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October 1st
🍓 Breadknives and Boomsticks: A Sapphic Cozy Fantasy about Terrible Baking
Runa is meant to be ferrying heroes to their next adventure, not fighting a tiny fire lizard over stolen scones.
When a magical catastrophe leaves half-troll Runa stranded far from her adventuring party, she holes up in the nearest shelter she can find: an abandoned bakery in Pothollow, a town whose quirky inhabitants jump at the chance to have someone else do their doughy work… despite the fact that Runa can’t tell a croissant from a crossbow.
Runa has spent most of her life avoiding what she’s meant to be. For the first time, she discovers what she wants to be, instead.
Even if she’s really, really bad at it.
But when a knife-wielding priestess with the best hair she’s ever seen appears in her basement, Runa’s new life crumbles around her. Pothollow isn’t just the coziest and most strangely welcoming place she’s ever had the luck to stumble into – it’s also home to a hive of secrets.
And Runa’s own secrets might bring it all down in flames.
🍓 Hot Ghost Summer: A Paranormal MM Romance
Haunting #434: Plot 47 (Bowen’s Farm)
Number of ghosts: 76
Location: Clawson & Stoker Land Development Group, Cockfosters, London Borough of Enfield.
Wanted: A swift and discrete resolution. Bonus offered.
Sometimes, dying can change your life…
Paranormal expert Hollis Nachtmann is close to completing the first-ever ghosthunting app. All he needs is to study a few remaining entities, and survive another month with ExorSquad: the UK’s shadiest ghost-busting operation.
When a strategic land development group offers ExorSquad a tidy sum if they’ll exorcise whatever haunts Plot 47, Hollis has an opportunity to fill a gap in his database… The problem? He has to take new recruit, Theo Irving, with him.
🍓 Nothing to Lose (Wicked Games)
Under the quiet stillness of Corvus College, where ravens flock and the grounds themselves whisper, Hunter Crowe and Eli Myers’ paths are irrevocably changed.
ELI
I’ve spent years building the reputation that will make me captain of the Corvus College rugby team. No distractions. No mistakes. No secrets. Except for one huge one that I’m convinced will change how everyone views me. I’ve planned for everything.
Enter Hunter Crowe.
Suddenly he’s my stepbrother, my teammate, my roommate, and the one person who refuses to take anything seriously, except for me.
When we’re tasked with planning the games for our team’s bonding weekend, every smirk, tease, and touch feels like so much more. The worst part isn’t that he’s getting under my skin. It’s that I want him to.
But wanting Hunter could cost me everything I’ve worked for. Falling for my stepbrother isn’t just complicated, it’s the most wicked game of all.
🍓 Shattered Souls (The Acre Trilogy Book 1)
One day they would cut her open. Renie knew that much.
Renie Ward doesn’t remember anything from before they found her. Not how she ended up at the roses fencing the cemetery. Not about the dirt and blood that smeared her skin. Not about those two other children.
Ten years later and she’s living with the Wards, her adoptive family, and still hiding the scars riving her skin. They tell the story she’s forgotten, betray the secret that could cost her life. She only knows one thing: one day they will cut her open, and all they’ll find will be darkness.
She is a dark sorcerer, a crime in existence. Not that Renie considers herself a sorcerer. Her magic feeds off her pain, her anger and fear… and it is growing stronger…
🍓 The Right Kind of Wrong
Monroe Lockhart left Cypress Falls, Texas at eighteen and thought she’d never look back. But that plan was easier said than done with a brother in prison and his five-year-old daughter, Maisie, being raised by Monroe’s mom.
When Monroe’s mom passes away suddenly, Monroe finds herself back in a town where she never really fit in, raising a niece she doesn’t even know. And if there’s one thing that Monroe’s certain about, it’s that she has no business being a parent, even if her new next door neighbor and former high school crush, Blake Bettencourt, disagrees.
Blake is also reeling from being thrust into a life she never expected to lead. Her ex-husband cheated, got his mistress pregnant, and suddenly, Blake’s standing on the outside of a life that used to be hers.
Monroe’s not in a position to turn down help, even from someone she never expected to call a friend. But Blake keeps showing up for her, breaking down the protective walls that Monroe’s spent a lifetime building.
The lives that they’ve both been thrown into are all wrong, but they may find out that’s exactly what makes everything between them so right.
October 2nd
🍓 Beyond the Hedge Maze: The Transatlantic Quartet: Book One
“The longer they were in the maze, the longer they could stay in their own world, the one that they had created in between the hedges.”
Oliver Catesby is a painter who doesn’t paint. Instead, in the years since his grandfather had passed, he’s used every ounce of his money and energy to ensure that his beloved family home doesn’t fall into ruin. Running out of options, he turns to Emerson Enterprises for help.
