Forge Books

Rough Pages (Evander Mills, 3)

By Lev AC Rosen - Published 2024

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Gay private investigator Evander “Andy” Mills returns, briefly, to the Lavender House in the latest installment in this gripping, queer mystery series. The ...Read Review

Masquerade

By O.O. Sangoyomi - Published 2024

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In the 15th century, nineteen-year-old Òdòdó works with her mother and other older women as a lowly blacksmith helper in Timbuktu. Strikingly ...Read Review

One Blood

By Denene Millner - Published 2023

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Lolo and Tommy’s marriage begins with a lie, originating in Lolo’s abusive childhood, the scars of which prevent pregnancy. But it ...Read Review

The Bell in the Fog (Evander Mills, 2)

By Lev AC Rosen - Published 2023

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

PI Evander “Andy” Mills keeps an office above Ruby’s, a mixed gay bar, where both men and women seek love and community ...Read Review

The Murder of Andrew Johnson (The John Hay Mysteries, 3)

By Burt Solomon - Published 2023

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Andrew Johnson, the seventeenth president of the United States, dies of a stroke (known then as apoplexy) on July 31, 1875. This historical novel imagines ...Read Review

Can’t I Go Instead

By Lee Geum-yi - Published 2023

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In the near-feudal Korea of the 1920s, Chaeryeong, a nobleman’s daughter, is to be given a peasant girl as a “birthday present.” ...Read Review

Paperback Jack

By Loren D. Estleman - Published 2022

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Paperback Jack is a love letter to the paperback publishing industry that blossomed in all its tawdry glory after World War II. Jacob ...Read Review

The Last Crown (The Bold, 2)

By Elzbieta Cherezinska - By Maya Zakrzewska-Pim (trans.) - Published 2022

Genres:

Saga

Covering the years between 997-1018, this Viking saga continues the story begun in The Widow Queen. Świętosława of the Duchy of ...Read Review

The Picture Bride

By An Seonjae (trans.) - By Lee Geum-yi - Published 2022

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Korea, 1917. Willow is offered the opportunity of going to live in Hawaii as a “picture bride.” Her family is poor, living in a ...Read Review

Midnight on the Marne

By Sarah Adlakha - Published 2022

Genres:

Alternate History

Few people, especially writers, can resist a “what if?” In this book, Adlakha asks the question: What if the Allies had lost the ...Read Review