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Know The Beast by Minerva Hart

Know The Beast by Minerva Hart

Poppy and Arthur Gibbs have always shared a lot: A womb, an addict mother, an empty space where a father should be, and a dream to take Hollywood by storm. But when Poppy gets bitten by a werewolf, she flees in order to protect her brother from herself. Arthur, thinking that he’s lost the only person who ever loved him, makes a beeline for LA… after stealing something from a dangerous man.

Over the next twelve years, the twins build quite the lives for themselves: Poppy is a nomad with a host of fake IDs, smoking wolfsbane in a desperate bid to keep the curse at bay, while Arthur has become a porn star of some fame and lives in a beach house bought and paid for by his lover, a closeted Hollywood director. Neither is happy, but it’s what they got.

When Poppy realizes that the curse is catching up to her despite all her efforts, she decides to spend her last days as a human reconciling with her brother. Arthur, whose theft from many years ago has finally come back to bite him, begins to suspect that his sister may have turned out like their mother after all.

Will the twins recreate the bond they once had? Or are they destined to feed their inner demons?

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Summertime, Assassins, and Other Skullduggeries by J.D. Cunegan

Summertime, Assassins, and Other Skullduggeries by J.D. Cunegan

Summer Rhoades kills people for a living. Except the one time she didn’t.

She promised a wealthy, well-connected man she would take out his target, only to have a change of heart once she realizes the mark is not who she was told. Instead of confronting Hunter Bailey on his duplicity, though, Summer sends the target away and makes a break for it herself.

Which is fine, until Hunter Bailey finds out and comes after her. But only in the way overly rich men who never do anything for themselves can.

Now, Summer finds herself on the run, the proverbial mouse in that timeless game. Several former colleagues (if they can be called that) are after her, one after another, eager to cash in—but one assassin in particular turns up at every available opportunity. Someone who represents the best, and the worst, of Summer’s torrid life: her ex-girlfriend, and fellow assassin, Lola Haskins.

Summer has seven days to survive the price on her head. But no matter how many bullets or blades she dodges, no matter how much running she does, one thing Summer can’t outrun is her own heart.

Maybe she doesn’t want to.

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GODLESS ARMAGEDDON by Scott Coon

GODLESS ARMAGEDDON by Scott Coon

After Thom dies in WWII, he uses weaponized memories to battle two false gods bent on Armageddon, as well as his own deeply repressed homosexuality.

To help him, Thom’s dad reaches out from inside a soul well—a monster made of captured souls. But his dad is unable to communicate. Instead, Thom keeps rewatching his dad’s death in World War I, while his dad keeps apologizing for something.

Determined to rescue his father, Thom teaches himself how to fight the soul wells with weaponized memories. His fellow soldier, David Lowenstein, wants to save his parents. Others want Thom to stop the soul wells before they unleash Earth’s Armageddon and consume all souls, living and dead.

But Thom just wants to save his dad and atone for ending his family name.

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Dangerous Attraction

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In the dark streets of Soho, London, where the nightlife pulses with energy and hidden dangers, Langdon is striving to carve out a life of his own. Having endured a tough childhood, marked by a mother who never valued him, he has found solace in the company of his four best friends, who feel like brothers. Although he thrives working in a bar, Langdon is haunted by his past, feeling like a dirty secret to the men he dates.

When Eric’s world crumbles after a disastrous wedding, he loses both his home and job, forcing him to seek refuge with his brother. It’s here that he encounters Langdon, and an undeniable connection sparks between them. As their chemistry ignites, they begin to explore a love that feels both thrilling and terrifying.

But their growing bond faces a sinister threat. Someone is determined to tear them apart, willing to go to any lengths, including violence, to ensure they never find happiness together. As Langdon and Eric navigate the complexities of their relationship and confront the demons of their pasts, they must also fight to protect one another from a force that seeks to destroy them.

In “Dangerous Attraction,” love becomes a battleground where trust is tested, and survival is at stake. Will Langdon and Eric find the strength to overcome the shadows that haunt them, or will they pay the ultimate price for their desire to be together?

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Godless Armageddon by Scott Coon

Godless Armageddon by Scott Coon

After Thomas Jefferson Stoneshield VII dies in World War II, he uses weaponized memories to battle two false gods bent on Armageddon, as well as his own deeply repressed homosexuality.

Thomas Jefferson Stoneshield VII dies in World War II and enters a godless afterlife where souls are clouds upon a golden ocean surrounding the Earth. He blames himself for ending the legacy carried in his name. He doesn’t know why he never married because he’s buried it too deep: Thom is gay. To help him, Thom’s dad reaches out from inside a soul well—a monster made of captured souls. But his dad is unable to communicate. Instead, Thom keeps rewatching his dad’s death in World War I, while his dad keeps apologizing for something. Determined to rescue his father, Thom teaches himself how to fight the soul wells with weaponized memories. His fellow soldier, David Lowenstein, wants to save his parents. Others want Thom to stop the soul wells before they unleash Earth’s Armageddon and consume all souls, living and dead. But Thom just wants to save his dad and atone for ending his family name.

