Captivating LGBTQIA+ Love Stories Set in the Past

You're guaranteed a richly detailed historical romance with K.J. Charles. Slippery Creatures takes place in the 1920s, inspired by the golden age of gay pulp fiction. Will Darling, WW1 veteran and bookshop owner, becomes embroiled in a strange criminal conspiracy. Kim Secretan offers to help him deal with the confusion, but he's not what he seems. Can they trust one another, especially as Will faces more and more enemies due to the secrets he possesses?

Sun, sea, cycling, and love! Kit Griffith is finally living as his true self, even if it means giving up his old artistic community. Now, he sells bicycles by the Cornwall seaside and seduces holidaymakers. American botanist Muriel Pendrake arrives to commission Kit for some paintings in exchange for helping him make the local all-male cycling club gender inclusive. Cue a summer romance like no other.

This slow-burn f/f Regency romance is sumptuous and sweet. Lucy Muchelney distracts herself from heartache by translating a groundbreaking French astronomy text owned by the Countess of Moth, Catherine St. Day, who wants to fulfill her late husband's scientific legacy. The arrival of this fascinating new woman will open up her cloistered world to so many new possibilities, if she's willing to take the risk.

Rock and Henry’s Lords of Bucknall Club series takes place in an alternate Regency era where equal marriage is legal and courtships of all kinds dominate the season. This sweet saga kicks off with Lord William Hartwell in need of a spouse lest his parents cut him off. He agrees to a marriage of convenience with his best friend Rebecca but it's her brother, the dashing Viscount Warrington, who catches his eye. As for Warry, he's being blackmailed into marrying a dastardly lord to save his sister’s reputation, but being in close proximity to Hartwell could prove too much for either of them to resist!

Many a fan of The Man From U.N.C.L.E. enjoyed the chemistry between Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin. Evidently, so did Aster Glenn Gray, whose Cold War spy romance is heavily inspired by the classic series. Soviet agent Gennady Matskevich and American FBI agent Daniel Hawthorne work together during the height of tensions between their nations. Gennady's boss wants him to honeytrap his new partner, and the ever-so-suave Daniel is keen to avoid yet another disastrous workplace romance. The heat between them, however, is too fiery to ignore.

Alexis Hall has become a beloved figure in romance for sweeping and diverse romances. A Lady for a Duke offers a new take on the friends-to-lovers trope. Viola Carroll let everyone believe she died in battle so that she could live as a woman, even if it meant losing everything from her old life. That included her closest friend, Justin de Vere, who was left devastated and broken by the war. When their families reconnect, Viola goes to care for Justin, but is he ready to know the real her, and to love the woman she always was?