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  • Ribbonwood by Ruby Landers

    Ribbonwood by Ruby Landers

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 20 ratings
    Lara Bennett is world-famous in Ribbonwood, population 907. She’s the woman you don't trust your husband with: a real-life femme fatale. If there’s a scandal in town, she’s at the center of it, ruining businesses, marriages, and egos everywhere she goes, with her sharp tongue and that body that makes you look twice...
    Categorized as:
    queer  contemporary  f-f  length-long
  • A Lesbian's Guide to Women by Erica Lee

    A Lesbian's Guide to Women by Erica Lee

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 26 ratings
    Annalise Finch is content - she has a job she enjoys, lives close to her family and friends, and spends most Wednesday nights drinking wine with her grandma. According to her grandma, though, she has lost her sparkle, and the only solution is to join a site to hook up with other women. The only problem (aside from a meddling grandma with a dirty mind) is Annalise doesn’t like women...
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  • She Loves to Cook, and She Loves to Eat, Vol. 4 by Sakaomi Yuzaki

    She Loves to Cook, and She Loves to Eat, Vol. 4 by Sakaomi Yuzaki

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Kasuga has realized she’s in love with Nomoto―and after the blast they had at their curry party, the two grow closer than ever! With Valentine’s Day approaching, Nomoto bakes up a storm and Kasuga hits the shops as they prepare the perfect treats to give each other, and they both turn to a friend for advice on expressing their feelings...
    Categorized as:
    queer  f-f  contemporary  length-short
  • Then & Now by Monica McCallan

    Then & Now by Monica McCallan

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Lily Connor has focused all her energy into becoming a successful wedding planner, and after five years, she’s on the precipice of taking on more responsibility at Southerland Wedding Company. When the chance finally presents itself, it comes with a complication she couldn’t have dreamt up in her worst nightmares...
  • Saving Graces by Ruby Landers

    Saving Graces by Ruby Landers

    Rated: 4.69 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 11 ratings
    Rosalie Carlson is the person everyone turns to in a crisis. She’s kind, calm, caring and a social worker, after all. She’s got it all together… except that her personal life is kind of a disaster. Things can get a little hectic after all, when your complicated best-friendship is with a megastar like Savannah Grace...
  • Ribbonwood by Ruby Landers

    Ribbonwood by Ruby Landers

    Rated: 4.80 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Lara Bennett is world-famous in Ribbonwood, population 907. She’s the woman you don't trust your husband with: a real-life femme fatale. If there’s a scandal in town, she’s at the center of it, ruining businesses, marriages, and egos everywhere she goes, with her sharp tongue and that body that makes you look twice...
  • Deal with the Devil by Ali Vali

    Deal with the Devil by Ali Vali

    Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    It’s business as usual for crime boss Cain Casey as she maneuvers to form an alliance with the Jatibon organization and secure peace among the ruling families in New Orleans. Cain’s new associate Remington Jatibon is a lot like Cain used to be—a playgirl with a passion for bedding beautiful women and an even greater passion for expanding her father’s empire, on both sides of the law...
    Categorized as:
    queer  suspense  f-f  contemporary  length-medium
  • The Devil Be Damned by Ali Vali

    The Devil Be Damned by Ali Vali

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Cain Casey is close to getting everything she wants. Her partner Emma is pregnant with their third child, her children are safe and happy, and her business is still thriving despite the FBI’s vendetta. Life is perfect on the surface, but it’s the underbelly that worries her...
    Categorized as:
    queer  contemporary  f-f  suspense  length-medium
  • The Devil's Orchard by Ali Vali

    The Devil's Orchard by Ali Vali

    Rated: 4.59 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    In book five of the Casey Family series, Cain and Emma are planning a wedding before the birth of their third child. Cain has done everything possible to protect her family and get their lives back to normal. Cain is strengthening her partnership with the Jatibons and Carlotti families, as well as trying to help her cousin Muriel heal from FBI agent Shelby Phillips’s betrayal...
    Categorized as:
    queer  suspense  f-f  contemporary  length-medium
  • Crossed Over by Santana Knox

