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  • 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...
  • Buried Promises by Eliza Lentzski

    Buried Promises by Eliza Lentzski

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 8 ratings
    Cold Case detective Cassidy Miller is no stranger to buried things—bodies, secrets, and memories she’d rather forget. Life with her fiancée, the brilliant but guarded defense attorney Julia Desjardin, is the closest thing she’s felt to peace. But as Julia begins the emotional process of fertility treatments, Cassidy finds herself caught between wanting a future and fearing she doesn’t deserve one...
    Categorized as:
    mystery  queer  f-f  suspense  length-medium
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  • Lone Wolf by Persephone Black

    Lone Wolf by Persephone Black

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 8 ratings
    I'm the perfect solider. Feared. Respected.And utterly alone.I don't need friends. I certainly don't need a partner. But the Styx Syndicate has paired me up with Sunny Santiago.She's everything I'm not—reckless, warm, alive. She laughs during missions, flirts during combat, and treats danger like a dance floor.I hate her relentless optimism almost as much as I hate how perfectly we work together...
  • Back in Your Arms by Monica McCallan

    Back in Your Arms by Monica McCallan

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 24 ratings
    Seventeen years ago, Quinn McKinley left her small town of Kingsford for a shot at a happier life. Now a successful real estate agent in New York City, she’s brought back on behalf of a client, begrudgingly accepting her return home in order to close the deal of a lifetime...
  • The Flight Risk by Macon Leigh

    The Flight Risk by Macon Leigh

    Rated: 4.73 of 5 stars
    · 11 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...
  • Separate Like Stars by Diana Kane

    Separate Like Stars by Diana Kane

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    On paper, Jordan Cohen has it all. With numerous bestsellers under her belt, a number of blockbuster movie adaptations to her credit, and a high profile relationship with one of Hollywood’s most prominent stars, what more could she possibly ask for? Maybe for Olivia Bradley, the only woman to ever break her heart, to exit her life as quickly as she’d re-entered it...
  • April by Nicole Pyland

    April by Nicole Pyland

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Asher Hahn is one of the top wedding planners in New Orleans, and her best friend, Linden Washington, is the other. They’ve both planned extravagant weddings and watched couple after couple share their love in front of their friends and families, all without ever really falling in love themselves...
    Categorized as:
    friends to lovers  queer  f-f  length-medium
  • 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  mystery  contemporary  f-f  length-short
  • One Little Secret by Eliza Lentzski

    One Little Secret by Eliza Lentzski

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Most stories have a beginning, middle, and end. But when you work in the Cold Case division, you come to the realization that not every story has a tidy conclusion and not every story starts at the beginning. One little question. Cold Case Detective Cassidy Miller is beginning to feel more comfortable in her new career path...
  • Untold by Nancy Ann Healy

    Untold by Nancy Ann Healy

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Five years have passed since Alex Toles walked away from the covert world of international espionage.Alex spends her days as an instructor at the police academy, and her evenings coaching the local high school track team. Life in the Toles household has fallen into a familiar routine...
  • Mirror by Max Ellendale

    Mirror by Max Ellendale

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    In the final installment of the Four Point Trilogy, Sali and Maggie, despite their retirement, find themselves tirelessly recruited by civilians asking for their help. When a desperate mother appeals to Sali's sensitivities to search for her missing daughter, the duo, reluctantly, give in...
    Categorized as:
    mystery  angst  queer  f-f  length-medium
  • Hunter's Revenge by Gerri Hill

    Hunter's Revenge by Gerri Hill

    Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 11 ratings
    When a seventy-one-year-old man is shot dead in his home, it seems like a random act of violence. But the hundreds of photos of Detective Tori Hunter found at the scene seem to say otherwise. And when the gun that proves to be the murder weapon in the brutal murder of Tori’s family some thirty-something years earlier is found, Tori is not only facing her past, but a massive conflict of interest...
  • 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...
  • Betrayal by Nancy Ann Healy

