An Inquest of Gryphons

Alanna Cole

He needs her help with a politically sensitive investigation. In exchange, he’ll help her find work for her family business. As their partnership turns into something neither expected, they must decide if what they have is special enough to survive when their lives are pulling them in opposite directions.

Genre: High fantasy

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Determined to find work for her family business that will allow her to do what she loves, Louth is spending the winter in the capital city networking with the wealthy. Except no one will talk to her. She’s too young, too backwoods, and too vocal.

Achaj is a creature of stone streets and lavish entertainments. When he’s assigned a politically sensitive investigation in a remote village—one plagued by rumors of Gryphon attacks—he knows he’ll need help from someone who thrives where there are more trees than people.

When they meet at a dinner party where Louth is failing yet again to find work, Achaj offers a deal: assist him with his investigation and he will introduce her to clients interested in hiring her family. As they discover the truth about the Gryphon attacks, their partnership turns into something neither expected.

But then the investigation ends. Louth is returning to her small village, and Achaj has his career in the city. Now they must decide if what they have is special enough to survive when their lives are pulling them in opposite directions.

Federation Cowboy

Joyce Reynolds-Ward

CAROLINE STARSHINE DIDN’T EXPECT TO FIND A JOB WHEN SHE MET JEFF TOPHAND…

Genre: Science fiction

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CAROLINE STARSHINE DIDN’T EXPECT TO FIND A JOB WHEN SHE MET JEFF TOPHAND…

Nor did she expect to find drug smugglers, a conspiracy intended to overthrow two Galactic powers and turn them into an Empire, unusual allies, a new family, and…love.

Can Caroline and Jeff prevail against all the odds against them?

100% Human Created

NO AI.

Haroun and the Study of Mischief

Lynn Strong

“Don’t get a torch too close to his djellaba.”

“It might catch fire?”

“You might see it.”

Genre: Cozy fantasy set in a magical Middle East

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Venerable Haroun, the blind saluqi priest of the dog-headed god Yepuet, has come to the wild and collarless Tel-Bastet, the City of Cats, for an education in mischief.

And Haroun has never met a crime of fashion he wouldn’t commit.

Shai Madhur, the disabled human priest of Upaja, thought accepting Haroun’s leash meant being Haroun’s seeing-eye human. He wasn’t prepared for the political machinations… or for Haroun’s sense of humor.

When a kind prophet-prince goes missing, Haroun smells iniquity in the air. (Iniquity, it turns out, smells like kumiss spilled on a tomcat in dire need of a bath.)

The problem with everyone in Tel-Bastet knowing what a Good Boy their Shai Madhur is, is that people keep trying to rescue him, whether he needs it or not. Not that he’s complaining, exactly. But Madhur swears he is never going carousing again… no matter how soulful Haroun’s puppydog eyes are.

With a splash of Studio Ghibli, a sprinkle of Roshani Chokshi, and a dash of Terry Pratchett, when the cats and dogs need to learn to live together, Haroun and Madhur take on the difference between what is seen and what is true.

Bleeding Gold

Niranjan

Can he learn to trust after being betrayed or will his fears lead to damnation for him and his kind?

Genre: Secondary world scifantasy

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Vampires, werewolves and other supernaturals have been at odds for centuries, and humans have been picking them off easily.

When Alvin Rayes, a vampire crime lord, is resurrected after being killed, he only wants revenge on his ex-boyfriend and killer, Jason. But to find Jason, he has to strike an alliance with the local werewolf pack whose alpha used to be Jason’s friend. But the more he gets to know the wolves, the more he realises the wrongness of the world they live in, where supernaturals are considered little more than animals and are hunted for sport. Before long, Alvin finds himself leading a movement for supernatural rights, aided by the world’s ignorance regarding his true nature.

As a crucial vote for supernatural rights approach, Alvin finds himself in the cross hairs of assassins who had already taken out some of his friends. To survive, he has to put his life, and trust, in the hands of his bodyguards, both of whom are hiding their own secrets.

Without Alvin and his leadership and money, the movement he started will flounder, but Alvin has already been betrayed once by someone he trusted. Can he learn to trust before whoever’s after him succeeds in their aims?

Bleeding Gold is a queer science fantasy book set in space. If you love morally grey characters, redemption, forgiveness, found family and friendship, you will love this gritty tale.

