Sapphic

"It was always meant to be a tale of the dragon and the devouring tree..."
Sleeping Beauty meets Robin Hood in the first book of this high-heat sapphic dark romantasy duology.

Rosemary
Three years ago I was freed from the jailer’s cart and sentenced to a lifetime of servitude at the Briar Apothecary, located at the edge of a forest filled with devouring trees. I spend my days blending herbal remedies for my mistress and concocting poisonous treats to weed out her enemies.
I've learned firsthand that the prince isn’t the hero the rebellion wants him to be. His careless bet invites danger to my doorstep, but it turns out a bit of danger is exactly what I need. Now I’m falling for a woman willing to be ruthless for me. The only problem is I’ll have to betray her to free my godmothers from the Ivy Keep.
Can I break my own heart to save my family?

Carabosse
The little witch must have cast a spell on me. The job was supposed to be easy. Get the dragon eggs and be discreet. Take care of any loose ends and leave a message for the brat prince who dared to steal from the Dragon Valley.
But I never expected to feel this warmth in my chest until I laid eyes on her.
I've served my queen for twenty years, helping her rise to power in this realm after escaping Faerie. I'm blood-sworn to put her above all else, but now I'm questioning everything.
And I'll do anything to get sweet Rosemary to safety, even if there's no chance of a happy ending for me.
Can I break an oath to uphold a vow?

**The Happily Ever After Dark series collects dark fairytale retellings. Each separate story is a standalone or a part of a duology. **

Rosemary
Locked away in the King’s City and forced into a dreamless sleep where even my wife can’t reach me, my hope is quickly wilting. When help arrives, we’re forced into a strange alliance, working alongside our enemies. Together, we might be able to overthrow Lollishire’s monarchy and restore the peace.
But I feel the constant pull of the Hartwood, calling me to set the forest free. And I’m learning there are more powerful forces than greedy kings and manipulative queens trying to keep Carabosse from me.
I never meant to fall for the wraith, but now that she’s mine, I refuse to give her up that easily. I’ll defy the Goddesses themselves to reforge our destiny.

Carabosse
A single mistake I made over twenty years ago still keeps me from what I want more than anything—to be the one who gives my mate everything. I'll have to settle for ensuring her safety, no matter what it costs me.
But even when I'm losing myself to the darkness, I can sense my wife.
My little witch might be the only one who can bring me back to the light.

**This is the final book in The Dragon and The Devouring Tree duology. Of Dreams and Posion must be read before Of Thorns and Wings**

No one tells you how much paperwork there is after you die.

I expected to wake up on a cloud where angels played harps and fed me grapes. Instead, I’m a ghost stuck in suburban Toronto. The only one who can see me is an unemployed grim reaper who'd rather play video games.

Turns out the business of dying is a train wreck. But if there was ever a girl boss who could get it back on track, it’s me. All I need is a little help from my new undead roommate, whether they want to be involved or not.

Nothing at Afterlife Incorporated moves quickly and if I don’t find a way out soon there won’t be anything left of me to cross over. They say death can be easy, but being only mostly dead sucks.

Only Mostly Dead is the first installment in the Afterlife Incorporated urban fantasy trilogy. It features a slow—so slow—burn romance that may take several books to resolve. Be patient. Death is coming…eventually.

You always haunt the ones you love.

First, I got stuck as a ghost in the suburbs of Toronto. Now my reaper roommate is dying. Dying! Reapers aren’t even supposed to get the sniffles.

Turns out, we’re connected, and I don’t just mean a shared love of pineapple on pizza. Kelly and I have a rare and dangerous bond that’s draining my favourite reaper’s very essence away. If we don’t figure out how to break the link, Kelly is headed for a permanent sabbatical.

Now we’re exploring creepy corners of Afterlife, making risky deals with paranormal weirdos, and—worst of all—I might be falling for the reaper I’m literally haunting to death.

Being dead has never been easy, and there’s no way in hell I’m facing it alone. It’s time to save Kelly, even if it means breaking my own heart in the process.

