Queer SF - September 2026
September 1, 2026
As the Snow Gathers — Mere Joyce
Genre: Horror
Rep: MLM
The forest doesn't just take what it’s owed—it takes whatever it wants.
Dominic was born in Aplin Shade, a remote Canadian town built on the bones of another that vanished without a trace. Bookish and quiet, he never asked to lead his family, but after a carriage crash kills his father and leaves his sister forever changed, he has no choice.
The only person who truly sees him is Lex, a logger in the camp near town and the love Dominic must keep secret. Together they dream of escaping Aplin Shade, a place where isolation breeds judgment and every kindness hides a cost.
But the forest is no refuge. The Fanteur dwell there—shadowed beings who come at night to drain the dead of their blood and return them for burial by dawn.
They’ve never touched the living.
Until now.
As winter descends and the Fanteur strike back against the logging camp, Dominic and Lex must fight for their lives, their love, and a way out of the woods’ tightening grasp.
Because the forest doesn’t forgive, and it never forgets.
Link: Kobo
Your Boyfriend Needs an Exorcist — Justine Pucella Winans
Genre: YA horror
Rep: Queer; trans MC
Jennifer’s Body meets The Weight of Blood in this horror-comedy about an evil spirit looking for a second chance at love and life.
Just because Schuyler is a bloodthirsty evil spirit doesn’t mean she can’t fall in love. Ever since Wren Castillo moved into the house Schuyler haunts, Schuyler has been crushing hard. But Wren has a boyfriend, Enzo, and he’s the worst. Schuyler has no choice but to watch as Enzo treats Wren terribly—until she accidentally possesses him.
With Enzo’s spirit nowhere to be found, Schuyler must pretend to be him until she can set things right. But Schuyler feels more at home in Enzo’s body than she ever did in her own, and as she grows closer to his family and friends—including Wren—she starts to wonder if this could all be for keeps.
Maintaining a possession is harder than Schuyler expected, though, and it might just take some spilled blood to keep her new body going strong. Worse, it turns out she’s not the only one interested in stealing Enzo’s body. When another evil spirit threatens everyone Schuyler now holds dear, she must decide just how far she’s willing to go to secure her second chance at love—and life.
Link: Goodreads
Public Access Afterworld — Jane Schoenbrun
Genre: Fantasy, horror
Rep: Trans woman MC
She bridged the gap between screen and real life.
At 5:35pm on September 3rd, 1988, Dallas weatherman Ray “Can You Say Sunshine” Davino makes passing reference to Public Access Afterworld during a rambling monologue, right before he puts a gun to his head on live television and pulls the trigger.
On June 12th, 2009, David Sawyer and Erin Morrison, two lonely, TV-obsessed suburban teens who might be falling in love, gather in Erin’s basement to watch TV’s analog-to-digital transition. But in the static that follows, Erin witnesses surreal broadcasts from a pirate TV network called Public Access Afterworld and their lives are changed forever.
Fourteen years later, Bethany Peters toils through the night shift at megacorp GlobalVill’s bleak Austin campus. A trans content moderator, she spends her evenings reviewing an endless stream of horrific videos. But then a young streamer begins to crop up in her feed calling out to Public Access Afterworld.
But what is Public Access Afterworld?
Spanning decades and realities, with an unforgettable ensemble of outcasts and nerds, especially the messy but wholly relatable Bethany who must overcome paranoia and self-doubt to transform into a hero of our times, Public Access Afterworld will have you reading through the night and rooting for its characters to survive. A mesmerizing mashup of speculative fiction, horror, and conspiracy, it marks the arrival of a major new force in contemporary fiction by a groundbreaking filmmaker who’s been compared to David Lynch and Paul Thomas Anderson.
Link: Kobo
The Siren’s Kiss — Leslie Vedder
Genre: YA romantasy
Rep: Sapphic; queernorm world
Perfect for fans of Daughter of the Pirate King and Our Flag Means Death comes a swashbuckling YA queer romantasy about a mermaid and a pirate who reluctantly join forces to find the Sea Witch.
