LGBTQ+ Books Releasing September 2025
- Swords & Sapphics team
- 3 days ago
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It's time to shout about the queer books we're looking forward to seeing released this September! Which ones will you be adding to your shelves this month?
Out on the 1st
Daddy Issues: Stories by Eric C. Wat
Genre: Contemporary Short Stories
Representation: Queer, Asian American
Daddy Issues is a collection of moving stories of queer Asian American experience. In these contemplations on solitude and hope, many of the characters find the connections they need once they allow themselves to become vulnerable.
Out on the 2nd
Mission Skyscraper by Eule Grey
Genre: Young Adult
Representation: gender fluid & pansexual
So, anyway, the world doesn’t make sense. By day, I’m a student who avoids teachers, parents, and rules because all they do is shout. I wish they’d leave me alone and stop calling me a lad when sometimes I’m a lass. Oh, plus, I can’t remember where I lived last year. By the way, have you noticed the handsome boy who keeps chatting with me after school?
There’s more. By night, I’m a spy on a mission, strong and essential, see? Some call it dreaming, but I know better. My assignment is to track two people who are trapped inside a skyscraper. I’m scared, and so are they. What if I’m not brave enough to save them?
So, yeah, things are tricky in both worlds. Two realities and a lot of questions are about to collide, and when they do, nothing can prevent the truth from spilling out. What’s inside the heart of a skyscraper? I’m about to find the answer. See you on the other side.
North of Tomboy by Julia A. Swanson
Genre: Middle Grade
Representation:Trans
For fans of Kacen Callender, Lin Thompson, and Kyle Lukoff, comes a middle grade novel set in 1973 about a child who feels more boy than girl and is frustrated that people act blind to that when—aside for her stupid hair and clothes—it should be obvious!
Shy fourth grader Jess Jezowski turns the tables on her mom when she’s given yet another girly baby doll for Christmas. This time, instead of ignoring or destroying it, she transforms it into the boy she’s always wanted to be—a brave, funny little guy named Mickey. Making him talk, Jess finally lets the boy in her express himself.
But when Mickey evolves to become something more like an alter ego whose voice drowns out her own and the secret of him escapes the safety of her family, Jess realizes Mickey’s too limited and doesn’t allow the boy part of her a big enough presence in the world. She must find a way to blend him into her—so she can be that side of herself anywhere, around anyone.
Jess tries to wean herself from the crutch of Mickey’s loud, comical persona, and to get her family to forget about him, but she struggles to do both. What will it take for her to stop hiding behind Mickey and get people to see her for who she truly is? Based on the author’s experience growing up on Michigan’s rural Leelanau Peninsula in the ’70s, North of Tomboy includes artwork throughout.
To the Moon and Back by Eliana Ramage
Genre: Literary Fiction
Representation: Sapphic, Indigenous/Native American
One young woman’s relentless quest to become the first Cherokee astronaut will irrevocably alter the fates of the people she loves most in this tour de force of a debut about ambition, belonging, and family.
My mother took my sister and me, and she drove through the night to a place she felt a claim to, a place on earth she thought we might be safe. I stopped asking questions. I picked little glass pieces from my sister’s hair. I watched the moon.
Steph Harper is on the run. When she was six, her mother, Hannah, fled an abusive husband—with Steph and her younger sister, Kayla, in tow—to Cherokee Nation, where she hoped they might finally belong. In response, Steph sets her sights as far away from Oklahoma as she can get, vowing that she will let nothing get in the way of pursuing the rigorous physical and academic training she knows she will need to be accepted by NASA, and ultimately, to go to the moon.
Spanning three decades and several continents, To the Moon and Back encompasses Steph’s turbulent journey, along with the multifaceted and intertwined lives of the three women closest to her sister Kayla, an artist who goes on to become an Indigenous social media influencer, and whose determination to appear good takes her life to unexpected places; Steph’s college girlfriend Della Owens, who strives to reclaim her identity as an adult after being removed from her Cherokee family through a challenge to the Indian Child Welfare Act; and Hannah, Steph and Kayla’s mother, who has held up her family’s tribal history as a beacon of inspiration to her children, all the while keeping her own past a secret.
