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  • 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...
  • 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...
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  • Charmed By Her by Chelsea M. Cameron

    Charmed By Her by Chelsea M. Cameron

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The only thing I had to look forward to was getting as far away from my hometown of Arrowbridge, Maine, as possible. That is, until I bump into a single mom and her bug-loving daughter. Ingrid Davidson and I have absolutely nothing in common. She’s older, she has a child, and she’s settled in Arrowbridge for good...
    Categorized as:
    new adult  queer  f-f  age difference  length-short
  • Surprised By Her (Mainely Books Club) by Chelsea M. Cameron

    Surprised By Her (Mainely Books Club) by Chelsea M. Cameron

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When my boss at Bluebird Pottery, Sydney, left me in charge while she went on vacation with her girlfriend, I wasn’t looking forward to it. During my first few hours, a tall, stunning stranger walked in, and I could barely breathe. Of course I ruined everything by spilling coffee all over her...
  • Isabela by Jenn Bullard

    Isabela by Jenn Bullard

    Rated: 4.80 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    My life hasn’t been mine for three years, ever since my parents died in a car accident. I live under the veil of my uncle’s demands, never knowing when he’ll ask me to do something that will break my spirit. School is the only place I can be away from his prying eyes. But even there I have a teacher that makes me insane. Nothing I do is good enough for Dr...
  • The Touch of Her Voice by Sara Scott

    The Touch of Her Voice by Sara Scott

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    . .. Firebird Awards 2022 (Speak Up Talk Radio). First Place LGBTQ Fiction. First Place New Adult Fiction. First Place New Fiction (first time published). . .. 2022 American Fiction Awards Finalist (LGBTQ+ Fiction). . .. Literary Titan Gold Book Award (September 2022). . .. Readers' Favorite 5 Star Book. My world turned to shades of grey as I squared my shoulders and turned around...
  • Party Animal by Ali K. Mulford

    Party Animal by Ali K. Mulford

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    She’s never done love long-term. But will faking it lead to forever? Finch Lachlan works hard and parties harder. But tired of her siblings judging her fun-loving ways, the head veterinarian at her family’s zoo vows to prove she can make it past the third date. And maybe she can begin with the hottie who just seized her attention with a sizzling kiss. Chef, Frankie Benedetti, craves a fresh start...
  • The Misperception by Nicole Pyland

    The Misperception by Nicole Pyland

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    This is book #5 in the Holiday Series. Paisley Hill cared about one thing – she was building her company from the ground up without accepting any money from her wealthy family to do it. That was important to Paisley, and she took her job as a consultant seriously, wanting to help companies grow and get more efficient because of her ideas...
  • Finding Jess by Nicole Maser

    Finding Jess by Nicole Maser

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Sam Hayes thought she’d moved on. It’s been eight years since Jess crashed into her life before slipping away, and four years since they tore each other apart for good. Now Sam’s within reach of her ultimate selling her software company and proving herself in the tech industry...
    Categorized as:
    queer  new adult  f-f  length-medium  audiobook
  • 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...
  • Tempted By Her by Chelsea M. Cameron

    Tempted By Her by Chelsea M. Cameron

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    I wasn’t looking forward to finding a new roommate after my best friend, Joy, moved in with her girlfriend, Ezra. We’ve lived together for years, and I didn’t want to start over with a stranger. Then there’s a fire at the house Lark’s renting and for some reason I open my mouth and offer to let her move in with me...
  • Tricky Wisdom: Year I by Camryn Eyde

    Tricky Wisdom: Year I by Camryn Eyde

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Darcy Wright is a closeted lesbian who has been infatuated with her best friend, Taylor, since junior high. Leaving her small northeast Minnesota town for Harvard in a quest to become a doctor, she moves in with med-student Olivia Boyd, a neurotic, anal, gigantic pain in the backside. The first year of juggling medical school is gruelling, but it’s nothing compared to living with Olivia...
  • Some Part of Me is You by Adrienne Marsh

    Some Part of Me is You by Adrienne Marsh

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Alison has been in her brother's indie rock band, Right Turn, since she was a teenager...
    Categorized as:
    new adult  queer  f-f  length-short
  • The Secret Pond by Gerri Hill

    The Secret Pond by Gerri Hill

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Grieving over the loss of her family and feeling like her life is unraveling, Lindsey McDermott quits her job, gets a puppy and retreats to her grandparents’ home in the Texas Hill Country. She spends her solitary days walking childhood trails and reminiscing, trying to reconcile the conflict within her as she struggles with survivor’s guilt...
  • Lightning Strikes Twice by Erik Schubach

