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In collaboration with Jordan of JuliettFoxReads fame, our inaugural Mystery Box includes three very special editions

We have worked very closely with three incredible artists for the covers and the additional merchandise for this box. Each box will come with three special edition paperbacks, and themed goodies.

Book 1: First book in series, but could be standalone. Contemporary, fast heat and slow romance. Is violence their love language? Maybe! Expect big mouths, dirty talk and enemies on ice and off, until they're not. 

Book 2: Standalone. Contemporary. Second chance romance, with plenty of angst along the way. What do you mean his ex is now his coach? Oh dear. 

Book 3: First book in series, but could be standalone. Contemporary Omegaverse. Alpha x Omega, but no one knows he's an Omega, so shush. Lots of caretaking, nesting and knotting. Friends into moreship. 

In collaboration with Jordan of JuliettFoxReads fame, our inaugural Mystery Box includes two very special editions

We have worked very closely with two incredible artists for the covers and the additional merchandise for this box. Each box will come with two special edition paperbacks, themed stickers, a very hot art print and an additional booklet with a very special bonus story. 

Book 1: Contemporary, slow burn and learning each other, new beginnings, neurodiverse representation and working together to solve a mystery. First book in a series. Expect gentleness, angst and warm and fuzzies paired with whipsmart thinkin' and curious events. 

Book 2: Contemporary, friends with longing. Prickly pear with sunshine bestie, hilarious side characters and a high action romp. Slow burn, longing and lots of talk of food. Note: there are themes of domestic abuse in this series. 

True love is never transactional.

In the winter of 1994, twenty-nine-year-old Jamie Hollis is left reeling when he inherits a fortune in the wake of his estranged father's death. On the way home from the funeral, he spies a young hustler on a frozen street corner...and makes an impulsive decision.

Ben Greer is surviving one night at a time. At twenty-four, he’s bitter, burnt out, and barely scraping by on the streets of Providence. With no family to speak of and bearing the scars of liaisons gone wrong, he’s long since stopped believing in happy endings.

Their arrangement is supposed to be simple: Jamie wants exclusivity, and the money's too good for Ben to refuse. But as the weeks pass, what begins as transactional gives way to unexpected intimacy. Beyond Ben’s barbed defenses is someone Jamie is desperate to protect, and beneath Jamie’s isolation is the first person Ben’s trusted in years.

But when Jamie is dragged back into old family drama he once thought he escaped, Ben will have to decide what matters more to him: money...or love?

TO THE END is a class gap MM romance set against the nostalgic backdrop of the mid-90s. Serving as a prequel to WISH WE WERE HERE, TO THE END features a cast of familiar faces and a poignant HFN.

One car. Two strangers. Thirteen hundred miles. What could go wrong?

When Ash rolls into town with a backpack full of cash and a bullet wound, the last thing he’s looking for is a connection. All he needs is a ride south, fast.

Enter Sam: a young man struggling with his identity, freshly dumped by the girlfriend he drove up the coast to visit. He doesn’t know a thing about the gorgeous stranger begging him for a ride back to Miami, but when Ash offers to cover all expenses, it's hard to say no.

What starts as convenience turns into late-night confessions, shared hotel beds, and feelings neither of them are prepared to name. As they rack up the miles, casual recklessness turns into something intimate and real.

But Ash is lying—about who he is, what he’s done and why. And when his secrets catch up with them both, it’ll put their fragile new connection to the test.

WISH WE WERE HERE is a whirlwind strangers-to-lovers MM romance set against the grungy backdrop of the mid-90s. Featuring a bisexual awakening and a guaranteed HEA, it’s a standalone love story shaped by tender nostalgia.

A one sided rivals-to-lovers ballet romance where the dancing is hot, but the chemistry is hotter. Scarlett Drakes’ Famous Young Things series gets a whole lot steamier in Limerence, a story perfect for those who love:

 Bratty bottoms and the stoic men that love them | Obsessed main characters | Ballerinos and the way they wear their dance shorts | Sassy banter | Kissing in the rain | Happily Ever Afters 

This exclusive Swoon Bookstore Edition of Limerence is like you have never seen it before.

