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  • Loathing You by Amina Khan

    Loathing You by Amina Khan

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Hate. Detest. Despise. These words were the only way that Adaline and Juliette could possibly describe their relationship, or lack thereof.Adaline would argue that this is because a certain she-devil has been making her life hell for the last five years...
  • Kingmakers: Graduation by Sophie Lark

    Kingmakers: Graduation by Sophie Lark

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 50 ratings
    Wild Hearts, Ruthless Games In the adrenaline-fueled world of Kingmakers, Sabrina Gallo stands as a force of nature. Untamed and fiercely independent, she’s more storm than woman, captivating and terrifying all who cross her path. Bratva bad boy Adrik Petrov has finally met his match. Sabrina won’t be easily claimed—but for Adrik, the thrill of the chase is as intoxicating as the prize...
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  • Rainbow! Volume 1 by Sunny

    Rainbow! Volume 1 by Sunny

    Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    From Tapas Media, the same webtoon platform that brought you Magical Boy, comes Rainbow!, a new LGBTQ+ YA graphic novel series! Teenager Boo Meadows has pink hair and a very vivid imagination -- she has trouble separating from the real world. In her daydreams, she dances beautifully at balls or fights monsters as a magical girl...
  • Rainbow! Vol. 1 by Sunny .

    Rainbow! Vol. 1 by Sunny .

    Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    From Tapas Media, the same webtoon platform that brought you Magical Boy, comes Rainbow!, a new LGBTQ+ YA graphic novel series! Teenager Boo Meadows has pink hair and a very vivid imagination -- she has trouble separating from the real world. In her daydreams, she dances beautifully at balls or fights monsters as a magical girl...
  • Bloom by Delilah S. Dawson

    Bloom by Delilah S. Dawson

    Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 29 ratings
    A sweet sapphic romance takes a deadly dark turn in this sharp-as-a-knife novella from the New York Times bestselling author.Rosemary meets Ash at the farmers’ market. Ash—precise, pretty, and practically perfect—sells bars of soap in delicate pastel colors, sprinkle-spackled cupcakes stacked on scalloped stands, beeswax candles, jelly jars of honey, and glossy green plants...
    Categorized as:
    horror  queer  contemporary  mystery  f-f  dark  suspense  fantasy
  • A Lesson in Thorns by Sierra Simone

    A Lesson in Thorns by Sierra Simone

    Rated: 3.82 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 111 ratings
    When librarian Poe Markham takes the job at Thornchapel, she only wants two things: to stay away from Thornchapel’s tortured owner, Auden Guest, and to find out what happened to her mother twelve years ago...
    Categorized as:
    bdsm  queer  poly  f-f  m-m-f  contemporary  menage  mystery
  • The Last Girls Standing by Jennifer Dugan

    The Last Girls Standing by Jennifer Dugan

    Rated: 3.28 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    In this queer YA psychological thriller from the author of Some Girls Do and Hot Dog Girl, the sole surviving counselors of a summer camp massacre search to uncover the truth of what happened that fateful night, but what they find out might just get them killed...
    Categorized as:
    young adult  queer  mystery  f-f  contemporary  suspense  dark  fantasy
  • A Little Sin by Rawnie Sabor

    A Little Sin by Rawnie Sabor

    Rated: 4.71 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 47 ratings
    It can take time to feel proud of who you are.Violet Kane is perfect. At least, that’s what people are supposed to think. She has the perfect career, the perfect presentation, and, until recently, she was engaged to the perfect man. To everyone around her, she's perfectly happy. But pretending to be happy is difficult when you're breaking apart at the seams...
  • Unshaken by Dreia Wells

    Unshaken by Dreia Wells

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 24 ratings
    I was supposed to be a Light Guardian.My whole life was mapped out and I was going to proudly follow my ancestor's footsteps. So why did the Angels reject me? I trained for years to become one of the Elite in the Angels fight against the forces of evil. When the time came for me to attend Caelum Academy, my invitation never came...
    Categorized as:
    queer  reverse harem  magic  paranormal  demons  fantasy  dark  witches
  • For Love and Blood and Fury by J.J. Arias

    For Love and Blood and Fury by J.J. Arias

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 13 ratings
    A ruthless vampire. A powerful witch. A healer with a hidden legacy. A searing paranormal romance that proves three hearts can beat as one.Elena, the head of Miami’s vampire cartel, never expected her ex-girlfriend Zuri—a powerful witch—to storm back into her life demanding help with a rival coven...
  • Door of Bruises by Sierra Simone

