Detective Bill Quigley fell in love with the familiar Isaac the night they met. But after more than two years, it’s time to admit to himself that Isaac doesn’t return his feelings.
Isaac knows he’s too broken by his experiences for anyone to fall in love with. Especially someone like Bill, who deserves a partner unplagued by Isaac’s nightmares and doubts.
When children go missing from an orphanage, Bill and Isaac must work together to find them. And as years of yearning threaten to ignite into passion, they must decide once and for all whether to take a chance on love.
Sequel to: Hexbreaker, Hexmaker, Hexslayer
Representation Includes
- MLM main character (Bill)
- Jewish MLM main character (Isaac)
Content Warnings
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, nightmares, physical assault recounted, kidnapping recounted, abuseReviews
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A straight-laced policeman. A lighthearted thief. A murdered millionaire.
Fox shifter Malachi steals for one of the biggest crime rings in New York City. But when he witnesses the murder of a millionaire, the only person who can keep him safe is Dr. Owen Yates, forensic hexman for the Metropolitan Witch Police—and Malachi’s witch.
Owen is horrified to discover his familiar is an uneducated thief. Even worse, Malachi threatens to unleash Owen’s deepest desires…desires Owen can’t act upon, as he’s destined for an arranged marriage to secure the Yates family fortune
Their agreement: Malachi will be Owen’s lover as well as his partner, until the day of the wedding. But as their hunt for the murderer carries them from teeming slums to Fifth Avenue mansions, Owens begins to realize Malachi commands his heart as well as his body.
With dark forces drawing ever closer around them, Owen must decide whether to bow to the demands of duty, or to risk everything for the man he loves.
Sequel to: Hexbreaker
Representation Includes
- MLM male protagonist (Malachi)
- MLM male protagonist (Owen)
Content Warnings
slavery, child abandonment, physical abuse, attempted suicide mentioned, alcohol consumption, blood depiction, depictions of dead bodies, attempted murder, gun violenceReviews
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Horse shifter Nick has one rule: never trust a witch.
Nick has devoted his life to making his saloon a safe haven for the feral familiars of New York. So when a brutal killer slaughters a feral under his protection, Nick has no choice but to try and catch the murderer. Even if that means bonding with a handsome Irish witch.
Officer Jamie MacDougal came back from the war in Cuba missing part of a leg and most of his heart. After his former lover becomes one of the killer’s victims, Jamie will do anything to solve the case.
Nick comes to Jamie with a proposal: after making a temporary bond, they will work together to stop the murders. Once the killer is caught, they walk away and never see one another again.
It sounds simple enough. But the passion that flares between the two men won’t be so easily extinguished. And if Nick can’t learn to trust his witch, he stands to lose everything—including his life.
Sequel to: Hexbreaker, Hexmaker
Representation Includes
- MLM protagonist (Nick)
- Disabled MLM protagonist (Jamie) – partial leg amputee
Content Warnings
violence, on page police brutality and intimidationAwards
- Nominated for the Gaylactic Spectrum Award
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Will a dark history doom their future together?
New York copper Tom Halloran is a man with a past. If anyone finds out he once ran with the notorious O’Connell tunnel gang, he’ll spend the rest of his life doing hard time behind bars. But Tom’s secret is threatened when a horrible murder on his beat seems to have been caused by the same ancient magic that killed his gang.
Cat shifter Cicero is determined to investigate the disappearance of one friend and the death of another, even though no one else believes the cases are connected. When the trail of his investigation crosses Tom’s, the very bohemian Cicero instinctively recognizes the uncultured Irish patrolman as his witch. Though they’re completely unsuited to one another, Cicero has no choice but to work alongside Tom…all the while fighting against the passion growing within.
Tom knows that taking Cicero as his familiar would only lead to discovery and disaster. Yet as the heat between them builds, Tom’s need for the other man threatens to overcome every rational argument against becoming involved.
But when their investigation uncovers a conspiracy that threatens all of New York, Tom must make the hardest decision of his life: to live a lie and gain his heart’s desire, or to confess the truth and sacrifice it all.
Representation Includes
- MLM male protagonist (Tom)
- MLM male protagonist (Cicero)
Content Warnings
violence, murder, racist slurs, antisemitism, homomisia & homomisia slurs, attempted sexual assault, alcohol consumption mentioned, blood depiction, gun violence, kidnappingAwards
- Rainbow Award for Gay Paranormal Romance Winner (2016)
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“Love and Comets” and Other Stories is a collection of stories, poems, and journal/memoir that I published on my website in 2016.
The title story, “Love and Comets”, is a space adventure and slice of life story. Maria Flores has been sent on a mission to save the Earth from several comets heading for it. In the time leading up to her leaving, she meets Hailey Wen and they begin a relationship.
The other thirty-nine stories are a mix of scifi, fantasy, contemporary, and surreal.
Representation Includes
- Flash fiction collection; focuses on stories about trans women, lesbians, and trans lesbians
- Many protagonists are sapphic Latina trans women
- Title novelette “Love and Comets” features romantic relationship between Latina trans woman and East Asian (cis?) woman
Content Warnings
Medical procedure, car crash and death of loved one in “What’s the Last Thing You Remember?”; transphobia expressed and rejected in some of the “Contemporary” and “Memoir/Personal” pieces.Reviews
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- Published July 10th, 2017
Would you leave your life behind to save a world you never knew?
