There’s an amazing sale going on today! Over 150 books of the sapphic / lesbian variety for free or $0.99! I’ve found some great fantasy and scifi reads among them! And of course, my book STARS AND SOIL, is one of them!
Head over to Year of Queer Lit to see the FULL sale, or just chill here to find the best SFF books.
Stars and Soil – Dax Murray
Epic Fantasy
Die as a queen or live as a rebel?
Caitlin Peddigree faces a dire choice: accept a loveless marriage to the crown prince, or die as a traitor to the throne. While Caitlin still grieves the death of her wife, a rebellion simmers in Fayn, the streets filled with cries for the monarchy’s fall and the rise of democracy. When Caitlin unwittingly befriends a rebel leader, she believes she may have a way out of her unwanted relationship.
Marrying the prince would protect her family’s fortune, but can she also be an informant for the rebellion? Caught in a tangled web of political intrigue and court gossip, Caitlin treads a treacherous path, made more dangerous when a spirited new lady arrives at court and ignites a new fire in Caitlin’s heart.
But power in Fayn is ever-shifting. Whispers of magic and long-forgotten gods stir beneath the surface. Religious orders conspire against each other. New nobles scramble for power and old bloodlines seethe with resentment. The rebellion fractures into factions as they bicker over strategy. But underneath it all and unbeknown to most, dark and ancient forces are waiting, watching, and plotting. Surrounded on all sides, Caitlin finds herself a pawn in a deadly game.
But she must decide for herself: remain a prisoner of her circumstances—or reclaim her own life. And she must decide fast, otherwise the flames of revolution may be put out by a force far darker than a tyrannical king.
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A Crimson Covenant – Aimee Donnellan
Romantasy
An adult sapphic romantasy filled with angst, obligation, and magic.
The vampires and werewolves of the town of Concord have for centuries worked to keep their home secret and safe. With the heirs of the founding houses paired from a young age to train together and complement each other, life is almost ideal. However:
Arche, lycan heir to the Warden Clan, is beginning to resent her best friend and partner, and can’t tell anyone.
Lenora, the vampiric heir to the House of the Arcane, is struggling with the expectations of an additional destiny she never wanted. Not to mention being in love with her partner, who is in love with someone else.
All of which matters much less when Concord is attacked by violent, vindictive cultists. In shock, on the run, and without the partners they’ve had for years, Arche and Lenora must venture far from home for the first time in search of something that will save their people. And, perhaps, consider that some partnerships are better forged in fire.
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A Sharper, More Lasting Pain – Alex Harvey- Rivas
Dark Fantasy / Academia
NINTH HOUSE and AN EDUCATION IN MALICE meets STRIXHAVEN in this claustrophobically tense sapphic fantasy dark academia novel...
After their girlfriend's best friend is wounded in a monster attack, Simone Allard stumbles across a plot much deeper than they anticipated. As they work to find a cure to their own forming illness and find out the truth, one question remains: how was Nadia involved in this?
Nadia DuPont doesn't know how much time she has or even what is ailing her, but it all gets more complex after meeting Simone on a field trip. As they both work to find a cure to her ailment, all Nadia is certain of is she's on the path to ruin.
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The Scales of Seduction – Rien Gray
Dark Fantasy / Mythological Romance
Seeking to change her body, Petra Kruos, a mercenary and the last living Basilisk, strikes a deal with the goddess Cybele in exchange for recovering Perseus’ divine armaments from his grave.
The hero’s corpse rests within the lair of the legendary Medusa, who lives in exile surrounded by a vicious and deadly gauntlet. Surviving to reach the gorgon is perilous enough, but the potent lure of a fellow serpent threatens to undo everything Petra holds dear.
The Scales of Seduction is a 33,000 word F/F romance novella between a butch trans woman and a feral cis femme, focused on lesbian desire and reclaiming one's body from those who would destroy it.
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Heart of the Wolf Goddess – Autumn Wolff
A Magical Lesbian romance about a girl whisked away to a new world and given a different life.
Lea Trello doesn't have a life outside of work. She was raised under strict circumstances to be a safe and restrained young woman. And at the age of 25, Lea is downright miserable. With no friends, no dating, and no hobbies, the accountant finds herself wishing for a different life. Little does she know, a goddess is nearby, listening to her words.
One night while scrubbing a bathroom, Lea suddenly finds herself in the presence of Ruka the Wolf Goddess. The divine being reveals she was slain by her greatest foe, the Bear God. Overhearing Lea's wish for a different life, Ruka offers her a chance to have just that.