Home, Home on the Strange

May Furhst

Riding horses is easy. Riding ET? Sounds like an out-of-this-world good time!

Genre: Sci-Fi Romance

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Having bucked her way through every local bronco, Sally Rider is ready for a change. When her best friend jokingly fills out a profile for Sally on the new alien dating app, Sally doesn’t stop her friend from hitting the submit button.

Light years away, Xenoth’s brother is dying and his peoples’ last remaining Queen has gone crazy. When the sassy, red-haired human female agrees to fill in for some of his peoples’ naughtier needs, he’s surprised to find himself jealous of her affections.

Can these two Lone Stars take their relationship from U-F-OH-NO to U-F-HELLO?

Awakening Hunger

anita

True love between monsters.

Genre: Horror erotica short story

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Minh is used to faithfully watch over his partner Santi and wait for him to return from his decennial hibernation. The awakening happens without hurdles in the depths of Son Doong caves, but something has changed in Santi’s body and soul.

Now, they can only follow their instincts to handle a new kind of hunger. But thanks to their bond of blood and soul, this shouldn’t be a problem.

The Moon’s Eye

A.J. Calvin

The Relics of War: Book 1 (a multi-POV epic fantasy adventure featuring Scorpion Men, Murkor, and other non-human main chararacters)

Genre: Epic Fantasy

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Chosen for advanced training by the god of war himself, Vardak is considered a paragon amongst his people, the Scorpion Men. Yet his position and training come with a cost: He must serve the whims of the god, with no questions asked. Only days after his training is complete, he is sent far away from his desert homeland in order to act as the protector of the Fire Maiden’s mortal daughter, Janna.

Janna has been tasked with the recovery of a magical relic known as The Moon’s Eye, but she has little worldly experience to guide her. The Immortals deem the relic’s recovery imperative, for it alone can combat the rise of the Soulless—those sworn to the fallen, nameless god of death. The Soulless are ruthless and powerful, and eager to wage war upon the land in order to appease the god they serve.

Though Vardak is skilled in battle, he must lead Janna through several perilous areas in order to reach the relic she seeks, pushing his abilities to the limit. Unbeknownst to the pair, the Soulless raise an army and begin their conquest, leaving a path of destruction in their wake. Will they secure The Moon’s Eye before all is lost, or will the relic itself prove to be their undoing?

Squashed

Elsie LaPlante

The veggie wants her tail

Genre: Sentient object romance

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JoAnn was excited to finally have time off from work- her human job and her fae one. Stocking up on food turned a bit more complicated than she expected when the Squash that she brought home turned out not to be edible in the way she wanted. And worse than that? He’s hot.

Welcome to Luminance

Avery Storm

A world where sex work is legal, kink culture flourishes, monogamy is not the status quo, and no one blinks twice if best friends blow each other during finals week.

Genre: Fantasy Erotica

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Meet werewolf and pro-dom-turned-kink-scholar Kaz, his friends, and the kink community of Bayton.

Set one year before the Luminance serial, Welcome to Luminance includes four steamy encounters and a heartfelt conversation that sets the cast on paths of self-discovery, healing, and love in its many forms.

The Shifter: Legends of Pern Coen

Hannah E. Carey

Saving their clan from a powerful Dark Spirit could cost them everything.

Genre: Epic Fantasy

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A fierce seer whose warnings are repeatedly ignored, even by her own father.

An outcast wolf shifter who must decide where his loyalties lie.

An ambitious advisor who is desperate to gain power and influence, no matter the cost.

Saving their clan from a powerful Dark Spirit could cost them everything.

In the wake of King Cadfael’s Shifter Purge, Bran has found himself driven from his home and being hunted for the shapeshifting gift he was born with. His desperation led him to swear his loyalty to a man who has vowed to see Cadfael brought to ruin, until a chance encounter with the king’s daughter leaves Bran questioning his future. Seren saved his life years ago, and his memories of her, and of his old life, aren’t so easily forgotten.

But there’s more danger lurking in Blaidd than the clan’s twisted king. Seren’s abilities as a seer have shown her that a darkness is coming and that a dangerous Dark Spirit of the island, Fianna, has been woken. Fianna’s fiery flames could bring the clan to the brink of destruction, but Seren continually finds her warnings ignored and her abilities belittled. She seeks allies in her father’s court, including seeking aid from one of his youngest advisors, but even those allies might be unwilling to fully defy their tyrant king. Despite Cadfael’s unwillingness to protect the clan from Fianna’s flames, Seren has vowed to destroy the dangerous Spirit. But unbeknownst to her, Bran has sworn his loyalty to it.