Exclusive all-new cover design with slipcase 

Digitally printed page edges

Brand new end pages

Brand new internal formatting

Previously unprinted bonus scene

Four NEW, fully coloured illustrations (SFW) printed internally 

Two NEW, fully coloured illustrated (NSFW) vellums 

Hand signed tip-in (pending preorder incentives)

A one sided rivals-to-lovers ballet romance where the dancing is hot, but the chemistry is hotter. Scarlett Drakes’ Famous Young Things series gets a whole lot steamier in Limerence, a story perfect for those who love:

 Bratty bottoms and the stoic men that love them | Obsessed main characters | Ballerinos and the way they wear their dance shorts | Sassy banter | Kissing in the rain | Happily Ever Afters 

This exclusive Swoon Bookstore Edition of Limerence is like you have never seen it before.

Exclusive all-new cover design 

Digitally printed page edges

Brand new internal formatting 

Previously unprinted bonus scene

Months ago, Luca walked away from Noel. Now he’d do anything to get him back.

But making things right is impossible when the love of his life has blocked his number, moved apartments, and vanished from every corner of Luca’s life. Still, Luca can’t let go. He haunts the places they used to visit together, hoping for one more chance to face the boy he hurt so badly.

Noel isn’t doing well—but he’s trying. He’s going to therapy, keeping up with his new job, and learning how to survive on his own, no matter how badly it hurts. And the worst part? He’s still hopelessly in love with the man who crushed his heart.

When Noel agrees to take a heartbroken friend out for the night, the last thing he expects is for the evening to end in disaster. But at the club, Noel comes face-to-face not with Luca, but another ghost from his past.

And in a single moment, the fragile life he’s rebuilt begins to crack apart all over again.

SWALLOW is a heartfelt MM romance about fighting for happiness and finding solace in a second-chance. Featuring a very hard-won HEA, it is the second book in the Sugar Pill Duet and should be read after SUCKER LOVE.

Heartbroken art student Noel Underwood isn’t looking for anything serious when he hits the club looking for a distraction. But a reckless encounter with Luca Karvelas—an older tattoo artist with nowhere else to go—quickly turns into an arrangement neither of them can walk away from.

Fresh off a separation from his wife, Luca has spent his life burying parts of himself he never wanted to face. Getting involved with a man nearly a decade younger is a bad idea; moving in together is even worse. But the fierce, prickly boy he’s made his roommate makes him feel comfortable in his own skin for the first time in years.

Noel has demons of his own. Beneath the sharp edges and a wildly self-destructive streak is a desperate and vulnerable need to be loved. With Luca, he feels whole in a way he never has before, and together, their chemistry is impossible to ignore.

But when the past comes crashing back into their lives and old patterns resurface, Luca is forced to make a choice—one that could cost him the only person who’s ever really seen him.

SUCKER LOVE is a soft D/s, hurt/comfort MM romance centering BPD representation and brimming with angst, drama, and messy desire. 

A one sided rivals-to-lovers ballet romance where the dancing is hot, but the chemistry is hotter. Scarlett Drakes’ Famous Young Things series gets a whole lot steamier in Limerence, a story perfect for those who love:

 Bratty bottoms and the stoic men that love them | Obsessed main characters | Ballerinos and the way they wear their dance shorts | Sassy banter | Kissing in the rain | Happily Ever Afters 

These exclusive Swoon Bookstore Art Prints are deliriously gorgeous and dreamy! Featuring favourite scenes from the book, and two pin ups, they are a must for any art lover or Limerence fan. 

Take your pick of six prints or get the lot. 

Art by Joseph Giampietro (@Jgiampietro on instagram) 

Is stalking just a one sided meet cute?

Ash Conrad throws his meticulously curated life plans out the window to attend an Ivy League. In a country he’s never been to, against family tradition, all in the hope of gaining entrance to an ancient and exclusive secret society.

The Legacy of Power isn’t just an elite secret society, it’s where the heirs of the criminal underworld play. Admittance would guarantee Ash access to the type of people who might help him save his brother.
But first he has to get through Rurik Locke.

