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  • Strength of the Rising Sun: The Borders War #5 by S.A. McAuley

    Strength of the Rising Sun: The Borders War #5 by S.A. McAuley

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Merq’s always known there’s only one way Armise and he can end. The Opposition is losing—both the war and the fight for citizen support—and the Revolution’s victory appears certain. Despite that success, Merq knows his leaders won’t let two of their greatest assets simply walk away. But with Armise fighting for his life, getting out becomes Merq’s primary objective...
    Categorized as:
    dystopian  queer  m-m  military  futuristic  length-medium
  • Falling, One by One by S.A. McAuley

    Falling, One by One by S.A. McAuley

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Whether Armise lived or died was never supposed to matter to Merq. As the fight for the kids of the jacquerie begins and the war between Opposition and Revolution heightens, Merq discovers that he may not have as much control over his actions as he thought he did. Further complicating their tangled relationship, Armise may be just as compromised...
    Categorized as:
    dystopian  queer  military  m-m  length-short
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  • Love Is An Illusion Vol 4 by Fargo

    Love Is An Illusion Vol 4 by Fargo

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 16 ratings
    AFFAIRS OF THE HEARTThings have been going great for Hye-sung and Dojin’s relationship, and soon they’re finally tying the knot. When Dojin returns to his band and nets a big hit, he suddenly becomes a hot commodity. Though he wants nothing more than to be at home with Hye-sung and Byul, he finds himself working more than ever...
  • Bones by Eli Easton, Jamie Fessenden

    Bones by Eli Easton, Jamie Fessenden

    Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Vodou. Obeah. Santeria. These religions seem mysterious and dark to the uninitiated, but the truth is often very different. Still, while they hold the potential for great power, they can be dangerous to those who don’t take appropriate precautions. Interfering with the spirits is best left to those who know what they’re doing, for when the proper respect isn’t shown, trouble can follow...
    Categorized as:
    queer  horror  contemporary  m-m  length-medium
  • Mouse by D.M. Mitchell

    Mouse by D.M. Mitchell

    Rated: 3.77 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    It’s the summer of 1976 and Vince Moody is a quiet and unassuming projectionist at the run-down Empire cinema in the small town of Langbridge in the middle of the Somerset Levels.His life is a drudge, and he’s going nowhere; the only female attention he gets is a stream of cruel jokes and jibes from the Empire’s cleaners, and especially from the obnoxious Monica Andrews...
    Categorized as:
    horror  queer  mystery  m-m  suspense  length-short
  • Small Game by Blair Braverman

    Small Game by Blair Braverman

    Rated: 3.46 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    A gripping debut novel about a survival reality show gone wrong that leaves a group of strangers stranded in the northern wilds Four strangers and six weeks: this is all that separates Mara from one life-changing payday...
  • Cornucopia by Alek L. Cristea

    Cornucopia by Alek L. Cristea

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 34 ratings
    As with each of the Fractured Cities, Cornucopia is a world unto itself. A place where faith makes magic and magic makes faith. A place of excess and obsession, where the only sin is a life of less, of moderation. But here in Cornucopia, moderation isn't just a sin, it's also a place...
  • Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation: Vol. 2 by Mò Xiāng Tóng Xiù

    Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation: Vol. 2 by Mò Xiāng Tóng Xiù

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Also known as MDZS, the comic/manhua version of the New York Times bestselling novels from China that also inspired an animated adaptation and the live-action series The Untamed! Experience this historical fantasy tale of two powerful men who find each other through life and death in this English version of the beautiful, full-color comic!Feared and hated for his sinister abilities, Wei...
  • Global University Entrance Examination 全球高考 by Mu Su Li, 木苏里

    Global University Entrance Examination 全球高考 by Mu Su Li, 木苏里

    Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 26 ratings
    One day, You Huo and his famiIy was puIIed into an exam caIIed the GIobaI University Entrance Examination. Going through exams together with other unfortunate examinees, their Iives are put at stake and they can only Iive by passing each exam...
  • 1/27: An ICoS Anthology (In the Company of Shadows extras) by Santino Hassell, Ais

    1/27: An ICoS Anthology (In the Company of Shadows extras) by Santino Hassell, Ais

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    January 27, 2027 - One day around the world. Weeks after the last page of the In the Company of Shadows series, seven stories show glimpses of the lives of fifteen characters, scattered across the globe. In Ireland, an unexpected reunion takes a terrible turn. In Australia, the tides are changing while those involved never stop watching...
  • My Love Mix-Up!, Vol. 2 by Wataru Hinekure

