The Prospects by KT Hoffman
Build a Boyfriend and Ship Happens by Mason Deaver
Second Chances in New Port Stephen by TJ Alexander
Stripped and Pumped by K.M. Neuhold
Sunset Springs by Kacen Callender (audio)
Bonus: Coming in 2027, check out Love and Lake Monsters by TJ Alexander and Reins and Restraint by Page Powars
Today on the site I’m delighted to reveal the cover of Southwest Gothic: Seven Plagues of Sa’stoh by Bladen Mercutio, the second book in the folk horror Southwest Gothic series, releasing March 20, 2027! Here’s the story:
Five thousand years ago, he was buried. Now, the Scion of War is awake—and he’s thirsty for blood.
Six months after avoiding the Harvest’s world-altering Reaping, witches Remy and Vincent are still hunting for missing legends and loved ones. What they find instead across the haunting deserts of New Mexico is a nightmare: Lucio Sa’stoh, an ancient entity with god-like power, has broken free from his tomb with a singular, bloodthirsty purpose: to slaughter his own siblings.
To stop the tyrant from tearing the world apart, Remy and Vincent must form an uneasy alliance with the enigmatic but powerful Sam and Lilith. In a realm drenched in desert sun, folklore and fading magic, stopping the wrath of a god might cost them everything they have left.
And here’s the cover by Bohemian Trash Studios!
Missed book 1? Check that out here!
Bladen is a scientist by day, rock star by night, writer in between, and someone who enjoys running only in dreams. A graduate in atmospheric sciences, they chase fire and tell the future for a day job. In addition to their work with the Southwest Gothic series, Bladen has written and recorded several varieties of sonic entertainment, including an accompanying soundtrack to the novels. A Desert Southwest native, they do their best writing in the ghost towns of the Texas borderland between the real and the unreal. Also a witch, the second law of thermodynamics is their magical ethos and they try to live everyday as though it were Halloween. Bladen likes cats, honey mustard, yelling at clouds while drinking scotchy scotch and is composed almost entirely of jokes.
Today on the site I’m delighted to reveal the cover of Good Boys Don’t Bite by L.A. Barron, an Adult Horror novel with lesbian and trans rep releasing October 13, 2026 from Contrarian Publishing! Here’s the story:Â
It’s Rowdy Dawes’s last year at Harcourt Autumn, a month-long sleepaway camp in Oregon for fledgling vampires. Unable to be trusted on their own, Rowdy and her fellow campers are supposed to take the month to strengthen bonds between clans, practice their various gifts, and better manage their often uncontrollable thirst.
But Rowdy’s final Harcourt Autumn will not be a bittersweet hurrah. After the death of her best friend, Leena, Rowdy’s only goal is to bring her abuser to justice. The only problem? The person responsible for Leena’s taking her own life is the camp director.
In the months leading up to camp, Rowdy’s collected every scrap of evidence she can find, from a worn copy of Leena’s suicide note to all the texts and photographs she sent documenting the abuse, in the hopes of confronting the director. But when a human girl is found drained of all her blood in the lake wearing one of Rowdy’s shirts, she quickly discovers this Harcourt Autumn is not something she could ever have prepared herself for.
And here’s the chilling cover by Amber Claus!
L.A. Barron grew up in the dusty border lands of southern Arizona where the only escape from the heat was to write new worlds and give life to the invisible, sordid underbelly of the suburbs. Their love of escapism quickly grew into piles and piles of composition notebooks full of vampires, ghosts, and all things creepy.
Now located in the Pacific Northwest, they can be found wandering Saturday markets with an armful of flowers or hiding away in the dark corners of indie bookstores.
These are all Adult. For YA, click here.
The Isle in the Silver Sea by Tasha Suri
Call Me Traitor by Everina Maxwell
Deals of Dark Desire by Ruby Roe
A Kiss of Crimson Ash by Anuja Varghese
The Thorns We Wear Inside by Amy Avery
Today on the site, I’m delighted to reveal the cover for It’s in Her Kiss by Dana Hawkins, a Sapphic rom-com releasing February 2, 2027 from Storm! Here’s the story:
Eve O’Kelly is the kiss of death.
Not literally. She’s never actually killed anyone. But kiss her, and within forty-eight hours you’ll be in a freak accident. By day, she sells crystals, incense, and hand-poured candles. By night, it’s another lonely evening in with the cat. But after her exes racked up broken bones, twisted ankles, and one memorable ER visit, Eve is protecting the world from her lips.
