Discover bold voices, daring stories, and unforgettable books beyond the mainstream. Our Indie & Small Press collection celebrates independent publishers, emerging authors, literary risk-takers, and beautifully unconventional storytelling across every genre. From queer fiction and radical memoirs to experimental horror, poetry, comics, and thought-provoking nonfiction, these books are proof that some of the most exciting work in publishing happens outside the corporate spotlight. Thoughtful, fearless, strange, heartfelt, and deeply human, indie books remind us that great stories do not need permission to exist.
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Parker is twenty-seven, single, and convinced everyone else received the instruction manual for adulthood. Then a cinnamon heart, an ambulance, and a charming firefighter named John send him into six months of messy love, friendship, hope, and the uncomfortable realization that being wanted isn’t always the same as being chosen.
A thousand-year-old man who has lost everything to vengeance has little left to live for until someone tries to kill him. Set against a world of immortal lives, ancient loyalties, and buried secrets, A Glimmer of Hope is a darkly atmospheric fantasy of grief, guilt, and unexpected connection.
When Oliver’s longtime crush returns to their small town, old misunderstandings and undeniable chemistry give them a second chance at the first love neither quite forgot. This warm, funny romance combines small-town charm, professional awkwardness, and a spark that refuses to go out.
A powerful debut poetry collection holding grief, faith, queerness, and gratitude in the same breath. Moudi Sbeity reflects on Gaza, Lebanon, language, identity, and the possibility of liberation through compassion and awe.
A young woman returns to her family’s crumbling château on the French coast, where grief has warped the house, time behaves strangely, and something ancient may be waiting beneath the sea. A haunting Gothic tale of family secrets, folklore, and the dead who refuse to stay buried.
Tania De Rozario’s And the Walls Come Crumbling Down is a Lambda Literary Award–finalist blend of queer memoir and lyrical meditation that interrogates what “home” means when neither family nor country can offer safety. Told in intimate, fragmented prose, the book follows a young queer woman in Singapore who refuses sanitized narratives and instead builds a life within the mess, pain, beauty, and history of real human experience. Powerful, poetic, and unsettling in its honesty, this North American edition includes a new preface from the author.
A fake engagement between a former professional thief and the gorgeous sheriff who came to his rescue takes an unexpected turn when real feelings enter the equation. May Archer’s Axford Brothers series delivers a playful M/M romance packed with family secrets, crime, chemistry, and second chances.
Raina Simmons has secretly loved her best friend Tessara for twelve years. When Tessara announces her engagement and asks Raina to be her maid of honor, buried feelings, a stolen kiss, and a box of secret letters force both women to confront the life and love they’ve been avoiding.
Two ambitious actresses. One legendary feud. And a body bag that may finally force them to admit that their hatred has always been something more complicated.
Fourteen-year-old Charlie Mintrose discovers that his mysterious past may be connected to a secret government agency that captures spirits inside books. A young adult fantasy adventure about friendship, family, loyalty, and the extraordinary power of stories.
At eighteen, Ashley leaves his small-town Canadian university for a modeling opportunity in Los Angeles, where new relationships force him to confront his sexuality, his ambitions, and what he really wants from love. A coming-of-age M/M romance about identity, uncertainty, and finding your way into adulthood.
When a disgraced beauty protégé is drawn back into the orbit of the powerful man who once controlled his career, old scandals resurface. This dark, influencer-era gothic explores ambition, obsession, manipulation, and the dangerous intersection of image, intimacy, and power.
Brad Vogel’s Broad Meadow Bird gathers fifteen years of poetry into a vivid, wide-ranging debut. Moving from Wisconsin to New Orleans to New York City, Vogel explores love, identity, memory, and survival through five distinct poetic sections. By turns raw, playful, reflective, and imaginative, this collection showcases a poet coming fully into his voice—and celebrating the creative force that sustains him.
New York City, 1905: a fiercely anti-capitalist investigative journalist and a wealthy, openly queer industrialist find themselves drawn together when a factory murder exposes a much darker secret. By Any Means combines historical M/M romance, mystery, murder, labor conflict, and forbidden attraction.
Callum has every reason to stay away from Ash, a human who has unknowingly wandered into a dangerous supernatural world. But as a possessive shifter romance filled with angst, action, and unresolved attraction, staying away becomes increasingly impossible.
Three years of friendship, fierce hockey chemistry, and one unexpected night threaten to turn two teammates into something much more. A steamy M/M friends-to-lovers hockey romance.
