Weekly List of Books of All Genres Featuring Queer Protagonists at Free or Nearly Free Prices Every Tuesday
With Valentine's Day here, Chace Verity (they/them) loves to talk about one of their quirky queer paranormal romances, Match with the Demon. The novella begins on Valentine's Day with a single dad accidentally matching with a demon on a dating app. Despite getting a little catfished, Harrison Hamilton is more than willing to keep seeing the alluring Lazlo as they both journey to learn what makes each other happy.
Fantasy
Representation: Gay, Trans man, Queer
Spice Levels: 🌶🌶
An anti-establishment retelling of the fall of Icarus. ΔΆΙΟΣ is a tragedy following Icarus as he takes a look behind the curtain of the Elysian Program and sees the disgusting framework that he was disillusioned to. Now the only thing on his mind is bringing down the program and the entire ATLAS corporation. Will he be able to?
Ebook: $3.99
Urban Fantasy
Representation: Sapphic
Spice Level: 🍭
Dani Black wants revenge. A year ago, the rogue Necromancer Spectre murdered her partner during a hunt gone wrong. Dani has been looking for a way to kill him—and keep him dead—ever since. When rumors of a weapon capable of killing anything surface in Dawson Maryland, she sets out on a mission to get her hands on it. While unraveling a web of clues about her own past, Dani runs into the alluring Emilie Lockgrove, daughter of a magical family who are inexplicably tied to Spectre.
Emilie Lockgrove wants answers. Ten years ago she survived the catastrophic fire that killed her mother, and left her hospitalized. Now, Emilie has returned to Dawson, expecting to confront the trauma of her past and move on. Instead, she discovers magic is real and encounters ghosts, monsters, and the necromancer who has hunted the mediums in her family for generations.
Dani intends to kill Spectre or die trying. Emilie wants to reclaim the life of magic that was hidden from her. To survive, they'll need to work together to confront their past, break the spell holding back Emilie's magic, and destroy Spectre once and for all.
Ebook: $2.99
The Stars In Their Eyes, The Darkest Stars, The Stars Inside Us
Science Fiction
Representation: Bisexual, Lesbian, Pansexual, Gay, Non-Binary
Spice Level: 🌶️🌶️
The Broken Stars trilogy is about a woman who, four years into the alien apocalypse, is tasked with saving the woman she loves, the planet, and herself, and things go horribly, horribly wrong.
Ebooks: $4.99
The Stars in Their Eyes (Book 1): Amazon || Kobo || Smashwords || Elsewhere
The Darkest Stars (Book 2): Amazon || Kobo || Smashwords || Elsewhere
The Stars Inside Us (Book 3): Amazon || Kobo || Smashwords || Elsewhere
Len Berry
Science Fiction
Spice Level: 🌶️🌶️
Representation: Trans
In the distant future, the galaxy teeters on the edge of chaos. Vari, a trans woman and the rightful heir to a deposed empire, has spent her life hiding from a legacy she never asked for. Torn between expressing her true self and reclaiming her birthright, Vari embarks on a perilous journey that will test her courage, loyalty, and identity.
As ancient secrets and new alliances come to light, Vari must navigate a treacherous political landscape where betrayal lurks at every corner. With a diverse cast of allies—a snarky young woman with a foreign past, a shrewd warrior queen, and a disgraced pilot desperate to have his faith validated—Vari discovers strength in unity and power in authenticity.
From the glittering halls of amazonian palaces to the gritty underbelly of overworked refineries, Vari’s quest is fraught with thrilling battles, heart-stopping intrigue, and unexpected love. As she grapples with the weight of her heritage and the truth of her identity, Vari must decide what kind of leader she wants to be, and if she can truly reclaim an empire without losing herself.
Loyalty of Severus is a sweeping, epic sci-fi adventure about honor, identity, and the enduring fight for one’s true self. Join Vari as she stands at the crossroads of destiny, where the fate of the galaxy—and her soul—hangs in the balance.
Ebook: $4.99
Steven D. Brewer
Science Fiction
Representation: Trans
Spice Level: 🌶️
Revin, a young man from a poor mining town, has pulled himself up by his bootstraps to become the student apprentice of a law professor. But then, everything goes wrong: their airship is captured by pirates and Revin loses his mentor. Born female, Revin must make his way in a world oriented toward men while he struggles with his own identity.
