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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
  • The Flaw in Our Design by Monica McCallan

    The Flaw in Our Design by Monica McCallan

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 20 ratings
    Olivia Carver’s life in Lake Cabot, New York is simple. That’s how she likes it, even if she can’t stop the town she loves from being overrun by wealthy tourists each summer. When she’s not working at her family’s paddleboard shop or spending time with her lovable but infuriating brothers, she puts her energy into writing professionally, a dream that has yet to materialize...
  • Buried Promises by Eliza Lentzski

    Buried Promises by Eliza Lentzski

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 8 ratings
    Cold Case detective Cassidy Miller is no stranger to buried things—bodies, secrets, and memories she’d rather forget. Life with her fiancée, the brilliant but guarded defense attorney Julia Desjardin, is the closest thing she’s felt to peace. But as Julia begins the emotional process of fertility treatments, Cassidy finds herself caught between wanting a future and fearing she doesn’t deserve one...
    Categorized as:
    queer  mystery  f-f  suspense  length-medium
  • 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...
  • Lone Wolf by Persephone Black

    Lone Wolf by Persephone Black

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 8 ratings
    I'm the perfect solider. Feared. Respected.And utterly alone.I don't need friends. I certainly don't need a partner. But the Styx Syndicate has paired me up with Sunny Santiago.She's everything I'm not—reckless, warm, alive. She laughs during missions, flirts during combat, and treats danger like a dance floor.I hate her relentless optimism almost as much as I hate how perfectly we work together...
  • Open Me Carefully: Emily Dickinson's Intimate Letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson by Emily Dickinson

    Open Me Carefully: Emily Dickinson's Intimate Letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson by Emily Dickinson

    Rated: 4.59 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    For the first time, selections from Emily Dickinson's thirty-six year correspondence to her neighbor and sister-in-law, Susan Huntington Dickinson, are compiled in a single volume. Open Me Carefully invites a dramatic new understanding of Emily Dickinson's life and work, overcoming a century of censorship and misinterpretation...
    Categorized as:
    queer  f-f  historical  length-medium
  • Liar Liar by Olivia Lucas

    Liar Liar by Olivia Lucas

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 10 ratings
    New year, same disaster.My resolutions were lying.Get my life together.Maybe stop humiliating myself in public.It’s February, and somehow I’m in worse shape than when I started. I’ve lost my job, my girlfriend (don’t ask), and any remaining dignity. The lying? Still very much a thing...
    Categorized as:
    queer  f-f  length-medium
  • 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
  • Western Shores by Lise Gold

    Western Shores by Lise Gold

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 15 ratings
    Madison Wilson, a marine biologist, has recently graduated and is ready to start her adult life with her first job as a research technician in Santa Cruz. After moving to Capitola, a sweet and colorful beach town in Northern California, she is immediately enchanted by her new house, as well as her beautiful landlady, Ally...
  • Along The Mystic River by Lise Gold

    Along The Mystic River by Lise Gold

    Rated: 4.62 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Riley, a New-York workaholic, has health issues and that leaves her no choice but to move to a small town to lead a calmer life. She hates the huge mansion she bought on a whim and stands out like a sore thumb in the cheery community of Mystic.Quinn, a Mystic-based contractor, has once again missed out on purchasing the house her family built...
    Categorized as:
    queer  f-f  dual-pov  length-medium  audiobook
  • Election Day by J.A. Armstrong

    Election Day by J.A. Armstrong

    Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Running a presidential campaign might seem the craziest thing in the world to most people. Candace Reid is not most people. The affable Governor of New York is used to controlled chaos...
    Categorized as:
    queer  f-f  length-medium
  • Back in Your Arms by Monica McCallan

    Back in Your Arms by Monica McCallan

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 24 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...
  • 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...
  • 그녀의 심청 (Her Tale of Shim Chong) #3 by 비완, Seri

    그녀의 심청 (Her Tale of Shim Chong) #3 by 비완, Seri

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Ep 24 - 35Based on a Korean folktale, two very different women find themselves making the same wish - to leave this world behind. One is Shim Chong, a young beggar living off the kindness of others to support herself and her blind father. The other is the bride-to-be of old Chancellor Jang, sold off to him for the sake of her family...
    Categorized as:
    queer  historical  f-f
  • The Next Life by Lise Gold, Madeleine Taylor

    The Next Life by Lise Gold, Madeleine Taylor

    Rated: 4.65 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    After the painful divorce from her husband, Reina Amari, wealthy mother of two, has lost her sense of self. No longer wife and homemaker, she feels low, lonely and purposeless in her huge mansion in the Hamptons. Her life suddenly changes when she meets Belle, her new pool technician, who brings back feelings long forgotten...
    Categorized as:
    queer  f-f  class difference  audiobook
  • March by Nicole Pyland