Hate to Haunt You is the second instalment in the Afterlife Incorporated urban fantasy trilogy. It cannot be read as a standalone. Kelly and Ember’s romance? Still a work in progress.

Belladonna was born wrong. At least that’s what her parents, religious community, and even her beloved sister believe. Walking away from the church hasn’t helped her come to terms with her purpose in life, and when her sister is diagnosed with cancer, Belladonna has nowhere to turn…until a demon offers her a deal.

After agreeing, nothing is like she expects. There’s no fiery hell to speak of. Her soul seems to still be her own. All she’s required to do is serve. When she’s auctioned off to Rusalka, a powerful and ruthless succubus, her confusion only grows. Rusalka surprises her at every turn, even refusing to allow Belladonna to bear a child that would benefit the entirety of their territory.

Rusalka has sacrificed everything for their people. There are no lengths they won’t go to as leader…but they see something of themself in Belladonna, a familiarity that tempts beyond anything they could have dreamed. They want to keep her.

But if Belladonna can’t release her shame and step into a future where she’s living for herself instead of in service to others… Things may be over even before they begin.

Didn't you hear? Judging a book by it's cover is OUT, choosing based purely on vibes is IN. This book is wrapped to perfection so you can unwrap it like the perfect gift from you to you - or use as a fun and sassy present! 

All of our Mystery Books are either standalones or first books in series so you can choose your own adventure without starting halfway through the journey, but if you love it, then we will send you a discount code for the second book in the series so that you can keep exploring!

This books vibes are:

• Contemporary Standalone Sapphic 
• Own voice author
• Masc and Femmes
• Friends to Lovers
• Host and Spicy
• Musician x Dancer

Didn't you hear? Judging a book by it's cover is OUT, choosing based purely on vibes is IN. This book is wrapped to perfection so you can unwrap it like the perfect gift from you to you - or use as a fun and sassy present! 

All of our Mystery Books are either standalones or first books in series so you can choose your own adventure without starting halfway through the journey, but if you love it, then we will send you a discount code for the second book in the series so that you can keep exploring!

This books vibes are:

• Contemporary Standalone Sapphic 
• Own voice author
• Sports
• Fun and cosy
• Friends to Lovers
• Autism Representation 

Didn't you hear? Judging a book by it's cover is OUT, choosing based purely on vibes is IN. This book is wrapped to perfection so you can unwrap it like the perfect gift from you to you - or use as a fun and sassy present! 

All of our Mystery Books are either standalones or first books in series so you can choose your own adventure without starting halfway through the journey, but if you love it, then we will send you a discount code for the second book in the series so that you can keep exploring!

This books vibes are:

• Contemporary Standalone Sapphic 
• Own voice author
• Australian Author
• Lost memory
• Finding your way back
• Established relationship

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. 

LOVE DOMINATES US ALL

London. 1895. Two doctors - Miriam Clayton and John Bennett - fall in love with one another when they realize they have the same wicked sexual desires.

1896. A series of gruesome murders have gripped Soho. Their details are confessed in a damning diary.

But who of the pair is committing these crimes? And what has turned their love into violence?

Join Miriam and John on their dark romantic journey through pain and bondage. But, as a cruel society tests their passions, discover what can push a person to their breaking point and see how deadly love can really be.

Can you unbind the secrets of the Diary of Murders?

"A beautifully twisted masterpiece."
- Jolene Gettler, author of The Great Vampiric Deception

Poetry, chapbook, 40 pages, from Bottlecap Features.

Lavender & Cigarettes: poems of queer sex and yearning is a collection of poetry about love in its many forms through a queer lens. The poems explore friendship, romance, and sex, and the intersections between them. Love is complicated, growing up is complicated, finding courage in queer identity is complicated. Honest and nostalgic, Nelson writes of these complications, of the messiness of life lived boldly and with a tender heart.

