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Beyond the Trail by Jae
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsSix short stories that give us glimpses into the lives of Luke, Nora, and the other characters from Backwards to Oregon.● The Blue Hour: When her mother dies, twelve-year-old Lucinda Hamilton decides to start a new life—as a boy.● Grasping at Straws: No one knows that Tess Swenson, madam of a brothel, also owns a livery stable and a number of other businesses... -
![Switcheroo by Cheyenne Blue]()
Switcheroo by Cheyenne Blue
A lighthearted lesbian romance about shattering comfort zones and finding your place in the world where you least expect it.New Yorker Hayley Reed is so over life, her crappy apartment, and her two jobs as a cook and bartender. When she wins a contest to swap lives with someone for a year, all expenses paid, she’s ecstatic... -
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![From the Hat Down by Andi Marquette]()
From the Hat Down by Andi Marquette
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsMeg Tallmadge is a veterinarian at a clinic in Laramie, Wyoming. She’s got a great job, great friends, deep ties to the family ranch, and big plans for her vet future. Sure, there are bumps in the road, like her mom’s continued denial about who Meg is and her painful and infuriating attempts to make Meg a “proper” woman... -
![The Art of Pretending by Jae]()
The Art of Pretending by Jae
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsShort spin-off of Backwards to Oregon.Tess finds out that someone is stealing her money. She suspects Frankie, a woman who reminds her of Luke. But nothing is as it seems... -
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![Smoke Through The Pines by Sarah Goodwin]()
Smoke Through The Pines by Sarah Goodwin
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsIt is a long, hard journey from Indian Territory to Minnesota, but one that Laura and Cecelia are determined to make. Carrying with them the secrets and losses of the prairie, both women must fight to succeed in the lawless male world of the northern lumber camps. As winter prowls the pine forest and the darkening days draw in, Laura and Cecelia can at last be at home together in the wild woods... -
![Grasping at Straws by Jae]()
Grasping at Straws by Jae
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsShort story prequel to Backwards to Oregon.No one knows that Tess Swenson, madam of a brothel, also owns a livery stable and a number of other businesses. On one of her secret inspections, she makes a surprising discovery... -
![The Blue Hour by Jae]()
The Blue Hour by Jae
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsShort story prequel to Backwards to Oregon.When her mother dies, twelve-year-old Lucinda Hamilton decides to start a new life—as a boy... -
![Promising Hearts by Radclyffe]()
Promising Hearts by Radclyffe
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsCan two outcasts find refuge in one another's hearts? Dr. Vance Phelps lost everything in the War Between the States - her career and her faith in herself. Mae is a frontier madam, used to standing alone. She guards the well-being of the lost young women who come under her care - she just never expected one of them to be a doctor... -
![Lucky Red by Claudia Cravens]()
Lucky Red by Claudia Cravens
Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsThe heart wants what it wants. Saddle up, ride out, and claim it. A vibrant and cinematic debut set in the American West about a scrappy orphan who finds friendship, romance, and her true calling as a revenge-seeking gunslinger.It's the spring of 1877 and sixteen-year-old Bridget is already disillusioned... -
![Mine by Kim Hartfield]()
Mine by Kim Hartfield
In search of life's meaning, Cherry leaves her high-powered sales job to spend three months working on an organic farm. The owner, Margo, is intensely confident and terrifyingly beautiful - and has little patience for city girls who don't know what they're doing. Desperate to gain Margo's respect, Cherry does her best to adjust to farm life... -
![From the Boots Up by Andi Marquette]()
From the Boots Up by Andi Marquette
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsMeg Tallmadge has more than enough on her plate. She’s finishing up a college degree, getting ready to apply to vet school, and working another summer with her dad, Stan, on the family ranch in southern Wyoming. He’s managed to get the Los Angeles Times to send a reporter out to do a story on the Diamond Rock, which doubles as a dude ranch... -
![Tumbleweed Fever by L.J. Maas]()
Tumbleweed Fever by L.J. Maas
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsIn the Oklahoma Territory of the old west, Devlin Brown is trying to redeem herself for a past as an outlaw. Working as a rider on a cattle ranch, she meets Sarah Tolliver, a widow with two children and a successful ranch, but no way to protect it from the ruthless men who would rather see her fail. Sparks fly when the former outlaw teams up with the beautiful, yet headstrong, young Tolliver... -
![Summer Winds by Andrews & Austin]()
Summer Winds by Andrews & Austin
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsWidow Maggie Tanner needs a ranch hand to work her thousand acres of Kansas hayfields. Young Cash Tate takes the job—a summer break from the city and her girlfriend troubles. Cash is irritated by and enamored of this self-sufficient rancher woman who refuses to treat her as an equal, and she vows to earn her respect... -
![Charity by Paulette Callen]()
Charity by Paulette Callen
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsThe friendship between Lena Kaiser, a sodbuster's daughter, and Gustie Roemer, an educated Easterner, is unlikely in any other circumstance but post-frontier Charity, South Dakota. Gustie is considered an outsider, and Lena is too proud to share her problems (which include a hard-drinking husband) with anyone else... -
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![They Ain't Proper by M.B. Guel]()
They Ain't Proper by M.B. Guel
1880s, The Wild West. An easy, solitary life on the outskirts of Ghosthallow is all Lou Ramirez wants. They want to buy some house plans, build a home, and live their quiet life far from townsfolk’s prying eyes. But somehow instead of house plans , a house wife is delivered to their door... -
![Hearts Aflame by Ronica Black]()
Hearts Aflame by Ronica Black