Set against the backdrop of a war between island nations, Revin must navigate a world divided between the aristocracy and the common people. And, as a promising young man, he must choose whom to align himself with — and to serve.
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Ebook: $5.99
J. S. Fields
Fantasy
Spice Level: 🌶️🌶️
Representation: Non-binary
It's a time of change, between magic and alchemy.
Born the heir of a master woodcutter in a queendom defined by guilds and matrilineal inheritance, nonbinary Sorin can’t quite seem to find their place. At seventeen, an opportunity to attend an alchemical guild fair and secure an apprenticeship with the queen’s alchemist is just within reach. But on the day of the fair, Sorin’s mother goes missing, along with the Queen and hundreds of guild masters, forcing Sorin into a woodcutting inheritance they never wanted.
With guild legacy at stake, Sorin puts apprentice dreams on hold to embark on a journey with the royal daughter to find their mothers and stop the hemorrhaging of guild masters. Princess Magda, an estranged childhood friend, tests Sorin’s patience—and boundaries. But it’s not just a princess that stands between Sorin and their goals. To save the country of Sorpsi, Sorin must define their place between magic and alchemy or risk losing Sorpsi to rising industrialization and a dark magic that will destroy Sorin’s chance to choose their own future.
Amazon || Elsewhere (Paperback)
…Continue the series with Ocean of Fireflies
Ebook: $4.99
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Fantasy
Representation: Gender-fluid pansexual
Spice Levels: 🌶
Queer isekai! Paramedic Nathan woke up in a peaceful and unfamiliar world. New friends think they know a way home, via five sites that each give Nathan a new form and abilities. For some reason, though, two earlier newcomers really don't want Nathan to reach all five.
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Fantasy, Science Fiction
Representation: Bisexual, Pansexual
Spice Levels: 🍭
A miniature girl, born from a tulip, leads humans and fairies to decolonize Venus while discovering her first love. Representation: pansexual, nonbinary, & sapphic. A portion of proceeds donated to the Massachusetts Center for Native American Awareness, a Native American-led 501c3 nonprofit.
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Ebook: $4.99.
Fantasy
Representation: Bisexual
Spice Levels: 🍭
When Zale Aboron meets charming Marea, he has more to fear than just his curse and the god who cast it.
Ebook: $0.99
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Fantasy
Representation: Gay, Queer, Asexual, Questioning, Demisexual, Pansexual
Spice Levels: 🍭
Three cozy Middle Eastern fantasy novellas: The smart, funny, capable, asexual book-witch wins against the patriarchy; a little neurospicy kitten has big opinions in a big city; and a sweet anxious priest is so concerned to welcome everyone that he even makes a tiny feast for mice in the granary.
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Ebook: $2.99
Fantasy
Representation: Queer, Aromantic, Asexual
Spice Levels: 🍭
Amara e Luiza are two witches in a queerplatonic relationship. When Luiza decides to embark on a journey throught the galaxy in search for the lost fortress of Laura, the Dragon Queen, she ends up finding more than she bargained for, while Amara follows her footsteps hoping it’s not too late.
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Ebook: $4.99
Fantasy
Representation: Gay
Spice Levels: 🍭
A scholar on a journey. A monster in his veins. An unbending truth.
One wrong step and the monster in Otar’s veins kills.
When the monster slips his grasp—causing a tragic accident—Otar is ousted from the university, escaping execution under one condition: give back what the monster has taken.
His quest for a solution intwines him with the Ancients, a mysterious ancestor that left nothing behind but crumbling stones.
On his journey to a newly discovered ruin, he faces down slavers looking for easy money, and his former lover—who still makes his heart beat faster.
The excavation side is rich with secrets the ancients desperately tried to hide. Peeling them back layer-by-layer exposes not only who Otar is, but what is coming for the world.
Confronted with the truth, Otar must decide fast what he will sacrifice to save those he holds dear.
