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  • Beyond the Trail by Jae

    Beyond the Trail by Jae

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Six 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

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 9 ratings
    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 ratings
    Meg 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...
    Categorized as:
    queer  contemporary  f-f  western  length-medium
  • The Art of Pretending by Jae

    The Art of Pretending by Jae

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Short 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...
  • Smoke Through The Pines by Sarah Goodwin

    Smoke Through The Pines by Sarah Goodwin

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    It 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 ratings
    Short 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 ratings
    Short story prequel to Backwards to Oregon.When her mother dies, twelve-year-old Lucinda Hamilton decides to start a new life—as a boy...
    Categorized as:
    queer  historical  western  f-f  historical western
  • Promising Hearts by Radclyffe

    Promising Hearts by Radclyffe

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Can 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 ratings
    The 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...
  • Indigo: Blues by Adrian J. Smith

    Indigo: Blues by Adrian J. Smith

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 5 ratings
    Anxiety ridden Sarah finds more than she bargained for in a no-nonsense rancher and baby cow.Taking her best friend’s advice, Sarah travels to Indigo B&B to distract herself from her upcoming tour. Instead, she comes face-to-face with Indigo’s ruggedly alluring owner, Eli. The vision of strength and confidence, Eli evokes Sarah’s envy as well as an undeniable attraction...
  • Breaking Down Her Walls by Erin Zak

    Breaking Down Her Walls by Erin Zak

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 4 ratings
    Leaving is what Julia Finch does best. When a meeting with her birth parents goes horribly wrong, Julia escapes on a hastily planned road trip and winds up breaking down in a Colorado town so small the cows outnumber the people. Completely out of her element, she takes a temporary job as a ranch hand at Bennett Ranch...
  • Life, Love, and Loyalty by Rhavensfyre

    Life, Love, and Loyalty by Rhavensfyre

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 4 ratings
    This lesbian romance is the third in the popular Chase and Rowan Series. After a few detours along the way, Chase and Rowan have finally made it to California and are settling into their lives at the Flying S ranch. An urgent call sends them back on the road again when wildfires get close enough to threaten an old college friends farm...
    Categorized as:
    queer  western  f-f  length-novella
  • Bloom Town: Genesis by Ally North

    Bloom Town: Genesis by Ally North

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 5 ratings
    June, 1852.A preacher’s daughter with a secret. An outlaw running from the gallows. A love story spanning oceans and deserts and years. June, 1852. When Abby Proctor is kidnapped from a train in the middle of the desert halfway to her new life in California, she makes a promise to herself—she will escape...
  • Bloom Town: Exodus by Ally North

    Bloom Town: Exodus by Ally North

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 4 ratings
    The epic finale and sequel to Bloom Genesis.June, 1852.A preacher’s daughter with a secret. An outlaw running from the gallows. A love story spanning oceans and deserts and years. Abby Proctor has made her choice—she’s racing back to Wry to save Joey “JT London”, the outlaw she’s fallen in love with...
  • The Price of Payback by S.W. Andersen

    The Price of Payback by S.W. Andersen

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 3 ratings
    One year has passed since Sarah Sawyer avenged the death of her parents in a quest that nearly cost her life. Now the gunslinger is living a life she never imagined. No longer roaming the trails alone, she and Jo Porter, the woman she loves, live in relative peace, working a thriving farm of their own. But payback comes with a price...
  • Back in the Saddle by Ali Spooner

    Back in the Saddle by Ali Spooner

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 3 ratings
    The crew from Cowgirl Up are back in the saddle for more fun. In their new adventure, Coal, Stormy, and Gene get the chance to be part of something they have always dreamed of—a cattle drive. The beautiful scenery of Montana and the lure of a rodeo is just the start of their journey. Even without the gang being at the MC2 ranch, there’s still plenty of action going on...
  • Blackpoint by Kate Hershberger

