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  • Bitter Falls by Rachel Caine

    Bitter Falls by Rachel Caine

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 41 ratings
    She’s investigating a cold case no one else could—by going places no one else would dare.In spite of a harrowing past still haunting her, Gwen Proctor is trying to move forward. Until a new assignment gives her purpose: the cold-case disappearance of a young man in Tennessee. Three years missing, no clues. Just Ruth Landry, a tortured mother in limbo...
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    mystery  suspense  queer  contemporary  horror  dark  f-f  abuse
  • Crowned Queen by Alisha Williams

    Crowned Queen by Alisha Williams

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 16 ratings
    Well isn't this just dandy. I had to go and catch...feelings...ewww. And now here I am on a vacation to wrap my mind around what the hell my life has become in the short time they... my ex best friends... came back into my life...
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  • Unbreakable by Cari Hunter

    Unbreakable by Cari Hunter

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Dr. Grace Kendal never stands a chance. The injured woman comes out of nowhere, bleeding heavily and holding a gun. Compelled to help her, Grace is dragged into Elin Breckenridge’s nightmare. Their fight to survive will take them across the country and to the limits of their endurance...
    Categorized as:
    mystery  suspense  queer  f-f  contemporary  dark  length-medium
  • Rising Queen by Alisha Williams

    Rising Queen by Alisha Williams

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 25 ratings
    *****Release date will be a lot sooner than posted. Looking for end of June 2021*****"Men fear me, women envy me."My name is Harlow McKaven andmy life has been hell since the moment I was born. But after being tricked and held captive against my will, I have finally snapped. Like a Phoenix rising from the ashes, something frightening and bloodthirsty was born...
  • Loathing You by Amina Khan

    Loathing You by Amina Khan

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 24 ratings
    Hate. Detest. Despise. These words were the only way that Adaline and Juliette could possibly describe their relationship, or lack thereof.Adaline would argue that this is because a certain she-devil has been making her life hell for the last five years...
  • Savage Queen by Alisha Williams

    Savage Queen by Alisha Williams

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 17 ratings
    Something I never thought was capable, happened.Now I’m trying to make all these relationships work without letting my past effect my life.So I do what I do best, shove it down deep and distract myself with sex and blood.But I don’t have to worry about finding things to keep me busy because someone has come into my city, putting teenagers at risk...
  • In This Small Spot by Caren J. Werlinger

    In This Small Spot by Caren J. Werlinger

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    “Here, the true you is most often magnified, for better or for worse.” Abbess TheodoraIn a world increasingly connected to computers and machines but disconnected to self and others, Dr. Michele Stewart finds herself drowning in a life that no longer holds meaning...
    Categorized as:
    queer  f-f  contemporary  angst  dark  length-medium
  • Wind Dancer by K.C. Luck

    Wind Dancer by K.C. Luck

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    If the lights go out forever, can love survive?Darkness still prevails throughout the world but in Astoria, Chief of Police Taylor Barnes has everything under control. There is only one more thing she wants to do—marry the always challenging Jackie Scott...
  • Her Mafia Queen by Persephone Black

    Her Mafia Queen by Persephone Black

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Caitlin O' Fearless. Rebellious. Wild.And her fire is a threat to my icy heart.As a ruthless Mafia Queen, my steely self-control is legendary. But Caitlin’s blazing spirit ignited a passion in me I had no idea I was capable of.I sent her away to shield her, but her safety is still my obsession...
  • Bought for Us by Alisha Williams

    Bought for Us by Alisha Williams

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    I didn't expect to fall for them. And I fell hard.When life took an unexpected turn, I was forced to leave them behind.After ten years of hell made by my father, he's finally gone, which means I'm free.Only I'm not. He's left me with a lot to clean up in the form of a hefty amount of debt.It would take a lifetime to pay it off, maybe not even then...
  • Pretty Little Psycho by R.E. Bond

    Pretty Little Psycho by R.E. Bond

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 10 ratings
    Growing up in a big family means things slip through the cracks.My parents have never made me feel unwanted or unloved, but we aren’t always honest.After all, they run the most notorious street crews in Ashburn Valley.When their enemies took my brother’s life, everything changed.We all coped differently, and no one would understand my need for taunting death...
  • Tricky Girls: A Sapphic Why-Choose Romance by Holly Thorne

