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Omigosh! I've just found an author to put on my list of I've got to read everything they ever wrote! The Warden is a gem of the first order. Aelis is my hero.--Glen Cook, author of The Black Company
Includes an exclusive short story set in the world of The Warden A Recommended Reading List Pick for Locus, a Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Editors' Pick for Amazon, and a Reactor Magazine Best of the Year Pick 800 miles between your local necromancer and a glass of wine... There was a plan. She had the money, the connections, even the brains. It was simple: become one of the only female necromancers, earn as many degrees as possible, get a post in one of the grand cities, then prove she's capable of greatness. The funny thing about plans is that they are seldom under your control. Now Aelis de Lenti, a daughter of a noble house and recent graduate of the esteemed Magisters' Lyceum, finds herself in the far-removed village of Lone Pine. Mending fences, matching wits with goats, and serving people who want nothing to do with her. But, not all is well in Lone Pine, and as the villagers Aelis is reluctantly getting to know start to behave strangely, Aelis begins to suspect that there is far greater need for a Warden of her talents than she previously thought. Old magics are restless, and an insignificant village on the farthest border of the kingdom might hold secrets far beyond what anyone expected. Aelis might be the only person standing between one of the greatest evils ever known and the rest of the world. The Warden Series
Teddy Madison is queer tragicomedy with circles and triangles of all sorts, where the characters get lost in layers of intimate, sensory memories. As a work of fiction, it is a utopian tale, compared to how mainstream society still views gender, sexuality, and love. We see Teddy in the present, at age 29, and get to know him, as his memoirist, Mrs. Fairfax builds her manuscript using Teddy's diary, and years of correspondence. The timeline is 1916 to 1930, though some flashbacks take us even earlier. The story is set mostly in New York, but also in Paris, London, Baltimore, St. Albans, and Louisville. It has historical details, coupled with social elements that have yet to exist in our world today, but we are getting much closer. The characters comically combat struggles in marriage and family life, while coping with tragedy and reliving their misdeeds. My style and inspiration for Teddy Madison are a reflection of contemporary society, projected into one of the most glamorous eras of our past.
A memoir of truths, years of denial, a distorted mind, painting in a world of gray; the Freudian patient with a naval husband; a senseless affair, an unattainable love, a precious daughter, and a conflicted sphere of influence, are just a day in Teddy Madison's life.
Sometimes you think you know yourself until you realize you've only scratched the surface.
Mariana Torres Charles is finally ready to fulfill her dream as a bandleader and designer for the up-and-coming Carnival Band LoveVibe for Miami Carnival. The win would be proof that she can follow through on her goals because in love...the follow through is less than stellar. After a long string of crushed lovers, she is done breaking hearts.
When Mason Brathwaite, her forever-friends-with-benefits, needs a date to a networking event to snag a new sponsor for his Student Community Center, she volunteers to attend with him hoping to catch a break from the pressures of dating. But when they meet the mysterious Daniel Robinson, son of Mason's prospective donor and experienced kinkster, she can't help but forget her newfound resolve.
Every moment they spend together illuminates her thoughts and desires, but her track record at love tells her it is only a matter of time before their liaison smokes away.
With Mason's vying for her heart and Daniel's and Daniel seducing their minds, what can a woman do but succumb to the temptation calling to her? Mariana will deal with the ashes once they come. After all, that's her specialty.
It's Autumn. Is there a better time to fall in love?
Imari Haines has had it with the gossip. The whole town is acting like she's their very own Runaway Bride. A plus-size, black version of Julia Roberts that left a perfectly nice boy at the altar. Her family is no exception. Her mother won't stop making passive-aggressive comments.
Exhausted by this charged atmosphere, a boss that doesn't appreciate her, and the never-ending town rumors, Imari makes a bold decision. Come autumn, she moves to Appeley (a small town in Hill Country) and never looks back. In Appeley, for the first time ever, Imari feels welcome, happy, and unapologetically herself. She tries new things, makes brand-new friends and, while attending the fall apple festival, she accidentally bumps into a very familiar face...
Cassidy Martinez was her childhood best friend and partner in crime. Now, she has grown into a stunning, confident woman, and Imari can't help noticing.
