No Strings on Her

Eule Grey

Summary

Puppeteer Beatrice Snowdrop is well used to chatty dolls with attitude. Fortunately, headmistressy Miss Beatti knows how to discipline naughty toys. And how!
A failed relationship forces Beatti to shut up shop and hunker down for winter. The days become lonely and cold. She misses crafting dolls, but she isn't going to make another puppet or date another woman. Definitely not! 
Come springtime, old flame Evie Fine offers a cash prize for the best Easter doll. Beatti wonders if her ex wants to lure her back to the toy business or if she seeks to rekindle their relationship. Either way, temptation is difficult to resist and Beatti eventually crafts a new doll. 
Pokio ... Oh, Pokio, a feisty doll with cheek aplenty. She insults Beatti from the get-go and proves to be more than a handful. Worse, Pokio can read her mistress's innermost thoughts, and can spot a fib a mile away. 
Quite soon the strings controlling Pokio are abandoned. It's Miss Beatti who does as she's told and Pokio who calls the shots. Switching roles is fun! They forget every rule of doll making and instead notice each other as women. 
Pokio develops into a loving, thoughtful doll who adores her mistress. Exactly what Beatti needs. It's only natural and right when affection blossoms like the spring flowers. 
A kiss is shared, an ancient spell released. Can a doll become a real woman? What does real even mean?

Available since: 04/08/2023.

Print length: 88 pages.

Other books that might interest you

Which Way Is Up

David Connor, E.F. Mulder

Sequel to Batsh!t KZ
Norman is a vampire. Having spent most of his life as a bat, arms, legs, walking upright, not sleeping upside down, it all feels so new. He's been in love with KZ for six months now. As foreign as his body feels sometimes, he discovers that's nothing compared to dealing the intricacies of human emotions.
KZ is a nervous wreck. He introduces Norman to his family at Thanksgiving and worries the entire time about everything from garlic in the mashed potatoes to Norman's secret being revealed.
Navigating their way through their first holiday season, Norman tries to be there during a time of loss for KZ but starts to believe KZ might be better suited to someone from his past. Will Norman's jealousy ruin everything? Will he ever get to post a selfie online? Does a blunt and nosy angel have all the answers?

Show book

So In Love Box Set

J.M. Snyder

Eight short contemporary stories celebrating gay love in its many forms. From falling in love for the first time to mending a broken relationship to spending a lifetime shared, each of the stories in this collection offer a glimpse into the lives of gay men who live and love together.

While a few of these stories are available in anthologies, they are collected here for the first time. Contains the stories:

Afflicted: It's hard to understand why some people feel the need to hurt themselves, especially when they seem to have everything they need or want out of life. So how do you help someone bent on a path of self-destruction? And what can you possibly do when it's someone you love?

Caught Off Base: Ange Echevarria takes an instant liking to the young hitchhiker he picks up who reminds him of an old friend. Unfortunately, so does his friend, Lamar. Why can't Ange keep this one for himself?

Henry and Jim: These two men have spent a life in love, from the very first date arranged by Henry's sister, through the rocky times they worked to make ends meet, and into their twilight years.

His Song: Dane is destined for greatness, his boyfriend Krish just knows it, but first he needs to break into the local music scene. When local musician Randy Blake asks Dane to stop by for a private jam session, Dane is ecstatic. But it seems Blake has something other than music on his mind. Krish doesn't trust Blake, but a more pressing question, though, is can he trust Dane?

Love in the Library: Johnny's job at the campus library isn't as glamorous as it sounds. In fact, when the wheels of the returns cart get stuck in the gap between the floor and the elevator, he's ready to just quit right there. But a stranger's kindness leads to chance encounter that improves Johnny's whole semester.

Maybe: Josh blames himself for the strained relationship he has with his ex-lover, DeMar. Just when he thinks they're through, DeMar shows up and wants a second chance, but Josh isn't so sure DeMar's the one to blame for their break-up. Can they somehow find what it was they had together in the beginning before they lose it all?

