Little Black Bird

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Kirchner, Anna

Fantasy

Gurt Dog Press

Tristanja, 1239 AD\nHaving lost her home and family in a raid, Meya flees east but is captured and abused by a slave trader before being sold to Lord Deminas, patron of the local lands. She’s forced to work as his chambermaid and discovers the Lord is as cruel as the rumours have made him out to be. 
Yet, he’s rather protective of Meya and punishes anyone who dares hurt her. Even when he drinks her blood, he goes as far as to use his own to heal her wounds. Meya learns the castle holds many dark secrets; servants regularly vanish, including all the Lord’s previous chambermaids. 
Meya and her paramour must ensure the same doesn’t happen to either of them, especially since it’s unclear if the Lord only desires Meya’s blood.

My Lord

Literature & Fiction

Shimaira, L. B.

Genre Fiction

Leon, a drag performer and club owner, loses his arm in a brutal werewolf attack that leaves him saddled with a destructive curse. Unaware of the monster he will become, the curse leads him to massacring his own club guests, and his tiny found-family is destroyed along with his life. Now, homeless and tormented by horrific nightmares of the murders he committed, he runs away from everything he knows.Eventually, he meets Ceri, a Welshman who has been helping another werewolf to hunt down the rogue that bit them. He invites Leon to live with him above her shop and Leon gladly lends his own assistance to the hunt, eager to atone for his bloody past in the hopes he might one day be able to have a home and a family again…

Rough Sleepers (Lunar Shadows)

Rowan, Nem

Dorset, England, Summer 1988. 
At the suggestion of his psychiatrist, Peter, a transgender man recovering from PTSD, returns to the holiday resort he visited as a child in the hopes of finding some peace and respite. It’s just like he remembers: the pebble beach and rolling waves, the fairground full of lights and laughter, the cosy caravan park. It’s a beautiful summer and Peter is sure he’s going to have a great vacation… 
But all of that is shattered when he meets a strange woman on a motorcycle, a woman who insists that this idyllic resort is the home of a lurking evil. Even after witnessing the murder of a girl who isn’t quite human, Peter still has his doubts. He looks around and sees only sun, sea and sand. He sees only memories of his grandparents and visions of his childhood. Where is this evil, if it’s truly present? Where are the vampires that are supposedly sucking the life out of people? 
Soon, though, things start to get weird and Peter decides he can no longer ignore it. There’s something strange about the town, especially the hotel on the hill that overlooks the entire resort: the Sapphire Deep Hotel. A luxury guesthouse for rich patrons, seemingly out of place amongst the caravan- and tent-dwelling visitors. 
It’s not long before Peter comes to see the hotel as the centre of the undercurrent of darkness, and the only way to find the source of this darkness is to go in. 
‘The Lost Boys’ meets ‘A Cure For Wellness’ in this queer adventure that is steeped deeply in 1980s culture, music and media. THE SAPPHIRE DEEP is a gory, Goosebumps-style mystery perfect for any child of the 80s, and the third standalone installment in the Lunar Shadows universe.

The Sapphire Deep (Lunar Shadows)

The Ruiner

Romance

LGBTQ+ Romance

In every story, humans are the weaker species. 
They are defeated. They fall. They become cattle. 
Of course, this is absurd. In the real world, humans survive and conquer. They remain the dominant species. 
For Gyldan Crawford, this is a blessing and a curse. Working for a man who sells tools to regulate vampires and werewolves means Gyldan can provide for his household. But, as the only human living in the house, his choice of profession has always been a sore point... until his friends decide to make use of his position to fight back. 
Gyldan is forced to keep several plates spinning—one that makes him the perfect personal assistant to his boss, Albion Saint-Richter; one that supports his friends in taking down his employer; and one that keeps his intimate relationship with Albion a secret. He really doesn't have time for another plate to be added to his frantic performance. But when an unknown entity starts killing off Albion's competitors, the rumour mill starts churning: is the murderer a vampire, a werewolf, or a human?

A Cure for Humanity

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Haringrey, A. L.

Thrillers & Suspense

Astrologers govern the lives of both the blessed from the plateau of Gemynd and the downtrodden from the farming lands of Rask.When Einya reluctantly joins the settlement’s ruling star-cult, she thinks only of the rights it will give her: the permission to marry her Raskian lover. Instead she is thrown onto a treacherous path of betrayal and political strife, trapped within the cult persecuting Rask.Forced to drink the blood of the stars and steal their thoughts, Einya ends up at the heart of a fierce rebellion, caught between a fight for freedom and the strange luring power of the stars.

Testament of the Stars

Beaumont, Alexandra

Fifty years ago, Captain Nina Brooke hand-picked a crew from across the world to accompany her on the mission of a lifetime. Today, they’re all waking up. The Posterity is making her final approach to their new home planet, and the work is about to begin. Humanity wasn’t an endangered species when they set off on this mission, but it’s a darn sight closer to being one now. No pressure, then. 
The new planet seems perfect; plenty of resources, good settlement locations, habitable climates. After what happened to Earth, Nina is conscious that they need to take better care of this one. It takes all sorts to make a world, and Nina’s got all sorts asleep in her cryobay; not only the people required to build it, but the ones to make it feel like home, too. After all, what good is saving humanity if you leave the best parts of it behind? 
Some people find it easier than others to start new lives here on the other side of the galaxy, but then, it all depends on what they left behind. As Nina navigates relationships old and new, will she finally find the one thing she’s never had: a home?

Posterity

Newton, Jess

Science Fiction

Discover the Dark Heart of America’s Heartland. 
Essen, Indiana never felt like home to Kyle Thomas. Now, as he returns fifteen years after he was kicked out for being gay, he finds it stranger than ever. His novelist father, days after releasing his newest book—Dunbar’s Grove—committed suicide. And most people think his father’s book was a thinly-disguised confession to the murder of Kyle’s mother years before. 
A mysterious note in his father’s old typewriter points to a secret the town is keeping. How did this little town in the middle of nowhere get so much money? What does the elite Minty Green Club have to do with it? 
Kyle decides to put his investigative journalist skills to the test, reconnecting with old friends and running into old foes. The closer he gets to the town’s secrets, the fewer people he can trust and the more every trail seems to lead to the mysterious grove of trees outside of town.

In the Dark of the Grove

Huff, Jon Wesley

Come get lost in the Hinterland with these ten dark tales that draw on inspiration from folklore. 
Clever mortals fool Death, escape peril and battle curses. Witches seduce with malicious intent and monsters trick across different centuries. A child discovers a hidden secret about themselves while a hell-hound finds their past. Love is found between fearful creatures and a rivalry between cousins comes to a bitter end. 
The line between what is good and what is evil blurs, leaving you asking yourself, who is the monster here and would I act any different if placed in their shoes? 
Featuring stories by: L. B. Shimaira, Jamie Rose, April-Jane Rowan, A. J. Van Belle, Toni Mobley, Die Booth, Claire Olivia Golden, Dez Schwartz, Antonija Meznaric and Eleonora Prandini. 
Beware, because once you enter the Hinterland, you might not be able to find your way home.

Folk Tales from the Hinterland: A queer anthology of dark tales

Mobley, Toni

Rose, Jamie

Booth, Die

Van Belle, A.J.

Mežnarić, Antonija

Rowan, April-Jane

Schwartz, Dez

Golden, Claire Olivia

Prandini, Eleonora

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