Genres: Contemporary Fiction, LGBTQ+, Romance
Formats: E-Book
Age Groups: 12-15, 16-18, 18+

Oliver volunteers for Crisis at Christmas to help the homeless. The last thing he expects is that he'll meet someone. Two free stories. Written for the Rainbow Advent Calendar 2018 and 2022, with thanks to Alex Jane. If you are able to do so, please support Crisis, the national UK charity aiming to end homelessness.

Genres: Crime, Historical Fiction, Womens Fiction
Formats: E-Book
Age Groups: 12-15, 16-18, 18+

Clara Brown, a journalist in the mining boomtown of Tombstone, Arizona Territory, is mildly interested in a coroner's inquest - and intrigued that 'soiled dove' Kate Elder seems the only person who cares about the verdict. The two women shouldn't even acknowledge each other, but some things are far more important than the social niceties. Free story.

Genres: LGBTQ+, Speculative Fiction, Western
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
Age Groups: 12-15, 16-18, 18+

Frontiers have always attracted the Other - where they find that the Other is always already there. These 22 stories explore what happens when queer characters encounter weirdness on the edge of the worlds they know. Anthology. Authors: Julie Bozza, J.A. Bryson, Dannye Chase, S.E. Denton, Miguel Flores, Adele Gardner, Roy Gray, KC Grifant, Peter Hackney, Bryn Hammond, Narrelle M Harris, Justin Warren Jackson, Toshiya Kamei, Catherine Lundoff, Bunny McFadden, Angus McIntyre, Atlin Merrick, Eleanor Musgrove, Jennifer Lee Rossman, Lauren Scharhag, Sara L. Uckelman, and Dawn Vogel.

Genres: Contemporary Fiction, LGBTQ+, Romance
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
Age Groups: 16-18, 18+

Deutsche Erstausgabe (German first edition of Butterfly Hunter) Einen einzelnen Engländer auf der Suche nach einer unbekannten Schmetterlingsart zu begleiten, hätte für den australischen Buschführer Dave Taylor ein simpler Auftrag sein sollen. Doch Nicholas Goring ist kein gewöhnlicher Tourist, seine Suche ist alles andere als einfach, und langsam sieht es so aus, also wollten die Schmetterlinge schlicht nicht gefunden werden. Während Dave Nicholas alles beibringt, was er zum Überleben im Outback braucht, stellt er fest, dass auch er noch einiges zu lernen hat – und dass der beste Weg, etwas wirklich Wichtiges zu finden, oft darin besteht, es einfach nicht finden zu wollen … Word count: 60,000 Translator: Anna Maria Nordholz

Genres: Historical Fiction, LGBTQ+
Formats: E-Book
Age Groups: 12-15, 16-18, 18+

Drew was born neither boy nor girl, but he was raised as a man, and now he is desperate to enlist in the Great War to prove himself. His lover, who fought in the Transvaal twelve years before, is just as desperate to dissuade him. Free story.

Genres: General Fiction, LGBTQ+, Thriller
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
Age Groups: 18+

A serial killer thriller entangled with a love story... Albert Sterne, forensics expert with the FBI, is so obnoxious on the surface that no one bothers digging deeper. When he’s sent to Colorado to investigate the work of a serial killer, he encounters Special Agent Fletcher Ash and they end up reluctantly joining forces to unravel the case. It’s only a matter of duty, though; it can’t be more, because Albert doesn’t do friendship – and he certainly doesn’t do love!

Genres: Contemporary Fiction, Experimental Fiction, LGBTQ+
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
Age Groups: 12-15, 16-18, 18+

Patrick and David are friends who run a gay bookstore, and life seems simple and safe enough until the day when unexpectedly he walks in – six feet tall, gorgeous and built like a dream. But Homosapien isn’t welcome in their world; he’s a professional wrestler, and everything he does is fake. So he can’t really be gay, can he, or interested in either one of them? Can they even trust a single word he says…? "This tag team tussle with genre and gender chokeslams and chinlocks the reader into submission." Gideon Haigh, self-unemployed freelance journalist

Genres: Contemporary Fiction, LGBTQ+, Romance
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
Age Groups: 16-18, 18+

It seemed like a great idea at the time… Aussie Dave Taylor has followed Nicholas Goring to England, and the lovers have become engaged. But now Dave has to cope with living in a mansion full of family and servants, making wedding plans, getting his head around visa applications, and wondering why on earth he’d ever want to wear a ‘mourning suit’. He’s not sure if it will prove any easier, but right now Dave would love to just skip ahead to the honeymoon…

Genres: Contemporary Fiction, LGBTQ+, Romance
Formats: E-Book, Audio, Paperback
Age Groups: 16-18, 18+

It started as a simple assignment for Aussie bush guide Dave Taylor – escort a lone Englishman in quest of an unknown species of butterfly. However Nicholas Goring is no ordinary tourist, his search is far from straightforward, and it’s starting to look as if the butterflies don’t want to be found. As Dave teaches Nicholas everything he needs to survive in the Outback he discovers that he too has quite a bit to learn – and that very often the best way to locate something really important is just not to want to find it…

Genres: Crime, LGBTQ+, Thriller
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
Age Groups: 16-18, 18+

"I will fear no evil, for thou art with me..." Joshua Delaney and Carmine Angelo Trezini, cop and mobster, should have absolutely nothing in common. Yet, accidentally brought together, they rapidly became both lovers and allies against organized crime boss Matthew Picano. Of course, taking down a man like that was never going to be easy – but Josh has no idea of the scale of the sacrifice he will eventually be called upon to make.

Genres: Contemporary Fiction, LGBTQ+, Romance
Formats: E-Book, Audio, Paperback
Age Groups: 16-18, 18+

Hilary Kent, a Londoner all his working life, retires to Wiltshire after an estranged cousin unexpectedly leaves him an inhabitable tower surrounded by an overgrown physic garden – and that’s when graduate student Tom Laurence suddenly erupts into his life, convincing him that together they can restore the ancient garden to its former glory. Tom’s cheerful friendship is the best thing that’s ever happened to Hilary and he’s perfectly content with that until, to his astonishment and confusion, it seems that Tom’s affection for him is beginning to grow into something more … something he feels he probably shouldn’t allow. Makes other May-December stories look like June-October.

Genres: Historical Fiction, Speculative Fiction
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
Age Groups: 12-15, 16-18, 18+

He was the shameful cause of his sister Elena’s death and he stole state papers from England, yet Adrian Hart is feted by the best of society in Rome, and boldly dubs himself ‘Iago’. Determined to avenge Elena, his unrequited love, Lieutenant Andrew Sullivan asks the advice of poet and Shakespearian John Keats, and his artist friend Severn. Soon Percy and Mary Shelley join them, then Lord Byron and his servant Fletcher. But how can the seven of them work against this man, when they can’t even agree what he is? The atheist Shelley insists that Hart is an ordinary man, while Byron becomes convinced he’s the Devil incarnate, and Keats flirts with the idea that he’s Dionysius… As death and despair follow in Hart’s wake, Sullivan knows he must do something to stop Hart before even Sullivan himself succumbs – but what…?