    Lightning Strikes Twice by Erik Schubach

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Returning home to Seattle from a twenty year absence in London. .. Victoria discovers that time has not erased her feelings for an unrequited love. It soon becomes obvious that with true love, lightning can sometimes strike twice. This is set in the same world as Music of the Soul but is a standalone book.
  • Play It Again, Ma'am by Sienna Waters

    Play It Again, Ma'am by Sienna Waters

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Is music really the food of love? When a tiny lie to her crush leaves barmaid Jules Hawthorne needing to learn to play the piano in just six weeks, she’s determined to get the job done. She’s got a prophecy to fulfill, after all...
  • 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...
  • Her Forgotten Promise by Corin Burnside

    Her Forgotten Promise by Corin Burnside

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A wartime secret. A journey to uncover the truth. Claire has always had a special bond with her aunt Margaret, but she’s astonished when Margaret suddenly begins talking about a friend called Agnes, who Margaret met working as a WAAF in World War 2 – a past Claire had no idea about. Margaret and Agnes were best friends until Agnes started acting strangely, becoming secretive and distant...
  • Just Jorie by Robin Alexander

    Just Jorie by Robin Alexander

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Some believe that special someone is out there just waiting to be found. Jorie Andolini is one of those people and has spent a lot of time envisioning that moment. She bumps into a woman at a grocery store, the woman drops a can of peas, Jorie picks it up, their eyes meet, and two souls connect...
  • Teaching Hope by Sienna Waters

    Teaching Hope by Sienna Waters

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    It’s time to learn a lesson. .. American high school teacher Ava Stanford has been betrayed in the worst way possible. So she takes a temporary job at a village school in England. She’s definitely not running away, but even she admits she’s got nothing to go home to. School receptionist Hope Perkins is hardly at her peak...
  • Doghouse by Erik Schubach

    Doghouse by Erik Schubach

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Eliza Montrose lives an unorthodox life. backpacking through Europe with a string bass, Audrey, on her back. She plays her doghouse bass in jazz clubs in every port in her wanderings, she doesn't need anyone but herself and her Audrey...
    Categorized as:
    bisexual  queer  f-f  length-short  audiobook
  • The Storm Within Her by Ami Spencer

    The Storm Within Her by Ami Spencer

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When Kate and Seph met it was flirting at first sight, but with Kate being married it was never meant to be. Until the two meet again under the worst possible connection, and Kate is forced to re-evaluate what is most important to her. Especially since Seph is a shadow of the person she knew before...
  • Sunstone: Mercy Book Three by Stjepan Šejić

    Sunstone: Mercy Book Three by Stjepan Šejić

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Two women deal with modern themes of sex, relationships, and fetishism in this erotic romantic comedy. "MERCY," Part Three. Loving someone means building a shrine within your heart dedicated to them. A shrine made of good memories and treasured moments. As the mercy arc reaches its third volume Anne is about to find the shrine of her heart ransacked by none other than the person it was devoted to...
    Categorized as:
    queer  bisexual  bdsm  f-f  humor  contemporary  length-long
  • Teach Me by Melissa Tereze, Jourdyn Kelly

    Teach Me by Melissa Tereze, Jourdyn Kelly

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 11 ratings
    After years of separation and mutual longing, Vanessa Hughes and Emma Bradley are blissfully engaged. Everything about their new life together is wonderful, until Emma learns the children’s sport agency that sent her to Africa has gone bankrupt. Back when she was pining for Vanessa, Emma’s work was a godsend, both for her and for the kids who had nothing else good in their lives...
  • Two is a Pattern by Emily Waters

    Two is a Pattern by Emily Waters

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A charged lesbian romantic suspense set in the early nineties, with gripping twists, turns, and surprising secrets. A mission gone wrong leads to rising-star CIA operative Annie Weaver quitting her job and reinventing herself as a college student. But the CIA, desperate for her skills, refuses to let her go without a price...
  • Enchanted By Her by Chelsea M. Cameron

    Enchanted By Her by Chelsea M. Cameron

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    I was NOT looking forward to my sister’s wedding in the fall. It’s just another reminder of how single I am and how much pressure my family is putting on me to “find the one. ” Don’t get me wrong, I’m a hopeless romantic, but all their meddling is making me feel a little murderous. Then one day a woman walks into the bookshop where I work...
  • Different Worlds by Lily Seabrooke

    Different Worlds by Lily Seabrooke

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Natasha Seychelle, heiress to the vast Seychelle Enterprise, has been on a crumbling road ever since losing her mother. Losing her friends, falling away from her work responsibilities, and sinking deeper into depression, rumors are she won’t be able to succeed the company at the end of the summer. Annelise Benson just lost her kitchen job and is in freefall...
  • Shattered Pieces by Alisha Williams

