Free online samples of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT)-themed ebooks from the authors and publishers at Smashwords.
| First Taste (The Beautiful Blood Saga, #1) | by Violet Williams Aug. 11, 2011 | $2.99 | 45247 words | Sample 15% |
| Ramona Murphy never expected to fall for a professor. Dr. Celeste Adams is beautiful and mysterious and pushes Ramona to question if she should live the life her parents expect of her or the life she wants to lead. But a string of gruesome student murders rocks the campus, with all of the victims drained of their blood. | ||||
| The Cat in the Cradle | by Jay Bell Aug. 11, 2011 | $3.99 | 106840 words | Sample 25% |
| Dylan wanted one last adventure before the burden of adulthood was thrust upon him. And to confront the man he hadn’t spoken to since their intimate night together. Stealing a boat with his faithful companion Kio, they begin their journey. Along the way, everything Dylan thought he knew about himself will be challenged, but if he survives, he stands to win the love he never dreamed possible. | ||||
| The Treasures of Shamarkand 2 - Daughter of the Gods | by K.R. Columbus Aug. 10, 2011 | $2.99 | 43654 words | Sample 15% |
| It has been a year since Captain Mimico left Agrest in promise of taking Bastet home to Egyptos. But a storm washes them on the shores of Egyptos, the problem is that Egyptos has changed, and a mysterious archeological society is turning the wooly folk of Egyptos into slaves in search of the very first pyramid ever built; a pyramid created by the wooly folk of Shamarkand. | ||||
| Wilde Stories 2011: The Year's Best Gay Speculative Fiction | by Steve Berman Aug. 10, 2011 | $8.99 | 96478 words | Sample 10% |
| Celebrate a decade of gay speculative fiction with Wilde Stories 2011! This expanded volume from Lethe Press brings stories of undead lovers, stranded astronauts, ghosts and phantom reflections, men lost in an inhospitable wilderness, and fiends who hide under handsome veneers, all written by award-winning authors and fresh voices in the field. | ||||
| Storm In A Teacup | by Fabian Black Aug. 09, 2011 | $3.99 | 16275 words | Sample 20% |
| Lin starts brewing up a storm after a visitor to Sandstones lets slip some unwelcome news. David is unhappy with the turn of events and takes strict action when Lin refuses to keep things in proportion. He makes a decision that leaves Lin in shock. Tensions mount between them after Lin tries to reverse the decision. David makes clear he won't tolerate being manipulated. | ||||
| Trin | by J.M. Snyder Aug. 08, 2011 | $4.99 | 43103 words | Sample 20% |
| In a future where outposts swelter beneath a nuclear sun and run-gunners patrol dusty wastelands to protect against winged creatures known as devlars, Trin is the mech at the waystation in Arens. Gerrick’s the best gunner around, and heard the rumors of what Trin will do for a gunner who only mentions his name. What he wants to know is, what will Trin do for him? | ||||
| ROTC Ron | by Drew Hunt Aug. 08, 2011 | $2.99 | 12067 words | Sample 20% |
| Joe Barnes is infatuated with fellow college freshman Ron Driscoll. But Ron doesn’t seem to notice that Joe is alive. One Friday Joe is abducted. He’s by turns scared and aroused. Ron has planned a romantic and kinky weekend in the mountains where soft rope will be needed, but clothes will not. | ||||
| Better With Age | by Beth Wylde Aug. 08, 2011 | $2.99 | 13766 words | Sample 20% |
| Best friends and lovers as teens, Olivia and Aleesha were torn apart by family prejudice and ignorance. Twenty years later they meet again and find their feelings for one another are still there. Now they must decide if love is worth the risk of trying again. | ||||
| Heart And Soul | by Jeanette Grey Aug. 07, 2011 | Free! | 9682 words | Read a sample |
| The tattoos on Duke's body tell the stories of all the times he's loved and lost. His best friend, Ben, knows all the stories. But Ben doesn't want to be written on Duke's skin. He wants to be in Duke's heart. | ||||
