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I’ve started a monthly Threads post where I ask indie authors to share their new releases. I’ve marked those with a 🍓 if you want to support an indie author!
If you’re an indie author and want to be included in a monthly release post, just shoot me an email or DM me on Instagram and I’ll add you!
July 1st
🍓 Devil’s Delight: Monster Sugar Mamas Series
One anonymous night of passion. Two monster women who made her feel alive. Will her search for both lovers end in happily every after for everyone? Or is it too late to make this hook-up into something more permanent?
Devil’s Delight is a sinfully open door FFF monster why choose with high heat and relatively low stakes. Expect reluctant fated mates, fun monster anatomy, funishment and praise, tail play, wing cuddles, and sugar mamas. There is a guaranteed HEA with an emphasis on non-traditional relationships.
🍓 Serial Husbands: Wash Away The Evidence. Upload The Proof. (The Ledger Network)
They are the perfect neighbors. They are also judge, jury, and executioner.
Michael Denton and Ryan Hayes have spent years hunting the predators who walk free from courtrooms and disappear back into ordinary life. They are methodical, careful, and certain of their purpose. Every kill is logged in a heavily encrypted dark-web archive called The Ledger. A permanent record of everything they have done.
Their system has held for years. Then they make a choice that cannot be taken back.
When fifteen-year-old Julia Harrison goes missing, Junction City floods the streets to search. Michael and Ryan are out there with everyone else, organizing the neighborhood watch, knocking on doors, showing up exactly as the town expects them to. Devoted husbands. Good neighbors. The kind of men everyone is glad to have around.
Detective Kayla Schultz takes the case and starts working the timeline. The facts don’t line up. The gaps are in the wrong places. The story the town believes doesn’t hold. The further she digs, the more convinced she becomes that Julia Harrison’s disappearance connects to something darker and closer to home than anyone wants to admit.
Michael cannot stop thinking about what they did. Ryan will do anything to protect what they have built. And somewhere in The Ledger, the record sits untouched, every entry intact, proof of a history that cannot be erased.
Schultz is getting closer. The husbands are running out of time.
Serial Husbands is a dark suburban noir and police procedural about a missing girl, two careful men, and a secret buried just beneath the surface of an ordinary street.
July 7th
Buried Feelings
When a San Francisco treasure hunt ropes two ex-besties back together, they’ll end up digging into their own complicated, buried feelings in this queer YA rom com!
Cam was the one who discovered the hunt. He brought it to Ivy like an offering, took her hand as they combed through San Francisco, searching for treasure and conspiring against the heteronormative agenda. But that was back then.
Now juniors, they’re both out and proud—Cam as a trans man and Ivy as gay—but their friendship isn’t as assured. Problem is, Ivy can’t reveal Cam’s past betrayal without airing closely guarded secrets of her own.
As Ivy comes across the missing link in the treasure hunt from their childhood, she’s certain she can put the clues together and finally come out on top in the cat-and-mouse game Cam’s been playing with her ever since their friendship ended.
Once Cam gets wind of Ivy’s renewed interest in the hunt, the ex-best friends will go head-to-head in their search for gold. But as they get digging, they’ll uncover more things buried between them than they bargained for.
Fabulous Bodies
Poppy Stringer was born to be a star.
An aspiring fashion influencer by day, Poppy moonlights as a grave robber to make ends meet, wheeling and dealing dead bodies across Palm Springs.
When her hero, the flamboyant, piano-slamming rockstar Eddie Michaels, unexpectedly dies, Poppy gets a call to retrieve his body from the medical examiner’s office for a lucrative sum. It could be the last job she’ll ever need―if everything goes to plan. But the night’s delivery quickly veers off course when Eddie wakes up.
Now Poppy must fight for her life if she hopes to survive this blood-soaked joyride of carnage and extravagant entertainment.
July 9th
🍓 Guarded Goalie (Unintended Urges Book 1)
Desire is never practical.
ROLAND
Control is everything to me. On the pitch. In my life. In my marriage – until it wasn’t.
I’m separated, heading to the World Cup, and apparently sharing a room with Austin Coker. My ex-wife’s best friend. My teammate. The one person I can’t stop watching no matter how hard I try.
I know exactly what touching him would cost me.
I do it anyway.
AUSTIN
I’ve wanted Roland Johnson since before I was good enough to deserve him.
Now I’m his teammate, his roommate, and completely out of excuses. His marriage is over. The line between us keeps moving. And every time he looks at me like I’m the only thing in the room, I care a little less about what we stand to lose.