What he doesn’t know is that asking for help would lead him down a path to reuniting with Jesse, the boy he fell in love with at fifteen.
Jesse Alvarez regrets the day he made a deal to work at the family company. Stuck in a passionless job, he feels lost until he’s called into a meeting and finds Chapman House illuminated on the conference room screen.
Jesse will do anything to help Oliver. If that includes making him fall in love with Jesse all over again, well, that’s just a bonus.
🍓 Pucked By Surprise
I was looking for love, but I found it in the most surprising place…
After being dumped by my college sweetheart, I went in search of love. But being a pro hockey player in the women’s league doesn’t make it easy. Each guy I meet is somehow worse than the last.
Enter Chelsie. The cute bartender and owner of The Rose Room. Every bad date ends with the two of us at the bar. We become closer and closer.
Until it all comes to a head.
I kissed a woman. Something I’ve never done in my life.
It makes me question everything. Can I have a relationship with a woman? Especially one who’s been left broken in the past?
The two of us can’t deny our chemistry. It only gets better and better the longer we explore this thing between us.
But eventually, I have a choice to make. Can I move forward with Chelsie, or will I let fear rule my life?
If only I weren’t pucked by surprise…
October 5th
🍓 Mortis: An MM Monster Romance
Some beasts never wanted to be monsters.
The most dangerous ones always did.
For sixty years, Kael has survived by hunting anyone foolish enough to enter Barrowfell Woods. Bound to his inner demon, every meal leaves him drowning in guilt. When he finally refuses to kill again, desperation drives him beyond the treeline and into the world of humans.
Teddy Adler has spent his life surrounded by the dead. As the mortuary technician at his family’s funeral home, corpses don’t scare him. Demons, apparently, don’t either.
Instead of running from the seven-foot cryptid he catches eating one of his clients, Teddy offers Kael a solution neither of them expected. One that lets him feed on the dead instead of the living.
But while Teddy teaches a demon how to survive without murder, a centuries-old cult is preparing to finish what its founders started. Their leader has spent a lifetime searching for the beast his family once enslaved, and he’ll burn down an entire town to drag Kael back into chains.
October 6th
🍓 Mission Control: A MM Superhero Romance (The Rise and Fall of Hopeburn Book 3)
Scotty has watched the Nest slowly empty out, but there’s something not right with the place he calls home. Something is changing.
Aiden is trying his hardest to be a good son, and a reluctant brother, but he keeps seeing unmasked villains in his civilian life. He’s also trying really hard not to miss Scotty after their last break up, which he’s doing… poorly.
When they run into each other while Scotty’s undercover in a harebrained adventure, Aiden reluctantly joins his mission to figure out what’s really going on with Harpy, her master plan and the weird occurrences at the Nest. The more they work together, the more they can’t help falling into old habits, and beds, but something is lurking and it seems to be centring around mission control. Reading this will spoil Book 2- Team Up
See You in the Mail
A cozy queer romance about zines, coffee, and snail-mail.
As long as Greg has a typewriter, strong coffee, and a pocket full of postage stamps, he’s alright with the world. His zine, LONG WALKS ON THE BEACH, parodies Craigslist personal ads — an ode to the sweet absurdity of public declarations of desire. But hidden somewhere in each issue, there’s one quiet ad that reveals something of Greg’s actual self. No one has ever found him there. Until a letter arrives from a reader called “M.”
Their snail-mail correspondence becomes the most honest relationship Greg has ever had, but M. disappears every time Greg suggests they meet. As Greg gets closer to the truth, he’s forced to confront the walls around his own heart.
Set in the underground zine scene of the early 2000s and on the rocky, moody coast of Maine, See You in the Mail is a cozy queer romance about the radical intimacy of being truly seen.
Vengefully Matched: A Novel (Hallowcross)
Priscilla Hart does not do regret—except maybe for the spectacularly disastrous choice of fleeing her own wedding in a cloud of magical fireworks. Now the town’s most infamous runaway witch, she’s determined to rebuild her reputation on the Witchery Council and prove she’s more than a scandal in designer heels.
Agatha Vanderbilt Voisin, the newly elected council president, is everything Priscilla can’t stand: composed, proper, and infuriatingly perfect. But when a string of dangerous magical explosions points to Priscilla as the culprit, Agatha makes an impulsive move—announcing that they’re dating—to save her from exile.
Faking a relationship in public should be simple even for such opposites…until late-night arguments turn into slow-burn attraction, and the two discover that something wicked is brewing in Hallowcross. To survive the magic—and their feelings—they’ll have to stop pretending and risk falling for real.