The Edge of a World is a Fantasy Sci-Fi story about self-discovery, destiny, and paving your own path.
featuring: fantasy world with an ancient civilization, second third chances at love, a scholar on a journey, queer characters
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Ebook: $3.99
Fantasy, Contemporary
Representation: Gay
Spice Levels: 🌶
Nate has never known happiness, stuck in an abusive relationship and damned to work minimum-wage jobs. Until he meets Raziel, an angel wrongfully stripped of his grace and banished to life on Earth.
Will they save each other from their demons? Or will they drag each other deeper into Hell?
Ebook: $2.99 or Kindle Unlimited
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Science Fiction
Representation: Bisexual
Spice Levels: 🍭
The world changed when aliens arrived. Now, six years later, one girl longs to join her community's civilian militia. What she doesn't realize is the act will change her life forever.
Amazon || Apple || YouTube (Audiobook)
FREE
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Fantasy, Romance
Representation: Trans man, Non-binary
Spice Levels: 🌶
A low-stakes cozy fantasy romance with a nonbinary protagonist and a sapphic love interest. In which Florian, a wealthy layabout, flees London to take up residence in a witch’s garden shed. Farmer’s markets, HRT as magic potions, gender euphoria, and a lot of gardening.
Ebook: $2.99
Horror
Representation: Trans man, Queer
Spice Levels: 🍭
Incorrect Eyes is a psychological religious horror involving paranoia, angels with too many eyes, and the least mentally stable protagonist I've ever written. Please read with caution.
Ebook: $0.99
Horror
Representation: Lesbian
Spice Levels: 🍭
Iris Grey returns to her hometown hoping to heal old wounds. Instead, she finds a cold welcome, and a family keeping secrets at every turn.
When Iris starts to dig deeper, she soon finds herself mired in a plot that threatens to swallow herself, the town, and the people she once loved.
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Ebook: $2.99
Fantasy, Horror
Representation: Lesbian, Bisexual
Spice Levels: 🍭
A young woman embarks on a bloody journey of self-discovery after her village is saved from a monster by a dashing outsider.
Ebook: 0.99 USD
Romance, Contemporary
Representation: Lesbian, Bisexual
Spice Levels: 🍭
Liora King dreams of becoming a professional ballet dancer. She leaves her small hometown to pursue her dream, but she meets trouble along the way. That trouble's name is Penelope Reyes. Penelope is already one of the best in Chicago and the lead of the troupe Liora wishes to join. They butt heads every chance they get as they rival for the starring role in their troupe's performance of The Nutcracker. They continue to fight until slowly but surely they develop feelings for each other. Neither of them wants to admit their feelings. Liora and Penelope must learn to get over their anger and let themselves be happy.
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Ebook on Major Retailers: $2.99
Itch Ebook: Pay What You Want
Romance, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Erotica / Erotic Romance
Representation: Gay
Spice Levels: 🌶🌶🌶🌶
“Sometimes, we are in a place where we don’t want to be. And maybe, that place is the only place we should be after all.”
Theo knows he will become a star lawyer, like the one his Dad paid to keep him out of prison... he's wrong on both counts. He thinks the first day of jail is brutal; meeting his new cellmate redefines the word. Theo's world not only falls apart; it shrinks to the size smaller than a dorm bathroom he has to share with a man who doesn’t belong in his world.
Ryker is as strong as a fortress, one that he had to rebuild from the ruins of his own self. Serving the last year of his long sentence, he is terrified of having his freedom at arm's reach.
Ryker is everything Theo fears; Theo is everything Ryker loathes. But being locked up together in a tiny space is a powerful force sparking the fires of love, and neither of the men are prepared for the turmoil this raging inferno will unleash.
Are Ryker and Theo who they think they are? Or will new lives be born, like the phoenix etched in Ryker's skin, out of the fire of their love?
Ebook: 3.25 USD or Kindle Unlimited
Thriller, Romance, Contemporary
Representation: Gay
Spice Levels: 🌶🌶🌶🌶
Survival can change a boy to a man.
Or a man to a killer.
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Ebook: $5.99
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Romance, Contemporary
Representation: Pansexual
Spice Levels: 🌶🌶
A burnt-out former pop star
A sweet, broke psychic… who hates him
The festival tour that changes everything
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Ebook: 3.99
Derain Collier
Romance, Contemporary, Erotica / Erotic Romance
Representation: Bisexual, Questioning
Spice Levels: 🌶🌶🌶🌶
Four car guys have life-altering discoveries about themselves and each other while navigating their own lives and building the fastest cars in the region.
