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  • Just Three Words by Melissa Brayden

    Just Three Words by Melissa Brayden

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 29 ratings
    Sometimes the one you want is the one you least suspect... Accountant Samantha Ennis craves order and structure. As the bookkeeper at the boutique advertising agency she owns with her three best friends, it’s her job to apply logic to the chaos. When one of those best friends, laid back Hunter Blair, moves in to share her loft apartment, Sam’s carefully organized world is thrown wildly askew...
  • 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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  • Honey in the Marrow by Emily Waters

    Honey in the Marrow by Emily Waters

    Rated: 4.62 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 16 ratings
    An enemies-to-friends-to-lovers lesbian romance about finding heart, hope, and second chances you never thought you’d have.Stella Carter is a former criminal prosecutor and new widow facing down middle age alone in Los Angeles. Without being a prestigious lawyer and someone’s wife, she’s not sure who she is anymore or where her life is headed...
  • Back in Your Arms by Monica McCallan

    Back in Your Arms by Monica McCallan

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 21 ratings
    Seventeen years ago, Quinn McKinley left her small town of Kingsford for a shot at a happier life. Now a successful real estate agent in New York City, she’s brought back on behalf of a client, begrudgingly accepting her return home in order to close the deal of a lifetime...
  • 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...
  • Separate Like Stars by Diana Kane

    Separate Like Stars by Diana Kane

    Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    On paper, Jordan Cohen has it all. With numerous bestsellers under her belt, a number of blockbuster movie adaptations to her credit, and a high profile relationship with one of Hollywood’s most prominent stars, what more could she possibly ask for? Maybe for Olivia Bradley, the only woman to ever break her heart, to exit her life as quickly as she’d re-entered it...
  • A Lesbian's Guide to Women by Erica Lee

    A Lesbian's Guide to Women by Erica Lee

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 15 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...
  • Reverence by Milena McKay

    Reverence by Milena McKay

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 13 ratings
    Two ballerinas. Two fates. One stage. It's the carefree '80s and Juliette Lucian-Sorel has it all. She’s the greatest dancer to ever grace the floorboards of Palais Garnier, she's royalty to her adoring fans, and Paris is at her feet. Or so it seems…Katarina Vyatka is defecting from behind the Iron Curtain, desperate to save herself and her career...
  • 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...
  • Hoops & Heartstrings by Eliza Lentzski

    Hoops & Heartstrings by Eliza Lentzski

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    When a devastating injury threatens Lex Bennet’s dream of playing in the women’s professional basketball league, her world is turned upside down. Despite the setback, Lex is unexpectedly drafted by the new expansion team in Boston...
    Categorized as:
    queer  multicultural  sports  f-f  length-long
  • 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 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...
  • Patty's Potent Potion by Robin Alexander

    Patty's Potent Potion by Robin Alexander

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    When Shawna Haydel was sixteen years old, she dropped Ashton Guidry’s name into a potion that would supposedly make Ashton fall in love with her. She knew it was silly, but she clung to one irrational thread of hope their friend Patty’s concoction would grant her heart’s desire...
  • Separate Like Stars by Diana Kane

    Separate Like Stars by Diana Kane

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    On paper, Jordan Cohen has it all. With numerous bestsellers under her belt, a number of blockbuster movie adaptations to her credit, and a high profile relationship with one of Hollywood’s most prominent stars, what more could she possibly ask for? Maybe for Olivia Bradley, the only woman to ever break her heart, to exit her life as quickly as she’d re-entered it...
  • 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...
  • The Tapestry of a Heart by Erin Zak

    The Tapestry of a Heart by Erin Zak

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Finnley O'Connell is at a crossroads when her life takes an unexpected turn after getting fired from her family's lawn care business. Seeking refuge in Chicago with her gay uncle, Finnley discovers a vibrant city and a new sense of freedom. But it's meeting Emerson, a captivating and mysterious woman, that truly changes everything...
  • Behind the Pine Curtain by Gerri Hill

    Behind the Pine Curtain by Gerri Hill

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 28 ratings
    Jacqueline Keys was ostracized from her small hometown of Pine Springs, Texas when she was seventeen, sent away because she was gay. Her family was the largest employer in the county, owning Pine Springs Lumber, and her father was mayor of this small town. Her mother could not accept the fact that her only child was gay, could not tolerate the gossip about her family...
  • Jericho by Ann McMan

    Jericho by Ann McMan

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Welcome to Jericho, Verginia.Librarian Syd Murphy flees the carnage of a failed marriage by accepting an eighteen-month position in Jericho, a small town in the Appalachian Mountains of Virginia. Her plans to hide out and heal her wounds fall by the wayside as she gets drawn into the daily lives of the quirky locals...
  • Goddess of the Moon by Claire Highton-Stevenson

    Goddess of the Moon by Claire Highton-Stevenson

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Diana Maddox is a creature of comfort, she plays by the rules and she likes things done properly. Now, she finds herself in a bit of a rut. Single after an almost decade-long relationship with Jason, who cheated on her, Diana is sharing a flat with her sister and nephew. Her friends have all married and had families of their own, so there's only one thing for it, Diana decides...
  • Storm in Her Heart by KC Luck

