Everything We Thought Was true

by Lisa Montanaro
Book Cover: Everything We Thought Was true
Editions:Audiobook, ePub, Kindle, Paperback

Los Angeles lawyer Lena Antinori has dedicated her career to fighting discrimination, including for the LGBTQ community, but her own family's secret haunts her. At thirteen years old, she made the startling discovery that her father, Frank, was gay and her mother, Teresa, knew. Fearing social stigma, Teresa instituted a code of silence meant to protect their Italian Catholic family—a code Lena adhered to for decades.

Now, Frank plans to marry his partner, and he wants Lena to help plan the wedding. Lena is torn between maintaining loyalty to her mother and supporting her father's newfound happiness. As her father’s wedding approaches, Lena learns her childhood wounds run deeper than she thought, and failing to heal them might sentence her to a life of hypocrisy and the inability to discover the true meaning of coming out.

Told by Lena in the present, and her parents, Frank and Teresa, in the past, Everything We Thought Was True examines how the truth doesn't set you free until you embrace it.

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Genres:
family drama, fiction, gay, historical, lgbtq
Tags:
audiobook, family drama, gay, gay awakening, Italian American, LGBT, LGBTQ fiction, Los Angeles, New York

First place winner, LGBTQ Fiction, 2024 International Firebird Book Awards

Honorable Mention, General Fiction, 2025 Los Angeles Book Festival

Golden Hills Haunting

by M.D. Neu
A suburban neighborhood with demonic eyes looking down on it.
Editions:Kindle, Paperback

After their daughter was bullied at school, Kyle and Alejandro decided to make a fresh start and move into a beautiful new cul-de-sac development. As they take up residence, the family enjoys seeing the community come to life. But when lights flicker, shadows lurk, and small objects disappear, they begin to doubt their sanity.

When Alejandro and many of their neighbors are struck down by a strange sickness that defies explanation, the family starts to question their recent life change. Feeling trapped they speak with their new neighbors, learning they aren’t alone in the haunted neighborhood.

Who do you turn to when the authorities can’t offer any assistance or protection? How do you fight against a sinister force that is older than time? Can Kyle, Alejandro and the rest of the occupants of Golden Hills Court survive or will this nightmarish ordeal destroy them?

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Genres:
action-adventure, fantasy, gay, horror, M/M, mystery, paranormal, Urban Fantasy
Tags:
dark, family drama, gay, Horror, LGBT, LGBTQ fiction

The Dragon of Ynys

by Minerva Cerridwen

Every time something goes missing from the village, Sir Violet makes his way to the dragon’s cave and negotiates the item’s return. It’s annoying, but at least the dragon is polite.

But when the dragon hoards a person, that’s a step too far. Sir Violet storms off to the mountainside to escort the baker home, only to find a more complex mystery—a quest that leads him far beyond the cave. Accompanied by the missing baker’s wife and the dragon himself, the dutiful village knight embarks on his greatest adventure yet.

The Dragon of Ynys is an inclusive fairy tale for all ages.

Publisher: Atthis Arts (https://www.atthisarts.com/)
Editors:
E.D.E. Bell
Cover Artists:
Ulla Thynell
Narrators:
Ryan H. Reid
Genres:
cozy, fantasy, hopepunk, YA/Adult Crossover
Tags:
ace, audiobook, cozy, dragon, family drama, fantasy, lesbian, transgender

Audience: The Dragon of Ynys is intended for a wide audience, primarily those, of any age, who love fairy tales, dragons, or stories of acceptance and hope. It was written as the fairy tale the author wished she’d had as a child, but it is intended for adult readers as well. The Dragon of Ynys can be read by adults and children, by adults to children, and in groups or story time sessions of any composition. It should be enjoyed by those desiring aromantic and/or asexual representation as well as trans representation, and those who would enjoy the storytelling of an aro, ace, and genderqueer author. Whatever your reason for inviting our little fairy tale into your life, we hope that you enjoy it.

For You, Sir

by Emily Brandish
For You, Sir - Emily Brandish
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Jun Kim thrives as butler to the stars of L.A. His demanding job offers the perfect excuse to ignore his messed up family, and nonexistent love life. But his tidy, organized world is turned up-side-down when he’s hired to serve L.A.’s most challenging client: a depressive screenplay writer who quit writing after a nervous breakdown.

Once a shining writer-director, Einar Eriksen has become a shut-in after a crippling professional failure. He’s sworn to never write another script, and resents the movie studio for hiring a butler to spy on him. But as Einar learns of Jun’s wounded past, he commits to helping Jun toward self-acceptance, and unlocking his butler’s hidden sensual side…

For You, Sir is a sweet & spicy contemporary hurt/comfort MM Romance between an overachiever butler and his pleasure-Dom employer, where D/s play builds trust and empathy, and loving support can heal the wounds of the past.

 

  • MM Boss/Butler Romance
  • Hurt/Comfort
  • Later-in-Life Romance
  • Service sub + Pleasure Dom
  • Opposites Attract
  • Forbidden Love
  • Sexual awakening
  • Praise k!nk
  • Interracial Couple
  • Loving, Respectful Power Play
  • HEA Guaranteed
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100 Covers
Genres:
contemporary, family drama, fiction, gay, lgbtq, M/M, romance
Tags:
alcoholism, BDSM, butler, chef, contemporary, cozy, D/s, enemies to lovers, family drama, forbidden love, forced proximity, gay awakening, gay romance, HEA guaranteed, humorous, hurt/comfort, interracial couple, Los Angeles, low angst, maitre d', mental health, MM, non-series title, opposites attract, piercings, PoC, praise kink, service submission, sex toys, sexual awakening, soft Dom, spicy, uplifting, wholesome, workplace romance