Supposed Crimes, LLC publishes fiction and poetry primarily featuring lesbian characters and themes. The focus is on genre fiction–Westerns, Science Fiction, Horror, Action–rather than just romance. That’s how we set ourselves apart from our competitors. Our characters happen to love women and kick ass.
“Supposed crimes” refers to the idea that homosexuality was once outlawed. Thus, our authors are being subversive by writing. As times change this becomes more tongue-in-cheek. Yet, Christians writing lesbians and men writing lesbians are still subversive ideas in this industry. We encourage our authors to challenge stereotypes.
As far as she knows, Chloe Cross is the world's only time traveler. She can't change history, but she can attend David Bowie concerts, relive happy memories, and sleep with herself in different time periods (don't judge her). Until one trip, when she inadvertently returns home to an altered timeline.
Legend tells of a witch who can grant your every desire ... for a price. Your soul, taken upon your death and stored in a stone. Harriet Landau made the deal. Now the stone containing her soul has been discovered. Her widow, Clio Landau, current captain of the Banshee, has the chance to be reunited with the woman she loves.
Celeste, battle-hardened by crippled with doubt, recovers from her injuries in the lion's den, under the watchful eye of her only surviving family--her uncle. For her valiant effort against the incursion, Celeste is given command over a group of misfits and must learn to navigate through hidden agendas and an insatiable desire for conquest.
Raising the baby antichrist isn't easy for adoptive parents Hiram and Phaedrus. A cult kills Felix's mother for creating a child with Lucifer and Felix is sent into hiding. Hiram, bound to the devil and aging slowly, and Phaedrus, a fallen angel, do the best they can in guiding Felix into young adulthood.
Sally Rafferty is the only woman employed by the Achilles Cab Company, ferrying late-night New Yorkers across the city from sunset to sunrise. Her status quo is disrupted by the arrival of the company's new mechanic, Elise Herald.
Six years ago, it was love at first sight when firefighter Tori Branigan met photographer Lea Contreras. It only took a walk around the block for them to know exactly what they wanted. Three years later, they made things official with a quiet ceremony at the courthouse and settled into their happily-ever-after. Then they met Janice Kozak.
A missing baby, a boss with a vendetta, and a case to solve. Grace is thrown into chaos when her life seems to fall apart. She’s been handed her biggest case yet and must work with Homicide Detective Link Abrams in order to solve it. As Peter prepares to go back to seminary and Kit prepares for graduation, Grace must face the fact that her relationship with Amya is falling apart.
When Maureen Rigby shows up with a stack of cash asking about the room for rent above the tavern, Whitney is suspicious about her intentions but can't afford to say no. Who is the broken woman Maureen installs in the room?
Following the events of We Three, Jess hasn’t been in touch since Elena invited her to move in with them. For Elena, Jess, and Eric, attempting to reconnect reveals how much they all still have to learn about each other and making relationships like theirs work.
Faye gets in trouble…again. As the city comes under fire with new problems arising daily, Molly and her crew need to figure out the cause. With Faye taking a deep dive into her addiction, Malek sniffing around the house still, Molly must rely on what she’s known best over the years. Her gut instinct.
Newly knighted and green as anything, Ainsley looks forward to his first quest, not just for the independence it will bring but for the coin as well. He's not sure what he'll find on his journey but he didn't anticipate friendly witches, baby dragons, or a curious crow that brings him trinkets.
A bomb at a factory. A new case. Morgan will do anything to stop her world from spinning out of control. With Mr. Jimmy’s case still on her plate, Agent Morgan Stone isn’t sure she wants to take on a second. Focusing on Jimmy’s young victims, she has little interest in a bomb that goes off in Chicago.Morgan finds herself thrust into a new case she doesn’t want.
1916. Marcy Neal is a shortstop with a barnstorming baseball team called the Lady Yankees when the US joins the Great War. Every able-bodied man is expected to serve, athletes included. A canceled season would be a financial disaster for team owners and morally devastating for the American public, so a plan is devised. The season will go on as planned... with women players.
This case is the oddest one Detective Grace Halling has ever had. The missing is found, yet four years into the case and no one has made any progress in solving it. With the head of Internal Affairs hot on her tail, Grace must dodge investigations while attempting to solve her own.
Kim's a stuntwoman for the biggest Hollywood stars. It's her job to get the cuts and bruises so they look good for the kissing scenes. In addition to planning all the stunts for the show, Kim will be doubling the co-lead Marisa Larkin.
Gracie Simon is a reporter with a secret. Forced to lie about her gender to get hired, she lives in fear of what will happen when the truth comes out. Evelyn Wade is a rising star with a secret of her own. With three hit films on her resume already, she's ready to risk it all to reveal the truth in the hopes it will help other actresses.
