So it's pretty much fate when Jean-Pierre, a cute trans man and the heir to a huge culinary empire, suddenly enters her life and is in need of a fake girlfriend. What it's about: After being unceremoniously fired from her horrible office job, Luna O'Shea is doing her best to look on the bright side: she's a proud trans woman with plenty of supportive friends, an awesome roommate, and a life she really enjoys in New York City. Valentine is tempted by the prize, but following through with the job would go against everything he stands for, and he will need to decide whether he is willing to put aside his own dream life in order to allow the AIs to live theirs. However, problems arise when the two begin attempting to retrieve the stolen 'merchandise' and it turns out that the android ladies have become more self-aware and are less than enthused about returning to their old lives. The reward for succeeding in the job is a visa into Salt Lake City, giving Valentine a chance at the life he's always wanted. Osric has been forced into an android body against his will and was sent by his new employer to the wasteland to offer Valentine a job retrieving his employer's stolen androids. That is until he meets Osric, a powerful AI from Salt Lake City. For Valentine, the idea of earning the type of money to achieve this is a pipe dream. Due to body dysphoria, Valentine dreams of earning enough money to get citizenship and move to Salt Lake City, a sort of utopia where the medical transition he dreams of is free, and where he will be safe and well-fed. What it's about: This sci-fi debut follows Valentine Weis, a salvager in the future wastelands of Utah. Get it from Bookshop or your local bookstore via Indiebound here. In order to let love in and achieve his dreams, he'll need to realize that the only person who's ever thought of him as not being enough is himself. Miles, who has never felt like he has been enough for anyone, can't manage to wrap his head around what Eric sees in him.

After the two pretend to date in order to attend a couples-only Valentine's celebration, things get a little too real when they share a kiss. To make things even more complicated, Miles finds himself drawn to the new boy in town, Eric Mendez, a proudly queer cartoonist who respects his pronouns and makes him feel things he hasn't felt since Shane. For one, Shane broke up with Miles two weeks after he came out as trans and has been stubbornly ignoring him ever since, and his new piano teacher thinks his playing needs work. However, neither of these goals will be easy to achieve. What it's about: Edward Underhill's debut YA rom-com follows 16-year-old trans boy Miles as he attempts to fulfill his two New Year's resolutions: to win back his ex-boyfriend Shane, and to finally beat his arch-nemesis at the midwest's biggest classical piano competition.

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