    Door of Bruises by Sierra Simone

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 38 ratings
    𝐓𝐰𝐞𝐥𝐯𝐞 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐠𝐨, 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐟𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐚 𝐤𝐢𝐬𝐬.We are all, for better or worse, doomed to love each other until death do us part. My heart belongs to Proserpina and St. Sebastian—even if he no longer wants it. Even if she has left it behind to follow him.Delphine’s fled back home, and Becket’s holy calling is in peril...
  • A Cruel and Fated Light by Ashley Shuttleworth

    A Cruel and Fated Light by Ashley Shuttleworth

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 22 ratings
    Half-fae Arlo becomes entangled in the courtly intrigue at the Seelie Summer palace as danger for ironborns mounts in this “beautifully written and deliciously complex” (Nicki Pau Preto, author of the Crown of Feathers trilogy) sequel to A Dark and Hollow Star that’s The Cruel Prince meets City of Bones...
  • Serpentine Valentine by Giana Darling

    Serpentine Valentine by Giana Darling

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 43 ratings
    From Wall Street Journal bestselling author Giana Darling comes a sapphic dark academia Medusa retelling about a woman who was wronged by her idols and refused to pay the price without getting revenge...I was born a woman.Raised by women.In love with women.Until I enrolled at Acheron University, I'd never known much of men. I certainly didn't know enough to fear them...
    Categorized as:
    queer  f-f  dark  contemporary  fantasy  vengeance  new adult  angst
  • Dimitri's Forbidden Submissive by Ann Mayburn

    Dimitri's Forbidden Submissive by Ann Mayburn

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    As the daughter of an outlaw biker, Rya DeLuca is used to living a wild life, but nothing could prepare her for the danger of falling in love with Dimitri Novikov...
  • The Invocations by Krystal Sutherland

    The Invocations by Krystal Sutherland

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 30 ratings
    From the author of New York Times bestseller House of Hollow comes a darkly seductive witchy thriller where, though both men and demons lurk in shadows, girls refuse to go quietly into the night.AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThree girls, one supernatural killer on the loose . .
  • Bitch Planet, Vol. 1: Extraordinary Machine by Kelly Sue DeConnick

    Bitch Planet, Vol. 1: Extraordinary Machine by Kelly Sue DeConnick

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 54 ratings
    Eisner Award-nominated writer KELLY SUE DeCONNICK (PRETTY DEADLY, Captain Marvel) and VALENTINE DE LANDRO (X-Factor) present the premiere volume of BITCH PLANET, their critically acclaimed and deliciously vicious sci-fi satire. Think Margaret Atwood meets Inglourious Basterds. Discussion guide included. Collects BITCH PLANET #1-5...
    Categorized as:
    queer  science fiction  dystopian  fantasy  f-f  sports  dark  humor
  • Shadows in Bloom: A Dark Romance Anthology by Lola Malone, Jessie Walker

    Shadows in Bloom: A Dark Romance Anthology by Lola Malone, Jessie Walker

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Long summer nights, the rustle of leaves and flowers in full bloom.It’s the perfect time of the year to live life the fullest, plan for tomorrow and forget about yesterday. But what happens when the shadows come out to play?After all…you won’t see it coming until it hits you in the Shadows in Bloom...
  • Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh

    Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    A thrillingly told queer space opera about the wreckage of war, the family you find, and who you must become when every choice is stripped from you, Some Desperate Glory is Astounding Award Winner Emily Tesh’s highly anticipated debut novel. While we live, the enemy shall fear us. Since she was born, Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge the murder of planet Earth...
  • Always Running by Calliope Stewart

    Always Running by Calliope Stewart

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 36 ratings
    Is it finally time to stop running?Tibby Sinclair is the queen of messy beginnings. Raised for fourteen years in a religious cult before being tossed into the San Francisco Omega Academy, Tibby never had a chance. That didn't stop her though. She toughened up and became someone that would protect herself...
  • The Woman from the Waves by Roslyn Sinclair

    The Woman from the Waves by Roslyn Sinclair

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 13 ratings
    Love and hunger are not the same.Six years ago, on a remote Scottish island, a mysterious woman saved Sister Madeleine Laurent from drowning. Now, after leaving her convent, Madeleine crosses the ocean again to find the rescuer who changed her life. Instead, her search is disrupted by Hæra North, a brazen, provocative local who stirs Madeleine’s repressed desires—and keeps a secret out of legend...
  • The Dead and the Dark by Courtney Gould

