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All cool, pragmatic Ottilie Zimmermann has been dreaming of for years is retiring from her top-secret, morally gray job to sip Mai Tais on a Pacific island. While in Las Vegas tying up some final loose ends, she crosses paths with a woman who is clever and intriguing yet far too sex-obsessed for Ottilie's taste. So why can't she stop thinking about her?

Restless and disillusioned with his life, Aiden McCarstle is ready for a night out at The Moonlight Cafe with his best friend Penelope: one night to not think about how much he hates grad school, to watch queer people make fools of themselves singing karaoke. But when it's not Penelope who walks through the door, but the high school nemesis Aiden hasn't seen in years—things get complicated.

When Lily Harper returns to her hometown, she's only got one one goal in mind: finish writing her book. But when a forgotten bucket list resurfaces, so does Isabella Zeta—her estranged best friend and first love. For Isabella, her past with Lily is better left buried. It's been ten years since...

Justin "Matts" Matthews is good at a lot of things: Rubik's Cubes, playing guitar, herding cattle, and most importantly for his career in the NHL, hockey. He's not good at human interactions or social cues, especially when it comes to women. This deficiency is an annoyance rather than a problem...

When the marketing agency Regina Avery worked for declares bankruptcy, she's forced to take a temporary position at a women's fashion brand. She's never worn anything more fashionable than a polyester suit, but beggars cannot be choosers. She definitely didn't choose to work with her...

The boy I used to be. The home I used to know. The happiness I used to feel. Everything is gone. Destroyed by the person meant to keep me safe. With nothing left to keep me going, I give in to the demons screaming in my head. That decision lands me back in the arms of the boy, now a man, who has always been everything to me, but I don't belong here anymore. I'm damaged. Broken. Tainted.

In a South Seattle house built on patience, Risha was raised to believe that if something was measured right and set true, it would hold. The daughter of immigrants from Kazakhstan, she learned the quiet discipline of her father’s trade—the steady work of leveling floors and mixing mortar. It was a reliable way to navigate the world, but it offered no blueprints for the restlessness of the heart. In the long, rainy years of adolescence, first love arrived without instruction.

Die Stadtgeschichten sind eine funkelnde und süchtig machende Gesellschaftskomödie, die inzwischen als moderner Klassiker der queeren Literatur gilt. Im Mittelpunkt des neunten und letzten Bandes der «Stadtgeschichten» steht Anna Madrigal, die legendäre Transgender-Dame und Hausherrin der Barbary Lane 28. Madrigal ist zweiundneunzig Jahre alt und wünscht sich nichts mehr als einen ladylike Abgang. Mit ihrem früheren Mieter Brian fährt sie nach Winnemucca, wo Madrigal mit sechzehn Jahren aus dem Puff, der ihr Zuhause war, weggelaufen ist.

Aurora has always been different. She was marked from birth as an Elite and born with an additional skill that allows her, a phoenix, to take human form as naturally as breathing. Now, after five years of living with a cult that worships her kind, learning the local tongue and culture, it's time...

London, 1888. As the British pound rises and the empire celebrates its prosperity, the streets of Whitechapel tell a far darker story—one of poverty, violence, and fear, where Jack the Ripper stalks the night and women vanish without warning. High above the chaos lives Viola, hidden away in a tower that serves as both sanctuary and prison. Born Vincent, she fled her family to live according to her true nature, long before there were words to describe the anguish of gender dysphoria.

History, mystery and a barrel load of bitchery. (Think Maupin meets Mapp & Lucia, or Less meets Schitt’s Creek) The second instalment in The Brightonians Trilogy continues the story of warring socialites – this time navigating the bonkersness of the first National Lockdown. On a broader level, it’s about how resourceful people can be when they feel they are being attacked. Under siege you might say! Beginning in 2020 with an ominous card-reading that the fortune-teller hasn’t had since the mid-80s, one question preys on his mind.

Amy O’Donnell and Jen Campbell were once team-mates who spent hours debating tactics and dreaming big. Then Jen dropped out of Amy’s life like a lost connection, and Amy’s spent the last two decades wondering what the hell happened. Now coaching the Ireland and England women’s football teams, they’re thrown together for a documentary in the run-up to the Euros, forced to play nice for the cameras.

Verliebe dich nie in den besten Freund deines Bruders! Asher hat's versucht – vergeblich. Seit Jahren schmachtet er heimlich dem perfekten, unnahbaren Zac Reed hinterher. Nach dem spektakulären Crash seines Start-ups kehrt Asher pleite in das Küstenstädtchen Bluewater Cove zurück. Während er von Gelegenheitsjob zu Gelegenheitsjob stolpert, führt Zac längst ein Millionen-Unternehmen. Plötzlich arbeitet Asher als Zacs Assistent. Doch was passiert, wenn der unerreichbare Traummann plötzlich zum Greifen nah ist?

Mad Are We is a story about first connection, first love and first loss, through the eyes of an autistic teenage girl. When teenage Imogen meets Sabrina, something shifts. She experiences a kind of friendship that feels real in a way she hasn’t known before. For once, she isn’t constantly...

DONG, a new The Borough Press book, full description to follow when available...

Mirror, Mirror, a new The Borough Press book, full description to follow when available...

Casey Whitmore was born beautiful —and he’s spent a lifetime turning beauty into power. The golden-haired son of two physicians, Casey escapes into the art world, where talent and charm carry him from provocative affairs with his professors to the glittering heights of New York society. As a jewelry designer whose pieces gleam in Bergdorf Goodman and Neiman Marcus, he builds a world of swans, benefactors, and high-fashion intrigue —leaving behind lovers as easily as last season’s collection. But reinvention comes at a cost.

Koo-chan vive um momento de conflito interior no Japão do entreguerras. No começo da adolescência, tem fantasias que combinam impulso sexual e violência sadomasoquista, desejo e morbidez. O rapaz chega a imaginar um "teatro da morte", em que jovens lutadores se enfrentariam como gladiadores, exclusivamente para êxtase do próprio Koo-chan.

I confront hubby’s new cuckcake driving instructor and realize my suspicions of their cheating are true when they show me exactly what they’ve been doing. Listen as I submit in the backseat, watching her take my hothusband’s love before I clean up the mess he leaves behind in this...

A short, blistering gut punch of a novel, Jackson Alone is at turns satirical and deadpan, angry and tender - a frank exploration of identity, race, and queerness in contemporary Japan. Nobody at the corporate offices of Athletius Japan knows much about the massage therapist, Jackson, but...