When Bran is forced to choose between killing Seren or sparing her, will he turn away from the destructive Spirit he’s given his soul to or will he plunge further into darkness, dooming them all? And can Seren save her people from destruction, even if Cadfael won’t?

Dark

Kat Kinney

After Hayden is bitten by a feral wolf following a performance with her band, she’ll do anything to spare her sister from the same fate–even turn to the ex she swore she’d never speak to again… an ex who it turns out has been harboring secrets of his own.

Genre: Paranormal romance / urban fantasy

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Hayden Crowe fronts an all-girls band down in Austin, Texas. Between tending bar so her sister can stay in school and dealing with the fallout after their addict father skipped town, she hasn’t exactly had time to join the social media freak out over the recent outing of vampires and werewolves.

Her world comes crashing down the night she’s attacked in an alley after a gig and bitten by a feral werewolf. Unable to return home for fear of hurting her sister, and with a message scrawled across her arm warning HOSPITALS NOT SAFE, Hayden is left with just one option…

Him.

Ethan Caldwell doesn’t do relationships. Adopted son of the pack Alpha, he lives a solitary life as a barista and artist. Things three years ago with Hayden Crowe… went too far. By pack law, she couldn’t be told what he was. Ending it was for her own protection.

But when Hayden shows up on his doorstep, newly changed and in danger, Ethan defies his father’s orders to stay away. Someone in the paranormal community is hunting her, and hell if he’s going to fail her again.

Immortal Nox: The Lost City

Kaira Loi

Players disappeared 500 years ago… and NO ONE WANTS THEM BACK!

Genre: Romance Fantasy

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Five hundred years ago, the Players nearly destroyed the world. Then they vanished.

But they didn’t leave quietly.

Thousands were permanently altered by the System—gifted with endless leveling, unnatural abilities, and bodies that no longer age. Feared by the world they helped break, they became known as the Cursed Ones.

Most embraced their power.

Xander didn’t.

The last Cursed One Healer has spent centuries hiding from the destruction his kind leaves behind. But when a woman from the past suddenly respawns, his quiet exile ends.

Astra Diane shouldn’t exist anymore.

Her rare Healer abilities make her the most valuable target alive, and her return ignites a deadly race among the Cursed Ones to claim her power.

But to Astra, Ashguard was never supposed to be real.

It was just a game.

And now she’s discovered the one thing she never expected:

She can’t log out.

A LitRPG fantasy romance between a woman from Earth and the man she once believed was only an NPC.

Bisection

Sheila Jenné

They’ve shared a body all their lives, but their minds are worlds apart.

Genre: Space opera

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Tria and Resa have shared the same body since they were born. Like everyone on their home planet of Kinaru, their mind and body are divided down the middle: the logical right and the emotional left. Tria, the right, has a budding career as a biologist, while Resa dreams of more freedom than their home planet grants her.

When aliens land on Kinaru, Tria and Resa seize the opportunity to be the first of their people to travel to the stars. Karnath, the alien scientist assigned to study them, is convinced there is more to the Kinaru than meets the eye. But only days into the trip, crew members start turning up dead, and a mutiny redirects the ship toward a forbidden, war-torn planet—Earth.

To solve a conspiracy that threatens three planets, Tria must find out the truth of who her people really are, and Resa needs to finally reveal the dark secrets she’s been hiding all their lives.

Kyx

Jennifer R. Povey

On the alien world of Kyx, a young woman’s death triggers a tale of redemption and facing the other

Genre: Space opera

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In a remote village on the ky’iin homeworld of Kyx, a young woman has committed suicide. Investigator Viyar is assigned to what should be a routine check to make sure it wasn’t murder. Ly will discover that there is far more going on.

Not everyone on Kyx wants to deal with aliens, and the death is associated with a conspiracy that runs deep…so deep not even all of those involved know its true extent.

The delicate treaty that holds interstellar peace is at risk…along with the entire future of Kyx.

Nominated for the Webster Award for Best Writer in Virginia.