Should she take a risk? Can the two of them pick up where they left off, or is being friends not going to be enough this time around?
An F/F Black BBW Sapphic Romance featuring plus-size main characters, a small town, autumn themes, butches and studs, motorcycle rides, coffeeshops, childhood friends-to-lovers romance, and tons of found family feels.
Sorcha is over the hook-ups and gay haunts of her twenties. At thirty-one what she wants, more than anything, is to have a baby. Then she meets Chris-- with her buttoned-up plaid, 90s heartthrob hair, and grand romantic gestures-- and things get serious. Fast. Though Sorcha's friends find her new partner problematic, Sorcha has an explanation for everything.
As Chris's moods turn volatile and Sorcha becomes increasingly isolated, Chris paints an idyllic picture of domestic bliss in Cape Breton. Sorcha is all in: if her conservative religious upbringing taught her anything, it's how to save. Plus, Chris promises Sorcha the thing she wants most-- a baby.
But when Sorcha becomes pregnant and Chris's abuse escalates, Sorcha realizes she must escape the life they've built together, just as she escaped her own stifling family years before.
When Sorcha's estranged Aunt Agnes, a retired midwife, messages Sorcha out of the blue, her bothy in the Scottish Highlands seems the perfect place to hide. As the bundle of cells in Sorcha's belly diligently divides, she daydreams that Agnes will deliver the baby and they'll stay in Scotland, where Chris can't find them. And where, just maybe, Sorcha could build the sort of family she's always ached for.
Exploring the clandestinity of queer abuse, the fierceness of friendship, and the magic of found family, milktooth is a bold, inventive, lyrical and darkly funny story about finding the strength to cut away what's harmed you and create something entirely new.
Inside a sprawling suburban home, Russell's wife and sons know him as a devoted husband, father, and provider. At the office, co-workers know him as a no-nonsense, master salesman. On the Little League diamond, the Pirates know him as their inspirational coach. But there's an essential part of himself Russell only reveals to nameless strangers. Although he can't deny his same-sex attraction or his bisexual identity, he fears that coming out would be devastating to those he loves most, that revealing his truest self would blow his entire world to smithereens. So, Russell finds himself living a double life, governed by an explicit set of self-imposed, self-protective rules. The curtain separating Russell's dual personas is already beginning to unravel when he meets Bryan, at which point Russell embarks upon a precarious, personal journey from deception to honesty, from fracture to wholeness, from the closet into the light.
Penny Harbour was once a booming coal mining town, full of industry and possibility. But jobs like that come at a price. Accidents. Cave-ins. Explosions. The residents fed the ground with their blood, and coal dust settled inside them. Eventually, the world moved on from coal. The mines closed, the jobs left, and the grief stayed rooted in the people.
Laurel is trying to carve out a decent life in what remains of the town. Her family has lived in the Harbour for generations. She's seen the best and worst it has to offer. But no matter what she wants for herself, her husband's boot is still on her neck. She's survived him for two decades, and she's just about out of reasons to stay.
Just up the hill, Spencer is wading through his eternity mourning the deaths of his great loves. Penny Harbour is his own personal purgatory. He's a queer vampire in a dying, conservative rural community, and everyone's blood is full of grit and ashes. It's the perfect place to slip into isolation and punish himself for all he's lost.
But Penny Harbour has a life all its own. Children with a penchant for lighting fires. Unmarked graves when mines used to be. Traditions built to lift each other out of grief. Personal hells that live behind closed doors. And when the town sinks its teeth into someone, it would sooner rip their throat out than let them go.
Part romantic vampire horror, part rural Atlantic Canadian memorial pyre, Coal Gets In Your Veins is a novel about generational trauma and what it will do to keep its claws in you.
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This book is part of a queer paranormal horror series with romantic themes and handles heavy, complicated topics such as generational trauma, spousal abuse, grief, and cheating. A full list of trigger warnings can be found on Cat's website.
A beautiful, hallucinatory dream of a novel. -J.M. Miro, Author of the National Bestseller Ordinary Monsters
A fantastically moody, unsettling novel.-Sarah Waters, New York Times bestselling author of The Paying Guests and Fingersmith
A bold ... hypnotic (The New Yorker) reimagining of Mary Shelley's youth, vividly exploring innocence, young love, gothic mystery and the roots of her literary masterpiece, Frankenstein.