    Crossed Over by Santana Knox

    Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    From international best-selling author Santana Knox, comes an LGBTQ, women’s fiction, coming out story like nothing you’ve ever read before. A tale that grips the hearts of those who failed to see eye-to-eye with a parent, and anyone who’s ever denied the truth about themselves...
  • The Next Chapters: An On the Same Page Novella by Haley Cass

    The Next Chapters: An On the Same Page Novella by Haley Cass

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 26 ratings
    Gianna Mäkinen has been in love with her best friend Riley Beckett for her entire adult life. She’d long accepted that her place in life was Riley’s best friend, and that was okay. It was more than okay.She never imagined that she would have the opportunity to confess her love to Riley, to marry her, to have a herd of children with her...
    Categorized as:
    queer  f-f  new adult  contemporary  length-short
  • The Devil Unleashed by Ali Vali

    The Devil Unleashed by Ali Vali

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    As the heat of violence rises, so does passion. A gunshot meant to end the legacy of the Casey Clan has left a weakened Cain fighting to regain control of her business while trying to protect her heart from the woman who left her. Threatened from every side, Cain must unleash that devil to protect all she holds dear...
    Categorized as:
    queer  f-f  contemporary  suspense  mystery  length-short
  • Awaiting by Nicole Pyland

    Awaiting by Nicole Pyland

    Rated: 4.78 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 9 ratings
    This is book #4 in the Royalty Series.Alexandria – or Alex, as she preferred to be called – would one day be the next Queen of the United Kingdom. She would also be the first out lesbian who would take that title...
  • Karaoke Queen by Erik Schubach

    Karaoke Queen by Erik Schubach

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Skylar was horribly scarred by a fire in a violent crime, thoughts of suicide plagued her until she found music. It was her savior. She came forward from the shadows to express her pain through song. Karaoke bars were her salvation. Now in an international competition, she finds herself continually vexed by her rival, Kim, who never shows her any quarter...
    Categorized as:
    queer  contemporary  f-f  humor  length-short
  • A Deafening Whisper by Erik Schubach

    A Deafening Whisper by Erik Schubach

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Mia has lived a life full of harassment, for an affliction not many understand. She thought college would be different, her escape, after all, people there are more mature right? She was wrong. A rebellious girl, Vee, saves her from a bad situation and teaches her that every single day is a gift. A romance blooms between them that not even time can erase...
    Categorized as:
    queer  contemporary  new adult  f-f  length-short
  • Sliced Ice by Lee Winter

    Sliced Ice by Lee Winter

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Ten short stories based on Lee Winter’s fierce and unforgettable ice queens and villains have been gathered into one anthology containing lesbian love, lust, friendship, and romance.Find out what happened after Lee’s stories ended, and in one case, before it began...
  • The View from the Top by Rachel Lacey

    The View from the Top by Rachel Lacey

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    When a driven businesswoman from Boston collides with a free-spirited artist on a Vermont mountainside, they share a memorable—and steamy—night, but life soon pits them against each other over the fate of a family business.Emily Janssen prefers to play it safe...
  • Distant Shores, Silent Thunder by Radclyffe

    Distant Shores, Silent Thunder by Radclyffe

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    No matter how much we plan, life—and people—have a way of surprising us. For Doctor KT O’Bannon, a near-fatal tragedy derails a career and disrupts everything she thought she knew about herself and her future. Battered and nearly broken, she turns for solace to the one woman who knows her best, her ex-lover Doctor Tory King...
  • The Summer of Our Discontent by Robin Alexander

    The Summer of Our Discontent by Robin Alexander

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    A fun summer read. Faith Leblanc is looking for that special someone, but her tactics have branded her somewhat of a womanizer. A few doors down, Rachel Chauvin is looking for the same, but her conservative style hasn’t yielded any keepers, either. Neither woman is willing to consider the other as a prospective partner, mostly because they’ve hated each other for nearly four decades...
  • Nightingale by Andrea Bramhall

    Nightingale by Andrea Bramhall

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    When Charlie Porter meets Hazaar Alim her first year of university, she's instantly smitten. Hazaar has it all: beauty, talent, and brains. What she doesn't realize is that Hazaar's future has already been decided, and Charlie has no place in it. Hazaar desperately wants to break with her traditions and stay with Charlie, but when forced to choose, she chooses her family over love...
  • Making Waves by Erik Schubach

