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  • Word of Honor by Radclyffe

    Word of Honor by Radclyffe

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    All Cameron Roberts and Blair Powell want is a small, intimate wedding, but the paparazzi and a domestic terrorist have other plans. First Daughter Blair Powell and her lover Cameron Roberts, newly appointed deputy director of the Homeland Security Office, escape to a ski chalet in the Rockies after a harrowing attack by members of a domestic terrorism organization...
    Categorized as:
    queer  f-f  fantasy  contemporary  length-medium
  • The Apple Diary by Gerri Hill

    The Apple Diary by Gerri Hill

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Following the death of her grandmother, reluctant heiress Madilyn Marak agrees to stay with her grandfather at the estate for the summer. While there, she finds a diary—The Apple Diary—written by her great-grandmother Isabel, telling the story of a long ago love affair with a woman named Lorah...
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  • The Traitor And the Chalice by Jane Fletcher

    The Traitor And the Chalice by Jane Fletcher

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Tevi and Jemeryl, soldier and sorceress, must risk all in the race to uncover a traitor and retrieve the chalice that, in the wrong hands, could bestow dangerous powers.A dark presence is threatening to uncover long hidden secrets, and the future of the whole Protectorate is at stake...
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    queer  contemporary  f-f  fantasy  suspense  length-short
  • The High Priest and the Idol by Jane Fletcher

    The High Priest and the Idol by Jane Fletcher

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Jemeryl and Tevi's relationship is put to the test when the Guardian sends Jemeryl on a mission that lands her not only in harm's way, but also back into the sites of a previous lover. The Protectorate of Lyremouth promises liberty for all its citizens, but this does not mean that everyone is equal...
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    queer  f-f  fantasy  contemporary  length-medium
  • Sappho's Fables, Volume 1: Three Lesbian Fairy Tale Novellas (Sappho's Fables: Lesbian Fairy Tales) by Elora Bishop, Jennifer Diemer

    Sappho's Fables, Volume 1: Three Lesbian Fairy Tale Novellas (Sappho's Fables: Lesbian Fairy Tales) by Elora Bishop, Jennifer Diemer

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    The Sappho's Fables series takes well-known, beloved fairy tales and retells them from a lesbian perspective. Volume One contains the first three novellas in the series: SEVEN (Snow White), BRAIDED (Rapunzel) and CRUMBS (Hansel and Gretel), compiled together in an enchanting omnibus edition...
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    queer  contemporary  fantasy  f-f  length-short
  • A Pirate's Heart by Catherine Friend

    A Pirate's Heart by Catherine Friend

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Four women, a long-lost treasure, and more than one “thief of hearts” share a destiny beyond time. To foil a map thief, librarian Emma Boyd searches for a pirate's long-lost treasure map. She’s aided in her search by investigator Randi Marx, who proves to be as frustrating as she is beautiful...
    Categorized as:
    queer  pirates  historical  fantasy  f-f  contemporary  mystery  humor
  • The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue

    The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 65 ratings
    An alternative cover edition for this ASIN can be found here.Dublin, 1918: three days in a maternity ward at the height of the Great Flu. A small world of work, risk, death and unlooked-for love, by the bestselling author of The Wonder and ROOM...
    Categorized as:
    queer  historical  war  death  f-f  20th century  contemporary  fantasy
  • Divine Touched by Cassandra Duffy

    Divine Touched by Cassandra Duffy

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Harper, Sword Maiden for the illustrious Goddess of the Open Sea, has returned to the fabled city of Griffon's Rock at the end of the Last Road to rest for the winter months after a disappointing year treasure hunting...
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    queer  f-f  fantasy  contemporary  length-medium
  • Watermark by Karin Kallmaker

    Watermark by Karin Kallmaker

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Teresa Mandrell's first encounter with advertising executive Rayann Germaine begins badly and goes downhill from there. Within minutes of their meeting, Rayann dubs Teresa a "bumbling amateur." The event changes the course of Teresa's life -- she abandons the corporate world for what she hopes is a more satisfying career in Fine Arts Management...
  • Making Up for Lost Time by Karin Kallmaker

    Making Up for Lost Time by Karin Kallmaker

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When three love-starved lesbians decide to make up for lost time, the recipe is romance. And with Karin Kallmaker cooking, you know the result will be hot, spicy and mouth-wateringly delicious! Master Chef Jamie Onassis has used every penny she has to buy a beautiful country inn she plans to turn into a five-star restaurant...
  • Fire Logic by Laurie J. Marks