A sapphic romantic murder mystery set in a fictional waterfront town inspired by Edmonds, Washington. When a decades-old murder and a missing journalist expose corruption and long-buried secrets, a café worker and her police-officer girlfriend must confront the past while fighting for truth, justice, and their community.
Allie Tatum never expected to become a parent, much less fall in love while raising two grieving nieces. As she struggles to rebuild their family after tragedy, an unexpected connection with Sam Carter offers the possibility of comfort, healing, and a new kind of love.
A gripping YA mystery set at an elite boarding school in Upstate New York. After a student is poisoned on her first day, Emmaline Berry joins forces with an outcast to expose a secret society while uncovering her mother’s hidden connection to the academy.
Nine short stories by autistic trans authors explore the joy, challenges, and imaginative possibilities of being autistic and trans. Focusing primarily on transfeminine and non-binary characters, this follow-up to Changelings: An Autistic Trans Anthology centers the voices of the people whose stories are being told.
Brad Vogel’s Find Me In the Feral Pockets offers a vivid poetic exploration of Brooklyn’s Gowanus Canal—a polluted, peculiar, and surprisingly beloved landscape. Blending environmental insight, humor, and intimate observation, Vogel reveals the beauty and strangeness of a neighborhood in flux. Featuring a unique poetic “heat map” showing where each poem originated, this collection celebrates the resilience, chaos, and unexpected tenderness of one of New York’s most unconventional places.
When skeletons invade the Foundling Inn, Paloma discovers that her home is at the center of a much larger threat. With old family, new friends, rebellious adventurers, and a talking skillet at her side, she sets out to uncover the source of a rising undead army and protect the sanctuary her family built for misfits and free spirits.
Surreal, sensual, and full of queer joy, Fried Eggs in Bed explores crushes, falling in and out of love, self-discovery, and the pleasures of connection and solitude. L. J. Griffith-Jones’s debut poetry collection finds beauty in the messy, tender spaces between dreams, memories, and desire.
In a future where parthenogenetic birth gives women unprecedented reproductive autonomy, society is transformed, challenged, and ultimately fractured. Told across three generations, Fruits of Our Labor explores gender, power, autonomy, and the consequences of social upheaval.
Two fierce hockey rivals discover that the line between competition and attraction is dangerously thin in this steamy M/M enemies-to-lovers romance.
After divorce turns her carefully constructed life upside down, a struggling writer finds an unexpected second chance at love, passion, and creativity with a woman who has plenty of complications of her own.
Ten years after a painful breakup, two former lovers get an unexpected second chance when hockey brings them back together. A steamy M/M second-chance romance about rebuilding trust and finding their way back to each other.
When a 1937 Hindenburg steward mysteriously arrives in 2025, he finds himself aboard a futuristic zeppelin preparing for a queer cruise across the Pacific, where secrets, second chances, and an unexpected romance await.
When Sacramento city boy Bart Martin arrives in tiny Foggy Basin during its Pride parade, getting lost leads him to Keith Brooks, a gruff local farrier with a very different way of life. What begins with a helping hand may become the unexpected connection that brings two very different men together.
Peter Cavanaugh once destroyed him to protect his reputation. Four years later, a scholarship brings him back into Peter’s orbit as the coxswain of Peter’s championship rowing team, where old wounds, buried secrets, and a dangerous obsession collide.
Two former hockey stars become rivals behind the bench when a struggling team brings them together. A steamy M/M grumpy-meets-sunshine hockey romance about second chances, ambition, and unexpected attraction.
A lyrical and emotionally rich queer coming-of-age novel about desire, memory, loneliness, and the search for connection in post-9/11 New York. Following Calvin Marks from uncertain youth into adulthood, I Dreamed I Saw Augustine explores love, identity, grief, and community through immersive prose and deeply human vulnerability.
Spanning 1980s London and the decades that follow, I Remember Everything tells the story of Billie and the queer chosen family she builds during the AIDS crisis. Heartbreaking and deeply compassionate, this literary novel celebrates queer love, friendship, memory, and the lives that refuse to be forgotten.
A broke Los Angeles actor is drawn into a dangerous world of vampires, desire, and supernatural bonds when a mysterious corporation hires him to provide his blood. Caught between two powerful men with centuries-old secrets, Elian must decide whether to return to the human world or embrace an inhuman destiny.
Owen takes a well-paid job cleaning the pool at Witherborne Mansion, hoping to keep his head down around the vampire family. Then a body turns up in the pool, forcing the human pool boy into a murder investigation and directly into the orbit of Theo, a chaotic vampire heir who is becoming impossible to ignore.
