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From bestselling, award-winning author Nina LaCour comes a sweeping family saga about self-discovery and love in all forms, inspired by the author's Creole roots New Orleans, 1944. Odette has always been one of the Honore sisters, glamorous and admired in their Creole community. But while...

Cassie Parker has grown used to denying her sexuality. Her father, the fire-and-brimstone Reverend Parker, has made that a necessity. Raised in a web of secrets, sadness, and under the heavy hand of her father's righteous wrath and intolerance, Cassie turns to her art to fill the hole in her heart and erase the memory of a mother who abandoned her in childhood. Then Luke Winston enters her life. Strong, mysterious, and beautiful, Luke sparks Cassie's desire, and takes her heart to places she's never known.

Powerful director of one of NYC's most exclusive art galleries, Elizabeth Diamond, is career focused and doesn't have time for a relationship. The last thing she expects is to become helplessly entangled with a super talented and wildly beautiful artist from a poor background who is desperate to exhibit at her gallery. This young artist comes from a different world and it would be entirely unprofessional for Elizabeth to start anything with her. But the chemistry between them is electric. What will Elizabeth do?

Kasey "Tuff" Tuffman just told Nashville to kiss his you know what. After winning Best New Artist at an award show, he knows it's time to head back home to Texas. So after a very public meltdown, Tuff makes his way to Austin, where the Red Dirt music lives large. Jonah Littlejohn once loved KT more than anything in the world. When KT loses it on national TV, Jonah knows he has to reach out and offer his home studio as a place to heal and make music. A bad relationship has left Jonah broken and wary of romance, but he wants to help his old lover out.

Melissa just moved to a conservative part of Washington State. A move designed to set her and her longtime partner up for early retirement. But best laid plans go awry when her partner, Nanette decides, out of the blue, their relationship isn’t working for her. This is strike three for Melissa. She’s out, after being dumped a third time and her 45th birthday just around the corner. The only thing left to do is sob all over her beloved kitties. She’s vowed to never get involved, ever again, with another artist.

Love is in the air for Jordan and Sam. Several surprises are in store and an added spice of suspense and intrigue. Bravery is Sam's middle name. New characters are added to the mix, and a blast from the past comes Sam's way. Jordan is worried she has made a big mistake involving Sam that could affect their relationship.

A deadly field accident took everything from Ricardo "Rico" Hernandez, including his entire squad, his career, and his lover of four years. But the tragedy gave Rico something he never could have expected: the uncanny ability to sense when two people are bound by fate to be soul mates. Jett Richards is the biggest name in magic on the Vegas strip. He’s been performing to sold-out crowds at the Silver City Hotel for months. But when a man who has threatened to reveal all of Jett’s secrets turns up dead in the Silver City Hotel, everything changes in the blink of an eye.

It’s 1938. Bastian Fisher and Max Amsel meet at a Nazi-American summer camp Siegfried. Neither boy has any idea what to do with their blooming, confusing feelings for one another. Before they can begin to understand, the pair is yanked back into reality and forced in opposite directions. Five years later, during the heart of World War II, Bastian’s American army platoon has landed in Salerno, Italy.

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NPR! From “literary superstar” (The Boston Globe) and Booker Prize finalist Brandon Taylor, his “most accomplished novel” (The New York Times): the story of a gay Black painter navigating the worlds of art, desire, and creativity New York simmers with...