Dead Shot Rayleigh has spent the last three years bound to a cursed ship after crossing the sea god Red-Handed Roger. Her only hope for freedom is to find his long-ago stolen heart—which means taking on his sworn enemy, the Sea Witch.
But Rayleigh’s not the only one with a score to settle… Fiery mermaid Maren is also searching for the Sea Witch, determined to bargain for the soul of her lost brother.
When Rayleigh and Maren’s separate missions bring them together, sparks fly, and all their plans go up in flames. Now they’ll have to join forces to survive.
Find the Sea Witch. Steal the heart. And don’t fall for your enemy, no matter how irresistible she is. How hard can it be?
Link: Author’s Website
September 8, 2026
Adam, Mine — K. Ancrum
Genre: Romantic horror thriller
Rep: Queer
From acclaimed author K. Ancrum, on the National Book Award longlist for The Corruption of Hollis Brown, and Lambda Literary Award winner for Icarus, comes a queer romantic horror thriller that is a love letter to Frankenstein about the consequences of our decisions, the legacy of family, and the depths we’ll go to be forgiven.
Victor Frankenstein is a young, wealthy, and brilliant prodigy who wants nothing more than to prove himself and change the world. His plan to right what he feels is wrong with the world? Reanimation of the sick and dying, bringing them back to life. But no one will give him the chance to prove his genius. However, one drunken night a bet is made, one that will cause Victor to do the unspeakable: take a teen boy from a small, neighboring village, and experiment on him under the dark of night. Elias Hilfiker. The boy who would become his monster. His curse.
When Elias awakens, his voice is gone, his skin is stitched, scarred, and branded with strange symbols, and he’s abandoned by his loved ones. Meanwhile, Victor embarks on a journey to discover how to reverse the horror he’s unleashed, visiting dark alchemists in lands far and wide, gripped by fear and guilt.
But Victor’s act of resurrection creates a tether to Elias, leaving them feeling each other’s pain, joy, and regret, as the two each seek a way to end the other. As the two bound boys continue to search for answers and forgiveness, vengeance and mercy, the boundaries between what makes a man and what makes a monster will only get more blurred.
Link: Goodreads
Strange Lights — Mira González
Genre: Paranormal
Rep: Queer
Parenting is never easy, but it’s a hell of a lot harder when your toddler is a chupacabra.
Paranormal investigator and cryptozoologist Reggie has embraced her fate as parent to an adopted toddler, Eldi—a blood-sucking chupacabra with a fondness for goats. Reggie wants nothing more than to put her complicated past in the rearview mirror and fade into as much obscurity as her toddler will allow. But a rash of UFOs in the night sky and a couple of crop-circle-carving Roombas force Reggie into an investigation that attracts the attention of an old enemy, an anti-supernatural agency hunting for creatures like Eldi. To outwit them, Reggie must team up with Calvin: a podcaster-turned-werewolf whose charm is a real threat to Reggie’s rule against romantic attachments.
With Reggie’s history quickly catching up to her and Eldi in the agency’s crosshairs, any shred of normalcy evaporates. Reggie must decide: Can she confront her dark past to save Eldi—and an entire alien species—from getting wiped out of the universe?
Link: Goodreads
A Snake Among Swans — Hannah Kaner
Genre: Fantasy
Rep: Sapphic
Series: Book 1 of The Wing and the Ways
The #1 internationally bestselling author of Godkiller begins a bold new fantasy trilogy—a dark, atmospheric tale of warring kingdoms, wild magic, female rage, and the choice between love and power in a world ruled by conquest.
“Death is come to take you home, death of blood and thorn and bone…”
Tilde has always heard the whispers of the kithwood, the voices of her ancestors speaking through the mysterious forest of her homeland. But now both the kithwood and her kingdom are in danger, for Tilde is the only surviving heir of a conquered land. To stop the bloodshed, she must marry the aging Swan King, Liran, and bear him a son.
