Lgbt

Fallen Crowns

by Sapphire Rae

Tropes: firstperson, foundfamily, strongfmc

Leto: War gathers at my borders and my people look to me for protection. I will bargain, kneel, give whatever she demands. A future king does what is necessary to save his people. Ruen: I was forged in an eastern assassin academy where mercy was stripped away and discipline replaced it. When I heard of a goddess who answers violence with power, I arranged my own capture to reach her. I meant to test her strength. She shattered everything instead. Varo: They say I'm the most irresistible man in the kingdom, and she chose me, but not for the reasons I thought. She sees through laughter and demands truth. To stand at her side, I must face the past I buried beneath music and charm. Serina: I was promised to a prince at twelve and punished when he refused me. I have never wanted a man's touch. When I heard of a goddess who builds her court on choice instead of obligation, I chose her over a crown. Gaia: I became mortal to restore balance to a violent world. I did not expect devotion. I did not expect to need it. But the world is unraveling, and the people I claimed as my own are the only thing standing between this world and ruin. Some sacrifices are made on thrones. Others are made in silence, in the dark, by people who never learned how to ask for what they need. I am Gaia. I protect what is mine. And I decide who stands at my side when crowns begin to fall. Fallen Crowns is a high-spice reverse harem dark romantasy featuring a morally gray assassin undone by love, a prince willing to sacrifice everything, a charming bard with a broken past, and a sapphic princess choosing herself and the goddess who answers cruelty with lust and power. For mature readers. Every book in the World of Gaia delivers a complete story. No cliffhangers. Perfect for fans of Katee Robert's Neon Gods, K.A. Knight's Court of Nightmares, and Invi Wright's The Female. [Read More]

Across The River

by Rook Rivers

Tropes: dualpov, banter, newadult

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"Something to remember me by, little painter." Elliot Meyer draws the people he's too scared to talk to. At twenty-three, he's a late-blooming art student in Hoboken with a sketchbook full of strangers he's never once said hello to. Then his roommates drag him across the river to Vesper, a Lower East Side nightclub built inside an old funeral parlor, and Elliot makes the mistake of sketching the man holding court on the marble staircase. Donovan Black wears leather, kohl, and silver on every finger. He hosts the city's most notorious goth night, treats flirting like a blood sport, and lives by exactly one rule: gone before sunrise. By morning, Elliot has a bite on his neck, a black card in his pocket, and a question he can't stop asking. What's your real name? Because Donovan Black is a performance. By day, the man underneath keeps his curtains shut, his phone face down, and his past locked away. He has spent years making sure no one ever sees him in the light. Especially not someone who paints. But Elliot is braver in daylight than he's ever been at night. And the closer he gets to the truth, the closer he comes to the one person Donovan has been running from. Across the River is a moody, funny, aching MM romance about two men learning to stand in each other's light, and what it costs to finally be seen. - Dual POV - Night-owl goth x shy sunshine artist - Opposites attract, hurt/comfort, found family - Standalone with a guaranteed HEA Content note: references to past emotional and sexual abuse, grief, and family estrangement. None of the abuse is depicted explicitly. [Read More]

Love Me Hard

by Stellan Blake

Tropes: dualpov, grumpysunshine, lgbt

Julian Hawthorne has built his life around control and discipline. As the youngest professor at Crestview University and the presumed heir to Hawthorne Investments, he has a pristine reputation and intends to keep it that way. Then Beckett Landry walks into his classroom. Twenty-one, confident, and impossible to ignore, Beckett unsettles Julian in ways no student ever should. To the world, Beckett is confident, self-assured, and completely unbothered. What no one sees is the searing loneliness he’s carried for most of his life. Determined to build something better for himself, he carries the pain quietly and presses on. Then Julian makes him feel seen in a way he never has before, offering him a glimpse of a life where loneliness isn’t inevitable. What begins as forbidden attraction soon becomes something neither of them is prepared to lose. But the closer they become, the more they stand to risk. Family pressure mounts, and the threat of exposure puts Julian’s career and Beckett’s future in jeopardy, forcing them to choose between the lives they’ve fought to build and what’s growing between them. Told in alternating dual POV, Love Me Hard is an angsty, forbidden M/M romance about desire, sacrifice, independence, and choosing a love worth fighting for, with a guaranteed happily ever after. [Read More]

An Improper Arrangement

by M.J. Fallon

Tropes: forcedproximity, characterdriven, dualpov

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In 1849 England, widowed governess Rose Sutton comes to Godwin House for security and finds herself falling for its formidable mistress. Philippa Godwin has no use for convention, but loving Rose may cost them both. Philippa has built her life around work, duty, and the fierce protection of what is hers. A wealthy mill owner and mistress of a sprawling northern estate, she has little patience for society’s expectations and even less interest in surrendering her independence to a husband. Rose arrives seeking stability for herself and her daughter, expecting little more than respectable employment. Instead, she finds a household still carrying old wounds, a boy in need of patience, and a woman whose carefully ordered life leaves very little room for tenderness. What begins as a practical arrangement slowly becomes something far more intimate. Rose brings warmth into Godwin House, while Philippa offers Rose and her daughter the kind of safety neither has known in years. As affection deepens into desire, both women are forced to consider what it would mean to build a life together in a world that has no proper place for what they are becoming. Class, reputation, family, and Philippa’s public position all threaten the fragile happiness they have created. Loving one another may be the easiest part. Protecting that love, and choosing it openly within the limits of their world, will require something far more difficult. An Improper Arrangement is a full-length adult sapphic historical romance featuring a slow-burn butch/femme pairing, an age gap, employer/governess dynamics, found family, domestic intimacy, explicit open-door scenes, and a guaranteed happy ending. [Read More]

The Raven and the Wolf

by Dezmond Moon

Tropes: slowburn, firstperson, characterdriven

Four years. Two boys. One promise. Aurelian doesn't know the boy hiding behind the hay is heir to the duchy. Cory doesn't care that Aurelian is a farmer's son. Together, they grow up through fire, loss, first love, and a kiss neither of them is ready to say goodbye after. Then the world catches up. A king's edict pressures "traditional" marriages on the nobles of the land. Aurelian seeks an unwanted marriage to secure his family's farm. Cory is pressured to find a marriage he doesn't care for. Years apart, neither knows if the other remembers, or if what they had as children has survived who they've become. Found behind masks at a duke's masquerade, they get a second chance. For three nights, they can be anyone they want. But loving each other now means defying a king, two duchies, and the rules neither of them ever agreed to in the first place. This is a Cinderella-inspired childhood-sweethearts-to-lovers queer romance for anyone who loves to watch two people grow up together, be torn apart, and still refuse to let go. [Read More]

Slowburn Setlist

by Alana Maple

Tropes: slowburn, characterdriven, dualpov

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Shelly Kowalski is a freelance graphic designer with a flexible schedule and just enough fun money to live her best life rocking out at concerts and collecting stamps in her passport. One fateful night, she meets a member of her favorite band, and electricity sparks, but the moment passes when reality cuts short Cupid’s arrow. A reattempt at romantic overtures becomes out of the question when they run afoul of social media, so they resolve to keep their attentions platonic. However, you can’t stop the music, and once their long-distance friendship threatens to develop into something more, they must overcome public perception and their own baggage. With so much going against them, Shelly and her wary musician must decide if what they feel is worth the scrutiny they’ll fall under and the self-reflection they must undergo. Book 1 of the Basslines of the Heart trilogy. [Read More]