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  • Word of Honor by Radclyffe

    Word of Honor by Radclyffe

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    All Cameron Roberts and Blair Powell want is a small, intimate wedding, but the paparazzi and a domestic terrorist have other plans. First Daughter Blair Powell and her lover Cameron Roberts, newly appointed deputy director of the Homeland Security Office, escape to a ski chalet in the Rockies after a harrowing attack by members of a domestic terrorism organization...
    Categorized as:
    queer  f-f  fantasy  contemporary  length-medium
  • Broken Wings by L.-J. Baker

    Broken Wings by L.-J. Baker

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    In a magical world where being different is the norm, why must Rye Woods fear for her life if the truth about her hidden identity is revealed? When Rye Woods, a fairy, meets the beautiful dryad Flora Withe, her libido, as squashed and hidden as her wings, reawakens along with her heart...
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  • The Traitor And the Chalice by Jane Fletcher

    The Traitor And the Chalice by Jane Fletcher

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Tevi and Jemeryl, soldier and sorceress, must risk all in the race to uncover a traitor and retrieve the chalice that, in the wrong hands, could bestow dangerous powers.A dark presence is threatening to uncover long hidden secrets, and the future of the whole Protectorate is at stake...
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    queer  contemporary  f-f  fantasy  suspense  length-short
  • The High Priest and the Idol by Jane Fletcher

    The High Priest and the Idol by Jane Fletcher

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Jemeryl and Tevi's relationship is put to the test when the Guardian sends Jemeryl on a mission that lands her not only in harm's way, but also back into the sites of a previous lover. The Protectorate of Lyremouth promises liberty for all its citizens, but this does not mean that everyone is equal...
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    queer  f-f  fantasy  contemporary  length-medium
  • Sappho's Fables, Volume 1: Three Lesbian Fairy Tale Novellas (Sappho's Fables: Lesbian Fairy Tales) by Elora Bishop, Jennifer Diemer

    Sappho's Fables, Volume 1: Three Lesbian Fairy Tale Novellas (Sappho's Fables: Lesbian Fairy Tales) by Elora Bishop, Jennifer Diemer

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    The Sappho's Fables series takes well-known, beloved fairy tales and retells them from a lesbian perspective. Volume One contains the first three novellas in the series: SEVEN (Snow White), BRAIDED (Rapunzel) and CRUMBS (Hansel and Gretel), compiled together in an enchanting omnibus edition...
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    queer  contemporary  fantasy  f-f  length-short
  • Divine Touched by Cassandra Duffy

    Divine Touched by Cassandra Duffy

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Harper, Sword Maiden for the illustrious Goddess of the Open Sea, has returned to the fabled city of Griffon's Rock at the end of the Last Road to rest for the winter months after a disappointing year treasure hunting...
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    queer  f-f  fantasy  contemporary  length-medium
  • Watermark by Karin Kallmaker

    Watermark by Karin Kallmaker

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Teresa Mandrell's first encounter with advertising executive Rayann Germaine begins badly and goes downhill from there. Within minutes of their meeting, Rayann dubs Teresa a "bumbling amateur." The event changes the course of Teresa's life -- she abandons the corporate world for what she hopes is a more satisfying career in Fine Arts Management...
  • Making Up for Lost Time by Karin Kallmaker

    Making Up for Lost Time by Karin Kallmaker

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When three love-starved lesbians decide to make up for lost time, the recipe is romance. And with Karin Kallmaker cooking, you know the result will be hot, spicy and mouth-wateringly delicious! Master Chef Jamie Onassis has used every penny she has to buy a beautiful country inn she plans to turn into a five-star restaurant...
  • The Rental Heart and Other Fairytales by Kirsty Logan

    The Rental Heart and Other Fairytales by Kirsty Logan

    Rated: 3.82 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Twenty tales of lust and loss. These stories feature clockwork hearts, lascivious queens, paper men, island circuses, and a flooded world.• On the island of Skye, an antlered girl and a tiger-tailed boy resolve never to be friends – but can they resist their unique connection?• In an alternative 19th-century Paris, a love triangle emerges between a man, a woman, and a coin-operated boy...
    Categorized as:
    queer  fantasy  contemporary  f-f
  • How to Wrestle a Girl: Stories by Venita Blackburn