Can they outwit a magic powerful enough to destroy them, or will trust be the most dangerous risk of all?
October 7th
🍓 Late Night Pho With The Vampire
She bites back.
Vivian is a witch who knows her poisons. She’s also cursed and haunted. Chasing her ghost into a bloodied desert town, she ends up running for her life into a vampire’s phở shop and meets the woman she’s been seeing in her dreams.
Calluna is a phở vampire chef. Tired of her oppressive small town life, she sorely misses the good old days back when she was a cowboy vaquero. After years of keeping her head down, she decides to risk everything by rescuing a strange girl in white who happens to have her lost lover’s soul.
A promise was made, and as the two feel an inexplicable draw towards each other, they find their fates tangled once more. Vivian’s ghost lurks. Calluna starves. The only solution is slaying vampires with a delicious bowl of phở and getting the hell out of this town.
Late Night Phở With The Vampire. A dual POV flip over book with witchy art layouts, vampire recipe inserts, ghost ciphers, and footnote letters from lost lovers. Flip the book over for the other POV. You choose! A horror romance. 35k words.
Amazon | Bookshop | Indie Bookstore
🍓 The Golden Receiver
Kieran
When I got recruited to transfer to Creelin University to play football, I thought this might be my chance. I would be the first human on the team. I would make campus history.
Okay, really, I just liked the full scholarship that came with it. It was a great way to escape the small town I lived in with my Pops my whole life and the not-so-great college I attended.
I didn’t expect to feel like a fish out of water. I really didn’t expect there to be a werewolf going after the same position as me.
How can I compete with a supernatural creature?
‘The Golden Receiver’ is a monster romance featuring a golden retriever werewolf and a black cat human. Expect rivals-to-lovers, football, and a himbo werewolf whose whole job is to play catch.
October 8th
🍓 Comfort Read: A cozy m/m bookish romance
Kit Forrest is officially the saddest man in Cedar Falls. A year after his boyfriend turned down his proposal and left town, Kit’s beloved bookstore is falling down around him. The old brick firehouse has overstuffed shelves, a resident orange cat with an attitude problem… and repairs Kit can’t begin to afford.
Sage Ballard is a hometown boy who got famous, then became a tabloid disaster, and now urgently needs a nice, ordinary boyfriend to convince one very rich investor he’s a changed man. Three months of fake dating, and Sawyer’s Books will get the cash injection it needs to survive. And it’s not like he has to actually be nice to the guy, right?
🍓 How I Met Your Murderer: A Paranormal MM Romcom
Haunting #439: Ardruin Castle
Number of ghosts: It’s anyone’s guess, really
Location: The village of Ballycorven in West Kerry, Ireland
History: Long and bloody. Full of fire, covert poisonings, plague, and various mysterious deaths since its construction in 1219.
Wanted: Get the ghosts under control by October 31st for the grand opening of Céad Míle Fáilte Medieval Dining Experience inside the renovated castle, “Where the Mead Flows, the Bards Roar, and Everyone’s a Lord (for the Evening).”
The Expert: Rafferty O’Meara, formerly Kerry hurling’s star midfielder
The Complication: Eric James Crawford. Ghost, American, tourist. Chaotic Good Boy who’s about to rearrange Raff’s world as they try to figure out just how Eric really died.
🍓 Stalked: A Sapphic Paranormal Romance
Welcome to the Monster Smash Collection, where sapphic monsters will make you scream… if you ask nicely like a good girl.
Follow Marigold into a corn maze, as she slips beyond the veil into a supernatural labyrinth. Her only hope to return home lies in the hands of a sentient scarecrow woman who has no memory before the maze. They must work together to restore the scarecrow’s memories and find the way out before the moon sets on Halloween night.
Sacrifices will be made and secret deals made in the dark will come to light. Will the threads of fate that bind our heroes snap under the strain?
STALKED is part of the Monster Smash Collection, where sapphic monsters go bump in your dreams.
October 10th
🍓 That One Time: An MM Romance
Darius
It takes some people most of their lives to find the other half of their soul. The one person who gets them. I found mine when I was eight and a new family moved into the house next door.
The pretty blonde with the pouty lips and the glittery eyes that held a darkness underneath ʼem. A preacher’s kid. Well-mannered. Respectable. Everything I was supposed to be and wasn’t. ʼCause of the secrets I was hiding.
The biggest secret of them all? The other half of my soul was a… boy.
October 12th
🍓 Tenebrous
I came to Oregon to disappear.
A simple night shift guarding an old lumber mill deep in the mountains sounded easy enough. Make a quick buck, no people, no reminders of the life I destroyed back home.
Then the locals started warning me to stay out of the woods.
