Tryst Six Venom


Penelope Douglas - 2021
    š‘®š’†š’• š’“š’†š’‚š’…š’š!š˜¾š™‡š˜¼š™”Marymount girls are good girls. Weā€™re chaste, weā€™re untouched, and even if we werenā€™t, no one would know, because we keep our mouths shut.Not that I have anything to share anyway. I never let guys go too far. Iā€™m behaved. Beautiful, smart, talented, popular, my skirtā€™s always pressed, and I never have a hair out of place. I own the hallways, walking tall on Monday and dropping to my knees like the good Catholic girl I am on Sunday.Thatā€™s me. Always in control. Or so they think. The truth is that itā€™s easy for me to resist them, because what I truly want, they can never be. Something soft and smooth. Someone dangerous and wild. Unfortunately, what I want I have to hide. In the locker room after hours. In the bathroom stall between classes. In the showers after practice. š‘€š‘¦ ā„Žš‘’š‘Žš‘‘ š‘ š‘¤š‘–š‘šš‘šš‘–š‘›š‘”. š‘€š‘¦ ā„Žš‘Žš‘›š‘‘ š‘¢š‘ ā„Žš‘’š‘Ÿ š‘ š‘˜š‘–š‘Ÿš‘”. For me, life is a web of secrets. No one can find out mine. š™Šš™‡š™„š™‘š™„š˜¼I cross the tracks every day for one reasonā€”to graduate from this school and get into the Ivy League. Iā€™m not ashamed of where I come from, my family, or how everyone at Marymount thinks my skirts are too short and my lipstick is too red. Clay Collins and her friends have always turned up their noses at me. The witch with her beautiful skin, clean shoes, and rich parents who torments me daily and thinks I wonā€™t fight back.At least not until I get her alone and find out sheā€™s hiding so much more than just whatā€™s underneath those pretty clothes. The princess thinks Iā€™ll scratch her itch. She thinks sheā€™s still pure as long as itā€™s not a guy touching her. I told her to stay on her side of town. I told her not to cross the tracks. But one night, she did. And when Iā€™m done with her, sheā€™ll never be pure again. *TRYST SIX VENOM is a standalone, new adult, bully romance suitable for readers 18+. It will release directly into Kindle Unlimited!

Ask the Passengers


A.S. King - 2012
    Instead, Astrid spends hours lying on the backyard picnic table watching airplanes fly overhead. She doesn't know the passengers inside, but they're the only people who won't judge her when she asks them her most personal questions--like what it means that she's falling in love with a girl.As her secret relationship becomes more intense and her friends demand answers, Astrid has nowhere left to turn. She can't share the truth with anyone except the people at thirty thousand feet, and they don't even know she's there. But little does Astrid know just how much even the tiniest connection will affect these strangers' lives--and her own--for the better.In this truly original portrayal of a girl struggling to break free of society's definitions, Printz Honor author A.S. King asks readers to question everything--and offers hope to those who will never stop seeking real love.

Fire Logic


Laurie J. Marks - 2002
    Shaftal's ruling house has been scattered by the invading Sainnites. The Shaftali have mobilized a guerrilla army against these marauders, but every year the cost of resistance grows, leaving Shaftal's fate in the hands of three people: Emil, scholar and reluctant warrior; Zanja, the sole survivor of a slaughtered tribe; and Karis the metalsmith, a half-blood giant whose earth powers can heal, but only when she can muster the strength to hold off her addiction to a deadly drug.Separately, all they can do is watch as Shaftal falls from prosperity into lawlessness and famine. But if they can find a way to work together, they just may change the course of history.

Music from Another World


Robin Talley - 2020
    Not at her strict Christian high school, not at her conservative Orange County church and certainly not at home, where her ultrareligious aunt relentlessly organizes antigay political campaigns. Tammyā€™s only outlet is writing secret letters in her diary to gay civil rights activist Harvey Milkā€¦until sheā€™s matched with a real-life pen pal who changes everything.Sharon Hawkins bonds with Tammy over punk music and carefully shared secrets, and soon their letters become the one place she can be honest. The rest of her life in San Francisco is full of lies. The kind she tells for othersā€”like helping her gay brother hide the truth from their momā€”and the kind she tells herself. But as antigay fervor in America reaches a frightening new pitch, Sharon and Tammy must rely on their long-distance friendship to discover their deeply personal truths, what theyā€™ll stand forā€¦and who theyā€™ll rise against.