Written during Nelson’s final year of college, Lavender & Cigarettes is full of moments that feel definitive of a queer twenty-something’s experiences. Drunken kisses at a gay bar, holding hands with friends on late night walks, the gender euphoria of a cheap strap-on – it is as much an ode to heartache and sensuality as it is a celebration of platonic intimacy and self-love.

A tale of doom and ambition, loss and revenge, love and murder.

Unwieldy Creatures, a biracial queer, nonbinary retelling of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, follows the story of three beings who all navigate life from the margins: Plum (she/her), a queer biracial Chinese intern at one of the world’s top embryology labs, who runs away from home to openly be with her girlfriend only to be left on her own; Dr. Frank (she/her), a queer biracial Indonesian scientist who compromises everything she claims to love in the name of science and ambition when she sets out to procreate without sperm or egg; and Dr. Frank’s nonbinary creation, painstakingly brought into the world due to complications at birth that result from a cruel twist of revenge, only to be abandoned. Plum struggles to determine the limits of her own ambition when Dr. Frank offers her a chance to assist with her next project. How far will Plum go in the name of scientific advancement and what is she willing to risk?

Poetry, chapbook, 28 pages.

The Angels Have Always Been Black is a metamorphosis of Black girlhood, queer sexuality, God, and family. Through a mix of traditional forms, as well as her own style of verse, the angels will take you up, then down, then up again, weaving hope through all the memories, beloved and triggering, before resting once again on the shelves of Mommy’s freshly dusted mahogany shrunk. This narrative is matured into Black womanhood on these wings, journeying home, earth, riverlands, and sky. Granny braids your hair, a new lover breaks your heart, and Black women prevail. Aliyah Curry is a queer Southern bred writer, focusing on Black female sexuality and mental health.

Poetry, chapbook, 28 pages,

A Funeral for Frozen Peas is a chapbook that unearths the raw, tender, and often unspoken corners of humanity. Each poem acts as a window into what it means to feel deeply. It does not seek to explain or resolve the complexities of the human emotion, but rather to sit with the feelings, to hold them up to the light, and acknowledge their weight. This collection reminds us that emotions—no matter how fleeting or overwhelming—deserve to be honored.

A Funeral for Frozen Peas invites readers to feel freely, no matter how uncomfortable. The collection does not shy away from vulnerability, instead, it embraces vulnerability as the thread that connects us all.

Prose, chapbook, 36 pages, illustrated, from Bottlecap Press.

Katabasis is one heart’s erratic journey through the past to gain clarity and closure for the future. It is the descent into the darkness in order to find the light. This story tirelessly wades through the muddy waters of heartbreak, presses on the bruises of confusion, and pulls out the splinters left behind by great loss. It explores intimacy and rejection, new attempts and new failures, and the ever-changing and unpredictable direction of life.

One page we’re dancing in the kitchen with a lover while making breakfast, and the next we’re staring out the window while the garbage truck drives away with their belongings.

Incision Press' third short story anthology, from queer and trans perspectives, will bring out the salacious monster lurking inside. The kind who slithers into your bed, dripping with demonic heat - cosmic, sexy, and playful. You'll find your new passion for the erotic monstrous in these pages.

Queer ghosts, angry scorpions, ruthless werewolves, violent trans angels, voyeuristic slime monsters, demonic robots and more. Delve into your deepest desires and get slippery with us. Bring your lube and remember, it's only weird the first time you try it!

Featuring:

A.J. Malachite
Anna Sansom
Aunty Patrick
Bethany Baker
Christian Pan
Corey Jae White and Maddison Stoff
Corwyn Reed
Des DeVivo
Dylin Hardcastle
E.K. Darnell
Fraser Knox
J. Aster
Jaydell
Kris Kneen
L. x acanthifolius
Lea O'Hara
M.K. Briar
Macsen K. Rhaff
Marcel Cur
Marisca Pichette
Odile York
Orlando Silver
Packwolf Lupestripe
Rae White
Red Passion
Salem Fluke
The ShanMonster
Theo Hartwell less