In Steph’s certainty that only her ambition can save her, she will stretch her bonds with each of these women to the point of breaking, at once betraying their love and generosity, and forcing them to reconsider their own deepest desires in her shadow. Told through an intricately woven tapestry of narrative, To the Moon and Back is an astounding and expansive novel of mothers and daughters, love and sacrifice, alienation and heartbreak, terror and wonder. At its core, it is the story of the extraordinary lengths to which one woman will go to find space for herself.
Out on the 9th
Starlight and Cinnamon by Jem Spears
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Representation: Lesbian & neurodivergent protagonists, with gay, enby, & bisexual supporting characters
Despite her demanding and mysterious job, Daphne Redgrave devotes an appropriate amount of time and effort into attracting whoever could be her next girlfriend. Who hasn’t broken into a secret laboratory to steal a monkey in the hopes of impressing a girl they’ve never met? And if it doesn’t work out, she knows there’ll always be someone else for her—until she meets Cinnamon.
Cinnamon Cheung has spent an appropriate amount of time convincing herself that she doesn’t want a girlfriend. For seven years, she’s been perfectly happy with her nerdy friends, nosy family, successful career as a therapist, and the possibly misguided hobby of trying to unmask which powerful techbro has been making her clients’ lives hell. She’s told herself she’s content, and she almost believes it, until Daphne crashes into her life.
Now that they know the other exists, the lies they tell themselves to stay alone begin to lose their hold. As Daphne and Cinnamon try to navigate what they could mean to each other, their dangerous projects align, putting everything in jeopardy. And it’ll take a lot more than stealing a monkey or ignoring the problem to get through it with their relationship, careers, and lives intact.
The Twelve Tasks of the Enchanter of Linen by Cornelia Aspen
Genre: Fantasy Romance
Representation: Bisexual heroine with ADHD, characters of colour, d/Deaf, autism, DeafBlind, blind, facial differences, PTSD, lesbian, gay, and bisexual
Three work shirts, a towel, a tunic. Niselt, an enchanter of linen, works alongside potters, grocers, and fellow magicians practicians in the eastern neighborhoods of the bustling city-state of Gan Ostric. Niselt has been able to earn a living and help her mother and aunt on the city outskirts, but now she stands to lose her workshop unless she can protect her fragile good fortune by finding twelve jobs before the month is through.
A fistful of jewels, a shimmer of magic, a rain-slicked city night. Thief, a thief, takes pride in her somewhat-lucrative trade and the love interests she finds on the wrong side of the law, who only occasionally steal her pants. But as Gan Ostric hosts a delegation from counterpart city Gan Eigric, it's Thief's goody-two-shoes friend Niselt who may have found a dangerous romance...and an even more dangerous secret.
Some piecework, a tapestry, a cloak for the only solar magus on the Assembly of Magicians Practicians. When Niselt picks up a job doing piecework for the palace, a discovery about the fabric's thread count turns to a mystery that collides with her uneasy knowledge of the darkness faced by friends in the city and beyond. The people who can help Niselt save her city and herself might be the magicians practicians that a good enchanter isn't supposed to know--and the stranger that a good daughter of Gan Ostric isn't supposed to love.
The Maiden and Her Monster by Maddie Martinez
Genre: Fantasy
Representation: Sapphic, Jewish folklore reimagining
A gorgeous, atmospheric debut fantasy that reimagines the Jewish myth of golem in a tale rooted in history, folklore, and sapphic romance—perfect for fans of Katherine Arden, Ava Reid, Hannah Whitten, and Naomi Novik.
The forest eats the girls who wander out after dark.
As the healer’s daughter, Malka has seen how the curse of the woods has plagued her village, but when the Ozmini Church comes to collect their tithes, they don’t listen to the warnings about a monster lurking in the trees. After a clergy girl wanders too close to the forest and Malka’s mother is accused of her murder, Malka strikes a bargain with a zealot Ozmini priest. If she brings him the monster, he will spare her mother from execution.
When she ventures into the blood-soaked woods, Malka finds a monster, though not the one she expects: an inscrutable, disgraced golem who agrees to implicate herself, but only after Malka helps her free the imprisoned rabbi who created her.
But a deal easily made is not easily kept. And as their bargain begins to unravel a much more sinister threat, protecting her people may force Malka to endanger the one person she left home to save—and face her growing feelings for the very creature she was taught to fear.
