I need to confess this, which is something you might already know, that I can’t put a book-buying ban on myself since I will surely break it. I get books to cheer myself up, weird, I know, but it works if only I delete the ones I read. I would be golden, but I don’t. Why am I saying all this? I tried to finish all the non-LGBTI books in my TBR, but it didn’t work out, so instead I’m reading one of the books I got today and is on this list. Anyway, here are the five I found this week.
Goodreads Blurb:
Emily is a resilient transgender woman, determined to find lasting happiness and acceptance after overcoming many challenges in her life. When she meets Alex, a charming and seemingly perfect man, Emily believes she has finally found her soulmate in this romantic thriller.
Their short love story unfolds with gripping tension and unexpected twists.
Only Lies A Gripping Transgender Romance and Romantic Thriller explores the depths of love, trust, and resilience. It intricately weaves the emotional depth of a romantic story with the thrilling suspense of a romance thriller. As Emily navigates the twists and turns of their relationship, she learns that true love isn’t always what it seems. Her journey of self-discovery challenges her beliefs about love and the complexities of identity.
This compelling novel delves into complex relationships and the quest for authenticity. Emily’s story is a testament to the strength of a strong transgender woman facing dark secrets and overcoming betrayal. Through unexpected twists and the power of self-acceptance, Emily learns that resilience and hope can lead to unexpected connections and lasting happiness.
Only Lies is a captivating exploration of modern relationships, highlighting the struggles and triumphs of Emily’s journey towards love and self-discovery amidst adversity. It’s a story of resilience, hope, and the transformative power of accepting oneself in the face of deceit and manipulation.
Amazon Blurb:
Five friends. One group chat. The texts you were never supposed to see.
Mira, Sasha, Jules, Dani, and Theo keep their friendship alive in a group chat called “the roach motel.” It’s funny, chaotic, and occasionally toxic — but it works. Until the night Mira does coke at a party to stay close to Sasha, and the screenshot that follows blows the whole group apart.
Told entirely through text messages, DMs, and forwarded screenshots, *Favorite Person* follows five college friends through the fallout — the 3 AM spirals, the weaponized therapy-speak, the read receipts that say more than words ever could. At the center of it all is Mira’s desperate, consuming attachment to Sasha: the person she’d burn everything down to keep.
Some friendships survive by changing. Some don’t survive at all.
Who are you when no one is watching?
Across Alexandria, Cairo, and New York, four lives unfold in quiet defiance of the worlds that shape them. Fareed learns to live between desire and devotion. Far from home, Nelly searches for belonging in unfamiliar light. Christina senses a truth blooming before it has a name. Nouran claims independence while holding love gently, and at risk.
In moments of silence, tenderness grows. In restraint, hope persists. As faith and longing intertwine, each life moves toward the possibility of being seen-not all at once, but in color.
Goodreads Blurb:
Forensic archivist Elias Rook came to Gullmere to restore storm-damaged records, not to uncover a murder buried beneath the town’s favorite legend. Then salvage diver Mateo Vale pulls a sealed mailbag from the black water, and the first recovered letter names Elias’s family in a thirty-seven-year-old wreck that ruined Mateo’s life. Mateo has spent years fighting the story that branded his father a criminal. Elias trusts paper more than people, but every letter they recover points to a truth someone powerful still wants drowned. As sabotage, old evidence, and unwanted desire pull them together, Elias and Mateo have to decide what matters controlling the past, or surviving what it reveals
Amazon Blurb:
Four best friends, one unforgettable summer.
Marcus, Noah, Alexei, and Daniel — the Hot Mess Express — have built their lives around each other. Sunday brunches. Group chats that never sleep. The kind of friendship that shows up at midnight with wine and no questions asked. For years, that’s been enough.
But this summer, something is shifting.
Marcus is Toronto’s sharpest real estate agent — polished, charming, and absolutely in control. When a client named Luca walks into a showing and starts asking the kind of questions Marcus doesn’t have prepared answers for, the careful architecture of his emotional life begins to crack.
Noah is manifesting. Specifically. He wants someone who thinks his whole heart is a feature, not a flaw. After four spectacularly wrong dates, date number five feels different — until it isn’t, and Noah discovers that the bravest thing he’s ever done might be trusting himself more than he trusts the feeling.
Alexei got the callback. Maybe the job. Definitely the musician. All he has to do is not run from the best thing that’s ever offered itself to him — which, for Alexei, is the hard part.
And Daniel — methodical, steady, the one who notices everything about everyone else — is quietly realizing that the story he’s been telling himself about what he prefers might not be the whole truth.
Summer Nights is the first book in the City Boys series: a funny, tender, slow-burn story about four men who are very good at being there for each other and still learning how to be there for themselves. Set against the sun-soaked streets of Toronto — from Pride on Church Street to rooftops with lake views — it’s about the summer you finally stop managing the distance between you and what you actually want.