Lily was five years old when she entered the Snow Moon Pack. She has no memory of her previous life, or which pack she came from. Found in the middle of the night raiding the packhouse kitchen for food, she was taken in by the reigning Alpha and Luna. However, she is far from being treated as a pack member. Her whole life she was subjected to punishment and abuse, made to work as a slave for the pack. Her wolf, Aya, is her only friend.
Dimitri Varlos is the Alpha of the Blood Moon Pack. He is known for being heartless, cruel, merciless; A bloodthirsty killer. Years of not being able to find his fated mate have led him to believe the Moon Goddess, Mother of Wolves, does not intend to gift him with one. Until the night he meets Lily, and his world will change forever.
She is rebellious. Headstrong. She tests his patience like no other before. Will Lily accept the supposed cruelest Alpha alive to be her mate? Will Demitri prove he can be what she deserves? Or will jealousy, rivals, and lies tear them apart?

From the bestselling author, Ben Alderson comes a fantastical and spicy reimagining of the Red Riding Hood tale. Alpha of Mortal Flesh is a stand alone in the Darkmourn Universe.

Witch. To Darkmourn, Rhory Coleman is married to the Head of the Crimson Guard - when in reality, his husband is nothing but a monster. Since his mother was brutally murdered by rogue vampires, and his father died of a broken mind - Rhory was left in the hands of someone who was supposed to love him. Someone who vowed to protect him actually threatens his existence with every breath.

Rhory must hide his innate powers alongside the bruises left by the hand of his husband. Until everything changes when a mysterious summons requests Rhory's 'unique talent'. He finds himself standing before a paranormal threat, one unlike anything Darkmourn has seen before.

Wolf. Calix Grey is a monster. Everything has been taken from him. His brother, his parents, his heart. He has nothing left to fight for - until fate comes knocking on his door. He believes Rhory Coleman is the key to ensure his brother is returned home - but is the price to pay worth the pain?

After years of peace between the mortal and immortals of Darkmourn - the Crimson Guard are corrupted by those who are clouded by dark pasts. Murders are left unsolved. Family secrets are tangled in a web of iron. And it will take those who lost everything to discover their truth.

Even if that means unleashing a dangerous creature into the streets of their home.

Although this book is set in the Darkmourn Universe, you can read it in any order although recommended in publication date.

My dead friends are back. I lie in bed at night and see them.

Haunted by insomnia and the past as he approaches his fiftieth birthday, the narrator of My Dead Book flips through scenes of his youth and memories of dozens of friends who are no longer with him. Living alone and working odd jobs in Wisconsin, he ruminates on survival, queer aging, his years as a teenage throwaway, and estrangement, wondering whether he has outlived his place in the world.

First published in 2021, Lippens's debut novel was hailed as a brutally acerbic novel of queer pessimism (Donna Marcus, AnOther Magazine). As Lindsay Lerman observed in Southwest Review, My Dead Book is not transgressive because it follows a gay man as he struggles to survive on the fringes of multiple worlds. ... It is continually transgressing. It's a living book (a living dead book), moving around in time, making tangential connections.

This new edition includes an introduction by LAMBDA Literary Award-winning American poet and writer, Eileen Myles.

Alisa hasn't had the best of luck. Her dream of expanding her salon into a franchise has stalled. Her dating life is non-existent. She spends her nights with wine, takeout, and thriller marathons. Looking to spice up her life, she heads back to the one place she knows will satisfy her desires. Little does she know that one night of passion (and a leaked photograph) will upend her life in more ways than one.

Christophe and Kadeem have been together for years, living and loving under the radar. Their relationship is solid but they've always felt that someone was missing from their lives. When they think they've met the one at a private sex club, they are intent on making her theirs. Permanently. The problem: Convincing her that one night will never be enough.

Could this be the beginning of happily ever after? Or will their relationship ultimately crash and burn?

Silliman's Exiting the Bluegrass Turnpike is a queer post-modern coming-of-age tale with a Southern Gothic checklist of dysfunctional characters and topics. Set in the early 1980s, Silliman captures the culture of the early Reagan era. It is as if Silliman's cultural narrative referenced The Official Preppy Handbook by Birnbach, Roberts, Wallace and Willey (1980) and accurately describes not just the fashion, but WASP attitudes of the age, quickly giving the reader insight into old money Kentucky. Silliman's prose is structured like a memoir with vocabulary choices bordering on a Racine tragedy. His protagonist lacks many typical characteristics associated with the traditional hero, but by no means would you call Silliman's champion an antihero. Plathian influences and overtones shadow throughout from its opening sentence to its last chapter, while satisfactorily not materializing the emblematic stereotypes. Exiting the Bluegrass Turnpike has all the mood of The Bell Jar, is chockfull with an erotic Capote-styled doomed romance, and many apparitions of Southern Gothic stock characters any reader of the genre will recognize and enjoy.