    Betrayal by Nancy Ann Healy

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    There is no one to trust in Nancy Ann Healy’s thrilling new novel, Betrayal.FBI agent Alex Toles is relieved to return to work at the NSA after a frightening on-the-job ordeal. Her life partner, Cassidy O’Brien, and Cassidy’s seven-year-old son, have also been instrumental in healing Alex’s wounds...
    Categorized as:
    mystery  angst  queer  f-f  suspense  betrayal  length-long  audiobook
  • Conspiracy by Nancy Ann Healy

    Conspiracy by Nancy Ann Healy

    Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    The past sins of fathers will return to haunt their daughters in the final installment of the Alex and Cassidy series. What had started as a simple case three years earlier, forever altered the course of FBI Agent Alex Toles’ life. A committed investigator, Alex had always avoided personal entanglements. That was until she meet Cassidy O’Brien...
    Categorized as:
    mystery  angst  queer  f-f  military  suspense  length-long  audiobook
  • 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...
  • Separate Like Stars by Diana Kane

    Separate Like Stars by Diana Kane

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    On paper, Jordan Cohen has it all. With numerous bestsellers under her belt, a number of blockbuster movie adaptations to her credit, and a high profile relationship with one of Hollywood’s most prominent stars, what more could she possibly ask for? Maybe for Olivia Bradley, the only woman to ever break her heart, to exit her life as quickly as she’d re-entered it...
  • Rainey with a Chance of Hale by R.E. Bradshaw

    Rainey with a Chance of Hale by R.E. Bradshaw

    Rated: 4.71 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Rainey Bell, a former FBI Behavioral Analyst, has had a couple of quiet years since her last brush with death. Her old teammate with the BAU and her children's Godfather, Danny McNally, pays a visit to North Carolina from Quantico to escort Rainey into the Butner Federal Correctional Complex. Rainy made a promise almost twenty years ago to a distraught mother of a missing child...
    Categorized as:
    mystery  queer  f-f  suspense  length-short
  • Enthralled by Her by Chelsea M. Cameron

    Enthralled by Her by Chelsea M. Cameron

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Things might be going well enough, but I couldn’t see much to look forward to. Sure, I somehow had a thriving business repairing and rebinding books, and my parents had gifted me their vacation house after my apartment was turned into a co-op. Still, there wasn’t a whole lot of action and excitement in little Arrowbridge, Maine, but I was making the best of it, like I always did...
  • The Tapestry of a Heart by Erin Zak

    The Tapestry of a Heart by Erin Zak

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Finnley O'Connell is at a crossroads when her life takes an unexpected turn after getting fired from her family's lawn care business. Seeking refuge in Chicago with her gay uncle, Finnley discovers a vibrant city and a new sense of freedom. But it's meeting Emerson, a captivating and mysterious woman, that truly changes everything...
  • Relatively Rainey by R.E. Bradshaw

    Relatively Rainey by R.E. Bradshaw

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Terrors come during vulnerable moments in the night. While lost in sleep, demons arise to expose our deepest dreads. Happiness is not a deterrent to the treachery of memories and fears. Having suffered a traumatic event nearly five years prior, Rainey has settled into contented family life...
    Categorized as:
    mystery  queer  f-f  heroine sleuth  length-medium
  • Colde & Rainey by R.E. Bradshaw

    Colde & Rainey by R.E. Bradshaw

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    When an old friend of Billy Bell’s is killed in a hunting accident, Rainey feels obligated to attend the memorial service. The forecasted blizzard cannot deter her from fulfilling what she believes would be her father’s wishes. What begins as a trip to pay her respects deteriorates with the weather...
    Categorized as:
    mystery  queer  f-f  length-short
  • The Rainey Season by R.E. Bradshaw

    The Rainey Season by R.E. Bradshaw

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    This is the third in the award winning Rainey Bell Thriller series, following Lambda Literary Award Finalist Rainey Nights. Each book is stand-alone. It does help to read them in order, but it is not necessary. In The Rainey Season, former FBI behavioral analyst Rainey Bell has settled into her life as a wife and mother with Katie Myers and the triplets...
    Categorized as:
    mystery  queer  f-f  suspense  length-medium
  • Marking Time by Sherryl D. Hancock

