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Updated July 2010.
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Love in Dark Settings Omnibus. A package edition of Love in Dark Settings publications in HTML format.
New e-books. The press's newest electronic titles.
New editions. Older titles in new formats, or with additional material.Main Bookshelf. Friendship fiction and heterosexual fiction.
Love
in Dark Settings OmnibusContents and previews of the 2010 edition.
HTML e-book (Lulu): Love in Dark Settings Omnibus ($29.99).
"Dusk writes some amazing stories, filled with angst and pain, but also with love and compassion and understanding."—Nigel Puerasch, author of "Redhead" and "An Ozzie Christmas Tale."
"There's something very special about Dusk's dark fic. Dark, very, but there's this smidgen of light in every cavern Dusk throws a reader, and the brightness of that light is practically overwhelming by the time you get to the end of the novel, and it is like crawling to the opening of a cavern. It's like getting a miracle."
—K. M. Frontain, author of The Soulstone Chronicles and former associate editor for Wild Child Publishing and Freya's Bower.
Loren's
Lashes OmnibusThis 80,000-word omnibus contains all the stories in Loren's Lashes, a retro series about a Midwestern community of closeted leathermen.
Contents of the 2010 edition. Parental supervision is strongly suggested.
HTML e-book (Lulu): Loren's Lashes Omnibus ($4.99).
"Not a cliche in sight, and the characters are realistic enough to jump off the page."—Jean Roberta, author and BDSM book reviewer.
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.
"I find the characterisations so sharply delicious, dark and shocking and yet engaging. . . . I like to savour each part."—Clare London, author of Masquerade and The Gold Warrior.
Click on the titles for blurbs and ordering/downloading information.
HTML e-book (Lulu): Multiple stories available in Love in Dark Settings Omnibus ($29.99).
Kindle e-book (Amazon): Blood Vow ($2.99) | Bard of Pain (99 cents).
MP3 audio book (Lulu): Bard of Pain (free).
Braille and DAISY editions (Bookshare): Bard of Pain (free; no Bookshare membership required). More information about the braille and DAISY editions.
Law Links | Death Mask | Law of Vengeance | Breached Boundaries.
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.
Click on the titles for blurbs and ordering/downloading information.
HTML e-book (Lulu): Multiple stories available in Love in Dark Settings Omnibus ($29.99).
EPub e-book: Night Shadow (free).
Right or Right | Wizard of the Sun | Freezing in Hell | Petty.
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.
"The Eternal Dungeon series makes me weak at the knees."
Click on the titles for blurbs and ordering/downloading information. Parental supervision is strongly suggested.
HTML e-book (Lulu): Transformation ($2.99).
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.
"Combining a historical background similar to that of Victorian England with a skilled perspective into the nature of human relations and a wide range of characterization, 'Life Prison' is a real page-turner . . . This is a story – and an author – not to be missed."—Five-star review by Frost's Fancy at Rainbow Reviews.
Click on the titles for blurbs and ordering/downloading information. Parental supervision is strongly suggested.
HTML e-book (Lulu): Multiple stories available in Love in Dark Settings Omnibus ($29.99).
Kindle e-book (Amazon): Life Prison (99 cents) | Coded Messages (99 cents).
Mercy's Prisoner | Hell's Messenger.
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.
"Tease away the outer layers [of the story], and a whole fascinating world of triumph over tragedy emerges."—Four-star review by British Bull Dog at Rainbow Reviews.
Click on the titles for blurbs and ordering/downloading information. Parental supervision is strongly suggested.
HTML e-book (Lulu): Multiple stories available in Love in Dark Settings Omnibus ($29.99).
Kindle e-book (Amazon): The New Boy (first story in Whipster; 99 cents) | Whipster ($2.99).
How can a youth from a bay island boarding school survive when he is sent to a futuristic prison?
Prison City, a historical fantasy series and retrofuture series based on the Chesapeake Bay oyster wars, boarding school rivalries in the 1910s, and 1960s visions of things to come.
Master/Other, gay fantasy and science fiction about prisoners, slaves, liegemen, and love.
This series also contains Leather in Lawnville, the adventures of a suburban leatherman, Leathermen, Plain Vanilla Straights, and Other Rebels, humor and satire about transgressive sexuality in the twenty-first century, and Unmasked, contemporary fiction about people who hide behind masks.
"[Dusk Peterson] has a realistic and sarcastic tone to his works, with this edge of sweetness underneath."—LitGal.
Click on the titles for blurbs and ordering/downloading information. Parental supervision is strongly suggested.
HTML e-book (Lulu): Multiple stories available in Love in Dark Settings Omnibus ($29.99).
Kindle e-book (Amazon): Leather, Licking, and Lawnmowers (for adults only; $1.99) | What Slaves Do When They Aren't Cleaning Toilets: A Tale of Web Accessibility in the Cybersex Era (99 cents).
MP3 audio book (Lulu): Leather, Licking, and Lawnmowers (free).
Two Masters | Short Sharp Shock (for adults only) | If Dante Had a Beta Reader.
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.
Loren's Lashes, a retro series about a Midwestern community of closeted leathermen.
"Don't ever expect Dusk to avoid a topic because of current social taboos, but do expect the ethical aspects of actions to be explored."—Parhelion, author of Hurrah for Hollywood.
Click on the titles for blurbs and ordering/downloading information. Parental supervision is strongly suggested.
HTML e-book (Lulu): Loren's Lashes Omnibus (all of the stories in the series; $4.99).
Kindle e-book (Amazon): First Lesson (99 cents).
Edgeplay in Mayhill | Water in a Drought.
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