    Tricky Girls: A Sapphic Why-Choose Romance by Holly Thorne

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 12 ratings
    Hazelhurst University was it for me.Doesn’t matter that it’s not-so-secretly Mafia-run, that the lecturers are dodgy, that there’s a whole slew of illegal going-ons just beneath the surface.I’m scholarship. Forever on the fringes. Away from all that stuff.Until the night I meet them.Elly with her gentle dominance and large heart.Haz with her dark, sweet possessiveness...
  • Stranger on the Shore by Claire Highton-Stevenson

    Stranger on the Shore by Claire Highton-Stevenson

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Quinn Harper is living the life she always wanted. She’s well-liked and respected by everyone and has been a success in life with awards to prove it. She spends her free time running along the shore, returning to her quiet home on the beach.It was almost the perfect life, but there was one thing missing: Love...
    Categorized as:
    queer  f-f  dark  angst  contemporary  length-medium
  • Angel of Mercy by Cara Malone

    Angel of Mercy by Cara Malone

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    “Angel of mercy. It was the stuff of legend, and nightmares. The caregiver who was supposed to heal and protect, who chose instead to kill.”In her very first case with the FCPD homicide division, Tate Macawi is investigating a death at one of Fox County’s most upscale nursing homes...
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    mystery  queer  suspense  f-f  dark  contemporary  length-short
  • Strong by Natalie Debrabandere

    Strong by Natalie Debrabandere

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    ASIN moved from less recent edition hereWhen British Army medic Kate Sanderson arrives at Cobel, an American checkpoint deep inside Afghanistan's Helmand Province, the only thing on her mind is her mission to save lives. There she meets USMC Captain Tyler Jackson, a talented young officer who uses her career as an excuse to avoid personal relationships...
  • Lock & Key by Cat Porter

    Lock & Key by Cat Porter

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    I suppose some of us have to get really dirty before we can become truly clean. I was allegedly South Dakota’s most famous old lady. Sixteen years ago I survived my old man’s murder Never again. Never again will I surrender my heart. Never again will I sacrifice to the Club. But that all changed in one night. I came home and crashed into him, and my past and present blew up in my face...
  • Don't Leave Me by Eden Emory

    Don't Leave Me by Eden Emory

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 16 ratings
    I am a professional liar.But not because I like to lie...because people don’t like the truth.I did what I had to survive, but I made a promise once.There was a single person on this earththat I could never lie to.My step-sister, Lillian.The problem is that along the wayI began to lie to myself.I’m a good person.I am happy with my life.And lastly... I am not in love with Lilian...
  • Collide-O-Scope by Andrea Bramhall

    Collide-O-Scope by Andrea Bramhall

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    An unidentified woman is found murdered on the North Norfolk Coastal Path and newly promoted Detective Sergeant Kate Brannon and Kings Lynn's CID have the task of figuring out whom, how, and why. A job that's made more difficult when everyone of the forty residents in the village has something to hide and answers her questions with a string of lies...
  • Giovanna by Victoria Arrow

    Giovanna by Victoria Arrow

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 13 ratings
    Overlooked as her father’s heir, Giovanna dedicates herself to supporting her hedonistic playboy brother as the new mafia boss. Loyal and stoic, Giovanna puts the famiglia before all else, but when she meets the woman her brother is being forced to marry it feels like fate is screwing her again...
  • Mad Girl by Alaska Angelini, A. A. Dark

    Mad Girl by Alaska Angelini, A. A. Dark

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    **CAUTION-------PITCH BLACK READ** My mother was the Madison Ridge Killer … and I helped her. At nine, I was given a new start—a new life. My adoptive parents did everything they could to help me forget my past, and for a while, they succeeded. But I was never normal. I never truly forgot all I saw or did.Now, twenty years later, I work in the billing department for a small city newspaper...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  mystery  queer  dark  abuse  rape  abduction  bondage
  • The Mad House by Liza James

    The Mad House by Liza James

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A broken home made whole through promises of eternal life and family beyond.On your knees. Whisper the prayers.Obey thy Father and Mother. You'll be made whole in the Spirit once we're all together again.One sister escapes. The other is trapped, carrying the weight of all focus from their parents for years to come...
    Categorized as:
    queer  contemporary  m-m  angst  rape  dark  f-f  from hate to love
  • Captive of the Crime Queen by Persephone Black