Florian has always felt like an outsider. He never thought it was because he was from another world.
He knew being gay and trans made him different, but then his estranged father shows up with claims of royalty, prophecy, and a dying kingdom. His curiosity piqued, Florian joins him to visit the magical world he’s supposedly from, and not just to spend time with the handsome wolf shifter body guard, Kade, that his dad brought along.
The pull of the Veil and the prophecy about him prove to be a siren song Florian can’t resist, throwing him headlong into mystery and danger in equal measure.
With all the one-on-one time they suddenly have, Florian discovers a kind heart behind Kade’s silent facade. But can he afford to fall in love when he’s supposed to be saving the world?
THE CHANGELING PROPHECY, book one of the Chronicles of the Veil, is a slow burn MM paranormal romance.
Representation Includes
- Gay trans man protagonist (Florian)
Content Warnings
Provided by book: Parental death. One brief instance of body horror involving gender dysphoria. Steamy scenes between a trans man and a cis man with a range of gendered terms used for body parts.Reviews
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The day before moving into her new dorm, college freshman, Maya Lilac, has a haunting dream that ends with her coming face-to-face with a second version of herself. After being haunted by the dream during move-in day, she finally comes in contact with her double, nicknamed “Lucent”, and learns that she actually has powers and can—among other things—make her dreams come true.
Maya’s heritage, however, runs deeper when she discovers that she’s the True Dreamer, a person reaching back as far as Joan of Arc that’s tasked with protecting her species, as well as the world, from any and all threats… including her seemingly-peaceful and non-combative double. But, not everyone shares Maya’s vision that her clone isn’t out to harm anybody, especially her mother. As Maya and her mother fight over whether Lucent is a legitimate threat, Maya trains in her now-active powers to fulfill her destiny of protecting the world, whether she has to take care of Lucent or not.
Representation Includes
- Bisexual protagonist
- Lesbian supporting character
Content Warnings
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- Published March 19th 2019 by Ja-Mel Vinson
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ISBN: 9781732858
A mermaid’s supernatural beauty serves one purpose: to lure a sailor to his death.
The Massacre is supposed to bring peace to Eriana Kwai. Every year, the island sends its warriors to battle these hostile sea demons. Every year, the warriors fail to return. Desperate for survival, the island must decide on a new strategy. Now, the fate of Eriana Kwai lies in the hands of twenty battle-trained girls and their resistance to a mermaid’s allure.
Eighteen-year-old Meela has already lost her brother to the Massacre, and she has lived with a secret that’s haunted her since childhood. For any hope of survival, she must overcome the demons of her past and become a ruthless mermaid killer.
For the first time, Eriana Kwai’s Massacre warriors are female, and Meela must fight for her people’s freedom on the Pacific Ocean’s deadliest battleground.
Representation Includes
- The main character is sapphic and Indigenous from a fictional Northwestern Pacific Island
Content Warnings
gore, death, torture, animal death, abuseAwards
- Won the Best Indie Book Award
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A dark retelling of The Little Mermaid from the author of HUNTING MONSTERS
I suppose if this is going to be recorded somewhere for posterity, I should set the record straight. The ghostwriter will probably cut it all, but hey, it’s the principle of the thing.
Dr. Cadence Mbella is the world’s most celebrated scholar of the atargati: sentient, intelligent deep-water beings who are most definitely not mermaids. When Cadence decides to release a captive atargati from scientific experimentation and interrogation, she knows her career and her life is forfeit. But she still yearns for the atargati–there is still so much to know about their physiology, their society, their culture. And Cadence would do anything to more fully understand the atargati… no matter what the cost.
Representation Includes
- Lesbian protagonist
- Non-binary supporting character
- Genderless aliens
Content Warnings
Military disrespecting and threatening native alien species; Tragic endingReviews
- The Lesbrary’s review
- The Illustrated Page’s review
- Jaymee Goh’s review
- Jess Crafts’s review
- Puck’s review
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- Published December 12th 2016 by Book Smugglers Publishing
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ISBN13: 9781942302407
After seven years working as partners, Kai and Ilsa are the best professional finders in the business. There’s nothing they can’t track down, no matter how unfamiliar the star system or hazardous the path. When a new client insists on accompanying the search for his daughter, Ilsa and Kai reluctantly agree. How can they refuse when Eleazar Dantes is desperate enough to pay double their usual fee?
But a high-stakes investigation is no time for distractions. Even more troublesome, when Kai realizes his true feelings for Ilsa, his timing couldn’t be worse. Never mind that she doesn’t seem to reciprocate: heartbreak is the least of their problems as the trail they’re following grows dangerous.
With every step forward, Kai and Ilsa are more certain they won’t find Eleazar’s missing daughter alive.
Representation Includes
- Aromantic asexual woman protagonist
Content Warnings
Non-consensual kissing; aroace character deals with unrequited romantic feelings from her partner; anti-ace and anti-aro sentiments expressed by characters; gun violence; kidnapping; on-page murder; claustrophobic atmosphereReviews
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- Originally published published March 16th 2016 by Less Than Three Press
- Re-released self-published in 2020
- ISBN13: 9781946316141