    The Dead and the Dark by Courtney Gould

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Courtney Gould’s thrilling debut The Dead and the Dark is about the things that lurk in dark corners, the parts of you that can’t remain hidden, and about finding home in places―and people―you didn’t expect.The Dark has been waiting for far too long, and it won't stay hidden any longer. Something is wrong in Snakebite, Oregon...
  • Blood Rituals by Aoibh Wood

    Blood Rituals by Aoibh Wood

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 13 ratings
    Boston Homicide Detective, Caitlin Reagan, walks a razor's edge, propping up her life on emotional constructs designed to help her manage grueling PTSD. She keeps her mother, boyfriend, and work separated and controlled, all in service to one horrible, tragic act she committed amid the Iraq war...
  • When You're Mine by Luna Knight

    When You're Mine by Luna Knight

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 13 ratings
    When assassin Ivy Blackthorn sees something she wants, she gets it. That includes Zara Carston, the ex-fiancé of her next job.After Zara comes home to find her fiancée in a tangle with a college-aged woman, she’s devastated… until she meets the woman sent to kill her fiancé. Though their Valentine’s Day is destined to be painted red with his blood, Ivy and Zara’s night is only about to begin...
    Categorized as:
    queer  bdsm  dark  paranormal  insta-love  vampires  fantasy  f-f
  • Twisted Sorcery by Kira Adler

    Twisted Sorcery by Kira Adler

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 9 ratings
    Midnight City has taken everything from Deni. Two months after being turned into a vampire by her abusive ex she’s broke, starving, and one bad day away from ending up on the street...
    Categorized as:
    queer  bdsm  vampires  magic  fantasy  dark  urban fantasy  f-f
  • First Light by Liz Kerin

    First Light by Liz Kerin

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    First Light, the riveting sequel to Liz Kerin’s Night's Edge, is about seizing a brighter future by confronting the shadows of our past.“I came all this way to watch you burn.”It's been nine months since the catastrophe in Tucson sent Mia fleeing from her home...
    Categorized as:
    horror  queer  vampires  fantasy  paranormal  contemporary  f-f  dark
  • Falling for the Fugitive by Lila Gwynn

    Falling for the Fugitive by Lila Gwynn

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Three months have passed since fairy bounty hunter Olympia Carter chose herself at her vampire lover’s expense. Leandra’s kill bounty has been listed for so long that it’s about to go international, and when top bounty hunter Allie Godden comes to Olympia with a proposal to find the vampire together before someone else does, it’s hard to refuse...
  • Lesser Known Monsters by Rory Michaelson

    Lesser Known Monsters by Rory Michaelson

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 11 ratings
    Being the chosen one isn’t always a good thing...Oscar Tundale is not a hero. Anxious, indecisive, and awkward, he can barely get through a normal day. Now he’s about to find out monsters are real. Oscar’s friends: brave, stubborn Zara, and hyperactive, paranoid Marcus, might help discover what hunts him, and unravel the truth about the handsome doctor he pines for...
  • Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle

    Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 45 ratings
    From beloved internet icon Chuck Tingle, Camp Damascus is a searing and earnest horror debut about the demons the queer community faces in America, the price of keeping secrets, and finding the courage to burn it all down.Welcome to Neverton, Montana: home to a God-fearing community with a heart of gold...
  • Feast While You Can by Mikaella Clements, Onjuli Datta

    Feast While You Can by Mikaella Clements, Onjuli Datta

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    For readers of Nightbitch and We Ride Upon Sticks, this strange and sexy novel of queer love in a small town is an unsettling reminder that the horrors of modern life is a monster ready to possess us all. In the valley at the intersection of three towering mountains sits Cadenze, an ugly, remote town with little to its name...
    Categorized as:
    horror  queer  fantasy  contemporary  f-f  monsters  mystery  dark
  • Harvest of Sighs by Sierra Simone

    Harvest of Sighs by Sierra Simone

    Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 40 ratings
    The genius and the sunshine girl. As children, we fought bitterly and often, bickering every chance we got.But then we grew up.Then we came back.Delphine Dansey carries her heart on the outside of her body; she’s looking for love and chasing dreams. She’s spoiled and selfish, the kind of beautiful that’s made for money and fame...
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