| Blues Singer - Part 5 - The Disappearance | by Blue Sleighty Aug. 06, 2011 | $0.99 | 5510 words | Sample 20% |
| Lesbian erotica with a plot! #5 (the conclusion) in "The Blues Singer" series. Read them in sequence! | ||||
| Slowpocalypse | by Terrance Hewitt Aug. 05, 2011 | $3.99 | 30454 words | Sample 30% |
| Going to a Texaco-sponsored high school, raising your kids in a semi-apocalyptic wasteland, and running from the powerful FIA are all hard. The good news is that Saran and Travis are skilled, resourceful, and not the type to give up hope. The bad news is that may not be enough. This is a novel of intense drama, classic thinkers, devious plots, and passionate library floor sex. | ||||
| Perfect Love | by A.M. Burns Aug. 05, 2011 | Free! | 72480 words | Read a sample |
| When a leader of the local Wiccan community is found dead of an apparent overdose, her husband turns to E.S. Peters to find the real answers. With the help of his werewolf partner, Dusty, E.S. Peters seeks the truth as more witches die in mysterious and seemingly-unrelated ways. Will they unravel the mystery in time to save one of their own from “Perfect Love?†| ||||
| Diary Of A Prison Officer - Part 2 | by Jaypbee Aug. 05, 2011 | $3.10 | 41161 words | Sample 20% |
| This is a fictional story following my work as a prison officer, the sexual encounters I enjoyed along the way and an emerging love affair. | ||||
| Diary Of A Prison Officer - Part 1 | by Jaypbee Aug. 05, 2011 | $3.10 | 32419 words | Sample 20% |
| This is a fictional story on how I became a prison officer working at a prison and the sexual encounters I enjoyed along the way. | ||||
| Second Time Around | by Jaypbee Aug. 05, 2011 | $3.10 | 17973 words | Sample 20% |
| This is a fictional story on how I underwent three regression therapy sessions from present day England back to Roman Britain with surprising revelations about my past and present lives, love and personal circumstances | ||||
| Summer Camp | by Jaypbee Aug. 05, 2011 | $3.10 | 50837 words | Sample 20% |
| This is a fictional story which follows on from "Becoming A Model Patient". It covers a week spent at a Scottish Castle with sixty students and work colleagues. | ||||
| Blues Singer - Part 4 - The Warning | by Blue Sleighty Aug. 05, 2011 | $0.99 | 5231 words | Sample 20% |
| The Warning: "I said, TAKE OFF ALL OF YOUR CLOTHES. RIGHT NOW!" I tried to sound serious. "What? Are you kinky, or something?" | ||||
| Becoming A Model Patient | by Jaypbee Aug. 05, 2011 | $3.10 | 46500 words | Sample 20% |
| This is a fictional story of how I became a model and sex object working at a medical University and the situations I encountered on the way. | ||||
| Lorenzo il Magnifico | by Tristram La Roche Aug. 05, 2011 | $3.99 | 24216 words | Sample 10% |
| When Luke visits Florence he hopes it will be the start of a new chapter in his life. A chance meeting with a tall, handsome waiter and that chapter starts far sooner than he could ever have imagined. Lorenzo is everything Luke has been looking for. Hot, sexy and uninhibited, he pushes buttons Luke never knew existed. | ||||
| A Chance Encounter | by Jaypbee Aug. 05, 2011 | $3.10 | 35388 words | Sample 20% |
| This is a fictional story on how I met an old friend by accident and how over the period of two weekends my life was changed forever. | ||||
| Blues Singer - Part 3 - The Retreat | by Blue Sleighty Aug. 03, 2011 | $0.99 | 3614 words | Sample 20% |
| Even with eyes closed tight, the sounds conjured up images. Crashing waves, and the soft rush of the constant sea breeze. A feast for the senses. And, with eyes open, there was beauty in every direction. I could see some clouds starting to gather, as I strained to see from my position in the big king sized bed where Bette and I were currently reposed, after another kind of feast . . . | ||||
| Blues Singer - Part 2 - The Rendezvous | by Blue Sleighty Aug. 02, 2011 | $0.99 | 5537 words | Sample 20% |
