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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
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 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...
  • 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 Flight Risk by Macon Leigh

    The Flight Risk by Macon Leigh

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 12 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...
  • Truth and Measure by Telanu

    Truth and Measure by Telanu

    Rated: 4.68 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 13 ratings
    The Devil Wears Prada fanfiction:. Andy doesn't leave Miranda in Paris, and learns that a single decision can change your life. But the main thing about decisions? You don't get to stop with one. Fandom: The Devil Wears Prada (2006). Relationship: Miranda Priestly/Andrea Sachs. Words: 271,584. Chapters: 7/7.
  • 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
  • The Forever and The Now by K.J .

    The Forever and The Now by K.J .

    Rated: 4.68 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Bron McIntyre, forty-two, has it all together. Terrific job. Loving family. No desperate need for a girlfriend but would be interested if one came along. Bron McIntyre is Teflon. Kate Agostino, forty-eight, is not Teflon. Yes, she has a terrific job. But a loving family? Not really. And her personal life is rapidly disintegrating and turning into dust...
  • 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...
  • Cold Blooded Lover by Eliza Lentzski

    Cold Blooded Lover by Eliza Lentzski

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 17 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...
  • Chances Are...: An Age-Gap, Slow-Burn, Steamy WLW Romance by Claire Highton-Stevenson

    Chances Are...: An Age-Gap, Slow-Burn, Steamy WLW Romance by Claire Highton-Stevenson

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 6 ratings
    Chances are…love finds you when you finally stop running from yourself. Allegra Mann has always known who she is — a fierce defender on the pitch, a loyal friend off it, and someone who never backs down from a challenge. But when her long-term boyfriend moves abroad, she’s left questioning everything, including who she might be without the life she’d built around him...
  • 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
  • Chemistry by Rachael Sommers

    Chemistry by Rachael Sommers

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 30 ratings
    An opposites-attract, ice queen lesbian romance about finding the softest of hearts behind the highest walls. Newly minted high school teacher Lily Cross is young, bubbly, and can’t wait to put her fresh ideas into practice in the classroom. Her excitement is derailed after a disastrous run-in with a colleague...
  • 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...
  • Asking Kate: A Novella by Clare Ashton

    Asking Kate: A Novella by Clare Ashton

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 11 ratings
    Olivia Sachdeva is in love. Who knew the perfect woman for the frosty lawyer would be down-to-earth Kate Laurence, her screen idol. Olivia lives with her dream woman in their beautiful Park Town home in Oxford. But marriage is the last thing Olivia would raise with Kate...
    Categorized as:
    queer  f-f  contemporary  length-novella  open-door
  • BY DESIGN: The Beginning by J.A. Armstrong

    BY DESIGN: The Beginning by J.A. Armstrong

    Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Building bridges has a very different meaning for Jameson Reid than it does for Candace Fletcher. J. D. Reid spends her days designing some of the most elegant and majestic buildings and homes in North America. U. S. Senator Candace Fletcher has spent her life working to build bridges between people. J. D. Reid is not who Candace Fletcher was expecting to arrive on her doorstep...
  • Passion's Bright Fury by Radclyffe

    Passion's Bright Fury by Radclyffe

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 26 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...
  • 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...
  • Cigar Club by J.A. Armstrong

    Cigar Club by J.A. Armstrong

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Fallon Foster is Whiskey Springs' self-proclaimed token lesbian. She isn't a token any longer. After her year-long affair with best friend, Andi Maguire ends, Fallon hopes to earn the trust and win the heart of the town's newest resident, Riley Main. Ghosts from the past still haunt Fallon and Riley. Informed by loss and betrayal, the pair endeavors to find their way to each other...
  • 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...
  • Ritu Weds Chandni by Ameya Narvankar

    Ritu Weds Chandni by Ameya Narvankar

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    A Kirkus Reviews' Best Picture Book of 2020 I A 2021 Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People I A 2021 ALA A Feminist Book Project's Top Ten Book I A 2021 South Asia Book Award Honor Book. Ayesha is excited to attend her cousin Ritu's wedding. She can't wait to dance at the baraat ceremony! But not everyone is happy that Ritu is marrying her girlfriend Chandni...
  • French Kissing: Season Three by Harper Bliss