    Marking Time by Sherryl D. Hancock

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Raine Mason has never been in a relationship with a woman… or anyone for that matter. Then she meets Natalia, the feisty Latina dance teacher. A dancerturned cop, Raine captivates the eyes of the dance teacher and with a little push from their friend, they embark on a whirlwind romance...
    Categorized as:
    queer  angst  f-f  sports  military  length-short
  • Letters Never Sent by Sandra Moran

    Letters Never Sent by Sandra Moran

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    "The story unfolds like a flower; the impact of it on each person is profound. It’s a spectacular offering of love gained, lost, and struggled with over a lifetime—a poignant tale with a marvelous reveal at the end."—Anna Furtado, Lambda Literary ReviewThree women, united by love and kinship, struggle to conform to the social norms of the times in which they lived...
    Categorized as:
    angst  queer  f-f  historical  length-medium  audiobook
  • Storm in Her Heart by KC Luck

    Storm in Her Heart by KC Luck

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Love can weather the stormiest of hearts…Athena Storm, the resilient owner of a struggling tavern, has weathered many storms in her life. As she fights to keep her establishment afloat, she is convinced she does not have time for a relationship.Enter Kate Franklin, an ex-cop turned delivery driver who seeks refuge from her past...
  • The Devil You Know by Ali Vali

    The Devil You Know by Ali Vali

    Rated: 4.80 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Cain Casey has much to be thankful for—a loving wife in Emma, three beautiful children, and an ever-expanding family. Her business continues to grow, giving her the power to keep it all safe, but is it? Unknown federal agents are not playing by the government’s rules, and the Russian mob comes seeking revenge for the losses Cain’s inflicted...
    Categorized as:
    mystery  queer  f-f  suspense  length-medium  audiobook
  • At Seventeen by Gerri Hill

    At Seventeen by Gerri Hill

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 24 ratings
    Madison Lansford and Shannon Fletcher met when they were ten years old. Madison—daughter of wealthy parents and Shannon, daughter of their live-in maid and cook—became fast friends, yet both knew their place in life.There was never a doubt that they would become lovers . . . there was also never a doubt that Madison would marry and maintain her social standing in the community...
  • The System by Nicole Pyland

    The System by Nicole Pyland

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Kieran Hart has just gone through a divorce and is starting over with a new job at a DNA discovery site. After finding out she’s adopted years earlier, she sends in her sample, hoping to find her birth parents, and instead, finds herself in a police station, being accused of a crime she didn’t commit because her DNA was a match to a homicide. Only, it’s not Kieran’s DNA...
    Categorized as:
    queer  mystery  suspense  f-f  length-medium  audiobook
  • Loved and Lost by Stephanie Kusiak

    Loved and Lost by Stephanie Kusiak

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Blake Fortnier and Rachel Kaplan are the perfect couple. Fifteen years into a marriage that will seemingly last forever, a tragic accident tears them apart. After reaching the end of her rope, Blake is blessed with the chance to relive her life. She can right her wrongs, live life to the fullest and change the course of fate, or so she hopes...
    Categorized as:
    angst  queer  f-f  contemporary  length-long
  • A Woman Undone by T.B. Markinson

    A Woman Undone by T.B. Markinson

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Despite Lizzie’s attempts to hide from her family, circumstances pull her even deeper into the complicated Petrie web. After a disastrous family Christmas, Lizzie’s friends and family seek her counsel, dragging Lizzie back into their orbit...
    Categorized as:
    angst  queer  humor  f-f  length-medium  audiobook
  • Take Two by Stephanie Shea

    Take Two by Stephanie Shea

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Being in love is Whitney Dimaano’s favorite past time. Though lately, she can’t seem to get it right. She’s tried—she is trying—but it just hasn’t…clicked, and maybe her time would be better spent focusing on all the things that are actually good in her life...
  • Lasting Impressions by Michele L. Rivera

