After the deaths of three undercover cops investigating a drug ring in a seedy strip club in Seattle, Detective Mahir Hussain has been sent to finish the job. He joins the club's security team in the hopes of finding enough evidence t...

This earnest, violent, yet utterly transfixing gay love story is set in the nineteenth-century American Midwest. Douglas Fortescue is a successful poet who flees England for America following a scandal; Joshua Jenkins is a feral young...

In this new collection of a novella and three short stories, each piece tackles the relationship of the dominant and the submissive male-or the daddy and his "boy." In one story, two straight men fall in love with each other...

A Collars and Cuffs Novel Eighteen-year-old Scott Keating knows a whole world exists beyond his parents' strict control, but until he gains access to the World Wide Web, he really has no idea what's out there. In a chat room, Scott me...

"You're gonna need a rock and a whole lotta medicine" is a mantra that Jonny Appleseed, a young Two-Spirit/Indigiqueer, repeats to himself in this vivid and utterly compelling novel. Off the reserve and trying to find ways t...

Shane Allison has put together that rarest of anthologies- bedtime reading for gay couples. Filled with romance, passion, and lots of lust, Afternoon Pleasures is irresistably erotic yet celebrates the coming together of souls as wel...

WILL SEATTLE MAKE A MAN OF HIM YET? It's 1991 and Steven Frazier has danced away half a decade in the Seattle club scene with his beautiful-but-poisonous best friend, Adrian. Two glittering princes against the world, too high above li...

“An addictive Rubik’s Cube of vice that keeps turning up new patterns of depravity… a satire of writerly ambition wrapped in a psychological thriller… A Ladder to the Sky is an homage to Patricia Highsmith, Oscar Wilde and Edg...

John Horne Burns brought "The Gallery back from World War II, and on publication in 1947 it became a critically acclaimed bestseller. However, Burns's early death at the age of 36 led to the subsequent neglect of this searching b...

Trusting a psychic flash might solve a mystery…and lead to love. Inspector Robert Court should have felt a sense of justice when a rag-and-bones man went to the gallows for murdering his cousin. Yet something has never felt right a...

Written with uncanny precision and wild humor, this is the story of Billy Connors, high school student in the Bronx, member of the swim team, and all-around regular guy, who in his sixteenth year has to face the fact that he's a littl...

In the arms of the vampire who Turned him, Troy Raines finds the desire to seek redemption, but as danger closes in, it might be too late for him to set right the wrongs of the past. Troy Raines wants it all to end. His pain, his hear...

First published nearly one hundred years ago, Andre Gide's masterpiece, translated from the original French by Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Howard, draws from the disciplines of biology, philosophy, and history to support the author'...

Caught in the Act! The thrill of getting caught is a major turn-on. Which is why getting frisky in a forbidden place - outside of one's comfort zone and away from the comforter - can be some of the hottest sex of all. Compiled by for...

He knows you do it better than his girlfriend. He may not say so, but you can tell by the sounds he makes, the look on his face afterwards, the awkward but grateful "thank you." It's a flattery thing, he says. But whatever h...

To the casual observer, Paulie Banks lives the perfect life. After all, he's young, handsome, and rich. But Paulie has a secret. He's madly in love with Ben, his old college roommate—and Ben is straight! Now Paulie has arranged a ...

A deeply introspective book about war, religion, and sexuality  Against the backdrop of World War II, The World in the Evening charts the emotional development of Stephen Monk, an aimless Englishman living in California. After his s...

Thirty-nine-year-old Fred Lemish had always hoped that love would find him by the age of forty, and with four days to go, he begins a compulsive, yet humorous, search for that love and commitment, in a classic novel of gay life. Repri...

In Best Gay Romance 2009, editor Richard Labonte has assembled the foremost of contemporary short stories on the subject. Jack Fritscher's "The Calamus Emotion: Love Among the Ruins" tenderly tracks a romance in letters set ...

Death reveals all secrets. Mystery author Christopher Holmes, now comfortably engaged to sometimes rival, sometimes nemesis J.X. Moriarity, is toying with the idea of becoming a true crime writer when he learns a body has been discove...

High on a hill in Salem, Massachusetts CHINA HOUSE, an elegant mansion, stands deserted. Something happened there twenty years ago that prompted the wealthy Evans family to abandon the house, never to return. Now haunted by the memory...

The Days of Anna Madrigal, the suspenseful, comic, and touching ninth novel in Armistead Maupin's bestselling "Tales of the City" series, follows one of modern literature's most unforgettable and enduring characters—Anna M...

Following an anonymous tip, missing persons investigator Dan Sharp makes a grisly find in a burned-out slaughterhouse in Toronto's west end. Someone is targeting known sex offenders whose names and identities were released on the Inte...

"When Hunny 'You go, girl!' Van Horn, Albany's flaming-est flamer, wins the state lottery's first billion-dollar payout, it's PI Don Strachey who's brought in to deal with the skeletons, some of them violent, that come crashing o...

Gary Griswold, cheerily dim gadfly scion of Albany old money, late of the Key West artists colony, goes missing, and his ex-wife wants to know what's happened to him - not to mention his 38 million dollars in cash. Turns out that reli...

Eddie Wenske has gone missing. A popular investigative reporter renowned for both his gay-coming-out memoir and a frightening book on drug cartels, Wenske vanishes while investigating a gay media conglomerate with a controversial own...

A Flesh novel Internal Affairs investigator Jeremy Ranklin is looking into corruption within the Reno Police Department when he's ordered to examine the suspicious death of the Chief of Police. The assignment partners Jeremy with Dete...

Wise-cracking Wiley Cantrell is loud and roaringly outrageous—and he needs to be to keep his deeply religious neighbors and family in the Deep South at bay. A failed writer on food stamps, Wiley works a minimum wage job and barely m...

At twenty-three and with a notorious case under his belt, Emory Rome has already garnered fame as a talented special agent for the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation. His career is leapfrogging over his colleagues, but the jumping stop...

It's all fun and games until somebody falls in love. Chase has just arrived at a much anticipated leather convention, and he's about to lose his mind. Not only is his ex attending, but Chase is also rooming with Derek, a submissive he...