    Fire Logic by Laurie J. Marks

    Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 17 ratings
    Earth * Air * Water * Fire These elements have sustained the peaceful people of Shaftal for generations, with their subtle powers of healing, truth, joy, and intuition. But now, Shaftal is dying. The earth witch who ruled Shaftal is dead, leaving no heir. Shaftal's ruling house has been scattered by the invading Sainnites...
  • The Rental Heart and Other Fairytales by Kirsty Logan

    The Rental Heart and Other Fairytales by Kirsty Logan

    Rated: 3.82 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Twenty tales of lust and loss. These stories feature clockwork hearts, lascivious queens, paper men, island circuses, and a flooded world.• On the island of Skye, an antlered girl and a tiger-tailed boy resolve never to be friends – but can they resist their unique connection?• In an alternative 19th-century Paris, a love triangle emerges between a man, a woman, and a coin-operated boy...
    Categorized as:
    queer  fantasy  contemporary  f-f
  • How to Wrestle a Girl: Stories by Venita Blackburn

    How to Wrestle a Girl: Stories by Venita Blackburn

    Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Venita Blackburn's characters bully and suffer, spit and tease, mope and blame. They're hyperaware of their bodies and fiercely observant, fending off the failures and advances of adults with indifferent ease. In "Biology Class," they torment a teacher to the point of near insanity, while in "Bear Bear Harvest(TM)," they prepare to sell their excess fat and skin for food processing...
    Categorized as:
    queer  f-f  contemporary  fantasy  black-mc  length-short
  • Learning Curve by Rachel Spangler

    Learning Curve by Rachel Spangler

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Genre: Lesbian romance. Ashton Clarke, a local Casanova with a long history of falling into bed with a different woman every night, is perfectly content with her free and easy existence until she gives in to her best friend’s request to spend an evening helping out at the local gay and lesbian youth center...
    Categorized as:
    queer  f-f  fantasy  contemporary  length-short
  • Embrace in Motion by Karin Kallmaker

    Embrace in Motion by Karin Kallmaker

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Sarah MacNeil is about to put her heart in the hands of a beautiful woman who could be her salvation...or her ruin! Surfing high on the wave of lesbian chic, author/screenwriter Melissa Hartley is deliciously dangerous. She knows the right people, goes to all the right parties, says all the right things...
  • It's a Fabulous Life by Kelly Farmer

    It's a Fabulous Life by Kelly Farmer

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Perfect for fans of Alison Cochrun and Ashley Herring Blake, this sapphic retelling of It’s a Wonderful Life will make the yuletide gay.After years of putting aside her dreams of travel and adventure, Bailey George is ready to leave Lanford Falls and her responsibilities behind on a long-awaited vacation to New York City...
  • The Pyramid Waltz by Barbara Ann Wright

    The Pyramid Waltz by Barbara Ann Wright

    Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    To most, Princess Katya Nar Umbriel is a rogue and a layabout; she parties, she hunts and she breaks women’s hearts. But when the festival lights go down and the palace slumbers, Katya chases traitors to the crown and protects the kingdom’s greatest secret: the royal Umbriels are part Fiend...
    Categorized as:
    queer  contemporary  fantasy  f-f  length-medium
  • Never Anyone But You by Rupert Thomson

    Never Anyone But You by Rupert Thomson

    Rated: 3.82 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    The true story of a love affair between two extraordinary women becomes a literary tour deforce in this novel that recreates the surrealist movement in Paris and the horrors of the two world wars with a singular incandescence and intimacy.In the years preceding World War I, two young women meet, by chance, in a provincial town in France...
  • Set in Stone by Stela Brinzeanu

    Set in Stone by Stela Brinzeanu

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In medieval Moldova, two women from opposing backgrounds fall in love.But this is a world where a woman’s role is defined by religion and class. To make a life together means defying their families, the law, and the Church. The closer they become, and the more they refuse the roles assigned to them, the more sacrifices they have to make...
  • Matrix by Lauren Groff

    Matrix by Lauren Groff

    Rated: 3.68 of 5 stars
    · 56 ratings
    One of our best American writers, Lauren Groff returns with her exhilarating first new novel since the groundbreaking Fates and Furies...
  • Not Exactly What I Had in Mind by Kate Brook