Kyndle is leader of her pack and has her partner Frost at her side. Not everyone is happy with the new regime, but she has established peace and begins to think of the future. Then the Council arrives to challenge her legitimacy.
With two new cases in hand, Detective Grace Halling is determined to solve them before Christmas. A missing teenage foster kid Grace suspects is running from something bigger than anyone knows, and a missing middle-aged dad walked out of his front door without his shoes in the dead of winter.
The partnership between DOROTHY BOONE and MISS TRAFALGAR had come to an ignominious end. A protective curse on an ancient queen’s gravesite felled not only Trafalgar but infected all of London with a fatal virus, forcing Dorothy to take extreme measures to prevent a catastrophe. Her actions stopped the illness, but the people of London were imbued with new and dangerous magical abilities.
As Lucifer slowly returns to life, he finds himself chained and captive and in the dark. But something's not right - his wounds aren't healing, there are things he can't remember, and he's starving, in more ways than one.
Molly works relentlessly to locate the one person she needs--Faye. Making reckless decisions, Molly puts her team and herself in danger as her obsession with Faye deepens and becomes the only thing she can think about.
Angels shouldn't pal around with demons, especially not ones they've been sent to assassinate. They shouldn't work with them or cook them dinner, or strike a deal with the Devil for them either. Sunshine probably isn't a very good angel. The demon in question is Felix Specter. He's forgiven Sunshine for stabbing him all those years ago.
Almost ten years ago, Ariadne Willow helped create a stalemate between Hunters and canidae. That peace comes to an end with the abduction of Gwyneth Willow, her partner, Milo Duncan, and the doctor who kept Ari safe while she was in prison. When Milo manages to escape, Ari promises to pull out all the stops to rescue the others.
A twenty-year veteran of the FBI, Morgan has worked her fair share of cases. When Chicago Homicide Detective Fiona Wexford calls for a second opinion, Morgan jumps at the opportunity to help. With a growing crush on Fiona, Morgan fails to weave the personal and professional when it becomes clear Fiona’s suspect is a serial killer.
When nothing about her Heidi's goes according to plan, and her proposal to her girlfriend is rejected, Heidi is devastated. She confesses her one wish to a stranger on a park bench: to have the whole day over again. Little does she know, this will set her on an endless loop of reliving it, each time hoping for a different outcome.
Arden inherited Eden, a space station floating over a dying planet. He also inherited an oppressive class system, worker shortages, and an entitled ruling class that refuses to make concessions. Rhys, a worker who’s earned Arden’s trust, helps him make unpopular changes to keep Eden alive.
Wesley "West" Archer made a deal with the Devil for a failed high school crush. Now he answers questions for demons--a seedy job his family can never know about. Kit is the seediest, sexiest demon who has ever come to West for help, smelling of cigarettes, covered in tattoos, with ripped jeans and tousled hair.
Faye's been Molly's lover and agent for her creature-hunting friends for a year, but she's still unsettled and unwilling to fully-explore her Tainted Side. She is sent on a mission and disappears in South America.
Trafalgar and Lady Dorothy Boone, still shattered by the consequences of their last mission, have decided to heed a warning from the future and put an end to the widespread use of magic. While Dorothy sits vigil for someone she loves, Trafalgar accepts the invitation from a fellow Society member to investigate an ancient queen's burial site.
In the midst of this world changing choice, Kyndle Callahan is doing her best to be an average teenage girl. However, as the daughter of her pack's Alpha, she doesn't have many choices that are her own and she is far from average. As she approaches adulthood and attempts to find a way to remove herself from old pack traditions to be with the girl she loves everything begins to fall apart.
Ira never anticipated having a life of his own, let alone having the most powerful creature in Hell as his lover. On top of learning how to live, cook, and work on his own, Ira has to navigate the political landscape that comes with being the Devil's kept man. Exes, estranged family members, political rivals, discontented workers, and those who'd compete for Satan's affections.
Seattle's only werewolf private investigator has just learned the true identity of Saint Artemis, a hugely-famous rock star who only performs in masks. No one knows her real name or what she looks like, but she's just revealed herself to Ari. She's been receiving threatening emails.
Phil Thompson moved on by keeping his past with Cole Fisher neatly tucked away in the deep recesses of his mind. Sharing his home with two cats sometimes gets lonely, and now and then he needs human companionship, but his friends with benefits relationships haven't hit the mark. No one has measured up to Cole even after fifteen years.
Hiram Reinhart abandoned a life of privilege when he could no longer stomach the ugliness of plantation life. Now he resides in Canada, selling small enchantments to keep his rag-tag family fed and housed, if only barely. Matthew Blackwell, another mage, seeks out Hiram's assistance in order to find a demon.