    Captive of the Crime Queen by Persephone Black

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 21 ratings
    Years ago, Hadria Imperioli vanished after her father refused her mafia inheritance in favor of her younger brother. Now, she's resurfaced as "Hades"—ruthless leader of the Styx Syndicate mercenaries that terrorize Chicago—and she's hell-bent on finally claiming what's hers...
  • Dirty Bad Wrong by Jade West

    Dirty Bad Wrong by Jade West

    Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 79 ratings
    They call him Masque. I call him God. The man I want to consume me, own me, break me and corrupt me. Yet I've never seen his face. His body ripples like an Adonis, sculpted in steel and dripping in sin. His flesh is inked with the mark of the chimera - one body, two very different halves. He plays hard. He plays rough. He has no limits. He's so fucking dirty bad wrong...
  • Promised to the Queen by Barbara Winkes

    Promised to the Queen by Barbara Winkes

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    A new sapphic mafia romance from the author of the Crossing Lines trilogy... MIAI can’t believe my parents have agreed to marry me off in order to have their debt to the Morettis paid by the Falcone family. Tying the knot with Alessandra Falcone seems to be the only way—but I can’t do that, can I? This is not the marriage I’ve dreamed of since I was a little girl...
  • I Did by Mardria Portuondo

    I Did by Mardria Portuondo

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    All I ever want is to be a mother, and in my quest, I realize that not everyone possesses that desire. Kay is one of those people, but I fall deeply in love with her. After a long fight, I accept that I will not get all that I want in this life, and I am lucky to have gotten the gift of love. Ready to walk down the aisle with Kay, we go to get a marriage license...
    Categorized as:
    queer  f-f-f  dark  contemporary  f-f  poly  length-long
  • The Last First Time by Andrea Bramhall

    The Last First Time by Andrea Bramhall

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When Gina Temple decides to go Christmas shopping for her girlfriend, Detective Sergeant Kate Brannon, in the Norfolk town of King’s Lynn, it seems like an easy enough task.If only life were that simple.A split-second event, months in the planning, tips their safe world upside-down...
    Categorized as:
    mystery  suspense  queer  f-f  dark  contemporary  christmas
  • No Tomorrow by Luke Jennings

    No Tomorrow by Luke Jennings

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    "If you want us to remain silent - if you want to retain your freedom, your job, and your reputation - you need to tell us everything, and I mean everything. . ." We last saw Eve and Villanelle in a spy vs. spy race around the world, crossing powerful criminal organizations and dangerous governments, each trying to come out on top. But they aren't finished yet...
  • Second Chances by Alisha Williams

    Second Chances by Alisha Williams

    Rated: 3.82 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 30 ratings
    “Hang on to your panties because apparently, I keep losing mine. It's gonna be a sexy ride”Okay! So breaking into my workplace after hours to steal money and then running from the cops, may not have been my brightest idea...
  • Forbidden Girl by Kristen Zimmer

    Forbidden Girl by Kristen Zimmer

    Rated: 3.85 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 13 ratings
    She is your father’s deadliest rival. You’ve been taught to hate her. But what if you can’t resist her?JulesFrom the moment I learned my father was the head of the biggest crime family in Boston, I vowed I would never have anything to do with his “business.” Until Rowan.When our eyes locked for the first time across that crowded room, her emerald eyes lit an unstoppable fire in me...
  • Bad Boy by Elliot Wake

    Bad Boy by Elliot Wake

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Vlog star Renard Grant has nothing to prove: he’s got a pretty face, chiseled body, and two million adoring video subscribers. Plus the scars on his chest and a prescription for testosterone. Because Ren is transgender: assigned female at birth, living now as male. He films his transition and shares it bravely with the world; his fans love his honesty and positivity...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  college  mystery  queer  f-f  contemporary  dark  new adult
  • Coach's Pet by S.J. Ransom