    My Love Mix-Up!, Vol. 2 by Wataru Hinekure

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    Aoki has a crush on Ida, a boy in his class...
  • The Ghost and the Darkness Volume 2 by Quil Carter

    The Ghost and the Darkness Volume 2 by Quil Carter

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 16 ratings
    The Ghost and the Darkness Vol. 2 continues with Reaver and Elish desperately trying to find Killian and Jade. Forced to work together, they scour the northern greywastes for clues of their whereabouts. Though finding the two boys isn't as simple as following a trail. Something happened to them that no one expected...
    Categorized as:
    dystopian  queer  horror  futuristic  m-m  fantasy  angst  paranormal
  • No. 6: The Manga, Volume 02 by Atsuko Asano

    No. 6: The Manga, Volume 02 by Atsuko Asano

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    "I KNEW NOTHING BEFORE TODAY." With the help of the enigmatic Rat, Shion becomes a fugitive, escaping No. 6 and getting his first glimpse of the desperation and violence that are facts of life outside the city wall...
  • Angels & Man by rafael nicolás

    Angels & Man by rafael nicolás

    Rated: 4.77 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 11 ratings
    A Queer Retelling of the Watcher's FloodThe angel Azazel is miserable in Heaven. In the aftermath of Satan's fall, the angels live in the reconstructed ruins of an old utopia, oppressive and paranoid of any new rebellion.The angel Samyaza is content in Heaven, but he longs for the eternal city's former glory...
  • The Suicide King Volume 2 by Quil Carter

    The Suicide King Volume 2 by Quil Carter

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 16 ratings
    After being broken in almost every way imaginable, it is now time for the phoenixes to emerge from the flames and take flight. The men who had become shadows of their former selves have resolved the issues that had plagued them, and now it is time to take back what they had lost...
    Categorized as:
    dystopian  queer  horror  m-m  dark  science fiction  abuse  angst
  • 残次品 [Can Ci Pin | Imperfections] by Priest

    残次品 [Can Ci Pin | Imperfections] by Priest

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    “这是最好的时代,也是最坏的时代。”——狄更斯《双城记》“我带着深藏骨血的仇恨与酝酿多年的阴谋,把自己变成一个死而复生的幽灵,沉入沼泽,沉入深渊,我想埋下腐烂的根系,长出见血封喉的荆棘,刺穿这个虚伪的文明。我到了淤泥深处……捡到了一颗星星。”It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.—— C. Dickens《A Tale of Two Cities》I took my hatred and plot for revenge with me down the mire, to the depths of the abyss, and returned as a ghost of the past...
    Categorized as:
    queer  dystopian  science fiction  m-m  length-epic
  • 残次品 [Can Ci Pin | Imperfections] by Priest

    残次品 [Can Ci Pin | Imperfections] by Priest

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    “这是最好的时代,也是最坏的时代。”——狄更斯《双城记》“我带着深藏骨血的仇恨与酝酿多年的阴谋,把自己变成一个死而复生的幽灵,沉入沼泽,沉入深渊,我想埋下腐烂的根系,长出见血封喉的荆棘,刺穿这个虚伪的文明。我到了淤泥深处……捡到了一颗星星。”It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.—— C. Dickens《A Tale of Two Cities》I took my hatred and plot for revenge with me down the mire, to the depths of the abyss, and returned as a ghost of the past...
    Categorized as:
    queer  dystopian  science fiction  m-m  length-epic
  • Taoree by Michele Notaro

    Taoree by Michele Notaro

    Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 12 ratings
    If you’re reading this, I hope that means that we’ve survived, but after everything I’ve seen, I’m sure that’s only wishful thinking… This is my story… a story of what happens when you trust an alien race. A race that lived peacefully with humans for over two years, but something suddenly changed...
  • In These Words, Volume 2 by Kichiku Neko, Guilt Pleasure

    In These Words, Volume 2 by Kichiku Neko, Guilt Pleasure

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Asano Katsuya realizes the meaning of his nightmare as everything came around full circle. Finally, Katsuya learned who Shinohara Kenji was and the meaning of his presence in his memories. With some answers surfacing, more questions also were pulled up with it. In These Words rewinds and replays the past that begun it all...
    Categorized as:
    queer  horror  m-m  dark  mystery  contemporary  bdsm  rape
  • The Ghost and the Darkness Volume 1 by Quil Carter

    The Ghost and the Darkness Volume 1 by Quil Carter

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 18 ratings
    I would say that my life changed as soon as those gunshots went off, but in reality everything changed the moment Leo and Greyson loaded that decapitated body into the truck back in Donnely. Now I am in a place I do not recognize, with people I had once seen as enemies...
    Categorized as:
    dystopian  queer  horror  dark  futuristic  fantasy  paranormal  m-m
  • Pancakes by Manna Francis