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA poignant, erotic romance packed with adventure and set in the harsh beauty of the Arizona countryside. Real estate guru Krista Wyler is soon at the mercy of the Arizona desert when she learns she has inherited her family's business, Wyler Ranch. Her aunt is dying and her uncle is no longer capable of making decisions... -
![Crossing the Wide Forever by Missouri Vaun]()
Crossing the Wide Forever by Missouri Vaun
Cody Walsh leaves Arkansas for California. Lured by stories of opportunity, even for women, Cody disguises herself as a man and prepares for the arduous journey west. Lillie Ellis leaves New York to accept a post as a schoolteacher on the frontier near a small homestead she just inherited from her uncle... -
![The Boss's Daughter by J.T. Marie]()
The Boss's Daughter by J.T. Marie
Rated: 3.60 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsOnce the daughter of a prominent dentist in Philadelphia, Natalie Allen wasn’t happy with the life she was expected to lead, so she left society behind and headed west. Now, in the little town of Junction, she’s known as Nat, a cowboy working on Boss Daddy’s cattle ranch... -
![A Little Christmas Caper by Stella Moore, Rawhide Authors]()
A Little Christmas Caper by Stella Moore, Rawhide Authors
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsA gorgeous switch with an anxious mind. A sweet Little who knows exactly what she wants. And the Daddy they've both been longing for...From the moment Nicholas Pine lays eyes on Rawhide Ranch's newest guests, he can't get them out of his mind.And the magic of the Ranch must be on his side, because curvy, sultry Michelle is there to play... -
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Bound by Shannon Elliot
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsMy academic course catalog did not include a BDSM 101 lecture.Yet, the world of swingers and kink beckons through a daring Zoom call—the ultimate gateway to membership at The Playground Club... -
![The Long Past & Other Stories by Ginn Hale]()
The Long Past & Other Stories by Ginn Hale
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings1858 –Warring mages open up a vast inland sea that splits the United States in two. With the floodwaters come creatures from a long distant past. What seems like the End Times forges a new era of heroes and heroines who challenge tradition, law, and even death as they transform the old west into a new world... -
![Blue Is the Warmest Color by Jul Maroh]()
Blue Is the Warmest Color by Jul Maroh
Blue is the Warmest Color is a graphic novel about growing up, falling in love, and coming out. Clementine is a junior in high school who seems average enough: she has friends, family, and the romantic attention of the boys in her school. When her openly gay best friend takes her out on the town, she wanders into a lesbian bar where she encounters Emma: a punkish, confident girl with blue hair... -
![The Submissive Bride by Carolyn Faulkner]()
The Submissive Bride by Carolyn Faulkner
King Marston is a man with a past: a gun-slinger and a gambler. Typically when he rode into a town, he rode out scant days later, richer, but no longer welcome. Then, his luck changed, and the sheriff of Hell's Pass, the aptly-named hellhole he'd ridden into, saw the benefits of having someone with King's skills on the "right" side of the law... -
![Carnal Compromise by Robin L. Rotham]()
Carnal Compromise by Robin L. Rotham
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWhen you’re down on the farm, things are bound to get dirty! Joe Remke has just one qualification for his lovers—he wants them gone before sunrise, which makes his new bunkmate AJ about as safe as a woman can be around him. It also makes his determination to sleep with his boss downright stupid, because if Brent ever gives in, he’ll be looking for a new job... -
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![Cowboy and the Captive by Lora Leigh]()
Cowboy and the Captive by Lora Leigh
Melina had lived her life in her older, selfish twin's shadow until the final deceit forced her to refocus on her own life. But the past has not been forgotten by Luc Jardin. Now, kidnapped and at the mercy of a man with a grudge, Melina must learn to accept the past as well as her attraction to the arrogant rancher... -
![The Gunfighter and The Gear-Head by Cassandra Duffy]()
The Gunfighter and The Gear-Head by Cassandra Duffy
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAn apocalyptic alien invasion set humanity on the edge of extermination. Unable to match technology with the invaders, humanity bet their existence on their physical strength overcoming... -
![Stage Dreams by Melanie Gillman]()
Stage Dreams by Melanie Gillman
Rated: 3.82 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsIn this rollicking queer western adventure, acclaimed cartoonist Melanie Gillman (Stonewall Award Honor Book As the Crow Flies) puts readers in the saddle alongside Flor and Grace, a Latinx outlaw and a trans runaway, as they team up to thwart a Confederate plot in the New Mexico Territory...Categorized as:
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![Elysium Girls by Kate Pentecost]()
Elysium Girls by Kate Pentecost
Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsIn this sweeping Dust Bowl-inspired fantasy, a ten-year game between Life and Death pits the walled Oklahoma city of Elysium-including a girl gang of witches and a demon who longs for humanity-against the supernatural in order to judge mankind.When Sal is named Successor to Mother Morevna, a powerful witch and leader of Elysium, she jumps at the chance to prove herself to the town...Categorized as:
queer young adult fantasy science fiction paranormal futuristic urban fantasy witches -
![Cowboys and Kisses by Karin Kallmaker]()
Cowboys and Kisses by Karin Kallmaker
Shunned by her family, a girl is sent west on a one-way stage ticket. Penniless, she takes up the only profession open to her. Years later she encounters the cowboy she can love, and her first taste of pleasure - and happiness.Cowboys, however, are born to wander, and their kisses are as brief as the lives of young women without family or means... -
![Karen Memory by Elizabeth Bear]()
Karen Memory by Elizabeth Bear
“You ain’t gonna like what I have to tell you, but I’m gonna tell you anyway. See, my name is Karen Memery, like memory only spelt with an e, and I’m one of the girls what works in the Hôtel Mon Cherie on Amity Street. Hôtel has a little hat over the o like that. It’s French, so Beatrice tells me...
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