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Transactional Dynamics by Gregory Ashe

Transactional Dynamics by Gregory Ashe

Emery Hazard is ready for Valentine’s Day. He’s made reservations months in advance, he’s ordered flowers, and he’s got a boyfriend he wants to treat right—even if John-Henry Somerset occasionally lets the dishes sit in the sink a little too long. They even have an extra reason to celebrate this year: Somers has received a special commendation for his police work.

Everything begins to go wrong, though, when Hazard’s ex-boyfriend shows up on their doorstep. Billy claims he just needs help getting away from… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Homomisia
Sexism
Sex work mentioned
Domestic abuse mentioned
Emotional abuse & gaslighting
Alcoholism
Drug use mentioned

Police Brutality by Gregory Ashe

Police Brutality by Gregory Ashe

For the first time in a long while, Emery Hazard’s life is good. His new business as a private detective is taking off. Things are good at home. He loves his boyfriend, John-Henry Somerset; he loves their daughter. He might even love the new friends they’ve found. There’s only one problem: Somers has been talking about marriage.

When a former colleague, Walter Hoffmeister, comes to Hazard and hires him to look into a series of anonymous death threats, Hazard eagerly jumps on the distraction. Hoffmeister might be a jerk… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Ableism
Misogyny
Racism
Homomisia
Transmisia
Rape mentioned
Suicide mentioned

Triangulation by Gregory Ashe

Triangulation by Gregory Ashe

After a recent case with a treacherous client, North and Shaw are ready to go back to work building Borealis Investigations. They’re also ready to go back to dodging their feelings for each other, with neither man ready to deal with the powerful emotions the Matty Fennmore case stirred up. Everything is getting back to normal when their secretary asks for help: her girlfriend’s boss has gone missing.

Shep Collins runs a halfway house for LGBTQ kids… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Conversion therapy recounted
Attempted suicide

Orientation by Gregory Ashe

Orientation by Gregory Ashe

Shaw and North are best friends, private detectives, and in danger of losing their agency. A single bad case, followed by crippling lawsuits, has put them on the brink of closing shop. Until that is, a client walks into their Benton Park office.

Matty Fennmore is young, blond, and beautiful, and he’s in danger. When he asks for Shaw and North’s help foiling a blackmail scheme, the detectives are quick to accept… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Homomisia
Domestic abuse
Suicidal ideation
Blood depiction
Emesis
Murder
Blackmail
Torture

The Mortal Sleep by Gregory Ashe

The Mortal Sleep by Gregory Ashe

Months have passed since the events at Belshazzar’s Feast. Vie Eliot, reluctant psychic and self-appointed defender of the small Wyoming town called Vehpese, knows that trouble is coming, but for the time being, he wants to spend as many happy days as he can with his boyfriend.

Until one night, two men arrive and blow up a car. They threaten to do more damage unless Vie leaves town. Immediately… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Ableism
Homomisia
Depression
Attempted suicide
Suicidal ideation
Drug use
Kidnapping
Loss of autonomy (mind control)
Animal torture mentioned

The Dust Feast by Gregory Ashe

The Dust Feast by Gregory Ashe

Only days have passed since Vie Eliot’s murderous half-brother—a dangerous, out-of-control psychic—was stopped from killing the people Vie loves most, but Vie is ready for his life to return to normal. He has plans. Big plans. Make the cross country team, pick up his grades, and spend a lot of time with his boyfriend.

On the day of cross country tryouts, though, Vie finds one of the teachers dead—and Vie refuses to believe that the death was a suicide. As he searches for the killer or killers, he discovers that a conspiracy… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Fatmisia
Homomisia
Human trafficking
Rape of a child mentioned
Suicide
Self-harm (cutting)
Murder
Torture mentioned
Kidnapping

All the Inside Howling by Gregory Ashe

All the Inside Howling by Gregory Ashe

Vie Eliot has survived a new high school, an abusive father, and the murderous Mr. Big Empty. Now, as Vie searches for Mr. Big Empty, he also finds himself facing an unexpected complication: how to be a good boyfriend.

When a mysterious drifter named River disappears, though, Vie finds himself dragged into finding the missing boy. Vie’s psychic abilities have proved useful in the past, and once again they set him on the trail of a gruesome murderer… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Ableism
Homomisia
Racism
Child sexual abuse mentioned
Domestic abuse
Depression
Drug use mentioned
Self-harm (cutting)

The Stickman’s Legacy by Benjamin Appleby-Dean

The Stickman’s Legacy by Benjamin Appleby-Dean

Mary never knew her father until he died and brought his enemies to her doorstep. Searching his house for answers, she unearths an ancient nightmare and is drawn into a world of corporate magicians, subterranean kingdoms and living architecture, all of whom have history with the Stickman – and their own sinister agendas for his daughter.

As a secret war breaks out across London with her at the centre, Mary finds fragments of her own past resurfacing, and has to understand the true nature of her legacy before it’s too late…

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Child abuse
Death of a father

Assassin’s Orbit by John Appel

Assassin’s Orbit by John Appel

On the eve of the planet Ileri’s historic vote to join the Commonwealth, the assassination of a government minister threatens to shatter everything. Private investigator Noo Okereke and spy Meiko Ogawa join forces with police chief Toiwa to investigate – and discover clues that point disturbingly toward a threat humanity thought they had escaped.

A threat that could destroy Ileri and spark an interplanetary war… unless the disparate team can work together to solve the mystery.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Blood & gore depiction
Emesis
Murder
Gun violence
Plane crash

In My Dreams by Elin Annalise

In My Dreams by Elin Annalise

Twenty-five-year-old Polly Brady was supposed to fly off on a dating holiday to meet others, like her, who identify as asexual, but when the nature reserve she works at goes into lockdown after a terrorist attack, she finds herself stuck with Harry Weller, her childhood friend and the only man she’s ever loved. There are just two problems: Harry doesn’t know Polly’s in love with him, and he’s also very sex-orientated.

Still, Polly knows other couples who have had successful ace/allo relationships and given she was looking forward to romance this summer… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Amisia
Death of a parent recounted
Death of a sibling recounted
Car accident
Heart attack (parent)
COVID-19 pandemic mentioned
Gun violence
Terrorism mentioned