Son of the world’s most notorious assassins, Rurik’s family founded Legacy. He’s a ruthless, violent enigma of a golden retriever—who’s not above a little stalking—and is utterly obsessed.

Ash needs his help, but Rurik’s chaos threatens every aspect of the careful structure he’s built to survive.

They’re about to find out the skeletons in their closets are a lot more intertwined than they realize, and Ash will have to let Rurik in to save them both.

When Rock meets Seoul, things are bound to explode. Hamartia. A pining story perfect for those who love:

🎸 Opposites attract | Sassy banter | Sweetly obsessed main character | Culture collision | Bisexual awakening | Rockstar ego | Redemption 🎸

This exclusive Swoon Bookstore paperback edition of Hamartia is like you have never seen it before. We really bring the special into special edition.

🎸Exclusive all-new cover design

🎸Digitally printed page edges

🎸 Brand new internal formatting 

🎸 Previously unprinted bonus scene “Merry Christmas Mr Rockstar”

🎸AND previously unseen bonus scene 

Our all-new cover is matte laminate with UV Spot printing to really wow, with a limited run of 300.

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A one sided rivals-to-lovers ballet romance where the dancing is hot, but the chemistry is hotter. Scarlett Drakes’ Famous Young Things series gets a whole lot steamier in Limerence, a story perfect for those who love:

 Bratty bottoms and the stoic men that love them | Obsessed main characters | Ballerinos and the way they wear their dance shorts | Sassy banter | Kissing in the rain | Happily Ever Afters 

These exclusive Swoon Bookstore vellums by @Jgiampietro are deliriously gorgeous and dreamy! Featuring favourite scenes from the book, and two ballerino pinups, they are a must for any art lover or Limerence fan. 

The pack comes with all six insertable vellums sized for the paperback special edition.

Art by Joseph Giampietro (@Jgiampietro on instagram) 

When Rock meets Seoul, things are bound to explode. Hamartia. A pining story perfect for those who love:

🎸 Opposites attract | Sassy banter | Sweetly obsessed main character | Culture collision | Bisexual awakening | Rockstar ego | Redemption 🎸

This exclusive Swoon Bookstore Edition of Hamartia is nothing like you have ever seen before, it is the true definition of special. 

🎸 Exclusive new cover design and slipcase

🎸 Digitally printed page edges

🎸 Brand new end pages

🎸 Brand new internal formatting

🎸 Previously unprinted bonus scene “Merry Christmas Mr Rockstar”

🎸AND previously unseen bonus scene

🎸 Two NEW, fully coloured illustrations (SFW) printed internally

🎸 Three NEW, fully coloured illustrated (NSFW) vellums

🎸 Hand signed tip-in by the Queen herself (and some with a special note)

Our all-new cover and slipcase is a matte laminate with UV Spot printing to really wow, and a magnetised removable Hamartia guitar pick. 

Limited to 300

He's not into men so fake dating my best friend shouldn't be this hot.

When my best friend offers to come as my date to my sister’s wedding to get back at my sister for breaking his heart, I agree thinking it will be hilarious. What I didn’t consider was that I’ve been in love with him half my life, and all the consequences of us fake dating. 

My family demands I bring my new boyfriend to her shower first, and things only go downhill from there. My sister is marrying the goalie from our rival team who immediately is up in arms about us dating. 

Fair, but I don’t have time to dwell on it as things quickly get weird with my best friend. Wolfe is straight, it shouldn’t be weird right? It’s fake after all. But I’m so wrong.  He kisses me like I’ve never been kissed before, and then we both realize we have to keep this up for months until the wedding. 

Between the unexpected tension, hockey, and the secrets we are keeping. I don’t know how we’re going to get through the season.

A fist fight shouldn’t be flirting. 

I’m so close to the NHL draft and the dream I’ve worked towards my entire life and he’s made it his mission to ruin it all.

Ktytor is the super star enforcer for our biggest rivals the Massachusetts Monsters.

He has a counter for every move I make like he’s inside my head.

He’s cocky, infuriating, and knows just how to get under my skin.

