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February 1st
We Should Not Have Come Here
The host of paranormal reality show Phantom Files, Ash built their massive following on fake hauntings, possessions, and passing off special effects as honest-to-god spirit activity. When the team arrives at Crenshaw Castle to shoot the first episode of their new season, the dilapidated former reform school turns out to be more than they bargained for. The team’s exploration of the grounds leads to the discovery of horrific documentation detailing medical and psychological experiments performed on the institution’s wards.
The action begins to unfold violently as the crew clamors for a way out, only to find they’ve been sealed inside. Over the course of one harrowing investigation turned survival mission, Ash reckons with his own queer rage as he sees himself mirrored in the institution’s wards. Coming face to face with things he never thought possible-deadly spirits, an end to his own skepticism, and an ex-boyfriend he’d thought to be long-dead-Ash must overcome the past in order to ensure he has a future.
February 3rd
According to Plan
Mal Flowers expected senior year fall to be full of cozy sweaters, good coffee, and copyediting. As the new editor-in-chief of their school’s literary magazine, they just want to follow The Plan to graduate and get out of their small midwestern town—a place where, as a broke, fat, queer person with ADHD, they’ve never really fit in. But when budget cuts result in the lit mag’s cancellation, Mal is suddenly left scrambling for something to replace it.
That is, until Emerson Pike—who also has ADHD but is loud, confident, and Mal’s complete opposite—suggests the staff go rogue and create a zine instead. Which would be cool, except that making and selling contraband isn’t exactly what Mal envisioned listing as the extracurricular activity on their college application. A zine would be unofficial, unapproved, and definitely not in The Plan.
But a zine is also a good way to spend more time with Emerson, whose playful banter and bad jokes Mal can’t seem to get enough of. And maybe, with a group of new friends, the back of the charming coffee shop where Emerson works could be somewhere Mal does belong. Because breaking the rules with Emerson—and flirting with her over coffee—is fun.
Maybe The Plan isn’t the only way to find happiness, but can Mal let go of something they’ve depended on for so long?
Get Over It, April Evans (A Clover Lake Novel)
A summer job at a lake-town resort brings together two women with an unlikely connection in this new contemporary romance by USA Today bestselling author Ashley Herring Blake.
April Evans’ life is in shambles. She’s had to close her tattoo shop in Clover Lake and she’s subletting her house to cover her mortgage. And her love life? Nonexistent ever since Elena, her ex-fiancée, left her for a younger woman three years ago. When she is asked to teach a summer art class at the town’s new resort called Cloverwild, April jumps at the opportunity, especially since the job comes with boarding. She’s sure that this is the silver lining she needs . . . until she meets her cabinmate: Daphne Love, the woman who stole her ex-fiancée. And even worse, it’s clear Daphne has no idea who April is.
Daphne Love is cursed in, well, love. She thought she’d found the unconditional love she craved in her girlfriend, Elena, but now she’s single again and utterly brokenhearted. When her friend hooks her up with a summer gig as an art instructor at a swanky resort in New Hampshire, Daphne feels optimistic for once. If only she had a roommate and coworker who didn’t seem to hate her on sight.
Their already-tense relationship gets even shakier when April and Daphne find themselves competing for a rare opportunity to showcase their art in a London museum. But slowly, barriers begin to fall, and an inexplicable allure keeps drawing them closer, leaving them to wonder if the perfect picture they’re looking for can only be made with each other.
🍓 Ink Caps (Alchemy Ink)
Becky’s boyfriend is about to become an ex.
Becky
I should’ve dumped Kyle ages ago, but today is the final straw. When he treats me like trash during his tattoo appointment, I hit my limit. Then, the hot, apparently single tattoo artist, Nyx, slips me her number, a little like fate stepping in.
Nyx
I stopped putting myself out there awhile ago, but after watching my asshole client talk down to his gorgeous, clever girlfriend, I can’t help but shoot my shot—with her.
I never expected Becky to actually give me a call, but now that she did, I’m all in—because I have a feeling deep down that she’s a once-in-a-lifetime sort of girl.
And I want her to be mine.
Margin of Error
From Rachel Lacey, author of Learning Curves, comes a tender, hopeful romance about how fate is what you’re given but love is what you choose, and how small sparks can change everything.
