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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: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 15 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
  • Awaiting by Nicole Pyland

    Awaiting by Nicole Pyland

    Rated: 4.66 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 15 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...
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  • The Echoes of Her Silence by Skye Von Triessen

    The Echoes of Her Silence by Skye Von Triessen

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    To the world, Dominique Fournier is the picture-perfect married to a powerful man, draped in wealth, and living a life most would envy. But behind closed doors, her world is anything but golden. Trapped in a loveless, suffocating marriage, each day is a carefully concealed nightmare—until the one person she never expects comes to her rescue...
    Categorized as:
    queer  f-f  length-long  contemporary  audiobook
  • Honor Bound by Radclyffe

    Honor Bound by Radclyffe

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Secret Service Agent Cameron Roberts made a promise to Blair Powell, the President's daughter--not to place her own life in danger protecting Blair--but a request from the Commander in Chief forces her to break her word...
  • Damaged Goods by Eliza Lentzski

    Damaged Goods by Eliza Lentzski

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 22 ratings
    New from Eliza Lentzski: Damaged Goods – the sequel to Don’t Call Me Hero. The past few years had been difficult for former Marine, Cassidy Miller. She’d left the military, joined the Minneapolis city police, only to voluntarily remove herself from active duty...
  • Shifting Gears by Jazz Forrester

    Shifting Gears by Jazz Forrester

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 23 ratings
    A spicy, small-town, opposites attract lesbian romance about learning to let go, no matter the cost.Workaholic Eleanor Cromwell blows into rural Canada, laser focused on her real estate development project. Given the locals already hate her father’s company, she plans to hide away in a cabin and conceal her identity to get the job done...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • The Flight Risk by Macon Leigh

    The Flight Risk by Macon Leigh

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 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...
  • 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...
  • 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
  • Cold Blooded Lover by Eliza Lentzski

    Cold Blooded Lover by Eliza Lentzski

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Former Marine, Cassidy Miller knew what it took to be a good soldier and even a decent beat cop. She was starting to figure out how to be a girlfriend as her relationship with Julia Desjardin progressed, but what did she know about being a cold case detective? Buried under paperwork in the basement of the Fourth Police Precinct, she was going to have to figure it out...
  • Nightingale by Andrea Bramhall

    Nightingale by Andrea Bramhall

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 14 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...
  • 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
  • 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...
  • Safe Harbor by Radclyffe

    Safe Harbor by Radclyffe

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    A mysterious newcomer, a reclusive doctor, and a troubled gay teenager learn about love, friendship, and trust during one tumultuous summer in Provincetown. Reese Conlon, LtCol USMCR, is the new sheriff who has heads turning amidst speculation as to who will be the first woman to capture her attentions. Doctor Victoria King has been betrayed by love once and refuses to risk heartbreak again...
  • Love & Honor by Radclyffe

    Love & Honor by Radclyffe

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Third book in the Honor Series. 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...
  • 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...
  • 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  audiobook
  • Passion's Bright Fury by Radclyffe

    Passion's Bright Fury by Radclyffe

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 24 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...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • Honor Reclaimed by Radclyffe

    Honor Reclaimed by Radclyffe

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    In the chaotic aftermath of 9/11, Secret Service agent Cameron Roberts and her lover, first daughter Blair Powell, must contend with recriminations from within the government and danger from without as they struggle to uncover those who betrayed the nation and nearly claimed Blair’s life...
  • Honor Under Siege by Radclyffe

    Honor Under Siege by Radclyffe

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    With the nation on the verge of war, security takes on new meaning for Secret Service Agent Cameron Roberts, whose lover just happens to be the President’s daughter. First daughter Blair Powell and her “secret” Secret Service agent lover, Cameron Roberts, intend to get married—with her father’s blessing...
  • Arriving by Nicole Pyland

    Arriving by Nicole Pyland

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 10 ratings
    This is book #3 in the Royalty Series.Alice, a small-town teacher who had lost her parents years ago, had always felt out of place. There was just something missing in her life that she could never seem to identify. When a man showed up to tell her that she was the long-lost daughter of a King and Queen who had been exiled from their country and were now dead, Alice didn’t believe him...
  • Price of Honor by Radclyffe

    Price of Honor by Radclyffe

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Honor and duty are not always black and white—and when self-styled patriots take up arms against the government, the price of honor may be a life. Blair Powell and Jane Graves have much in common and even more that sets them apart in an invisible battle raging on home soil...
  • The Touch of Her Voice by Sara Scott

    The Touch of Her Voice by Sara Scott

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    ...Firebird Awards 2022 (Speak Up Talk Radio)First Place LGBTQ FictionFirst Place New Adult FictionFirst Place New Fiction (first time published)...2022 American Fiction Awards Finalist (LGBTQ+ Fiction)...Literary Titan Gold Book Award (September 2022)...Readers' Favorite 5 Star BookMy world turned to shades of grey as I squared my shoulders and turned around...
  • Dead Shot by Erik Schubach

