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  • Four Point by Max Ellendale

    Four Point by Max Ellendale

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 13 ratings
    Thirty-two bodies, twenty years, and a cold case that lives inside her alone. Detective Sali James teeters on the edge of sanity as she's forced to unearth her darkest days in order to stop Washington's most elusive serial killer. "Isn't watching beautiful? ".
    Categorized as:
    queer  f-f  mystery  dark  angst  length-short  open-door  contemporary
  • Vying Girls: A Sapphic Why-Choose Romance by Holly Thorne

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

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    The night’s made for confessions. It cradles them safely, suspends them in the blackness, holding them until morning when we can either acknowledge or ignore them. .. With Elly’s love secured, and Haz’s all but guaranteed, I thought Nic would remain the only bleak spot in my existence...
    Categorized as:
    queer  dark  contemporary  f-f  length-long
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  • 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 Theodora. In 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...
  • 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...
  • Distorted Obsession by P.H. Nix

    Distorted Obsession by P.H. Nix

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 9 ratings
    What do you do when your world is irrevocably changed—spun so far off its axis that any hope of returning to normalcy dies with someone you love? You burn the world to the ground, starting with the person responsible. You force the hands of fate, putting your prey in your direct line of sight. Then you play, teasing and taunting before you pounce...
  • Crowned Queen by Alisha Williams

    Crowned Queen by Alisha Williams

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 20 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...
    Categorized as:
    queer  contemporary  suspense  reverse harem  dub-con  poly  dark  f-f
  • Her Mafia Queen by Persephone Black

    Her Mafia Queen by Persephone Black

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 18 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...
  • The Mad House by Liza James

    The Mad House by Liza James

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 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
  • 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...
  • Savage Queen by Alisha Williams

    Savage Queen by Alisha Williams

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 20 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...
    Categorized as:
    queer  reverse harem  contemporary  suspense  poly  mafia  dark  m-m
  • All For Him by Kelly Finley

    All For Him by Kelly Finley

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 9 ratings
    Silas Van de May —. You know the fairytale where the princess leaves her glass slipper behind? This version is tragic; the details are darker. It was a clunky shoe and her demon was real. And I’m the forbidden prince who ran after her, but I never found my wounded princess. It’s been years and now I’ve got billions. I’m the heir to a southern fortune...
  • Tricky Girls by Holly Thorne

    Tricky Girls by Holly Thorne

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 20 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...
  • A Little Sin by Rawnie Sabor

    A Little Sin by Rawnie Sabor

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 77 ratings
    It can take time to feel proud of who you are. Violet Kane is perfect. At least, that’s what people are supposed to think. She has the perfect career, the perfect presentation, and, until recently, she was engaged to the perfect man. To everyone around her, she's perfectly happy. But pretending to be happy is difficult when you're breaking apart at the seams...
  • Charon Docks at Daylight by Zoe Reed

    Charon Docks at Daylight by Zoe Reed

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 46 ratings
    It's six years after an infection turned a majority of the population into ferocious, zombie-like creatures that hunt during the day, forcing the living into a nocturnal state of existence. Survival is a continuous struggle when it's hide or fight, and the creatures aren't the only threat in a wasted America. Sometimes fighting is the only answer.
  • The Depth of You by Corrie MacKay

    The Depth of You by Corrie MacKay

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 22 ratings
    Experience a deeply passionate and intimate love story. Two strong women, each burdened by tragedy, confront their traumatic pasts and find solace in one another. In The Depth of You, elite escort Jennifer Dupont and author and cult survivor Dosie Fisher navigate the complexities of love against the backdrop of their tragic pasts...
  • Kiss of Love by Rawnie Sabor

    Kiss of Love by Rawnie Sabor

    Rated: 4.68 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 22 ratings
    Healing is never linear. After months of terror and torment, everything finally seems to have fallen into place for Evie. The Court of Chains is expanding, her relationship is flourishing, and she has settled into her new life in Chicago. Yet, part of her longs for how things used to be. Pieces are still missing, some of which might be gone forever. Painful memories haunt her days...
  • The Moment by T.C. Anderson

    The Moment by T.C. Anderson

    Rated: 4.65 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 21 ratings
    She does the robot around your kitchen. You love her.
  • For Love and Blood and Fury by J.J. Arias