Tapout by Nicole Disney
Genre: Sports Romance
Representation: Sapphic
Every fight has stakes, and the hardest jabs are the ones you don’t see coming.
Laila Moretti was on the verge of making her UFC dream a reality. A standout in the regional circuit, she was one win away from a contract—until a crushing defeat shattered her confidence. Convinced she’s not cut out for the big leagues, she walks away from the cage, her coach, and the future she fought for.
Harlow Hayes doesn’t believe in limits—only opportunities. Running an underground fight promotion takes nerve, ambition, and a willingness to play dirty. She’s built an empire on giving fighters a shot the system never would. But the audience craves blood, and with her reputation on the line, she needs a star who can do more than survive—she needs someone who can win.
When Laila steps into Harlow’s world, she sees the fighter Laila refuses to believe she is. Their attraction is undeniable, their ambitions impossible to ignore, and as the lines between business and something far more dangerous begin to blur, Harlow faces a push Laila to reclaim the dream she abandoned or admit she’s already lost sight of her own.
The Haunting of William Thorn by Ben Alderson
Genre: Gothic Horror, Romance
Representation: Gay
The Notebook meets The Haunting of Hill House in this split timeline queer twisted love story, set against the backdrop of a haunted English manor.
William Thorn had his life all planned out… until he discovered his long-term boyfriend Archie in bed with another man. Distraught, William kicks him out of their home, where tragedy strikes when Archie is killed instantly in a car accident.
Riddled with guilt, William is shocked to learn that he’s inherited a manor in the quaint village of Stonewall, left to him in Archie’s will. He leaves the city with plans to make a new start for himself, but is surprised by the rundown state of the manor, and the unwelcoming villagers who want him gone. His only ally is Edward, a seemingly friendly local with secrets of his own.
However, it’s not only the villagers who are adverse to his presence. A malevolent spirit roams the manor, one that seeks to drive William out for good. But when he uncovers the heartbreaking tale of two men in love in the 1920s, William strives to find peace for the spirit, ending the haunting once and for all.
But what dark secrets lie hidden in the manor walls? And will William be able to put aside his own grief to save his new home...and his life?
An evocative tale from #1 bestselling author Ben Alderson, exploring grief, trauma and the bones of the past, The Haunting of William Thorn is the perfect read for fans of the gothic.
Everything She Does Is Magic by Bridget Morrissey
Genre: Young Adult, Fantasy Romance
Representation: Sapphic
In the charming town of Fableview, every day is Halloween. Get ready to fall under the spell of this bewitching sapphic romance, perfect for fans of Gilmore Girls and Wicked!
Darcy Keller, resident ray of sunshine and town spirit princess, loves every moment of Fableview’s fall festivities. But she’s also really ready to leave for college next year, even though her parents expect her to stay and take over their Halloween empire.
Enter brooding new girl Anya Doyle, a real-life witch and almost a full member of her coven. In order to be initiated, she has to choose a mortal ally to act as her “protector.” But having moved around so much, Anya is completely friendless. So she does what any self-respecting teenage almost-witch would—she lies and tells her coven her secret crush, Darcy, is willing to do the job.
Desperate to solve their personal problems, they agree to help each other out, attending everything from a costume parade to a pumpkin patch party to an apple bobbing contest together. But with Anya’s magical powers and Darcy’s future independence on the line, the last thing they need is the added complication of pesky feelings . . .
Pasta Girls by Taylor Tracey
Genre: Young Adult, Romance
Representation: Sapphic, Neurodivergent
In this queer, contemporary, and neurodiverse spin on Romeo and Juliet from Stonewall Award Honor author Taylor Tracy, two New York City girls from warring restaurateur families befriend each other during the busiest week for their respective Italian the Feast of San Gennaro.
Hot-headed and energetic Romea Marino is starting ninth grade with a full plate. Between confusing social dynamics of high school and juggling extracurriculars, Ro can only find peace in the reliable comfort of her kitchen, where she’s able to follow in her dad’s culinary footsteps, whipping up Italian-fusion recipes.
Thoughtful and reserved Julianna Cangelosi is dying to help in her family’s restaurant, which serves traditional Italian dishes. But because Jules suffers from anxiety and struggles with overstimulation, her parents are wary of their daughter being in the chaos of a New York City kitchen.