His torments finally push me over the edge so when he suggests we finish our on-ice fight outside after the game, I gladly accept.

What I didn’t expect was our trading blows to end in us making out.

I’ve never even considered being with a guy before and now I have to pretend to hate him while sneaking around and navigating our public rivalry.

We’re at each other’s throats and it only makes him hotter.

Finding out the guy I hooked up with is on my team isn’t the way I saw my first week of coaching going.

My name is Anthony Hawke, and I used to be a rising star in the NHL until someone purposefully tore my ACL, ending my career. I went from the top of my life to nothing in a matter of months.

I take a coaching job a thousand miles away as a fresh start, only to ruin it before I start.

Three months ago, I met him in a bar. Sexy and funny and built like a God—no names, just the best night of my life.

I never thought I’d see him again, but jokes on me, he’s a freshman on my team. Not only is he an insufferable playboy, but his father is the one who ruined my career.

I can’t lose this coaching job by sleeping with a player, but he won’t let it go. And if his father finds out, forget working anywhere in hockey again.

Embodied is a collection of watercolour portraits by Australian Sapphic Artist, Mayticks, accompanied by each person’s own words about their experience as a queer person with a body trying to move through this world. 

The day his human partner died was the day Haleth Maerenthros became a monster hunter.

Nearly three centuries later, Haleth is apathetic, loveless, and haunted by the memories of his long dead partner. For years, his sole purpose has been destroying vampires, but even that is beginning to lose its appeal as Haleth wishes more and more to fade into nothingness.

When the master of the Monster Hunter Guild himself assigns Haleth a job he can’t turn down, he journeys to the far north hunting for a vampire that could threaten the safety of every mortal in Karrador. Only, when Haleth finally reaches his mark, he finds himself staring into the reddened eyes of his long dead partner. Grappling with his morals pitted against a deep well of love as their spark reignites, Haleth must decide where his loyalties lie, and if loving on borrowed time is worth facing the Monster Hunter Guild's deadly retribution.

The Wolf became a wizard.

The wizard became Grandmaster.

Long before Arlon Kalisson was Grandmaster of the Crux, he was a member of Vian’s Wolves, the most vicious pack of bandits in the Hobokin Mountains. After serving his sentence to the Crown under Grandmaster Fawn, Arlon is released into the Crux as a free man and new magical adept.

But adjusting to his new life feels impossible. Burdened by the memories of Vian Wolf, Arlon struggles to find his place among the nobles and highborns of the Crux. Yet even after meeting Garrett and Bridgette, two fellow non-bloodline wizards, the shadows of Vian’s crimes threaten to ruin their friendship before it can even begin.

Magic is a rare gift, and Arlon must heal the wounds left by his former mentor to embrace the spark that exists in him.

Misfit is a novella set in the Sex Wizards universe about Arlon’s first months as a wizard of the Crux. Though it can be read as a standalone, it is best enjoyed after reading Starshine.

A girl sold to pay her father’s debt.

After the results of an honor duel, Garret leaves his clan to escape his guilt only to face the cruelty of humans in the mountain city of Frostcliff. He finds unexpected employment as security for the city’s high-end brothel, and the even more unexpected company of Bridgette, the brothel’s resident star.

Magic is a rare gift that only exists in the bloodlines of the rich and royal, and yet the unlikely pair find the spark between them even as the humans of Frostcliff attempt to snuff it out.

Starshine is a novella set in the Sex Wizards universe. It follows the story of Bridgette and Garret before they discovered their magic and came to the Crux. It can be read standalone but is best enjoyed after book two of the Sex Wizards series.

Caspian

I didn’t die that day. My best friend says a beast saved me. A monster. A legend. A creature from stories told around campfires.
But he’s wrong. Monsters don’t exist. That’s what I keep telling myself.
And yet my dreams are filled with him—tall and strong, claws sharp like knives, vibrant green eyes that glow like beacons. He shouldn’t be real. He can’t be.
Since the accident, I’ve been scrambling to hold my life together, fighting to keep what's mine from being taken from me. Running my bakery, and caring for my farm, while drowning in grief and jumping at shadows. I’ve never felt so afraid or so alone.
Then a stranger arrives in Newbridge, carrying a sense of familiarity I can’t explain and warmth I want to lose myself in.