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Perfect Night

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In the bustling streets of London, Charlie hustles to pay for his mother’s care, taking a risky side job that puts his heart—and body—on the line. Enter Sebastian, a suave New Yorker with a taste for the finer things and a hidden vulnerability. Their chemistry ignites during a night that feels like a scene from a fairy tale, but reality looms. As their worlds collide, Charlie’s fierce independence clashes with Sebastian’s desire to nurture. Can they conquer their pasts and rewrite their love story, or will it all come crashing down? Dive into “Perfect Night,” where passion meets peril in a modern twist on a classic romance.

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Courtside Confession: A Coming Out MM Tennis Romance

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In the high-stakes world of professional tennis, young phenom Alex Wright is on the brink of his first major tournament victory. But beneath the surface of his rising career, Alex harbors a secret that could change everything. Enter Chris Rivera, a seasoned player known for his calm demeanor and killer backhand, who becomes more than just a mentor to Alex.

As they partner for a challenging doubles tournament, their on-court chemistry is undeniable. The two athletes find themselves sharing more than just tactics; personal stories and vulnerabilities come to light, drawing them irresistibly closer. However, the path to love is not just a game of physical endurance but emotional courage.

Amid fierce competition and the glare of the public eye, Alex faces pivotal moments that test his resolve. From confronting prejudice to embracing his true self, Alex’s journey is fraught with challenges that extend far beyond the tennis court. With Chris by his side, he must decide if he’s ready to make the most important play of all—coming out and confessing his feelings, risking his career for a chance at lasting love.

“Courtside Confession” is a stirring tale of love, identity, and the courage it takes to be one’s true self in the competitive sports arena. It promises to be as heart-racing as it is heartfelt, perfect for fans of sports romance and stories of personal triumph.

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A Place To Fall

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Living in a tiny town, Cameron is a gay boy whose creativity is both his strength and weakness. One night, a series of intense images and dreamlike scenes lead him to the edge of the woods, where he disappears from view. This novella will make you think about what it means to be genuinely free while also containing humor and tragedy. Though “A Place To Fall” may not appear to offer much at first glance, inside you will learn what it means to enjoy life—or better yet, death—according to your own terms.

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The Strange Story of Stanley Suspect

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Stanley Suspect is not your ordinary paranormal investigator. Living alone in London with his three ghosts, this young transgender man who hates nothing more than Christmas and carolers can exorcise a poltergeist or have tea with your deceased relatives, but his life lacks something.

Tormented by dreams about his haunted childhood home and a murder that happened there, he is waiting for fortune or a great adventure to come knocking on his door and help him escape his fears – and debts. And it does, when a beautiful clockmaker succubus who committed a crime seeks his help. But as they flee to Scotland together and encounter strange and magical creatures, so does Stanley’s past catch up to him, and he discovers the crimes committed by him and his father, and his dark destiny.

Liar, crook, sweetheart, and always a child at heart, Stanley Suspect is coming out of the trans crypt to take you on a journey to the underworld and his upside-down reality, but can you really trust him? Between ghosts, demons, dangerous women, and the trickster fairy folk, you might just want to become the devil’s advocate to find your way through the mazes of mind. For every path leads somewhere, even if not where you expected…

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The Lesbian President by Lee Cushing

About The Lesbian President by Lee Cushing:

Eleanor was first first woman elected to the position of President of The United States and was unmarried, but when her mother’s dying wish was for her to find the happiness of love her secret was revealed when she met Sydney Sullivan. She was gay.

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Callisto 2.0

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She had to travel beyond the planet to discover her true self. Will she find the courage to walk through the doorway to a new future?

Shambhala Space Station, 2097. Solitary physicist Callisto (physics, after all, is a jealous mistress) never accepted conventional wisdom. So when she’s recruited to work on faster-than-light technology by a beautiful and mysterious older woman, she eagerly accepts the career opportunity at the women-only research station orbiting Earth’s moon. But her enthusiasm suffers when her first discovery is unexpected heartbreak.

Throwing herself into work on a problematic warp drive prototype, Calli blossoms in the utopian female community that shows her love and acceptance for the first time in her life. But when a twisted conspiracy, a disingenuous affair, and a disastrous betrayal test her place in this unique environment, the brilliant scientist must dig deep to find her moment of truth.

Will Calli embrace her destiny in an unexplored cosmos?

Callisto 2.0 is the transformative first book in the Shambhala Saga feminist science fiction series. If you like compassionate characters, deep-space intrigue, and hopeful visions of the future, then you’ll adore Susan English’s cosmic adventure.

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Blue Billy’s Rogue Lexicon

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William Dempsey was a wonder among wonders.

By 18, he had risen from a gang of London street rogues to be the personal plaything of the Marquess of Argyll. Maintained in splendour, celebrated at masquerades – with everything he could wish for.

Now all has come crashing down. He is put out in the rain without patronage, his West End apartment, or a place among the ton.