Two years after an accident in Manhattan almost claimed her life, Marin is determined to take advantage of her second chance. She’s left her husband, her job, even her home to pursue the life she’s always wanted. Now she’s teaching statistics at Northshire University and preparing to do something she’s spent decades dreaming about: date a woman. But the last woman she expects to encounter on her journey is the one she’s been fantasizing about since their chance encounter the morning Marin nearly died.
Charlotte has made big changes in her life since that fateful day too. Most importantly, she’s moved back to her Vermont hometown, determined to finally solve the thirty-year-old mystery of her mother’s disappearance. An unexpected―and unexpectedly intense―friendship? That wasn’t in the plan. Neither was questioning her sexuality, but the more time Charlotte spends with Marin, the more she realizes her feelings run deeper than friendship.
Surely this would be a disaster, both of them being each other’s first, except the chemistry between them feels too strong to deny. But as they get to the heart of the mystery―and the heart of who they are―what brought them together just might tear them apart.
Peaches and Pucks: A Cheeky MM Hockey Novella
One hotel room. One bed. Zero chance of keeping it professional.
Harry
When I agreed to chaperone the boys’ hockey team, I thought my biggest challenge would be pretending to understand the rules-not being stuck sharing a hotel room with Darius Hall. The P.E. teacher. The human whistle. The man who’s made my Mondays miserable for years.
But somewhere between the bus ride, the tense semifinal, and one very small bed, I start to realize the worst part of Darius Hall might be how much I like him.
Darius
I’ve spent years pretending Harry Peterson doesn’t get under my skin. Easier to tease him than admit I notice everything-his color-coded lesson plans, the cedar-and-coffee smell, that unguarded laugh.
Now we’re stuck sharing a hotel room, and I’m running out of excuses for the way I feel. One bed. One night. And suddenly I can’t decide what’s harder to handle: his endless commentary or how much I miss it when he stops talking.
Peaches and Pucks is a cozy, rivals-to-lovers novella full of banter, heart, and heat-because sometimes love takes a slapshot straight through your defenses.
The Hollow Dark (Anchored Duology)
A queer upper-YA dark fantasy about forbidden magic, fractured loyalties, found family, and the courage it takes to claim your truth in a world that demands your silence.
August is a cynical, unambitious prince with a dark secret: he can see the dead. Haunted by the relentless anchored spirits, he’d give anything to be free of the curse. But it’s not the ghosts he fears most, it’s the truth that could unravel everything: he’s a wielder-one of the very people he’s been raised to hate.
Felix is brilliant, driven, and dangerous-a rare triple-wielder with outlawed magic and a vision for a better world. He’s proud of who he is, but in a country where magic users are feared and punished, he knows being discovered means death. He’s spent his life hiding his power behind a mask of charm and control, forced to swallow back the growing resentment.
When August and Felix meet at a festival, their connection is instant, electric-and doomed. As wielders begin to vanish, a desperate search for answers ends in betrayal that twists friendship into enmity. Two years later, they meet again, this time as enemies forced to unite against an apocalyptic threat of their own making.
February 6th
🍓 Romancing the Butch: A lesbian romantic comedy (Going to the Chapel Book 3)
Can a handy butch and a messy femme find love at the wedding of their best friends?
When talkative Hannah, a long-haired femme with a love for social media and triathlons, and introverted Shelby, a butch lesbian who likes camping and quiet nights, go on a disastrous first date, they figure that’s it. They’re just too different from each other to be a match.
Their best friends’ Las Vegas wedding gives Hannah and Shelby another chance to get to know each other better. They learn that one night can lead to forever, and being so different might not be so bad after all. Actually, being different may create the spark that leads to love.
Perfect for fans of smart, contemporary queer romance, this novel serves up delicious food, laugh-out-loud moments, and a tender exploration of starting over—and letting yourself fall.
Romancing the Butch is the third book in the lesbian romantic comedy series, Going to the Chapel, but it stands alone without having to read the other books in the series. It’s a sweet romance, which means all scenes stop at the bedroom door, but there are lots of laughs and maybe a few superhero sightings.
February 10th
🍓 Golden Boy
Barry Hawkins is the oldest child among several families living on a large, idyllic estate near the end of the twenty-first century. Fearless and precocious, he leads the children, charms the adults, and rules his little world. His future seems as wide as the sky, as bright as the sun.