Alessandro senses his devotion to the monastery slipping away, haunted by regret over the years he believes he's squandered. Torn between duty and desire, he takes a daring step to confront his suppressed lust.

Seeking a solution, he summons a supernatural being to assist him. But can he withstand the shame of abandoning his position and his faith to satiate his long-neglected desires?

What would you do if you were told you must become a god, not a mere idol?

I was born with more than other men. I joined a monastery where the men worshipped my tremendous endowment. But a dove told me of a lover with whom I embarked on a perilous journey to Thessalonika, where we established the first temple of Phallic Worship. I am the god Priapus.

This legend contains the seeds of a cult of phallic supremacy. Following its tenets, men are free to lie with other men and generate power, potency, and the fertility of their crops. In today's modern world, this translates as wealth and influence. Heed the call of Priapus, and you will enjoy affluence, good fortune, and treasures beyond your wildest dreams.

Read this tale of phallic supremacy and learn, through the bylaws in Book Two, Chapter Five, the secrets to establishing a holy place of priapic supplication. Your crops and bank accounts will grow as you submit to the hallowed sovereignty of the almighty male member. Disguised as a mere myth, this legend disseminates the secrets of wealth and prosperity. The male seed has always held properties of regeneration and growth. Even outside the womb, its reproductive powers can spawn new life for men everywhere in all aspects of their manhood.This legend contains the seeds of a cult of phallic supremacy. Following its tenets, men are free to lie with other men and generate power, potency, and the fertility of their crops. In today's modern world, this translates as wealth and influence. Heed the call of Priapus, and you will enjoy affluence, good fortune, and treasures beyond your wildest dreams.

Contus Pedalis had a legendary member. Many believe, even today, that its enormous size is a source of fertility, wealth, and virility. This simple tract houses the myth of the young man's discovery of his powers and his rise to the status of a god. Worshipped in the pagan world as Priapus, men established sanctuaries in his honor throughout the ancient world. Several still exist today. The cult of phallic supremacy and worship has spread even in the Americas. Through rituals of buggery and obeisance to well-endowed men, crops are made more fertile, and a man's phallus becomes a source of power and prestige.

«Me gusta cómo luce la agonía, pues sé que es verdadera.

La preciosa novela de Pedro Carlos Lemus me hizo pensar en este verso de Emily Dickinson, porque se trata de un joven que ha sido educado con rigor en la tristeza. Sus padres --defectuosos, como todos--lo zambulleron temprano en el mar del abandono, la frustración y el despecho. Y ahí --como las heroínas de las telenovelas que adora y como en las letras de las canciones que lo hieren y lo curan y lo hieren-- aprendió a nadar con soltura y dignidad. Así también aprendió a enamorarse: con esa asombrosa habilidad de replegarse antes del golpe. El joven al que ama también lo abandonó, aunque quizá él no lo diría de esa forma. Lo diría de un modo más sugerente y, por eso mismo, más doloroso.

Encontrar poesía en el sufrimiento, en la opacidad, en la incomprensión, en la observación melancólica de la «plenitud fabulada de los otros es uno de los grandes méritos de esta novela. Como alguien que se disecciona lentamente para estudiar su fragilidad y luego traducirla en imágenes tan bellas como inclementes, Lo llamaré amor nos ofrece una mirada sofisticada y escandalosamente conmovedora . -Margarita García Robayo

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This stunning novel is like the deadly aim of a cruel lover. It's a perfect snapshot of the moment of goodbye, the promise of a doomed romance. -Carolina Sanín

I relish the agony because I know it's real.

This jewel of a novel by Pedro Carlos Lemus recalls Emily Dickinson in its portrait of a young man well-versed in sadness. Thanks to inept parents, he becomes familiar at an early age with abandonment, frustration and spite. Like the heroines of the telenovelas he loves or the lyrics of the songs he listens to - sometimes to wallow in his pain, sometimes to soothe it - he learns to navigate the world with poise and dignity. He also learns to love. But the young man he loves also abandons him, although he might not use that term. He would surely have a more insinuating and, therefore, hurtful way of putting it.