    Lasting Impressions by Michele L. Rivera

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Fifteen years ago, Bryce Keating and Cameron Shapiro met for the first time on the worst blind date of their lives. They ended the night hoping to never see each other again and went their separate ways.Unfortunately for Bryce and Cameron, fate had other plans. Over a decade later, the two women randomly run into one another. It’s disastrous and stirs up mixed feelings for them both...
  • Donegal's Wish by JA Armstrong

    Donegal's Wish by JA Armstrong

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    No one should have to wait until December for a dose of holiday cheer! Meet Abby Turner and Bess Riley. Abby Turner is a dedicated nurse and mother who spent her life in New York City until the death of her longtime partner, Connie. Abby’s adjusting to a new, quieter life in suburban Connecticut. Most days she finds the change refreshing...
    Categorized as:
    angst  queer  f-f  second chances  length-medium
  • Call of Love by Lee Haven

    Call of Love by Lee Haven

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Separated by fear. Reunited by fate. Will they get a second chance at life and love?Parker Snow left home at nineteen after being abandoned by her family for loving her foster sister, Kate Cain. She joined the Marine Corps and has had little contact with her parents since. But when she’s transferred back to Washington D.C...
    Categorized as:
    angst  queer  f-f  contemporary  length-medium
  • Heal their Hearts by Claire Highton-Stevenson

    Heal their Hearts by Claire Highton-Stevenson

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 9 ratings
    Georgia Samuels lives her life with no commitments other than the love of her job, and the flashy little apartment overlooking the Thames. That is until tragedy strikes and her sister, Aston, and Aston's husband Ben are both killed when the plane they're returning home on crashes, leaving the family rocked, and three kids orphaned...
  • Fuze by Brian Christopher Shea, Stacy Lynn Miller

    Fuze by Brian Christopher Shea, Stacy Lynn Miller

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Special Agent Lexi Mills chases the criminal who killed her partner in this thrilling novel of grit, betrayal, and retribution.After a lifetime of fighting to get what she wants, Lexi Mills has finally made it into the elite ATF Special Response Team. But when a wrong move during a bomb disposal operation takes half her leg—and her partner’s life—Lexi must shoulder the guilt alone...
    Categorized as:
    mystery  queer  f-f  suspense  military  length-medium
  • Rusty Logic by Robin Alexander, Lori Prince

    Rusty Logic by Robin Alexander, Lori Prince

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Ancelet Bay, Louisiana, on the surface is a peaceful and quiet little town. It seemed to be the perfect place for workaholic Rusty Martinez to detox and deal with destructive habits that had affected her health. The respite, however, comes with some unexpected side effects, one of which is a plastic flamingo-wielding neighbor who suspects Rusty is a terrorist...
    Categorized as:
    queer  mystery  f-f  humor  audiobook
  • Intersection: 10th Anniversary Edition by Nancy Ann Healy

    Intersection: 10th Anniversary Edition by Nancy Ann Healy

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    When FBI agent Alexis Toles was dispatched to New York to investigate threats sent to Congressman Christopher O’Brien, the last thing she expected to find was romance. But during her investigation, Alex finds herself in a love affair with the congressman’s ex-wife, all while discovering the convoluted conspiracy behind the threats...
  • No After You by Nicole Pyland

    No After You by Nicole Pyland

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Dani Wilder only intended to go to a fundraiser and donate money to a worthy cause. She had no idea that she’d meet the love of her life that night. There were only a couple of problems with that chance meeting. Dani had a boyfriend. That chance meeting – it was with Peyton Gloss, the world’s most famous music star, who also happened to be a woman. Peyton had only planned on performing that night...
  • Your Hand Found Mine by Adrienne Marsh