When Ro and Jules meet on the first night of the San Gennaro Festival, sparks fly…until they learn that their fathers own dueling Italian restaurants across the street from each other. But the more the girls hang out—Ro teaching Jules how to cook; Jules taking Ro to her favorite spots around the city—the more their feelings grow. Can they rewrite the old tale of star-crossed kids from rival families and create a new recipe for love and friendship?
Pantomime (Micah Grey, #1) by L.R. Lam
Genre: Fantasy
Representation: Intersex
From the USA Today-bestselling author of Dragonfall comes a fantasy trilogy about a circus aerialist's quest to escape his past and decipher the magical prophecy that will shape his future
In a land of lost wonders, the past is stirring once more . . .
Micah runs away from a debutante’s life at home and joins the circus, harboring two
secrets–one: he was born between male and female, and two: he may have powers last seen in mysterious beings from an almost-forgotten age. Micah discovers the joy of flight as an aerialist, courting his trapeze partner, Aenea, and confiding in the mysterious white clown, Drystan. He finally feels free. But the circus has a dark
side, and Micah’s past isn’t done with him.
Meanwhile, the strange 'ghost' of a woman with damselfly wings whispers to Micah that only he can help magic return to the realm, and he fears she may be right...Micah has much to learn, and he must do it quickly—before his past and future collide, with
catastrophic consequences.
Pantomime is a gorgeous and inventive fantasy with queer elements, inspired by Victorian Scotland. L.R. Lam weaves a coming-of-age tale, stirrings of first love, and prophetic whispers into this unforgettable first installment of the Micah Grey series.
Out on the 11th
Quick and the Dead (Quicksilver, #3) by Josie Jaffrey
Genre: Dark Fantasy
Representation: Sapphic romance with bisexual characters
This is how the world ends: with a drip, drip, drip…
All is not well with the crew of former pirate Bartholomew Roberts. As the day of his great vampire revelation dawns, his mansion is a powder keg of untrained Silver, and what little control he holds over them is beginning to disintegrate.
Kulika is concerned, but she's even more concerned about what he's been keeping in his wine cellar. With the whole world about to descend on the mansion for the launch of his new regime, it feels like a bad time to be messing around with mutated zombies and long-incarcerated Silver.
At least Quick is out of harm's way. Now that she's found her best friend, they're getting on the first plane out of Charleston while the going's good. Quick might not understand why Bartholomew's letting them leave, but she's not stupid enough to hang around asking questions either.
All she has to do is get to the airport. That's not a lot to ask, is it?
Quick and the Dead is the third book in Josie Jaffrey’s QuickSilver series, a sapphic dark fantasy series set in Charleston, South Carolina.
Out on the 13th
Haroun and the Study of Mischief by Lynn Strong
Genre: Cosy Fantasy
Representation: ace, gay, pan, and trans rep, disability rep, blind MC, plus size MC, neurodiverse rep
"Don't get a torch too close to his djellaba."
"It might catch fire?"
"You might see it."
Venerable Haroun, the blind saluqi priest of the dog-headed god Yepuet, has come to the wild and collarless Tel-Bastet, the City of Cats, for an education in mischief.
And Haroun has never met a crime of fashion he wouldn't commit.
Shai Madhur, the disabled human priest of Upaja, thought accepting Haroun's leash meant being Haroun's seeing-eye human. He wasn't prepared for the political machinations… or for Haroun's blossoming sense of humor.
When a kind prophet-prince goes missing, Haroun smells iniquity in the air. (Iniquity, it turns out, smells like kumiss spilled on a tomcat in dire need of a bath.)
The problem with everyone in Tel-Bastet knowing what a Good Boy their Shai Madhur is, is that people keep trying to rescue him, whether he needs it or not. Not that he's complaining, exactly. But Madhur swears he is never going carousing again… no matter how soulful Haroun's puppydog eyes are.
With a splash of Studio Ghibli, a sprinkle of Roshani Chokshi, and a dash of Terry Pratchett, when the cats and dogs need to learn to live together, Haroun and Madhur take on the difference between what is seen and what is true.