With time running out before she fades away for good, Ruka tells Lea she can have a chance at a new life. All she has to do is agree to take Ruka's place in the land of Gyrelle, becoming its new Wolf Goddess. The catch? Lea's reincarnation will transform her into Ruka in more ways than she knows. And to regain the divine being's full power, she'll need to track down the four pieces of Ruka's severed heart.
Taking up the mantle of the Wolf Goddess means inheriting Ruka's enemies, her lovers, and her quest to recapture the faith of people in a world that's long forgotten about the immortal who was slain.
Being reborn in Gyrelle comes with countless risks, and it's definitely not the decision a woman who plays it safe would ever make. Of course, it could also be the adventure of a lifetime (or several), bringing Lea the chance to find love, family, and a sense of self-worth. That'd be enough to tempt anyone in her shoes.
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Of Socialites and Prizefights – Arden Powell
Historical Fantasy
She needs a woman's kiss to break her curse.
When Deepa Patel rejects the wrong man, he curses her: every night, she will transform into a wild animal until her curse is broken by true love’s kiss. The problem is twofold. One: Deepa needs her nights to seduce shallow men into spending money on her—money she desperately needs to buy herself and her mother a better life. Two: she doesn’t believe in love. She’s never met a man she wanted to keep longer than a week, never mind forever.
She never considered her true love might be a woman.
Roz is unlike any of Deepa’s past suitors. She’s working class, with a nose that’s been broken at least once, courtesy of an underground boxing club. And she makes Deepa feel lighter and softer than she ever thought possible. But Roz can’t afford to give Deepa the life of luxury she craves.
Meanwhile, Deepa is posing as a wealthy nobleman's fiancée. There’s no love between them, but his lifestyle is everything she’s ever wanted. Caught between a real relationship and a loveless fake one, Deepa has to choose: give up on her dreams for a chance at true love, or make her dreams come true but stay cursed forever.
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Uncharted – Alli Temple
Fantasy
In a world of arrogant nobles and their punishing laws, Georgina will be hanged if anyone discovers she is a spy. But when the wicked prince proposes marriage, Georgina must accept. Refusing would expose the secrets she has delivered to a hidden resistance and forfeit her life. With her wedding day looming ever closer, salvation comes from an unlikely source.
Pirate Captain Cinder is a terror on the open sea, striking fear into hearts wherever she sails. Now she has a new target. The vulnerable Princess Georgina should be an easy mark in Cinder’s kidnapping plot. But the legend of Captain Cinder is more intertwined with Georgina’s own history than either of them expect.
Treacherous storms. A mysterious pirate king. The prince’s unrelenting pursuit. Georgina and Cinder can only escape by following the uncharted course of their hearts. But just as a future together is within their grasp, Cinder’s past threatens to drag them both to the deep.
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The Fate of Stars – SD Simper
Fantasy Romance
A devout mermaid. A disgraced princess. A feud as ancient as the gods.
Worlds collide when Tallora is kidnapped from her ocean home and forced to be a pet to a tyrannical foreign empire. Her only hope for rescue lies with a sworn enemy—Princess Dauriel, infamous for her stone heart and conflicted past. But when Dauriel’s kingdom comes to the cusp of war, could their uneasy alliance be the key to defeating a common foe? Or will their growing feelings for each other lead them to ruin?
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Crowns & Swords – Jenna Meyrick
Fantasy Romance
A princess. A pirate. Two people who should never have met stuck together on the high seas.
Freddie, a runaway princess, is determined to elude her parents' attempt to sell her into a loveless marriage.
Grace, captain of the Sea Dragon, is trying to keep her crew out of trouble.
Suddenly immersed in an alternative way of life, Freddie must weigh whether she's ready to overhaul everything she was raised to expect. She's introduced to an entire community of people just as they're thrown into peril. Drawn into the war, she fought so hard to avoid.
When the tri-kingdom war reaches the shores of their little hideaway, Grace must lead her crew and her people against the dangerous villain invading the community.
Can they win against Valentine, or will their newfound romance be lost to the sea?
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A Flower’s Fatal Thorn – Jordan Dugdale
Fantasy Romance
The forest is rotting.
Róis, a young human with life magic coursing through her veins, discovers that her destiny is entwined with the ailing heart of the rotting woodland. Determined to unravel the mysteries behind the forest's demise, she ventures into the depths to seek its cure.
Neferíl, queen of the Unseelie faerie court, is adorned in shadows and intrigue. She is destined to kill the human girl with life magic in her blood. However, as they relunctantly join forces, an unforseen bond begins to blossom between them. Together, they embark on a perilous quest to reach the Eldertree where the elusive Forest Father resides: a god rumored to hold the power to heal the forest.