In Edwardian Wales, a working-class violinist and a privileged harpist discover an unexpected bond through music. Their growing love challenges family expectations, social boundaries, and a world that demands they remain silent.
Alfian Sa’at’s Malay Sketches is a vivid, urgent collection portraying the lives of Malay-Muslim Singaporeans as they navigate identity, faith, class, and desire. From a schoolgirl defying political protocol to the haunting legend of the hantu tetek, these stories reveal poignant, unsettling, and tender moments within a community rarely represented in Western publishing. Sharp, compassionate, and penetrating, this landmark book brings one of Singapore’s finest writers to American readers.
A whip-smart and deeply funny novel about heartbreak, polyamory, family, and the messy business of loving more than one person. When a husband and father loses his younger boyfriend, he is forced to reconsider the rules society has written for love, family, and happily ever after.
A sharp Southern political-ecological novel in which a former television meteorologist, a cannabis farmer, and an endangered sea turtle become entangled in a vicious Mississippi Gulf Coast election. When environmental destruction, conspiracy politics, and a dangerous development project collide, Alicia Norris discovers that saving her community may require taking matters into her own hands.
Three young women struggle with friendship, love, addiction, and sexual discovery after a traumatic event tears them apart. This sapphic coming-of-age story explores obsession, recovery, complicated relationships, and the possibility of starting over.
I was never anyone’s first choice. Until two monsters made me their only one. One bad decision sends a rival hockey player into the woods and straight into the path of two masked strangers. Six-foot-eight Atlas Trembley and six-foot-ten Hunter Kincaid are intimidating, dangerous, and impossible to forget. And they’re Serpents. Atlas gets under his…
A firefighter-paramedic and the disgraced medic everyone else has written off are forced to work side by side, turning bitter resentment into an unexpected second chance at love.
A closeted college sophomore heads to France expecting family obligations and finds something far more exciting: romance, adventure, and a handsome American on a motorcycle. Set against the streets of Paris and the Normandy coast, My French Summer is a warm, sexy coming-of-age romance about first love and growing up.
A cozy, spicy M/M fantasy rom-com where an uptight elven bard and a scandal-prone prince discover that repairing their reputations might just lead to something much more dangerous: falling in love.
A dark, atmospheric blend of fantasy, mystery, horror, and romance. When Alex Burkhart returns to the mountains of Tennessee, he finds murder, conspiracy, black magic, and a love he thought was lost waiting for him.
After accidentally dialing the Devil instead of the suicide hotline, a lonely queer college student becomes trapped in a dangerous relationship with Mephistopheles in this modern queer retelling of Faust. Darkly funny, unsettling, and emotionally charged, Phoning Faust blends psychological horror, digital-age loneliness, and supernatural temptation into a haunting contemporary fantasy.
When a rival crime family threatens to seize their territory, a secretive mind-controlling enforcer must choose between protecting his family and saving the man he loves in this dark M/M paranormal mafia romance.
Two elite tennis rivals have spent years convincing the world they hate each other, while secretly falling deeper in love. Now Leire and Kate must decide whether protecting their careers is worth losing the relationship they’ve fought so hard to hide.
In a brutal post-apocalyptic wasteland, Seph is an outsider survivor tasked with escorting a truckload of trafficked sex workers across the country. Facing mutants, cannibals, raiders, and every other nightmare the wasteland can throw at her, Seph’s mission is simple: keep her cargo alive.
A YA queer fantasy about a transgender girl caught between the challenges of high school and a mysterious magical realm. When an antique mirror becomes a gateway to another world and Hailey is named its new Queen, escapism takes a dangerous turn.
When a quiet university student becomes the target of mysterious beings who can manipulate matter, an unexpected protector helps her hide in plain sight. Amid supernatural danger, an acting class, an ex, and a new attraction, Lara begins discovering secrets about herself and the people around her.
In a dystopian world where miscarriage is a crime, a grieving woman is sentenced to nine years in prison for losing her pregnancy. Shadows in Dream Stone is a fierce feminist and sapphic dystopian novel about rage, survival, love, and fighting back against an oppressive regime.
As Allister’s memories begin to disappear, his husband Gede becomes his companion, caregiver, and witness to a lifetime of love. A tender LGBTQ story about memory, aging, devotion, and the enduring power of love.
