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  • The Blind Side of Love by Ingrid Díaz

    The Blind Side of Love by Ingrid Díaz

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 21 ratings
    2nd draft available here: ingriddiaz.com Julianne Franqui is a hot actress and secretly gay. On a trip to New York she sees the artwork of artist Kris Milano, whose talent is not the only thing she's attracted to. Undercover of email, she begins a correspondence with the artist . When she comes to New York for filming and finally meets her, will she tell Kris the truth ..
  • 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
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  • Awaiting by Nicole Pyland

    Awaiting by Nicole Pyland

    Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars
    · 13 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...
  • Shifting Gears by Jazz Forrester

    Shifting Gears by Jazz Forrester

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 20 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...
  • 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...
  • Ask Me Again by E.J. Noyes

    Ask Me Again by E.J. Noyes

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 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...
  • 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
  • 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: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 30 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...
  • I Can't Think Straight by Shamim Sarif

    I Can't Think Straight by Shamim Sarif

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 29 ratings
    Tala, a London-based Palestinian, is preparing for her elaborate Middle Eastern wedding when she meets Leyla, a young British Indian woman who is dating her best friend. Spirited Christian Tala and shy Muslim Leyla could not be more different from each other, but the attraction is immediate and goes deeper than friendship...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • Take Two by T.B. Markinson, Miranda MacLeod

    Take Two by T.B. Markinson, Miranda MacLeod

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    They were the perfect couple until pride got in the way…Gina needs Sophia Rossi, a popular actor, to be the grand marshal of the local Pride parade. Sophia needs to convince her meddling mother she has a steady girlfriend in order to survive a month of filming in her hometown...
  • 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...
  • Shattered Pieces by Alisha Williams

    Shattered Pieces by Alisha Williams

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    What the hell just happened? Is this even real?Well, it's my life, so I'm not really surprised to find myself in the center of yet another shit storm.I'm starting this new chapter of my life in the middle of a nightmare. One that I can't seem to wake up from.With my stalker revealed, I find myself with a whole new set of worries...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • Chasing My Bliss by Bre Rose

    Chasing My Bliss by Bre Rose

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 4 ratings
    Blurb coming...
    Categorized as:
    new adult  queer  mystery  poly  menage  f-f  contemporary  office
  • The Gods of Tango by Carolina De Robertis

    The Gods of Tango by Carolina De Robertis

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    From one of the leading lights of contemporary Latin American literature—a lush, lyrical, deeply moving story of a young woman whose passion for the early sounds of tango becomes a force of profound and unexpected change.February 1913: seventeen-year-old Leda, carrying only a small trunk and her father’s cherished violin, leaves her Italian village for a new home, and a new husband, in Argentina...
  • Sirens & Muses by Antonia Angress

    Sirens & Muses by Antonia Angress

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 29 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...
  • Making It by Laura Kay

    Making It by Laura Kay

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 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...
  • Work In Progress by Olivia Lucas

    Work In Progress by Olivia Lucas

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 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
  • 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...
  • The Honeymoon Mix-Up by Frankie Fyre

    The Honeymoon Mix-Up by Frankie Fyre

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    The perfect storm. A fake marriage weathered to last. When her fiancée leaves her at the altar, Basil Jones’s picture perfect life turns upside down, but nothing can stop her from enjoying her honeymoon—not even the luxurious island resort’s strict “couples only” policy...
  • Love After Death by Hildred Billings

    Love After Death by Hildred Billings

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Cassandra Stephenson is dead. So is her good name.Bereaved widow Monica had the perfect marriage. For thirty years, she and college sweetheart Cassie made a home, built a business, and celebrated their love with hardly a secret between them.Until Cassie dies in a tragic accident. Then all the secrets are let loose, like the sins from Pandora’s box.Monica was not the only one...
  • Tip In by Josie Mae

    Tip In by Josie Mae

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 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...
  • Strength Check by Katherine McIntyre

    Strength Check by Katherine McIntyre

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Roxie Esposito just opened a board game café in San Francisco and should be basking in success. Instead, she’s picking out shards from her last relationship and handling her perpetually drunk mother, both of which strain her finances and fuel the need for a roommate.Melody Roberts finally got the promotion she’d been aiming for—across the country in San Francisco...
  • The Love Song of Sawyer Bell by Avon Gale

    The Love Song of Sawyer Bell by Avon Gale

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    This book has been previously published under the same titleDon’t miss this heartwarming and funny reunion romance from Avon Gale Indie rocker Victoria “Vix” Vincent knows a good thing when she hears it. The moment Sawyer Bell picks up her fiddle, magic happens. Beautiful and wildly talented, Sawyer is the perfect match for Vix’s band—and, just maybe, for Vix...
  • Cash Delgado Is Living the Dream by Tehlor Kay Mejia