    Blackpoint by Kate Hershberger

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 3 ratings
    Joseph McNiff has lived a life unlike any other.Being half Irish and half Blackfoot is not easy for a young man in the old west. He has a place in both the white man's world and the native tribe, but he's never really fit into either. It's even more complicated as he is really a she and trying to keep the town safe as it's sheriff...
  • Top of the World by Jodi Payne

    Top of the World by Jodi Payne

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 3 ratings
    Frankie Hoffman is excited about her new job with Marmot and Moose Outfitters, developing their mountain biking adventure program. Riding is her passion, and she loves every adrenaline fueled moment of her sport. Sure, she could have gotten a similar seasonal job back in Vermont, but Frankie chose Summit Springs for a reason, and her name is Aspen Young...
    Categorized as:
    queer  contemporary  f-f  small town  western  sports  angst
  • Djara: Book One by Kat Evans

    Djara: Book One by Kat Evans

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 2 ratings
    It was a period in time known as the westward expansion, a time when people from all over the country moved west in search of silver and gold. The population influx created a shift, and the untouched frontier became inhabited by corrupt men consumed with greed and spurred by desperation. In mining towns overtaken by outlaws, the primary capital was crime...
  • The Coffield Chronicles - Hearts Under Siege : Book One by T.L. Dickerson

    The Coffield Chronicles - Hearts Under Siege : Book One by T.L. Dickerson

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 2 ratings
    The year is 1862. The war between the states has been raging intensely for a year now. The country is in complete and utter turmoil, and brother is fighting brother to the death, dying for what each believed. It seems it’s all the townsfolk of New Albany, Indiana can speak of, and Melody Coffield is paying attention...
  • Desert Rider by Marie Christiaon

    Desert Rider by Marie Christiaon

    Rated: 5.00 of 5 stars
    · 1 ratings
    Pallen knew when she fired the three shots in the desert to save the lives of Graham Pinchot and his family, it might well end her own. Desert Rider, a woman's novel with lesbian content, is an unconventional story of a changing west and the strength of the women who were a part of it...
  • Dappled: Eden Universe Book Two by D. F. Krieger, Max Ellendale

    Dappled: Eden Universe Book Two by D. F. Krieger, Max Ellendale

    Rated: 5.00 of 5 stars
    · 1 ratings
    Maddie doesn't want much from life. A good horse, a quiet life in the country teaching riding lessons, and running the simple equine school and rescue with her mom. Threats from an unhinged maniac who targets the ranch for being LGBTQ+ friendly? Not on her checklist. Neither did coming face to face with her cheating ex, who is planning a wedding party in Maddie's own yard...
    Categorized as:
    queer  contemporary  western  f-f  length-short
  • Mine by Kim Hartfield

    Mine by Kim Hartfield

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 10 ratings
    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 ratings
    Meg 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...
    Categorized as:
    queer  contemporary  f-f  western  length-novella
  • Tumbleweed Fever by L.J. Maas

    Tumbleweed Fever by L.J. Maas

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    In 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 ratings
    Widow 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 ratings
    The 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...
  • Love Is Not a Romance Novel by Rhavensfyre

    Love Is Not a Romance Novel by Rhavensfyre

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 3 ratings
    This romantic novella is book two of Chase and Rowan's adventures and the sequel to Life is Not a Country Song. Chase and Rowan are given some time to learn more about each other when the last leg of their trip is delayed...
    Categorized as:
    queer  f-f  contemporary  western  length-novella
  • Somewhere Between Love and Justice by S.W. Andersen

    Somewhere Between Love and Justice by S.W. Andersen

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 3 ratings
    Three lives meet at an unimaginable crossroad in this story of love, loss and loyalty in the old west. Sarah Sawyer has spent the last ten years reliving a nightmare. With her horse, Clover, she takes to the trails in search of solitude and revenge. While she shares a common goal and close bond with U.S. Marshall Jessie Walker, another silently holds Sarah's heart...
    Categorized as:
    queer  f-f  western  length-medium
  • Broken Fences by Jo Hemmingwood

