Moonstruck Volume 3: Troubled Waters by Grace Ellis; Shae Beagle
Spring comes to the supernatural town of Blitheton, which can only mean one thing: It’s time for the annual mermaid festival!
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The Red Scholar’s Wake by Aliette de Bodard
A sapphic space opera about scavenger Xích Si who enters an arranged marriage with Rice Fish, a sentient spaceship and pirate fleet leader, to investigate the suspicious death of Rice Fish’s wife while navigating betrayal, political intrigue, and unexpected love.
Fireheart Tiger by Aliette de Bodard
A sapphic romantic fantasy novella set in a pre-colonial Vietnamese-inspired world where diplomat princess Thanh must navigate her rekindled romance with Princess Eldris while balancing her country’s independence against imperial threats and her relationship with a fire elemental.
Moon At Nine by Deborah Ellis
In 1988 Tehran, fifteen-year-old Farrin falls in love with Sadira, a new student at her school, and they face devastating consequences in a country where homosexuality is punishable by death
A Fire Born Of Exile by Aliette de Bodard
A sapphic Count of Monte Cristo-inspired space opera where betrayed scholar Quỳnh returns in disguise seeking revenge but finds her plans complicated by her deepening romance with engineer Hoà in a corrupt orbital society.
Beautiful Shadow by Andrew Wilson
The first biography of thriller writer Patricia Highsmith draws on her private diaries, notebooks, and letters to reveal her secret life as a lesbian, her many relationships with women, and the connections between her sexuality and her groundbreaking psychological suspense novels.
In The Vanishers’ Palace by Aliette de Bodard
A dark f/f Beauty and the Beast retelling set in a post-apocalyptic Vietnamese-inspired world where failed scholar Yên becomes tutor to dragon Vu Côn’s children and finds herself dangerously attracted to her stern captor.
Stone Fruit by Lee Lai
Bron and Ray are a queer couple who enjoy their role as the fun weirdo aunties to Ray’s niece, six-year-old Nessie.
Small Beauty by Jia Qing Wilson-Yang
Coping with the death of her cousin, she abandons her life in the city to live in his now-empty house in a small town.
Poor Queer Studies by Matt Brim
Matt Brim challenges the ‘overrepresentation of affluence’ within queer studies,