My career. His reputation. Her friendship.
Worth it. All of it.
Guarded Goalie is a standalone steamy MM sports romance featuring forced proximity, queer awakening, the intoxicating feeling of wanting what they were never supposed to touch, and a secret relationship that could end both their careers.
July 10th
🍓 A Likely Story (Rent-A-Boyfriend Book 2)
He needed a fake boyfriend to save his career. He found the love of his life instead.
Drew Oberlin became an overnight sensation after starring in a breakout queer TV series. But all that fame comes with a price. As accusations of queerbaiting threaten his skyrocketing career, Drew’s ambitious girlfriend devises the perfect PR solution: hire a fake boyfriend through Rent-A-Boyfriend while filming in London. A few staged photos, a carefully crafted romance, and the internet will finally believe Drew is the real deal.
Enter Lee Cresswell, bestselling indie fantasy author, hopeless romantic, and Drew’s very unexpected fake boyfriend.
🍓 Their Hollow King (Bleed for You Book 1)
Their Hollow King is an 18+ MM mafia romance following a possessive mafia enforcer and the mafia prince he’s been assigned to watch. Full list of content warnings provided inside.
July 14th
How to Date a Fanatic: A Novel
In this compassionate, poignant novel set in contemporary India, a young professor searches for connection and love during a time of political and cultural upheaval.
As political tensions rise precipitously across India, Rohit returns to Delhi University to teach and gets caught in a web of unrequited love with his friend Dhruv. To alleviate his inevitable heartbreak, Rohit seeks relationships with other men in the city, until he meets and embarks on a delicate new romance with the effervescent Sayan, a literature student he hopes will be the answer to getting over Dhruv.
Rohit’s life soon becomes more complicated as the country’s political tensions erupt on campus, sparking a turbulent student-led movement that entangles Rohit when Dhruv joins the fray, a tipping point that changes Rohit’s life forever. Set against the vibrant, volatile tapestry of modern India, Rohit and his friends must learn to navigate the challenges and triumphs of queer life to survive in an unpredictable political landscape.
Propulsive, tense, and charged with humor and tenderness, How to Date a Fanatic is an exploration of identity, connection, and the enduring hopefor a better future in a rapidly changing world.
Misery’s Wife: A Novel
A queer and cli-fi reimagining of a Portuguese folktale about a young trans woman who must save her elder sisters from the King of the Air, the King of the Sea, and the King of Misery
Elixane lives in a village ravaged by waves, storms, and the encroaching forest. When she was too young to remember, her elder sisters each picked a flower and were whisked away: Borboleta to marry the King of the Air, Adelina to marry the King of the Sea, and her favorite sister Dores to marry the King of Misery, who promised: No one will ever love you as I will.
So when Elixane receives a mysterious message from a toad, she sets out to rescue Dores from the Kingdom of Misery. She is aided by the jester-like Marquês of Luck and his sister Jinx, the contrary and beautiful Marquesa of Misfortune. On the way, she’ll have to reunite with her sisters and their magical husbands, break several unbreakable curses―and, perhaps, find a magical love of her own.
🍓 Northeast of Eden: A Sapphic Small-Town Romance
Welcome to Pine Grove, CT, your new Pride headquarters, where the sapphics are ready to be romanced.
Penelope Harkness performs a rambunctious set as a drag king at The Connecticlit, the local lesbian bar. A community—and town—favorite, everyone loves Pen. But since she lost her long-term Domme, every new applicant leaves her feeling broken and inadequate.
Enter: the beautiful woman she spies making eyes at her across the parade route. Could a drunken tumble turn into a more permanent arrangement? Could Christine make space for Pen’s ADHD brain with gentleness? Or could it all leave them wishing they’d bought stock in U-Haul?
This is a FF kinky romcom novella about pathetic sapphics. Please check the author’s website or front matter for content notes, and if you have any questions, please reach out to the author.Northeast of Eden is part of Pride in Pine Grove, a multi-author small-town sapphic romance series set in the gayest place you’ve ever been.
The Hexing Miss Helena
Secrets. Scandal. Hexes. And a desire that refuses to be tamed.
In gaslit Victorian England, reputation is everything—and Lady Cynthia Burrows has perfected hers. A flawless hostess. A dutiful wife. A paragon of the beau monde. Until her husband is found murdered and Cynthia becomes the most scandalous suspect of the Season. With society sharpening its knives, Cynthia turns to the formidable Blair family—rumoured witches who move through polite society with dangerous ease to help clear her name.
