The Dragon Next Door

Vanessa Ricci-Thode

In this sapphic ace romantasy, Tollar’s got a stolen dragon egg & that’s the least of her problems! Join a pair of disaster queers raising a baby dragon amidst growing threats.

Genre: romantasy, fantasy

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Tollar’s got a stolen dragon egg, and that’s the least of her problems.

Tollar is a hero for hire who just wants to deliver a stolen dragon egg to its kin and get on with her next adventure. But when the dragon hatches, imprints on her, and refuses to leave, Tollar enlists her pyromancer best friend and neighbour, Beenala, to help keep the dragon alive. Tollar’s chaotic life exacerbates Beenala’s overwhelming anxiety, and being stuck at home leaves Tollar feeling stifled and unwanted. To make matters worse, in order to hide an entire dragon from local and foreign hostile factions, Tollar must risk exposing the truth behind her unprecedented power as an aquamancer and face being chased out of the only home she’s ever known.

When Draminedes, perhaps the worst spy in the world, lets slip that the people Tollar stole the dragon egg from are much worse than she thought, Tollar and Beenala realize their home is in danger. Now Tollar needs to stop making herself the outsider and Beenala needs to find some courage so they can team up with this unlikely ally to save everything they love, including each other.

This sapphic ace romantasy is complete with mutual pining and odd-couple energy and is full of marginalized characters out living their best lives and having adventures while being nurturing and supportive in their relationships, including bonds between humans and dragons.

Awakenings

Claudie Arseneault

Three friends embark on a sentient Wagon to traverse a haunted world and find one’s missing memories.

Genre: Fantasy

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Innkeep, hunter, blacksmith, nurse—Horace has apprenticed for every clan in the domed city of Trenaze, and they’ve all rejected em. Too hare-brained. Too talkative. Too slow. Ever the optimist, e has joined Trenaze’s guards to be mentored. Horace has high hopes to earn eir place during eir trial at the Great Market. That is, until the glowing shards haunting the world break through the city’s protective dome, fused together in a single, monstrous amalgam of Fragments.

Armed with a sword, a shield, and far too little training, Horace doubts eir ability to defend the market-goers. But eir last stand is interrupted by a mysterious elven figure who can dissipate the Fragments with a single, strange sentence: your story is my story.

From the moment it is uttered, Horace knows the sentences holds true for em, too—and when the elf collapses in the middle of the market, e carries them to safety, to recover away from the panicked crowd and inevitable questions from eir fellow guards. It could cost em eir apprenticeship—eir last chance to find eir place in eir home city—but Horace cannot resist the pull of this mystery elf and the call of a new friend.

Aliyah has but one desire: to leave Trenaze’s safe boundaries and find the forest that haunts their dreams. After an afternoon of board games in their quiet, sharp-witted company, Horace is ready to follow, confronting Fragments and other dangers of the road to understand what happened that day, hear Aliyah’s laugh again and finally feel like e belongs.

Haroun and the Study of Mischief

Lynn Strong

Three things are known to be blind: Love, Justice, and Venerable Haroun’s fashion sense

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.

Wizard’s Debt

Niranjan

A reclusive wizard has to protect a child while battling his own past traumas.

Genre: Secondary World Science Fantasy

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As a wizard in a modern world, Jeff is used to being despised. That is one reason why he has secluded himself from humanity. But when he is entrusted with the guardianship of eleven year old Ellis, Jeff realises that life has thrown him another curveball. He is ready to change his lifestyle for the child. It can’t get much worse after all.

But with a mystery group attempting to kidnap Ellis, Jeff realises that his troubles have just begun. The group may be behind the murder of Ellis’ parents, and Jeff needs to find out more if he is to protect Ellis.

As people from his past resurface with cryptic warnings, Jeff has to fight his former trauma as well as his adversaries. Can he succeed in keeping Ellis safe when he cannot even stop his own heart demons?

Wizard’s Debt is an electrifying Scifantasy mystery adventure, which will keep you on the edge of your seat until the very last page. If you love mysteries with a good dose of magic and awkward protagonists struggling to cope with unexpected events, you will enjoy this journey through Niranjan’s novella.

Buy Wizard’s Debt now for a thrilling adventure that is sure to enthrall you.

We Gather

M.C. Burnell

When the world looks like coming to an end, your enemies may be your only friends.

Genre: Epic fantasy

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Civilization may go up in flames if a group of people who hate each other can’t learn to be friends.

The 3,000-year-old Barrachite Empire is in decline. A vestigial aristocracy worries about debt while the emperor bends the knee to trade cartels. Modern Barracheh is still the mightiest civilization in the area, but they no longer birth conquerors or visionaries. No one is building monuments anymore like the massive pyramids near every older city.

