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,...

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...

In the literary fiction novel, I Am Danvers by Kate Kaminski, Marie “Danny” Danvers makes a living as a live-in companion inside very wealthy homes. After a job with the Whitaker family ends in accusations, art adviser Ian St. Martin sends her to Los Angeles...

Jonah’s Queer Journey Into the Magical Realm of Believing by James E. Reese revolves around a young man caught between the pressures of everyday life and a strange pull toward something he can’t quite name. When he slips into a magical world, the rules that...

M. Soler’s 6060 Vision blends speculative fiction with sci-fi to create a frightening world. In 6060, Earth has been ravaged by a solar phenomenon known as the Glow, which accelerates evolution into lands filled with hyper-adaptive flora and new sentient forms. Sam is the narrator,...

Embrace the Truth is the third book in the Desert of Dreams Series by Amanda LaPera; the story of Misty and her coming-of-age in the late 1980s and early 1990s in Antelope Valley, California. She grew up in a household with a father with a...

Queer Justice by Alex Charns is a historical legal novel that blends fiction with real figures and events from the turbulent political climate of the 1960s. The story centers on a young attorney, Mitch Pilsudski, who is assigned to represent George Smith, a teenage defendant...

Flamingo Express by Kenneth D. Michaels is a remarkable cozy crime mystery with touches of LGBT romance. Detectives Nick Scott and Norm Malone travel to Key West to help their friends Jojo and Lola, private detectives, to investigate a complex and high-risk case of fentanyl...