Private investigator Sloane Wright doesn’t believe in curses. But she does believe in the FBI consulting career that’s finally within reach, if she can prove the pretty shop owner peddling “magic rocks” is at the center of a string of fraudulent injury lawsuits. But the more time she spends with the sparkly shop owner, the harder it gets to ignore the one complication her career can’t survive: she’s falling for the woman she’s supposed to take down.
Neither of them should want this. And even if they give in to it, can they build anything lasting longer than forty-eight hours?
And here’s the sugar-sweet cover by Rachel Lawston!
Dana Hawkins is a caffeine-fueled writer of contemporary romance stories. After living in Seattle for twenty years, she recently returned to her hometown in Minnesota. She is a huge romance-genre book nerd and borderline obsessed with happy-ever-afters. As a mom of three humans and a cat who ignores her, she spends her days writing, chasing kids, neglecting her last remaining bamboo plant, and searching for the perfect coffee mug.
Finding Prince Charming by Jamar J. Perry
This is Kind of an Epic Love Story by Kacen Callender
Solo Stan by Talia Tucker
The Prince of the Palisades by Julian Winters
The Passing Playbook by Isaac Fitzsimons
Bonus: These are all Contemporary, but for Historical, check out The Great Disillusionment of Nick and Jay by Ryan DouglassÂ
Today on the site I’m delighted to reveal the cover of Crashing into Christmas by Mara Lovelle, a lesbian holiday romance novella releasing November 4th! Here’s the story.Â
“She hit me with her car. We’re taking it slow.”
After a grueling shift at the ER, all Morgan Gatlin wants is to go home—easier said than done in the worst snowstorm to hit New York City in years. One moment, she’s ignoring the Christmas nonsense the radio bombards her with, the next, she’s crashing bumper-first into unsuspecting pedestrian Elena Solorzano.
Guilt-stricken, Morgan rushes Elena to the hospital, and, when the storm shuts off Elena’s way to get home, Morgan offers her a place to stay.
What starts as an attempt to ease her conscience snowballs into something softer. Elena is warm, easy to talk to, and far too good at seeing what Morgan’s been running from for years. As Morgan’s guard melts, she is forced to make a choice: open her heart and risk loss again, or keep hiding in her lonely world.
Here’s the adorable cover, designed by Ivanna Nashkolna!
Buy it: Bookshop | Amazon | Kobo
Mara Lovelle is a queer, AuDHD author of sizzling, heartfelt LGBTQ+ romances and a firm believer that all stories are political. Born and raised in Germany, they discovered their passion for creating worlds in their mind at a young age; once they started writing them down, there was no stopping them. When they aren’t writing or reading, they can be found playing with their two cats or at the theater, stage managing a show.
Feminine Pursuits by Olivia Waite (Historical F/F Romance series)
They Never Learn by Layne Fargo (Thriller)
The Fortune Hunter’s Guide to Love by Emma-Claire Sunday (Historical F/F Romance)
Once Ghosted, Twice Shy by Alyssa Cole (Contemp F/F Romance)
Seducing the Sedgwicks by Cat Sebastian (Historical M/M Romance series)
Queer, Cuban American writer, teacher, and University of Washington PhD ‘s NIGHT TOWN, which braids three decades-spanning storylines, following a young American actress on an Italian giallo film set in 1970s Trieste, a closeted gay Cuban immigrant in 1980s Miami, and a suburban housewife in the early aughts whose murder exposes long-buried secrets, to Dan Lopez at Counterpoint, for publication in June 2027, by Laurie-Maude Chenard at UTA (NA).
Today on the site I’m delighted to reveal the cover of Waxing and Waning by J.N. Howell, a Sapphic Urban Fantasy Romance releasing December 1, 2026 from Mythic Roads Press! Here’s the story:
Delilah Ali works as a doctor for magical creatures alongside her incompetent medical intern, Micah, who she intends to fail by the end of his summer internship. But her summer plans are disturbed when Delilah’s vampiric ex-“something”, Darcy, crashes back into her life with a desperate plea. She needs Delilah to remove her newborn son’s magic with an illegal surgery before they’re caught by the werewolf pack hunting him down.
As the odd-ball team travel across Ontario to escape the pack and make the surgery possible, old feelings reemerge, Delilah’s own long-dormant magic rears its head, and they begin to suspect the problem is bigger than just one baby’s magic.
And here’s the magical cover, designed by Patricia Veldstra and illustrated by Andy Ra!
Buy it: Mythic Roads Press | Amazon
J.N. Howell lives in Canada with their tyrannical little dog and wife. They are a corporate cryptid by day that writes stories about messy queer people by night. Their work can be found scattered in speculative and lit magazines. When they aren’t writing, they can be found hunched over a dying vegetable garden or haunting their local cafe, matcha in hand.