The Fifth Surgeon


Faith Prize - 2021
    She picks a stranger online for a one-night stand.Ashley Rylan, the chief of Nadiaā€™s department, is her polar oppositeā€”sweet, agreeable, and soft-spokenā€”and the stranger Nadia unwittingly chooses.The two womenā€™s meeting is a hostile disaster and they would love nothing more than to never see each other again. However, their paths keep colliding as Nadia embarks on an ambitious experiment that could lead to a historic medical breakthrough.Despite warring egos and the secrets they keep, their connection is powerful and growing. Maybe having sex would help them get over their distraction at work? Or would that just ruin everything?A lesbian medical romance about the powerful breakthroughs we canā€™t always see.Tags: ice queen romance, medical romance, opposites-attract romance100,000 words

One Last Stop


Casey McQuiston - 2021
    She canā€™t imagine how waiting tables at a 24-hour pancake diner and moving in with too many weird roommates could possibly change that. And thereā€™s certainly no chance of her subway commute being anything more than a daily trudge through boredom and electrical failures.But then, thereā€™s this gorgeous girl on the train.Jane. Dazzling, charming, mysterious, impossible Jane. Jane with her rough edges and swoopy hair and soft smile, showing up in a leather jacket to save Augustā€™s day when she needed it most. Augustā€™s subway crush becomes the best part of her day, but pretty soon, she discovers thereā€™s one big problem: Jane doesnā€™t just look like an old school punk rocker. Sheā€™s literally displaced in time from the 1970s, and August is going to have to use everything she tried to leave in her own past to help her. Maybe itā€™s time to start believing in some things, after all.Casey McQuistonā€™s One Last Stop is a magical, sexy, big-hearted romance where the impossible becomes possible as August does everything in her power to save the girl lost in time.

Hot Head


Damon Suede - 2011
    Unfortunately, Dante is strictly a ladiesā€™ man, and the FDNY isnā€™t exactly gay-friendly. For ten years, Griff has hidden his heart in a half-life of public heroics and private anguish.Griffā€™s caution and Danteā€™s cockiness make them an unbeatable team. To protect his buddy, thereā€™s nothing Griff wouldnā€™t doā€¦ until a nearly bankrupt Dante proposes the worst possible solution: HotHead.com, a gay porn website where uniformed hunks get down and dirty. And Dante wants them to appear thereā€”together. Griff may have to guard his heart and live out his darkest fantasies on camera. Can he rescue the man he loves without wrecking their careers, their families, or their friendship?

Princess of Dorsa


Eliza Andrews - 2018
     Princess Natasia is the eldest child of the Emperor Andreth, ruler of the Four Realms. If she were a boy, sheā€™d be the unquestioned heir to the throne. But as a girl, her main duty in life is to marry someone her father can shape into his successor. Everything changes when an unknown would-be assassin nearly takes Tasiaā€™s life. Someone wants to destabilize the Empire ā€” but who? Was the assassin aligned with the power-hungry Western lords, who have always rebelled against the Emperor? Was he hired by the barbarians in the East, who are fighting against the Empireā€™s subjugation? Or was he a member of the mysterious Cult of Culo? Unsure of whom he can trust, the Emperor realizes that his daughter might be his best option for an heir. There hasn't been a female heir to the throne in living memory, but as palace intrigue becomes increasingly dangerous, the reckless, rebellious, and stubborn princess suddenly has to face the responsibility of learning to lead. Will she rise to the occasion? Or will the Empire fall at the hands of one of its many enemies? For fans of epic fantasyā€¦ with an LGBTQ twist.

Try


Ella Frank - 2013
    Logan Mitchell loves it, and ever since he realized his raw sexual appeal at a young age, he has had no problem using it to his advantage. Men and women alike fall into his bedā€”after all, Logan is not one to discriminate. He lives by one mottoā€”if something interests you, why not just take a chance and try?And he wants to try Tate Morrison.Just coming out of a four-year marriage with an ex-wife from hell, a relationship is the last thing on Tateā€™s mind. Heā€™s starting fresh and trying to get back on his feet with a new job at an upscale bar in downtown Chicago.The only problem is, Tate has caught the unwavering and unwelcome attention of Mr. Logan Mitchell ā€“ a regular at the bar and a man who always gets what he wants.Night after night Tate fends off the persistent advances of the undeniably charismatic man, but after an explosive moment in the bar, all bets are off as he finds his body stirring with a different desire than his mind.As arrogance, stubbornness and sexual tension sizzles between the two, it threatens to change the very course of their lives.Logan doesnā€™t do relationships. Tate doesnā€™t do men. But what would happen if they both just gave in andā€¦tried?GENRE: M/M

