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  • Hives & Heroism by Benjamin Medrano

    Hives & Heroism by Benjamin Medrano

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Demons loom over Dorma.Despite Joy’s victory over Alethus’s servants, his plans haven’t been stopped. Even so, a glimmer of hope lies before her, and she and her friends are determined to grasp it.That doesn’t mean it will be easy, though. An army is invading Dorma, one with the same destination as Joy. Their goals are sinister, but they aren’t going to stop Joy and her friends...
    Categorized as:
    magic  queer  fantasy  f-f  demons  length-medium
  • The Twisted Throne by Danielle L. Jensen, Max Roll

    The Twisted Throne by Danielle L. Jensen, Max Roll

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    A commander who bled to defend her people, Ahnna is haunted by two beliefs. The first is that she failed to protect Ithicana from invasion. And the second is that saving her homeland means leaving it behind forever. The Maridrinians left Ithicana in ruins and its people impoverished...
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  • Talyn: Unyielding by Benjamin Medrano

    Talyn: Unyielding by Benjamin Medrano

    Rated: 4.71 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Success can be dangerous.After surviving the depths of Castra's dungeon, Talyn has returned to the surface and caused a seismic change in the city. Now she has to deal with the consequences. But after her last life, she will not bow to anyone...
    Categorized as:
    magic  queer  fantasy  f-f  demons  poly
  • Webs & Wards by Benjamin Medrano

    Webs & Wards by Benjamin Medrano

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Joy can’t get a break. Having survived a chance encounter with a demon lordling, and made an immense sacrifice, one might expect Joy to at least have some time to rest and recover. Instead, when Joy’s friends learn what she sacrificed, they decide they’ll repay her, no matter what it takes, and they take the adventurous bee-girl on a quest to find another apis hive which can help her...
    Categorized as:
    magic  queer  fantasy  f-f  demons  length-medium
  • The Elysean Illusion by D.N. Hoxa

    The Elysean Illusion by D.N. Hoxa

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 9 ratings
    I thought they built those walls around their cities to say that they are better than us. Special. Gods. I was wrong. The Elyseans have always thought themselves better than us mortals. At least that's what they've wanted the whole world to think. I always believed it--until I complete the Elysean Trials they force me in, and I attend the Academy of Divine Light and Beauty...
  • My Inherited House Might be Haunted by AJ Sherwood, Katie Griffin

    My Inherited House Might be Haunted by AJ Sherwood, Katie Griffin

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Rhett’s inheritance of the gorgeous Victorian house was expected. What was not expected Two familiarsA house full of ghostsMagic powers?!A new boyfriend, maybe, possibly, please and thank youNow if he could just figure out how to handle everything, life would be peachy...
    Categorized as:
    new adult  queer  fantasy  m-m  multicultural
  • The Bone Shard Daughter by Andrea Stewart

    The Bone Shard Daughter by Andrea Stewart

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 54 ratings
    The emperor's reign has lasted for decades, his mastery of bone shard magic powering the animal-like constructs that maintain law and order. But now his rule is failing, and revolution is sweeping across the Empire's many islands.Lin is the emperor's daughter and spends her days trapped in a palace of locked doors and dark secrets...
    Categorized as:
    magic  queer  fantasy  f-f  high fantasy  length-long
  • MidKnight by Ann Denton

    MidKnight by Ann Denton

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Think you can steal my sister and then hide? Think again. I will find you, and I will destroy you. I’ll make you rue the day you thought you could take from me. As soon as I figure out who you are. Which will happen as soon as my butler, a visiting queen, and a rebellion are put in their place. I won’t lose my sister to you or my kingdom to anyone. I will fight to the bitter end...
    Categorized as:
    new adult  magic  fantasy  length-medium
  • The Disgraced Fae by Shari L. Tapscott

    The Disgraced Fae by Shari L. Tapscott

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Eleanor has only a few memories of her childhood—white roses, a beautiful but cold queen, a garden with mirrors, and terrifying creatures.But mostly, she remembers a boy. A boy who saved her from whatever her memory is holding hostage—a boy who wasn’t human.Now eighteen, Eleanor is old enough to leave the orphanage she’s lived in for the last twelve years...
    Categorized as:
    new adult  magic  fantasy  fae  length-medium
  • Deliciously Enchanted by Jessamyn Kingley

    Deliciously Enchanted by Jessamyn Kingley

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Henry Gennevios is an enchanter with little magic, but his lack of sorcery doesn’t bother him. Growing up in the chaos of his parents’ matebond, Henry escaped into his passion for food. Now, Henry is a famous chef with dozens of restaurants, best-selling cookbooks, and a successful line of kitchen products with his name slapped on them...
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    magic  queer  fantasy  m-m  length-medium
  • Kitten and Allure by Amanda Cashure