    French Kissing: Season Three by Harper Bliss

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    ASIN B079Y3G6HS moved to the more recent edition. Paris. .. City of lights, City of love. .. City of drama! It has been six months since Dominique and Steph came out publicly...
  • 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...
  • Girls Girls Girls by Shoshana von Blanckensee

    Girls Girls Girls by Shoshana von Blanckensee

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    A 2025 CALIBA Golden Poppy Awards Finalist. A PANTS POD BOOK CLUB PICK. One of ELLE's Best Queer Books of 2025. "Jam-packed with queer angst and queer joy . . . and a truly incredible amount of heart. I devoured this novel. " —Kristen Arnett, New York Times bestselling author of Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One...
  • 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 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...
  • Life After by Melissa Tereze

    Life After by Melissa Tereze

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    They seem destined for happiness—but the truth can’t be left behind for long. Jen Fletcher is grateful to have a job. Any job. Even the boring, daily grind as a courier. Except for Thursdays, when her regular route swings through the swanky side of town, and she gets to flirt with Suzanne Dixon. A dark-haired beauty who dazzles in everything from sweats to business suits...
    Categorized as:
    queer  contemporary  f-f  audiobook
  • Mob's Seduction by Alyson Root

    Mob's Seduction by Alyson Root

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Mob’s Seduction is a steamy sapphic romance, packed with thrilling twists and just the right amount of laughs to balance the heat. This unforgettable story will leave you whoever said good girls never get to have any fun? Bookworm Bonnie Moorside is content with her predictable life—her biggest thrill being a new shipment of books at Wood’s Writing Emporium...
    Categorized as:
    queer  contemporary  f-f  length-medium  audiobook
  • A Matter of Trust (Justice Series) by Radclyffe

    A Matter of Trust (Justice Series) by Radclyffe

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A Prequel to In Pursuit of Justice. Michael Lassiter, a theoretical design executive, is about to wage war on the corporate battlefield as she fights to maintain control of her company in the midst of divorce. She hires JT Sloan, an internet security consultant, to protect her most important asset—her dreams and visions, which are suddenly vulnerable within the corporate computer system...
  • Cherished by Her by Chelsea M. Cameron

    Cherished by Her by Chelsea M. Cameron

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    To say I was looking forward to visiting my sister in Arrowbridge, Maine, was an understatement. She and I were as close as two people could get without being literally attached. She’s got a whole new life and a new hot wood-chopping girlfriend, and I couldn’t be happier for her. Truly. Not jealous. I swear. Apart from seeing her, I also have one goal during my a steamy hookup...
  • Crashing into Love by Nicole Pyland

    Crashing into Love by Nicole Pyland

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Sports Series Book #7. This series is related by a sports theme, not by characters. Drew Oakes had her first chance to take home an Olympic gold medal taken away from her when another rider crashed into her in the first race of the competition. Four years later, she is determined to get on that podium, and preferably, at the top of it...
  • The Stepmother by Melissa Tereze

    The Stepmother by Melissa Tereze

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 17 ratings
    Their connection flares hot in an instant…but is it doomed to fizzle out? After the death of her estranged father, Hayley McAllister plans to endure cold, wet England just long enough to tie up loose ends. Then she’s heading straight back to Ibiza, where she lives exactly as she pleases—performing her music, soaking up sunshine, and indulging in flings with gorgeous women...
  • Learning to Trust by Kallie Mont

    Learning to Trust by Kallie Mont

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    “Parker? ”. Parker loved that voice and she adored hearing it say her name. But in this moment, it scared the shit out of her. In the sleepy coastal town of Doveport, the pot isn’t just stirred—that bitch is boiling over. Maggie and Parker are new. .. like, brand-spanking-new. But for all of their flirting and butterflies and romantic intention, the universe has devised one giant beaver-dam...
  • In Dreams by Lise Gold

    In Dreams by Lise Gold

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    In the world of morning television, Rebecca Pandey shines as the charismatic producer and host of an animal programme, but behind the facade, she battles nightmares that refuse to let her rest. Desperate for relief, she turns to a specialist known for unravelling the most perplexing subconscious puzzles...
  • Vanessa: A Mrs Middleton Novel by Melissa Tereze

    Vanessa: A Mrs Middleton Novel by Melissa Tereze

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 11 ratings
    They are made for each other. But can their love survive the ultimate test? After her white-roses-and-sunflowers wedding, Vanessa is living a dream. Her cold, lonely house finally feels like a home. She has her beautiful Emma to love for the rest of her life, plus a daughter and a grandchild to grow old with. What could go wrong? Plenty, her persistent insecurities whisper...
  • Fifty Shades of Pink by Jourdyn Kelly