Santa Olivia


Jacqueline Carey - 2009
    Loup Garron was born and raised in Santa Olivia, an isolated, disenfranchised town next to a US military base inside a DMZ buffer zone between Texas and Mexico. A fugitive "Wolf-Man" who had a love affair with a local woman, Loup's father was one of a group of men genetically-manipulated and used by the US government as a weapon. The "Wolf-Men" were engineered to have superhuman strength, speed, sensory capability, stamina, and a total lack of fear, and Loup, named for and sharing her father's wolf-like qualities, is marked as an outsider. After her mother dies, Loup goes to live among the misfit orphans at the parish church, where they seethe from the injustices visited upon the locals by the soldiers. Eventually, the orphans find an outlet for their frustrations: They form a vigilante group to support Loup Garron who, costumed as their patron saint, Santa Olivia, uses her special abilities to avenge the town. Aware that she could lose her freedom, and possibly her life, Loup is determined to fight to redress the wrongs her community has suffered. And like the reincarnation of their patron saint, she will bring hope to all of Santa Olivia.

A Little Light Mischief


Cat Sebastian - 2019
    Sheā€™s determined to keep her hands to herself, so she really shouldnā€™t be tempted to seduce her employerā€™s prim and proper companion, Alice. But how can she resist when Alice canā€™t seem to keep her eyes off Molly?Finds her own heartFor the first time in her life, Alice Stapleton has absolutely nothing to do. The only thing that seems to occupy her thoughts is a ladyā€™s maid with a sharp tongue and a beautiful mouth. Her determination to know Mollyā€™s secrets has her behaving in ways she never imagined as she begins to fall for the impertinent woman.Has been stolenWhen an unwelcome specter from Aliceā€™s past shows up unexpectedly at a house party, Molly volunteers to help the only way she knows how: with a little bit of mischief.

Honey Girl


Morgan Rogers - 2021
    She is not the kind of person who goes to Vegas and gets drunkenly married to a woman whose name she doesnā€™t knowā€¦until she does exactly that.This one moment of departure from her stern ex-military fatherā€™s plans for her life has Grace wondering why she doesnā€™t feel more fulfilled from completing her degree. Staggering under the weight of her fatherā€™s expectations, a struggling job market and feelings of burnout, Grace flees her home in Portland for a summer in New York with the wife she barely knows.When reality comes crashing in, Grace must face what sheā€™s been running from all alongā€”the fears that make us human, the family scars that need to heal and the longing for connection, especially when navigating the messiness of adulthood.

Mrs. Martinā€™s Incomparable Adventure


Courtney Milan - 2019
    Bertrice Martinā€”a widow, some seventy-three years youngā€”has kept her youthful-ish appearance with the most powerful of home remedies: daily doses of spite, regular baths in man-tears, and refusing to give so much as a single damn about her Terrible Nephew. Then proper, correct Miss Violetta Beauchamps, a sprightly young thing of nine and sixty, crashes into her life. The Terrible Nephew is living in her rooming house, and Violetta wants him gone. Mrs. Martin isnā€™t about to start giving damns, not even for someone as intriguing as Miss Violetta. But she hatches another planā€”to make her nephew sorry, to make Miss Violetta smile, and to have the finest adventure of all time. If she makes Terrible Men angry and wins the hand of a lovely lady in the process? Those are just added bonuses. Authorā€™s Note: Sometimes I write villains who are subtle and nuanced. This is not one of those times. The Terrible Nephew is terrible, and terrible things happen to him. Sometime villains really are bad and wrong, and sometimes, we want them to suffer a lot of consequences.

It's Not a Date


Heather Blackmore - 2018
    Entrepreneur and innovator Kadrienne Davenport gets results. A demanding executive and stickler for punctuality, Kade throws herself into work to avoid hurting anyone, convinced she only causes pain to those she loves. When Jennifer Spencer meets an incognito Kade at a conference, sparks fly. But when Kade unexpectedly becomes her boss, Jenā€™s problems multiply. The company she founded is going broke, her grandmotherā€™s dementia is worsening, and her attraction to Kadeā€•her difficult, brilliant, charismatic mentorā€•is growing. Kadeā€™s desire to keep things professional between them is in Jenā€™s best interest. Yet whatā€™s in Kadeā€™s best interestā€¦is Jen.

The Summer I Wasn't Me


Jessica Verdi - 2014
    And now she's afraid that what's left of her family is going to fall apart for good.Lexi knows she can fix everything. She can change. She can learn to like boys. New Horizons summer camp has promised to transform her life, and there's nothing she wants more than to start over.But sometimes love has its own path...