LOVE IN DARK SETTINGS ¶ Suspenseful historical
fantasy, friendship fiction, and gay fiction ¶ By Dusk Peterson
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Dusk Peterson writes fantasy stories on friendship, gay historical fantasy
tales, and contemporary gay fiction. Occasionally, a heterosexual love
story will appear as well. Suspense plays an important role in many of
the tales; the conflict in those tales is both external and internal. Peterson's
stories are often placed in dark settings, such as prisons or wartime locations.
The mood of the stories, however, is not one of unrelieved gloominess.
Romance and friendship, especially male friendship, are recurring themes.
Main Bookshelf. Suspenseful fantasy, historical
fantasy, friendship fiction, and heterosexual love stories.
High Bookshelf. Suspenseful fantasy, historical
fantasy, contemporary fiction, friendship fiction, original slash darkfic,
gay fiction, gay erotic love stories, and gay erotica.
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Separated in time and place, a young woman and two young men are united
in their goal: to protect those they care for from the destruction of battle.
The odds are against them.
Darkling Plain, fantasy tales about young people in times of
conflict.
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Right or Right
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Crossing the Cliff
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Night Shadow
He vowed himself to his god. Now the god is growing impatient . . .
The Three Lands, a fantasy series on friendship, romance, and
betrayal in times of war and peace.
In a world where war has lasted for generations, in which only the pitiless
nobles who wage war hold power, and those who cannot fight must suffer
or seek slow death . . . What would you do if you were a noble, and you
lost the ability to fight?
Princeling, fantasy wartime novels on friendship, love, and sacrifice.
A sampler of suspenseful historical fantasy stories.
High
Bookshelf
Parental supervision is strongly suggested for this section.
A cycle of historical fantasy novels about disreputable men on the margins
of society, and the men and women who love them. The novels are set in
a world based on the late Victorian and Edwardian Eras.
The cycle consists of the following series:
The Eternal Dungeon,
Life
Prison, and Michael's House.
In a cool, dark cavern, guarded by men and by oaths, lies a dungeon in
which prisoners fearfully await the inevitable. The inevitable will be
replaced by the unexpected.
The Eternal Dungeon, a historical fantasy series set in a land
where the psychologists wield whips.
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Rebirth (includes The Breaking)
They are imprisoned until death, and their lives cannot get worse . . .
or so they think. But when an unlikely alliance forms against their captors,
the reformers risk losing what little comforts they possess.
Life Prison, a historical fantasy series about male desire and
determination in Victorian prisons.
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Mercy's Prisoner (includes Life Prison)
In a world where temples are dying and sacred theaters
have been replaced by brothels, what will happen when a hard-headed businessman
joins forces with an idealist?
Michael's House, a historical fantasy series
set in an Edwardian slum.
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Whipster (includes The New Boy)
This series collects assorted stories by Dusk Peterson: fantasy, historical
fantasy, contemporary fiction, and science fiction about friendship or
erotic attraction, usually male/male but occasionally male/female. The
stories are set in bleak locations such as a Renaissance prison and futuristic
slave-quarters. The characters must undergo hardship and sometimes transformation
before they are able to struggle their way out of the darkness.
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The True Master
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Debt Price
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Pleasure
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Twenty Thousand Gold Stars
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Short stories
Leather is a world of rich pleasure palaces and endless sensual delights,
where dreams can be pursued without limit, provided that a man has the
strength to stand the test.
But in the rural town of Mayhill, population 32,000, leather life is
a little different.
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Edgeplay in Mayhill
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Water in a Drought
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First Lesson
The erotic adventures of a suburban leatherman.
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Leather, Licking, and Lawnmowers
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If you send me pretty compliments, I will print your letter out and frame
it above my computer. (This isn't much of an exaggeration.) If, on the
other hand, you send me a letter that begins, "What kind of nit-witted
writer are you? You gave your character blue eyes in scene one and green
eyes in scene two!" then I will raise up a shrine in your honor and burn
candles upon your altar.
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