As Róis and Neferíl navigate the treacherous journey through the twisted roots and dark secrets of Elvira, their hearts become entangled in a forbidden romance, defying the very destiny that seeks to tear them apart. Will they unlock the secrets of the Sacred Grove in time to save the rotting forest, or will the shadows of fate consume them both in a tragic dance of love and destiny?
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When Flowers Wilt – G.E. Masters
Paranormal Romantasy
To keep her soul, she'll have to make a deal with the Devil.
The Dark Lady comes for a witch's soul on their eighteenth birthday. That's the way it's always been, but Vivian's instincts are telling her to run.
So she does.
Fleeing from home and denouncing all magic, she spends the next ten years with one foot out the door, terrified that the ruler of Hell will come knocking. But when her suppressed magic finally breaks free and the Dark Lady tracks her down, it's not to claim her soul. Covens have been disappearing under mysterious circumstances and she needs Vivian—and her magic—to stop it.
Using the Dark Lady's desperation, Vivian strikes a bargain: she will help, but only if she gets to keep her soul.
As her connection to both her magic and to the alluring ruler of Hell gets stronger, Vivian uncovers the horrifying truth: there is something far more dangerous than the Devil out there, and it's coming for her.
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The Helion Band – AJ Mason
Fantasy Sci-Fi
Rose is a fugitive, fleeing from Queen Penthesilea, aided only by the mysterious bracelet that was a scornful gift from her merciless ruler. Rose lives in uncomfortable symbiosis with it, ignorant of its origins and potential. All she knows is that if Penthesilea catches her, she’s as good as dead.
Relentlessly pursued across the galaxy by an increasingly desperate Pentesilea, will Rose find the strength to take a stand or will she fall to the queen and lose everything?
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Tarnished – Erica Eberhart
High Fantasy
In the struggling city of Braewick, a determined 20-year-old gate guard named Ailith MacCree longs for a chance at financial stability and adventure. Little does she know, her wish is about to come true. She accepts a mission from Princess Greer that promises both: escort Princess Caitriona to the Endless Mountains to meet the enigmatic hermit for a great financial reward. Ailith jumps at the opportunity and bids goodbye to all she’s ever known. But as they journey together, Ailith discovers that Caitriona holds a dangerous secret—she possesses powerful magic in a kingdom where magic is outlawed.
Ailith and Caitriona face mysterious attacks and supernatural challenges. But as they delve deeper into the treacherous landscape, Ailith learns of Caitriona's tragic past and the dark curse that threatens her very existence.
With rebellion brewing in Braewick, and the oppressive king hot on their trail, Ailith must not only navigate her growing feelings for Caitriona, but also fight against relentless foes. As they race against time to stop the curse, Ailith and Caitriona uncover shocking truths about their kingdom, their families, and themselves.
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In the Pines – Mariah Stillbrook
Urban Fantasy
Two witches, two secrets, and a curse that could tear a family apart.
Olivia and Ellie have lived their lives knowing a dark entity is stalking their family, determined to kill them all. After the death of Olivia’s son, she abandons her magic and her family, leaving Ellie in a nightmare of heartbreak, her marriage crumbling and her sister gone. Determined to save their mother Arianna from a spell that left her comatose, the two sisters must come together to unravel the riddle of the curse that has haunted their family for generations.
But as they delve into the past, the truth they uncover is more twisted and treacherous than they ever could have imagined. Will they be able to break the curse, or will it consume them all?
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JASYN AND THE ASTRONAUTS – Gwenhyver
Fantasy / Sci-Fi
The explorer with the power of ice… The best friend who melts it…
Jasyn is an explorer with a talent for reaching for the stars and upending weather systems with her emotions. Atalanta is an archer and a recluse with a skill for making Jasyn’s heart glow as bright as a filament-fruit. When their world is upturned, a journey across their homeworld and towards the stars begins.
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A Sin So Pure – G.B. Bancroft
Fantasy Romance
Death is a wicked kind of magic to wield.
Nora is a soul-stealer, one of the few fae who can kill with just a touch. Taken in by the leader of House Pride after her parents' murder, Nora’s been groomed into the perfect weapon: a killer who can lead.
And when the opportunity to seize power from her manipulative adoptive father arises… well, she’s not one to look a gift horse in the mouth.
A year later, Nora and her Second, Josie, are ready to expand House Pride’s influence in both the Unseelie Court and the Human Realm. Nothing will stand in their way—except for the person attacking their House. Nora is no stranger to bloodshed, but this isn’t a run-of-the-mill raid by exiled fae; this attack is personal, mirroring the tragic night her parents died.