Skaterboy: CJ is a skateboarder who can't hold a job now that he's officially "grown up." He lives with his lover, Richard, who wears a suit and tie to the office every day. Together they make an unlikely pair.

This Christmas: A new take on a familiar holiday classic. Ned Matthews is a college student haunted by his last boyfriend's infidelity. Ned would rather wallow in self-pity than spend Christmas with Bobby, even though they're the only two students on campus for the holiday. Can Bobby show Ned the holiday is better with someone to love?

Show book

Delafield

Katherine V. Forrest

The most celebrated detective in lesbian literature returns in the most fateful case of her career . . . 
 
 
 
Four years retired, Kate Delafield has a twenty-year-old case roaring back on her, a case from which she had recoiled, withdrawn herself. A homophobic homicide far too reminiscent of a recent, haunting, life-changing investigation of the murder of a young lesbian at the Nightwood Bar. Now she suffers in secret, knowing she is personally culpable for the mishandling of evidence. 
 
 
 
The key decisions about the conduct of her life and her police career that have brought her directly to this time, this place in the high desert where she has taken herself. All she can do now, she resolves, is protect as best she can the people she loves most, especially Aimee, from this threat. And, until her time runs out, she can go back and investigate, determine who actually ended the life of fifteen-year-old April Shuster. 
 
 
 
But events, people, intervene. New people in her present life, some from her past. And they will take her in the most unexpected of directions.

Show book

Beside the Darker Shore

Patricia J. Esposito

What might the ethical Governor David Gedden give up for one man's exquisite beauty? It's terrifying to consider when the man is a destructive blood prostitute and David is responsible for the state's peaceful vampire community. Blood sales in Boston are up, blood taxes support a thriving new nightlife, neighborhoods have been refurbished, and deaths by vampires have plummeted. David is assured reelection.
However, the blood addict Stephen Salando has returned from exile with one unalterable plan: to turn the good governor into a vampire. Stephen is an immortal dhampir, whose beauty obliterates reason, who rouses in David a fierce desire he's ignored his whole life. But for David to have Stephen, he must ally with an ancient vampire, the community's seductive archnemesis. To have him, he must become a killer himself. 
Will David hold on to his ethical public life? Or will he follow what he most desires, a kiss with a killer to become a vampire himself?

Show book

Snowed In: Jude and Cal

Jessie Pinkham

Jude knows he isn't relationship material. The entire population of Mars made it abundantly clear he's damaged goods, and he agrees. His issues are why he works a remote job flying around the galaxy prospecting for metals, and why he ruthlessly quashes any feelings for Cal, his surveying partner.


Cal has been looking for an opening to suggest he and Jude could be more than friendly coworkers. When they crash on a tundra planet, the men have a lot of free time, and they put it to good use having sex. It's fun, but Cal wants Jude as a boyfriend, not a friend with benefits.


Marooned on a hostile world, with Jude's demons rearing their heads, Cal's first task is to keep the two of them alive. His second is to convince Jude that, no matter how much he's suffered, romance can still be in the cards.

Show book

Behind the Cam

E.M. Schenker

Who would have thought a panicked job candidate would turn Axel's world upside down? Sure, Kienan is attractive, and the fact that he and Axel's daughter hit it off instantly only fuels the undeniable chemistry between them. But that's all it is -- chemistry. Something Axel can ignore.
After all, he's single but not exactly lonely. There's always Laceboy_69, the cam boy whose videos help him deal with certain ... needs. It's a simple arrangement, no strings, no complications
But what happens when Axel discovers Kienan and Laceboy_69 are the same person? Worse, Kienan has secrets. He's on the run from a messy, possibly dangerous ex, and whatever he's hiding might drag Axel right into the middle of it.
Can Axel resist the pull, or will the tempting young guy -- both on-screen and off -- be his downfall?
Trigger warnings: this story contains sexual coercion/dubious consent (not by MCs), narcissistic and emotionally abusive ex-partner, non-cheating relationship history, gaslighting (not by MCs), trauma, blackmail (not by MCs), and unprotected sex.

Show book