A fierce and unsettling debut novel about female rage, patriarchy, sisterhood, and the search for a life beyond the expectations imposed on women. When Iris enters a mysterious women’s commune, what begins as a possible sanctuary takes a darker and more dangerous turn.
A fierce, unsettling feminist novel about a newly single woman drawn into an unconventional women’s commune, where liberation, female rage, and sisterhood collide with secrets and devastating violence.
A vibrant, imaginative introduction to David Bowie and his ever-changing artistic identity. Caldecott Medalist Matthew Cordell takes young readers on a cosmic journey through Bowie’s music, transformations, and boundary-pushing career.
Sixteen men. Eight love stories. Former lovers, husbands, first loves, and almost-lovers cross paths again, discovering that some endings don’t erase the history two people share.
A group of friends gathers for an annual retreat in the California desert, only to discover something ancient and hungry beneath the town of Superstition. A body-horror vampire novel about identity, aging, desire, and the terrifying consequences of giving in to temptation.
When a devastating earthquake traps Carter on a collapsing Arizona mountain with his ex-fiancé and his current partner, survival forces all three men to confront the love and history they thought they’d left behind.
Carter finally has the family he fought for, but when a massive earthquake strikes Arizona, he, Christian, and Alton must race across a collapsing landscape with six-year-old Eli depending on them.
Former teen heartthrob Jarrod Jarvis is trying to revive his acting career when a psychic warns him that someone close to him will be murdered. When his former child-star best friend turns up dead, Jarrod decides the supposed accident is actually murder and launches his own investigation.
In 1982, sixteen-year-old Aiden and three friends are transported into the fantasy world of his favorite novels, where they are transformed into elves and caught in an ongoing genocide. Amid magic, danger, and the struggle to return home, Aiden discovers feelings for his closest friend.
Four centuries after a devastating separation, a vampire and a witch must cross realms, confront old wounds, and risk everything to reclaim the love they lost. A dark paranormal romance of obsession, forbidden magic, supernatural danger, and bonds that refuse to stay broken.
In Roman-occupied Judea, a healer burdened by a messianic destiny finds love with a Greek stonemason who sees him as a man rather than a savior. Together, they dream of escaping Rome, prophecy, and the expectations that threaten to tear them apart.
Madison drag queen Gigi Finesse and her friend Kitty Felise tackle a collection of unusual cases involving thieves, killers, mysterious letters, ghosts, and long-buried secrets.
Small-town rivals Jared Malloy and Derek Cabrera discover an unexpected love after a shared DUI lands them in community service. Their relationship survives college, professional sports, years of secrecy, and sudden fame before they build a lasting legacy supporting LGBTQ+ youth in sports.
Lawrence Lacambra Ypil’s The Experiment of the Tropics blends history, photography, and lyric imagination to explore early-twentieth-century Philippines under American colonialism. A Lambda Literary Award finalist and Gaudy Boy Poetry Book Prize co-winner, the collection meditates on longing, desire, and the shimmering details captured in archival images. Spare, musical, and deeply evocative, Ypil’s poems uncover the city—both real and imagined—hidden within the frames of the past.
A people-pleasing fixer accidentally unleashes the ancient entity Eros while juggling feelings for his drag queen best friend and a brilliant Ukrainian designer. Funny, heartfelt, and gently magical, The Fixer, The Maker, The Drag Entertainer is a cozy queer romantic comedy about found family, ethical non-monogamy, messy emotions, and learning to stop shrinking yourself to make other people comfortable.
Ricco Villanueva Siasoco’s debut The Foley Artist delivers nine inventive, emotionally charged stories about Filipino American lives shaped by intimacy, foreignness, queerness, and diaspora. From a woman attending her ex-boyfriend’s same-sex wedding to drag queens battling at the Iowa State Fair, these stories blend the bizarre and the familiar with humor, tenderness, and sharp insight. A striking new voice in Asian American fiction.
A wickedly funny and beautifully illustrated guide to self-acceptance, confidence, and silencing those pesky inner demons. The Glam Reaper and her fabulous friends offer sass, practical advice, and plenty of attitude for rebellious souls.
In atmospheric Victorian Yorkshire, a young woman forced into forgery at an isolated estate uncovers a dangerous literary deception, a haunting family secret, and an unexpected love with a defiant maid. The Lost Brontë blends gothic mystery, historical intrigue, and sapphic romance.
A records archivist uncovers the extraordinary story of one man listed as the brother and emergency contact of 37 unrelated men. As two men clash over whether the past should be preserved or protected, they uncover a hidden history of queer found families in Singapore.