But the king’s court is dangerous. Liran’s older sons will do whatever it takes to remove Tilde. And her presence stirs conflict in the heart of Liran’s daughter, the princess Elise, who has only ever known loyalty to her family.
Yet none of them know that Tilde is a snake in their midst, with allies on her side and dark, forbidden power of her own. She wants her kingdom back, and she will sacrifice everything to claim it.
For the queen to rise, the swans must fall.
Link: Kobo
We Turn Gruesome at Night — Eric LaRocca
Genre: Horror
Rep: Queer
Series: Book 2 of Burnt Sparrow
The nightmarish second installment of a new trilogy of provocative, disruptive and brutally poetic queer horror set in a small New England town. From the Bram Stoker Award finalist and Splatterpunk Award-winning author of Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke, an intense, claustrophobic literary horror that is perfect for fans of Agustina Bazterrica, Mariana Enriquez and Paul Tremblay.
Ten years after the devastating massacre that occurred on Christmas morning in 2003 and the community of Burnt Sparrow, NH struggles to move forward. Meanwhile, Rupert Cromwell and Gladys Esherwood find themselves trapped in End House and suffering unbearable monotony day in and day out. When a town courier named Pierce arrives at End House and introduces Rupert to a secret organization known as The Perdido Society, Rupert discovers a deeply intricate and intensely sinister web of secrets spreading through the town. It isn’t long before more blood is spilled, shameful transgressions are revealed, and temptations are finally satisfied.
Captivating and profoundly unnerving, this is the story of two lost souls who are sent on an odyssey into the depths of depravity only for them to discover that it’s quite easy to turn monstrous, to become the thing you once despised. Lyrical, nihilistic and brutally poetic, this is shocking, unflinching, must-read horror from an author at the top of his game.
Link: Kobo
With All My Haunted Heart — Isabel Sterling
Genre: Cozy contemporary fantasy romance
Rep: Sapphic
A witch hired to ethically haunt a small-town B&B instead finds herself spellbound by her non-magical client in this cozy and enchanting sapphic romance.
Steadily losing clients to the new DIY-magic shop on the other side of town, Pippa Ainsley is getting desperate. Instead of hiring the witch to correct their magical maladies, local mundanes have been taking their chances with the cheaper—and unpredictable—crystals and herb blends. So when Pippa’s best friend hires her to inspect his newly acquired bed-and-breakfast for ghosts, she doesn’t think twice about it.
That is, until she learns that his unfairly attractive co-owner, Elle Thompson, doesn’t want Pippa to rid their business of spirits. She wants Pippa to give them an edge over the competition by haunting their B&B.
It’s the perfect challenge for Pippa’s experimental magic, but just because she could figure it out, doesn’t mean it’s a smart or safe idea. But Elle is persistent, and the financial boost could save her own business if Pippa succeeds. Soon, Pippa finds herself testing the limits of her magic… and her ability to stop the growing attraction she feels toward Elle, a woman with a painful secret of her own.
Link: Penguin Random House
September 15, 2026
Locusta — Emily Dexter
Genre: Historical romantasy
Rep: Sapphic
Series: Book 1 of The Poisoned Empire Duology
Circe meets The Lost Apothecary in this sapphic romantasy duology featuring Ancient Rome’s most infamous poisoner who changed the course of history to save the woman she loved.
Born in the ancient region of Gaul, Locusta is the last of her kind—a Druid whose communion with the spirit world grants her the dangerous gift of identifying and wielding deadly substances. When Roman soldiers attack her home and slaughter her mother, Locusta is captured and enslaved, taken to the heart of the empire where political plots abound and death commands a high price. Guided by Arawn, the god of death, she must learn to survive within the brutal, glittering world of ancient Rome.
Her strange talents soon catch the attention of the Roman elite, and she becomes ensnared in a double life—poisoner by night for the cunning Domina Decima, and lady-in-waiting by day to Livia, the Emperor’s ambitious niece. As Locusta plants the seeds of revenge against those who destroyed her home, her connection with Livia deepens into a passionate, forbidden romance that threatens them both. Surrounded by danger and deceit, Locusta’s poisons become their only protection against the increasingly unstable Emperor Caligula and the enemies lurking in every shadow.
