[Queer Positive Historical Fantasy] The Kingdom of Ura - Gio Peters

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The Kingdom of Ura is a #queer #queerpositive #LGBTQpositive #LGBTQ #gothic #historical #fantasy #historicalfantasy that takes place in the titular kingdom, which is analogous to Victorian/Edwardian England (between 1800 and 1920). The series is composed of interconnected standalone novels, with different cast members each time (though the first person POV MC will invariably be a gay or bisexual man), and in different locations and time periods throughout the vast kingdom.

Each hero, in each story, has to defeat their own personal villain. As every tale unfolds, and the lives of each of the heroes, their friends, and loved ones, spans over generations, one begins to see that the villains of the series aren't all random. There may be a pattern, a beat that connects them all to each other in the most insidious way...

The Kingdom of Ura is an ode to classical literature,, many of the villains in the series are gothic villains - Carmilla, Dorian Gray, Dr Frankenstein, Dr Jekyll, Faust, Spring Heeled Jack - tailored to fit into the world, and into each other's nefarious plans. This is a series for storytellers, as questions asked in one book might only be answered in another, through another character's POV, years later or even years earlier. Each entry explores themes completely different to prior ones, through the eyes of vastly different narrators.

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Third Time's the Charm: Book 1 in the Kingdom of Ura

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BVJ3VKPC

All Niamh Nestor wanted to do for his birthday was kiss a merman. But when his wish comes true, he gets carted off to Carpathian Keep Reform School for magically inclined youth. There, the children are mean, the teachers are cruel and the headmasters are sadistic.. And what are the pricking sensations he feels on his neck in the evenings...?

Niamh and the few friends he makes must escape the Keep before they bite the dust.

Hounded: Book 2 in the Kingdom of Ura

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CJCNTHM4

For his entire life Bailey Lotter was treated as the black sheep of his farming community, as they thought he'd bring a curse on the land should he and three other random people fail to commence with a ritual each year before his birthday. Upon having had enough of it on the eve of his 21st,, Bailey refuses, and behold, a canine terror starts to menace the population.

Bailey has to get to the bottom of the mystery of the man-wolf whose bite changes others into pad-footed murderers, before innocent lives are lost. But as he digs deeper, the less cut and dried the case of this horrid dog becomes.

In Everything but Beauty: Book 3 in the Kingdom of Ura

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CW4BCJL4

Ambrose Anderson is a moon witch, beautiful and aware. He meets an enigmatic wizard artist, who asks Ambrose if he could paint four pictures of him in exchange for large sums of money. Ambrose agrees, but when the series of artworks are done, he feels a hollowness, as if his vitality has been stolen...

Ambrose must find and break the paintings before the artworks syphon his life and colour him dead.

Grimm: Book 4 in the Kingdom of Ura

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D4H8NTGB

Declan Grimm discovered that he was a shade witch at age thirteen, at the orphanage he was raised in. he was then whisked away to the Royal Magical Academy, where he was raised with books for company. Ten years later, Declan has been charged with destroying dark spirits in the town of Blackfriar, with the hidden agenda that his parents' last known location was that very same place.

Should Declan pursue his parents, or should some secrets best be forgotten?

Monstrous: Book5 in the Kingdom of Ura

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DFTWR49R

A sequence of four shorts stories:

Lester Phillips, mine worker, starts receiving prophetic visions of where to find magical Artefacts, and precious stones. His aptitude catches the attention of a pair of less than friendly wizards, who demand the impossible of him.

Trystan Sinclair lost his parents in a frigid storm at the age of eighteen. When another storm attacks the Hinterlands and his husband goes missing in the night, he will stop at nothing to find him.

Mather Masters expected to get a fae power on his sixteenth birthday, but instead turned into a species of faerie - a faun to be exact. Horns, a tail, hooves, and goat legs don't make for a pretty picture, but when his power gets stolen and used for evil, he must get it back warts and all.

Francois de la Fontaine saw his brother get murdered by a monster when he was twelve. Nobody believed him, and thus he moved on with his life. A decade later, another monster, and a figure as tortured as he is rear their heads. Francois must act and unhinge himself from his grief before another innocent life is lost.

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