    Making Waves by Erik Schubach

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Lenore Statham, the runner for the Flotilla Project, had been at her lowest when she was found by Angie Wells and Paya Doshi and brought into the fold. She learned how to be strong again and break the shackles her old life had hobbled her with...
    Categorized as:
    queer  humor  f-f  contemporary  length-short
  • Ships in the Night by Erik Schubach

    Ships in the Night by Erik Schubach

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The playfully evil sisters, Zoey and Eve, play matchmaker from their bakery, The Pike, in Pike Place Market in Seattle. Ligaya is a quantum physicist working in a research lab at the University of Washington. She is seduced by the numbers and math with a drive that excludes everything in her life including social interactions. Emotions have always been hard for her to understand or express...
    Categorized as:
    queer  humor  f-f  contemporary  length-short
  • Strangers in Paradise, Volume 2: I Dream of You by Terry Moore

    Strangers in Paradise, Volume 2: I Dream of You by Terry Moore

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Collects Volume 2 issues #1-9.Strangers in Paradise (SIP) is the story of three friends, Francine, Katchoo, and David and the people they fall in and out of love with. It's a tale of dark pasts and hopeful futures, double-crosses and true friendship, love, and hate...
    Categorized as:
    queer  contemporary  f-f  mystery  length-short
  • London Harmony: Feel the Beat by Erik Schubach

    London Harmony: Feel the Beat by Erik Schubach

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Abigail suffers from two conditions that allow her to experience the world around her in such a unique manner that she can literally see and feel the music around her. On a chance meeting at a music repair shop, she meets a tinker, Isabelle, who is unlike anyone she has ever met. Together, they work to get Abi's unique music noticed...
    Categorized as:
    queer  f-f  contemporary  length-short
  • Magdalene Nox by Milena McKay

    Magdalene Nox by Milena McKay

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Magdalene Nox doesn't cast wishes upon stars... She simply makes them happen. But for this particular wish, she had waited for thirty years. Her retribution against those who discarded her three decades ago should be swift and simple.Except a chance encounter and an unforgettable night turn her entire life upside down. Torn between vengeance and lust, Magdalene is forced to re-evaluate everything...
  • The Kidnapped by Nicole Pyland

    The Kidnapped by Nicole Pyland

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When she sees a picture of a little girl who looks just like her younger self in a book about lost children, Heidi realizes she was born Hollis Richardson and that she’d been stolen from her mother...
    Categorized as:
    queer  mystery  contemporary  suspense  f-f  length-medium
  • Passion's Bright Fury by Radclyffe

    Passion's Bright Fury by Radclyffe

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Saxon Sinclair, the broodingly secretive Chief of Trauma at a busy Manhattan hospital is less than pleased to learn that her new resident is going to be the subject of a documentary film. The arrival of Jude Castle, a fiery independent filmmaker, soon sets sparks flying as the two driven women clash both personally and professionally...
    Categorized as:
    queer  f-f  contemporary  length-short
  • Vesting Period by Monica McCallan

    Vesting Period by Monica McCallan

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    App designer Carter Montgomery has thrown herself into being a successful co-founder of LadyLuck for the last half decade. Until now, she’s been content to focus on work mixed with a little light fun. It takes a horrible date with an infuriating woman to make her realize that maybe she isn’t so satisfied with things and that it’s time she got serious about investing in her love life...
  • Give Me A Reason by Lyn Gardner

    Give Me A Reason by Lyn Gardner

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Intelligent, confident and beautiful, Antoinette Vaughn had it all until one night she went to help a friend and paid for it...with a life sentence in hell. Four years later, Toni’s judgment is overturned, but the damage is already done. She walks from the prison a free woman, but she’s hardly free. Actually, she’s hardly alive. A prison without rules can do that to a person...
    Categorized as:
    queer  contemporary  f-f  length-epic
  • Syncopated Rhythm by Erik Schubach

    Syncopated Rhythm by Erik Schubach

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Amber LaLanie burst upon the music scene a decade ago like a ball of fun energy. Her "live for the day" attitude has hid her insecurity and extreme loneliness in the sea of people around her. Then she met a production intern, Kylee, who has a way of drawing out the real Amber that lies within. This is set in the same world as Music of the Soul but is a standalone book...
    Categorized as:
    queer  contemporary  f-f  length-short
  • London Harmony: Water Gypsy by Erik Schubach

