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  • 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...
  • Fool Me Twice by Ariana Nash

    Fool Me Twice by Ariana Nash

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The epic, heart-wrenching conclusion to the Court of Pain duology. Spanning four courts, devious and doomed royals, and the most unlikely of loves between a prince and his fool.They say in the darkest of times, the brightest star has no choice but to shine.I’m no star, nor am I a hero. But I could be the villain. To protect Arin from Razak’s scheming, I’ll have to be...
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  • 千秋 [Qian Qiu] by Meng Xi Shi, 梦溪石

    千秋 [Qian Qiu] by Meng Xi Shi, 梦溪石

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    晏无师是从尸山血海里走过来的人。他不相信人性本善,更不相信这世上会有大仁大义,不求回报为别人着想的人。某日,有天下第一道门之称的玄都山掌教沈峤与人约战,却因故坠下山崖。晏无师正好从下面路过。看到重伤濒死的沈峤,他忽然生出一个绝妙的主意……千秋之后,谁能不朽?**THIS ENTRY IS FOR THE ENTIRETY OF THE WEBNOVEL NOT THE PHYSICAL EDITIONS OR EBOOKS**"Thousand Autumns"Yan Wushi had walked a path full of blood and corpses.He did not believe in the good nature of humanity...
  • Even in Death by Randi Garner

    Even in Death by Randi Garner

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 9 ratings
    Imprisoned in the Land of the Dead, Finnian must figure out how to outwit the High God of Death and Curses and right his wrongs—however, the more their fates tangle, the more old feelings ignite. Chaos is inevitable.EVEN IN DEATH is the second book in the Fragile Divine, an interconnected dark fantasy romance series about the frailty of gods and goddesses...
  • 千秋 [Qian Qiu] by Meng Xi Shi, 梦溪石

    千秋 [Qian Qiu] by Meng Xi Shi, 梦溪石

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    晏无师是从尸山血海里走过来的人。他不相信人性本善,更不相信这世上会有大仁大义,不求回报为别人着想的人。某日,有天下第一道门之称的玄都山掌教沈峤与人约战,却因故坠下山崖。晏无师正好从下面路过。看到重伤濒死的沈峤,他忽然生出一个绝妙的主意……千秋之后,谁能不朽?**THIS ENTRY IS FOR THE ENTIRETY OF THE WEBNOVEL NOT THE PHYSICAL EDITIONS OR EBOOKS**"Thousand Autumns"Yan Wushi had walked a path full of blood and corpses.He did not believe in the good nature of humanity...
  • New York Minute (In These Words: Prequel) by Kichiku Neko, Suzume

    New York Minute (In These Words: Prequel) by Kichiku Neko, Suzume

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    In These Words prequel that takes the readers back to a newly NY State employed Dr. Asano Katsuya. The 27 year-old had never sought company until one Christmas day Katsuya finally gave into the charm of a homicide detective at the Manhattan Precint...
    Categorized as:
    queer  m-m  contemporary  dark  fantasy  length-novella
  • Caste Heaven, Vol. 5 by Chise Ogawa

    Caste Heaven, Vol. 5 by Chise Ogawa

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Today’s top could be tomorrow’s bottom when playing the caste game!School is hard enough as it is, but when students are forced to play a cutthroat game to determine their social ranks—and subsequent treatment—all bets are off.It’s the annual class trip, and Azusa is assigned to the same group as Atsumu and Kuze...
    Categorized as:
    queer  from hate to love  abuse  dark  m-m  rape  high-school  fantasy
  • Knot on Your Life by Raelynn Rose

    Knot on Your Life by Raelynn Rose

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 6 ratings
    A beta who works in a fetish club. A female alpha. A male omega. While it might sound like the beginning of a fun joke, it was the life of my dreams. I was madly in love with two of the rarest designations. We had built our own little pack of three.What I had never entertained in my wildest fantasies was falling for not one, but two alphas - who just happen to kill for a living...
  • Silk & Steel Series #1-3 and The Black Prince by Ariana Nash

    Silk & Steel Series #1-3 and The Black Prince by Ariana Nash

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    The four full-length novels in the bestselling Silk & Steel series. Elves and dragons battle for supremacy as a tortured dragon prince and a lethal elf assassin fight for their impossible love. Buy the stunning, emotional, epic, and award-winning MM fantasy series today...
    Categorized as:
    queer  from hate to love  m-m  fantasy  dark  horror
  • By Fang and Fire by Lionel Hart