    March by Nicole Pyland

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Sophie Santiago goes out with friends one night and ends up bumping into the most beautiful woman she’s ever seen, a tourist named Bryce. After a few hours with her, spent talking and dancing, Sophie knows that Bryce isn’t meant to be someone she knows for only one night, but something causes them to lose each other in the crowd...
    Categorized as:
    queer  historical  f-f  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...
  • Cuffing Season by Monica McCallan

    Cuffing Season by Monica McCallan

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 14 ratings
    Maeve Murphy doesn't have much to celebrate this holiday season. Ten years ago, she moved from Kingsford with no intention of returning. But home came calling, in the form of her mother's unexpected death. The least thing Maeve wants is to make friends—she's only back in Kingsford to help her father keep the family business, Murph's, afloat...
  • Hoops & Heartstrings by Eliza Lentzski

    Hoops & Heartstrings by Eliza Lentzski

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 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  audiobook
  • April by Nicole Pyland

    April by Nicole Pyland

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Asher Hahn is one of the top wedding planners in New Orleans, and her best friend, Linden Washington, is the other. They’ve both planned extravagant weddings and watched couple after couple share their love in front of their friends and families, all without ever really falling in love themselves...
    Categorized as:
    queer  f-f  friends to lovers  length-medium
  • At Her Service by Anna Stone

    At Her Service by Anna Stone

    Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 12 ratings
    A Hollywood executive. Her irresistible nanny. A forbidden fling that will heal their hearts or shatter them. Abby Peters can't catch a break. Stuck in a nightmare nannying job to make rent on her shared Los Angeles apartment, she's barely scraping by. Until she has a chance encounter with Hollywood executive Valerie Kane. She wants Abby to be live-in nanny to her 2-year-old daughter...
    Categorized as:
    queer  multicultural  office  f-f
  • 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: 4.47 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...
  • Christmas in Heaven by Lise Gold

    Christmas in Heaven by Lise Gold

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 10 ratings
    Helen works for Heaven, a high-end matchmaking company with a tailored and personal approach. As their number one matchmaker, there’s no way she can turn up at the company Christmas party solo, but she struggles to find a date.Matilda is a corporate party planner hired by Helen to organise Heaven’s Christmas party...
  • All Wrapped Up in You by T.B. Markinson, Adrian J. Smith

    All Wrapped Up in You by T.B. Markinson, Adrian J. Smith

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A saboteur. A bookstore in trouble. A writer on the verge of ruin.After a painful divorce, Mathilda “Mat” Kincaide has one clear vision. Ascend the throne of her family’s cherished chain of bookstores. Yet a mysterious troublemaker lurks in the heart of her store, intent on derailing Mat’s every ambition...
  • Rekindled by Erica Lee

    Rekindled by Erica Lee

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    After getting married right out of college, Jordan and Spencer Barlowe were sure their love would last a lifetime. Unfortunately, life didn't work out that way and they've spent the last ten years apart. The only connection they have left is their teenage daughter...
  • Lucky Yellow Shoes by Jae

    Lucky Yellow Shoes by Jae

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 8 ratings
    Denny is planning to propose to her girlfriend, Eliza, on Christmas Day, but she needs some help finding the perfect ring. Will it all go according to plan, or will she end up being the one surprised?“Lucky Yellow Shoes” is a short story sequel to Jae’s light-hearted lesbian romance Wrong Number, Right Woman...
  • Snowed Inn with Madelyn by Chelsea M. Cameron

    Snowed Inn with Madelyn by Chelsea M. Cameron

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Nothing says “Merry Christmas” more than arriving at the adorable inn your mom has booked for your family and seeing your former babysitter, and first crush, sitting behind the desk. Turns out Madelyn Hawthorne is the owner, and after a massive snowstorm traps us, we’re all going to be getting pretty cozy for the next week...
    Categorized as:
    christmas  queer  f-f  length-novella
  • Christmas at Rainbow Falls by T.B. Markinson, Miranda MacLeod

    Christmas at Rainbow Falls by T.B. Markinson, Miranda MacLeod

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A Sweet Small Town Romance Christmas at Rainbow Falls is a sweet small town romance written in the style of your favorite holiday movies, so grab a cup of cocoa and snuggle in for some yuletide cheer!When a disastrous mistake at work puts her career in jeopardy, Natalie Dunbar retreats to the small Vermont town of Rainbow Falls to settle the estate of an aunt she hardly knew...
  • A Purrfect Gift by Jae