    How to Wrestle a Girl: Stories by Venita Blackburn

    Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Venita Blackburn's characters bully and suffer, spit and tease, mope and blame. They're hyperaware of their bodies and fiercely observant, fending off the failures and advances of adults with indifferent ease. In "Biology Class," they torment a teacher to the point of near insanity, while in "Bear Bear Harvest(TM)," they prepare to sell their excess fat and skin for food processing...
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    queer  f-f  contemporary  fantasy  black-mc  length-short
  • Learning Curve by Rachel Spangler

    Learning Curve by Rachel Spangler

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Genre: Lesbian romance. Ashton Clarke, a local Casanova with a long history of falling into bed with a different woman every night, is perfectly content with her free and easy existence until she gives in to her best friend’s request to spend an evening helping out at the local gay and lesbian youth center...
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    queer  f-f  fantasy  contemporary  length-short
  • Embrace in Motion by Karin Kallmaker

    Embrace in Motion by Karin Kallmaker

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Sarah MacNeil is about to put her heart in the hands of a beautiful woman who could be her salvation...or her ruin! Surfing high on the wave of lesbian chic, author/screenwriter Melissa Hartley is deliciously dangerous. She knows the right people, goes to all the right parties, says all the right things...
  • It's a Fabulous Life by Kelly Farmer

    It's a Fabulous Life by Kelly Farmer

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Perfect for fans of Alison Cochrun and Ashley Herring Blake, this sapphic retelling of It’s a Wonderful Life will make the yuletide gay.After years of putting aside her dreams of travel and adventure, Bailey George is ready to leave Lanford Falls and her responsibilities behind on a long-awaited vacation to New York City...
  • The Pyramid Waltz by Barbara Ann Wright

    The Pyramid Waltz by Barbara Ann Wright

    Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    To most, Princess Katya Nar Umbriel is a rogue and a layabout; she parties, she hunts and she breaks women’s hearts. But when the festival lights go down and the palace slumbers, Katya chases traitors to the crown and protects the kingdom’s greatest secret: the royal Umbriels are part Fiend...
    Categorized as:
    queer  contemporary  fantasy  f-f  length-medium
  • Never Anyone But You by Rupert Thomson

    Never Anyone But You by Rupert Thomson

    Rated: 3.82 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    The true story of a love affair between two extraordinary women becomes a literary tour deforce in this novel that recreates the surrealist movement in Paris and the horrors of the two world wars with a singular incandescence and intimacy.In the years preceding World War I, two young women meet, by chance, in a provincial town in France...
  • Set in Stone by Stela Brinzeanu

    Set in Stone by Stela Brinzeanu

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In medieval Moldova, two women from opposing backgrounds fall in love.But this is a world where a woman’s role is defined by religion and class. To make a life together means defying their families, the law, and the Church. The closer they become, and the more they refuse the roles assigned to them, the more sacrifices they have to make...
  • Matrix by Lauren Groff

    Matrix by Lauren Groff

    Rated: 3.68 of 5 stars
    · 56 ratings
    One of our best American writers, Lauren Groff returns with her exhilarating first new novel since the groundbreaking Fates and Furies...
  • Not Exactly What I Had in Mind by Kate Brook

    Not Exactly What I Had in Mind by Kate Brook

    Rated: 3.34 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    An irresistible, funny, sharply observed debut novel in which two roommates, and two sisters, will learn that sometimes family--and love--find you in the most unexpected placesHazel and Alfie have just moved in together as roommates. They've also just slept together, which was either a catastrophic mistake or the best decision of their lives--they aren't quite sure yet...
    Categorized as:
    queer  contemporary  f-f  fantasy  humor
  • Sovereign by April Daniels

    Sovereign by April Daniels

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 31 ratings
    Only nine months after her debut as the superhero Dreadnought, Danny Tozer is already a scarred veteran. Protecting a city the size of New Port is a team-sized job and she’s doing it alone. Between her newfound celebrity and her demanding cape duties, Dreadnought is stretched thin, and it’s only going to get worse...
  • If Tomorrow Doesn't Come by Jen St. Jude

    If Tomorrow Doesn't Come by Jen St. Jude

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 23 ratings
    We Are Okay meets They Both Die at the End in this YA debut about queer first love and mental health at the end of the world-and the importance of saving yourself, no matter what tomorrow may hold.Avery Byrne has secrets. She's queer; she's in love with her best friend, Cass; and she's suffering from undiagnosed clinical depression...
  • The Girl from the Sea by Molly Knox Ostertag