Ebook: $4.99 or Kindle Unlimited
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The first month of 2025 is over, and it’s been a month, to say the least. But here at QBW, we celebrate queer literature and refuse to stop, no matter what. Here are some awesome queer stories that came out this month.
Author: Niranjan
Release Date: January 31st, 2025
Genre: Fantasy
Representation: Bisexual
When Lucian is made Blade of Castrial, the second highest position in Castrial, next only to the King, it’s the culmination of an impossible dream. But when the Shield of Castrial is killed and all clues point to his lover and best friend, Alaric, Lucian has to make an impossible choice.
Kofi || Amazon || Kobo || Apple || B&N || Google Play || Everand || Smashwords
Ebook: $0.99
Author: Haden Cross
Follow Haden Cross on BlueSky: @yavin4.bsky.social
Release Date: January 21st, 2025
Genre: Science Fiction
Representation: Queer trans man narrator; main cast also includes a queer trans woman, a butch lesbian, and two queer men.
A queer, science-fiction re-imagining of Moby-Dick. When celebrated xenozoologist Abelard Cousteau returns five years after his assumed death following an accident in deep space, he seeks out his former protégé, Noah Starbuck, to accompany him on his first post-resurrection assignment. The two of them are tasked with auditing the first batch of humanity's exoplanet research bases, but Abelard's attention is focused elsewhere—on the creature that allegedly caused his accident, the creature he and Noah studied as theory, the creature he now wants to kill.
Content Warnings: Animal death/cruelty, body horror, medical content, psychosis, colonization, emotional abuse, transphobia
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Ebook: $1.99
Author: Cori Catchthorne
Follow Cori Catchorne on BlueSky
Release Date: January 6th, 2025
Genre: Erotic kinky science fantasy web serial
Representation: Polyamorous nebularomantic pansexual-disaster sweet submissive trans man / charismatic quietly bloodthirsty queer trans man (with other pairings to come)
Privileged, polyamorous trans ingenue Emile Devigne is just starting at Europa University when he meets Cylus Keene, a young man with a shadowed past trying to secure a better future for himself and his twin, Cynthia. And even more entanglements await Emile on Europa…
Updates every other Monday!
Content Warnings: Enthusiastic yet dubious consent, eroticizing knives/blood, hypnosis/mindfuckery, BDSM
FREE
Author: Dreamer's Riot
Genre: Fantasy, Isekai, Portal Fantasy
Release date: January 21st, 2025
Representation (Series): Lesbian, trans masc, trans femme, polyam, just about everything
Annie Beckett, a teacher and biologist, wakes up in as Lillith. In a new world and a new body. She remains brilliant, fierce, and sapphic: three traits women are not allowed in the monarchy she has found herself in. But she had the fire to fight corruption on Earth, and that fire was reborn with her.
Content Warnings: Sensitive Content, Abuse, Suicidal ideation, mentions of (but not depiction of) sexual assault, Graphic Violence
Amazon || Royal Road
Ebook: $4.99
Author: Eliza Mares
Genre: Science fiction
Release date: January 14th, 2025
Representation: Nadine and Ulu'zah (love interest) are both lesbians. Nadine is a woman of color.
Veteran bounty hunter Nadine picks up the job of a lifetime — fifty thousand credits just to capture an art thief — but one look at her beautiful target tells Nadine that her “simple” contract is about to get very complicated.
Content Warnings: blood, violence, foul language
Ebook: $4.99
Author: Claudie Arseneault
Genre: High Fantasy
Release date: January 9th, 2025
Representation: Aromantic, Asexual, Non-Binary
In which the Wagon crew runs afoul of the kraken and must piece together the Fragments’ mysteries to escape it.
Content Warnings: Shipwreck
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Ebook: $3.99
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Representation: Lesbian
Genre: Fantasy
Spice Level: 🌶🌶🌶🌶
Ebook: $5.99
The prince demands Caitlin's hand, but an earl's daughter claims her heart. With power at court ever-shifting, rebellion roiling in the streets, and ancient evils lurking in the shadows, will Caitlin be a pawn or a queen in this dangerous game?