He’s spent a lifetime perfecting his skills as a musician and as a Dom. The woman who walks into his club knew him before all that.
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Play: Chloe and Eli by Lilia Moon
Category Archives: Entries
Too Hot to Touch by Katy James
He’s spent a lifetime putting up walls to protect himself, but he never expected one woman to break them all down. Between working multiple jobs and tackling her dissertation, it’s hardly unexpected PhD student Murray Silva is a hot mess. What is unexpected? Tyler Valentine. When the hockey playboy and former—okay, current—crush shows up in her summer school class, he immediately becomes the kind of distraction she doesn’t need. Want, however? That’s a whole other story. Tyler Valentine understands… Read more.
Trigger and Content Warnings
- Homomisia & internalised homomisia including parental estrangement
- Forced outing recounted
- Anxiety & panic attacks
- Alcohol consumption
- Sports injuries including dislocated shoulders and broken bones
- Parent in remission for breast cancer
*Context : The protagonist was outed by his partner to their hockey team in the past, resulting in bullying and being traded to another team.
With Love, from Cold World by Alicia Thompson
Lauren Fox is the bookkeeper for Cold World, a tourist destination that’s always a winter wonderland despite being located in humid Orlando, Florida. Sure, it’s ranked way below any of the trademarked amusement parks and maybe foot traffic could be better. But it’s a fun place to work, even if “fun” isn’t exactly Lauren’s middle name.
Her coworker Asa Williamson, on the other hand, is all about finding ways to enliven his days at Cold World–whether that means organizing the Secret Santa or teasing Lauren… Read more.
Trigger and Content Warnings
- Bimisia
- Queermisia & religious bigotry
- Sexual harassment
- Foster care system
- Parental estrangement
- Outing recounted
- Parent with a substance addiction recounted
- Death of a parent from an overdose recounted
Cruel Seduction by Katee Robert
He was my enemy. My lover. My husband.
And the one man I swore by all Olympus I would destroy.
Aphrodite has never flinched at getting her perfectly manicured hands dirty, and she’s not about to start now—even if that means marrying Olympus’s enemy number one, the new Hephaestus. She has a wicked plan to keep her deadly new husband off-balance, seducing the one person he seems to care about most in this world: Pandora, a woman as beautiful as she is sweet… Read more.
Trigger and Content Warnings
- Child abuse recounted
- Attempted sexual assault, off-page
- Blood depiction
- Death of parents mentioned
- Murder & attempted murder
The Water Outlaws by S. L. Huang
Lin Chong is an expert arms instructor, training the Emperor’s soldiers in sword and truncheon, battle axe and spear, lance and crossbow. Unlike bolder friends who flirt with challenging the unequal hierarchies and values of Imperial society, she believes in keeping her head down and doing her job.
Until a powerful man with a vendetta rips that carefully-built life away.
Disgraced, tattooed as a criminal, and on the run from an Imperial Marshall who will stop at nothing to see her dead, Lin Chong is recruited by the Bandits of Liangshan… Read more.
Trigger and Content Warnings
- Misogyny
- Attempted rape, on-page
- Nonconsensual body modifications (tattoos)
- Decapitation
- Cannibalism
- Murder
- Torture
The Midnight Kingdom by Tara Sim
A cataclysmic battle to save the city of Nexus has left the four noble heirs scattered across the four realms.
Taesia, the shadow-wielding rebel of House Lastrider, and Nikolas, the solider son of House Cyr, have been cast into Noctus, the realm of night. But they are not alone. The dangerous and unpredictable god of light has traveled with them, and he will do anything in his power to destroy Noctus once and for all… Read more.
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Assistant to the Villain by Hannah Nicole Maehrer
With ailing family to support, Evie Sage’s employment status isn’t just important, it’s vital. So when a mishap with Rennedawn’s most infamous Villain results in a job offer—naturally, she says yes. No job is perfect, of course, but even less so when you develop a teeny crush on your terrifying, temperamental, and undeniably hot boss. Don’t find evil so attractive, Evie.
But just when she’s getting used to severed heads suspended from the ceiling and the odd squish of an errant eyeball beneath her heel, Evie suspects this dungeon has a huge rat… Read more.
Trigger and Content Warnings
- Parental abandonment
- Attempted sexual assault & sexual harassment
- Blood & injury depiction
- Death of a brother recounted
- Murder & attempted murder
- Torture
- Kidnapping & captivity
- Sword violence
*Context: The protagonist’s mother abandoned her after she accidentally killed her son, the protgaonist’s brother.
The Death I Gave Him by Em X. Liu
Hayden Lichfield’s life is ripped apart when he finds his father murdered in their lab, and the camera logs erased. The killer can only have been after one thing: the Sisyphus Formula the two of them developed together, which might one day reverse death itself. Hoping to lure the killer into the open, Hayden steals the research. In the process, he uncovers a recording his father made in the days before his death, and a dying wish: Avenge me…
With the lab on lockdown, Hayden is trapped with four other people… Read more.
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This Spells Disaster by Tori Anne Martin
Potion maker and self-proclaimed “messy witch” Morgan Greenwood is sure she was hexed at birth. Not only did she drunkenly offer to fake date the woman of her dreams during the biennial New England Witches’ festival, but Rory Sandler, spellcasting champion and brilliant elemental witch—for reasons known only to the Goddess—accepted. It’s like every good luck spell Morgan ever cast came through at once, and it doesn’t take a crystal ball to predict this charade will end with a broken heart.
Or is the magic between them real? As Morgan and Rory prepare to fool everyone at the festival, their relationship starts to feel a whole lot less fake… Read more.
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Witch of Wild Things by Raquel Vasquez Gilliland
Legend goes that long ago a Flores woman offended the old gods, and their family was cursed as a result. Now, every woman born to the family has a touch of magic.
Sage Flores has been running from her family—and their “gifts”—ever since her younger sister Sky died. Eight years later, Sage reluctantly returns to her hometown. Like slipping into an old, comforting sweater, Sage takes back her job at Cranberry Rose Company and uses her ability to communicate with plants to discover unusual heritage specimens in the surrounding lands… Read more.
Trigger and Content Warnings
- Threats of revenge pornography
- Domestic abuse recounted
- Parental abandonment recounted
- Death of a parent & sibling recounted
