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Award-winning author Anna Burke delivers the shivers in this daring queer dark fantasy romance teeming with sensuous vampires, dark academia, plant horrors, and terrifying fungal fae.When Clara Eden...

When Syd Murphy flees a failed marriage to the tiny mountain hamlet of Jericho, Virginia, little does she realize how much her fortunes are going to change when a flat tire brings the enigmatic town...

Author: Diana DiGangiPublisher: Bywater BooksPublication Date: Dec 06, 2022Number of Pages: 310 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1612942512ISBN-13: 9781612942513

Novelist and filmmaker Mari SanGiovanni introduces readers to the irrepressible Liddy-Jean Carpenter, a matchmaker with special talents who will charm readers with her wit, wisdom, and sensibilities...

Years after a fractured teenage romance, an up-and-coming musician and a youth counselor team up on a project that rocks everything they thought they knew about themselves and each other. Spencer...

Virginia Black's No Shelter But the Stars is the space opera you've been waiting for--packed with warring worlds, romantic adventure, and larger-than-life characters. Kyran Loyal is the last heir to...

Award-winning author Penny Mickelbury takes readers on a beautiful and complicated journey through Harlem in 1953. This captivating story is passionate and alive, teeming with the contradictory joy...

25th ANNIVERSARY EDITION Nadine Pagan's dyke sister Jane wants to find her. Her lover Rose wants to marry her. And her mother Fay wants to forget her. All Nadine wants is to stop the buzzing in her...

When Hannah Stern chooses Women's History as her date for the coming year, a wild, sexy-smart romp through time ensues.Author: Bonnie J. MorrisPublisher: Bywater BooksPublication Date: July 04,...

Feminist scholar Hannah Stern finds herself working at the Library of Congress, assigned to catalogue a donation of rare lesbian books. But it's more than a one-year job in Washington: it's a mission...

Sea Wolf by Anna Burke (A Compass Rose Novel, 2)Author: Anna BurkePublisher: Bywater BooksPublication Date: Jul 27, 2021Number of Pages: 350 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

First comes surrogacy, then comes the messy gay breakup in Tom Pyun's tragi-comic debut novel that asks, is it ever too late to finally face yourself and grow up?Winston Kang and Jared Cahill seem...

Salem West and Christel Cogneau have assembled a powerhouse lineup of Bywater Books and Amble Press authors to explore, subvert, and reinvigorate the bountiful feast of All Hallows phantasmagoria in...

When a mysterious dog shows up during the renovation of the Big City Little Theatre, one woman falls in love with the victim of a century-old homicide who might not be as dead as she seems. And now...

Spindrift (A Seal Cove Romance, 1)Author: Anna BurkePublisher: Bywater BooksPublication Date: Aug 25, 2020Number of Pages: 296 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 161294177XISBN-13:...

Tea Leaves is an astonishing collection of fables for our time by a young writer of tremendous power and promise.Tea Leaves presents 17 speculative short stories that place queer characters in...

A girl from a Carolina mill family isn't supposed to strive for a career, but Ada Shook graduates from college on a scholarship and lands a plum job as a school librarian. As the 1950s South rocks...

Two-time Lambda Literary Award-winning author Ann McMan takes readers inside the inner workings of the funeral home business as only she can in this remarkable and wholly unforgettable romantic...

The Demon EquilibriumAuthor: Cathy PegauPublisher: Bywater BooksPublication Date: Nov 02, 2021Number of Pages: 290 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1612942172ISBN-13: 9781612942179

The Language Of LightAuthor: Kathleen BradyPublisher: Bywater BooksPublication Date: Feb 22, 2022Number of Pages: 220 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1612942237ISBN-13: 9781612942230

The Latecomer by Sarah Aldridge was the first book published by the legendary Naiad Press and one of the first known novels to grant a happy ending to its lesbian main characters. Coming home from a...

Bambi Devine, known to her friends as b.d., is a middle-aged bridal consultant who has recently come out to her friends after years of kidding herself about her sexuality--only to find out her...

The year is 1963, and even though the times they are a-changin', the timeworn ways of the past still hold their suffocating grip. Karen Murphy, fresh from college, takes on her first teaching job in...

When a fatal mistake brings Rowan into the hands of the Huntress, she finds herself trapped in an enchantment that is every bit as alluring as it is cruel.Author: Anna BurkePublisher: Bywater...

Fay Jacobs is back! Again! The author of the trilogy of humorous memoirs As I Lay Frying, FriedAuthor: Fay JacobsPublisher: Bywater BooksPublication Date: Nov 10, 2015Number of Pages: 224...

After a lifetime spent steeped in death L.A. Franco has retired from the LAPD and has plunged head first into living--but separating her two worlds isn't as easy as she hoped. Following the death of...

When a young black girl is grabbed by rogue slave catchers in 1850s Philadelphia, a runaway slave and a reluctant heiress form an unlikely alliance--first out of necessity, then in friendship, and...

Award-winning author and journalist Penny Mickelbury returns to pre-Civil War Philadelphia to continue the powerful saga of Genie Oliver and Abigail Read.In 1857 the US Supreme Court ruled that...

When a Mexican rock star is kidnapped and a gay Spanish professor is threatened with death, social psychologist Blue McCarron finds herself in the middle of an unsettling new investigation.Author:...