The ability to find poetry in suffering, opacity, incomprehension and the melancholy observation of other people's 'perfect' lives is one of the great merits of this novel. It's like someone slowly taking themselves apart to study their own fragility, and then translating it into images as beautiful as they are unsettling. I'll Call It Love is a sophisticated and scandalously moving novel. - Margarita García Robayo

A dirty cult-classic put out in a small batch by an underground publisher (Rudos and Rubes) in 2015, Johnny Would You Love Me If My Dick Were Bigger recounts the life of an artist and old school homosexual who bears a big resemblance to author Brontez Purnell. Our hero doesn't trust the new breed of fags taking over San Francisco, though. They wear bicycle helmets, seat belts, and condoms. Meanwhile, he sabotages his relationships, hallucinating affection while cruising in late night parks, bath-houses, and other nooks and crannies of a newly-conservative, ruined city.

Furiously original, vital, and messy, this funny non-memoir uncovers a revelatory truth for the age: there are things far scarier than HIV.

Historians will say they were very good friends....

In the age of sail, it is best to keep your crew close, and your sworn enemies closer, lest they out-maneuver you.

Admirals Luther Denholme and Grayson Reed are on opposing sides of the seafaring trade: a pirate-hunting navy dog, and a privateer. But throughout their many misadventures, they've learned an inconvenient but undeniable truth.

They were made for each other.

The most difficult voyage ahead may be navigating the waters of their tumultuous relationship. The question is, if they can't bear to be apart, is their bond- or the world for that matter- going to survive them being together?

Four tales of riding rails, selling tail, and sitting in jail

HOBO HONEY - Idaho, a hobo with a hefty hog, struggles to find companionship. Fate sends him Fred, a cherubic youth who can accommodate him completely. He learns to make love with a variety of other bums.

ON THE BLOCK - In the notorious historically gay neighborhood in downtown Richmond, Virginia known as The Block, a young male prostitute, Nick, agrees to an interview he later regrets. He finds solace and companionship with another hustler.

HUSTLER'S LUCK - Rent Boy Frankie gets ribbed by his fellow whores for being a bottom. He doesn't think it's very hard work to do something he loves so much until he meets a very challenging trick.

THE FISH - Brandon Little arrives in jail an innocent man. He loses his innocence to Mike Hawk, his gangster cellmate, and a wide variety of other prisoners who appreciate what Brandon can give them.

Hidden from plain sight in a remote part of town, a gay bathhouse runs its nightly business of sweltering hot sex and steaming showers. Tasked with keeping the place perfectly stain-free and making sure its clientele are well provided for, Groover, the janitor guy, watches endless waves of gay couples come and go by every night. Despite the fact that most of them turn out to be one-night stands, the scene still leaves Groover in envy, constantly craving for a companion who could become his significant other. One fateful night, he finally meets the dog of his wet dreams, but are his feelings for the canine hunk real? Or do his hormonal urges betray him? In a world where love is only as lasting as an orgasm, Groover struggles with his own shyness and emotions to discover if true love could really exist in a place like Meatier Showers.

The 10th Anniversary printing of Meatier Showers includes updated artwork, an additional story, and behind the scenes notes from the artist.

Taken in by an Abbey at a young age, Isidor of Ebon Gables is an inquisitive, passionate, fiercely pious young Akita in a rigid society where prescribed roles for all good folk are not just a road map for how to live one's life, but part of his faith and his holy profession.

Isidor is a Templar - pledged to an Order of armed enforcers who keep a vigil over the purity and adherence to religious edicts that their ruling class must follow - as well as an Inquisitor in training, elite Templar who execute the Church's orders that are best left in the shadows. Concealing the secrets of the upper-class, spying, and hunting the Church's enemies are all in a day's work.

The Heart Thief is one such enemy: an infamous antiquities thief who is suspected of stealing one of the Church's most holy artifacts. Isidor is dedicated to tracing the clues left by them and bringing them to justice as a means to prove himself. But unearthing the truth behind the crime - and the criminal themself - may bring more to light about the nature of the Templar Organization than Isidor is prepared to learn.

When new knowledge challenges conventional wisdom, doubt and introspection challenge doctrine, and a young man so accustomed to following his heart feels it lead him towards a future that is contradictory to who he believes himself to be... where will his journey of faith, love, and the search

for truth take him?

Garth Hood has a PhD in physics, and has applied at labs and universities all over the country for two years. But the only job he's found in that time is as gym coach at a high school, and his bench press got him there, not his education. Angry, but still determined to do his best, Garth throws himself into his new role as weight coach.

