The Salt in the Tides

Celia Sloane

Peyton Steele has everything she ever dreamed of. A powerful fiancé with political aspirations, a picture-perfect family, and two adorable, fuzzy kitty companions. Except, maybe she wasn’t dreaming big enough. Karina Knox never pictured her life like this. She never intended to be a single mom and a widow by the end of her twenties. With a young toddler to juggle and a small business, life seems to never slow down. Fast fascination takes over when Peyton crashes into Karina’s life, one that neither ever anticipated. But when fascination turns to friendship and friendship leads to something else entirely, the two of them must tread carefully to avoid life crashing down around them. The Salt in the Tides is a sapphic, small-town, single-mom romance with dual first-person POVs.

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In These Gilded, Ghostly Hearts

Gwendolyn Kiste

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.

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Hunted

C.A. Mariah

Amira: I’m so tired. It’s the only emotion I feel anymore, or it was until I found what my father was hiding deep in his closet. The letters changed everything. The inescapable fog constantly surrounding my mind has cleared and now there isn’t anything stopping me from digging further into the truth. The truth to why she left. Why she abandoned me to this life with monsters surrounding every corner. My plan was slow forming, but everything clicked into place when he stepped into my life again. He may have made reaching my goal easier, but my heart? It wasn’t ready for Roman Marcello. Roman: Life behind bars wasn’t hard. Did it have its challenges? F**k yeah, but life was full of those before prison. After serving three consecutive years, I’m out and am ready to start my life somewhere far from home. But I have some things to take care of before that happens. I step back into my old life, ready to walk right out when my past comes snapping in my face, but when I’m offered a chance to get what I really want, the opportunity to see her again, my plan changes. Now all that matters is her. My angel. My Amira.

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Hunted

C.A. Mariah

Amira: I’m so tired. It’s the only emotion I feel anymore, or it was until I found what my father was hiding deep in his closet. The letters changed everything. The inescapable fog constantly surrounding my mind has cleared and now there isn’t anything stopping me from digging further into the truth. The truth to why she left. Why she abandoned me to this life with monsters surrounding every corner. My plan was slow forming, but everything clicked into place when he stepped into my life again. He may have made reaching my goal easier, but my heart? It wasn’t ready for Roman Marcello. Roman: Life behind bars wasn’t hard. Did it have its challenges? F**k yeah, but life was full of those before prison. After serving three consecutive years, I’m out and am ready to start my life somewhere far from home. But I have some things to take care of before that happens. I step back into my old life, ready to walk right out when my past comes snapping in my face, but when I’m offered a chance to get what I really want, the opportunity to see her again, my plan changes. Now all that matters is her. My angel. My Amira.

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In These Gilded, Ghostly Hearts

Gwendolyn Kiste

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.

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Queenslander

Laura Garden

Farms collect broken things. Things awaiting resurrection. Since getting out of juvie, Ronnie Madonna has built a tentative life in Lionheart working as a farmhand for Nev at Upsend Downs, but one thing is still missing: her daughter Rainbow. When she realizes she has a chance to get Rainbow back, she must prove she is a responsible adult and a good mother. Her quest will take a village, and will force her to confront demons from her past. Will she follow her football dreams to Brisbane or put down roots on the land that holds a mysterious power over her and her boss? Ten years ago, jaded former war photographer Nev Bickerman woke to a pregnant teenager smashing the family room with a cricket bat. Now, Nev is far too professional to admit she’s falling in love. Welcome to Lionheart, aka “Line Hat,” a small town between the Outback and the rainforest healing from colonial scars, where climate change threatens both agriculture and eco-tourism. Gritty and hilarious, with emotional momentum, Queenslander is the first book in this Australian family drama series about a close-knit village of misfits and monsters. "This extraordinary debut from Laura Garden is so many things: a lyrical ode to Queensland and its people, an exploration of love in all its many forms, a double portrait of two women who only appear to be perfect opposites to one another, but in fact share a bond deeper than blood. Queenslander, like its protagonists Ronnie and Nev, never gives up its secrets easily, but the rewards along the way are well worth the journey. Lush and transportive, tender and fierce, this is a novel that lives on well after the last page." —Hesse Phillips, author of Lightborne "A moving story about queer family, identity, and belonging set on a sheep farm in Australia, Queenslander shows how people can atone for their past mistakes and discover who they're meant to be.” —Milo Todd, nationally bestselling author of The Lilac People

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Queenslander

Laura Garden

Farms collect broken things. Things awaiting resurrection. Since getting out of juvie, Ronnie Madonna has built a tentative life in Lionheart working as a farmhand for Nev at Upsend Downs, but one thing is still missing: her daughter Rainbow. When she realizes she has a chance to get Rainbow back, she must prove she is a responsible adult and a good mother. Her quest will take a village, and will force her to confront demons from her past. Will she follow her football dreams to Brisbane or put down roots on the land that holds a mysterious power over her and her boss? Ten years ago, jaded former war photographer Nev Bickerman woke to a pregnant teenager smashing the family room with a cricket bat. Now, Nev is far too professional to admit she’s falling in love. Welcome to Lionheart, aka “Line Hat,” a small town between the Outback and the rainforest healing from colonial scars, where climate change threatens both agriculture and eco-tourism. Gritty and hilarious, with emotional momentum, Queenslander is the first book in this Australian family drama series about a close-knit village of misfits and monsters. "This extraordinary debut from Laura Garden is so many things: a lyrical ode to Queensland and its people, an exploration of love in all its many forms, a double portrait of two women who only appear to be perfect opposites to one another, but in fact share a bond deeper than blood. Queenslander, like its protagonists Ronnie and Nev, never gives up its secrets easily, but the rewards along the way are well worth the journey. Lush and transportive, tender and fierce, this is a novel that lives on well after the last page." —Hesse Phillips, author of Lightborne "A moving story about queer family, identity, and belonging set on a sheep farm in Australia, Queenslander shows how people can atone for their past mistakes and discover who they're meant to be.” —Milo Todd, nationally bestselling author of The Lilac People

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Inside the Paint: A Sapphic Sports Romance (Courting Blizzards Book 2)

Sasha Brennan

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