    Your Hand Found Mine by Adrienne Marsh

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Cassandra Vasquez wasn't hiding away. She was just really busy; the design studio she and her brother owned was really starting to make a name for itself, and the work was just flying in. That was the only reason she didn't go out much, or really even keep in touch with her friends anymore. It had nothing to do with her ex; she wasn't hung up on Sarah, or afraid to get back out there. She wasn't...
    Categorized as:
    friends to lovers  queer  f-f  length-medium
  • Good Spin by Monica McCallan

    Good Spin by Monica McCallan

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Public Relations expert Emery Bates has exactly one problem she’s willing to admit, and it’s that she doesn’t have a girlfriend to take as her date to a wedding. Not because she needs a girlfriend, but because she needs an easier way to come out to college friends that she hasn’t seen in five years...
  • A Matter of Trust by Radclyffe

    A Matter of Trust by Radclyffe

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 16 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...
    Categorized as:
    mystery  queer  f-f  contemporary  length-short  audiobook
  • Rescue Me by Michelle L. Teichman

    Rescue Me by Michelle L. Teichman

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Life is exciting if you’re one of the top RCMP officers in the country. With a few good years under her belt and a promotion so close she can almost touch it, Staff Sergeant Kristen Bailey of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police has everything figured out. Until she meets Ashleigh Paige. Beautiful, naïve, intelligent, and trusting, Ashleigh is the perfect possible lead for Bailey’s case...
  • Cabin Fever by Addison M Conley

    Cabin Fever by Addison M Conley

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Kate Minton's life is collapsing. She's fired, her estranged father dies, and her girlfriend dumps her. Her older half-brothers inherit everything, and all Kate gets is a remote, rundown Idaho cabin that no one knew existed. But if Kate lives there for a year, she’ll inherit half a million dollars. The move leads her to family secrets and an infuriating, and inconveniently sexy, contractor...
    Categorized as:
    angst  queer  f-f  length-medium  audiobook
  • Thief of Always by Kim Baldwin, Xenia Alexiou

    Thief of Always by Kim Baldwin, Xenia Alexiou

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Stealing a diamond to save the world is the easy part. Mishael Taylor takes comfort in speed, racing from one mission to another as Allegro, one of the Elite Operative Organization's top agents--or from one affair to another, to avoid having to think about the things she's seen and done...
    Categorized as:
    mystery  queer  contemporary  f-f  suspense  length-medium
  • Before You Go by Melissa Tereze

    Before You Go by Melissa Tereze

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Ryann Harris has everything she needs. A thriving tattoo studio and the woman she loves by her side.But Ryann’s world is turned upside down when she discovers lies and deceit.With the belief that she has no comeback, Ryann makes a drastic decision. She heads towards the river.And then she meets Lydia Nelson.Both are at the river railings for different reasons...
    Categorized as:
    angst  queer  f-f  contemporary  length-medium
  • Missing Lynx by Kim Baldwin, Xenia Alexiou

    Missing Lynx by Kim Baldwin, Xenia Alexiou

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Where do you run when there's nowhere to hide? When a sadistic serial killer known as the Headhunter resurfaces, a government blunder forces the Elite Operatives Organization into action. Operation Mask falls to Lynx. She has the determination, skills, and most importantly, the right profile, but her youth and lack of experience in the field could put more than the mission in jeopardy...
    Categorized as:
    mystery  queer  f-f  suspense  contemporary  length-medium
  • Operation: Secret Santa by M.J. Duncan

    Operation: Secret Santa by M.J. Duncan

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    When Holly Burke saw who she’d drawn for Secret Santa, she knew she had to do something to make it special. It was Christmas, after all, and if anyone deserved some extra Christmas cheer, it was Mo Davy...
  • Skimming around Murder by Edale Lane

    Skimming around Murder by Edale Lane

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Killers can leave scars no one else sees.Content warnings for child abduction, murders, trauma, and racist elements.Top detective Jenna Ferrari winds up with too much on her plate as Christmas approaches when she becomes entangled in three cases. Allowing her emotions to run amuck, she concludes there’s no use trying to pursue a new relationship with Randi...
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