None of them will tell me what they’re so afraid of, but I’ve felt it watching me in the dark. Seen its eyes through the trees, felt its breath on my neck.
The people here are keeping secrets. And the further I fall down the rabbit hole on the history of this town, the more I understand why my parents fled before I was born.
I came here to escape my past.
Instead, I may have stumbled into something far worse.
Tenebrous is a full-length MM dark monster romance as part of the Mayhem Manuscripts Cryptids shared world collaboration. Each book is a standalone containing themes and situations not intended for readers under the age of 18. Both characters are consenting adults. This story features a massive size difference, claustrophobic tunnels, a beefy Sasquatch obsessed with his human and a guaranteed HEA.
October 13th
A Christmas Inn, Maine: A Feel-Good, Queer Holiday Rom-Com
A sparkling queer holiday rom-com about a former book editor determined to save his family’s failing inn… and the infuriatingly charming contractor he can’t seem to cut from the narrative.
Freshly dumped and jobless, Adam Wheatley has a list of personal failures as long as his arm. Forced to move back to his sleepy Maine hometown, he feels completely without purpose… until he learns that his aunt Rose has been keeping a secret: her beloved inn is failing, and she’s just weeks away from losing her home and her livelihood.
A Very Merry Detour: A Christmas Romance (Dial Delights)
Sometimes the route to love is the one you never planned.
It’s the holidays, and Alaina has just been dumped. Determined to have a romantic Christmas, she sets out on a cross-country road trip to surprise her ex-boyfriend and convince him she’s the one. But her plans are derailed when she drives straight into a snowbank. She’s rescued by Priscilla, a terse, unsmiling bookstore owner with zero interest in holiday cheer. Stranded, with her car out of commission, Alaina makes a bucket list of festive adventures to make her ex regret his decision, and to her surprise, Priscilla offers to join her.
Alaina’s plan goes off without a hitch—except that the more time she spends with Priscilla, the less she’s sure of what, or who, she really wants. A heartwarming sapphic romance packed with small-town cheer, A Very Merry Detour explores how true love always makes room for our most authentic selves.
Beau Scamp: A Sapphic Georgian Romp
England, 1794: What a time to be alive!
Charlotte Goddard has spent her life performing. First, as Charlie, the stable hand raised in breeches by her highwayman father, and then as Beau Scamp, the notorious road thief whose reputation does considerably more work than her actual skills.
When a botched robbery brings her face to face with Lady Catherina Pemberton—the childhood friend Charlotte has loved since she was twelve—she finds herself talked out of fleeing to America to avenge her father’s death and instead talked into the most ill-advised disguise of her career: maid to the woman she’s desperately in love with, in the house she’s been robbing, and under the noses of everyone who wants her hanged.
🍓 My Roommate Is Trying To Kill Me
Some things are harder to survive than murder.
Hakeem Morales wants to be the kind of horror actor people build midnight screenings around. At the moment, he’s mostly working nights at a Los Angeles horror bar, The Last Cue; trying not to spiral about his stalled life; and wondering whether his new roommate is trying to kill him.
Antonio Sanchez is older, private, unfairly attractive, and suspicious in ways Hakeem feels should be illegal. He writes cryptic things in notebooks. He jokes too much about Hakeem’s upcoming twenty-seventh birthday. Every time Hakeem almost convinces himself he’s being dramatic, Antonio does something else deeply alarming.
Unfortunately, Hakeem’s growing list of evidence is matched only by his growing attraction—because nothing improves a possible murder situation like developing a crush on the man you’re pretty sure is planning it.
Amazon | Indie Bookstore (pre-order bonuses)
Rottenheart
From the bestselling author of Hungerstone, an intoxicating and chilling gothic horror novel that reimagines Hamlet with a seductive sapphic twist—and where the only thing more dangerous than a family secret is a mother’s revenge.
Revenge me. For I am murdered . . .
Odette and her best friend, Cecilia, grow up between two grand homes, one in Hampstead and one in Suffolk, the ancient and imposing Herne House. Odette’s mother, Lydia, is almost parasitic in her neediness, but despite her, Odette and Cecilia come of age together—free to roam, to learn, and to love. When Lydia inexplicably sickens and dies, a dark veil falls. Odette’s father retreats to his study, while her aunt—the cold and cruel Claudine—increasingly takes charge of the household. Lost in grief and spiraling into madness, Odette disappears into the shadows, leaving Cecilia alone and with her affections tested. As Claudine is announced as Odette’s new stepmother, the girls reckon with this final betrayal, and a sinister presence awakens. To her horror, Odette realizes that her mother never truly left. She now haunts the manor, ready to drag long- held secrets into the light and exact revenge against those who thought her dead and gone. A visceral tale of grief and madness, Rottenheart exhumes the heart of Hamlet to tell a fearless queer love story laced with an unforgettable haunting, asking whether we can truly outrun our suffering, or if we are forever indebted to the vengeful dead.
sigh… *adds to tbr*
Setting the Stage for Christmas: A Novel
A sizzling yet sweet festive rom-com about a small-town theatre director forced to put her faith in the woman who once shattered her heart, so they can save not only the show, but their whole community, too.