Elysium is a collection of five erotic short stories that span space and time by Alexa Black, also writing as A. M. Hawke. Men loving men and women loving women are represented.
One night, a chance encounter in an alley, a damsel in distress. Max leaps into action and saves the stranger. She soon learns that the woman she saved is actress Renee Lamar. Renee, anxious and paranoid about security, offers to reward Max's chivalry with a job as her bodyguard.
In a near-future where heroes and villains alike have access to technological marvels, Agent Phoenix protects Carbine City. When Baxter Combs returns, intent on stealing and selling the minds of everyday citizens, Agent Phoenix comes face-to-face with his fiercest nemesis.
Two constables arrive on the front steps of Dorothy Boone's townhouse. A woman was seen dumping a dead body outside a hospital near Threadneedle Street, and Dorothy matches the description given by witnesses. Dorothy manages to avoid arrest and takes it upon herself to investigate the crime, enlisting other members of the Mnemosyne Society to help.
June's relationship with James Kelly needs careful tending, he’s escorting a young witch to a school in Lilydale, and he’s expected at a fertility festival in the Adirondacks. The festival becomes more of a problem than he anticipated: James Kelly is a fish out of water, an unexpected face from June’s past makes an appearance, and worse, fairies are afoot.
Their individual melodies become discordant as they struggle to make them fit together. But if all three can learn to play with each other instead of against, they may yet hit all the right notes.
Ari is reluctant when she's summoned to Seattle's Millionaire's Row by Vivian Burroughs, given their history with rich clients, but the money is too good to refuse. Vivian reveals that she's dying, and fears one of her four children might attempt to steal a valuable tapestry hanging in her house. She plans to lock the room where it hangs and leave the key with Ari until the will is read.
Shelby is a part-time assistant women’s soccer coach at Winston College, a small liberal arts school in North Carolina. Directionless at 25, she is unprepared for the upheaval in her life when one of her players is murdered. She works with Earlene, a cop taking night classes, to solve the case.
Kyndle Callahan is doing her best to be an average teenage girl. However, as the daughter of her packs Alpha, she doesn't have many choices that are her own and she is far from average. As she approaches adulthood and attempts to find a way to remove herself from old pack traditions to be with the girl she loves everything begins to fall apart.
Griffin Javensen was born to die—to save a world that sought to destroy her and for a God that had forsaken her.
Griffin is the Chosen, selected by an accident of birth to decide the fate of the entire human race. Heaven or Hell. God or Lucifer. Her duty is to offer her life as payment and her decision will determine the fate of humanity. As a reward, Griffin is able to ask one thing of either God or Lucifer as she Chooses, and they are not allowed to deny her.
Being a Sheriff’s Deputy is not all about saving lives and arresting criminals, and each day Grace wonders if she’ll make it home.
While kids at the schools Deputy Grace Halling visits see her as the knight in blue-cotton armor, people involved in the cases she is dispatched to have a different opinion. She has every confidence in her ability to do her job and arrest criminals. She easily takes down a knife-wielding woman and a drunken combatant teenager without hesitation. Everyone—victim, suspect, or witness—has a story to tell or to lie about, and Grace is never perturbed by their tales.
That all changes when she looks down the barrel of a gun. She loses confidence in her ability as a deputy, she loses trust in herself and fellow officers, and she struggles to stay afloat as shift after shift passes. Grace cannot find her rhythm of being a deputy again. And when the Police Chaplain unexpectedly barges into her life, her personal and professional lives are flipped upside down. Grace struggles to find her even ground, worrying that the next time she stares a murderer in the face will be the last.
A Vampire Anthology by Supposed Crimes features six tales of bloodlust, violence, and vanity featuring LGBT protagonists, men seeking men, and women loving women.
The Downpour Anthology from Supposed Crimes started as a "butch women and thunderstorms" challenge. A throwback to classic lesbian erotica. The resulting stories are a mix of sexy, sweet, and downright dangerous. Women of all types tackle the storms of nature, magic, or mystery.
Everyone hears "He's too young for you." "She's too old for you." Not between these pages. This anthology crosses the age gap with nine enchanting stories of cross-generational relationships. Some are sweet, some are sexy, some are heartbreaking. One is downright murderous. The protagonists are gay men or women searching for true love or trying out what's right in front of them.
Love is a Mess: A Supposed Crimes Anthology contains eight stories from eight authors on the topic of misfortune at Valentine's Day. The topics range from the fun of the moment to the power of the eternal. Lesbian, gay, and bisexual characters star in their own love and lust stories--Erotic, playful, and thoughtful.