In 21 Gay Street, Sheldon Lord (a pseudonym for mystery legend Lawrence Block) provides a voyeuristic, “beatnik” look at Greenwich Village life in the late 1950s. The story follows Joyce Kendall, a fresh-faced college graduate from Iowa who arrives in New York for a job at a “true confessions” magazine. She finds a room in … Read more
In 1st Impressions, by Kate Calloway, rookie private investigator Cassidy James trades her quiet life in Cedar Hills, Oregon, for a high-stakes murder case that hits closer to home than she’d like. After the mutilated body of a wealthy local is pulled from a lake, Cassidy is hired to find the killer—by the prime suspect … Read more
In 13 Bullets, David Wellington strips away the romanticized, sparkly tropes of modern vampires and returns to something much grittier and more terrifying. The story follows Laura Caxton, a federal marshal who gets pulled into a nightmare when a routine traffic stop reveals that the vampires everyone thought were extinct are very much alive—and incredibly … Read more
In (Sem)Erotics, Elizabeth Meese pushes past traditional literary boundaries to explore the intimate friction between language and lesbian desire. Rather than offering a dry academic study or a straightforward story, she treats the act of writing itself as an erotic performance. The book reads like a deep, intellectual meditation where the “lesbian” isn’t just a … Read more
Lexi would do anything to keep her broken family together. Almost.
Elise, a mortal girl who feels the death of anyone she touches, and Claire, the vampire assigned to recruit her to the Veil, must work together to stop a paranormal killer even as they realize they might be falling in love.
Detective Cal Dempsey has spent twenty years building walls between her work and her life.
A bisexual witch returns to her magical hometown to arbitrate a spellcasting tournament and teams up with two other witches for revenge against the warlock who broke all their hearts, falling for one of them along the way.
A photo-essay narrated by 11-year-old Zack describing his life growing up with his divorced mother and her lesbian partner Margie as his two moms, addressing topics like dealing with anti-gay comments at school, attending Gay Pride events, and explaining different family structures to peers.
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.