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2017 Rainbow Awards Submission: Try Pink & Indigo Max Ellendale

Try Pink & Indigo Max Ellendale
Lesbian - Contemporary Romance
Paperback: 114 pages
Publisher: Independently published (December 31, 2016)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1520192940
ISBN-13: 978-1520192949
Amazon: Try Pink & Indigo Max Ellendale

In the beginning, reclusive Jeslyn finds herself colliding with an unusual stranger on an otherwise ordinary morning. Jillian, a worldly, yet broken, creature accepts Jeslyn’s offer of assistance and, together, the two embark on a paint-spattered journey of self-exploration. Can this redheaded stranger help Jeslyn break free from the grief that has kept her hidden? Or will she crumble under the pressure of a new kind of intimacy? Two years later, Jeslyn wakes up to a simple note, and the world falls to pieces at her feet. With everything slathered in violent torrents of gray, she drifts listlessly from one empty moment to another. A dangerous encounter reintroduces red, but is her heart broken beyond recovery?

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2017 Rainbow Awards Submission: The Making Of Us (Checking Him Out #4) Debbie McGowan

The Making Of Us (Checking Him Out #4) Debbie McGowan
Bisexual - Contemporary Romance
File Size: 3005 KB
Print Length: 313 pages
Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
Publisher: Beaten Track Publishing (June 20, 2017)
Publication Date: June 20, 2017
Amazon: The Making Of Us (Checking Him Out #4) Debbie McGowan

When English Lit. student Jesse Thomas meets Leigh Hunter, he has to reconsider a few assumptions he's made about himself.

Two years ago, Jesse joined Pride—the uni’s LGBT+ society—to support best friend Noah, and Noah’s boyfriend, Matty. As a straight, cismale ally, Jesse keeps a low profile—not difficult for someone as shy and body-conscious as he is.

Leigh Hunter is Noah and Matty’s new housemate. Born with a life-threatening congenital condition, Leigh is intersex and identifies as queer—none of which alters Jesse’s conviction that they are the most beautiful person in the world.

While Jesse and Leigh get to know each other, a new academic year begins in earnest, bringing with it the usual challenge of balancing work and play. Add in a week’s holiday in Cornwall that Jesse and Leigh half-wish they hadn’t agreed to, Jesse’s unplanned involvement in the election of Pride’s new officers, and some big decisions for Noah and Matty, it’s going to be an interesting semester all round.

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2017 Rainbow Awards Submission: Point Two Max Ellendale

Point Two Max Ellendale
Lesbian - Mystery / Thriller
Paperback: 413 pages
Publisher: Independently published (May 17, 2016)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1520477228
ISBN-13: 978-1520477220
Amazon: Point Two Max Ellendale

The case is reopened... "I can't believe this shit is happening again. Four Point's dead and yet, everyone I care about is unsafe. Again. Brody's gone, Maggie's hurt, and now Ben and I have to fix everything ourselves. This time, I'll be the one watching..."

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2017 Rainbow Awards Submission: Trafalgar and Boone in the Drowned Necropolis Geonn Cannon

Trafalgar and Boone in the Drowned Necropolis Geonn Cannon
Lesbian - Historical
Hardcover: 174 pages
Publisher: Supposed Crimes, LLC (September 1, 2016)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1944591117
ISBN-13: 978-1944591113
Amazon: Trafalgar and Boone in the Drowned Necropolis Geonn Cannon

Dorothy Boone's attempt to help a friend leads her to an encounter with a deadly new rival. Trafalgar and Boone have been working together for a year, taking small commissions in order to learn how to work together. When a friend and colleague is committed to an asylum following a disastrous mission in the Mediterranean, Dorothy takes it upon herself to uncover the truth. What she finds is that her friend was close to the discovery of a lifetime: the remnants of a prehistoric civilization who might have been wiped out by the Biblical Flood. Trafalgar agrees to accompany her on an expedition to finish what her friend began, and soon they run afoul of a powerful enemy: Emmeline Potter, called Virago, is a treasure hunter who is also adept at magic and seeks riches to help fund a violent uprising. Dorothy and Trafalgar must race to defeat their unscrupulous opponent if they hope to preserve the site for future generations, but they soon discover Virago may be the least of their worries. The secrets of the past have ways of remaining hidden, and trying to uncover them may cost Dorothy her life.

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2017 Rainbow Awards Submission: Beast at the Door Althea Blue

Beast at the Door Althea Blue
Lesbian - Historical Romance
Paperback: 208 pages
Publisher: Supposed Crimes, LLC (October 1, 2016)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1944591281
ISBN-13: 978-1944591281
Amazon: Beast at the Door Althea Blue

In this steampunk fairy tale, Patience is no proper young lady. Faced with the prospect of marriage, she runs away from home, from wealth, and a looming life of lies. She finds a garden guarded by a fantastic beast.

The beast also guards a young girl like herself, alone in the world. Ada is wise and beautiful. Their burgeoning friendship is threatened by outside forces. Only a clockwork menagerie of monsters can save them from an unfriendly world.

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2017 Rainbow Awards Submission: What Everyone Deserves Dan Ackerman

What Everyone Deserves Dan Ackerman
Gay - Historical
Paperback: 198 pages
Publisher: Supposed Crimes, LLC (November 1, 2016)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1944591206
ISBN-13: 978-1944591205
Amazon: What Everyone Deserves Dan Ackerman

In this 1950s period drama, Junius is a New York City fertility demon with a crush. Ever since falling from heaven he's been alone. Except for the mothers and children he watches over.