    Broken Fences by Jo Hemmingwood

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 3 ratings
    Former army sergeant Seneca Twist has difficulty adjusting to civilian life after losing her brother in Afghanistan. She picks up her backpack and begins walking. Her travels take her to a boys’ ranch in Idaho where she meets residential psychologist Robyn Mason...
    Categorized as:
    queer  f-f  contemporary  western
  • Future Promises by Sandy Dugger

    Future Promises by Sandy Dugger

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 2 ratings
    Rose Thomas has spent the last few years riding horses and mending fences at a women’s only dude ranch. Life is going great for the wrangler until she receives news of the passing of a relative. The journey home leaves her with new options for her future and a handful of journals that were written during the Civil War...
  • Barbed Wire by Erin Wade

    Barbed Wire by Erin Wade

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 2 ratings
    Erin Wade's historical lesbian novel is set in West Texas where cattle & oil were king and men were masters of their fate. A woman didn't have a chance of making it in the straight shooting, fast riding, hard drinking world of the Texas cowboy or did she? A novel about a love so forbidden it wasn't even whispered. A heroine so unlikely she wasn't believed...
  • Lesbian Romance: Lesbian Cowgirl Romance Collection by Spirited Sapphire Publishing

    Lesbian Romance: Lesbian Cowgirl Romance Collection by Spirited Sapphire Publishing

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 1 ratings
    Lesbian Romance: Lesbian Cowgirl Romance Collection. 4 lesbian fiction short story cowgirl romance stories, filled with passion and Wild West circumstance. Story 1: Lesbian Romance: Cowgirl Chivalry - Erotic Mountainside Adventure Abby tests the limit of her old car as she adventures through the Colorado mountainside during the blazing hot summer...
    Categorized as:
    queer  contemporary  f-f  western  length-novella
  • Good Water by Kayt Peck

    Good Water by Kayt Peck

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 1 ratings
    The dry plains drew Judy Proctor like a bear to her den…or a moth to the flame. Ranching was her life. The sweat as she branded or “doctored” cattle…the howl of a coyote in the quiet, night air ... half-frozen fingers as she cut the wire to loosen hay bales for hungry cattle scratching for survival in snow-covered land…all of the everyday existence on the ranch was her life...
    Categorized as:
    queer  f-f  western  contemporary  length-short
  • Futanari Ranch  (Futa on Female Transformation) by Hayden Archer

    Futanari Ranch (Futa on Female Transformation) by Hayden Archer

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 1 ratings
    Tiffany is just trying to make a living. So what if her making a living means rustling some cattle from the local ranchers? It's not like they'll miss a few. Only Tiffany is going to get caught tonight. Caught by a compellingly sexy lady rancher who is packing a huge secret between her legs and has a few ideas on how a rustler could pay her back for all the trouble she's caused...
  • The Rancher's Mysterious Bride by E. Wolfe

    The Rancher's Mysterious Bride by E. Wolfe

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 1 ratings
    INCLUDES A SPECIAL BONUS ROMANCE BOOK!!! When Cora, Hailey’s sister, discovers her late widowed sister is a mail order bride promised to marry a cowboy in Dodge, she pretends to be Hailey and goes in her place. But the tall, hot and handsome cowboy isn’t what he said he was either. He’s a rich cattle rancher and Cora can’t fool for him for long...
  • A Bride For Two Cowboys by E. Wolfe

    A Bride For Two Cowboys by E. Wolfe

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 1 ratings
    INCLUDES A BONUS ROMANCE STORY!!! Marissa had to save her father. She was robbed when she was trying to sell what little she had to get the medication he needed to live. She found hope in a mail order bride agency that offered her and her family a chance at a normal life...
  • The Cowboys Destined Brides by F. Summers

    The Cowboys Destined Brides by F. Summers

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 1 ratings
    INCLUDES 15 BONUS ROMANCE STORIES!! Iris, a big beautiful woman, was tired of being the spinster in her town, she wanted to find someone to spend her life with and free herself from living with her parents. Malcolm, a handsome rancher was tired of being alone, desiring for more companionship in his life...
    Categorized as:
    queer  f-f  western  historical western  historical
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