A sweeping historical romantasy, Locusta reimagines the rise of one of history’s most complex women through a lens of myth, power, and feminine rage. Rich with ruthless twists, deadly magic, and a sapphic love story that burns from sweet to spicy, this is a story of survival, defiance, and the dangerous alchemy of love and death in a world ruled by men.
Link: Kobo
In These Gilded, Ghostly Hearts — Gwendolyn Kiste
Genre: Horror, retelling
Rep: Queer
Stoker winner Gwendolyn Kiste holds up a dark, queer mirror to The Great Gatsby in In These Gilded, Ghostly Hearts, a haunting exploration of the obsession and control at the edges of an American classic.
In 1955, Daisy Buchanan is found dead in an abandoned West Egg mansion, but her daughter Mel knows she’s really been gone for years. No one knows whether Daisy was murdered, or if it was a simpler, slower death: her yearslong spiral of alcohol, abuse, and helplessness. But when Mel enters the estate, she finds Daisy’s ghost, somehow frozen at twenty-three, and a charming, bleeding phantom that used to be Jay Gatsby.
To free her mother, Mel must carve a path through family secrets and decaying revelers: deep into Gatsby’s starving house, as it gorges itself on unfulfilled love and grows stronger every night.
Link: Goodreads
Bodies of Magic — Freya Marske
Genre: Dark academia fantasy
Rep: Queer
At the Academie of the Grand Duchy of Sieuxerr, every mage with the healer’s gift has five years to master their power and to prepare for the infamous Grand Exam—a five-day trial whose results will determine their entire future.
The list of exam rules includes:
- You will perform five practical cases.
- Your exam group is chosen at random.
- You pass together, or fail together.
It does not include:
- On the first day, your exam group will find a classmate's dead body in the exam hall.
And as they will soon discover, this particular group all have something to hide... and all have a connection with the dead girl, a brilliant scholar who would have been first in their class.
Five scholars. Five secrets. Five days in which to solve a murder, pass the most important exam of their lives, and uncover a secret larger than all of their own combined. One with the potential to change the world.
Are you ready?
Let’s begin.
Link: Goodreads
The Hopeless Romantic’s Guide to Enchantment — Marie O’Regan (ed.)
Genre: Romantasy anthology
Rep: Queer rep in some stories
Rivalries ignite into heated romance, lost lovers seek second chances, and friendships turn to something more in these 12 stunning romantasy stories.
A pair of harried servants try to romance their respective bosses into a universe-saving marriage. Two bitter political rivals discover they have interests in common, and decide not to let a little thing like murder get in the way. After years apart, childhood nemeses come together to resolve their differences, and face down a common foe.
From Regency England to a mysterious Romanian forest, and from a city made of flowers to a sinister faerie train, love conquers all in these 12 beautiful tales.
Link: Goodreads
Thoughts Be Bloody — Auden Patrick
Genre: Fantasy, dark academia, retelling
Rep: Queer, trans
A struggling student, a resident golden boy, and the curse that will bring them together: this queer, trans retelling is Hamlet as you’ve never read it before.
The summer before his sophomore year, Horatio Bithersea walks into the university library to find Carson Hamlett, resident golden boy and master magician, cradling his father’s dead body. Life at Elsinore, one of the most prestigious universities in the secretive magical world, simply goes on when the professor’s death is ruled an accident—despite the mysterious circumstances and the bloody scene.
A year later, Horatio is keeping his head down, attempting to graduate without his out-of-control magic harming his classmates. That changes when the ghost of Hamlett’s father appears and places a curse on Horatio and avenge his death by destroying Elsinore and its heart, lest the ghost robs them of their minds, memories, and their very souls.
Elsinore has given Horatio everything—knowledge of his magical ability, an escape from his abusive family, and freedom to pursue his life as a transgender man—and now he’s to be its doom. As the two uncover more of Elsinore’s secrets Horatio finds himself becoming more and more ensnared in Hamlett’s dark but charismatic web.