In Cedar Creek, Christmas is no joke, and the annual seasonal play is the centerpiece of the festivities. As director, Bo Amaratunga is not only filling the boots of her mother, but fulfilling her role as community organizer—bringing people together for a night of queer joy and merriment.
🍓 The House of the Three-Headed Dog
Devon O’Brien has a few secrets: He is an assassin who must find the Crown of the Undying, and he killed the sire of the vampire he must serve.
Living on an isle overtaken by an imperial power, Devon is tasked with traveling to a dreary, peculiar, and seashell-filled coastal manor in Etierre, and he must retrieve a necromantic artifact called the Crown of the Undying from the vampiric lord of the manor, Naberius, who rules over three other vampires. When Devon, undercover, is assigned to serve the fastidious and dry-humored vampire musician Cillian Gallowglass, the two, despite themselves, grow closer and keep each other moored—but never one to let anyone truly know him, he finds himself in a dilemma: Years ago, Devon murdered Cillian’s true sire, and therefore he’s responsible for all the pain Naberius inflicts on Cillian after he took him in. The discovery of that truth may unravel everything, or in their colliding paths toward freedom, penance, and vengeance, Devon and Cillian may find a way to embrace the worst parts of themselves.
The House of the Three-Headed Dog is an M/M dark, sensual, and gothic vampire romance with a trans man assassin lead.
🍓 What If I Say Yes
Keeping a secret cost him the one person who made him feel whole.
Eli has spent his life certain of who he is, until he meets Marcus, and his world turns upside down.
What began as a friendship quickly becomes more as Marcus and Eli find themselves drawn together by an unexpected connection. The more time he spends with Marcus, Eli begins to question everything he thought he knew about love and himself. As their relationship blooms in secret, Marcus waits patiently for the day they no longer have to hide.
Secrets, though, have consequences. When the pressure becomes too heavy, heartbreak forces them apart.
Sometimes losing the person you love is the only way to find the courage to truly be yourself.
October 15th
🍓 High Stakes: A Sapphic Reaper Romance
Welcome to the Monster Smash Collection, where saphhic monsters will make you scream… if you ask nicely like a good girl.
High Stakes is a sapphic spicy century long slow-burn romance between a grim reaper and the vampire nurse who’s made it a habit to heal the souls the reaper has been sent to collect. High Stakes is a part of the Monster Smash Novella series where sapphic monsters go bump in the night, and in your dreams.
🍓 Shake Your Boo Thang: A Paranormal MM Romance
Haunting #442: SoulCycle Spin Studio
Number of ghosts: A boogie bunch of phantom disco divas
Location: West End, London
History: Former site of an underground gay nightclub from the 70s. It burned down in an unsolved arson incident and killed a number of men who got trapped in the club.
Wanted: Immediate ghost removal. Customers can’t handle the flickering lights, ectoplasm facials, or ABBA and the BeeGees playing on repeat while they’re trying to work out.
The ExorSquad Team: Callum Fraser, former Detective Inspector turned ghost hunter. Visiting American paranormal podcaster, Beau Montgomery.
Additional Notes: Apparitions spotted in studio mirrors. Flying objects and ectoplasm. All exercise music that is played switches over to disco classics. Instances of temporary possession reported—customers made to do The Bump and The Hustle. Phantom strobe lights and illuminated floors have begun to manifest. A disco ball hanging from the ceiling keeps reappearing no matter how many times it is removed. Notable increase in paranormal activity signals growing danger. Be careful!
October 16th
Fall Into Me
Just how far can he fall?
Asher Finnley’s life hasn’t been all sunshine and rainbows. He lost his parents years ago in a tragic accident, leaving him and his twin sister, Ashlynn, with only each other. But a phone call late one night destroys even that. Beyond devastated and more alone than ever, Ash rushes down to California, completely unprepared for the responsibility awaiting him.
His life in shambles, he tries to hold himself together. But his trip back home to Seattle proves too much. Stuck halfway there with a four-month-old infant he’s barely learned to care for and no one to lean on, Ash has no choice but to rely on a stranger’s help.