But life in this strange, isolated compound is complex. The adults here live by their own rules, navigating networks of power-based relationships. Barry witnesses the tangled dynamics around him, where men trade dominance, submission and service, and his curiosity grows. Can he access the power and influence around him? Can he play in this arena–and win? As he leaves his childhood behind, Barry must make his own choices about where he fits in the world, what he’s looking for, and who he wants to be.
A coming-of-age journey where mistakes are made and trust is mislaid; where not every relationship is the right one but the happy ending may be found where it’s least expected. Queer normative environment, large non-romanticized age gap, off-screen D/s, off-screen addictions, low spice, adults behaving badly, childhood friends to lovers.
🍓 Runaway Prince (Dark Glamour Book 1)
A fairy prince, who ran off to the mortal world and now runs a drag club, is retrieved by his former best friend and current bodyguard to fulfill an oath: To marry a robber knight-turned-queen who has killed his father and usurped his mother.
This is an MMF romantic dark fantasy with messy and morally dubious characters.
The Regressor King
Death, Paradise, and the gods themselves-all rejected for the sake of love.
When King James Kronenscheld dies at the hands of the Demon King, he thinks his suffering is finally over and he can join his Edwin in Paradise. And, hey, at least he’d taken the Demon King with him, right?
But then the gods try to send James to Paradise WITHOUT his Edwin, and that is simply unfathomable. So he does the unthinkable-he turns it down and negotiates for one more chance to fix his mistakes.
Armed with memories and regrets, James regresses to before he was crowned. He is determined to woo the man he lost, even if it means facing down all his previous failures. For Edwin alone will James face Wraths and plagues, court politics, and demon kings. He will avoid the horrors of the crown and attain Paradise for them both.
Failing this time means losing Edwin forever. And that is not an option.
the way I immediately ran to see if I could get an arc.. PLEASE ACCEPT MY REQUEST (they accepted!! stay tuned)
To Love Violets for Their Thorns
What if the love you lost walked back into your life-on a sapphic reality dating show?
Elly Straus thought she was ready for love again. One year after her fiancée walked out, she’s finally putting herself out there-on a sapphic reality dating show. Eager to spend weeks swooning in a Spanish villa, Elly’s hoping for flirtation, fireworks, and maybe even a second chance at happiness. She doesn’t expect a surprise twist that brings in new contestants-including her ex-fiancée.
Sonia Comstock has spent the last year healing from losing her dad. When her friends sign her up for a sapphic dating show filmed during Madrid’s Pride festival, she says yes-her dad would want her to be happy. But nothing prepares her for the gut punch of seeing Elly again.
Forced to face the heartbreak they never quite got over, Elly and Sonia must decide: breathe fresh life into an old love or try again with someone new?
February 17th
🍓 Swallow the Shadows (A Sloane West Mystery, 3)
Christmas Day. A massacre. And a war no one is ready for.
Sloane West arrives in the coastal town of Kirkcudbright, Scotland, too late to save the Gòrdan Protector Coven. Two are dead. One is left alive—but stripped of speech and secrets alike. When a third Gòrdan is found murdered in Denwick Cemetery, the message is clear: the Order is no longer operating from the shadows. It’s escalating.
Outmatched for the first time in her career, Sloane faces an impossible truth. The West Coven cannot stop what’s coming on their own. To survive, they must do the unthinkable—ally with other Magical defenders and risk exposing the hidden world to Nogical eyes. Failure means more than death. It means the return of every demon the Gòrdans ever banished to the abyss.
As alliances fracture and ancient protections fall, Sloane is pulled into a reckoning far closer to home. The truth about her father—long buried and carefully hidden—threatens to unravel everything she believes about herself and her power.
With two worlds on the brink of collapse and enemies closing in from every side, Sloane must decide how much she’s willing to lose to stop the coming darkness. Because this time, magic alone may not be enough.
February 20th
🍓 Hallowed Be Thy Name
Augustus Saint murdered his mother. Her ghost now haunts the House on North Lane.
Augustus has always been told the Devil lives inside him. He didn’t know it was true until a failed exorcism results in his mother’s disappearance, binding him to a Devil only he can see.
As recurring nightmares bleed into reality, his darkening mind and growing paranoia leads him to the chilling realisation that he is becoming the very thing he has always feared—the villain of his own story.