The question is not if Horatio will manage to destroy Elsinore. The question is if Hamlett will destroy him first.
Link: Goodreads
This Movie Doesn’t End the Way We Want — Hailey Piper
Genre: Horror
Rep: Queer
A woman, haunted by the disappearance of her sister and best friend thirty years ago, uncovers the terrifying urban legend behind the last film they watched together, in this chilling riff on the cursed film subgenre by the Bram Stoker award-winning author of Queen of Teeth.
In November 1994, three girls visit their local movie theater to see an obscure film. Only one of them is ever seen again.
Thirty years later, Val McQueen has never forgotten the day she lost her little sister and best friend, but she’s closed the curtain on it, certain she’s moved on despite her parents’ resentment and hounding by true crime enthusiasts.
That is until a stranger’s murder brings it all screaming back—a terror she’s tried to tell herself is only a movie. Enlisting the help of cinephile and former classmate Roxie de la Fontaine to find the film, Val soon realizes that hers is not the only pursuit. Someone or something involved with the movie is on the hunt, too…
…For the girl who got away all those years ago.
Link: Goodreads
A Thousand Monstrous Forms — Saratoga Schaefer
Genre: Horror
Rep: Sapphic
A young ceramic artist moves into her new wife’s isolated manor and gets drawn into dark discoveries that stain her marriage—and her very soul. From the author of Serial Killer Support Group and Trad Wife comes a new sapphic horror inspired by the tale of Bluebeard.
Artist Poppy Reed doesn’t care if others think her marriage to Celia Marie Fox, a wealthy art dealer, is impulsive. Sure, they’ve only known each other for six months, and Celia has an infamous reputation, but Poppy is brimming with excitement when she moves across the country to Celia’s home: a formidable, isolated, and art-filled manor called Busirane.
As Poppy tries to celebrate her first weeks of marriage and enjoy her new home, Busirane seems intent on rebuffing her every attempt to settle in. Strange noises and confounding occurrences lead Poppy to believe the house is haunted, a suspicion worsened by Celia’s insistence that Poppy avoid the locked basement.
When Celia leaves for a work trip, Poppy is left alone in the house, then finds herself snowed in. Surrounded by secrets, stalked by faceless statues, and beset by bodiless whispers, she struggles to trust her wife—and her own mind. When Poppy is eventually drawn to the forbidden basement, dark truths shatter everything she thought she knew, throwing her into a desperate bid for survival.
Drenched in dread, this contemporary gothic folktale retelling will have you checking all the locks. Twice.
Link: Kobo
September 16, 2026
This Is How the World Ends — Disco Barrington
Genre: Apocalyptic, dystopian
Rep: Queer
Run the race. Or die.
Britain is at war, isolated by a digital blockade.
Dissidents run a deadly race for the public’s entertainment, while the flood-ravaged country falls apart. The Cartwright family tries to soldier on, refusing to give in to fear. But when catastrophe looms, Emma Cartwright flees – only to find that life beyond the border is anything but safe.
The fight for survival has begun.
This is how the world ends.
Fuelled by queer rage, THIS IS HOW THE WORLD ENDS is a wild, multi-narrative ride through the last days of humanity and the fight for survival that follows. Perfect for fans of Chain-Gang All Stars and Hell Followed With Us.
Link: Goodreads
September 18, 2026
Soulbind — Emma Kennedy
Genre: Fantasy
Rep: Queernorm world
Series: Book 2 of The Tales of Averna
What’s the strength of a soul?
Elowynn’s life changed the day demons poured from the sky, ravaging her village and reducing it to rubble. As the only survivor, she’s dragged away from everything she knows. Wynn’s savior takes her to one of the last remaining settlements: a rebel base where she’s expected to join their ranks in exchange for her rescue. Alone and out of options, she tries to build a new life there.
But Wynn wasn’t pulled from the wreckage unscathed—there’s something lurking inside of her that could either give her more power than ever imagined, or be her ruin. And as she reaches the culmination of her training, she faces one final test to prove she’s in control. When the unthinkable happens, Wynn is forced to choose between taking on an impossible assignment or forfeiting her life.
