We are excited for the release of Hope and Ashes by Kate Jenkins and Morgan Moreau!
The queen is dead, or so the rumors say.
Following Collette’s attack and near death, Zephraim’s use of blood magic on Larent has everyone on edge. The travel party decides to bunker down in Barcomb Mill, Whyldon’s old estate, for the winter. Already fraying at the edges, the group is nearly divided by the revelation of Nawalya’s visions showing a possible attack on Collette.
Back in Quenall, Zephraim suffers visions of the sister he killed while dealing with Riken and Rhoslyn’s plans for the kingdom. He hopes sending Riken to Galel will alleviate some stress, but will it only make things worse in the long run?
As news of the death of Collette spreads across the kingdom, Crem’s rebellion begins dying out, but the former commander has more important things to worry about. His wife Diana remains in the castle acting as spy and confidante to their miserable king. Will Lord Barris’s protection be enough to keep her safe?
In the Nereid kingdom, Aphros has allowed Jayden and Ceto to travel to Coralia in search of Collette. Will they find help or even more horror and despair?
Legends of Coralia: Hope and Ashes is the third novel in this epic fantasy series. This book contains LGBTQ+ themes, violence, revenge, discussions and depictions of genocide, sexual violence, adult language, and consensual sexual content.
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We are excited for the release of Champion’s Lord: A Traibon Family Saga Prequel by V.C. Willis!
Ashton’s world is crumbling and he refuses to let anyone come between him and his self-hatred, even his latest fling Lord Raphael Traibon.
Ashton Le Denys Thompson is in line to be the next clan chief, but after Grandemere was attacked by invaders, what does that matter anymore? A young noble from the Old Continent comes waltzing in and changes everything. Fueled by desire and intrigue, Ashton finds himself infatuated with the man that just might be the key to saving what’s left of his family and even Grandemere. That’s if the Fates don’t have other plans for one of their most devoted followers.
Lord Raphael Kristr de’Traibon left the Old Continent years ago in an attempt to save his family and allies, but it failed. Fallen Arbor and the noble houses from his father’s fallen empire are here destroying Grandemere and everything he’s come to love. When Ashton comes into the fold, he finds himself aggravated and in love with the most maddening of creatures in the world. Despite the need to use his standing to help push back the battle royale law the corrupted council wants to pass, it all goes belly up when they have to fight back.
Together, Ashton and Raphael will have to battle between their own emotions of self-hatred and obsessive desires in order to protect what they both have left and recently gained in one another. When the Blood Duels begin, will they be able to withstand the pressure placed upon them and persevere?
This story contains violence, gore, sexual content, toxic behavior, verbal abuse, blood, and other themes performed by fictional characters within a fictional world.
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We are excited for the release of Someone to Shadow by Robert Lewis!
Jordan has to hurt Billy in order to heal him.
For Jordan Hudson to keep one promise to his boyfriend, adult film star Billy Turner, he has to break another. Jordan has done the seemingly impossible: he has found Shadow. There’s one stipulation: Billy can’t know anything about it until after it’s over, and Jordan can’t tell the man he loves where the other survivor of the Country Boyz Murders is.
Lying to everyone, Jordan stays behind to interview the mysterious Shadow while Billy flies out to prepare for Mark and Hunter’s wedding, getting more than he bargained for in the process. As Jordan listens to Shadow’s story, Jordan confronts his own demons and starts his own journey of self-reflection and self-discovery.
When the story is told and the dust settles, will Jordan’s worst fears happen? Will doing what he promised Billy destroy them? It’s a risk Jordan has no choice but to take. The story must be told and hopefully give Billy some closure.
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DID YOU MISS IT? The Release Day for That Other Dashwood Girl
We are excited for the release of The Other Dashwood Girl by A.R, Farina!
Sometimes, you must be totally lost to finally find yourself.
Maggie Dashwood thought her whole life was laid out for her. Her well-to-do father had a plan that she and her two older sisters would follow to ensure the family’s success. When tragedy strikes, everything she knows about the world changes, and her life is turned upside down.