Switzerland, 1816. A volcanic eruption in Indonesia envelopes the whole of Europe in ash and cloud. Amid this year without a summer, eighteen-year-old Mary Shelley and her lover Percy Bysshe Shelley arrive at Lake Geneva to visit Lord Byron and his companion John Polidori. Anguished by the recent loss of her child, Mary spends her days in strife. But come nightfall, the friends while away rainy wine-soaked evenings gathered around the fireplace, exchanging stories. One famous evening, Byron issues a challenge to write the best ghost story. Contemplating what to write, Mary recalls another summer, when she was fourteen...
Scotland, 1812. A guest of the Baxter family, Mary arrives in Dundee, befriending young Isabella Baxter. The girls soon spend hours together wandering through fields and forests, concocting tales about mythical Scottish creatures, ghosts and monsters roaming the lowlands. As their bond deepens, Mary and Isabella's feelings for each other intensify. But someone has been watching them--the charismatic and vaguely sinister Mr. Booth, Isabella's older brother-in-law, who may not be as benevolent as he purports to be...
With gripping mastery and verve, Anne Eekhout brings to life a defining moment in Mary Shelley's youth: the creative wellspring for one of the most original, thrilling, and timeless pieces of literature ever written. Provocative, wonderfully atmospheric and pulsing with emotion, Mary and the Birth of Frankenstein is a hypnotic ode to the power of imagination.
Translated from the Dutch by Laura Watkinson
Derrick never had any trouble keeping it in his pants. He's a monogamous guy, even while secretly in love with his best friend, Victoria, and going through the motions with other women. But when Victoria gets taken off the market-and by his twin sister no less-Derrick's love life flies off the rails.
Nuria Diaz is trouble with a capital TROUBLE. She's a firecracker of a woman - spoiled, demanding, and unapologetically hedonistic - and Derrick can't stop thinking about her. Before he can say bad idea, Derrick is spending his nights with Nuria, wanting more from her while he's promised everything else to another woman who deserves better. One day he'll have to choose between them, but now his options are tearing him apart.
**Warning: This novella contains a morally ambiguous lawyer and a sexy, bisexual woman who knows what she wants. A (mostly) f/m story with infidelity.
**This novella was previously released as Going Wild.
Number 5 in the How Sweet It Is series by the Lambda Literary Award finalist author of Bliss and Every Dark Desire.
Start with A Taste of Sin, Hungry for It, Return to Me (a short sequel to Hungry for It), Insatiable Appetites, Bittersweet (a novella), then Pleasure & Spice. All (except Return to Me and Bittersweet) are standalone, full-length novels featuring different couples in, and connected to, the group of Miami-based friends.
Penny Harbour was once a booming coal mining town, full of industry and possibility. But jobs like that come at a price. Accidents. Cave-ins. Explosions. The residents fed the ground with their blood, and coal dust settled inside them. Eventually, the world moved on from coal. The mines closed, the jobs left, and the grief stayed rooted in the people.
Laurel is trying to carve out a decent life in what remains of the town. Her family has lived in the Harbour for generations. She's seen the best and worst it has to offer. But no matter what she wants for herself, her husband's boot is still on her neck. She's survived him for two decades, and she's just about out of reasons to stay.
Just up the hill, Spencer is wading through his eternity mourning the deaths of his great loves. Penny Harbour is his own personal purgatory. He's a queer vampire in a dying, conservative rural community, and everyone's blood is full of grit and ashes. It's the perfect place to slip into isolation and punish himself for all he's lost.
But Penny Harbour has a life all its own. Children with a penchant for lighting fires. Unmarked graves when mines used to be. Traditions built to lift each other out of grief. Personal hells that live behind closed doors. And when the town sinks its teeth into someone, it would sooner rip their throat out than let them go.
Part romantic vampire horror, part rural Atlantic Canadian memorial pyre, Coal Gets In Your Veins is a novel about generational trauma and what it will do to keep its claws in you.
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This book is part of a queer paranormal horror series with romantic themes and handles heavy, complicated topics such as generational trauma, spousal abuse, grief, and cheating. A full list of trigger warnings can be found on Cat's website.