    Dead Shot by Erik Schubach

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    McKenzie is a soldier and her girlfriend, Katie, is a contractor with the United Nations peacekeeping force. McKenzie's squad has named her Dead Shot for her uncanny ability with weapons.When her unit is ambushed, will her skills be enough?This is set in the same world as Music of the Soul but is a standalone book...
  • When DC Loved Iowa by Lee Winter

    When DC Loved Iowa by Lee Winter

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    What happens after the morning after? Polar opposites fall in love in this low-angst, ice queen lesbian romance about a DC finance journalist and a cheeky butch flight mechanic.Cynthia Redwell can’t believe she bedded some ex-softballer/mechanic at her best friend’s Iowa wedding. Worse, the woman has a smart mouth, a cute grin, and a baffling immunity to her fabulously biting barbs...
  • Tempted By Her by Chelsea M. Cameron

    Tempted By Her by Chelsea M. Cameron

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    I wasn’t looking forward to finding a new roommate after my best friend, Joy, moved in with her girlfriend, Ezra. We’ve lived together for years, and I didn’t want to start over with a stranger. Then there’s a fire at the house Lark’s renting and for some reason I open my mouth and offer to let her move in with me...
  • Teach Me by Melissa Tereze, Jourdyn Kelly

    Teach Me by Melissa Tereze, Jourdyn Kelly

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    After years of separation and mutual longing, Vanessa Hughes and Emma Bradley are blissfully engaged. Everything about their new life together is wonderful, until Emma learns the children’s sport agency that sent her to Africa has gone bankrupt. Back when she was pining for Vanessa, Emma’s work was a godsend, both for her and for the kids who had nothing else good in their lives...
  • Naughty or Nice? A Very Merry Decadence Christmas by M. Never

    Naughty or Nice? A Very Merry Decadence Christmas by M. Never

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Are you Naughty or are you Nice? Get claimed by Kayne one last time as the entire Decadence crew comes together for a winter wedding no one will forget! Christmas is magical in New York— lights gleam and snow swirls as a powerful foursome reunites! Warning NSFW! Available only during the month of December! Get it while it’s hot! My Christmas gift to you! Author note: Naughty or Nice is a...
    Categorized as:
    military  queer  f-f  m-m  bdsm  menage  contemporary  christmas
  • This Is the Season to Make You Mine by Johana Gavez

    This Is the Season to Make You Mine by Johana Gavez

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Will the Christmas magic help these two friends take a shot at love?Morgan Bergman doesn’t want to go home for Christmas. She loves her family, but since her parents retired and her sister moved back to their hometown of Apfelville to take over the family business, she’s been avoiding them, feeling guilty about choosing her rising career in New York over her family...
  • Girls of Summer by Kate Christie

    Girls of Summer by Kate Christie

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The first four books of the Girls of Summer series introduced Emma Blakeley and Jamie Maxwell, two athletes with bright soccer futures. Now, in Girls of Summer, the US Women's National Team (USWNT) is in its final round of preparations before the 2015 World Cup. For Jamie, a starting spot on the World Cup roster would be a dream come true...
  • Enchanted By Her by Chelsea M. Cameron

    Enchanted By Her by Chelsea M. Cameron

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    I was NOT looking forward to my sister’s wedding in the fall. It’s just another reminder of how single I am and how much pressure my family is putting on me to “find the one.” Don’t get me wrong, I’m a hopeless romantic, but all their meddling is making me feel a little murderous.Then one day a woman walks into the bookshop where I work...
  • Lethal Affairs by Kim Baldwin, Xenia Alexiou

    Lethal Affairs by Kim Baldwin, Xenia Alexiou

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Love has never been more lethal.Elite operative Domino is no stranger to peril and impossible situations. Trained all her life to be just as comfortable fighting terrorists as mixing with the gala crowd, she is proficient at playing any role necessary to accomplish her objective and believes the cause sanctifies the means...
  • Different Worlds by Lily Seabrooke

    Different Worlds by Lily Seabrooke

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Natasha Seychelle, heiress to the vast Seychelle Enterprise, has been on a crumbling road ever since losing her mother. Losing her friends, falling away from her work responsibilities, and sinking deeper into depression, rumors are she won’t be able to succeed the company at the end of the summer.Annelise Benson just lost her kitchen job and is in freefall...
  • To Have Loved & Lost: A new adult lesbian romance by Eliza Andrews

    To Have Loved & Lost: A new adult lesbian romance by Eliza Andrews

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 10 ratings
    When two people's lives are spiraling out of control, can coming together pull both of them back up? On sale for 99 cents between now and January 1! Alexis Woods knows who she is — or at least, she thought she did. She's number 17, point guard, MVP, all-star, co-captain of the Lady Raiders NCAA Division I women's basketball team...
  • Sirens & Muses by Antonia Angress