Among them is Helena Blair: sharp-witted, fiercely independent, and blessed with the power to read minds. Until she meets Cynthia. For the first time in her life, Helena hears nothing at all. Could it be that this captivating yet infuriating woman has untapped powers, or she’s masking her guilt?
As the investigation unfolds, Cynthia’s carefully controlled world begins to unravel. And it’s not long before the heat between them threatens to ignite something far more dangerous than gossip. But giving into their desires could ruin everything. To survive, they must risk their hearts before the truth hexes them!
🍓 The Last Rites of Baby-Blue
Snakes aren’t the only desert creatures with fangs
It’s been ten years since Baby-Blue de Lorraine joined their coven. Ten years of playing in bars with Luke, prowling for their next hunt under his watchful eye. Ten years of being left behind while the others go feed. Ten years of being the baby. And they’ve never killed anyone.
Until now.
When Baby kills the wrong person, one of Zedekiah’s concubines, he’s sent to trial to face The Elders for this third and most egregious offense. Zedekiah is out for blood, and only Baby’s death will satisfy. But for Baby, death might finally mean a sweet relief. Unless they can find in themselves something to live for.
Set against the background of the desert suburbs of Phoenix, Arizona, L.A. Barron’s The Last Rites of Baby-Blue is an exploration of queer identity, family, and choosing life in the darkest of moments.
July 15th
Time Play
Catching feelings six months before graduation is inconvenient. What’s disastrous is choosing to act on them.
Dean
I’ve always been a guy with a plan. Make it through college, get my degree, and move back home. Tutoring Nick Russell wasn’t in the cards, and crushing hard on him definitely wasn’t. But that sweet, smirking baseball player digs right under my skin, and I don’t stand a chance at resisting him.
All I want is to get my hands on Nick. I know what to do, what moves to make, and…he doesn’t bite. That’s fine, I guess—he’s a good friend anyway.
As it turns out, being friends is exactly what we both need for things to heat up.
A little fling to round out college never hurt anyone, but what if neither of us wants it to end? With my visa running out, moving home doesn’t look as appealing as it always has, not if it means giving up on the only guy who’s ever made me want to stay.
Nick
I’m a mess and I know it. I’m an undrafted nobody, I’m failing an elective, and it feels like I’m the only guy who needs a connection with someone before I can even consider getting physical.
That last part is easy enough to ignore. My agent’s working on the undrafted thing, and Coach got me a tutor. Dean Shen drops into my life as a calm, dreamy anchor of everything I’ve ever craved, and I can see right through that flirty basketball player’s hungry stare. What he wants from me is crystal clear, but he doesn’t push.
And him waiting is all it takes for me to break.
With graduation looming, it makes sense to settle for something physical. But if my feelings for Dean are what allow me to be physical in the first place…I don’t see this ending in anything but trouble.
Time Play is a friends-to-lovers, slow burn MM romance. It is the second book in the WMU series, but can be read as a standalone.
July 16th
Conflict of Interest (Devon Memorial)
Rule one of becoming a doctor: don’t sleep with your supervisor. Rule two: definitely don’t charge him for it.
Fresh out of a breakup and new to New York, Finn Hayes does something impulsive: when a guy at a bar mistakes him for an escort, he plays along. The stranger who takes the bait? Gorgeous, in control, and exactly the kind of distraction Finn needs. One unforgettable night, a hundred bucks on the nightstand, and they’ll never see each other again.
Except Jesse Maddox is a senior surgeon at Devon Memorial Hospital—and Finn’s new boss. Now they’re stuck navigating morning rounds, life-and-death surgery and a searing attraction that no amount of clinical detachment can cure. With careers on the line, the smart move is to walk away. But when it comes to each other, Finn and Jesse are finding that the heart doesn’t follow hospital protocol…
Conflict of Interest is a sizzling forbidden romance, where the tension between the sheets rivals the tension in the ER. If you love slow-burn chemistry, sharp banter, and a love story that’s worth breaking every rule for, this book is for you!
July 21st
The Lord of the Wood: A Novel
The cozy fantasy of TJ Klune meets the creeping horror of T. Kingfisher in this magical novel about a man who enters a deadly enchanted forest expecting it to endanger his life, but not his heart…
Clockmaker Arthur Throckmorton lives a quiet life with his sister and her children, only dreaming of adventure. So when a wealthy client offers him a job that involves traversing Shiftleaf—an enchanted forest that claimed his father decades ago—he reluctantly accepts. The forest is treacherous, but the money will change his family’s lives.
