants to be and secure the love he’s always needed.
Aug. 5th: The Faceless Thing We Adore by Hester Steel
Eat, Pray, Love goes full Lovecraft in this queer, feel-good cosmic horror that reflects on gaslighting and emotional abuse.
Lemon, poppy seed, sun-warmed sand. These visions convince Aoife to quit her job, leave her manipulative boyfriend, and escape to the isolated shores of the Farmstead commune. There, among its charismatic and hedonistic residents, Aoife finds everything she’s been missing: a community that adores her, the freedom to indulge, and the promise to be a part of something miraculous.
But darkness underpins her airy new way of life. A disappearing cave looms above an ocean no one dares step foot in, mysterious crying fills the night hours, and a rot is spreading across the island. But perhaps most concerning is the commune’s reverence for their leader, Jonah―a love tinged with fear that Aoife knows all too well.
When Aoife’s boring old life comes crashing into her bold new one, loyalties are tested, unleashing a spiral of unspeakable violence that threatens to fracture reality itself. At the helm, Aoife finds herself desperately trying to protect everyone and everything she’s grown to love. Awkward, clumsy Aoife, who was always told she was weak, will soon realize the depths of her strength―and the pleasures of her rage.
Aug. 12th: The Sunflower Boys: A Novel
A poignant coming-of-age story with the sensitivity and haunting power of What Belongs to You and Swimming in the Dark, about a young boy wrestling with his sexuality as war breaks out in modern Ukraine.
In many ways, twelve-year-old Artem’s life in Chernihiv, Ukraine, is normal. He spends his days helping on his grandfather’s sunflower farm, drawing in his sketchbook—a treasured gift from his father, who works in America—and swimming in the river with his little brother, Yuri. In secret, Artem has begun wrestling with romantic feelings for his best friend, Viktor. In a country where love between two boys is unthinkable, Artem has begun to worry that growing up, his life will never be normal.
Then, on a February night, Artem and Yuri are woken by explosions—the beginning of a war that will tear their life in two. The invading Russians destroy their home, killing their mother and grandfather, and leaving young Artem and Yuri to fend for themselves. Fleeing in hopes of somehow reuniting with their father, the brothers traverse the country their ancestors once fought and died for, with nothing but their backpacks and each other. Surrounded by death and destruction, Artem is certain of one thing—that whatever may come, he must keep himself and his brother alive.
A harrowing and gorgeous tale of love, identity, lost innocence, and survival set in a time of devastating war, The Sunflower Boys is a powerful, heartrending exploration of young queer love, the Ukrainian spirit, and a family’s struggle to survive.
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