    Cash Delgado Is Living the Dream by Tehlor Kay Mejia

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    A small-town bartender juggles motherhood and a bourgeoning new romance that could mean shaking up her life in this heartwarming queer romance from the author of Sammy Espinoza’s Last Review . “A sexy, funny, sweet story about second chances and found family . . . I fell in love with Ridley Falls and everyone in it...
  • All In by Nell Stark

    All In by Nell Stark

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Annie Jump Navarro is an Ivy League math whiz kid who has won numerous Internet poker championships under the handle supern0va. But when the Feds crack down on legislation making the funding of online gambling accounts illegal, most of Nova's assets are frozen...
  • When You Smile by Melissa Brayden

    When You Smile by Melissa Brayden

    Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Have you ever had a crush on your babysitter? Taryn Ross sure did. Sixteen-year-old Charlotte was sophisticated, thoughtful, gorgeous, and fun. Taryn counted the minutes until they’d hang out. But Charlotte and her family moved away. Now a transfer student at Hillspoint University, Taryn is ready to officially come out when she runs into a familiar face at a party...
  • Nochebuena: a holiday novella by Stephanie Shea

    Nochebuena: a holiday novella by Stephanie Shea

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 7 ratings
    Camila Morales is a hopeless romantic. Not that she thinks every couple is meant to be—she is a divorce lawyer, after all. But when her happy, married-thirty-years parents announce their own separation three weeks before Christmas, Cami’s world is turned upside down, especially since she’s been trying to feel her way through her own marital slump for months.Sutton Davies is an imposter...
  • Double Breasted by Evie Mitchell

    Double Breasted by Evie Mitchell

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    WillodeanI moved back to Capricorn Cove to escape the daily grind of the city and be closer to my brother and sister and their growing families.So, what did I do? I bought a chicken farm, Yep. I traded in suits and brief cases for overalls and gumboots. It sounded like a good idea at the time. And it was. For all of five minutes...
  • Soft on Soft by Mina Waheed

    Soft on Soft by Mina Waheed

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 5 ratings
    June Bana might post nearly daily makeup looks that gain thousands of likes but Real Life June has built a wall behind which she exists with her two cats. But with messy feelings getting in a way of an early hermit life, June begins to realize that she wants more. She wants model/actress, Sunshine Reincarnated Selena Clarke...
  • The Other Women by Erin Zak

    The Other Women by Erin Zak

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 5 ratings
    Cecily Yates should love her husband, but doesn’t. She should leave him, but hasn’t. Instead, she leads a safe life in Chicago and sees Willow Carmichael on the side. When Willow moves for a job opportunity in Las Vegas, their love affair comes to a screeching halt, leaving Cecily broken, guilty and confused...
  • Dear Neighbor by Olivia Lucas

    Dear Neighbor by Olivia Lucas

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Journalist by day and voyeur by night, the ever-loveable Bella is seemingly content living in her little bubble. That is, until savvy lawyer and recently single, straight girl Sophie crashes into her world and moves into her apartment complex. The neighbors get off to a rocky start and can’t seem to avoid each other, no matter how hard they try...
  • Just Might Work by Katia Rose

    Just Might Work by Katia Rose

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 17 ratings
    Dane Marner’s aunt is obsessed with soul mates.As a self-proclaimed ‘cosmically guided matchmaker,’ she’s played every card in the deck trying to set Dane up with the perfect match she’s found.The problem? The ‘perfect’ match is Evangeline Hudson. Dane and Evangeline rent rooms in Dane’s eccentric aunt’s house, but that’s where their similarities end...
  • After Hours, Vol. 1 by Yuhta Nishio

    After Hours, Vol. 1 by Yuhta Nishio

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    There’s always something going on at night. Sooner or later, you’ll find your scene.Emi Ashiana is 24, unemployed, and not really sure what she wants do with her life. When a friend invites her to a dance club, Emi doesn’t expect much...
    Categorized as:
    new adult  queer  f-f  contemporary  length-short
  • Love & Other Cursed Things by Krista Ritchie, Becca Ritchie

    Love & Other Cursed Things by Krista Ritchie, Becca Ritchie

    Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 9 ratings
    From New York Times Bestselling Authors Krista & Becca Ritchie comes a sizzling new contemporary F/F romance set in a coastal town, swimming with secrets, lies, and deep familial bonds.Never fall in love in a cursed town...
  • Faking It by Jade Winters

    Faking It by Jade Winters

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Danni Gardener is a talented writer. The only problem is, nobody else seems to think so. Rejected by what seems to be the entire global publishing industry, her gay best friend Josh makes her ‘an offer she can’t refuse’...
  • I'll Get Back to You by Becca Grischow

    I'll Get Back to You by Becca Grischow

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    “Full of humor and tenderness...a cozy, sexy romance...
    Categorized as:
    queer  new adult  contemporary  christmas  f-f  audiobook
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