Worlds
If you're just getting started in the Beverly L. Anderson Universe, here's where you can explore the various worlds that comprise it. Each world has information about it, and you can choose your own path of reading pleasure. Choose by genre, darkness, spice, or any other part of the world you desire. Enjoy the journey.
Contemporary Suspense/Thriller with BDSM and Queer Romance Elements.
Paranormal and Supernatural Suspense with Mpreg and Queer Romance Elements.
Science Fiction with Fantasy and Adventure Elements and Slow Burn Queer Romance.
Epic Fantasy with Magic and Adventure and Queer Romantasy Elements.
Hard Science Fiction with Space Travel and Alien Races with Queer Romance Subplots.
A modern world where queer survivors take back their power and stand up to the darkness.
In the shadows of ordinary cities, trafficking rings thrive, secrets rot, and the people who should protect you are often the ones pulling the strings. The Healing Bonds Universe dives into contemporary queer suspense and psychological thrillers where survivors fight back and find connection in the unlikeliest places. From Chains of Fate to Joe Town Bound to Silken Bonds, each series unravels a different corner of the criminal underworld while weaving in slow‑burn, emotionally charged queer romance. Follow the link to discover the reading order and explore the real‑world locations that inspired each story.
Genre: Contemporary Suspense and Thriller
Spice Level: Up to 5
Darkness Level: Up to 4
In the shadows of ordinary cities, trafficking rings thrive, and corruption runs deep.
The Healing Bonds Universe follows queer survivors who fight back and find connection where no one expects it.
Click below to explore the books and the Healing Bonds World further.
Joe Town Bound
The third series in the Healing Bonds World.
Joe Town Bound takes place in St. Joseph, on the opposite side of Missouri. It's a moderately sized town that often feels much smaller. Beneath its conservative, rural surface lie secrets and lies that protect the wrong people. A thread of big‑city corruption runs straight through St. Joseph, prompting a Sentinel Investigations private investigator to set up shop. Connected to Danica Patrick is the owner of Under the Rainbow, a secret BDSM club hidden beneath the city’s only gay bar, the Rainbow Club, where truth and danger collide behind closed doors.
Pick up Joe Town Bound if you’re drawn to small‑town drama and heavy suspense.
Chains of Fate
The first series in the Healing Bonds World.
Chains of Fate follows Kieran Sung and his polycule as they navigate the darkest corners of St. Louis, where trafficking rings thrive, corruption runs deep, and survival demands both courage and connection. Every series in the Healing Bonds World ties back to the foundational trilogy, Doctor’s Training, making Chains of Fate the heart of the world’s overarching story. At the center of it all is Strawberry’s Black, a BDSM club housed in an old brewery, where Danica Patrick works to save those the system has failed.
Start with Chains of Fate for the full Healing Bonds experience.
Silken Bonds
The second series in the Healing Bonds World.
Silken Bonds is set in Santa Cruz, California, and, like Chains of Fate, explores the darker edges of the world its characters inhabit. Confronting trafficking, kidnapping, and other violent crimes, these survivors find their way to the Grotto, a BDSM club whose owner is directly connected to Danica Patrick of Strawberry’s Black in St. Louis. Also woven through the series is the Sentinel Investigations, owned and operated by the Seaths from Doctor’s Training, whose influence reaches far beyond Missouri.
Pick up Silken Bonds if you’re drawn to seaside mysteries and suspense.
Where to Start
Sub-Genre: Dark Romance and BDSM
A version of today's world where change and darkness threaten to overwhelm its supernatural society.
Beneath the Gateway Arch lies a city where magic breathes, monsters bargain, and the Mirage hides the truth from the unawakened. The Mystic Ring stands between humanity and the supernatural forces that walk the streets in plain sight. Across the Dragon Trinity Cycle, Transcendent Voices, and Wolf’s Moon, you’ll meet alchemists, werewolves, fae, psychics, witches, and the broken souls caught between worlds. And they're all fighting for survival, justice, and a place to belong. Step into the city where every shadow might have teeth. Or possibly a bit of lipstick.
Genre: Paranormal/Supernatural Suspense and Thriller
Sub-Genre: Dark Romance
Spice Level: Up to 3
Darkness Level: Up to 5
Magic breathes under the Gateway Arch, where monsters strike bargains, and every shadow might have teeth. Or perhaps a bit of lipstick.
Supernatural St. Louis reveals the world the Mirage hides, and the Mystic Ring fights to keep humanity from slipping into the dark.
Click below to explore the books and the Supernatural St. Louis World further.
Dragon Trinity Cycle
Supernatural drugs are ravaging the city of St. Louis.