Sterling

I saved him that day. Dragged him from the waves and laid him on the beach in the shadow of his lighthouse.
Now I watch him. Protect him. Care for him. And show him the only version of me he believes is real. The man and not the monster. There is nothing I won't do for him.
Because he is mine.

Former billionaire playboy-turned-philanthropist, Julian Fowler, is struggling with the upcoming anniversary of his parents’ murder, the most brutal massacre in the city’s history…with Julian as the sole survivor. Three years later, the killings have started up again with a new list of targets.

Mysterious psychopath, John Smith, has admired Julian from afar and offers him an opportunity to unmask the so-called vigilante devouring the rich. But John’s real goal is mayhem. He would gladly burn the city to ashes if it awakens the monster inside Julian.

The pair are drawn into a precarious game of chaos as they unravel each other’s pasts. John leaves a trail of bodies across the city, carving love letters in corpses for Julian to follow. Julian finds himself spiraling down the twisted path John has laid out, unable to decide if he wants to kiss or kill the maniac.

A sizzling MM dark romance with wicked humor, delicious banter, and the perfect amount of flirting while fighting. This is for the readers who like morally grey men that lean into their absolutely chaotic side.

Colton has always walked the line of golden boy meets bad boy. It helped catapult his popularity as the starting pitcher in his first year of college and during the scandalous exposé when he came out as bi. But Colton struggles with the accolades he receives, balancing who he is versus who he was versus who he’s expected to be. Because before Colton was a queer icon for star athletes, he was a closeted bully who made one guy’s life completely miserable.

Isaac hates Colton. But to be fair, Isaac hates everyone—maintaining an icy distance from even his closest friends. Mostly, Isaac wants to shove Colton off the pedestal he’s been placed upon. Just because he came out publicly doesn’t mean he’s some sort of hero. It doesn’t help that Isaac once fawned over the closeted jock in high school. He cared deeply for Colton and did everything he could to please the star athlete, even keeping their private rendezvous a secret. Which meant Isaac paid the price of utter humiliation, taunting, and bullying as the weirdo loner gay guy with a creepy crush.

When Isaac catches Colton cheating on an exam, he plans to ruin his enemy by destroying his academic standing and costing Colton his baseball scholarship. Isaac wants nothing more than to see Colton kicked out of campus. But when the jock offers to do anything to keep this a secret, Isaac decides to test the lengths Colton is willing to go to make things right between them. Isaac’s over secrets, but this is an opportunity unlike any other. He presents an ultimatum that’ll push Colton to the edge of his limits. In this sordid hate-fueled lust, all Isaac wants is revenge and all Colton wants is redemption.

Welcome to Foxwood Hollow. In a world of fox shifters sits a small, quaint town where everyone knows your business. Often stifling, always safe, and forever a place to call home.

Book One: A Denmate for Dylan

Dylan
Axel is the love of my life; he just doesn’t know it yet.
Ten out of ten do not recommend spending your formative years pining after an alpha who’s your brother’s best friend. But alas, here we are.
My only solution is to leave Foxwood Hollow and start afresh. So what do I do when I have no choice but to return home, only to realise all of those years and miles haven’t doused the flame?

Axel
He’s your best friend’s little brother. He’s your best friend’s little brother.
It was a mantra I’d repeated to myself for years, ever since my brain had shifted from omega smells good to omega smells like mine.
I’m happy for Dylan when he leaves Foxwood Hollow to chase his dreams. I always knew he was destined for a life larger than this little town can offer him. But I feel his absence like a gaping chasm, and the silence that follows has my alpha instincts going into overdrive.
When Dylan finally comes home, a lot has changed. But the soul-deep longing is as present as ever.
Can I really let him slip through my fingers again?