| The next instant her soft lips were pressed against mine. I wrapped my arms around her. I felt the energy flow between our bodies. It was bittersweet. My heart stung, as all of those weeks of healing were abruptly snatched away with one kiss. | ||||
| Holland and Jaime | by Sheila van den Heuvel-Collins Aug. 02, 2011 | $1.99 | 42457 words | Sample 15% |
| Holland and Jaime: A Novel in Twelve Stories is a collection of short stories that follows the lives of two men from young adulthood to middle age. Each story is told from the perspective of someone in Jaime's or Holland's life; the stories explore how relationships affect the individuals involved, and the individuals' struggle with acceptance and understanding in modern society. | ||||
| Sunk | by Ken Ballard Aug. 01, 2011 | $2.99 | 72524 words | Sample 20% |
| After his submarine is twice attacked and finally scuttled, DeLong is the last man off the USS Santa Fe. Earlier the twenty-year-old, queer, disgruntled petty officer thought he’d wrangled his way off the boat in the days of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell' by kissing another sailor on the mess deck. But when the Santa Fe is attacked, DeLong finds he’s still very much a sailor. | ||||
| More Lies | by J.M. Snyder Aug. 01, 2011 | $2.99 | 14102 words | Sample 20% |
| In this follow-up to Beautiful Liar, Johnny Thomas has landed a coveted role in the upcoming Roxy Greene movie. The catch? Roxy wants the media to think they're dating. The problem? Johnny's gay. Will his sexuality cost him the role? Or does Roxy have a secret of her own? | ||||
| My Best Birthday Gift | by Ike Rose Aug. 01, 2011 | $2.99 | 9543 words | Sample 20% |
| On his 18th birthday in 1968, high school senior and bodybuilder Ed Green is being reunited with his childhood friend and hero, John. How will John react to a closeted gay kid who has the hots for him in this erotic coming-of-age romance? | ||||
| Voyage East | by Tom Williams Aug. 01, 2011 | Free! | 8489 words | Read a sample |
| John Williamson left the farm when he was a boy and ran away to sea. A chance meeting in a tavern takes him from England on a voyage halfway across the world in search of adventure with the charismatic James Brooke. NOTE: Voyage East is the opening scenes from the novel The White Rajah by Tom Williams. | ||||
| You Don't Go Back | by Terry O'Reilly Aug. 01, 2011 | $2.99 | 6688 words | Sample 20% |
| What do you do when the past comes walking through your front door? That’s what Rick Jensen and Ed Doherty have to decide when Jerry Taylor, Ed’s former lover, long thought dead, comes knocking on their door the night of their sixth anniversary. | ||||
| Dark Horse | by Stephen Shypitka Aug. 01, 2011 | $4.99 | 17593 words | Sample 20% |
| One coin. Two posers. The stuff that villains are made of. In Stephen Shypitka's brooding thriller, a timid clerk's reclusive world is turned upside down when two French Canadien hustlers visit his uncle's shoppe sparking interest in an ancient coin and long dormant sexual feelings in himself. Conflict ensues for competing desires to possess the coin and the young waif. | ||||
| To Love Somebody | by Stephen Shypitka Aug. 01, 2011 | $4.99 | 17637 words | Sample 20% |
| A middle aged playwright and a young actor fall in love further complicating their current relationships. A quick, stirring, emotional read. High on love and romance? This one's for you! | ||||
| From Macho to Mariposa: New Gay Latino Fiction | by Charles Rice-Gonzalez Aug. 01, 2011 | $9.99 | 79585 words | Sample 10% |
| For the first time since 1999, when the ground-breaking anthologies Bésame Mucho and Virgins, Guerillas and Locas appeared, has a collection of gay Latino fiction in English been published. In From Macho to Mariposa, are stories from 29 gay Latino writers from around the United States. The stories are vibrantly varied and clearly connected in this “era of lost signals†in which we live. | ||||
