The Wicker Man meets The Twisted Ones in Bitter Karella’s Quaint Folk—a queer folk horror novel that peels back the idyllic veneer of a seemingly perfect island town to reveal the rot beneath.   From the outside, it looks like Jessica has the perfect life. She's a stay-at-home mom, married to a man with a respectable job, raising a son they adore. Her family is as wholesome as all-American pie. But deep down, Jessica knows there's something wrong with her; she knows she can't escape her past.  When her husband’s job has them move abroad, Jessica thinks this is her chance for a fresh start. On the remote island of Hasenhurst, the modern world can’t get in. The people there grow their own herbs, make their own jam, and mind their own business. They believe in folk tales and the power of dreams. They tell visitors, we’re a quaint, quiet people.The right sort of family would do well here. Jessica is determined to be the right kind of person for a family—and a life—like this. But as she tries to befriend the townsfolk and learn their ways, she soon realizes that beneath the town’s cozy idyll, something sickly-sweet and rotten lays buried...   

*This is a lesbian omegaverse fantasy romance. If you're not a fan of alpha chicks with dicks, please click away. In the idyllic castle of High Nestia, friendships run deep but secrets run deeper. Can Hana Montaigne rise above the betrayal that binds her? In High Nestia, where friendships are forged in steel, High Archer Hana Montaigne is a deceiver of the highest order. She’s loved, and loved wrongly. Now, the past is her only companion. Haunted by the consequences of her choices and burdened by the remorse that shadows her every step, Hana is convinced that she doesn’t deserve kindness or… love. Until she meets Zenith Honeybeam. Zenith is a recluse. A hermit. A loner. And she prefers it that way. People are hard to read, and even harder to understand. Her little apothecary in the fringes of the sacred forest has served her well. But when Hana Montaigne arrives on her doorstep, angry and heatstruck, Zenith finds her walls beginning to crumble. Hana is all power and pride, and with each kiss, she drags Zenith into a whirlwind of want beyond the Alpha’s wildest imagination. Will Hana be able to rise above the betrayal that binds her, and accept the love that is so readily offered?

*This is a lesbian omegaverse fantasy romance. If you're not a fan of alpha chicks with dicks, please click away. In the idyllic castle of High Nestia, friendships run deep but secrets run deeper. Can Hana Montaigne rise above the betrayal that binds her? In High Nestia, where friendships are forged in steel, High Archer Hana Montaigne is a deceiver of the highest order. She’s loved, and loved wrongly. Now, the past is her only companion. Haunted by the consequences of her choices and burdened by the remorse that shadows her every step, Hana is convinced that she doesn’t deserve kindness or… love. Until she meets Zenith Honeybeam. Zenith is a recluse. A hermit. A loner. And she prefers it that way. People are hard to read, and even harder to understand. Her little apothecary in the fringes of the sacred forest has served her well. But when Hana Montaigne arrives on her doorstep, angry and heatstruck, Zenith finds her walls beginning to crumble. Hana is all power and pride, and with each kiss, she drags Zenith into a whirlwind of want beyond the Alpha’s wildest imagination. Will Hana be able to rise above the betrayal that binds her, and accept the love that is so readily offered?

A rebellious anthology of porn stories about sex and the modern femme: no-holds-barred queer sex tales that reinvent lesbian erotica in ways that are transgressive and empowering. Starting off where other lesbian erotic anthologies end, these are not your typically delicate, lace-and-feathers kind of stories; instead, they’re blunt and hard-hitting and challenge traditional notions of gender roles when it comes to getting off. The anthologists argue that good, clean lesbian smut is difficult to come by these days, overwhelmed by political correctness and authorial self-censorship. Unabashedly raunchy, these stories prove that femme porn can be sexy and smart at the same time. Includes stories by Nalo Hopkinson (author of The Salt Roads and co-editor of So Long Been Dreaming), Anna Camilleri (author of I Am a Red Dress and editor of Red Light), Rachel Kramer Bussel, Daphne Gottlieb, Ducky Doolittle, Zoe Whittall, and many more. Amber Dawn is a writer and poetry editor of PRISM international magazine. Trish Kelly is a writer and festival organizer who has been published in numerous anthologies. They both live in Vancouver.

An upright warrior captures the captain of a smuggling operation, but their torment has just begun… As Deputy Major General of the High Nestian army, Thea Newquist has a reputation to uphold. Often lauded as King Artemis' right-hand-woman, Thea is sworn to protect the law and keep the peace on the Seventh Star. However, there have been reports of foreign tech popping up in the cities. A handheld Touch communicator is harmless. But what about a blaster? Or high-grade weapons? No. The situation is untenable. In the middle of a private mission for King Artemis, Thea notices a sketchy, sleek submarine emerging from the depths of the ocean, charting its own path in the waters. Curiosity pushes her to track the vessel, and duty prompts her to capture the captain who's dropping off a shipment of illegal goods. Only... She doesn't expect her new prisoner to be a tattooed, fiery-haired brat that simply won't admit defeat. At every turn, the captured Captain fights her tooth and nail, but Thea simply doesn't have the willpower to fight back. With every flick of wild curls and hisses from those red lips, it becomes clear that the little omega is about to go into heat. And it is up to Thea to get the Captain back to the city before those pulsing pheromones sink them both.

HAMMAJANG | adjective. Definition: In a disorderly or chaotic state; messed up. Chiefly in predicative use, esp. in all hammajang. Etymology: A borrowing from Hawaiian Pidgin. Source: Oxford English Dictionary. Edie is done with crime. Eight years behind bars changes a person - costs them too much time with too many of the people who need them most. And it's all Angel's fault. She sold Edie out in what should have been the greatest moment of their lives. Instead, Edie was shipped off to the icy prison planet spinning far below the soaring skybridges and neon catacombs of Kepler space station - of home - to spend the best part of a decade alone. But then a chance for early parole appears out of nowhere and Edie steps into the pallid sunlight to find none other than Angel waiting - and she has an offer. One last job. One last deal. One last target. The trillionaire tech god they failed to bring down last time. There's just one thing Edie needs to do - trust Angel again - which also happens to be the last thing Edie wants to do. What could possibly go all hammajang about this plan? Ocean's 8 meets Blade Runner in this trail-blazing debut science fiction novel and swashbuckling love letter to Hawai'i about being forced to find a new home and striving to build a better one - unmissable for fans of Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir and Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo.

While we live, the enemy shall fear us. All her life Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge the murder of planet Earth. Raised in the bowels of Gaea Station alongside the last scraps of humanity, she readies herself to face the Wisdom, the all-powerful, reality-shaping weapon that gave the Majoda their victory over humanity. They are what’s left. They are what must survive. Kyr is one of the best warriors of her generation, the sword of a dead planet. But when Command assigns her brother to certain death and relegates her to the nursery to bear sons until she dies trying, she knows she must take humanity’s revenge into her own hands. Alongside her brother’s brilliant but seditious friend and a lonely, captive alien, she escapes from everything she’s ever known into a universe far more complicated than she was taught and far more wondrous than she could have imagined. A thrillingly told queer space opera about the wreckage of war, the family you find, and who you must become when every choice is stripped from you, Some Desperate Glory is award-winning author Emily Tesh’s highly anticipated debut novel.