Setting out with a mismatched band of expendable recruits, they’re given one mission: find the oracle with the knowledge to stop the dangerous magic that’s poisoning their world. Yet that is no simple task. The land is dangerous, the creatures that lurk even more so, and the rebels will have to put aside their differences if they have any hope of succeeding.
Not all truths are worth hearing, and some journeys are not meant to be taken. Wynn must decide how far she’s willing to go for a cause that is not as simple as it seems, as she struggles against the thing threatening her very soul.
Link: Amazon
September 20, 2026
Good and Faithful Sinner — Elliot Sloan
Genre: Science fiction, dystopian
Rep: Queer; gay & trans MCs
In the distant future, long after Earth’s fall, the Seven Stars colony thrives under a strict neo‑Christian regime that dictates everything from belief to identity. Asher Deka has always followed the rules—a disciplined soldier, a dutiful son of the faith, and a man who has learned to hide the truth of who he is.
When whispers of rebellion spread through the colony, carried by those who claim the Mark of the Beast as a symbol of liberation, Asher’s carefully constructed life begins to fracture. His loyalty wavers. His questions multiply. And time spent with a childhood friend, someone who awakens feelings he’s been taught to fear, forces him to confront the desires and grief he’s long buried.
As the resistance grows louder, Asher must choose between the world that shaped him and the future he might finally claim for himself.
Concurrently, Revera Taylor, a trans woman whose smuggling career evolved into espionage, embeds herself within the Seven Stars under a carefully crafted new identity. Seeking to uncover the regime’s most closely guarded secrets, she finds herself drawn into the underground resistance beginning to reshape Asher’s world.
Blending queer resilience, dystopian tension, and the fierce tenderness of found family, Good and Faithful Sinner is a story about breaking silence, reclaiming joy, and daring to imagine a life beyond the boundaries of belief, following multiple voices whose lives collide at the heart of the rebellion.
Link: Kobo
September 22, 2026
To Our Untamed Core — Sonido Reyes
Genre: YA dystopian
Rep: MLM; trans boy MC
The Hunger Games meets The Sunbearer Trials in bestselling and award-winning author Sonido Reyes’s YA dystopia about a boy who survives by hiding his truth until his boyfriend is sentenced to El Torneo—a brutal, fight-to-the-death game—where he must risk everything to save him.
Centuries after the conquistadors claimed the Afueras for their own, Temo spends his life obeying the Holy Order’s decree, undergoing their sacraments to tame his supposedly violent nature.
The only rule he breaks: hiding that he’s trans. If that fact is discovered, Temo will face El Torneo, a brutal, fight-to-the-death game pitting the untamed against one another. No Afuereño who enters El Torneo ever escapes with their life.
But when Temo’s boyfriend is unexpectedly arrested and thrown into the deadly tournament, he’ll do anything to rescue Ollin from his gruesome fate, even if it means entering El Torneo himself.
Only there’s far more to this tournament than meets the eye—survival is just the beginning. When the cost of saving the one he loves the most might be higher than he ever imagined, is Temo willing to pay it?
Link: Goodreads
The Unsolvable Case — Courtney Smyth
Genre: Fantasy murder mystery
Rep: Sapphic MCs; bi MC; fibromyalgia rep
Series: Book 4 of The Undetectables
The queer witchy fantasy murder mystery series concludes in one last mystery for Mallory, Cornelia and Diana, as they have to solve their biggest, and most important case of all—who killed Theodore. Perfect for fans of supernatural mysteries and cosy crime by authors such as Ben Aaranovitch, Josiah Bancroft and Tammie Painter.
It’s three days until Samhain, and the Undetectables are going to die. No longer taking magical cases (not that anyone would hire them), they’ve well and truly given up the ghost.
Meanwhile, Theodore (the relinquished ghost in question) is on the run. Wanted in connection with the Undetectables’ last case, he’s hiding in the last place anyone would think to look, keeping secrets (badly) and forming unlikely alliances (slightly less badly).