Caspian Jacobs didn’t intend to return to his hometown of Redding, California after finishing college. But when his mother’s health took a turn for the worse, everything changed. He moved back home to become his mom’s full-time caregiver. Cass didn’t mind; he’d do anything for his parents, including putting his life on hold.
Needed You
Darian
When I was thirteen, my brother Nate’s death tore my family apart, leaving me to deal with the agony of losing both my brother and my grieving parents. Nate’s best friend, Levon Richardson—my crush for years—was the one person I thought I could count on. I was sure Lev would stick around and help me through the pain. But he left, just like everyone else. Six years later, he’s back, but something has changed. The feelings I have when I’m around him might be enough to start piecing together my shattered heart. I needed him then, and I know that I need him now. But the risk of being hurt again might be more than I can handle.
Levon
Inheriting my uncle’s motorcycle shop was always my dream. But as I settle back in my hometown with my new job and life, nearly everything reminds me of the loss of my best friend, Nate, when we were only sixteen. Guilt and shame around Nate’s death made me leave six years ago. Coming home now brings back all of those demons I tried to forget, especially once I cross paths with Nate’s younger brother, Darian. He’s no longer a kid, and the feelings that come with seeing him again are not entirely innocent. But he’s been fighting his own demons, and it’s not until he starts to open up to me that I realize just how much my leaving hurt both of us. Can I be here for him now, like he needed me to be here then? And can we both find the healing we desperately need in each other?
October 20th
False Face
Rusty is positive Todd with two D’s is a figment of his troubled mind. That’s the only explanation for why he breaks into musical numbers and lurks in the school bleachers to stare unabashedly at Burt, the cutest guy in school. But when Todd’s antics go a little too far, Rusty quickly finds himself in a dangerous situation. Little does Rusty know, the boy he’s head over heels for just might be the one to save his life.
By day, Burt Espinoza is the only out kid in school who’s ever maintained his social status. But by night, he is a real hero: a secret agent rescuing vulnerable queer kids in danger. His handlers (also his adoptive moms) are concerned he’s pushing himself too hard to be the man he thinks he needs to be. Now Burt has to prove that he’s ready for his biggest mission yet: saving the only boy he’s ever hurt.
Scorpio Season
A steamy sapphic romance about music, second chances, and falling for the one person you shouldn’t—your new bandmate.
Ever since she can remember, Florence Gibson has had one goal: to tour the world as a musician, and outshine her absentee rockstar father. When her all-women, all-queer rock band Scorpio Season gets booked as the opening act for her idol’s European tour, Florence can’t believe their luck. There is only one problem: the band needs a drummer.
Luca Walsh has no idea where she’s going. Ever since she dropped out of university, her days have been a blur of shifts at the coffee shop, trying to remember if she took her ADHD medication, and lying in bed questioning her existence. When she stumbles upon a flyer searching for drummers in the area, she jumps at the chance to have a distraction.
October 22nd
🍓 Squad Ghouls: A Paranormal MM Romance
Haunting #500: The Last Resort B&B
Number of ghosts: between 5 and 34, depending on whether the pirate ship crew counts as they are not, technically, inside the house? TBD?
Location: Pembrokeshire Coast,Wales
History: Unknown. Owner made a purchase of the estate in secret and refuses to share information with anyone.
Wanted: Immediate ghost removal. Owner being kept against his will. Possible mind control at play as he claims ghosts are his friends.
The ExorSquad Team: New recruit on a first assignment, Ryan Brolyn.
Additional notes: Do not go on board the pirate ship. Do not accept cookies. Massages are not complimentary and might result in unwanted possession. The shorts on the owner are a style choice, not a seduction attempt. Act accordingly. Owner has no clue his ass has the ability to topple nations. Welsh spoons are not supposed to be used like that.
🍓 Wrapped Up In Her: A Sapphic Mummy Romance
Wrapped Up in Her is a spicy sapphic paranormal romance between an archaeologist and the very hot mummy queen she accidentally wakes from the dead. This novella will feature an ancient queen, forbidden attraction, deadly curses, buried secrets, sapphic yearning, a love thousands of years in the making, and one very inconvenient case of falling for the woman you just unearthed.
Wrapped Up in Her is part of the Monster Smash Novella Collection, where sapphic monsters go bump in the night and in your dreams.
October 23rd
🍓 The Buried Club: The Suits of Vengeance Saga Book 1
Some debts can only be paid in blood.
After ten years in exile, the Prince of the Club Confederacy walks the streets of the Diamond Empire once more, hidden amongst people. Arthur slays monsters and people alike under the moniker of the Deathwalker, seeking a truth that was stolen from his very mind. Accompanying him on his hunt for revenge is Maisha, a bone shaman whose visions of a monstrous serpent come to fruition when Arthur stumbles upon her village and becomes a prisoner.