Now, she, her mother and her two sisters must leave behind everything they’ve ever known while relying on the charity of others to begin again. Stranded in a new place with relative strangers, the Dashwoods try to stay a family while they work through their grief and find out if life can go on.
Will the family survive in-tact? Will Maggie discover her true self? This modern-day retelling of Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility is full of heart, tears, and ultimately, triumph.
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We are excited for the release of Facing the Music by A.J. Buchanan! This is book 2 in the No Strings Attached Series!
Tristan and Benedict must decide if their relationship is worth the risk.
Tristan DeVere, bass guitarist for the rock band Third Generation, swore off relationships a long time ago. After his estrangement from his father at twenty-one, Tristan fell for an older sophisticate who made him think he could rule the world. Unfortunately, the older man showed Tristan his true colors in an extremely humiliating way and brought his family into an unwelcome spotlight. Scarred by the public betrayal, Tristan fears commitment, especially with an older man.
Widower Benedict Priestley, a successful architect and entrepreneur, has kept his bisexuality from everyone except his two closest friends and the wife he lost three years ago. After being married to a woman for years, navigating a relationship with a man is a daunting task. Falling for a younger man like Tristan means he will have to come out to his children. If he wants Tristan to be his, he can’t hide him from the most important people in his life.
Neither Tristan nor Benedict have any interest in coming out from behind the walls they’ve built to protect themselves. When Tristan picks Benedict’s architectural firm to help with his home renovation, each man must face the music and choose passion over prudence in this slow-burn second-chance romance.
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Secrets & Spires is a National Indie Excellence Award Finalist! 4 Horsemen is so excited to have Dominic N. Ashen receive this acknowledgement for Secrets & Spires – Book 3 in the Steel & Thunder series. This is such an amazing adventure with Khazak and David! If you have not started you need to dive in and catch up with all of these amazing books.
Can they make it to the top before it all comes crashing down?
Khazak has been feeling a little lost lately. By the age of thirty, he’d become the youngest Ranger Captain in his city’s history. He thought he had the rest of his life figured out until he was betrayed by people he trusted and forced to resign. The one bright spot is David, his human lover and former captive (though “former” doesn’t always apply in the bedroom). After coming so close to losing him, Khazak didn’t think twice about leaving everything behind to follow after him. Things are still new, but they have all the time in the world for David to grow comfortable with their relationship.
David’s having a rough time himself. After miraculously surviving a deadly attack, he’s left looking for answers and seeking revenge on those responsible. His search brings him to the city of Pákannon, and he’s not alone: not only is his entire team behind him—he also has Khazak, the orc who loves him and once owned him (and technically, still does). Just as he’s getting used to the idea of people knowing they’re together, someone from his past shows up and threatens all of his progress. Lucky for him, a side-quest to a mysterious city in the mountains should be exactly the distraction he needs. It’s not like anything bad or dangerous could happen, right?
This is a book filled with action, comedy, tent sex, giant snakes, and ghost stories! Read the next chapter of Khazak & David’s story and join them as they explore more of the magical world they inhabit. Readers of gay/male-on-male romances that feature kinky power-exchange relationships, BDSM, and Dom/sub elements: this book is for you!
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We are excited for the release of Ours by Dominic N. Ashen!
If growing up is hard, becoming an actual adult is even harder, and the transition between the two can, at times, seem like a minefield.
Cory is just an average 18-year-old nerd who plays video games and reads comic books. Well, mostly average. He’s also gay, in the closet, and into some pretty kinky stuff. Sure, his only outlet is the internet and his left hand, but with college right around the corner, he figures his secret is safe… Right?
Except Cory’s two best friends, Derek and Nic, recently found out about that secret. And just like a lot of teenage boys, they decide to think with their groins and take advantage of the situation. With the internet as their guide, they formulate a plan to train Cory into being their personal submissive plaything.
As they learn more about themselves, each other, and the kinky world of BDSM, Cory, Derek, and Nic may also discover that romance can bloom in the most unexpected of places.
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We have the ultimate LGBTQIA+ Later in Life Romance series for you:
There are two books so far in this series.
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Love hurts—is a second chance worth the risk?