    Fifty Shades of Pink by Jourdyn Kelly

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 12 ratings
    BDSM was never my scene. I've always thought I was too strong to be dominated. Authority and I never did get along. So, when I was dragged to a special kind of club for my best friend's bachelorette party the last thing I expected to do was surrender myself completely. I wasn't going to participate. Then I was summoned to the "Pink Room". Her room...
  • The Adventurers by Bryce Oakley

    The Adventurers by Bryce Oakley

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    They're about to embark on their greatest adventure yet. Joey Moore got her heart stomped on. At her engagement party. So, she did what any normal, completely rational 28-year-old would do — she moved to a new city with her dog to start a new life. Without much of a plan, it turns out...
  • Sliced Ice by Lee Winter

    Sliced Ice by Lee Winter

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Ten short stories based on Lee Winter’s fierce and unforgettable ice queens and villains have been gathered into one anthology containing lesbian love, lust, friendship, and romance. Find out what happened after Lee’s stories ended, and in one case, before it began...
  • 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: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 15 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...
  • Flashbang by Lee Winter

    Flashbang by Lee Winter

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    At a celebrity party, all eyes are drawn to the glamorous A-listers. No one’s watching two entertainment reporters–knockabout Iowa girl Lauren King and her secret lover, Caustic Queen Catherine Ayers–as they celebrate their last night together in LA in erotic style. A sexy slice from The Red Files universe.
  • Solid Foundation by J.A. Armstrong

    Solid Foundation by J.A. Armstrong

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Life is never simple in the world of politics. The pressure is on Senator Candace Fletcher to make a run for the governorship of New York State. Everyone seems convinced it's the right move for the affable senator. Everyone that is, except Candace. Life took an unexpected turn for the senator when she met and fell in love with Jameson Reid...
  • 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.
  • May by Nicole Pyland

    May by Nicole Pyland

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Logan Luna has made a lot of mistakes in her life stemming from a gambling addiction. She’s been sublimating in other ways recently but doesn’t want to do that any longer. When she gets a job at a new bar in the city, she hopes it’s the start of something big, something that might help take her mind off of everything wrong with her life...
  • Any Other Name by Kelli Jae Baeli, Melissa Walker Baeli

    Any Other Name by Kelli Jae Baeli, Melissa Walker Baeli

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Jolene Winters only wants to be left alone, but her new-found safety and contentment will be both challenged and shattered. When the chance to escape the clutches of her villainous girlfriend finally appears, twenty-five-year-old Jolene Winters takes it. All she wants is to live a life of her choosing, and to be left alone and in peace to write her novels...
  • Paradise Pride by Lise Gold

    Paradise Pride by Lise Gold

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    London-based casino manager Meghan has no expectations of her two-week holiday in Spain; she’s just tagging along with her friend who’s visiting her love interest. When they arrive at a deserted hotel due to a booking fault and her friend leaves to see her boyfriend, she’s left with the bartender who stays on for the night...
  • Don't Quit Your Daydream by Adrian J. Smith

    Don't Quit Your Daydream by Adrian J. Smith

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    What happens in the elevator doesn’t stay in the elevator. When Laura Finch’s business partner hires Skylar to bring their company to the next generation, Laura sees red. An obnoxious millennial isn’t someone she wants to work with—they’re known for failing their side hustles...
  • Handle With Care by Michele L. Rivera

    Handle With Care by Michele L. Rivera

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Newly divorced Quinn Gellar is rebuilding her life—something she never thought she’d be doing in her forties. A creature of habit, she’s trying to embrace change and go with the unexpected. But when the unexpected appears to her in the form of an alluring bartender, Quinn becomes uncertain of exactly how much change she’s ready to embrace. Theo Harrington isn’t much of a planner...
  • French Kissing: Season One by Harper Bliss

    French Kissing: Season One by Harper Bliss

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 11 ratings
    Paris. City of lights, City of love. .. City of drama! Can best friends Claire and Juliette, along with their employee Steph, successfully navigate the drama of relationships in their beautiful city of Paris -- and find their soulmates along the way? Warning: This title contains sensual language, ladies making love and possibly more feelings than you can process...
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