Out on the 16th
Spellcasting On by Andi R. Christopher
Genre: Contemporary Fantasy Romance
Representation: Sapphic
Juno’s living her dream—her little yarn shop is flourishing, she's working on her own knitting projects, and her witchy past is far behind her.
She's more than happy to teach new customer Lane to knit—even though Lane would clearly rather be on a building site. Then Lane reveals her mysterious inheritance, and now her future rests on mastering a craft she's always dismissed. To help her, Juno is forced to revisit her old world of magic and witchcraft.
But at least she won’t have to do it alone.
Spellcasting On is a sapphic fantasy novella filled with beautiful fibres and cosy magic.
Love and Video Games by Zachary Sergi
Genre: Young Adult, Romance
Representation: Gay, Chronic Pain
Ready Player One meets Heartstopper in which a myth-loving video game player discovers there isn't a cheat code to life--or love--while competing in a tournament with his handsome crush and gamer friends.
In the real world, Keegan Thomas is a gay, eighteen-year-old mythology nerd with undiagnosed chronic pain. But in the myth-inspired, online video game world of Pantheonic, he is the glorious and powerful K.Odyssia, slaying legions of enemies and completing quests for honor and glory along with his team, the Epic Hearts. Despite his closeness to his gamer friends--and the secret crush he has on his teammate, Alix--no one knows that he is struggling with the sudden onset of chronic pain in his lower back and fears it will hinder his ability to move to NYU in the fall.
When a quest in Pantheonic turns out to be a secret invitation to an in-person tournament in New York City, Keegan has to battle his fears of concealing and managing his pain so that his team can attend this once-in-a-lifetime event. Competing against six other teams, members of the Epic Hearts must work together to outwit and outplay the others to win the tournament and the hefty cash prize. But can Keegan as K.Odyssia be one of the heroes that Pantheonic needs while he's laser-focused on his own epic battle? Will he be able to level up his relationship with Alix and lead his team to victory? It's time for the games to begin!
A Murderous Business by Cathy Pegau
Genre: Historical Mystery
Representation: Sapphic
Cathy Pegau's sharp, captivating historical mystery about two women in turn-of-the-century New York solving murder and fighting the heteropatriarchy.
There can be a blurry line between what is ethical and what is legal.
Margot Baxter Harriman took the reins of B&H Foods after her father passed. It’s not easy being a business woman in 1912, but she is determined to continue what her grandparents started decades ago, no matter what it takes.
When Margot finds Mrs. Gilroy, her father’s former assistant, dead in the office with a half-finished note confessing to nebulous misdeeds, she seeks out help from a very discreet, private investigator to figure out what's going on. Her company, and her good name, depends on determining the truth, otherwise she could lose everything, including her freedom.
Loretta “Rett” Mancini has run her father’s investigation operation since he started becoming increasingly forgetful. When Margot offers her the chance to look into the potential scandal with B&H, she jumps at the chance.
But the more the two dig, the more it becomes clear that Margot's company may be too far lost...and her life is at stake.
Out on the 22nd
Insolence by Gwin Savage
Genre: Dark Romantasy
Representation: Sapphic polyamory & genderfluid rep
In a fantasy realm where Sapphic women possess arcane abilities, are we goddess-blessed or are we cursed?
Tiss: I awoke in this temple with no memory of who I am. The Sisters say I dedicated my life to the goddess, but that’s impossible. When I see something not meant for my eyes, it becomes apparent things darker than worship happen here. Far darker.
All I want is to find out who put me here. Until I’m summoned by the High Priestess.
Capricious and captivating, Elodie’s magnetism is hard to ignore no matter how wildly her moods shift. Then, when the sweet and charming Sadrie makes her interest known, a dire hunger awakens inside of me. The longer I spend in both womens’ presence, the more voracious it grows.
Forced together and forbidden from intimacy.
Elodie: Four years on top of this miserable mountain. Four years of strict discipline to guard my secrets, and there she is prowling my temple.
Beautiful and bratty, Tiss sees both sides of me and all that I am. She's also irresistible. Her presence disrupts everything I've worked for, and her willfulness could get us both killed. With so much to protect, I must stay away. But my discipline is faltering.
In a remote temple where danger lurks and questions abound, can we survive the Prioress and her twisted deeds?