    Pancakes by Manna Francis

    Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Another short story based on The Administration series. Warrick's and Toreth's relationship goes to the next level but it frightens Toreth off...
  • Mad Lizard Mambo by Rhys Ford

    Mad Lizard Mambo by Rhys Ford

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Kai Gracen has no intention of being anyone’s pawn. A pity Fate and SoCalGov have a different opinion on the matter. Licensed Stalkers make their living hunting down monsters and dangerous criminals… and their lives are usually brief, brutal, and thankless. Despite being elfin and cursed with a nearly immortal lifespan, Kai didn’t expect to be any different...
    Categorized as:
    dystopian  queer  urban fantasy  fantasy  magic  fae  paranormal  m-m
  • Cleansed by Romilly King

    Cleansed by Romilly King

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Sometimes you have to go back in order to go forward – Gray is going back to handle the man who saw him as an angel, and unleashed the demon in him.I am a Handler; I deal with serial killers, legally, ruthlessly, and in the presence of my Witness, because justice must be seen to be done.Handling is an intimate procedure...
    Categorized as:
    queer  horror  m-m  dark  bdsm  dual-pov  length-short
  • Love Nest, Vol. 2 by Yuu Minaduki

    Love Nest, Vol. 2 by Yuu Minaduki

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A real-life odd couple navigate roommates and heartbreaks in this Sayonara Game spin-off.A brokenhearted Masato moves into his friend’s second home looking for some peace and quiet, but instead he finds a man who’s very much not his type already occupying the space...
    Categorized as:
    queer  horror  m-m  contemporary  fantasy  length-medium
  • The Bewitchments of Love and Hate by Storm Constantine

    The Bewitchments of Love and Hate by Storm Constantine

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    ‘Never speak his name, never!’ Cobweb warned. ‘Never whistle in the dark for it summons evil and he will hear it. In the treetops, the feathered ones will know. Watch them, Swift, watch the birds!’ That night I had a terrible dream. In the dream, the yellow-haired har was standing in a wreath of shadowy flames and his beauty was ugliness. He saw me and snared me in horror...
  • In These Words, Volume 3 by Kichiku Neko, Guilt Pleasure

    In These Words, Volume 3 by Kichiku Neko, Guilt Pleasure

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Shinohara Kenji implemented Asano Katsuya's plan to draw out the serial killer who'd been plagueing the police for years. The net was cast. However, Asano was unexpectedly ensnared in it. For six days, as Shinohara searched for him frantically - the doctor was forced to endure the pain of extreme love and hate for the killer. Then on the seventh day - everything crashed down in a devastating end...
    Categorized as:
    queer  horror  m-m  dark  mystery  contemporary  length-short
  • The Fulfilments of Fate and Desire by Storm Constantine

    The Fulfilments of Fate and Desire by Storm Constantine

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    ‘If life is a battle, then my inner scars are medals for valour, for swiftness, for courage, for passion. Evil is the dark-haired sibling of Good; they walk hand in hand—always. And, by the way, whatever it sounds like, that is not an excuse.’ Calanthe, erstwhile companion of Tigron Pellaz, is on the run...
  • Don't Be Cruel, Vol. 07 by Yonezou Nekota

    Don't Be Cruel, Vol. 07 by Yonezou Nekota

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When a playboy falls for a nerd, chemistry results in an explosive reaction!Playboy Maya catches studious Nemugasa cheating on a test, and to ensure his silence, Maya blackmails Nemugasa into doing whatever he wants! But is this merely just a ruse so Maya can spend more alone time with him?After spending a blissful night wrapped in each other’s arms, Maya and Nemugasa get a rude awakening when...
    Categorized as:
    queer  horror  contemporary  m-m  fantasy  length-short
  • Fate of the Five: Veil of Vasara by Niamh Rose

    Fate of the Five: Veil of Vasara by Niamh Rose

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A new King needs a new Queen after his parents are found dead, but the Courting Season opens his Palace to candidates from all across the Five Kingdoms, including one who has been sent there with her brother...to win and kill himAthlionSorcery is banned yet vital for the world's survival...
    Categorized as:
    queer  horror  fantasy  high fantasy  paranormal  dark  m-m  bisexual
  • Rules for Ghosting by Shelly Jay Shore

    Rules for Ghosting by Shelly Jay Shore

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 17 ratings
    Rule #1: They can't speak. Rule #2: They can't move. Rule #3: They can't hurt you. Ezra Friedman sees ghosts, which made growing up in a funeral home a bit complicated...
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