In Dragon Trinity Cycle, Unit Zero fights to protect St. Louis's supernatural citizens from deadly designer drugs engineered to destroy them, species by species. Drawn into the fray is Duncan, an alchemist, and Kacey, a young werewolf representing a new breed of wolf entering a rigid, change‑resistant society. Together with Sebastian of Unit Zero, they race to uncover the larger conspiracy behind the attacks and identify who is trying to wipe out everything they know.
Pick up Dragon Trinity Cycle if you enjoy procedural crime drama and suspenseful romance.
Where to Start
A future world where human hubris has left humanity surviving in a post-apacolypic society.
In 2172, humanity pushes too far in its hunger for limitless energy, tearing open the quantum realm and dragging four other worlds into collision with Earth. The breach unleashes creatures, chaos, and a slow unraveling of reality itself. One man knows how to close the Nexus, but he has no reason to try. Not until he meets Wicker, a being born of the breech, and everything he thought he understood about the realms, the disaster, and himself begins to change. Walls is the first book in a sweeping sci‑fi fantasy saga, with more stories waiting beyond the breech.
Genre: Science Fiction and Fantasy
Sub-Genre: Slow Burn Queer Romance
Spice Level: 0-1
Darkness Level: Up to 5
After scientists delve too deep into the quantum realm, they pierce the Nexus--the protector of the barrier between Earth and four other Realms.
Alastair knows the path to fixing it, but lacks the motivation. That is, until he meets Wicker.
Click below to explore the books and the Nexus World further.
Walls
Start your journey with Walls.
Join Alastair MacMillan on his journey of self discover, self-acceptance, and moral ambiguity about the world. Meeting an incredible being named Wicker is only the beginning of the changes that are wrought on Alastair, and the world. With the effort of Alastair and Wicker along with their incredible found family, the world might just survive the chaos and destruction the collision with the other realms has caused. If they can just figure out how to change the world, they might just be able to finally save it.
Where to Start
A world the gods appear to have abandoned receives the Mother of Gods to save her children.
The gods have vanished. Hope has withered. And in the silence they left behind, the Dark Phoenix rises to reclaim her lost children. As ancient powers stir, the other phoenixes awaken one by one (fire, air, water, earth, light), each carrying a fragment of the world’s salvation. From the ruins of forgotten kingdoms to the edges of the known world, heroes will rise again to face the darkness that swallowed Avern whole. The journey begins with Legacy of the Phoenix and will unfold across Pirates of Avern, Kingdoms of Avern, Dragons of Avern, and the final war that will decide the fate of the realm.
Genre: Epic Fantasy
Sub-Genre: Queer Romantasy
Spice Level: Up to 3
Darkness Level: Up to 5
When Kieara merges with the Dark Phoenix, the Mother of Gods walks the world once again. Her mission is to save her children and the world of Avern.
Click below to explore the books and Avern further.
Dark and the Sword
Start your journey with Dark and the Sword.
The Dark Phoenix walks the world once more. While she appears to be all powerful, a veil has fallen over one of the most powerful tools she has access to: the Sight. With no ability to see future possibilities or receive prophecy, she must depend on others to aid her in her attempts to save her children--and the world of Avern. She gathers her allies in a sweeping tale that takes them underground to the Noren t'Kalima and the Wildlands to find the seat of the Oracle.
Where to Start
A galaxy filled with possibilities that still contains corruption to be rooted out.
Humanity reached for the stars--or rather the stars reached for them. First contact came in the middle of World War III by an enigmatic race called the Datamind, and everything changed. The galaxy opened up to humankind, however some of the things that humans took to the stars with them should have been left behind. Things like corruption, enslavement, and sadism were brought along. Now, in a wider galaxy, humans and aliens alike strive for something that all desire: Freedom.
Genre: Hard Science Fiction and Drama
Sub-Genre: Queer Romance
Spice Level: Up to 3
Darkness Level: Up to 5
The galaxy is far bigger and fuller than any human mind ever imagined it to be. Still, the galaxy isn't perfect, and it takes those who want to change things to make a difference.
Click below to explore the books and Freedomverse further.
Breaking Free
Start your journey with Breaking Free.
Rain and Chrome work together tirelessly to root out corruption in their world as members of the hactivist group, the Technomancers. As they work on unearthing secrets, Rain comes across some shocking footage. A short time later, he disappears from his high tech apartment with no trail left behind. Chrome, who views Rain as his best friend, harbors more than friendly feelings for him, and is dedicated to using every skill--and piece of technology--to find him and bring him home, right into his arms.
Where to Start
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