| The Velvet Interrogation (Gay Romance / Thriller) | by Stephen Kessel Aug. 01, 2011 | $2.99 | 14697 words | Sample 15% |
| U.S. diplomat Chet Bender saves young Nabil Shabili in an extraction from Palestinian refugee camps inside Lebanon, in the shadow of an impending Israeli attack that will lead to a massacre in the camps. He subsequently accepts Nabil into his life, bed, and heart. Nearly twenty years later, Nabil is in the running to take the presidency of Lebanon and the forces promoting this rise are . . . | ||||
| Thunder and Lightning: Little J and Roger Part 4 | by Eldot Aug. 01, 2011 | $5.99 | 105371 words | Sample 20% |
| Eldot continues his coming of age novel with more fast paced activity. The second fun filled week at camp continues with surprises, challenges, successes and a few disappointments. There are romances, and there are lots of extra-curricular activities. Tony in particular has a good time. Thunder and Lightning employs 87 characters, the highest number yet in the Little J and Roger series. | ||||
| Blue’s Singer – Part 1 - The Awakening | by Blue Sleighty Aug. 01, 2011 | $0.99 | 4934 words | Sample 20% |
| The introduction of Blue, an unveiling equivalent to an opening night. The details given lead the reader into Blue's character so like the posters she displays for the coming talent. And like the performers themselves, she warms the audience up, takes them to a fever pitch, and then brings down the house for an encore. | ||||
| Pumpkin Teeth: Stories | by Tom Cardamone July 31, 2011 | $2.99 | 58367 words | Sample 10% |
| Tom Cardamone's his wicked universe of changelings and mysterious creatures, where a boy transforms into lightning and illuminates his emerging sexuality. Where a man accidentally receives a package meant for his neighbor, a situation complicated by the fact that he lives next door to a Sphinx. A nurse finds herself working in a retirement home for vampires… and more | ||||
| An Authentic Life | by Avril Osborne July 31, 2011 | $2.99 | 125410 words | Sample 20% |
| A searching tale of adjustment of a woman, troubled by her husband’s suicide, to her emerging bisexuality. Can Joanna raise her three children and still be true to herself? | ||||
| An East Wind Blowing | by Mel Keegan July 30, 2011 | $10.99 | 121599 words | Sample 10% |
| A classic gay romance set in the northeast of a land not yet known as England. The Romans are gone; the Britons are driven back by Angles who come with the east wind. Ronan and Bryn are eager to defend their home, but Ronan is a common freeman and Bryn a chief’s son. Society divides them until the night Bryn's heritage is stripped away, and only luck leaves him and Ronan alive to see the dawn. | ||||
| The Third Buddha | by Jameson Currier July 30, 2011 | $9.99 | 106001 words | Sample 5% |
| Jameson Currier expands his richly detailed storytelling to an international level in this new novel, weaving together the intertwining stories of the search for a missing journalist in Afghanistan with a young man's search for his older brother in Manhattan in the aftermath of 9/11. The result is a sweeping, multi-cultural novel of what it means to be a gay citizen of the world. | ||||
| Stalker | by Avril Osborne July 30, 2011 | $2.99 | 127384 words | Sample 20% |
| A tense account of how being the victim of a stalking campaign can impinge, not only on a woman’s safety but her whole personality and lifestyle. | ||||
| No Tide Waits | by Avril Osborne July 30, 2011 | $2.99 | 97421 words | Sample 20% |
| Is infidelity any different between two women than it is between man and woman? And is the impact on family members and friends any more difficult to deal with? Jan is already in a civil partnership with Linda and is well accepted by her father, his wife and her brother and sister. Life seems as good as it can get! But Jan is about to get swept into the maelstrom of an attraction to Susan... | ||||
| Hell's Pawn | by Jay Bell July 30, 2011 | $3.99 | 98635 words | Sample 20% |