Out on the 23rd
Best Woman by Rose Dommu
Genre: Contemporary Romance, Coming-of-age
Representation: Sapphic
The "best woman" at her brother's wedding tells a little white lie in her quest to get the girl—her lifelong crush and the maid of honor—in this wildly entertaining debut novel about bad decisions and life's messiest transitions.
Julia Rosenberg loves her brother. Really loves him. Enough Be the "best woman" at his wedding; leave behind her hard-won New York life, brilliant best friends, and drag brunches for Boca Raton, Florida; entertain the uptight bride-to-be and her vicious cronies; try (and fail) to dodge the hometown hookup buddy she can’t resist; and navigate the tricky dynamics with her divorced parents.
She’s not that nervous. She has a supportive family that stood by her when she came out as a woman a few years ago. And it’s just one week in Florida—a week of old memories and sisterly duties that will force Julia to confront the complications that have been bubbling underneath the surface of her closest relationships. No big deal.
When it turns out Kim Cameron, the gorgeous, self-assured girl that Julia crushed hard on in high school is the maid of honor, she panics. She tells a teensy little lie to give her an in—a lie that snowballs out of her control and threatens to undermine the blossoming attraction between them and the challenging relationship with her family. Using her wit, charm, and a suitcase full of couture "borrowed" from a pop star, Julia just might survive the horde of clone-like bridesmaids, go-kart racing bachelor parties, and alcohol-fueled speeches. But she won’t make it out unscathed. As best woman, she's making the worst decisions of her life.
An utterly contemporary sendup of My Best Friend's Wedding and a riotous coming-of-age novel, Best Woman is rife with crackling wit and devastating poignancy and announces Rose Dommu as an exciting new voice in fiction.
Out on the 25th
Fireworks (Scottish Spice, #2) by Bonnie Woods
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Representation: Unlabelled queer FMC, trans, bi, & lesbian/sapphic side characters, neurodivergent & mental illness rep
Things haven’t been easy for Eiley but she’s finally stepping into the light. With a new flat above the local bookshop, Thorn & Thistle, and a job that lets her indulge her bookworm fantasies, Eiley is on the path to rediscovering who she is – until her village of Belbarrow gets an annoyingly self-important new fireman called Warren, who it seems is always there to throw cold water on her plans.
Warren, with his hot looks and cool lines, is the last thing Eiley wants. Cocky, flirty and superior, she’s not about to be another notch on his belt. But when chaos sweeps through Eiley’s life, forcing her and Warren to team up to save the shop, sparks fly in ways she never expected.
As autumn leaves swirl and the village gears up for their annual fireworks display, Eiley must navigate the smoking chemistry between them while facing the ghosts of her past. She knows that sometimes love hurts – but other times, it burns…
Out on the 26th
Sea Glass by Ami Spencer
Genre: Romance
Representation: Non-binary/gender fluid, lesbian
When no-strings could be the thread to hold the broken pieces together…
“Not relationship material” is a line Max Winslow has heard before and has come to believe. Not wanting to be labelled neatly means that Max doesn’t make long-lasting connections. Every time they’ve tried, they’ve ended up hurt. So swearing off relationships seems the best course of action to protect their heart.
Recovering from heartbreak and humiliation, Madeline Sinclair reserves her astute judgment for business instead of pleasure. With an ex-wife who left her broken, Madeline has given up on relationships. But physical needs must still be met, and the snarky, no-nonsense florist who just wants no-strings fun seems like the perfect solution.
At least until Max and Madeline realise they have more in common than just unbelievable chemistry. The connection between them is undeniable, and as their defenses fall one by one, they find themselves falling as well.
But when ghosts from their pasts refuse to stay there, they face the threat of unraveling. Max and Madeline must navigate their scars—together—to find a path through it, and come out the other side stronger than ever.
Out on the 30th
A Game of Fallen Stars by S. E. Berkeley
Genre: Romantasy
Representation: Bisexual, lesbian, & mental health
A Life-Changing Encounter with Magic, Romance, and Danger
Ethan is drowning in corporate burnout and heartache. Seeking escape, he retreats to the peaceful isolation of Parkfield, a quiet town in central California, hoping to heal. But his sabbatical takes an unexpected turn when a mysterious creature crashes into his front yard—Star, a being of pure magic, stranded in a world devoid of it.