    Coach's Pet by S.J. Ransom

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 6 ratings
    Tia- Life hasn't always been easy, but I've found who I am and I own it. College is supposed to be a fresh start, but there's one person standing in my way. My volleyball coach Laura Landrey. She makes me feel things I'm sure aren't real. It doesn't matter though because now that I want her, I'm going for it.Laura- Coaching Volleyball at Groveton College has always been my dream...
  • Roommates: A Dark Sapphic Romance by A.L. Ryan, Cassie Hargrove

    Roommates: A Dark Sapphic Romance by A.L. Ryan, Cassie Hargrove

    Rated: 3.68 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A hazing gone wrong. That’s what they’re saying happened… problem is, I know better.I know who Melanie is. We may not have been roommates for long yet, but I know her. I know the way she smiles when she’s thought of something particularly cute or funny. The way her breath comes faster when I get too close.I know she’s sweet and innocent. She’s also mine...
  • She's With Me by Sade Rena, B.L. Mute

    She's With Me by Sade Rena, B.L. Mute

    Rated: 3.56 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Being a Ciccone comes with a certain set of perks.A lifestyle that is like no others.Brothers who are ruthless.A father who’s worse.Love doesn’t exist in our world until Courtlin enters mine.She’s innocent, sweet—an angel.She doesn’t belong in this life, but none of that matters when she’s with me.I’m Kenley, and I’m the only female Ciccone...
  • Surrender Your Heart by Raven J. Spencer

    Surrender Your Heart by Raven J. Spencer

    Rated: 3.43 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 7 ratings
    Penny can’t believe what happened to her: One day she’s studying sociology and paying her tuition with her job at a local café, the next she wakes up in a luxurious house which is the property of a rich and enigmatic woman...
  • Die for Me by Luke Jennings

    Die for Me by Luke Jennings

    Rated: 3.57 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 30 ratings
    Following the wildly popular BBC America adaption of Codename Villanelle, a high-stakes, addictive new installment of Jennings's acclaimed Killing Eve seriesThough the cat and mouse chase between these two lethal adversaries has seemingly ended, the sophisticated, deadly thrill of Eve and Villanelle's relationship is far from over...
  • Codename Villanelle by Luke Jennings

    Codename Villanelle by Luke Jennings

    Rated: 3.51 of 5 stars
    · 39 ratings
    stylish, thrilling game of spy vs. spy played by Villanelle, a peerless international assassin, and Eve, the fiercely intelligent MI6 analyst whose mission is to take her out-- soon to be a BBC America seriesVillanelle (a codename, of course) is one of the world's most skilled assassins...
  • Sedating Elaine by Dawn Winter

    Sedating Elaine by Dawn Winter

    Rated: 3.28 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    Frances was not looking for a relationship when she met Elaine in a bar. She was, in fact, looking to drown her sorrows in a pint or twelve and nurse a broken heart, shattered by the gorgeous, electric Adrienne. But somehow (it involved a steady stream of beer and weed, as things often did with Frances) Elaine ended up in Frances's bed and never left...
  • Nightshift by Kiare Ladner

    Nightshift by Kiare Ladner

    Rated: 3.24 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    A haunting, compelling debut novel of complex female friendship and obsession, following one young woman's decision to abandon her normal life and join the otherworldly, nocturnal existence of London's nightshift workers.When twenty-three-year-old Meggie meets her distant and enigmatic new coworker Sabine, she recognizes in her the person she would like to be...
    Categorized as:
    mystery  suspense  queer  contemporary  f-f  dark  length-medium
  • Scorched Grace by Margot Douaihy

    Scorched Grace by Margot Douaihy

    Rated: 3.32 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Sister Holiday, a chain-smoking, heavily tattooed, queer nun, puts her amateur sleuthing skills to the test in this debut crime novel.When Saint Sebastian's School becomes the target of a shocking arson spree, the Sisters of the Sublime Blood and their surrounding community are thrust into chaos...
  • Mostly Dead Things by Kristen Arnett

    Mostly Dead Things by Kristen Arnett

    Rated: 3.37 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    One morning, Jessa-Lynn Morton walks into the family taxidermy shop to find that her father has committed suicide, right there on one of the metal tables. Shocked and grieving, Jessa steps up to manage the failing business, while the rest of the Morton family crumbles. Her mother starts sneaking into the shop to make aggressively lewd art with the taxidermied animals...
    Categorized as:
    queer  contemporary  f-f  death  humor  suicide  horror  dark
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