    Shattered Pieces by Alisha Williams

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 22 ratings
    What the hell just happened? Is this even real? Well, it's my life, so I'm not really surprised to find myself in the center of yet another shit storm. I'm starting this new chapter of my life in the middle of a nightmare. One that I can't seem to wake up from. With my stalker revealed, I find myself with a whole new set of worries...
  • Popcorn Love by K.L. Hughes

    Popcorn Love by K.L. Hughes

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    A prominent figure amongst New York City’s fashion elite, Elena Vega is a successful businesswoman and single mother to an adorable three-year-old son, Lucas. Her love life, however, is lacking, as those closest to her keep pointing out. At the persistent urging of her closest friend, Elena reluctantly agrees to a string of blind dates if she can find a suitable babysitter for Lucas...
  • Finding Home by Eliza Lentzski

    Finding Home by Eliza Lentzski

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Book Three in the Winter Jacket series There are signs everywhere if you know what you're looking for-signs that tell you you're doing something wrong. Go back. Detour. Choose again. Do not collect two hundred dollars when you pass Go. But I hadn't paid attention to the warnings, too blinded by ambition and the desire to experience something new...
  • Work In Progress by Olivia Lucas

    Work In Progress by Olivia Lucas

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 8 ratings
    Dear God, Can I please return her? I know I asked for a hot, amazing woman to shake things up, but this is not what I had in mind. Not even close. Sure, she has mesmerizing eyes that hypnotize me, killer legs, wild hair –. Ugh. Anyway, Reagan and I are polar opposites. First of all – she is New York, I am small-town Harmon Valley. She is also bossy, career-obsessed, and oh, a royal pain in my ass...
  • The Wife App by Erinne Bates

    The Wife App by Erinne Bates

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When Rachel accepts that she isn't going to fall in love the way others appear to, she decides she is at least going to have a fulfilling career. While her friends spend an afternoon complaining about the lack of help they receive from their husbands, one of them announces she needs her own wife to help her get her tasks done...
  • A Long Way From Home by Olivia Lucas

    A Long Way From Home by Olivia Lucas

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Logic versus desire – only one can survive the scorching heat of the Australian Outback. When no-nonsense, Chicago teacher Callie Rogers receives news that her deadbeat father has passed and has left her a share of his million-acre cattle station in the inhospitable Outback, she begrudgingly flies to the other side of the world...
    Categorized as:
    new adult  queer  f-f  contemporary  length-short
  • Sometimes We Fly by Cheyenne Blue

    Sometimes We Fly by Cheyenne Blue

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 7 ratings
    A closeted celebrity, a furious neighbour, and a whole lot of sexual tension charge this late-in-life, coming-out lesbian romance set in Sydney. At forty-six, Maren McEvoy is Australia’s most popular newsreader, but for how much longer? And now her ex-husband has moved in with his boyfriend, and her sixteen-year-old daughter has been caught carjacking. Something has to change...
  • Not My Type by Michele L. Rivera

    Not My Type by Michele L. Rivera

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    At twenty-nine years old, Blake is living the life she has worked hard to build for herself in exactly the way she wants to live it: unattached. Meanwhile, somewhere on the other side of town, Hayden has just turned thirty and she wants nothing more than to be with the one woman she cannot have, living a life she can only imagine...
    Categorized as:
    new adult  queer  f-f  m-m  length-short
  • Admissible Affair by Adrian J. Smith

    Admissible Affair by Adrian J. Smith

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    One-night stands aren’t supposed to turn into forever. Bellamy has worked with and loved her wife of ten years, but it’s never enough. When Bellamy finds her limit of abuse and a young, cute waitress offers an opportunity, she seizes the moment, knowing she’ll never see Payton again...
  • New Year in Murder by Edale Lane

    New Year in Murder by Edale Lane

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Fifty million motives for murder; one determined detective. Detective Jenna Ferrari just wanted to spend New Year’s Eve with her new sweetheart; was that too much to ask? Whoever decided he or she had to shoot multi-millionaire Mitchell Lockwood at half-past midnight thought so...
  • Under the Christmas Tree by Jacqueline Ramsden

    Under the Christmas Tree by Jacqueline Ramsden

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    What if the only present you want this year is a person? Katie’s position as an obstetrics doctor has her busy on Christmas Day yet again. Her mother isn’t happy about it—she wants Katie moving home and settling down with someone, but Katie never has time for home or for anyone. Almost anyone. Maggie is the one person Katie has time for...
  • Beautiful Little Fools by Jillian Cantor