    A Purrfect Gift by Jae

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Lena has just moved to Freiburg with her cat, Scully, so when she finds little gifts on her doorstep every day, she thinks they are a welcome-to-the-building Advent calendar from her new neighbors.Caroline, who lives next door, can’t figure out how her stuff keeps disappearing until she catches a cat in the act of stealing from her. She follows the feline felon home—and meets its cute owner...
    Categorized as:
    christmas  queer  f-f  contemporary  audiobook
  • Sleigh Bells Ring: A Sapphic Romance by Alyson Root, Tara Sullivan

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

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 10 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...
  • Where the Heart Is by Lily Seabrooke

    Where the Heart Is by Lily Seabrooke

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 11 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...
  • The Price of Salt by Claire Morgan, Patricia Highsmith

    The Price of Salt by Claire Morgan, Patricia Highsmith

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 62 ratings
    THE PRICE OF SALT also published as CAROL. THE PRICE OF SALT (1952) is a romance novel by Patricia Highsmith, written under the pseudonym Claire Morgan. The author – known as a suspense writer following the publication of her previous book, STRANGERS ON A TRAIN – became notorious due to the story's latent lesbian content and happy ending, the latter having been unprecedented in homosexual fiction...
  • 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:
    queer  christmas  f-f  m-m  military  bdsm  menage  contemporary
  • 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...
  • Ghosted Christmas Past by Bryce Oakley

    Ghosted Christmas Past by Bryce Oakley

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Last Christmas, I gave her my heart, but the very next day…Well, you know how it goes.Merritt Perkins has spent an entire year thinking maybe it was too cliche to be real. Dylan Camber: the cute private chef, and her: the nanny — connecting over being tucked away in the Rockies while working through the holidays...
  • Don't Marry Me At Christmas by Clare Lydon

    Don't Marry Me At Christmas by Clare Lydon

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Deck the halls with awkward tension…Meet Sara Christmas fanatic, festive wedding Grinch. Her dream nuptials? Sun-soaked, Beth-free.Meet Beth Expert at running. From countries, feelings, and one-night stands with best friends.Now Beth's back, armed with apologies and tinsel-wrapped determination...
    Categorized as:
    christmas  queer  f-f  length-medium  audiobook
  • The Christmas Inheritance by Addison Clarke

    The Christmas Inheritance by Addison Clarke

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Charlie Monroe loves everything about Baxter Tree Farm. From the smell of the pine trees to the shimmer of Christmas lights, Charlie is at home on the farm. Having managed the farm since graduating high school, Charlie considers herself an expert on all things Christmas trees. Her dream is to continue to grow the place she loves so much and make it a must visit place in Maine...
  • 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...
  • Make Her Wish Come True by A.L. Brooks

    Make Her Wish Come True by A.L. Brooks

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 8 ratings
    A lesbian romance where the realest thing about a fake relationship is all the possibilities.Abby Baxter’s burning ambition to be a reporter gets a boost when her journalist friend offers her a deal: Fake-date a woman for a story she’s writing on finding love, and she’ll swing Abby a co-writing credit. It’s a dream come true after so long looking for her big break...
  • Wolf Shirt & High Heels by Evie Marque

    Wolf Shirt & High Heels by Evie Marque

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Flirting at work has never felt this intense—or this real. The last thing Ramona St. Germaine needed was public humiliation on her wedding day. Yet, the universe had different plans, leaving her jilted and questioning everything—friendships, loyalty, and her own judgment. She soon learns the culprit behind her unique engagement falling Quinn Archer...
  • Humbug's Holiday Homecoming by J.A. Armstrong

    Humbug's Holiday Homecoming by J.A. Armstrong

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    It’s Christmastime, and Dr. Mick Mulligan has just arrived back at her childhood home after a five-year absence. She’s determined to help her mother, Leona, care for the house she grew up in and resolved to adjust to life back in Connecticut. After the childhood loss of her father, Mick proclaimed herself a “humbug.” Mick is happier in an operating room that gathering around a Christmas tree...
    Categorized as:
    queer  christmas  f-f  length-novella
  • The Christmas Committee by Lily Seabrooke

    The Christmas Committee by Lily Seabrooke

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Piper Fairway is Castle Hollow’s last hope, which means they’re kind of screwed.With property developer Michael Landgrave trying to buy out the small-town center and pave it over, the town’s best hope is their Christmas Committee revitalizing the old Christmas festival the town used to be famous for. Unfortunately, Piper is the only member of the committee...
    Categorized as:
    christmas  queer  f-f  length-short
  • Reverence by Milena McKay

    Reverence by Milena McKay

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 20 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...
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