Nora vows to find the fae responsible, but soon realizes that the closer she gets to the culprit, the more she risks revealing a secret that could ruin everything she’s built: her House, her title, and the love she’s been cultivating with the leader of House Lust, Imogen.
But the thing about Nora is that no one threatens her family and lives—and there’s no sin quite as sweet as revenge.
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The Stage is Set: A Sapphic Romantasy Novella – Liliana Pisarka
Fantasy Romance
A detective with secrets. A thief in the spotlight.
Thrown into an emergency case, Detective Zosia Novak finds herself up against The Star: a notorious thief with an eye for the unattainable. The clock is ticking and Zosia quickly finds herself in the spotlight of a dangerous game. As she is pulled in by the alluring enigma of her thief, Zosia must deduce which rewards are most worth winning—or lose it all.
The Stage is Set is a sapphic romance novella featuring a thief x detective pairing. Readers can look forward to medium spice with a dash of action and a sprinkle of coziness in a low fantasy setting. This story will appeal to fans of Arcane, Priory of the Orange Tree, and Can’t Spell Treason Without Tea.
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Farzana’s Spite – Felix Graves
Dark Fantasy
Dark Fantasy
Life is about as good as it gets for an anxious and depressed bastard stripped of any social benefits of her caste. Farzana has a cushy job, a wonderful best friend, and a mother and younger brother who love her to bits. Then the faerie who abandoned her mother before she was born—the father she always hoped to meet—returns, brutally murders the royal family, and seizes the crown for himself. That comfortable life? Shattered.
Slowly but inevitably, both the country and Farzana’s life are dragged into a terrifying and lethal storm of chaos. If someone doesn’t step up soon to set things right, there won’t be much left worth saving.
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The Sorceror’s Lament – Sam Dogra
Fantasy
A talented young Magician must choose between power or love as she investigates a dark conspiracy that could unravel magic itself.
Ever since the restoration of magic, Magicians and Enchanters have been in an uneasy alliance. The Magicians’ power maintains peace, while the Enchanters’ potions prevent magic’s dangerous side effects.
But the Enchanters have become increasingly evasive, and the High Magician suspects foul play. Thus eighteen-year-old Jessie Balthanders, a Magician prodigy, is recruited to investigate. If she can expose their possible treason, she'll be hailed a hero.
She finds herself apprenticed to Lahara Redford, a powerful but jaded Enchanter who deeply mistrusts Magicians. With tensions running high, the two must learn to work together as they are dragged into a dark conspiracy.
But Jessie needs to find answers soon, and if Lahara discovers her true nature, she’ll have far more than the High Magician's wrath to fear.
The cost of success, however, may be far greater than failure.
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Born of Flame and Fury – Hannah Danielle
Romantasy
A shattered source. A broken realm. A false king.
It’s all her fault.
Ten years after Elea wakes with no memories in a realm that forbids solar and lunar magics, she is faced with a choice that will alter her life forever.
She must decide whether to use her unusual, emotionally charged flame to survive or be taken by the murderous king’s men and sent to the capital for execution.
With the help of rouge lunar fae twins, Callista and Atlas, the fire fae narrowly escapes her brutal fate, only to be subjected to a new world of unknown trials.
Elea must learn to control her powerful abilities, cope with overwhelming grief, and navigate the unusual pull she feels toward the frustratingly standoffish Callista.
If the fire fae can learn to tame her wild fire, she could be the key the resistance needs to restore the balance of power in Celvaria and free the citizens of the realm from the king’s reign of terror.
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BONUS:
This book isn’t technically part of the sale, but the author is making her book FREE on Itchio in honor of the day—be quick about this one, it’s just for today!!
Name Her Holy – Aubrey Ennis
Dark Fantasy
Where the weave between worlds thins, a long buried shadow rises from its grave among the stars and seeks vengeance on the Vale.
A Herald has been named to mark its ascension— a woman resurrected by The Seeker’s hand and placed in the pious care of the Vigil Order. A once disgraced daughter of her noble house, Kye Liatris is crowned a living saint, one tasked with stopping the coming cataclysm. Kye has lived on borrowed time since, aiding the Vigil while quietly enduring worsening ailments.
When a strange blight brings death to the valley of Jude Arendell’s home village, she finds herself swept up in the Vigil’s fight. But in taking up her mother’s sword, Jude learns that her family legacy was not as it seemed.
As stars extinguish and the threads that bind the Vale swiftly unravel, so do the long trusted stories of history past. Now Kye and Jude must decide whether to follow their divine callings or scorn the gods and place their trust in each other.
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