    Not Exactly What I Had in Mind by Kate Brook

    Rated: 3.34 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    An irresistible, funny, sharply observed debut novel in which two roommates, and two sisters, will learn that sometimes family--and love--find you in the most unexpected placesHazel and Alfie have just moved in together as roommates. They've also just slept together, which was either a catastrophic mistake or the best decision of their lives--they aren't quite sure yet...
    Categorized as:
    queer  contemporary  f-f  fantasy  humor
  • The Animals at Lockwood Manor by Jane Healey

    The Animals at Lockwood Manor by Jane Healey

    Rated: 3.32 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    A debut novel for fans of Sarah Perry and Kate Morton: when a young woman is tasked with safeguarding a natural history collection as it is spirited out of London during World War II, she discovers her new manor home is a place of secrets and terror instead of protection...
    Categorized as:
    queer  mystery  historical  fantasy  f-f  suspense  contemporary  war
  • Harley Quinn: The Animated Series: The Eat. Bang! Kill. Tour #1 by Tee Franklin, Max Sarin

    Harley Quinn: The Animated Series: The Eat. Bang! Kill. Tour #1 by Tee Franklin, Max Sarin

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 25 ratings
    Harley and Ivy on the road trip of the century! Following the wedding disaster of the decade, Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy end up on the run from Commissioner Gordon and the GCPD! But as fun as all that sounds, Ivy still worries over leaving Kite Man at the altar…Luckily, Harley’s got the perfect scheme to shake her out of her wedding-day...
  • Thieves by Lucie Bryon

    Thieves by Lucie Bryon

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Ella can’t seem to remember a single thing from the party the night before at a mysterious stranger’s mansion, and she sure as heck doesn’t know why she’s woken up in her bed surrounded by a magpie’s nest of objects that aren’t her own...
  • The Stars and the Blackness Between Them by Junauda Petrus

    The Stars and the Blackness Between Them by Junauda Petrus

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Told in two distinct and irresistible voices, Junauda Petrus’s bold and lyrical debut is the story of two black girls from very different backgrounds finding love and happiness in a world that seems determined to deny them both.Trinidad...
  • This Poison Heart by Kalynn Bayron

    This Poison Heart by Kalynn Bayron

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 47 ratings
    Darkness blooms in bestselling author Kalynn Bayron's new contemporary fantasy about a girl with a unique and deadly power.Briseis has a gift: she can grow plants from tiny seeds to rich blooms with a single touch.When Briseis's aunt dies and wills her a dilapidated estate in rural New York, Bri and her parents decide to leave Brooklyn behind for the summer...
  • Proud by Juno Dawson

    Proud by Juno Dawson

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    VISIONARY HONOURS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020Celebrate the fifth anniversary of PROUD in this dazzling new edition of the anthology, featuring a brand-new story and artwork.A stirring, bold and moving anthology of stories and poetry by top LGBTQ+ YA authors and new talent, giving their unique responses to the broad theme of pride...
  • Gillette Park by Gerri Hill, Nicol Zanzarella

    Gillette Park by Gerri Hill, Nicol Zanzarella

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Gillette Park, a sleepy town nestled in the Rocky Mountains, harbors a secret.Twenty-three years ago, a young girl went missing. Three days later her body was found lodged beneath the footbridge over Gillette Creek. The murder shook the town but they soon found it was only the beginning. A serial killer hides among them—a serial killer who strikes twice, sometimes three times a year...
    Categorized as:
    queer  paranormal  mystery  f-f  fantasy  contemporary  suspense
  • Hazel Bly and the Deep Blue Sea by Ashley Herring Blake

    Hazel Bly and the Deep Blue Sea by Ashley Herring Blake

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A novel about a girl navigating grief, trauma, and friendship.Hazel Bly used to live in the perfect house with the perfect family in sunny California. But when a kayaking trip goes horribly wrong, Mum is suddenly gone forever and Hazel is left with crippling anxiety and a jagged scar on her face. After Mum's death, Hazel, her other mother, Mama, and her little sister, Peach, needed a fresh start...
  • Face the Wind by Caren J. Werlinger

    Face the Wind by Caren J. Werlinger

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Kathleen Halloran has never been happier. She and Molly Cooper have built a life together, living in her grandmother’s cottage. The family drama of the past has calmed down. She and Molly will soon be aunts. Life on Little Sister Island is everything Kathleen could wish for… until the island begins to send ominous signals that change is in the wind...
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