Over a decade after breaking up with the love of his life, 42-year-old Jackson Knox has given up on finding anyone new. Breaking things off had been for the best for both of them, and Jackson has learned to live with the heartache. As he prepares to start a new job at a well-respected music school far from the place where he and Noah Santiago fell in love, he unexpectedly bumps into him again. Is it fate?
Musical genius Noah Santiago is hiding in his family’s home in a lakeside town in upstate New York, trying to figure out how to go on without being part of the world-renowned Barrington String Quartet. The pain of losing his career has left him gutted. The last person he expects to bump into is the man who still owns his heart after all these years.
Noah is wary of opening himself to more pain, and Jax fears Noah will never forgive him. Can their withered love bloom again? And how will they find their place together after so long apart?
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If you have not grabbed up one of the books from Robert Lewis you are missing out!
Robert (Robby) J. Lewis is a writer based out of Charleston, South Carolina. He has brought you not only the Shadow Guardian series but the Someone Series under Robert Lewis. He has written numerous steamy film scripts for Noir Male and Icon Male and more recently agreed to start writing for Luxxxe Studios. You can keep up with Robby Lewis’s latest releases, news, and antics via his social media or at www.robert-j-lewis.com.
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It’s a tale as old as time, but growing up and being in the closet, life wasn’t always the easiest. Hell, even after coming out things were still pretty tough. You’re constantly worried that people might know your secret, or spending all your energy trying to hide things. You just want to feel like you belong, but opening up about yourself even a little can feel incredibly dangerous.
I looked for representation everywhere, as I’m sure a lot of other queer people did (and probably still do) around that age. If a TV show or movie had a gay character, or even an entire storyline devoted to something gay, I was watching it. I’m especially looking at you, MTV’s Undressed.
The internet was still a young thing then, and having access to it at your own home was a rarity. And forget smartphones, the iPhone was only a twinkle in Steve Jobs’ eye. So aside from very rare sightings on the big and small screens, the only real place I had to turn to were books.
So I hit the library. It wasn’t necessarily that I knew there were a lot of queer themes to be found, but they were much more accessible. Of course I wasn’t ever gonna find much in a high school library beyond Greek and Roman myths – but that was still something.
I devoured everything I could find, and then reread them all over and over. I learned about Apollo and Hyacinth, Achilles and Patroclus, Zeus and Ganymede. Anything I could find, no matter how questionable it may have been, I loved. But it still wasn’t enough.
Thankfully there was the public library downtown, which was only a bus ride away. And they didn’t just have books there – they also had computers with internet access! For a couple of years, I spent basically every single day after school downtown for at least a few hours before catching another bus home.
The books I found there were much more substantial, though still darker than I had hoped. I became very well acquainted with the “bury your gays” trope. And if it wasn’t death, many times something else horrible would befall the main character or his lover. But still, it was something. I was getting to read real stories about queer people like me, even written by other queer people.
I really wish I could remember the titles of some of those books so I could share them with you now. Of particular note was a story about a long-lived vampire discovering his long-dead lover had been reincarnated in modern times. It was probably my first exposure to queer fiction.
One book series I do remember the name of and cared for a lot was recommended to me by another friend in high school. The Last Herald-Mage by Mercedes Lackey. This trilogy of books is centered around a young man named Vanyel who dreams of being a magically gifted bard. While living at the magic school known as Haven, he meets Tylendel, another protege mage. The two develop a bond that starts as friendship, before turning romantic.
Vanyel’s romance with Tylendel sets him on a long and treacherous path for the rest of his life, one fraught with danger and tragedy at every turn. Though I cannot say this trilogy of books escapes many of the painful tropes I have previously mentioned, it was still one of the most positive portrayals of queer characters and relationships than I had ever seen.
More than that, it wasn’t just a story about queer characters and their relationships, it was a full blown fantasy novel! There was deep worldbuilding, thoughtful storytelling, and multiple other books set in the same world. Its characters were well written with complex motivations and desires. It was everything I had ever wanted.
It was also the book that really made me think about becoming a writer myself. I started making up stories and characters, first in my head before one day finally writing them down. I knew queer people deserved to see themselves in stories the way that I did. Being able to find my voice in those books helped shape me into who I am today, and I only hope I can do the same with my own.