    Sirens & Muses by Antonia Angress

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 30 ratings
    Four artists are drawn into a web of rivalry and desire at an elite art school and on the streets of New York in this “gripping, provocative, and supremely entertaining” (BuzzFeed) debut“Captures the ache-inducing quality of art and desire . . . a deeply relatable and profoundly enjoyable read, one drenched in prismatic color and light...
  • Rat Race by Eden Emory, Ashley Pines

    Rat Race by Eden Emory, Ashley Pines

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 9 ratings
    From Ashley Pines and Eden Emory comes a queer dark, smutty thriller set in world where the rich pay handsomely to watch the live-streaming event of the year. The desperate sign-up to play a game with life-changing rewards and life-ending consequences.CamLegacy. A word I reckon I’d heard a hundred times more than my own name.It’s what I am, who I am. The product of generations of greatness...
  • Work In Progress by Olivia Lucas

    Work In Progress by Olivia Lucas

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 8 ratings
    Dear God, Can I please return her?I know I asked for a hot, amazing woman to shake things up, but this is not what I had in mind. Not even close.Sure, she has mesmerizing eyes that hypnotize me, killer legs, wild hair –Ugh.Anyway, Reagan and I are polar opposites.First of all – she is New York, I am small-town Harmon Valley.She is also bossy, career-obsessed, and oh, a royal pain in my ass...
  • A Long Way From Home by Olivia Lucas

    A Long Way From Home by Olivia Lucas

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Logic versus desire – only one can survive the scorching heat of the Australian Outback. When no-nonsense, Chicago teacher Callie Rogers receives news that her deadbeat father has passed and has left her a share of his million-acre cattle station in the inhospitable Outback, she begrudgingly flies to the other side of the world...
    Categorized as:
    new adult  queer  f-f  contemporary  length-short
  • Tip In by Josie Mae

    Tip In by Josie Mae

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 8 ratings
    In this sapphic romance, a superstar women’s college basketball player and a commitment-phobe college student navigate complicated feelings—and busy schedules—after a photo of the two of them goes viral and fans theorize that they’re a couple...
  • Letters From War by hunnyfresh

    Letters From War by hunnyfresh

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Emma is a soldier on reserve in Fort Benning. Regina is the Mayor of Storybrooke. Through a pen pal program designed to ease the ache of homesick soldiers, Emma and Regina begin sending letters to one another as their relationship grows from cordial acquaintance to something neither woman would have expected - until the letters stop coming...
    Categorized as:
    queer  military  contemporary  f-f  length-epic
  • Beautiful Little Fools by Jillian Cantor

    Beautiful Little Fools by Jillian Cantor

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    USA Today bestselling author Jillian Cantor reimagines and expands on the literary classic The Great Gatsby in this atmospheric historical novel with echoes of Big Little Lies, told in three women’s alternating voices.On a sultry August day in 1922, Jay Gatsby is shot dead in his West Egg swimming pool...
  • Coalescence by Susan X. Meagher

    Coalescence by Susan X. Meagher

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 11 ratings
    In the first two books of this series, Jamie and Ryan forged a friendship (Awakenings), and realized that they had fallen deeply in love (Beginnings). This book brings the two of them together for their honeymoon in idyllic Pebble Beach. Here they commit themselves to sharing their lives together...
  • Taking Fire by Radclyffe

    Taking Fire by Radclyffe

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    After two years and too many lost troops, Navy medic Max de Milles is ready to go home. Her last tour is up in four days and she will soon be catching a transport to the States. Life is looking good until she gets detailed to evacuate a humanitarian group in south Somalia...
  • Making It by Laura Kay

    Making It by Laura Kay

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 10 ratings
    From the author of Wild Things comes a heartwarming and relatable queer rom-com about an isolated young woman whose artistic celebration of her pet chinchilla suddenly launches her into the professional art world, reality TV fame, and first love.Isobel's life is just her, her mum, and her pet chinchilla, Abigail, in their council flat on the Kentish coast...
  • Something Between Us by Krystina Rivers

    Something Between Us by Krystina Rivers

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In the waning days of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, Quinn Prescott and Kirby Davis met during military training. Despite different backgrounds, services, and plans, they fell hard and fast. However, it wasn’t long before distance and the pressures of serving in silence drove them apart.Ten years later, Kirby literally runs into Quinn at Chicago Pride...
  • Lacey Lassiter Is Not a Lesbian: A short, sweet and steamy new sapphic romance for summer! by Mabel Ballard

    Lacey Lassiter Is Not a Lesbian: A short, sweet and steamy new sapphic romance for summer! by Mabel Ballard

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Corey Emmons is a rising star. With an appearance in a hit TV show sealing her status as a new queer icon, suddenly, opportunities are flying her way. One of these, however, seems slightly out of place.Lacey Lassiter is a pop sensation. Every aspect of her public image is carefully curated, from her body to her boyfriend to her signature white boots...
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