    The Girl from the Sea by Molly Knox Ostertag

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 66 ratings
    From the author of The Witch Boy trilogy comes a graphic novel about family, romance, and first love.Fifteen-year-old Morgan has a secret: She can't wait to escape the perfect little island where she lives. She's desperate to finish high school and escape her sad divorced mom, her volatile little brother, and worst of all, her great group of friends...who don't understand Morgan at all...
  • The Shadow Cabinet by Juno Dawson

    The Shadow Cabinet by Juno Dawson

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    In the second installment of Juno Dawson's "irresistable" fantasy trilogy (Lana Harper), a group of childhood friends and witches must choose between what is right and what is easy if they have any hope of keeping their coven--and their world--from tearing apart forever.Niamh Kelly is dead...
  • Thieves by Lucie Bryon

    Thieves by Lucie Bryon

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Ella can’t seem to remember a single thing from the party the night before at a mysterious stranger’s mansion, and she sure as heck doesn’t know why she’s woken up in her bed surrounded by a magpie’s nest of objects that aren’t her own...
  • A Cruel and Fated Light by Ashley Shuttleworth

    A Cruel and Fated Light by Ashley Shuttleworth

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 22 ratings
    Half-fae Arlo becomes entangled in the courtly intrigue at the Seelie Summer palace as danger for ironborns mounts in this “beautifully written and deliciously complex” (Nicki Pau Preto, author of the Crown of Feathers trilogy) sequel to A Dark and Hollow Star that’s The Cruel Prince meets City of Bones...
  • This Poison Heart by Kalynn Bayron

    This Poison Heart by Kalynn Bayron

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 47 ratings
    Darkness blooms in bestselling author Kalynn Bayron's new contemporary fantasy about a girl with a unique and deadly power.Briseis has a gift: she can grow plants from tiny seeds to rich blooms with a single touch.When Briseis's aunt dies and wills her a dilapidated estate in rural New York, Bri and her parents decide to leave Brooklyn behind for the summer...
  • Proud by Juno Dawson

    Proud by Juno Dawson

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    VISIONARY HONOURS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020Celebrate the fifth anniversary of PROUD in this dazzling new edition of the anthology, featuring a brand-new story and artwork.A stirring, bold and moving anthology of stories and poetry by top LGBTQ+ YA authors and new talent, giving their unique responses to the broad theme of pride...
  • Gillette Park by Gerri Hill, Nicol Zanzarella

    Gillette Park by Gerri Hill, Nicol Zanzarella

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Gillette Park, a sleepy town nestled in the Rocky Mountains, harbors a secret.Twenty-three years ago, a young girl went missing. Three days later her body was found lodged beneath the footbridge over Gillette Creek. The murder shook the town but they soon found it was only the beginning. A serial killer hides among them—a serial killer who strikes twice, sometimes three times a year...
    Categorized as:
    queer  paranormal  mystery  f-f  fantasy  contemporary  suspense
  • Hazel Bly and the Deep Blue Sea by Ashley Herring Blake

    Hazel Bly and the Deep Blue Sea by Ashley Herring Blake

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A novel about a girl navigating grief, trauma, and friendship.Hazel Bly used to live in the perfect house with the perfect family in sunny California. But when a kayaking trip goes horribly wrong, Mum is suddenly gone forever and Hazel is left with crippling anxiety and a jagged scar on her face. After Mum's death, Hazel, her other mother, Mama, and her little sister, Peach, needed a fresh start...
  • Face the Wind by Caren J. Werlinger

    Face the Wind by Caren J. Werlinger

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Kathleen Halloran has never been happier. She and Molly Cooper have built a life together, living in her grandmother’s cottage. The family drama of the past has calmed down. She and Molly will soon be aunts. Life on Little Sister Island is everything Kathleen could wish for… until the island begins to send ominous signals that change is in the wind...
  • Otherside Picnic: Volume 3 by Iori Miyazawa

    Otherside Picnic: Volume 3 by Iori Miyazawa

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 9 ratings
    Autumn has arrived. Having narrowly avoided the curse of the Kotoribako, Sorawo and Toriko are back to exploring the other world. With boxed lunches in tow, the two take their agricultural vehicle for a leisurely drive across grassy terrain, deal with the problems caused by Sorawo's kouhai at university, and hang out at cognitive scientist Kozakura's house...
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