A sliver of salvation infiltrates Augustus’ guarded walls upon meeting classmate Nathaniel Carrington. Forced to collaborate on a university assignment, their research incites a desperate search for the cult that stole Augustus’ mother, confronting him with the truth buried deep inside the House on North Lane. As Nathaniel and Augustus grow closer, the Devil fights to keep them apart.
In this tale of psychological turmoil, Augustus must navigate the treacherous depths of his own mind to escape the House’s suffocating grasp. Will he emerge from the shadows triumphant, or will he become just another forgotten ghost inside the House on North Lane?
February 24th
In Her Spotlight (Out in Hollywood)
Hollywood actor Tess Gardner is not the kind of famous she set out to be. She’s ready to show she’s more than Princess Platinum of the Vindicators series, a pretty face with CGI superpowers that literally sparkle. Tess wants to prove herself as an actor and that means theatre—the true calling of her thespian heart. But just when Tess lands a part working with an acclaimed stage director, a brewing scandal forces him out. His replacement? None other than hip, buzzy director Rebecca Frisch. The same Rebecca Frisch whose heart a firmly closeted Tess broke over a decade ago during summer stock . . .
As Tess wrestles with her lingering guilt and attraction to Rebecca, she also finds herself struggling to rein in her superstar status backstage. When things unexpectedly reignite with Rebecca, Tess bristles even more against the walls of her A-list life. Since the industry’s made it clear that girl-next-door superheroes can’t also be gay, coming out isn’t realistic for Tess. And ultimately, Rebecca will head back to New York and likely seek out a less complicated relationship anyway.
Will the curtain close on her chance for happiness or will Tess finally take a leading role in her own life?
Love a Comeback (A TV Detectives Novel Book 2)
The latest novel in this sharply witty new Hollywood mystery series delivers behind-the-scenes dish, clever intrigue, and maybe even true love between actresses Bexley Simon and Sam Farmer . . .
Since the hugely successful reunion special for their hit show Craven’s Daughter, TV detectives Bex and Sam find themselves busier than ever—but, unfortunately, two thousand miles apart for long months. So much for quickly coaxing the long-simmering spark between them into flame. Finally back in L.A., though, all bets are off, and Bex and Sam are looking forward to some IRL time by the pool—at least until Bex’s sister Vic brings home a truly juicy bit of gossip garnered from her nepo baby girl squad . . .
Ramona Watts was once the Gen X It Girl—Hollywood darling, household name, muse, and coolest of the cool, until the “Icon with Issues” spectacularly crashed and burned. But now she has a new hit horror series, The Howling, and she’s bringing all her charm and 90s nostalgia to the role. Suddenly, Ramona Watts is a Name again—which makes it surprising when she fails to show up on set.
It’s none of their business, of course, but Bex and Sam are curious. And they both have Hollywood connections left, right, and center stage, some of whom would love to see them sleuthing again. Plus, spending that kind of time together means another chance at a real romance. So what if they’re not actual detectives? In Los Angeles, isn’t everyone playing a role?
Quicksand Theatre Company (Eidolonia)
A runaway witch, a cursed actor, and a magical theatre troupe full of sequins and secrets—this cozy, queer fantasy takes the stage with romance, rebellion, and fae-fueled drama.
When Vai Delvecchio leaves their home in the night, fleeing a family scandal, they knock on the door of the least likely but most alluring of sanctuaries: the traveling Quicksand Theatre Company. Actor Leo Takahashi—a.k.a. Leonidas the Obstreperous—grants Vai a bed in his caravan in exchange for Vai’s magical assistance in theatrical productions. Vai finds their respectable, dignified life transformed into a whimsical world of sequins, makeup, and irreverent comedy sketches.
In the caravan’s close quarters, it’s inevitable that Leo and Vai grow curious about each other, a feeling that blossoms into mutual desire. But trouble waits in the wings. Vai has to face the fallout of their family’s mistakes, and Leo guards a somber secret: soon, an unbreakable deal he made with a malevolent faery will take effect, destroying his freedom and potentially his life.
Yet it may be in the darkest lairs of the fae realm, and in the painful longing of separation, that Vai and Leo each find the truth that makes them whole again.
All the books in the Eidolonia series are standalone!
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