Book two: A Daddy for Cooper

Cooper
I was done hiding. Okay, I was working towards being done hiding.
For the first time in my life, I’d accepted who I was.
An alpha who liked other alphas, and a submissive one at that.
But then, I never expected the Daddy Dom of my dreams to be the guy who I’d been a tiny bit obsessed with ever since he’d returned to Foxwood Hollow.
Patrick Morgan was an enigma. A firm Dom with a gentle hand, yet walls so high they were impossible to scale.
But boy did I want to try…

Patrick
Cooper Bailey was a temptation I needed to stay away from.
My ex left me with more issues than Vogue, but mine were strictly of the trust variety, and a soft-hearted sub like Cooper didn’t need my baggage weighing him down.
And yet, everything about him called to me. Submissive to his core, desperate for guidance, and without a doubt one of the most beautiful people I’d ever met. Wanting him was dangerous. Having him? Out of the question… Right?
Cooper needed a version of me I thought had been buried in my past, but if anyone could squeeze through a crack in my walls, it might just be my little fox.

The Big Cat Hockey League is thrilled to announce tonight's unlikely face-off! Playing to win is the Nashville Nasher's star forward, snow leopard Wilder Rowe, and none other than the fierce, retired Lion defenseman-turned-coach Embry Dean. Everything is on the line as the two figure out if love and life is more than just a puck...

Wilder Rowe
A month's suspension from the league sucks, but assisting the hot alpha coach that I spent my teenage years crushing on doesn't sound like much of a punishment, does it?
Except, for reasons I can't understand, the dude seems to hate me. Nothing I do is right. I’m pretty sure I can’t even breathe correctly around him, and oh boy, if looks could kill...
But you don't get to be one of the best players in the BCHL as an omega by quitting at the first hurdle, and I'm determined to make Embry Dean like me if it's the last thing I do.

Embry Dean
Why do Wilder Rowe's suspension terms feel like I’m the one being punished?
I had Wilder figured out the moment I laid eyes on him as a cocky 18 year old in the Big Kitten League.
Playing the class clown matters more than applying himself, and as someone whose career got cut short due to injury, it’s infuriating to watch him take it all for granted.
The fact he’s the best smelling omega I’ve ever scented—meaningless. And the accidental kiss we share is just a trip of mouths. When he breaks into my house to take care of me? Trespassing and not endearing at all… because there’s no way I could possibly have been wrong about the aggravating snow leopard, right?

Rus doesn’t think there’s anything wrong with punching bigots. Some call it anger issues or impulse control; he sees it as clearing away the cesspool of hateful idiots. All the same, he doesn’t want his rage to control him or push away the two people he’s beginning to care deeply for.

Dylan’s façade of joy is so masterful, he even deceives himself most days. Underneath that worn smile, though, is a frightened man who doesn’t trust the world. Now, he has to navigate taking care of the queer youth home that gave him a life worth living while exploring the life he’d like to live if he wants to pursue romance in this new relationship.

Kaiden struggles to accept himself, wayward and insecure most days. So, when two men express how much they see him, he feels like a complete and total imposter. He’s convinced himself this awkward throuple would be a much happier couple if he took a step back. But despite his reservations, he doesn’t want to give up.

These three will have to come together, work through their personal fears, and be real with one another if they hope to explore this romance.

Magic is a rare gift, and Dominai is losing control of his. He was always told that magic wants to obey, but between the waking dreams and alarming visions, Dom’s magic is going rogue. When Dom’s wayward power lashes out against Olbric, he’s forced to confront what these visions are trying to tell him: He needs to return to Airedale and find his mother.

But in the fallout of the events at the Eastern Tower, Dom and Olbric learn that leaving the Crux won't be so easy. The Royal Guard is watching wizards closely, and while the two plan a grand escape from under the Guard’s nose, Grandmaster Arlon and his newly appointed apprentice, Galiva, are chafing under the strain of the Crown’s expectations.

When the mantle of Grandmaster suddenly falls on Galiva’s shoulders, her loyalties to her friends are pitted against the Crown’s interests. Galiva struggles to navigate the demands of the position, keep her friends safe, and repair the trust between the Crux and the people of Straetham.

To avoid a war with Immenbach, Dom, Olbric, and Galiva will all have to decide what lengths they will go to, and what they are willing to sacrifice to keep the Crux—and each other—safe.