Meanwhile, the Diamond Empire continues its conquest for land and resources. Civil unrest grips the empire’s furthest reaches as rebels from the occupied Syndicate of Spades spread death and fear around the world, and the passing years have done nothing to quell their bloodshed. The Spades can burn everything to the ground for all Arthur cares. He just wants their king, and Maisha just wants her freedom.
Amazon | Indie Bookstore (pre-order bonuses)
October 26th
🍓 Ideal Lost Part One: The Shrikes
A beloved childhood friend that he always idolized isn’t who he thought he was. Because even gods have bloody hands.
Jun hasn’t left his room in the last three months. Finally being dragged to the mall by his roommate Alex, Jun’s world is turned upside down when he runs into Ruki, his childhood best friend. A friend he hadn’t spoken to since Ruki was slaving away to one of the biggest science research companies in the country. Their abrupt encounter left Jun and Alex the repercussions of Ruki’s confidential work that somehow ended up in the dark underbelly of Los Angeles.
With Alex’s harrowed past of LA’s criminal world and Jun’s drive to salvage his relationship with Ruki, the young men dive into the city’s glittering lights by encountering corrupt celebrities, cops and gangsters. As more is revealed, neither of them realize how enormous the impact Ruki left behind. They will have to work out their differences together before their own secrets destroy each other.
For fans of neo-noir films like Pulp Fiction, Fight Club, Drive, and Nightcrawler that’s driven by a diverse found family and a queer love story at its core, Ideal Lost is a three-part crime thriller that deals with the destructive consequences of a young man’s struggle to carry everyone’s idealized expectations on himself.
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October 27th
From Square One
Falling in love with your enemy? Impossible. Falling in love with him twice . . .
After an accident leaves Riley Wilson with amnesia, he can recall everything except: the crash that landed him in the hospital, the last year of his life, and having a serious boyfriend. Who happens to be his older brother’s ex-best friend. And the guy he despises more than anyone . . . Learning this information sends Riley spiraling. In what world could someone as sensible and meticulous as Riley have ever willingly agree to go out with Aaron—the arrogant jerk who screwed up his brother’s future? Riley would love nothing more than to start fresh and snip Aaron out of his life. But with his family being cagey about the past, and his memories far out of reach, he realizes Aaron might be the only one willing to help him remember the last year. Despite his brother’s protests, Riley teams up with Aaron to unearth his missing memories—even if it means starting from square one and reenacting every date, every kiss, every “first” they’ve ever had. All Riley has to do is not make the same mistake by falling in love twice.
She Isn’t Herself Tonight: A Novel
When Rabbit was ten years old, she was abducted by aliens. Then, it happened again when she was twenty. Now thirty, she’s ready for their next visit. What she isn’t prepared for is her boyfriend callously ending their long-term relationship and ejecting her from their shared home.
As her birthday approaches, the aliens still haven’t arrived. Rabbit descends into a spiral of growing paranoia and bizarre bodily transformations, until soon it seems that even her reflection has a mind of its own. With her only refuge being the chaos of strangers who might not have her best interests at heart, Rabbit worries that her ex’s abandonment not only severed her from his life, but also from her own. Struggling to orient herself within a world growing more topsy-turvy by the day, Rabbit must regain control before her aliens at last return.
oooo this sounds sooo good
Sun Chasers: A Novel
You stood still. Stared out at the ocean. Like you were searching for something. Maybe the same thing I was searching for, too. Something that belongs in my chest. Warm and bright.
Kole has mastered the art of deflection. He explains away the real reason why he had to move to St. Thomas to live with his father and his new family. He makes excuses for any bruises or limps people notice. He starts dating a girl at his new school to avoid questions about who he’s really attracted to.
But he can’t seem to hide how drawn he is to Gabriel.
Gabriel wishes he could disappear. But everywhere he goes on the island he calls home, he can’t escape the people who misgender him, who threaten him. He’s haunted by the memories of a painful past. And with his single mother barely making ends meet, he knows there’s no hope for a better life after high school.
As Kole and Gabriel slowly start to share their struggles with each other, their connection becomes a lifeline. But can a young love survive in a world determined to tear them down? Are there some wounds that can never be healed?
The Killing of a Chestnut Tree (Havelock Harper Mysteries Book 1)
Be gay, solve crimes!
Meet Havelock Harper, gentleman detective. Dapper, delightful, and decidedly queer, he’s here to solve your most magical mysteries.
Everyone in England knows Havelock Harper, the celebrated consulting detective from the papers. But if any of them read his private files, they would discover secrets that must never reach the public eye—extraordinary cases, impossible crimes, and a committed love affair with his formidable companion Major Sebastian Wright.