    By Fang and Fire by Lionel Hart

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 6 ratings
    The very forces of fate are within his grasp. All he has to do is reach out and take them.While the soul-binding ritual has brought his fated mate back to him time and again, Adrissu never meant it to be a permanent solution. After all, mortals die, but dragons live forever...
    Categorized as:
    omegaverse  queer  fantasy  m-m  fae  dark  fated-mates  high fantasy
  • Caste Heaven, Vol. 3 by Chise Ogawa

    Caste Heaven, Vol. 3 by Chise Ogawa

    Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Today’s top could be tomorrow’s bottom when playing the caste game!School is hard enough as it is, but when students are forced to play a cutthroat game to determine their social ranks—and subsequent treatment—all bets are off. Karino’s older half brother Tatsumi is a proper honor student, diligently and obediently following the path laid out for him by others...
    Categorized as:
    queer  from hate to love  dark  m-m  abuse  high-school  rape  suspense
  • Break The Ice by Tea Ravine

    Break The Ice by Tea Ravine

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 9 ratings
    When it Raines it Pours but this might be a freezing rain.He’s the hot shot hockey player with the looks and reputation that opens every door in our world. What I did not expect was the pack he’s hiding along with his rival turned team mate and their strange hostile attraction. The four of them are not at all what I expected, they are charming yet wounded...
    Categorized as:
    omegaverse  alpha male  queer  sports  bdsm  dark  fantasy  hockey
  • Betrayal by J.C. Owens

    Betrayal by J.C. Owens

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Secrets, madness, lies…and a love forged in the flames of betrayal. Imprisoned, starved and abused by his captors, Darcel finds his only escape in the depths of madness. But he’s tormented by his own demons, who taunt him with the memories of his past and of his beloved prince, Alasar of Rais. The man who condemned him to this prison for killing the enemy’s high king...
  • Blood Stained Tea by Amy Tasukada

    Blood Stained Tea by Amy Tasukada

    Rated: 3.68 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    A bloody past haunts him. A devastating present calls him back…Nao hides from his violent past in the Japanese mob by opening a teahouse in Japan's cultural center, Kyoto. His past comes flooding back when he discovers a gravely injured man with a tattooed chest, a bloody knife, and a Korean business card.Saehyun would've died if not for Nao's help...
  • Scent of Sanctuary by N. Slater

    Scent of Sanctuary by N. Slater

    Rated: 3.43 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    I’ve pretty much mastered the art of hiding from the world.Grief, fear, and panic attacks make my apartment feel like a safe prison. After my brother died, it’s become impossible to believe that anything other than my nest inside these four walls can be my comfort...
  • Something Wicked by Eden Winters

    Something Wicked by Eden Winters

    Rated: 3.00 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 5 ratings
    A mysterious legacy. A magical journey. The worst guide in history!Piers Adams never knew his parents or birthplace. All he wants from his mundane life is a better apartment and fewer working hours serving drinks at a club in Asheville, North Carolina. Sure, weirdness happens around him occasionally. Coincidences, right? He can’t possibly wish things into existence. After all, he’s only human...
  • Night's Melody by Drake LaMarque

    Night's Melody by Drake LaMarque

    Rated: 2.80 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    The opera house holds many secrets, but none are as frightening as the Opera Ghost.Matthieu has harboured a crush on his best friend, Christophe, since they started dancing together in the Paris opera ballet troupe, but he's never acted on it.When disaster strikes only hours before a gala performance, Christophe reveals a hidden talent for singing...
    Categorized as:
    from hate to love  queer  m-m  dark  fantasy  hurt-comfort  bdsm  poly
  • Belovéd 3956 by Yamila Abraham

    Belovéd 3956 by Yamila Abraham

    Rated: 3.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    The demigod Malachi discovers that his Belovéd enemy, the avatar Jace, has been kidnapped by a barbaric land. The maniacal rulers of Ridlen have driven his Belovéd insane. Only one goal has been hammered into his tormented mind: to kill Malachi.This is a nonsequential series. Every episode stands alone as a singular story. Episodes are not published in a linear sequence...
  • The Husky and His White Cat Shizun: Erha He Ta De Bai Mao Shizun (Novel) Vol. 2 by Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou

    The Husky and His White Cat Shizun: Erha He Ta De Bai Mao Shizun (Novel) Vol. 2 by Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 40 ratings
    HIDDEN TRUTHS AND BURIED HEARTS The longer Mo Ran spends in his life reborn, the less he understands the man he once was, to say nothing of the teacher he so hated. As emperor of the mortal realm, Mo Ran loathed Chu Wanning with all his being, but the Chu Wanning of this life has sacrificed himself for his student's sake time and again...
  • 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: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 27 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...
  • The Last Herald-Mage Trilogy by Mercedes Lackey

    The Last Herald-Mage Trilogy by Mercedes Lackey

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    More information to be announced soon on this forthcoming title from Penguin USA...
  • The Husky and His White Cat Shizun: Erha He Ta De Bai Mao Shizun  Vol. 1 by Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou

    The Husky and His White Cat Shizun: Erha He Ta De Bai Mao Shizun Vol. 1 by Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 48 ratings
    The Emperor Reborn and His Dearest EnemyCruel tyrant Taxian-jun killed his way to the throne and now reigns as the first ever emperor of the mortal realm. Yet somehow, he is unsatisfied. Left cold and bereft, abandoned by all he held dear, he takes his own life...only to be reborn anew...
  • SOS Hotel: Great Service from Top to Bottom by Adam Vex, Ariana Nash

    SOS Hotel: Great Service from Top to Bottom by Adam Vex, Ariana Nash

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 19 ratings
    Book #4 in the hilarious SOS Hotel series. Something is wrong with Tom Collins. More wrong than usual. Tom’s being nice.We should have known trouble was right around the corner. One attempted murder later, and Reynard is forced to disarm him (literally). No bartender, means no bar. Zee is grumpy and avoiding me, and the hotel’s measly profits are dwindling by the day. Things are not going well...
  • Melee Mage by Michael Taggart

    Melee Mage by Michael Taggart

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    After getting punched in the face by a golem, Jason discovers he desperately needs two things: a much better offense and a much better defense. To a hammer, everything looks like a nail, and to a mage, everything is solved with magic. That is, unless your magic is small and restricted like Jason’s...
  • Infernal Sin by Ariana Nash

    Infernal Sin by Ariana Nash

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 25 ratings
    An angel and a demon fell in love, and the world went to war...Branded a traitor by his own kind, Severn knows winning demons back will not be easy, but when High Lord Luxen steals Mikhail from his grasp, he has no choice. He’s going to need all the help he can get to find Mikhail, unseat Luxen as High Lord, and build a force to rival the vicious Guardian Angel Remiel’s...
  • Twisted Shadows by Allie Therin

    Twisted Shadows by Allie Therin

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 15 ratings
    In a thrilling alternate-universe Seattle, empaths are disappearing—and it’s up to grumpy Reece and his mysterious protector, Grayson, to investigate. Empath hunter Evan Grayson is the Dead Man, transformed by a dark past into a perfect weapon against corrupted empaths...
  • Solo by Ariana Nash

    Solo by Ariana Nash

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 20 ratings
    How far will he fall for love? Samiel has escaped. It's up to Solo to track him down and return him to the enclosures to await Mikhail and Konstantin's punishment. But Solo's only lead is the one demon no angel can trust—the one demon Solo can't resist—the incubus High Lord Luxen. Luxen has offered to help. On one condition: Solo sets him free...
  • Loveless, Volume 05 by Yun Kouga, Christine Boylan

    Loveless, Volume 05 by Yun Kouga, Christine Boylan

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 31 ratings
    When 12-year-old Ritsuka discovers a message from his brother Seimei that he was murdered, Ritsuka joins forces with Soubi to find Seimei's killer and uncover the truth...
    Categorized as:
    urban fantasy  queer  fantasy  m-m  mystery  magic  paranormal  dark
  • Honored Vow by Mary Calmes

    Honored Vow by Mary Calmes

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 39 ratings
    Jin Rayne is still growing into his frightening new powers as a nekhene cat and his place as reah of Logan Church’s tribe when he learns that a sepat, an honor challenge, has been called. Logan, who has never wanted to do anything but lead his small-town tribe, must travel around the world to Mongolia and fight to become the most powerful leader in the werepanther world...
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