James Kelly Rosenburg, a black soldier with snowflakes in his hair, walks right into his life with a big problem. James Kelly, turned vampire during the war, is new to New York and its prohibition against vampire killing in city limits.

Junius offers to teach him to overcome his bloodthirsty instincts and live a proper Manhattan life. Their growing friendship leaves them both conflicted as they explore a city both welcoming and alienated by their kind.

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2017 Rainbow Awards Submission: Walking by Faith (Faith #2) A.M. Leibowitz

Walking by Faith (Faith #2) A.M. Leibowitz
Gay - Contemporary General Fiction
Series: Faith (Book 2)
Paperback: 254 pages
Publisher: Supposed Crimes, LLC (November 1, 2016)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1944591052
ISBN-13: 978-1944591052
Amazon: Walking by Faith (Faith #2) A.M. Leibowitz

For Becket "Cat" Rowland, falling in love has never been easy. The summer he meets Micah Forbes, the intensity of his feelings brings back all the memories of eight years earlier.

Following a brutal attack that left him nearly dead, Cat is a mess inside and out. To cope with the trauma and with his view of himself that he's nothing but an empty shell, he's taken three vows: simplicity, chastity, and silence. His once colorful, trendy, and often feminine wardrobe has been replaced with jeans and t-shirts, and he's sworn off men. He locks himself away from the world, using the memorized prayers of his childhood as his only speech.

Cat is lost to himself and everyone around him until another hospitalization introduces him to nurse David Simms. David takes Cat's silence in stride, caring for him without pushing and slowly building Cat's trust.

Outside the hospital, Cat discovers he has more in common with David than he knew, and they begin to build a friendship. As it slowly grows into love, David reveals his own need for someone to take him as he is. Cat begins to let go of his vows one by one, only holding onto the silence.

Despite how far he's come, Cat's increasingly severe panic attacks threaten to undo everything David has helped him build. Cat's only hope is to break the final vow and tell the truth about the night of his attack. When David fails to keep a promise he made to be there for him, Cat has to stand on his own and prove to himself he's strong enough to survive.

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2017 Rainbow Awards Submission: Conquest: Kai's Story (The Four Horsemen #1) Kaden Shay

Conquest: Kai's Story (The Four Horsemen #1) Kaden Shay
Lesbian - Sci-Fi / Futuristic
Paperback
Publisher: Supposed Crimes, LLC (December 1, 2016)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 194459129X
ISBN-13: 978-1944591298
Amazon: Conquest: Kai's Story (The Four Horsemen #1) Kaden Shay

In the late 24th century, life seemed to be going well for the human population of Earth. War, famine, debt, and disease had been eradicated and a new era of peace and discovery was ushered in. However, as history has taught us over and over again, there is rarely a rise without a corresponding fall.

When a new technology which brought free, clean energy to all of mankind failed, the planet and its human population suffered great loss. With most of the people once inhabiting the planet dead or dying, a new time of human rose to the place of survival: the Regen. Able to use the deadly radiation leaked into Earth's flora, fauna, and atmosphere as a healing agent, the Regens constantly regenerate their cell structure. The result is a lack of radiation-caused disease and lengthened lifespans.

However, each and every human being must have its opposite and for the Regens this meant the Purists. Average humans who were somehow immune to radiation poisoning and other effects. Taking up their side against the Regens and labeling them evil, a new era of struggle, powerplays, and fighting dawned.

Follow four Regen Resistance Generals in their quest to be named as equals to the Purists. Each General, giving a nickname by the Purist leaders, represents one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Meet Kai, known by her enemies as Conquest, in this first installment of a set of four novels.

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2017 Rainbow Awards Submission: Seoul Circuit Tamara Boyens

Seoul Circuit Tamara Boyens
Lesbian - Sci-Fi / Futuristic
eBook ISBN: 978-1-944591-37-3


Jin Song. Fashionista. Casino Mogul. Failed Medical Experiment. This cyberpunk thriller features Tamara Boyen’s futuristic Southwestern aesthetic, this time with a neon glow. Jin has to deal with her failing neural implants before she loses her life, but she’s got a lot going on in Koreatown, Pasadena—a.k.a. “Jin City.” She can have the world if she makes it to the finish line.

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2017 Rainbow Awards Submission: Dog Biscuits (Underdogs #6) Geonn Cannon

Dog Biscuits (Underdogs #6) Geonn Cannon
Lesbian - Mystery / Thriller
File Size: 648 KB
Print Length: 184 pages
Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
Publisher: Supposed Crimes (July 1, 2017)
Publication Date: July 1, 2017
Amazon: Dog Biscuits (Underdogs #6) Geonn Cannon

Ari is currently working for Gilles Girard & Moreau on a probationary basis, and her next assignment has piqued Dale's interest: Seattle is finally getting a hockey team! The owner, a client of the firm, asks her to do a background check on the players who will make up the roster to ensure there are no nasty scandals waiting to be uncovered. Ari follows the new recruits while Dale digs into their pasts.

The first few targets don't show up any red flags, but any hope of an easy case is destroyed when she and Dale are the victims of a sudden, unprovoked attack.

Certain that the attack is related to the hockey team, Ari redoubles her efforts to find out which player is behind it and what they're hiding. Determined to find the truth, she also knows she has to proceed with caution. Hockey can be a brutal sport, and its players can be even more dangerous off the ice.

Dogs of War, #3 of this series, won a Rainbow Award and a Golden Crown Literary Society award.

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