Sathriel has traveled Barracheh from the jungle that birthed his people to the snowy north; he’s walked the plains and coast and desert in his mission to bring back the sorcery that forged the empire. It’s a tricky task since its disappearance is a mystery. It doesn’t help that assassins and spies belonging to the emperor have dogged his steps since he ran away from home 9 years ago. They’re twins, and no one knows the truth about what spawned their feud.

No sooner does he find a sorcerer than the witch Ha’ere finds him. Bringing back the sorcery will have consequences, positive but also negative. She wants to introduce him to the band of allies handpicked by her gods to help him. The catch? They’re either foreigners from countries he’s never even heard of or his enemies.

We Gather is an epic by every measurement, from pathos to scale. Get in on all the colossal battles, thrilling swordfights, and staggering magic with the first book in the series.

The Blood Divide

Zan Lowell

Those who choose to speak through violence will not listen to peace.

Genre: Urban/Supernatural Fantasy

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18-year-old shifter Tashi is no stranger to violence when the Eavandale cadre of “monster” hunters poses a constant threat to people like her. And while she could choose the safety of her adoptive coven’s protective wards, she isn’t one to sit on her thumbs when she knows she can save innocent lives.

But three years of keeping the local hunters on their toes hasn’t prepared her for a new threat from one of her own. In the wake of another shifter’s bloody revival of a 200-year-dead tradition, the self-proclaimed autocrat starts preaching blood purity. Tashi’s world is quickly becoming a powder keg, and the one holding the match is the vampire who made her an orphan.

Tashi’s only chance at preventing an explosive outcome involves allying herself with supposedly reformed hunters, but not all of them are ready to recognize Tashi’s humanity. If they can’t learn to put aside old prejudices, both of their worlds will fall into chaos.

Demon Marked

Kat Kinney

As a summer baking competition comes to Everwood Falls, Norah discovers that the portal to the demon Underworld is a treacherous space fraught with hellhounds and cupcakes.

Genre: Cozy Fantasy Romance & Mystery

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EVERWOOD FALLS… a small supernatural community tucked up in the Colorado Rockies where witches, werewolves and vampires can live without fear of discovery, and those with curses they can’t control are sent to keep the existence of magic from being revealed to Mundanes.

When Norah Malone left the Underworld, she swore on her dark demon wings that she wouldn’t look back. Quiet Everwood Falls with its dress code of plaid flannel was a chance to start over and leave her past as a bounty hunter and enforcer for Hades behind. She’s a detective now in the Mundane world. Her life is pleasantly free of hellhounds and fire pits, thank you very much. But now Norah’s past has caught up to her, and the people closest to her may pay the price if she isn’t able to stop a demon curse before time runs out.

Blacksmith Ember Silverleaf is hardly afraid of curses. Between her fire-wielder magic and the fae-enchanted swords she creates in her forge, enemies (and potential dates) usually run from her. Norah Malone is the scowl to her sunshine, and the one person in three realms who impossibly does not like her cupcakes, which is too bad, since she’s entering them in the upcoming Solstice Spectacular annual baking competition, hosted by a famous demon chef.

As the baking competition is threatened, Norah and Ember will have to work together to find out who is behind the demon curse before someone is seriously hurt.

With a herd of enchanted elk, carnivorous spruce trees, and sentient pumpkins that stalk the local landscaping, Everwood Falls is a quirky mountain town where fangs and fur mean found family.

Everwood Falls has sweet paranormal romances with cozy mysteries and guaranteed HEAs. The series can be enjoyed in order or read as standalones, without needing to read the other books.

Chai and Cat-tales

Lynn Strong

Bask in a sunbeam with three cozy fantasy novellas of the Catsprowl, a busy neighborhood brimming with cats and cat-goddesses, book-keepers and bath-houses, piping hot chai, and pouncing kittens’ mischief.

Genre: Cozy fantasy set in the Middle East

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The Prince of Her Dreams:
Najra has three dreams in her life: First, catch the attention of a prince. (Specifically, the God-Emperor’s bookish youngest brother.) Next, get him to hire her to assist with his research in the marvelous Archives in Tel-Bastet. And then, finally, read ALL the books.

Marrying the prince has never been in the plan. Najra has never lusted for anything but knowledge.

Unfortunately, the prince has dreams as well. Because he’s also a prophet who foresees trouble coming. Between her heretical geometries and her cursed spellbook, Najra has to admit that his dreams of trouble have her pegged.

Now what is she supposed to do with a matchmaking busybody of an Archivist pushing them together, an angry catfolk bodyguard pulling them apart, and a sweet, anxious prophet-prince who won’t even tell her what he wants?

What does a happy ending look like for a pair of mismatched dreamers who both love learning best of all?

For the asexual folks and the questioning folks who’ve wanted a story where your own desires are respected and valued, this one is for you. For the Witches vs. Patriarchy crew, this one is for you too….

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How I Became a Therapist in Another World Vol. 1-4 Omnibus

C.A. Moss

A queer thirty-something therapist is reincarnated in a fantasy world, and finds that her greatest power is empathy. (The magic doesn’t hurt, either.)

