Category Archives: Queer Lit

Loose Cannon by Sidney Bell

Loose Cannon by Sidney Bell

Released after five years in the system for assault, streetwise Edgar-Allen Church is ready to leave the past behind and finally look to his future. In need of a place to crash, he’s leaning on Miller Quinn. A patient, solidly masculine pillar of strength and support, Miller has always been there for him—except in the one way Church has wanted the most. With his staunchly conservative upbringing, Miller has been playing it straight his whole life. Now with Church so close again, it’s getting harder to keep his denial intact. As they fumble their way back to friendship after… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Homomisia
  • Murder
  • Torture

Heart Ripper by KA Merikan

Heart Ripper by K.A. Merikan

David. Catholic. Gay. Set on keeping his purity ring. Raja. Biker. Manwhore. Never refuses a bet. David has always tried to be the best son his parents could dream of. Always at church on Sunday. Always eager to help with the garden. Always trying his best at school. Prim, proper, innocent, and kind. But deep inside of him, there is a yearning planted by the devil himself, and when a cocky, foul-mouthed biker pulls him a step too far, David doesn’t fall into the abyss. He leaps. Raja is all he’s ever dreamed of, yet didn’t dare voice. Older, dangerous, a wall of muscle with a grip so… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Racism
  • Homomisia
  • Outing
  • Conversion therapy recounted
  • Organised crime (motorcycle gang)

Domestic Animals by Gregory Ashe

Domestic Animals by Gregory Ashe

When a man hires Emery Hazard to track down a teenager who, he claims, robbed him, Hazard isn’t convinced. The story has holes in it, and the client seems eager—too eager—to keep the authorities from getting involved. But Hazard is willing to play along; he suspects something much darker is going on, and he wants to know what it is. Then his husband, John-Henry Somerset, connects the boy in question to an ongoing suspicious death investigation, and both men realize they’ve stumbled upon something much more complicated. There are too many loose threads: missing money, stolen jewellery, a husband back… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Homomisia
  • Alcoholism
  • Attempted murder

Cascade Hunger by Gregory Ashe

Cascade Hunger by Gregory Ashe

Eli and Dag survived a monster. Two monsters, in fact. A year later, though, they’re still trying to settle into a ‘regular’ life. Dag is working hard in school. It’s not going great. Eli is working hard at…being a better Eli. He’s eating right. Most of the time. He’s thinking about exercise in healthy ways. He’s ok with how he looks, as long as he doesn’t walk past any mirrors. He goes out some nights, though. He goes across the lake, back to Bragg, where the monsters were. And he’s not sure why. He’s not sure what keeps calling him back… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Homomisia
  • Racism & racial slurs
  • Murder
  • Body dysmorphia

Prince of Killers by Layla Reyne

Prince of Killers by Layla Reyne

No indiscriminate killing. No collateral damage. No unvetted targets. These are the rules Hawes Madigan lives by. Rules that make being Fog City’s Prince of Killers bearable. Soon, he’ll be king—of an organization of assassins— and the crown has never felt heavier. Until the mysterious Dante Perry swaggers into his life. Dante looks like a rock god and carries himself like one too, all loose-limbed and casually confident. He also carries a concealed weapon, a private investigator’s license, and a message for the prince. Someone inside Hawes’s organization is out to kill the future king… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Homomisia
  • Human trafficking mentioned
  • Paedophilia & child sexual abuse mentioned
  • Alcohol consumption
  • Drugging
  • Overdose mentioned
  • Grandparent in hospice care for Alzheimer’s Disease
  • Death of a parent recounted*
  • Death of a grandfather
  • Murder & attempted murder
  • Explosion

*Context : The protagonist made the decision to take his parents off of life support.

Mr Big Empty by Gregory Ashe

Mr Big Empty by Gregory Ashe

Vie Eliot arrives in the small town of Vehpese, Wyoming with little more than the clothes–and scars–on his back. Determined to make a new life for himself after escaping his abusive mother, he finds that living with his estranged father brings its own problems. Then Samantha Oates, the girl with blue hair, goes missing, and Vie might be the only one who can find her. His ability to read emotions and gain insight into other people’s darkest secrets makes him the perfect investigator, with only one small problem: he wants nothing to do with his gift. When the killer… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Ableism
  • Suicide & attempted suicide
  • Suicidal ideation
  • Self-harm
  • Drug use
  • Abortion mentioned
  • Torture mentioned
  • Gun violence
  • Kidnapping

Stripped Raw by Miss Merikan

Stripped Raw by Miss Merikan

As a patched member of the Coffin Nails MC, Sam is finally living the life he was destined for. A life of Harleys, guns, drugs, and eating pussy. A life of brotherhood above all. When he goes to pick up some pot brownies for the club president’s old lady, he meets a girl so sweet, his inner wolf wants to eat her there and then. What is supposed to be a typical fling, gets damn more complicated when the Coffin Nails decide to involve the pretty blonde baker in their drugs operation. Jolie has a knack for baking delicious… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Ableism
  • Misogyny
  • Transmisia
  • Homomisia
  • Deadnaming
  • Workplace sexual harassment
  • Child abuse mentioned
  • Death of a parent mentioned
  • Organised crime (motorcycle club)

The Same End by Gregory Ashe

The Same End by Gregory Ashe

Teancum Leon is pretty sure that if he plays his cards right, he can have it all: his childhood friend and former lover, Ammon Young; his best friend (although Tean is loath to admit it), Jem Berger; and his family. A boyfriend might even be in his future, although he’s having a heck of a time getting a second date with the guys he meets on Prowler. hen the key suspect in a murder investigation asks to speak with Jem, overturning the precarious balance Tean has worked to maintain. A girl Jem knew in childhood is dead, and the man believed to have killed her was one of Jem’s tormentors at Decker Lake Juvenile… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Ableism
  • Homomisia
  • Graphic rape
  • Sexual harassment
  • Depression
  • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
  • Police corruption
  • Animal cruelty mentioned

Punishment by Nicholas Bella

Punishment by Nicholas Bella

My worst nightmare has come true, I’m one of them now, a monster… the very thing I fought against. If that wasn’t bad enough, I’ve been sired by one of the most powerful, sadistic and calculating vampire Lords in the city; Theoden. It’s just the beginning of my new life, hell, I’m not even one night old as a vampire and already I wish they had decided to kill me instead of turn me. I guess this was my punishment for rebelling against them. They’re clever that way. Theoden has promised to punish me for every offence I’ve made against him and I have no idea what’s in store for me. I do know that it won’t be pleasant. My night of pain and torment is just beginning.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Misogyny
  • Rape & paedophilia
  • Death of a child
  • Torture

Custody Battles by Gregory Ashe

Custody Battles by Gregory Ashe

Emery Hazard and his husband, John-Henry Somerset, are settling into their new normal—at home, with the latest addition to their family, and at work, as Somers adapts to his new role and Hazard manages his expanding agency. The only thing Hazard is worried about is getting through dinner with his in-laws. When his father-in-law requests that Hazard and Somers join him for a weekend deer hunting, it sounds simple enough: spend a night camping, give their foster son a chance to spend time with his friend, and—possibly—prevent a parental kidnapping. But nothing is ever as simple as it sounds. At deer camp, Hazard… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Homomisia
  • Racism
  • Sexual harassment
  • Murder & attempted murder
  • Blackmail