Queer Deals and Steals for April 22nd
Hello beautiful readers! We come to you with some great queer reads this week, including some cozy aroace science fiction, some steamy M/M contemporary, and more!
✨ BOOK OF THE WEEK ✨
Shoot Your Best Shot
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Contemporary
Spiciness / Heat Level: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️
Representation: Queer, Questioning, Bisexual
Freshman Chase is desperate for some time to himself. Taking care of personal business is hard enough when you're nineteen and painfully shy, never mind when your pleasure preferences require balancing upside-down. The chance of getting caught in his dorm room isn't the only precarious part of his playtime. A side-hustle housesitting gives Chase the opportunity he's been thirsting for, only to run headlong into Elias. Handsome, sexually-omnivorous, and breathtakingly blunt, the beguiling older guy instantly triggers Chase's prey instinct. How can he run, though, when Elias' hedonistic confidence steamrolls Chase's indecision so addictively? When Chase's roommate stumbles on their secret play, he doesn't need to pry about what Chase is into: the answer's abundantly clear on his face. And once that messy truth is out, Chase's weakness for power play and exposure are about to get put to the test. The intentions are good but the aim can be questionable, in this high-heat queer coming-of-age erotica.
Regular Price: $3.99
The Loves of Her Life
Romance, Cozy
Spiciness / Heat Level: 🌶️
Representation: Lesbian, Sapphic, Bi
Three amazing women. Two great loves. One impossible choice. Hayden’s neurodivergence means that she struggles in social situations, but when she met Lizzie everything felt right with the world. They fell in love, got married, and moved abroad. When Lizzie was kidnapped and presumed dead, Hayden’s whole life fell apart. Thoughtful, creative Kira picked up the pieces of Hayden’s broken heart and gave her a second chance at love. Now, after three wonderful years together, they’re ready to take the next step. That is, until Lizzie shows up, alive and well with nowhere to go except home to the woman she still considers her wife. Overjoyed and overwhelmed, Hayden stalls for time by agreeing to go on five dates with each of the loves of her life before choosing. But the choice is unbearable. Secretly, she has another plan, one which could mean a happy ending for all of them – if she can just make it happen.
Discounted Price: $0.99 || Regular Price: $4.99
HEART OF THE Covenant
S. L. Dove Cooper
Science Fiction, Cozy
Spiceness / Heat Level: 🍭
Represenation: Aromantic, Asexual
In Heart of the Covenant, five stories explore ties of friendship, family and culture, embracing our differences and our similarities.
Having applied to be an ambassador for her people within the Galactic Covenant, Hedriar has relocated to Cerulean Station, one of the Covenant's largest residential stations. There, she'll spend the next years sharing her own culture and learning about the Covenant's as part of an exchange programme between the two.
Hedriar may not have the most detailed of plans of what, or even how, to share the aspects of her culture that matter most to her, but she's got enthusiasm, family and new-found friends at her side. She'll figure it out, and along the way she'll learn that what people value most may not be so different at the core.
Heart of the Covenant is a cosy, low-stakes science fiction collection with a strong focus on slice-of-life narratives.
Regular Price: $3.99
Mazarin Blues
Series: Hep Cats of Boise #1
Al Hess
Spiceiness / Heat Level: 🌶️ 🌶️ 🌶️
Representation: Gay, Bisexual, Asecual, Non-binary, Achillean
Introvert Reed Rothwell is part of a subculture of art deco enthusiasts, pushing back against bland mainstream society and its mandated technology. Stuck with an AI assistant in his head is bad enough, but when he's inflicted with a forced upgrade to a new beta version, named Mazarin, the navigator starts to take on feelings and opinions of his own.
When rumors spread of beta navs turning on their pilots, Reed is determined not to become a victim. Mazarin hasn't become violent yet – the AI is sympathetic and understanding – but with beta participants coerced into slitting their own throats, it's only a matter of time before Reed is next. The AI megacorporation already has an unhealthy interest in Reed, and all the beta testers who have sought help for their navigators have disappeared.
Desperation drives Reed further into the art deco subculture, where he meets a handsome bad boy named Jax, who is not only the exact kind of romantic support Reed needs right now, but he has connections to illegally terminate Reed's AI. But Mazarin has never tried to harm Reed – he loves Reed.
Grappling with ridding himself of intrusive technology, the morality of hurting his self-aware AI, and avoiding the attention of a company that wants to sweep Reed's existence under the rug might be too much for one hep cat to handle.
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CHAMELEON MOON
RoAnna Sylver
Dystopian, Science Fiction
Spiciness / Heat Level: 🌶
Representation: Aromantic, Asexual, Queer, Trans, Lesbian
The city of Parole is burning. Like Venice slips into the sea, Parole crumbles into fire.
The entire population inside has been quarantined and left to die – directly over the open flame. Eye in the Sky, a deadly and merciless police force ensures no one escapes. Ever. All that's keeping Parole alive is faith in the midst of horrors and death, trust in the face of desperation... and their fantastic, terrifying, and beautiful superhuman abilities.
Regan, silent, scaly stealth expert, is haunted by ten years of anxiety, trauma and terror, and he's finally reached his limit. Evelyn is a fearless force on stage and sonic-superheroic revolutionary on the streets. Now they have a choice – and a chance to not only escape from Parole, but unravel the mystery deep in its burning heart. And most of all, discover the truth about their own entwining pasts.
Parole's a rough place to live. But they're not dead yet. If they can survive the imminent cataclysmic disaster, they might just stay that way...
Discounted Price: $0.99 || Regular Price: $4.99
🎧 This book is also available as an audiobook
Bundle Corner 🎁
Disaster Lesbians in Fantasy for Lesbian Visibility Week
Forget chosen ones, we want disaster lesbians! Lesbian forest witches making a mess of things, lesbian space goddesses causing destruction, lesbian rebels plotting to overthrow the king, lesbian warrior princesses determined to take the crown or destroy the world trying, lesbian priestesses seeking the powers of life and death!
Contains multiple books from sapphic author, Dax Murray, including:
- A Lake of Feathers and Moonbeams (Indie Ink Awards Finalist 2023)
- Shades and Silver (Indie Ink Awards Finalist 2023)
- Stars and Soil (Indie Ink Awards Finalist 2024)
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🎧 Some books in this bundle have audiobook versions available elsewhere.
We will be back on the 26th with nearly 30 books on April 26th to celebrate Lesbian Visibility Day! If you have a book you feel belongs, it’s not too late to submit it! Simply fill out the form before the 25th to have your lesbian book included! All genres and heat levels welcome. Thank you so much for your continued readership. We love bringing you discounted and affordable queer books every week.