Genre: Fantasy

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After an unexpected accident, Cat wakes up in a world where dragons terrorize the countryside and demons feed on the insecurities of humans, elves and orcs alike. She’s in a new body, younger than she used to be, but she still has the skills she studied and practiced in her own life — and now, she’s got magic behind it.

To get by in this world, Cat — now named Lavender — will need to forge new connections, unravel a mystery, and learn how to ride a horse. From a cozy farming town to a serpent-infested mountaintop to the end of the world and back, Lavender works to build a new life, help others in need, and maybe even catch the eye of a dashing lady orc along the way.

High society balls! Wilderness camping! Magical showdowns! A queernorm Western isekai light fantasy series with humor, heart, and a little bit of romance, plus one thing every angsty anime series and fantasy novel could use: Therapy.

A Life in Too Many Margins

S. E. Thomson

Laughing Through the Labels

Genre: New Adult, LGBTQIA2S+, Disability, Literary, Contemporary

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A Life in Too Many Margins is a darkly funny, deeply personal collection that explores life at the intersections of queerness, trans identity, disability, neurodivergence, and chronic illness. It blends memoir-style storytelling with sharp humor and emotional honesty, exploring themes such as growing up misunderstood, navigating trauma, relationships, identity, and the exhausting, sometimes absurd work of trying to exist in a world that wasn’t built for you.

Non-Player Character

Veo Corva

Tar and their found-family role-playing group get transported into the world of their game in this cosy, queer portal fantasy for adults.

Genre: Fantasy

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Not all fantasy worlds live only in our imaginations.

32-year old Tar feels like a Non-Player Character in their own life. They’ve been utterly sidelined by their anxiety and they spend all their spare time playing video games. Then they get invited to play Kin, a tabletop role-playing game their friend swears will change their life. And it does, but not in the way Tar expects. Friendship, it turns out, is even better than escapism.

But what none of them knew was that it would change their life a second time. Because the world of Kin is real. And the whole party soon discovers that changing your setting doesn’t change you.

Non-Player Character is a cosy, queer portal fantasy for adults featuring a non-binary autistic protagonist and their found family of fantasy-loving nerds.

The Citizen of Eastport

VB Ruth

Schemes, secrets, and queer desire collide in this story of intrigue set in a gritty, noir-inspired future.

Genre: Sci-fi, suspense

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Vi used to be a fighter. In the underground rings she was a champion, but on the streets of Eastport, where gangs and trade powers fight for dominance, the most she could ever be is a pawn. Instead she keeps her head down, takes care of her people, and tries to avoid trouble.

Trouble comes for her anyway, when a wealthy citizen decides he wants something she has. As his net draws tighter around her, hope rests in the unlikeliest places: the provocative thief she can’t keep her hands off of, and the childhood sweetheart she once betrayed.

Manipulator’s War

Elise Carlson

The creeping shadow of war plunges nonbinary Heir Ruarnon into personal turmoil. Alongside fear, worry, nervousness and grief; they devise tactics no-one’s ever dared employ, and risk their kingdom’s destruction by seizing their continent’s greatest opportunity for peace. Lost Aussies are perfect allies in their defiance of tradition.

Genre: Cozy fantasy set in a magical Middle East

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Nonbinary Ruarnon is determined to prove their worth as heir to Tarlah’s perfect King. Things get complicated when their parents are abducted and they’re left ruling Tarlah in the shadow of impending war, with absent allies.

Neighbouring King Kyura has no intention of invading Tarlah. But his warmongering subjects long for the glory of expansion. When Kyura rejects their calls for war, assassins threaten his family and mutiny threatens his reign.
Stranded Aussie Linh is desperate to return to her family in Australia. But the only transport to her gateway home is Ruarnon’s absent allies, sailing to Tarlah’s aid.

Monsters at sea threaten everyone. Linh’s monster observations could save Kyura’s people, and clear her homeward path, if she risks her life aiding Ruarnon. But to secure peace with Kyura’s unruly subjects, Ruarnon’s ultimate test as heir risks betrayal and Tarlah’s bloody defeat.

Black Sails to Sunward

Sheila Jenné

On a sailing ship in space, two childhood friends meet again—now as a Navy officer and a pirate.

Genre: Space opera

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In a world of frock coats, solar sails, and rigid class boundaries, a young Martian noble seeks her fortune as a midshipman of the Imperial Navy.

Mars and Earth are at war, and Lucy hopes for quick promotion. But when she arrives aboard ship, she finds harsh officers and a crew on the verge of mutiny. And worse: among the crew is her former friend, Moira—a commoner and a radical.

It’s clear where Lucy’s duty lies. As an officer and a gentlewoman, she has to quell the crew’s rebellion and preserve her ship for the fight against Earth. But soon, she’ll have to make a decision between all she’s been taught to believe and the injustice she can see with her own eyes.