    London Harmony: Water Gypsy by Erik Schubach

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Tabitha Romanov lives on the river Thames in the heart of London, on a rundown grain barge. Music and fun drives her and her unique vocal style doesn't go unnoticed by the scouts of London Harmony when they run across her by chance at an underground rave. Teresa McClellan is a consummately professional business woman who is the headmistress at a Music Conservatoire...
    Categorized as:
    queer  f-f  contemporary  length-short
  • June by Erik Schubach

    June by Erik Schubach

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    The daughter of Mandy Fay Harris is all grown up and like her mother, is a force of nature. She is ready to come into her own and take London by storm!She never expected what what she would find while searching in New York for a scout for her music label and the new relationships she would form.This is set in the same world as Music of the Soul but is a standalone book...
    Categorized as:
    queer  f-f  slow burn  contemporary  length-short
  • Ask Me Again by E.J. Noyes

    Ask Me Again by E.J. Noyes

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    What do you do when the source of all your problems is the one thing you don’t know how to fix? With Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell nothing more than an unpleasant memory, US Army surgeon Sabine Fleischer is ready to move on with her life―if she can just figure out how to move past her PTSD...
    Categorized as:
    queer  military  contemporary  f-f  length-medium
  • The Flight Risk by Macon Leigh

    The Flight Risk by Macon Leigh

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Things are going great for Baylee Lawrence. Her writing has won awards, been adapted into an outrageously successful movie, and she’s just achieved her childhood dream of selling out a storytelling show at the Ryman. It’s incredible. Her life is perfect—a series of grand adventures. She has no intention of changing anything...
  • Winds of Change - Book One by Melissa Good

    Winds of Change - Book One by Melissa Good

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    After 9/11 the world has changed and Dar and Kerry have decided to change along with it. They have an orderly plan to resign and finally take their long delayed travelling vacation. But as always fate intervenes and they find themselves caught in a web of conflicting demands and they have to make choices they never anticipated.This novel, due to its length, will be split into at least two books...
    Categorized as:
    queer  f-f  contemporary  length-medium
  • When Worlds Collide by Erin Zak

    When Worlds Collide by Erin Zak

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    In the glittering world of Broadway, where dreams take center stage and the city that never sleeps pulses with life, Heather McCarthy, a dazzling Broadway actress at the zenith of her career, meets Grace Elliott, a celebrated romance novelist poised to see her latest masterpiece leap from the pages to the silver screen...
    Categorized as:
    queer  contemporary  f-f  length-medium
  • Cigar Club by J.A. Armstrong

    Cigar Club by J.A. Armstrong

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Fallon Foster is Whiskey Springs' self-proclaimed token lesbian. She isn't a token any longer. After her year-long affair with best friend, Andi Maguire ends, Fallon hopes to earn the trust and win the heart of the town's newest resident, Riley Main. Ghosts from the past still haunt Fallon and Riley. Informed by loss and betrayal, the pair endeavors to find their way to each other...
  • Fated Love by Radclyffe

    Fated Love by Radclyffe

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    What do you do when your carefully planned life takes a wrong turn into hell? When Quinn Maguire, a dashing young trauma surgeon, unaccountably accepts a position as an ER physician, her new boss, Honor Blake, suspects that Quinn is hiding a dark secret. While the two declare an uneasy truce in an effort to work together, both struggle with mutual, and unexpected, attraction...
  • Love & Honor by Radclyffe

    Love & Honor by Radclyffe

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    US Secret Service Agent Cameron Roberts has more than one secret that could destroy her career, not the least of which is that she’s in love with the president’s daughter. Blair Powell, the first daughter, returns the feeling despite her ambivalence about Cam’s role as her security chief, particularly in the aftermath of an assassination attempt that nearly cost Cam her life...
  • A Matter of Trust (Justice Series) by Radclyffe

    A Matter of Trust (Justice Series) by Radclyffe

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A Prequel to In Pursuit of Justice. Michael Lassiter, a theoretical design executive, is about to wage war on the corporate battlefield as she fights to maintain control of her company in the midst of divorce. She hires JT Sloan, an internet security consultant, to protect her most important asset—her dreams and visions, which are suddenly vulnerable within the corporate computer system...
    Categorized as:
    queer  contemporary  suspense  f-f  length-short
  • Fearless by Robin Alexander, Lori Prince