A killer is recreating infamous slasher-movie death scenes across London, and a horror-loving gay writer may be the only person who sees the pattern. When Damian Douglas is teamed with skeptical Detective Megan Hudson, they must decode the killer’s cinematic game before they become part of the next scene.
In a frozen, ravaged world, Fayette ventures beyond the safety of her woodland home to find her missing brother, only to discover that the monsters outside may be part of a far more sinister plan.
In 1924 New Jersey, a company investigator falls for the factory worker gathering evidence against the employer she was hired to protect. A sapphic historical romance inspired by the Radium Girls, blending enemies-to-lovers romance with labor conflict, medical drama, and courtroom suspense.
A high-seas historical romance featuring a trans male pirate captain, a runaway bride, and a dangerous journey toward freedom. With slow-burning romance, found family, buried secrets, and plenty of pirate adventure, The Retaliator charts two people fighting to claim lives of their own.
A forbidden M/M love story set amid the brutality and spectacle of medieval warfare. When a young English knight is ordered to break a mysterious Scottish prisoner, their dangerous connection challenges everything he believes about loyalty, identity, and desire.
After sleeping for a century, a Union cavalry lieutenant awakens in 1965 and finds himself utterly bewildered by the modern world. His friendship with a gay college student soon becomes something deeper, but the rules of love and intimacy have changed dramatically in the hundred years between them.
The second book in Anya Keeler’s The Sound of Storms duology brings fae and shifter realms together for a high-stakes struggle against political unrest, ancient powers, and a god with plans of his own. A queer romantasy featuring forbidden romance, found family, disability representation, and a heartwarming conclusion.
Raised by two loving fathers in a remote Alaskan town where werewolves live openly among humans, Lyka comes of age one full moon at a time. A literary fantasy of found family, identity, grief, love, prejudice, and belonging.
When Sienna’s classmate asks about her two moms, she begins discovering all the wonderful ways families can look. A warm, affirming story about family, belonging, and the idea that there is no single way to be a family.
Jhani Randhawa’s award-winning debut Time Regime blends experiment, dreamwork, and poetic field notes to challenge the violent rhythms of neoliberal imperialism. Moving through ecofeminist, queer, and necrosocial frameworks, the collection traces shifting, intersecting bodies—human, ecological, mythic—as they erode, recombine, and resist. Luminous and genre-defying, Time Regime imagines a self unbound by purity, discipline, or erasure, and alive to the radical mess of living.
An urgent and beautifully crafted poetry collection that explores protest, memory, solidarity, and hope, To the Tune brings lyric grace to questions of justice, resistance, and the enduring power of collective voices.
When a buttoned-up professional’s high school archnemesis moves into the office across the hall, old grudges collide with unexpected attraction in this snuggly sapphic enemies-to-lovers romance about second chances.
Two young men ride the rails through Depression-era America, sharing whatever food, money, trouble, and tenderness they can find along the way. What begins as an adventure becomes something much harder for James to leave behind.
Fifteen years after one hit song, one unforgettable kiss, and one spectacular breakup, two former bandmates are forced into a reunion that could turn their unfinished business into their greatest comeback.
A piercing, funny, and chaotic coming-of-age story about a young Indian American woman who arrives at Stanford determined to reinvent herself through literature, activism, sex, and love, only to have the COVID pandemic completely rewrite the script.
In a city ruled by crime, desperation, and sentient carnivorous plants, five dangerous outcasts join forces to hunt a monstrous creature that could buy their freedom. But surviving the conspiracy threatening their fractured world may require them to overcome their deepest instincts to betray one another.
An honest and deeply moving collection of more than 50 poems exploring womanhood, survival, healing, motherhood, relationships, and the difficult work of beginning again. Stephanie Love writes candidly about pain and resilience while leaving room for beauty, hope, and self-reinvention.
A lonely café owner, a mysterious magical journey, and an unexpected found family come together in this cozy LGBTQIA+ story set against the snowy backdrop of Niseko, Japan.
Ten years after heartbreak tore them apart, Quinn Miles is finally forced to confront the woman she never stopped loving when her former best friend and almost-lover walks back into her life. A second-chance F/F romance about old feelings, unfinished business, and discovering whether love can finally get it right.
A forbidden M/M age-gap romance set against the rugged backdrop of a Texas ranch. When a struggling ranch owner falls for the younger man working for him, desire threatens to upend the legacy he has fought to protect.
