Queer romance and time travel blend together in J. M. Frey’s novel "Time and Tide". After a painful breakup with her girlfriend just before a planned trip to Spain, Sam boards the flight alone. The plane crashes. When Sam wakes in the... Read More

Rachel Howzell Hall’s fantasy novel "The Last One" is a tale of magical creatures, mysterious magics, budding romance, and self-discovery. In a forest in the realm of Vallendor, Kai wakes up injured and in the process of being robbed... Read More

A young woman in love makes an impossible choice to protect her family in "Love and Other Cages", a fascinating thriller in an ongoing series. A couple’s happiness is threatened by the Russian mafia in Emilia Ares’s enthralling... Read More

Jennifer Heath’s fabulistic short story collection "The Jewel and the Ember" celebrates love as it’s found in ancient texts. Inspired by Golden Age cinema, including Samson and Delilah, and by the idea of love itself, Heath retells... Read More

A Chinese photographer in colonial Singapore and a museum archivist forge a connection through their yearning, time-crossing correspondence in Elaine Chiew’s mesmerizing speculative novel "The Light Between Us". In 1920, Tian Wei runs... Read More

A high school crush-turned-romance faces adult complications in the exciting contemporary novel "The Side Project". In Laurel Osterkamp’s romance novel "The Side Project", two reserved writers have complicated family lives that act as... Read More

With the support of others, an abused woman comes into her own in the revealing bildungsroman "Where Love Lies". A loving family, financial privilege, fashionable clothes, and academic success offer no protection against insecurity and a... Read More

The memoir-cum-novel "Letters to Evelyn" mixes personal anecdotes into its imaginative universe of love, aliens, and space travel. Combining memoir and fantasy elements, John Selman’s book "Letters to Evelyn" recounts the past... Read More