LOVE IN DARK SETTINGS PRESS

Love in Dark Settings Press publishes friendship fiction, heterosexual love stories, and gay fiction in the following genres: fantasy, historical fantasy, and contemporary fiction.

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Main Bookshelf short fiction

Friendship fiction: Kindle e-books.

FANTASY

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Bard of Pain. In the battle-weary lands of the Great Peninsula, only one fate is worse than being taken prisoner by the Lieutenant: being taken prisoner if you are the Lieutenant. | Reviews | Booktrailer video.


High Bookshelf novels and fiction collections

Gay fiction and friendship fiction: HTML e-book and Kindle e-books. Parental supervision is strongly suggested for this section.

VARIOUS GENRES

Cover for Love in Dark Settings OmnibusLove in Dark Settings Omnibus

For the price of a hardback, you can buy Love in Dark Settings Omnibus, a zipped HTML e-book with all of Dusk Peterson's fiction: 700,000 words (3 novels, 10 novellas, 4 novelettes, and 12 short stories) of suspenseful fantasy, historical fantasy, contemporary fiction, friendship fiction, heterosexual love stories, original gen, original het, original slash, hurt/comfort, darkfic, gay fiction, gay erotic love stories, gay erotica, and leather fiction. It's the equivalent of a 2000-page anthology.

As a bonus, the e-book also includes 28 collections of fiction recommendations and nonfiction, including annotated lists of hundreds of novels, short fiction, and memoirs, online and in print: friendship fiction, gay fiction and erotica, original slash and yaoi, leather fiction, Victorian and Edwardian writings, science fiction, fantasy, historical fantasy, and historical fiction.

Love in Dark Settings Omnibus (HTML e-book) | List of contents.

HISTORICAL FANTASY

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Michael is an ex-prostitute, which means that nobody in polite society wants anything to do with him. He believes that the only way to help other male prostitutes is to make their working conditions bearable. His friend Janus is an upper-class gentleman who believes that his duty to the gods requires him to fight against sexual immorality. Now Michael wants Janus to help him run a house of prostitution.

Male friendship and gay love intertwine in this multicultural historical fantasy series based on the Edwardian Era, a time when society seemed as stable as ever, though it was about to be turned topsy-turvy.

Whipster (Kindle e-book) | Reviews.


High Bookshelf short fiction

Gay fiction and friendship fiction: Kindle e-books. Parental supervision is strongly suggested for this section.

HISTORICAL FANTASY

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Life Prison. In the unmerciful world of Mercy Prison, there is no rule but unending pain. For Merrick, the arrival of his new guard provides hope that he may break beyond the boundaries of his life prison. But appearances can be deceptive, and Merrick does not yet recognize the danger this guard poses to his future. | Reviews.

Coded Messages. One of them rapes prisoners. The other wants to help prisoners. So why are they talking to each other? | A sequel to Life Prison.


CONTEMPORARY FICTION

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Leather, Licking, and Lawnmowers. This story collection takes leathersex out of its usual bars and back alleys, setting it in unexpected locations: A 5&10. A potluck. A hamburger joint. A waltz party. Even when the leatherman who narrates these stories returns to the Eagle bar, things don't go quite the way he expected. . . . | For adults only | Award: Runner-up, 2006 Rauxa Prize for erotic fiction, for the short story "Spontaneous." | Reviews | Booktrailer video.

What Slaves Do When They Aren't Cleaning Toilets: A Tale of Web Accessibility in the Cybersex Era. The first e-book in the world that presents Web accessibility information for the disabled in the form of a leather porn story. | Reviews.

First Lesson. "He couldn't remember later why he began talking about bondage." When a security guard walks into the wrong bar in town, he learns about the dark side of erotic desire, and also about the hope that lies beyond it.


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