LGBTQ+ Books

When their daughter goes off to college, Samuel and his wife Gayle begin to take stock of their lives. Realizing they’re best friends and not in love with one another, the two agree to an amicable split. Nervous about jumping back into the dating world, they accept a friend’s invitation to attend a swap party. Tossing their keys into a bowl and leaving it up to fate to decide who they’re paired with is too tempting to resist. But when Samuel is faced with an audacious young man who strikes up a conversation, the attraction to men he’s kept buried for so long comes rushing back.At twenty-two years old, Oliver Hughes is one of the most sought after male models in the world. Sassy and bold, with a penchant for wearing high heels and a touch of makeup, Oliver’s life is what he always dreamed it could be. Except for one thing…Yearning to fall in love and settle down, Oliver’s grown bored of meaningless hookups with shallow, fame seeking guys. While attending a swap party, his last-ditch effort to find someone who doesn’t know who he is when they meet, Oliver finds himself drawn to a handsome, older man. One who’s endearingly unaware of his own appeal. As their relationship grows, something sinister and dark threatens what they’ve managed to build. What will it take for Oliver and Samuel to survive, and is their happily ever after doomed from the start?

Knitted together by our hurt and hope.Santa Barbara firefighter Liam Knight is king of the one-night stand. Dylan, the gorgeous twink working in the craft store below his apartment, is supposed to be just that: a hookup. But Liam wants to protect Dylan from anyone taking advantage of him, and it fuels the spark growing between them. Dylan Waters is poised to fall hard—and not just for hunky Liam from his knitting PTSD support group. He’s juggling jobs, a college transfer, and panic attacks that his mother’s alternative medicine won’t fix. He can help others, but he’s never managed to accept help himself. They’re both hiding from their pasts, but the closer they grow, the less room there is to run. When it all goes up in smoke, can they save each other—and the relationship that could make them both believe in love?Afterburn is the first book in the After series, which explores mental health challenges with gentle humor and heart while hunky firefighters turn up the heat. It can be enjoyed on its own, and promises a happily-ever-after.

Written by Alp Mortal & Chambers Mars as Carter SeagroveCover Design by Alp MortalCo-edited by Alp Mortal and Chambers MarsAbout this story‘Since most of the crew has bailed, I hang out at Matt’s until a better prospect shows up ...’Jamboree could not have dreamed what would happen next but a fateful decision to hack into a droid to remove its freedom limiter starts a chain of events that catapults both Jamboree and the droid into the vastness of Space.Set in the dystopian future post The Verme Wars, a disillusioned and broken son of the conflict-torn generation of men that fought The Wars but whose government abandoned to a fate of pain and death, Jamboree is like all his kind - angry, neglected, marginalised and damaged. A life of gutting fish in an industrial factory, eeking out a living in Box Town, and seeking oblivion in drink, drugs, and sex from the daily grind leaves no room for dreams.Then a fateful encounter with a droid seeking a hacker to remove its freedom limiter, catapults both man and droid into Outer Space on the adventure of all adventures.‘ ... I dream the same dreams - the one where I am looking out on the star field and the one where I am scampering over the dunes with Bird’s hand in mine to the sound of laughter. I dream different dreams too. I like the one where I am flying over the ice rings around Saturn in my own bug craft, going faster and faster, just skimming above the glittering ice; the exhilaration is burning in my chest and I feel, for the first time, what it means to be free, and if I were to die in a spectacular fireball I would have no regrets ...’A Space Opera of 12 acts, written by Alp Mortal and Chambers Mars as Carter Seagrove (co-authors of The Inspector Fenchurch Mysteries, and Dust Jacket).Note from the authorsRenegades is intended to be a series, spanning at least twelve parts - or acts. Part 2 - working title ‘Quicksand’ - is likely to appear around Christmas 2019.Delivery is very much dependent on the time to translate Chambers’ parts - if you didn’t already know, Chambers is French and for reasons best known to himself, writes in Shimaore (actually, he comes from Mayotte.)The story was born one day as I (Alp) was sitting on a deserted beach (which had a kind of other-worldly feel that day) on my beloved Isle of Wight, reading To Have And To Have Not by Hemingway, thinking about watching Cowboy Bebop - the movie later that day - the DVD having just arrived in the post. The idea of a saga, set in a post-Wars era that sits on the cusp of revolution, featuring a rebel, spaceship captain, teamed with a droid, hit me between the eyes. I spoke to Chambers, who was at that moment reading Cannery Row, and this character of Jamboree Williams (who is partly inspired by Mack of that story, and partly by Chambers’ anti-hero Johnny Santé) began to take shape. So there is inspiration from many sources, and together with Chambers’ customary take on revolutionary mayhem, my love of all things alien, his peculiar writing style and my feeble attempts to translate his native Shimaore, we have Renegades.Now that we have fallen back into the groove of working together, we are also working hard to deliver the second series of The Inspector Fenchurch Mysteries, and Chambers is working even harder to deliver the rest of both The Life & Times of Johnny Santé (series 2) and Zac Tremble Investigates (series 2).We are also keen to explore the possibility of writing the prequel to Dust Jacket (or perhaps another totally new, crime thriller).You can find all our work, and the work of Morgan Starr, Cam Inch, and Shannon M. Kirkland via our website (www.carterseagrove.weebly.com).We really hope that you enjoy our latest creation, the renegades Jamboree Williams a.k.a Suds and Bird, the droid.Kindest RegardsAlp Mortal and Chambers MarsOctober 2019

This open access book seeks to understand how politics is being made in a pluralistic sense, and explores how these political struggles are challenging and transforming gender, sexuality, and colonial norms. As researchers located in Sweden, a nation often cited as one of the most gender-equal and LGBTQ-tolerant nations, the contributions investigate political processes, decolonial struggles, and events beyond, nearby, and in between organizations, states, and national territories. The collection represents a variety of disciplines, and different theoretical conceptualizations of politics, feminist theory, and postcolonial and queer studies. Students and researchers with an interest of queer studies, gender studies, critical whiteness studies, and civil society studies will find this book an invaluable resource.

I don't have a boyfriend, but I have to pretend I do.When my boss's son starts hitting on me at work,I have to figure a way out.I lie and tell him I have a boyfriend.So now I need a fake boyfriend.The only person who comes to mind is my neighbor.I don't even know if he is gay, but he sure is hot.And while I don't want anything or anyone tying me down,I'd sure as hell let him tie me up.Can we pull off our fake relationship without pulling off each other's clothes?Or will this relationship blossom into something real?This Morning Madison Series Box Set contains books one through four of the Morning Madison series, which are standalone male/male steamy romance books that can be read in any order but are best enjoyed together, and with a big glass of water nearby due to so much heat in addition to all those feels! They combine humor, heat and heart, and they have no cliffhangers and very happily ever afters. For those who have already read the books when they were first released, this box set contains updated and edited editions that include expanded story lines and even steamier scenes!This box set contains the following: 1) Sing for Me: An Enemies to Lovers Romance;2) Play for Me: A Fake Fiance Romance;3) Return for Me: A Second Chance Coming Out Romance; and 4) Pretend for Me: A Fake Boyfriend Romance.