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Dionysus in Wisconsin

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E. H. Lupton
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Book
2
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2
Release Date
May 5, 2026
Duration
9 hours 28 minutes
Summary
For fans of KJ Charles's The Magpie Lord and Freya Marske's A Marvellous Light, this Lammy-nominated twentieth-century American romance follows a graduate student through a magical, queernorm version of the 1960s as he joins forces with an archivist to fight a god.

Fall, 1969. Ulysses Lenkov should be working on his dissertation. Instead, he's caught up in the troubles of ghosts and hapless magic users. But when his clients start vanishing, he worries there's something afoot that’s worse than an unavenged death. The last word on the victim's lips? Dionysus.

Sam Sterling just moved back to Madison and is already embroiled in a family crisis. But his peaceful days as an archivist come to an end when the magnetic, mistrustful Ulysses turns up with a warning. There's a god coming, and it's coming for Sam.

As the two men's lives grow ever more intertwined, they face harrowing demon attacks, family secrets, and the race to a solution that doesn't end in heartbreak and death. As the solstice draws near, so does a deadly showdown that threatens both Sam and the city itself.

Dionysus in Wisconsin is the first in a new series of urban fantasy/historical M/M romances set in Madison, WI in the late 1960s/early 1970s. It doesn't end on a cliffhanger and can be read as a stand-alone.
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Profile Avatar Kelsey W. Sep 2026

Set in a magical 1969, Ulysses and his family have a variety of magical and paranormal skills. Ulysses is a grad student that prefers to use those skills for side jobs instead of working on his dissertation. When destruction and doom keeps coming back to someone in the Madison area named Dionysus. Ulysses finds Sam, an archivist and whose first name is Dionysus. They have an immediate connection but then demons start coming after Sam. So they work together to defeat the coming god and save Sam all while they fall in love. This was such an interesting and fun story. The plot is a bit outside what I normally read but it was refreshing and kept me guessing what would happen next and how it would all play out. It’s heavier on the plot than the romance. Yet they’re also trying to save Sam and the world. I kept wanting to pick it up again and couldn’t get enough of Sam and Ulysses. I remember a lot of people talking about this when it first came out and when I saw the audiobook was getting released I leaped at the chance to finally read it. Scott Paige does a great job voicing both characters and the pacing kept me engaged. Dionysus in Wisconsin is the first book in the Wisconsin Gothic series. This was a new to me author. I received an advance listener copy. All opinions are my own.

Dionysus in Wisconsin

Dionysus in Wisconsin

Author: E. H. Lupton
Read by: TBA
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