Disco Witches of Fire Island
A Novel
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Publisher Description
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“Heartfelt.”—The New York Times
Hit the dance floor with a coven of queer witches on 1980s Fire Island in this gay fantasy romance about finding magic, love, and family in the face of tragedy.
A heartwarming LGBTQ+ novel for fans of steamy romance, loathe-at-first-sight, and Red, White, and Royal Blue.
The paperback edition will have sprayed teal edges and foil on the cover!
It’s 1989, and Joe Agabian and his best friend Ronnie set out to spend their first summer working in the hedonistic gay paradise of Fire Island Pines. Joe is desperate to let loose and finally move beyond the heartbreak of having lost his boyfriend to the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
The two friends are quickly taken in by a pair of quirky, older house cleaners. But something seems off, and Joe starts to suspect the two older men of being up to something otherworldly. In truth, Howie and Lenny are members of a secret disco witch coven tasked with protecting the island—and young men like Joe—from the relentless tragedies ravaging their community. The only problem is, having lost too many of their fellow witches to the epidemic, the coven’s protective powers have been seriously damaged.
Unaware of all the mystical shenanigans going on, Joe starts to fall for the super-cute bisexual ferryman who just happens to have webbed feet and an unusual ability to hold his breath underwater. But Joe’s longing to find love is tripped up by his own troublesome past as well as the lure of a mysterious hunk he keeps seeing around the island—a man Howie and Lenny warn may be a harbinger of impending doom.
The Disco Witches need to find help—fast—if they’re to save Joe and the island from the Great Darkness. But how? Fans of spicy queer romances with a dash of fantasy will fall in love with this stunning novel of community, love, sex, magic, and hope in desperate times.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
A group of emotionally wounded queer men cobble together a found family amid supernatural threats and the pall of the AIDS crisis in this impressively drawn romance from Fell (The Sign for Home). Joe Agabian arrives on Fire Island in 1989 to discover his best friend, himbo Ronnie Kaminski, does not actually have jobs or housing lined up for them. Fortunately, two eccentric year-round residents, house cleaners Howie Fishbein and Lenny D'Amico, offer Joe a room. Despite Ronnie warning him that association with them might tarnish his reputation, Joe accepts and takes a job slinging drinks at a rundown bar owned by one of their friends. Unbeknownst to Joe, the older men are secretly members of a disco witch coven, whose magical dancing rituals can protect against the Great Darkness, a malevolent force that lures people to suicide. Joe, still reeling from the death of his boyfriend from AIDS two years prior, is at high risk. As the coven rallies around him, Joe's self-destructive sadness also repeatedly pulls Fergal, a strapping bisexual ferry worker, into the role of his protector. Fell adroitly blends camp, raw emotion, and nostalgia into a deeply felt ode to community. A frothy premise belies this romp's immense heart and beauty.