    Beautiful Little Fools by Jillian Cantor

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    USA Today bestselling author Jillian Cantor reimagines and expands on the literary classic The Great Gatsby in this atmospheric historical novel with echoes of Big Little Lies, told in three women’s alternating voices. On a sultry August day in 1922, Jay Gatsby is shot dead in his West Egg swimming pool...
  • Presidential by Lola Keeley

    Presidential by Lola Keeley

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    How can you find love when the whole world is watching? High-flying environmental lobbyist Emily Lawrence wants to save the world—literally. Her disastrous first day in her new job puts her on a collision course with the most powerful woman in America, President Calvin...
  • Hummingbird by Frances M. Thompson

    Hummingbird by Frances M. Thompson

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 14 ratings
    Fourteen years ago I met a woman I've not been able to forget. Her hair was long, her eyes were big, and her gaze kept returning to me from across the room. Her name was Dove. She told me she was straight and I respected that. Or rather, I got grumpy about it and walked away. What can I say? I was young and stupid. But now she's back...
  • Bingo Love Volume 1: Jackpot Edition by Tee Franklin, Marguerite Bennett

    Bingo Love Volume 1: Jackpot Edition by Tee Franklin, Marguerite Bennett

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 11 ratings
    When Hazel Johnson and Mari McCray met at church bingo in 1963, it was love at first sight. Forced apart by their families and society, Hazel and Mari both married young men and had families. Decades later, now in their mid-'60s, Hazel and Mari reunite again at a church bingo hall...
  • Flight SQA016 by A.E. Radley

    Flight SQA016 by A.E. Radley

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Spurred on by overwhelming and ever-increasing debts, Emily White takes a job working in the first-class cabin on the prestigious commuter route from her home of New York to London with Crown Airlines. A gruelling transatlantic schedule means she is in the air nearly as much as she is on the ground and desperately misses her five-year-old son...
  • The Revenge Plot by Sienna Waters

    The Revenge Plot by Sienna Waters

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Can a tale of revenge have a happy ending? Prim and proper Elizabeth Marks has the perfect life: a big house, the right friends, credit cards galore, and a handsome husband. Until the perfect man leaves her for another woman. Enter Poppy Robbins, bubbly Canadian barista and eternal optimist. Elizabeth thinks Poppy’s just the person to help her wreak revenge on her cheating husband...
    Categorized as:
    bisexual  queer  f-f  length-medium
  • Hearts And Flowers Border by L.T. Smith

    Hearts And Flowers Border by L.T. Smith

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A visitor from her past jolts Laura Stewart into memories . some funny . some heart wrenching . but she needs to deal with all of them before she can open the door to allow her past to shape her future. A story starting in the present day, narrated by a woman who needs to retell her past before she can move on with her future...
  • Bring Holly Home by A.E. Radley

    Bring Holly Home by A.E. Radley

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Leading fashion magazine editor Victoria Hastings always thought that her trusted assistant quit her job and abandoned her in Paris. A year later, she discovers that Holly Carter was injured in an accident. Brain trauma led to amnesia and Holly cannot remember anything about her life. Guilt causes Victoria to bring Holly home and into her life to aid her in recovery...
  • Outside the Lines by Kate Christie

    Outside the Lines by Kate Christie

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Training Ground, book one of the Girls of Summer series, introduced Emma Blakeley and Jamie Maxwell, two young athletes with seemingly bright soccer futures. In book two, Game Time, those futures caught up to them—and brought them back together...
    Categorized as:
    new adult  queer  f-f  sports  length-long  audiobook
  • Tutor: A First Time Lesbian Romance by Lyra Hart

    Tutor: A First Time Lesbian Romance by Lyra Hart

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    My best friend wants to teach me a lesson. .. Three years ago, my ex-boyfriend dumped me when he realised that I couldn’t quite ‘get there’ in the bedroom--no matter how hard he tried. Ever since then, I’ve been too ashamed to date again. I feel broken. Defective...
  • I Want It All With You by Aleks Mitchell

    I Want It All With You by Aleks Mitchell

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    It’s been one bad relationship after the other for Josslyn Tait. She can’t seem to find one person that wants to be in a committed relationship with her. After finding her ex in bed with another woman, she’s just about ready to give up on finding love altogether. Enter Kate. Kate Parker. The sister of her best friend and roommate...
  • A Question of Sincerity by Sabrina Blaum

    A Question of Sincerity by Sabrina Blaum

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Honesty is a way of life for Claudia Khoury. So when it turns out that her fun-rebound is married to her new boss, she is at a loss as to how to deal with this unexpected curveball. Elizabeth Lancaster’s life flows along placidly—if someone were to ask her where she sees herself in ten years, she would give an exact and detailed answer, at least until her new employee derails her certain future...
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