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Floristin Ashley Gaines liebt ihren kleinen Blumenladen, in dem sie wunderschöne Brautsträuße und Dekorationen für andere freudige Anlässe kreiert. Sasha Peterson, die die örtliche Bäckerei gehört, hat ebenfalls noch nicht das perfekte Rezept für eine glückliche Beziehung gefunden. Doch als die erste lesbische Hochzeit in ihrer Kleinstadt die beiden zur Zusammenarbeit zwingt, stellen Ashley und Sasha fest, dass sie mehr gemeinsam haben, als sie dachten. Bei Tortenschlachten, Walzertänzen und einem Junggesellinnenabschied auf einer traumhaften Insel kommen sie einander langsam näher.

A compelling novel of desire, secrecy, and sexual identity, In One Person is a story of unfulfilled love - tormented, funny, and affecting - and an impassioned embrace of our sexual differences. Billy, the bisexual narrator and main character of In One Person, tells the tragicomic story (lasting...

A protagonista deste romance vai do paraíso ao inferno em poucas páginas. Casada com a mulher que ama, ela suspeita de que tenha sido traída durante uma de suas viagens de negócios. A angústia de não saber o que se passa, o medo de perguntar, a desconfiança e a dúvida, que nunca tiveram espaço na relação–considerada perfeita pelos amigos–agora rondam o casal. Mas será mesmo que a traição existiu? Ou era o amor que estava minguando?

Alex Flynn, chief of Trowbridge Rescue, recollects poignant elements of a friendship during Alex’s days in government service. The story remembers love, fear, and sadness released when hearing The Steve Miller Band’s song “The Joker”.

Trowbridge Dispatch is part of the Trowbridge, Vermont series of novels and stories, wherein I.M. Aiken draws on her roots in public safety to narrate tales of the everyday heroes that every community depends on.

LAUGH NOW. CRY LATER. Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere... It’s London, 2014, and Hal Lancaster, son and heir of Henry, Duke of Lancaster, is in a holding pattern: his mother is dead, his father is dying or remarrying or both, his siblings are fighting, his internship is pointless...

They called her a nightmare, so she became one. Haven Powers has spent years trying to disappear. Once a loud, troublemaking girl who defied every expectation in her small town of Friendship, Texas, now she’s learned to hide her fire behind a quiet receptionist’s smile. It’s safer that...

She’s serving. She’s eating. She’s . . . Carrying. In this electrifying horror debut that’s equal parts funny and harrowing, a stealth trans woman desperate to maintain her picture-perfect life discovers that she’s seemingly—impossibly—pregnant. Everything Martha’s wanted...

Even before his mother's mysterious murder, Henric Sabio never felt at home in his small town or at his private high school. He figured that was because of his cynical personality and tendency to daydream about dragons. But when a sudden supernatural attack transports him, his father, and his sister to a frozen magical world, Henric quickly learns he is different in ways he never imagined. He is Henric Iceheart, son of a disgraced prince and heir to a throne that desperately needs to restore the glories of a lost age.

From rising horror star and award-winning author of Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke comes a nightmarish, haunting, tech-Gothic thrill ride about sorrow, memory, and the unabashed complexity of love as a transgressive act. After his husband dies, Simeon Link finds himself overcome by...

Lee is a devout eight-year-old tomboy whose carefully ordered world is shaken on the eve of her First Confession. When her nemesis, Nico—a Sicilian transplant as aggressive as he is lost—uncovers an abandoned adult magazine, it triggers a firestorm of shame and questions about an identity Lee doesn't yet have a name for.

In Converso Jews: A Hidden Family Story, the author, Gordon Blitz, offers a dual storyline following Jews who practiced their faith in secret during the period of the Inquisition and the current love story of Isaac and Pablo, a Sephardic Jew and a Catholic who meet at a gay Jewish synagogue. We ultimately encounter people of faith who are attempting to uncover their converso heritage trying to explain why their families have continued to practice certain traditions for the last five hundred years without understanding why.

This is the story of two sisters, Mia and Inés. Two girls enveloped in love, trapped by social conventions of Casablanca at the dawn of the 21st century and silenced by the political 'truths' that envelop their lives. Mia - the older sister, a warrior and a pariah, her sexuality a matter of scorn, a truth to be erased. Inés - the little sister, a woman trying to carve out an identity in a Paris that derides and erases her with no way back to Morocco, a homeland her father has warned her never to return to for her own sake.

Princess Ythsie and her squire Stroma are on the run, hunted by the Deathless and separated from everything they once knew. While Ythsie searches for a way to free the undead army that has plagued her kingdom for centuries, Stroma must choose between her oath to the princess and a growing revolution that promises to reshape Eynhallow forever. But King Gillivrey's grip on the throne grows stronger by the day. As he amasses a new army and seeks a royal marriage to cement his power, time runs out for those who would oppose him.

The final chapter of The Warehouse District Trilogy is explosive, defiant, and more sapphic than ever. The Scarlet Resistance has outgrown the shadows, carving out an autonomous zone in the heart of Minneapolis. But with power comes risk, and the regime is getting desperate. The Scarlet Eye, once a spray-painted symbol, is now a movement. A reckoning. As Oakland shoulders the weight of being the revolution’s face, and Eden navigates her most dangerous role yet, new fractures threaten to tear everything apart.

Power. Loyalty. Love. The only weapons left when the bullets run out. Former secretary of defense Dave Ladd Allen III built his life on control—of his men, his missions, his future. But when the shadows of evil surface, that control is put to the test. A ruthless conspiracy tied to predators...

As always, Percy has a plan. A dangerous plan. And with hot priest Joe Bruno as his new partner in crime, Percy's never felt more confident. For the first time, the two will work together, secret-free, to face ghosts, sequined hot shorts, and a villain far more powerful and malignant than anything they've met before.

Erin Corcoran doesn't believe anyone in her life will actually stick around. A year after her divorce, she is still struggling as a single mom. When she decides to hire a babysitter to watch her son, Nolan, the last thing she expects is to fall for the woman ten years her junior. Blair...

London, 1860, and crowds flock to witness a hanging. The condemned man is one of the survivors of HMS Melpomene, an Arctic exploration ship whose bitter fate was to be gnawed by ice and swallowed by the depths, with just five men miraculously rescued to return to wonder and acclaim. And now, one of them has murdered his family, with no explanation except his cryptic last words from the gallows: An act done by me against my will is not my act.

Brillant avocat de Manhattan, Viggo ne perd jamais une affaire. Une seule chose lui manque pour devenir associé dans son cabinet : la nationalité américaine. North Smith, pompier à New York, est contraint de subvenir aux besoins de la famille de son frère. Rongé par la culpabilité de n'avoir pu sauver son jumeau dans un incendie, il est en effet prêt à aller contre tous ses principes et à se marier en échange d'une somme d'argent qui pourrait tout changer. Ce plan est censé être simple : un mariage factice, aucun sentiment.