And their next case might be the queerest yet.
Havelock and Sebastian have been summoned to investigate the murder of the Duke of Farleigh. When they arrive at the scene of the crime — a secluded, enchanting forest — they discover that the victim is a tree!
The trees of Farleigh have begun to write words in their bark and branches, expressing themselves for all to read. The Duke is an ancient chestnut, cruelly chopped down, and to the villagers of Farleigh, he is a beloved friend. They want justice.
Havelock and Sebastian must use all their wits and wisdom to find the murderer who has shattered the peace of Farleigh.
🍓 The Turbulent Appearance of Brise Collier (Folk With a Disregard for Convention)
Grief and despondency consumes every moment of Ellie’s waking hours. Or at least every moment that isn’t spent toiling away in the cramped and dark confines of an English coal mine at the turn of the nineteenth century.
She doesn’t believe her dreadful existence can get any worse but then a firedamp explosion claims the lives of two young children right before her eyes.
Brise is an air sprite and has never had a single concern in the eons she has had sentience. Playing chase with her sister in a coal mine as they have done thousands of times before, an open trapdoor captures Brise in a stale air full of firedamp. A spark lights it – changing her life forever.
Ellie didn’t expect to discover a lone survivor from the explosion. But the woman she rescues from the depths of the pit doesn’t quite seem human and her hair and eyes don’t match those of the collier who had entered the pit the day before.
Who is Brise Collier? An evil spirit sent to haunt Ellie, or an angel come to guide her towards hope and healing?
Venus, Vanishing: A Novel
Portrait of a Lady on Fire meets The Safekeep in this gripping debut that reckons with art forgery, desire, suspicion, and resistance
In raucous 1928 Berlin, Hannah Sherman has deviated from the traditional arc of a woman’s life. An artist and a runaway, she revels in the city’s underground art scene and her newfound freedom. Working as a tailor while studying art in every spare moment, Hannah comes to know women and their bodies, first with measuring tape and silk, and later through sensuous layers of paint.
Hannah feels like she can finally call herself an artist when an intoxicating, wealthy female collector commissions an elaborate series of nude portraits. But after Hannah finishes the acclaimed Venus paintings, she discovers that her work has been tampered with and exhibited under a man’s name. When lines between artist and muse are crossed in a heady but perilous affair, Hannah transforms her work into an act of revenge, finding herself caught up in a devastating game of betrayal.
Laced with queer desire and life-threatening secrets, Venus, Vanishing pulses with the hedonism and danger of 1930s Berlin as history comes to Hannah’s door, offering a heart-pounding story of Jewish survival, creativity, and resistance.
October 29th
🍓 Drop Dead Gourdgeous: A Sapphic Demon Romance
Welcome to the Monster Smash Collection, where saphhic monsters will make you scream… if you ask nicely like a good girl.
Drop Dead Gourdgeous is a spicy sapphic fast-burn paranormal romance between a witch and the three demon princesses of hell that she accidentally summons with a powerful (and drunk) wishing spell on three pumpkin seeds. This novella will feature BIPOC characters, flavorful spice, femme rage, fated mates and bonds, healing from a traumatic relationship, falling in love with every part of yourself, a silly demonic dragon, and so much more. Drop Dead Gourdgeous is part of the Monster Smash Novella Collection, where sapphic monsters go bump in the night and in your dreams.
🍓Love Potion No 13: A Witchy Sapphic Romace
Welcome to the Monster Smash Collection, where sapphic monsters will make you scream, if you ask nicely…like a good little witchling.
Love Potion No 13 is a spicy monster romance between a witch whose love potion goes haywire and now she’s attracted the attention of not one but five sapphic monsters during the office Halloween party. An undead, a vampire, a mummy, a werewolf, and a phantom all ravenous for a piece of her.
Featuring a plus size witch FMC, close proximity, mates, employee/boss, coworkers to lovers, bondage, knotting, biting, electroplay, public play, fancy anatomy, and creative use of Halloween candy flavors. This novella is low stakes, high heat FFFXX why choose in a world inspired by classic Universal movie/Halloween monsters.
October 31st
🍓 Empty: MM Omegaverse
What do you do when your biology betrays you?
Delaney finds out devastating news that has him questioning who he truly is. In the midst of his tragedy, he meets an attractive alpha whose insistence to get to know him drives Delaney to make some questionable decisions that he’ll later come to regret.
Eli, an attractive alpha who lives a life steeped in secrecy, meets an omega that has him falling hard and fast, making him question if he can honestly share his life with someone. When the secrets are forced to come to light, can Eli salvage the best relationship he’s ever had?
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