    Kitten and Allure by Amanda Cashure

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    With Tanakan prison empty of its most powerful and dangerous criminals, and a tyrant with insurmountable power and a thirst for death still named as Crown, the Silvari and human worlds are on the edge of a catastrophe they may never recover from...
  • Daughter of the Moon by Effie Calvin

    Daughter of the Moon by Effie Calvin

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Four months ago, Netheia Isinthi failed to take her father’s throne from her older sister. After refusing to publicly support the new empress, she is banished to Ieflaria’s capital city, Birsgen, where she anticipates a long and uneventful exile.Klavida of Nalova is a student at the university established by Princess Esofi for the study of magic...
    Categorized as:
    new adult  queer  fantasy  f-f  length-medium
  • The Stray Spirit by R.K. Ashwick

    The Stray Spirit by R.K. Ashwick

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Struggling bard Emry Karic has only one path home: impress the Auric Guild, join the ranks of the elite musicians therein, and return to his family with his honor in hand.Difficult to do on a good day. Impossible to do with a possessed lute.Just before the biggest performance of Emry’s life, a talkative forest spirit named Aspen traps themself in his lute...
  • Winter of the Owl by Iris Foxglove

    Winter of the Owl by Iris Foxglove

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 13 ratings
    Sava has the best house in all of Lukos. He built it himself, dreaming of the day when he and Milan, the man he loved, could live there and brave the harsh winters of Lukos together—only to be devastated when Milan was found dead in the spring. Fraught with grief, Sava resigns himself to spending his winters alone.Then a stranger appears on his doorstep, and everything changes...
  • The Masked Fae by Shari L. Tapscott

    The Masked Fae by Shari L. Tapscott

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 12 ratings
    Never make a bargain with one of the Fae.It’s a rule everyone knows…and yet it’s one Alice’s family seems to ignore. After her brother loses their entire family fortune in a wager he cannot afford, Alice ventures into the Rose Briar Woods to make a deal with the formidable Fae marquis who now owns her family’s estate—a portrait in exchange for her brother’s freedom...
  • Of Dust and Stars by Jenna Wolfhart

    Of Dust and Stars by Jenna Wolfhart

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Tessa will never again see her mate. Even in her dreams she cannot find him. Trapped in a vow with the God of Death, she’s cursed to live the rest of her days in captivity. Until the gods offer her a deal. If Tessa undergoes a series of trials designed to strip her of her humanity, Andromeda will release her from the vow...
    Categorized as:
    new adult  magic  fantasy  fae
  • Beefcakes by L. Eveland

    Beefcakes by L. Eveland

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Falling for a minotaur is no piece of cake. Wedding planner Ezra Higgins is having a bad day. He’s lost his phone, he’s got six weeks to plan the biggest wedding of his career, and now the minotaur baker won’t stop flirting with him. It’s enough to make anyone’s anxiety spike...
    Categorized as:
    monsters  queer  fantasy  m-m
  • A Warrior's Heart by Jaclyn Osborn

    A Warrior's Heart by Jaclyn Osborn

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 6 ratings
    MalikI’ve watched over Troy his whole life. But I no longer see him as the boy he used to be. He’s strong, brave… beautiful. Being a warrior is all I’ve known for so long. Yet with him, I find myself wanting more.He makes me feel alive again.When King Triton sends me on a mission to find a powerful legendary weapon, I know it will be dangerous...
  • Undead Gods by Caitlyn Battelle

    Undead Gods by Caitlyn Battelle

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    ᴡᴇʟᴄᴏᴍᴇ ᴛᴏ ᴋᴀᴠᴀ, ᴡʜᴇʀᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴜɴᴅᴇᴀᴅ ɢᴏᴅꜱ ɴᴇɪᴛʜᴇʀ ʜᴇᴀʀ ɴᴏʀ ᴄᴀʀᴇ...𝐄𝐥𝐲𝐬𝐢𝐚 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐬 𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐞𝐝.The undead gods neither hear nor care in Kava. The magic they gifted mortals disappeared years ago, and Elysia Parker is all too familiar with what happens if someone is found to be harboring magic in her land. 𝑫𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒉...
  • The Witchstone Amulet by Mason Thomas

