The Exile and the Sorcerer (Lyremouth Chronicles, #1)

Turn-of-the-millennia lesbian fantasy pulp that's so turn-of-the-millennia lesbian fantasy pulp that it actually started life as a Xena fic. It manages to punch above its weight almost everywhere though. I was recommended this book on the basis that it possessed shades of Steerswoman, and while it's not as deliberate in its construction it does tickle a lot of the same parts of my brain with how the protagonist comes to make assumptions about the setting. Also a delightfully harrowing depiction of internalized gay shame, that somehow manages to be played for rom-com fluff later on.