The journey quickly turns perilous. Fleeing from monstrous birds, Arthur stumbles upon a hidden vale where he meets the Lord of the Wood—a figure from his father’s many stories. Instead of the fairy prince Arthur always imagined, Ira is a morose man, slowly transforming into a beast, his power over a dying forest waning.
Arthur enjoys the safety of the vale, and Ira’s company. But he yearns for his family. To safely return home and rescue Ira from a cursed and lonely existence, Arthur and Ira must reach the heart of the wood to heal the forest. Except the further they venture from the vale, the more beastly Ira becomes. If they can’t complete their mission before he turns completely, Arthur could lose the man he’s falling for—and never see his family again.
July 24th
🍓 The Demon’s Thief
Fifty years of creative acquisitions didn’t prepare Izabella Gobel for coming face to face with a demon. A handsome one at that. When Bill offers her a deal, she takes it, hoping to find a way to protect herself, along with her best friend and business partner, Dawn Ramirez.
Bill Tennesson has spent a long demon life creatively collecting various items from the mortal world to safeguard them. But usually he works as a university professor teaching world history.
After his breakup with Nathan Downing, a fellow professor and scientist, he’s looking for someone different, more adventurous, and also into acquiring things through questionable means. Meeting Izabella and Dawn feels like fate’s hand.
What starts off as a professional entanglement quickly encompasses those they care about most. When long held secrets are revealed, they’ll have to figure out a way forward if they want their relationships not only survive, but thrive.
July 25th
The Prince and the Bodyguard
The BRAND NEW spicy, royally romantic MM college romance from BESTSELLER Nora Phoenix.
Falling for my bodyguard could cost me everything…
I’m Prince Gregory of Great Britain, fourth in line to a crown I never wanted. All I ask for is one year of anonymity at college in America, the chance to breathe without the weight of duty crushing my chest. The King reluctantly agrees, with one condition: I’m never alone.
That’s how Bash enters my life. My bodyguard. All quiet control, sharp instincts, and a presence I feel everywhere. Our relationship is strictly professional; we blend in together at college, but forced proximity has other ideas. His nearness becomes impossible to ignore, the tension between us tight enough to snap.
Bash needs this job to pay for his mum’s medical bills. I need him to guard my identity. I’ve hidden my sexuality for years to avoid shame and scandal and to protect the crown. And then one brave kiss later, everything changes. For the first time I feel authentic. I’m just…me. But I have a duty to England, and he’s sworn to protect me, not fall for me. Loving my bodyguard is dangerous and forbidden but taking the risk is the most real thing I’ve ever known…
July 28th
At First Sight (Pink Bean, 10)
A seriously sexy lesbian romance about an attraction that breaks every rule. Perfect for fans of Haley Cass, Rachel Lacey, and Clare Lydon.
Amelia Shaw is a burned-out biochemical researcher who can barely drag herself to soccer practice, let alone think about dating. She signed up for therapy as a last resort, not because she wants to catch feelings for her psychiatrist. But when she meets ultra-professional Jill, suddenly Amelia feels a spark of interest in life again.
Jill has spent decades building an impeccable reputation. So when her newest client arrives and something lightning-fast and deeply unprofessional strikes her right in the chest, there’s only one thing she can do: end their sessions and confess exactly why. It should draw a clean line between them. Instead, it erases the only thing keeping them apart. And between the Pink Bean, a chaotic amateur soccer team, and a circle of friends with absolutely no intention of minding their own business, staying away from each other is going to prove impossible…
Awkwardly Ever After
You know what they say about hex appeal…
Aubrey is cursed. Literally. One spell gone awry in high school landed her with the most embarrassing love life ever, and now any time Aubrey is in a romantic situation everything ends up being terribly awkward. Sometimes the dates go so badly her would-be partners end up in the emergency room with… intimate injuries.
Aubrey had accepted her lonely lot in life until she meets skeptical data analyst Lex. The unlikely friends team up on a series of data-collecting dates to figure out what makes the curse tick, and what they can do to stop it… but what if that means facing the most awkward situation possible?
To break the curse, Aubrey is forced into her toughest decision yet: date the safe, data-proven perfect candidate, or follow her heart into the unknown with the growing feelings she has for the one person she never imagined being with.
Will she ever get a shot at true love, or is she cursed beyond curing?
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