    Fearless by Robin Alexander, Lori Prince

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Falon Whyte books a cruise for her girlfriend of two years. What she hopes will be a fun vacation quickly turns out to be a nightmare. Falon is normally a woman who can roll with the punches, but life delivers a series of blows that knock her on her butt and leave her stranded in Honduras with the company of an uptight woman she doesn’t like. Haley Hollis isn’t having a good time, either...
    Categorized as:
    queer  humor  f-f  contemporary  from hate to love
  • Survived by Her Longtime Companion by Chris Paynter

    Survived by Her Longtime Companion by Chris Paynter

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Hired to work on a biography of the late film star, Daphne DeMonet, Bailey Hampton arrives to conduct an interview with Eleanor Burnett, Daphne’s "longtime companion." To Bailey’s dismay, she learns Eleanor has set up a co interview with Bailey’s ex-partner, Chelsea Parker. Estranged for eleven months, the two women hide their painful memories and strain to be civil to one another...
    Categorized as:
    queer  f-f  contemporary  length-short
  • A Quiet Death by Cari Hunter

    A Quiet Death by Cari Hunter

    Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    In book three in the Dark Peak series, things are looking up for Detective Sanne Jensen and Dr. Meg Fielding. Dating each other seems to be working, their families are behaving themselves, and the worst of the post-Christmas crime wave is over.The discovery of a Pakistani girl’s body out on the moors changes all that. No one knows who she is, who hurt her, or how she came to be there...
  • Enthralled by Her by Chelsea M. Cameron

    Enthralled by Her by Chelsea M. Cameron

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Things might be going well enough, but I couldn’t see much to look forward to. Sure, I somehow had a thriving business repairing and rebinding books, and my parents had gifted me their vacation house after my apartment was turned into a co-op. Still, there wasn’t a whole lot of action and excitement in little Arrowbridge, Maine, but I was making the best of it, like I always did...
  • Honor Guards by Radclyffe

    Honor Guards by Radclyffe

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    When you're the president's daughter and the closest thing the country has to a first lady, your life is never really your own. When you're the woman charged to guard the first daughter, and you also happen to be her lover, every moment of every day is filled with challenges—and a mistake could cost you everything...
    Categorized as:
    queer  contemporary  f-f  suspense  length-medium
  • Night Cap by J.A. Armstrong

    Night Cap by J.A. Armstrong

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    It’s autumn in Whiskey Springs, Vermont, and more than the leaves have changed color. Life has never been better for Fallon Foster. Her relationship with the town’s newest citizen, Riley Main is progressing as Fallon had hoped. Fallon finally believes she may get the family she’s dreamed of. Her business is thriving, and her friendship with her former lover, Andi Maguire is back on track...
  • Five Feet or Less by Erik Schubach

    Five Feet or Less by Erik Schubach

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Reese is a programmer and tech geek who was confined to a wheelchair at a young age. Since then she has locked herself away from the outside in her virtual world. Until a chance meeting with an ex-punk rocker girl, Sarah, who teaches her that her world is not defined in five feet or less. This is set in the same world as Music of the Soul but is a standalone book...
    Categorized as:
    queer  contemporary  f-f  length-short
  • Strangers in Paradise, Volume 8: My Other Life by Terry Moore

    Strangers in Paradise, Volume 8: My Other Life by Terry Moore

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    My Other Life contains the powerful and moving story of a horrendous plane crash that rips the lives of Francine, Katchoo and David apart. And, to make matters worse, Katchoo discovers the plane crash was no accident, as the demons from her other life come back to claim her for good. A heartbreaking story that launched the SIP books in a new direction...
    Categorized as:
    queer  f-f  contemporary  length-novella
  • Graceless by Ruby Landers

    Graceless by Ruby Landers

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 12 ratings
    Savannah Grace is on top of the world. She’s back to selling out stadium tours and winning Grammys, and she’s just arrived home from her honeymoon after marrying the love of her life… nothing could burst this bubble. Except, of course, her estranged family...
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