    The Witchstone Amulet by Mason Thomas

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Protect it at all costs. That’s what rugby player Hunter Best’s mother told him before she died. But when Hunter surprises an intruder in his Chicago apartment, he discovers her amulet stolen. Hunter pursues the thief—all the way through a strange vortex. He wakes in a bizarre and violent world, a benighted realm on the threshold of civil war...
    Categorized as:
    magic  queer  m-m  fantasy  length-medium
  • Ever After by Riley Hart, Christina Lee

    Ever After by Riley Hart, Christina Lee

    Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 23 ratings
    As next in line for the Evergreen crown, Prince Merrick Davendall’s future involves ruling, marriage, and producing an heir of his own. But he’s long been tormented by desires that are far from princely. Especially when the beautiful Cassius is promoted to be his new valet, and Merrick is struck by a longing like never before—a longing to know him far beyond royal and servant...
    Categorized as:
    new adult  queer  m-m  royalty  fantasy  historical
  • The King of Forever by Kirby Crow

    The King of Forever by Kirby Crow

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The sun has returned to the Land of Night and Liall has claimed a throne he never wanted, but many still oppose his beloved Scarlet's presence at court...
    Categorized as:
    magic  queer  m-m  fantasy  length-short
  • Vow of Celibacy: A Novel by Erin Judge

    Vow of Celibacy: A Novel by Erin Judge

    Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Natalie has made a promise: a vow of celibacy, signed and witnessed by her best friend. After a string of sexual conquests, she is determined to figure out why the intense romantic connections she’s spent her life chasing have left her emotionally high and dry...
    Categorized as:
    magic  queer  fantasy  f-f  length-medium
  • Luna by Maria Llovet

    Luna by Maria Llovet

    Rated: 3.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Meet Teresa, a young woman named who’s plagued by prophetic dreams that connect her to something powerful, something divine...and the dark, twisted journey that will lead her to the truth.WILL THE FAMILY SET HER FREE?Meet Teresa, a young woman named who’s plagued by prophetic dreams that connect her to something powerful, something...divine...
  • Dragon Den by Kriss Dean

    Dragon Den by Kriss Dean

    Rated: 3.00 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    A fast-paced, action-packed romantic urban fantasy inspired by The Fast and the Furious, perfect for adult fans of How to Train Your Dragon.Markus Fredriksen, the First of His Name, more titles to come, always dreamed of breaking a Black Clubtail and becoming a dragon rider. He fails to break any dragon at all, marking the end of his tenure at Dragild Military Academy...
  • The Mask Falling by Samantha Shannon

    The Mask Falling by Samantha Shannon

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 40 ratings
    Dreamwalker Paige Mahoney has eluded death again. Snatched from the jaws of captivity and consigned to a safe house in the Scion Citadel of Paris, she finds herself caught between those factions that seek Scion's downfall and those who would kill to protect the Rephaim's puppet empire.The mysterious Domino Program has plans for Paige, but she has ambitions of her own in this new citadel...
  • Monster's Mercy by William D. Arand

    Monster's Mercy by William D. Arand

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    An existence spent being forced to kill others to satiate a Monster. Where the only thing to look forward to was the blessed, if brief, period of time between paying that bribe. Except that very same Monster is and isn’t Rene. It just happened to live inside his own mind and force him to do what it wanted. Rather than being an actual Monster...
    Categorized as:
    magic  new adult  fantasy  harems  paranormal  m-f
  • All the Young Dudes: Sirius's Perspective - Volume Three: Year 7 by Rollercoasterwords

    All the Young Dudes: Sirius's Perspective - Volume Three: Year 7 by Rollercoasterwords

    Rated: 4.76 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    MsKingBean89's "All The Young Dudes" rewritten from Sirius's perspective. Book three covers year 7.Cover art by moony cig...
    Categorized as:
    queer  magic  fantasy  paranormal  length-long
  • The Lore of the Evermen by James Maxwell

    The Lore of the Evermen by James Maxwell

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    The Lord of the Night is coming. The future of civilization is at stake. Miro, high lord of Altura, is in the Imperial capital to prepare the Empire for the onslaught. He knows his homeland lies directly in the enemy's path but struggles to form the alliances he needs. As the high lords bicker, Ella seeks the help of the newly crowned emperor, Killian...
    Categorized as:
    new adult  magic  fantasy  paranormal  length-long
  • Princess of Dorsa by Eliza Andrews

    Princess of Dorsa by Eliza Andrews

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    The fate of an empire lies in the hands of one untested princess. Princess Natasia is the eldest child of the Emperor Andreth, ruler of the Four Realms. If she were a boy, she’d be the unquestioned heir to the throne. But as a girl, her main duty in life is to marry someone her father can shape into his successor. Everything changes when an unknown would-be assassin nearly takes Tasia’s life...
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