Welcome to the bouncy castle of Los Angeles in 2004. At the dawn of social media, Carla and Pete embark on a quest for meaning in a city where dreams often fade into the smog. They came for indie rock stardom, only to find themselves sidelined by life's realities and their own emotional limitations. Carla experiences the true meaning of monotony as a TV extra, while Pete, wrestling with societal views on bisexuality, answers phones. Despite their mutual affection, Carla feels rejected, while Pete, secretly grappling with his identity, shies away from intimacy.
Their world, filled with vinyl records, a spirited cat named Joni, and an eccentric Hollywood landlady, offers fleeting moments of deep connection. But the arrival of a charismatic stranger disrupts their fragile status quo, forcing them to confront faded ambitions and the true nature of their relationship.
With the pop culture eye of Bret Easton Ellis and lyrical longing of Just Kids by Patti Smith, Somewhere in Hollywood explores the tight-rope walk of personal growth and relationship dynamics, capturing the soul of a generation in search of itself and the relentless pursuit of something more.
Culture shock is nothing compared to this.
Eva Calabrese lives with her parents and wants out of her dead-end job, so when her former college classmate, Tobio, reconnects with her, she makes the leap across the planet to teach English in Japan.
In Osaka, Eva is confronted by the Japanese language and culture, while navigating her feelings for Tobio, but everything changes one night at karaoke when she's kissed by the intimidatingly handsome tattoo artist, Yuya.
But when Eva learns of a devastating secret involving both Tobio and Yuya, and she flees from Osaka to the sprawl of Tokyo where a chance encounter with Japan's rising female pop star, Miriko, changes Eva's life forever.
Will she learn from her floundering and thrive in a foreign country or have to go back home to Canada?
This fast-paced account from debut author E. R. Hann examines the pain and power of broken hearts, celebrity life, and growing up.
A mysterious figure. A dead televangelist. A series of bizarre rituals.
Margo has spent most of her life without a family, and with a telekinetic gift she can't quite explain. Since losing her mother less than a year ago, she's felt more alone than ever. When her fiancé Sam takes her to his remote Iowa hometown to meet his family and begin planning their wedding, Margo finally begins to feel like she's home. But the feeling doesn't last long, and Margo soon feels out of place among her future in-laws. Sam's family is different from what she'd expected. Not only is their obsession with a deceased televangelist unsettling, but Margo has begun seeing a strange, mysterious figure from her past--a figure that she thought was put to rest with her mother's passing.
As Sam's family begins to take over the wedding plans, Margo tries to regain some control by turning to the town's sole wedding planner, who soon becomes her only confidant, perhaps because she reminds Margo of her former love. But the more Margo tries to distance her past from her future with Sam, the deeper his family pulls her in, forcing upon her generationally archaic traditions that border on ritualistic. As Margo unearths the family's dark web of secrets, she begins to suspect that she may have been brought here for a reason, and it may cost her her life.
In the psychologically unsettling vein of I'm Thinking of Ending Things and The Women in the Dark, combined with the socially aware suspense of Get Out, The Ever End takes elevated horror to a new level with a queer, twisted, feminist story that will keep readers guessing until the end, and stay with them long after that.
After years of struggle and betrayal, Sophia's love is re-awakened by Maria. Maria is kind, intelligent, and passionate, but she's also her husband's sister!
Sophia has finally left her small-town village in Germany and completed nursing school in Berlin. She marries an American, Ricardo, and discovers he's a lying, cheating scoundrel.
Maria is committed to serving the US, as a negotiating military officer stationed in Berlin. When she meets her brother's wife, Sophia, she falls head over hills and jeopardizes her entire career.
While Sophia and Maria plan their escape, Ricardo threatens to reveal their secret and falsely claim that Maria is a spy for the Soviet Union. Will they take their chances or call it off?
The hunters
Three men. Deadly hunts are their twisted little game. No woman is safe around them. They will force you to run for your life, but freedom is never really a choice. Bound by blood and fire, they destroy anyone in their path.
Their prey
She lived a simple life. Her only purpose was to survive, until she met them. They can only leave her if they are dead, and she will make sure of it.
A game of life and death, but there is no way out. Now run Sweetheart.