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  A Jolly Spring

  Shawn Lane

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  Six months after Nick Holly returned to Willowbrook, Vermont, and reconnected with former high school boyfriend Jolly Whitaker, Jolly wants to take their romance further. He knows Nick isn't ready for marriage after experiencing a difficult divorce, and it's too soon anyway, but he wants something more from Nick than a few nights a week.
  When he returns from visiting his son, Jolly plans an extravagantly romantic dinner for two with the help of family and friends. He hopes Nick will agree to move in with him. Nick agrees, to Jolly's delight, but when Nick finds a ring box hidden in Jolly's house, will Nick get the wrong impression and change his mind?

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  Sealed in Blood

  H. Ferdosy

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  Love Was Never Safe in Iran… 
  Ghazal never chose this life. A gifted computer science student, she is trapped under her father’s iron control where even makeup earns punishment and obedience is expected. Sepideh, a bold social media influencer, refuses to bow to anyone. She lives loud, fearless, and free until her heart collides with Ghazal’s quiet defiance. 
  What begins as friendship ignites into forbidden love. But in a country where morality police prowl the streets and women are silenced with bullets, their bond becomes both a sanctuary and a death sentence. 
  Every heartbeat is rebellion. 
  Every choice carries risk. 
  Every kiss could be their last. 
  Sometimes, surviving together is the greatest act of strength. 
  From stolen moments of beauty to streets filled with protest, Sealed in Blood is a sweeping sapphic romance and political thriller that explores forbidden love, women’s rights, and resilience in modern-day Iran.

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  Property

  Kate Cayley

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  A spring day in a gentrifying neighbourhood begins unremarkably enough; by evening someone has died. 
  Nat, a middle-aged queer mother of two, feigns normalcy as she worries about her taciturn, loner son locked in his room. Her friend Maddy, a failed actress and fellow parent, frets over her missed opportunities and considers leaving her marriage. Next door, Ilya, a young construction worker, struggles to renovate a fixer-upper, but a buried stream threatens to flood the basement. An old woman eyes the street through the gap in her curtains. A lonely man wanders.  
  As the troubled residents stumble through their errands, navigating the thorniness of class and privilege, of queer respectability and friendship in an overstretched city, each seemingly inconsequential exchange tightens in around the neighbourhood, until finally tragedy strikes, leaving it forever changed.

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  The Future Was Color - A Novel

  Patrick Nathan

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  As a Hungarian immigrant working as a studio hack writing monster movies in 1950s Hollywood, George Curtis must navigate the McCarthy-era studio system filled with possible communists and spies, the life of closeted men along Sunset Boulevard, and the inability of the era to cleave love from persecution and guilt. But when Madeline, a famous actress, offers George a writing residency at her estate in Malibu to work on the political writing he cares most deeply about, his world is blown open. Soon Madeline is carrying George like an ornament into a class of postwar LA society ordinarily hidden from men like him. 
   
   
   
  What this lifestyle hides behind, aside from the monsters on the screen, are the monsters dwelling closer to home: this bacchanalia covers a gnawing hole shelled wide by the horror of the war they thought they'd left behind and the glimpse of an atomic future. It's here that George understands he can never escape his past as György, the queer Jew who fled Budapest before the war and landed in New York a decade prior. 
   
   
   
  Spanning from Los Angeles to the hidden corners of working-class New York to a virtuosic climax in the Las Vegas desert, The Future Was Color is an immaculately written exploration of postwar American decadence, reinventing the self through art, and the psychosis that lingers in a world that's seen the bomb.

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  Own Goal

  L.A. Witt

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  Eight seasons ago, Jarek Badura made the biggest mistake of his career, earning him the nickname “Joke.” He’s been fighting ever since to prove that season was a fluke, and he’s only just started to leave it behind, finally regaining some respect and securing his place as second line center. 
  But his team just made a new acquisition, and suddenly he’s linemates with the man who was the unknowing catalyst for his fall from grace all those years ago. 
  After seven long seasons, Hunter Michaud is done carrying his disastrously managed team. An unrestricted free agent, he startles the hockey world by accepting an offer elsewhere, signing with a team that works together and builds on each other’s strengths. And it doesn’t hurt that one of Hunter’s longtime idols is on the roster. 
  He just doesn’t realize how much his career is already intertwined with Jarek’s. 
  Or how much resentment is waiting for him in Pittsburgh. 
  Or how much chemistry is hiding under the ice between them. 
  Own Goal is a 125,000-word contemporary hockey romance that isn't currently part of a series, but the author doesn't dare declare it a standalone because that's just asking for it. For fans of slow burns, enemies to lovers, and teammates to lovers! 
  CW: Verbal abuse (remembered and on-page), some physical violence (on and off ice).

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  Palaces and other Prisons - A...

  TJ Nichols

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  Sometimes the world is actually ending… 
  Dawson Hill is used to the routine and isolation of working on an oil platform in the North Sea. He’s woken up by what he thinks is an emergency drill, then the platform shudders and tilts like it’s about to fall into the sea…but the sea is gone. The oil platform is now on an island. And the island is inhabited by all kinds of beings. It soon becomes clear that rescue isn’t coming, and they are running out of food. 
  Magic is gone, and the water tastes different. Is different. King Ul doesn’t know what to tell his people when they look to him for answers about what happened or what the metal contraption is. The invaders must have answers, so when they leave the metal boxes, he has them arrested, which is how he discovers the marks on his skin glow in the presence of one man. His mate. 
  Even though Ul wants to get his tentacles on Dawson, he doesn’t have time for love while his kingdom is in trouble. 
  A gay Christmas/solstice romance in the Mytho Collapse world, which is set when the mythological world collapses into the human world, and part of Tinsel and Tentacles

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