A Black woman in academia mobilizes her research skills to investigate a murder in Zoe B. Wallbrook’s spirited novel "History Lessons". A junior professor at illustrious Harrison University, Daphne studies the history of Black families... Read More

Two people with complicated relationships to magic find each other and fall in love in the rich fantasy novel "Shadow of the Yew Tree". In Kate Gateley’s immersive fantasy novel "Shadow of the Yew Tree", two people outrun their dark... Read More

In Hanna Park’s erotic fantasy novel "The Scald Crow", a disgraced woman flees to Ireland, where she discovers her connection to faeries and falls in love. After being fired from her broadcasting job, virginal Calla, an adopted... Read More

In Jen Michalski’s queer romance novel "All This Can Be True", two women find each other and themselves after grief. Just before Lacie asks her husband for a divorce, he has a stroke and winds up comatose. While torn between supporting... Read More

In Kady Ambrose’s fantasy novel All that Shimmers, an orphaned nursemaid yearns for love against the backdrop of World War I and the influenza epidemic. Vanessa knows she is fortunate to work as a nursemaid for vacationing families at... Read More

"The Lavender Blade" is a powerful fantasy novel about pursuing love despite all obstacles. E. L. Deards’s appealing fantasy novel "The Lavender Blade" is about exorcising demons and queer identity. Colton is an exorcist and charlatan... Read More

An unlikely couple explores the differences and the similarities between their traditions and beliefs in the warm romance novel "Love and Hope Have No Borders". In Michael Bienenstock’s earnest interfaith, cross-cultural romance novel... Read More

A spiritual woman trains a man for an interplanetary colonization mission—and falls in love—in the future-set science fiction novel "The New Planet". In Carole Love Forbes’s science fiction novel "The New Planet", a new world order... Read More