    Storm in Her Heart by KC Luck

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Love can weather the stormiest of hearts…Athena Storm, the resilient owner of a struggling tavern, has weathered many storms in her life. As she fights to keep her establishment afloat, she is convinced she does not have time for a relationship.Enter Kate Franklin, an ex-cop turned delivery driver who seeks refuge from her past...
  • At Seventeen by Gerri Hill

    At Seventeen by Gerri Hill

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 24 ratings
    Madison Lansford and Shannon Fletcher met when they were ten years old. Madison—daughter of wealthy parents and Shannon, daughter of their live-in maid and cook—became fast friends, yet both knew their place in life.There was never a doubt that they would become lovers . . . there was also never a doubt that Madison would marry and maintain her social standing in the community...
  • Take Two by Stephanie Shea

    Take Two by Stephanie Shea

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Being in love is Whitney Dimaano’s favorite past time. Though lately, she can’t seem to get it right. She’s tried—she is trying—but it just hasn’t…clicked, and maybe her time would be better spent focusing on all the things that are actually good in her life...
  • Making It Count by Nicole Pyland

    Making It Count by Nicole Pyland

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Sports Series Book #5. This series is related by a sports theme, not by characters.NOTE: The characters of this book are living during the first year of the pandemic.Shay Amos chose Dunbar University because she wanted to play basketball at a smaller school and be the best player on the team...
  • Only Hope by Ruby Landers

    Only Hope by Ruby Landers

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Alison Hartmann is a woman with secrets no one wants her to keep. Gold Hill, with its idyllic setting is the perfect place to hide.Light-hearted Hope Sullivan doesn’t see it that way...
  • Your Hand Found Mine by Adrienne Marsh

    Your Hand Found Mine by Adrienne Marsh

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Cassandra Vasquez wasn't hiding away. She was just really busy; the design studio she and her brother owned was really starting to make a name for itself, and the work was just flying in. That was the only reason she didn't go out much, or really even keep in touch with her friends anymore. It had nothing to do with her ex; she wasn't hung up on Sarah, or afraid to get back out there. She wasn't...
    Categorized as:
    friends to lovers  queer  f-f  length-medium
  • Spectrum by M.J. Duncan

    Spectrum by M.J. Duncan

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Sparks fly the moment Bryn Nakamura lays eyes on Anna Fitzpatrick, and not in a good way. Driven, reserved, and recovering from another encounter with a life she would rather leave behind, all Bryn wants is to forget about Anna and focus on her beloved vineyard—but Fate has other plans...
  • The Love Project by T.B. Markinson, Miranda MacLeod

    The Love Project by T.B. Markinson, Miranda MacLeod

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Can a long shot bring love to a couple of lonely hearts?Joni Fisher is facing economic ruin. The once successful advice column she runs with her mother is on the brink of cancellation, and it’ll take a miracle to turn things around...
  • Good Spin by Monica McCallan

    Good Spin by Monica McCallan

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Public Relations expert Emery Bates has exactly one problem she’s willing to admit, and it’s that she doesn’t have a girlfriend to take as her date to a wedding. Not because she needs a girlfriend, but because she needs an easier way to come out to college friends that she hasn’t seen in five years...
    Categorized as:
    friends to lovers  queer  f-f  length-short
  • Where the Heart Is by Lily Seabrooke

    Where the Heart Is by Lily Seabrooke

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 10 ratings
    Kissing her childhood friend on a family Christmas vacation is probably a bad idea…The Jackson family is primed to explode over Christmas—with Stella’s parents hiding their divorce proceedings from the family during a two-week vacation to the cozy Christmas town of Bellsford, Stella and her sisters are under strict orders not to cause drama...
  • 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...
  • Operation: Secret Santa by M.J. Duncan

    Operation: Secret Santa by M.J. Duncan

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    When Holly Burke saw who she’d drawn for Secret Santa, she knew she had to do something to make it special. It was Christmas, after all, and if anyone deserved some extra Christmas cheer, it was Mo Davy...
  • From the Ashes by Stacy Lynn Miller

    From the Ashes by Stacy Lynn Miller

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    After narrowly escaping death in Out of the Flames, San Francisco police detective Manhattan Sloane goes after the corrupt officials who had a hand in her wife’s murder. Would-be lover, DEA Agent Finn Harper, puts her career on the line again to help. Along the way, Sloane and Finn stir up a hornet’s nest and the cartel drug lord pulling all the strings...
  • Lightning Strikes Twice by Erik Schubach

    Lightning Strikes Twice by Erik Schubach

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Returning home to Seattle from a twenty year absence in London...Victoria discovers that time has not erased her feelings for an unrequited love. It soon becomes obvious that with true love, lightning can sometimes strike twice.This is set in the same world as Music of the Soul but is a standalone book...
  • Skimming around Murder by Edale Lane

    Skimming around Murder by Edale Lane

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Killers can leave scars no one else sees.Content warnings for child abduction, murders, trauma, and racist elements.Top detective Jenna Ferrari winds up with too much on her plate as Christmas approaches when she becomes entangled in three cases. Allowing her emotions to run amuck, she concludes there’s no use trying to pursue a new relationship with Randi...
  • Sleigh Bells Ring: A Sapphic Romance by Alyson Root, Tara Sullivan