| John Grey is dead… and that’s just the beginning. Purgatory should have been a safe haven for souls that belong neither in Heaven nor Hell, but instead John finds himself in a corrupt prison, one bereft of freedom or pleasure. Along with his decedent friend Dante, John makes a brave escape, only to fall straight down to Hell and into the arms of Rimmon, a handsome incubus. | ||||
| Broken Promises | by Stephanie L Danielson July 29, 2011 | $6.99 | 109427 words | Sample 20% |
| **Combination of "For the Heart of Phillip and Refugees in one volume*** Scour through over thirteen years of drama, angst, lust and love in this combination version of the story of Phillip, Robert, Andrew and David. | ||||
| The Vampire's Boy | by Theda Black July 29, 2011 | $2.99 | 36514 words | Sample 20% |
| Levi is a vampire, villain and tragedy, a monster made rather than born. He's obsessed with his first victim, Jared, who survived the attack. Jared's in love with his best friend, Jordan. Jordan discovers Jared is hiding something—something that's killing him. And in the meantime, Levi's growing stronger every day, drawing Jared in against his will. | ||||
| The Ghost Piper | by Prudence MacLeod July 28, 2011 | $2.99 | 73562 words | Sample 10% |
| What do a ghost, a divorcee, an elemental spirit, a teenager, and a widowed lesbian have in common? Why, the B&B they run, of course. How could this come to pass, you ask? Turn the page and watch the tale unfold… The spirit of Laurie Hibbs is cursed, and he has only one chance to save himself from eternal damnation. He must find a lover for Judy Harper. | ||||
| Exposure | by Avril Osborne July 27, 2011 | $0.99 | 112438 words | Sample 20% |
| A gripping account of what happens to personalities when the press exposes parts of their otherwise secret lives | ||||
| Lancelot And The Wolf | by Sarah Luddington July 26, 2011 | $4.95 | 81624 words | Sample 20% |
| “King Arthur has dominated my life for decades and now I am banished from his side. I am not certain either of us can survive this torment...†Lancelot, the greatest Knight of Camelot is almost flogged to death, exiled, and stripped of the King’s grace. However, he must return to save the one person his heart cannot sacrifice and it isn't Guinevere. | ||||
| From Love and Pain | by H.A Caine July 25, 2011 | $2.99 | 23818 words | Sample 15% |
| 29 year old Adrian ran away from an imprisoning and abusive household at the age of 19. Ten years of struggling and now he is a successful partner of a security company. But Adrian makes the mistake of falling in love with a young man when he's 27. Can Adrian save Jaxon before it's too late? And can Jaxon forgive him for walking away? | ||||
| Horse Sense | by Vincent Diamond July 25, 2011 | $2.99 | 5174 words | Sample 20% |
| Truckers have a reputation for doing more than driving on the road. Rough work, rough rides, and rough trade are often the game. But when Robert meets Sean, a walker looking for a way down to Florida, something shifts. Sean had been knocked around by more than someone's fists, and it touches Robert's heart. Sometimes horsing around is just fun and games, & sometimes it's something else entirely. | ||||
| A Heart Divided | by J.M. Snyder July 25, 2011 | $4.99 | 41899 words | Sample 20% |
| When Confederate Lt. Andy Blanks takes water to a wounded soldier dying in the darkness of the battlefield, he’s shocked to discover Samuel Talley, his former lover last seen heading west. Now wearing the coat of a Union soldier, Sam is severely wounded and infection has begun to set in. It’s up to Andy to tend his lover’s wound and get Sam the help he needs before it’s too late. | ||||
| V: The V in Valor | by J.M. Snyder July 25, 2011 | $2.99 | 14553 words | Sample 20% |
| Book 1 in the Vic and Matt: V Series. When one of the landlady’s cats gets loose, Matt broaches the subject of getting a pet with his lover. Vic doesn’t want the added responsibility, but the discussion raises questions of long-term commitment that neither man is ready to address just yet. | ||||