Roads Not Taken by Emily Gallo is a quiet novel focused on choices. The book begins with Malcolm Washington, a 20-something person of color, trying to plant roots and start his adult life in Venice Beach. He’s a waiter, but when he decides that a...

In Alex Vandra’s Damián, a former CIA operative turned member of the elite Harknett 8 security agency, Damián Soto is a charming player who avoids commitment. When an old agency contact brings him a case against the world's most elusive trafficker, Elijah West, Damián infiltrates...

Arshes is going after the Monster, her father Daelen StormTiger, to accomplish her ultimate mission: to stop the Monster from annihilating Tempestria. But that’s not the only threat Tempestria is facing. Time is running out as the decaying pocket dimension in which it is trapped...

At twenty-two, Carter and Christian, childhood friends turned lovers, are graduating from Northern Arizona University. Carter surprises Christian with a marriage proposal on the same day but is left shocked and devastated when Christian turns him down. He heads to Boston, where he had planned...

Sparks by Jae follows Willow Greene, a reserved and socially awkward administrative employee whose unusual tendency to short-circuit computers and other electronics has earned her a reputation around the office. Her constant technical mishaps regularly bring her into contact with Scottie Prescott, a friendly and...

Gaia B. Amman’s An Italian Adventure follows Leda, who insists on being called Lee, as she grows up in 1980s Arese, a town north of Milan where fields, gated communities, and Catholic ritual sit side by side. Lee is the smallest child in her class,...

Heroes come into our lives at unexpected moments. That is true for Robert Marion, the main character in Rich Merritt’s Trials of a Legal Junkie. Rob was a closeted gay man serving in the United States Marine Corps in the 'Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell' era....

The Gift follows Butch Blackwell, a boy raised by his mother, Pansy, inside the strict world of the Jehovah’s Witnesses after his father, Ace Sharkey, disappears before his birth. Butch grows up in rural California under rules that shape his life, while rancher Steve Bultemeyer...

Brighter Than the Sun is the second book in Kit Erikson’s San Francisco Sex Gods, and it delivers an enthralling portrayal of San Francisco’s gay nightlife. Blake Larsen is a beguilingly handsome exotic dancer and porn star known as Dirk Slocum. He dreams of opening...

In Patrick C. Notchtree’s The Two Pink Sheep, Ethan Robson grows up in Bilthaven with the memory of Mark Martin, a school friend whose death teaches him how dangerous secrecy can become. At Thirlham University, Ethan meets James Boyle, an Irish history student whose family...