    Sleigh Bells Ring: A Sapphic Romance by Alyson Root, Tara Sullivan

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    For Nicole Robinson, Christmas means returning to the family home in Hebden Bridge with her sister Beth and their brother Liam, who has lived with permanent delays since a childhood accident. Though Beth and Nicole have grown up and moved away, every December the Robinson kids reunite for a month of family and festive traditions...
  • 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...
  • Every Little Thing by Lily Seabrooke

    Every Little Thing by Lily Seabrooke

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    The end isn’t the best time to realize you’ve been in love all along.Bakery owner Harper has her secrets. She’s always kept to herself, constantly on a career climb that only she can see, with no one allowed close—except the one person in Bayview who won’t take no for an answer.Paisley’s fallen into bed with Harper twice already over their years of friendship, but it’s never meant anything...
  • Making It Count by Nicole Pyland

    Making It Count by Nicole Pyland

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Sports Series Book #5. This series is related by a sports theme, not by characters.NOTE: The characters of this book are living during the first year of the pandemic.Shay Amos chose Dunbar University because she wanted to play basketball at a smaller school and be the best player on the team...
    Categorized as:
    friends to lovers  queer  f-f  length-medium
  • Only Hope by Ruby Landers

    Only Hope by Ruby Landers

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Alison Hartmann is a woman with secrets no one wants her to keep. Gold Hill, with its idyllic setting is the perfect place to hide.Light-hearted Hope Sullivan doesn’t see it that way...
  • No After You by Nicole Pyland

    No After You by Nicole Pyland

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Dani Wilder only intended to go to a fundraiser and donate money to a worthy cause. She had no idea that she’d meet the love of her life that night. There were only a couple of problems with that chance meeting. Dani had a boyfriend. That chance meeting – it was with Peyton Gloss, the world’s most famous music star, who also happened to be a woman. Peyton had only planned on performing that night...
  • Run Away With me, Girl 2 by Battan

    Run Away With me, Girl 2 by Battan

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Maki's first love was her high school classmate, a girl named Midori. But Midori broke up with Maki at graduation, saying they were now "too old to be fooling around dating girls...
  • For Love or Money by Clodagh Murphy

    For Love or Money by Clodagh Murphy

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    'Clodagh Murphy is the queen of romantic comedy and her latest is witty and warmhearted, with fantastic characters, laugh out loud dialogue and plenty of intrigue. This was my favourite kind of read - one where you fall in love with the characters to the point that they feel like your friends...
  • What Now by Jamey Moody

    What Now by Jamey Moody

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    When love dares to alter a carefully crafted life plan, does the heart win?Addison Henry is the new bank president in small-town Brazos Falls, but she won’t be there long. This is merely a stepping stone on her career path that leads her to headquarters and the CEO’s office.Lissa Morgan came back to her hometown to help her family’s business...
  • Many Roads to Home by Kaya LaSalle

    Many Roads to Home by Kaya LaSalle

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    That stereotype about the mid-life crisis involving smoking-hot flings with younger women? Yeah, turns out that might be true after all...Brooke has resigned herself to being single forever. She's almost 40 and practically married to her career. When she decides to take some time off to renovate a run-down farmhouse in the middle of nowhere, everyone tells her she's having a midlife crisis...
  • Cat Sloan Is Swirling by Jamey Moody

    Cat Sloan Is Swirling by Jamey Moody

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Can a fake kiss lead to forever?Cat Sloan needed something to be happy about. After a devastating heartbreak she is focused on opening her bookstore, alongside her sisters, in their brand new shopping center.Elena Burkett had been swallowed by grief the past year. But when she spotted a new bookstore about to open in her neighborhood she felt a spark of hope...
  • Finding Faith by Kim Pritekel

    Finding Faith by Kim Pritekel

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Faith Fitzgerald thought that if she got an education and became a high-powered attorney in Manhattan, maybe—just maybe—she'd gain the attention and respect of her absentee father. Considering he was the only parent she had left after her mother's suicide when Faith was just a child, she thought that's what it would take. She was wrong...
  • Closer than Ever by Lisa Elliot

    Closer than Ever by Lisa Elliot

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Long-lost friends from university explore their unresolved history on a road trip around Scotland in this second chance sapphic romance.Anna lives in the Scottish Highlands and works at Glenbuinidh whisky distillery. Loyal to her small town and her beloved distillery, all she wants is to find her future wife, settle down and start a family...
  • Endgame by Meghan O'Brien

    Endgame by Meghan O'Brien

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Delaney, a self-confessed cad and committment-phobe, meets a woman she shouldn't play. However, it's also the one woman she can't resist...
  • The One to Hold Your Hand by Erica Lee

    The One to Hold Your Hand by Erica Lee

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Reese James’s life was never easy. Trying to stay upbeat and positive while her twin sister battled cancer took its toll on her. The one thing getting her through was her relationship with her lifelong best friend Bette Mitchell...
    Categorized as:
    friends to lovers  queer  f-f  length-short
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