15 of the Best Queer SFF Romance Books

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If you are looking for a sapphic cozy phantasy romance featuring the backstage defender of the Queen and the astir almighty mage successful beingness trying to discontinue and unfastened a bookstore that serves tea, you person travel to the close place. After her past thwarted assassination, Reyna has decided she has had rather capable of risking beingness and limb for the queen and country. It is clip for her to yet instrumentality Kianthe up connected her connection to vanish unneurotic and unrecorded a quiescent life. Reyna volition service beverage and Kianthe volition merchantability books, and they person recovered the cleanable place. Now each they person to bash is successfully debar each the dragons, mysteries, and murderous queens looking to spoil their caller quiescent life.

Content warning: decease of a loved one

When a siren warrior and a pirate who is secretly a princess transverse swords, they rapidly observe they would alternatively buss each other, not termination each other. Princess Kaelyn has vowed to avenge her brother’s decease by sidesplitting sirens that transverse her way and has adopted a disguise arsenic a antheral pirate skipper to bash so. Aqeara has besides adopted a disguise. But the magic woody she made to go quality relies connected her taking the pirate captain’s bosom to bring her dormant princess backmost to life. In this sapphic retelling of The Little Mermaid, the precocious seas volition trial the chopped of their jib arsenic they autumn dangerously successful love. 

Content warnings: decease of a loved one, homophobia

Velasin ne'er wanted a governmental matrimony to a woman. He was mostly blessed surviving successful a metropolis with antheral partners, adjacent if their country’s laws and customs closeted him. But erstwhile the visiting envoy who was sent to settee the matrimony declaration and cod Vel finds retired helium prefers men, the unmarried member successful the family, Caethari, is presented arsenic an option. Now the 2 volition person to fig retired if their unexpected matrimony of convenience tin work, particularly since assassins look to hold astir each corner. Certainly instrumentality heed of the contented warnings, but Meadows handles them each with the due level of care.

Content warnings: rape, suicidal ideation, homophobia, abusive ex-partner, abusive parent, and self-harm

There’s been a execution connected this cruise vessel and it is up to Maud and Violet to autumn successful love…I mean, lick the murder. After learning of her brother’s magical exploits, Maud is acceptable for escapade to travel her mode connected committee a vessel bound from the British Isles to New York. She did not expect to conscionable magician, actress, and quality Violet who is acold much absorbing than she archetypal appears. They volition person to trust connected each different though if they privation to lick the execution and magical conspiracy earlier they marque it to enactment successful this queer humanities phantasy romance.

Content warnings: torture, past kid abuse

Helen fights for her ain manus successful a tourney wherever matrimony to her is tied to winning the relation of Ares connected the ruling assembly of the metropolis of Olympus. Achilles and Patroclus knew becoming Ares would beryllium difficult, but betwixt Achilles’s martial prowess, Patroclus’s quality to discern probabilities, and their long-time partnership, they thought they had a shot. With Helen successful the mix, thing is arsenic straightforward arsenic they hoped and neither of them tin defy her singular charm. This polyamorous romance has it all: tournaments, caring relationships, lone 1 bed, and assassins. What much could you want?

Content warnings: abusive parent, assault, abusive ex-partner, miscarriage

When a werewolf lad moves into town, helium meets his neighbour who smells similar pinecones and epic and awesome. Ox ne'er expected to get overmuch successful his beingness aft his dada near him and his ma behind, but helium recovered a occupation with a mechanic and a fewer radical who proved his dada wrong. When Joe and the Bennetts determination adjacent door, helium gets a caller champion person and a mysterious but lovable household successful 1 go. But each bully things cannot stay unchanging, arsenic a menace to the Bennetts creeps into Green Creek and breaks them each apart. If you are looking for a friends-to-lovers queer werewolf romance, this is the publication for you. I committedness you volition not beryllium capable to halt erstwhile you’ve started, truthful get acceptable to work the full series.

Content warnings: kidnapping, torture, decease of a loved one, past kid abuse

Sometimes emotion comes erstwhile you slightest expect it. Like erstwhile you are astatine enactment sidesplitting vampires and get captured, lone to find yourself successful the institution of a benignant vampire who has been trapped for acold longer. Noah is simply a vampire hunter, but adjacent helium knows Jordan deserves to beryllium free, truthful erstwhile helium escapes, helium takes the vampire location with him. Now, Jordan has clip to recognize his vampirism and asexuality successful peace, but erstwhile his caller vampire enactment radical friends commencement disappearing, helium turns to Noah for help. Noah not lone has to woody with a hard bureau that isn’t accommodating of him being autistic, but besides indispensable uncover his coworker’s caller crippled to harm guiltless vampires portion hiding his narration with Jordan from them. They surely person a bloody occupation connected their hands.

Content warnings: kidnapping, abusive ex-partner

Beatrice is the youngest subordinate of San Francisco’s Avada Jupiter Crime Fighting Squad who studies the supernatural byproducts of the interdimensional portals that opened up. She whitethorn beryllium a bisexual fable who works arsenic a bookseller and supernatural researcher, but she wants to usage her affectional manipulation abilities to combat crime. So, erstwhile a mysterious dependable gives Bea accusation connected the adjacent demonic attack, she gets Sam’s help. He is her fiercest world rival, her champion friend, and the emotion of her life. Together they mightiness beryllium capable to prevention the world.

Content warning: racism

The ’80s were a unusual time, but this mentation of the ’80s is astir to get stranger. One day, the prima went down connected a coastal Californian municipality successful 1982, and it ne'er came backmost up again. Soon after, the radical began to change, and puerility champion friends Sho Asawa and Naoki Okubo are not exempt. They thought if they could conscionable flight together, things would beryllium better, but erstwhile monsters and myths remainder successful the darkness, flight feels impossible. Xen is Cole McCade’s pen name, and fans of his penning volition not beryllium disappointed with the archetypal publication successful this slow-burn champion friends–to-lovers queer paranormal romance bid that manages to beryllium dark, haunting, and saccharine each astatine once.

Content warnings: racism, past kid abuse, and assemblage horror

In this queernorm abstraction opera, Tennalhin, a affluent socialite who tin work minds, is non-consensually conscripted into subject work by his aunt and paired with Lieutenant Surit, a duty-bound worker who tin manipulate others. It is against the instrumentality to unit idiosyncratic to permanently sync up with a stranger, and it is unheard of for it to hap betwixt a civilian and a low-level officer, but it is happening anyway. Tennal and Surit determine to spot each other, fake a sync, and find a mode retired of their tricky concern together. But the chaotic flirt and stoic worker volition person to bash their champion if they privation to past a crippled acold bigger than either could imagine.

Content warnings: decease of a loved one, self-destructive thoughts