With no memory of who—or what—she is, Star longs to become human. She forms a human body to live in and, with Ethan’s help, starts navigating this modern world. But the closer they get, the more their chemistry intensifies, leading to a heated pancake-making lesson and a flirtatious game of pool. As passion simmers, their fragile connection is put to the test when an ancient sea monster attacks their cabin, narrowly sparing their lives.
Suddenly, they find themselves trapped in a cosmic horror’s twisted game, with Star as the prey. As they flee, hunted by both mythical creatures and a shadowy secret society, Ethan and Star race toward San Francisco for answers. But time is running out. If they don’t survive, Star’s magic will be consumed by a brutal hunter, gaining unimaginable power.
Ethan faces an agonizing choice: run and protect the woman he loves, or fight against impossible odds to save her and stop an ancient evil from rising.
This paranormal romance blends magic, suspense, and high-stakes adventure in a heart-pounding journey of survival, love, and sacrifice. If you love fantasy with a dose of cosmic horror, intense chemistry, and supernatural creatures, this book is for you.
Convincing His Little Bee by Sage L Mattison
Genre: Paranormal/Fantasy Romance
Representation: Gay with a transmasc MC
Already fed up with the illegal trade springing up in his territory, the planned creature auction was the final straw for the drakonid Tor, local pack Alpha.
Going undercover as a common demon, Tor immediately recognized his fated by the small fae’s scent. But the fae, Cin, is on the auction block and the only way to keep him safe is for Tor to purchase the man himself.
Desperate for Cin to stay with him, Tor has agreed to a twelve hour ultimatum: convince the fae that Tor wasn’t like the other creatures that bid on him, or return Cin to his own realm, for good.
“Will my little bee ever forgive me for buying him?”
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Convincing His Little Bee is a spicy MX novella and part of the 2025, multi-author K!nktober Series. Set in The Nerrix Pack series universe by Sage L Mattison, this book can be read as a standalone.
Convincing His Little Bee features: Dual POV, a kind hearted Alpha drakonid (humanoid dragon shifter), a fae who likes to swear, uncontrolled size magic, fated mates, illegal auctions, heroic rescues, flirty new friends, and lots of spice.
It Begins by Eule Grey
Genre: Gothic Horror, Romance
Representation: Pansexual, Achillean
Byron, PhD student and waistcoat admirer, knows about yearning and betrayal. It’s been four years since the love of his life, Ruben, walked off without explanation. Byron dreams of midnight sex he can’t fully remember and a beloved man with dancing eyes. If only Ruben would return… But life moves on. At least it did until you-know-who unexpectedly pitches a tent in the garden, provoking ghosts from the past as well as Byron’s aching heart.
Ruben understands how to push Byron’s buttons. But he doesn’t know why someone is stalking them or why his memories are haunted by students playing a naked truth-dare game in an ancient room. What happened on the claw-marked table covered with crispy skin flakes?
Halloween draws close, and with it comes a rollercoaster ride of sex, fear, and love. At the back of their minds, a chilling, familiar voice reminds Byron and Ruben of a game from long ago and a pact that can’t be abandoned or left unfinished.
True love never dies.
A Little Too Haunted by Justine Pucella Williams
Genre: Middle Grade Horror
Representation: Sapphic
Stonewall Honor-winning author Justine Pucella Winans returns with a middle grade horror about a haunted house and the stories we tell when real life gets too scary.
The only thing worse than having ghost hunters for parents is having fake ghost hunters for parents. Luna Catalano would know. Her moms are influencers who use their pretend psychic powers and interior design skills to turn spooky old houses into ghost-free modern homes—not that there were any ghosts in the first place. It’s bad enough her moms’ job means they have to move all the time, but just once, Luna wishes there was an actual, for real haunted house.
When they move yet again, Luna isn't expecting much. But this new place feels...different. Things start out innocent enough—flickering lights, strange noises—but this ghost is playing for keeps. And if Luna doesn’t find a way to stop it, she and her moms might end up haunting the house themselves.
With the help of her next-door neighbors, a cute girl Luna definitely doesn’t have a crush on, and a mysterious woman who seems to know a lot about the home, Luna starts to piece together who exactly this ghost is. But not everything is as it seems. And in order to save her family, Luna will have to get the story right before everything goes completely wrong.
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