But one of his students, a Doberman senior named Evan Silvers, takes Garth by surprise. Evan is aggressive, alluring, and exactly Garth's type. For the sake of his future, Garth resists. But as time goes by, the school pushes more and more on Garth, and his frustration ramps up. Will Garth be able to resist Evan's advances, find a way to make a difference, and break out of his cage?

After his long and arduous chase brought Isidor time and again inches from his quarry - the mysterious Darcy, the Heart Thief - he found the tables turned on him, prisoner to the thief themself!

The enigmatic serval is full of surprises, not least of which is that, much to Isidor's distress, he rather enjoys their company. The thief seems equally flummoxed by their growing bond, but who can say what lies in their heart or motivates their decisions? Every new piece of information is cryptic, every feeling Isidor grapples with excruciatingly confusing. This only worsens the more Isidor learns about the conspiracy at the heart of the crime he has been attempting to solve.

The Ministry of Templar has finally begun to take interest in his investigation now that the noose is tightening. Isidor is forced into an unenviable position: maintain his role as a Templar while hiding what he knows, including potentially protecting Darcy from his very own Brothers-in-arms. The line between enemy and ally begins to blur, and where Church and State secrets are concerned, the penalty for betrayal can be blood.

It is hard to hold the heart of another in your hand under the best of circumstances. It is far harder when the world around you will not even recognize your love as real.

David wakes up on an island, naked, with no memory of how he got there. He's not alone, either: Logan, his meanest rival from school, is there too. As they find mysterious notes carved into trees, and messages drift down on parachutes ordering them to get frisky or receive no food, the truth becomes clear:

This island is a prison. And their jailers want these two straight stallions to fuck.

But what happens if they give in?

I don't care if you are gay, straight, bisexual, or 'transcendental.' I am just glad and honored that you found me, bro.

Gay, straight, bi, or what? The answer is not always as simple as it seems. Three high school boys (jocks) bond over sports and then, following in the footsteps of one's older brother, a pro football quarterback, they travel the world modeling swimsuits and underwear (including jockstraps). Along the way, they develop greater awareness of their sexual identities and their feelings for each other. Though the focus is on the three boys, the relationship between the main character and his older brother is also particularly enlightening and endearing.

Jocks is full of hot scenes, but it is first and foremost a genuine story of friendship and love. Frequently hilarious, often illuminating, occasionally poignant, it will have you laughing, crying, and questioning-sometimes all at once.

DONNAVILLE is set in Donnaville, the author's mind reimagined as a psychofantastic hamlet in a mythological Hudson Valley. The city is outwardly verdant, pleasant, and attractive to visitors, but at its center lies a dark and malevolent prison that most residents prefer not to think about. Some of Donnaville's townsfolk run the prison, others are incarcerated there, and still others are trying to burn the whole place down and liberate Donnaville from the clutches of the morally ambiguous Magna Mater. It's a bit Wizard of Oz, a bit Mad Max, and a whole lotta fantastic fun!

Not an allegory but a wild romp of a fantasy story that takes the reader on a journey to the most forbidden recesses of the psyche, and the most hopeful ones. A tour de force of wit and imagination, Donna Minkowitz's debut novel DONNAVILLE invents a whole new way of talking about the psyche and the internal struggles we all face. Devising a fantasy city in which all components of her mind and heart dwell (and variously flirt with, imprison, and rebel against one another), Minkowitz narrates a harrowing personal journey toward wholeness and a state in which no parts of her may be abandoned to self-torture and shame. A very queer, very sexy novel, where the author assumes all genders and many different sexualities, and where riotous sex scenes can be the occasion of important plot points. I've long loved Minkowitz's work. DONNAVILLE is one more reason to be grateful to this fearless author who sheds all skins.

-Steven Petrow, contributing columnist, The Washington Post

Part anti-prison fable, part gory horror camp, part dyke Goddess gay porn, Donnaville shocks the senses to open the gates between myth and belonging. This is the abusive family narrative turned inside-out, vomiting up the possibility of survival. Tender and grotesque, Donnaville frees the self of its burdens.

-Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, author of Touching the Art

The 120 Days of Sodom by Marquis de Sade relates the story of four wealthy men who enslave 24 mostly teenaged victims and sexually torture them while listening to stories told by old prostitutes. The book was written while Sade was imprisoned in the Bastille and the manuscript was lost during the storming of the Bastille. Sade wrote that he wept tears of blood over the manuscript's loss. Many consider this to be Sade crowing acheivment.