When a copycat killer emerges and history appears to be repeating itself, the Undetectables are called up for one last case. Mallory, Diana and Cornelia find themselves in a final race against the clock—but this time, the whole of Occulture is at stake.
Link: Kobo
September 29, 2026
The Bone Brides — Marley Rose-Teter
Genre: YA fantasy
Rep: Sapphic
Nola James can handle it. She can handle that her father is dead. She can handle that her friends, bored with her grief, left her behind. Nola James has to handle it because Lumi—the love of her life and a faery changeling—is in danger. Not only is Lumi's human mother trying to kill her, but she’s being hunted by veiled monsters that want to return her to the fae. Hiding out in an abandoned cabin with only a skeleton-rabbit for company is hard, but Nola can handle it. And she does.
Until Lumi is abducted.
In order to save her, Nola must enter the faery realm: a boggy world in which eyeless horses parade as brides, ghost-bees produce transformative honey, and skeletons dance in skin-colored cloaks. Aided by a witch-girl with uncertain motives, Nola uncovers the realm’s terrifying power over changelings. If Nola can’t outplay an abyssal faery queen and find the courage to let the world see her own pain, Lumi will be trapped—not only in faeryland but in a skin that’s not her own.
Link: Goodreads
The Darkness Bites Back — Laura R. Samotin & Ben Alderson
Genre: Paranormal romance
Rep: M/M
Series: Book 1 of The Shadows Have Teeth
A queer, vampiric romance retelling of Romeo and Juliet set in modern-day Oxford by two bestselling authors. Perfect for fans of A Dowry of Blood.
Tobias Osian was turned into a vampire in 1576 when Vladimir Damianos, head of Britain’s strongest vampire family, left him alive after a night of debauched killing. Ever since, Tobias has been consumed by plans for revenge against the man who stole his mortality and his family.
Posing as a human, he hatches a plan to infiltrate the Damianos family in order to get to Vladimir. What Tobias does not plan for is Alexander Damianos, Vladimir’s eldest son. Wanting to escape his family’s expectations, Alexander has rebelled against his father, pretending instead to be a human, and becoming a professor at Oxford.
When the two meet, Alexander is instantly enamoured with the “mortal” librarian Tobias. Tobias, on the other hand, sees Alexander as a means to an end. Get into bed with the young Damianos, and he might finally get the closure he seeks.
But when a string of murders brings them closer together, Tobias must decide what means more to him: vengeance, or his growing attraction to Alexander?
A dark and moody paranormal romance filled with plot twists, angst, and a hint of murder.
Link: Kobo
This Town Ain’t Big Enough — D. D. Webb
Genre: High fantasy western
Rep: Queer
Series: Book 3 of The Gods Are Bastards
On the road to becoming heroes, uniting a small town might be their biggest challenge yet, in the third book of this sprawling fantasy western series.
In the low-down, run-down frontier town of Sarasio, the quicker you are with a wand, the longer you will live—not that anyone with any sense would want to live there. And this ramshackle dungheap is where a group of University greenhorns has just been handed a new assignment: clean up the streets. After all, they have learned to work together and fight for one another. Now they just have to do the same for Sarasio’s feuding townsfolk and elves. Good thing there is a genuine paladin on their side.
But they have no idea just how much trouble they are in for... In a town full of reprobates, even the worst of them are terrified of the dreaded White Riders, who control the territory with an iron grip. If they cannot save Sarasio, the empire is going to take notice—and wipe the stain of a town clean off the map.
The days of adventuring are long gone. Cold hard reality is what holds sway in the empire of Tiraas. Which is why the powers that be are growing concerned that their less-than-honorable acolytes are being slaughtered—with adventurers, heroes, cultists, and any other enemies of the Church branded as the prime suspects.
The third volume of the genre-blending fantasy epic based on the hit web novel with more than eleven million views—plus almost four million views on Royal Road—now available in paperback, ebook, and audiobook!
Link: Goodreads