So on a stormy night, he arrives at a house in Southwark. Marathon Moll’s in the Mint – the bawdyhouse he worked in during his ascent and where he earned the name Blue Billy.

But is Marathon Moll’s a place from which to rise again? For there is one in the crowd, who catches his eye. Who takes his hand and promises something better.

Or does Moll’s signify a return to his roots? For one day, a second and very different young man raps on the door. Takes his hand and asks him to return to his past.

To the street language of vagabonds. The canting dialect of thieves.

To the schemes, and the dreams, of his youth.

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Morphosis

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In 1987, Ollie, his children from a previous marriage, Sam and Jodi Lee, and his romantic partner Dwayne start anew on a farm near a small and quiet farming community tucked deep in rural and open country.

Ollie takes employment as a deputy with the local Sheriff’s Department, leaving Dwayne home to help with toddler Sam and teen Jodi Lee.

Dwayne adjusts to his new role and struggles to balance AA support, his own medical illness, and tending Ollie’s children. He is met, also, with harsh homophobic attitudes from locals, most notably from the local pharmacist who refuses to fill his prescription outright, worsening his condition and allowing Ollie’s children to wear him to his breaking point.

Headlines explode when a high school girl is found murdered and Ollie works tirelessly in catching the murderer named The Visitor. Ollie’s eagerness and his drive keep him too busy to notice his family spinning apart.

Thus unravels a tense and unsettling queer character study that examines narcissism, codependency, and self-worth, and explores if we are truly capable of escaping the worst parts of ourselves or are we prisoner to our self-destructive cycles?

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When Daddy Hurts by TL Travis

When Daddy Hurts by TL Travis

Daddies are supposed to be fierce and strong. Protectors of their boys.

But what happens when Daddy is the one who needs taken care of?

Stupid, unwritten rules.

Pfft.

Who came up with them anyway?

Daddy needs me now more than ever and I’m gonna be there for him just like he’s always been for me. Darn the rules, we’re a family and that matters most.

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The Tyranny of Desire

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PUCHY MUSHKIN is a big dreamer and an even bigger loser whose spectacular failure as a human being is exceeded only by the enormity of his penis.

In the depths of his despair, Puchy has an epiphany: could the endless series of screw-ups that define his existence be the result of his overwhelming desire for the success he believes is his birthright? To test his theory and, hopefully, change his fate, Puchy vows to banish all dreams, goals, aims, ambitions, and obsessions from his life except one: to assassinate desire itself and hang it by its feet like Mussolini.

What follows is the hilariously dark, raunchy, and irreverent tale of one man’s twisted war with himself—an anti-story about an anti-hero whose only motivation is to have no motivation at all.

The Tyranny of Desire by Morty Shallman is the perfect choice for fans of Arthur Nersesian and Gary Reilly’s The Asphalt Warrior. If you’re a fan of edgy, irreverent literature, you won’t want to miss The Tyranny of Desire.

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Serafino da Ferrara

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Ferrara, 1505 AD. Talented Serafino is apprenticed to Mastro Filargiro, one of the city’s leading artists.
Serafino finds love, but his mastery takes him on a perilous journey across Italy’s feuding city-states, unaware that his virtuosity is a threat to the pre-eminence of the hitherto unchallenged masters of the Renaissance.
His life must take a dramatic new turn in the hope of escaping their enmity.

Washington DC, 2008. Parker’s first year at Georgetown High is coming to an end.
His father is appointed Consul General in Florence. Parker enthusiastically embraces his new life and befriends handsome Beppe.
But almost everyone around him has been keeping secrets. And the fifteenth-century palazzo where his family now lives unexpectedly reveals its long-buried mysteries.

Separated by five hundred years, yet united by their talent, Serafino and Parker embark on similar journeys of discovery while fellow artists, assassins, princes and envious classmates rage and scheme around them.

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The Queering by Brooke Skipstone

The Queering by Brooke Skipstone

Editor’s Pick Booklife Reviews: A fast-paced yet thoughtful romance of coming out and finding love in later life in Alaska
5 Star Clarion Reviews: A riveting novel . . . about love, courage, and solidarity
[A]n impressive story that packs a punch. —Kirkus Reviews

Trapped between a homicidal brother and a homophobic podcaster eager to reveal her lesbian romance novels, a seventy-year-old grandmother seeks help in Clear, Alaska.

Suffocating in a loveless marriage and lonely existence, Taylor MacKenzie lives only through her writing, using the pen name Brooke Skipstone, her best friend in college and lover before her death in 1974.

Afraid of being murdered before anyone in her family or community knows her life story, Taylor writes an autobiography about her time with Brooke and shares it with those closest to her, hoping for understanding and acceptance.

Accused of promoting the queering and debasement of America by a local podcaster, Taylor embroils the conservative community in controversy but fights back with the help of a new, surprising friend.

Can she endure the attacks from haters and gaslighters? Can she champion the queering she represents?

And will she survive?

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