    For Love and Blood and Fury by J.J. Arias

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 23 ratings
    A ruthless vampire. A powerful witch. A healer with a hidden legacy. A searing paranormal romance that proves three hearts can beat as one. Elena, the head of Miami’s vampire cartel, never expected her ex-girlfriend Zuri—a powerful witch—to storm back into her life demanding help with a rival coven...
  • The Woman from the Waves by Roslyn Sinclair

    The Woman from the Waves by Roslyn Sinclair

    Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 22 ratings
    Love and hunger are not the same. Six years ago, on a remote Scottish island, a mysterious woman saved Sister Madeleine Laurent from drowning. Now, after leaving her convent, Madeleine crosses the ocean again to find the rescuer who changed her life. Instead, her search is disrupted by Hæra North, a brazen, provocative local who stirs Madeleine’s repressed desires—and keeps a secret out of legend...
  • Unshaken by Dreia Wells

    Unshaken by Dreia Wells

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 30 ratings
    I was supposed to be a Light Guardian. My whole life was mapped out and I was going to proudly follow my ancestor's footsteps. So why did the Angels reject me? I trained for years to become one of the Elite in the Angels fight against the forces of evil. When the time came for me to attend Caelum Academy, my invitation never came...
    Categorized as:
    queer  reverse harem  magic  paranormal  demons  fantasy  dark  witches
  • Door of Bruises by Sierra Simone

    Door of Bruises by Sierra Simone

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 50 ratings
    𝐓𝐰𝐞𝐥𝐯𝐞 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐠𝐨, 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐟𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐚 𝐤𝐢𝐬𝐬. We are all, for better or worse, doomed to love each other until death do us part. My heart belongs to Proserpina and St. Sebastian—even if he no longer wants it. Even if she has left it behind to follow him. Delphine’s fled back home, and Becket’s holy calling is in peril...
  • Loathing You by Amina Khan

    Loathing You by Amina Khan

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 54 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...
  • Serpentine Valentine by Giana Darling

    Serpentine Valentine by Giana Darling

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 49 ratings
    From Wall Street Journal bestselling author Giana Darling comes a sapphic dark academia Medusa retelling about a woman who was wronged by her idols and refused to pay the price without getting revenge. .. I was born a woman. Raised by women. In love with women. Until I enrolled at Acheron University, I'd never known much of men. I certainly didn't know enough to fear them...
    Categorized as:
    queer  f-f  dark  contemporary  fantasy  vengeance  new adult  angst
  • A Cruel and Fated Light by Ashley Shuttleworth

    A Cruel and Fated Light by Ashley Shuttleworth

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 24 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...
  • Divine Deception by Elle Mae

    Divine Deception by Elle Mae

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 15 ratings
    From Elle Mae comes the highly anticipated second installment of the Blood Royale where romance between a vampire princess, a vampire hunter, and a witch collides in a steamy passion filled enemies to lovers romance. Vesper. It’s all my fault. I had to make the world believe I completed the prophecy. For both our sakes. But I never meant to hurt Aurelia the way I did. Nor bond her to me...
  • Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

    Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 65 ratings
    Two top women gladiators fight for their freedom within a depraved private prison system not so far-removed from America's own...
  • House of Rayne by Harley Laroux

    House of Rayne by Harley Laroux

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 54 ratings
    Gothic sapphic romance meets supernatural suspense on a remote island in the Pacific Northwest, as a night of forbidden passion opens a Pandora’s box of dangerous secrets and dark magic in this sinfully spicy, standalone novel by New York Times bestselling TikTok sensation, Harley Laroux. SALEM. I wasn’t supposed to be here...
    Categorized as:
    queer  f-f  length-long  audiobook  paranormal  magic  horror  bisexual
  • The Gunrunner and Her Hound by Maria Ying

    The Gunrunner and Her Hound by Maria Ying

    Rated: 4.59 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 11 ratings
    Viveca Hua, arms-dealer. . .. is driven by three things: the certainty of steel, the need to win, and the compulsion to possess. Yves, bodyguard. . .. hunts for the place she belongs, and she might just have found it in the captivating Viveca, who offers her a new organization, an answer—and a collar. But their world is violent. It is unpredictable. Luck alone will not shield them...
  • Collateral Damage by Shassii

    Collateral Damage by Shassii

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 10 ratings
    This book is a Sapphic Erotic Thriller intended for mature readers only. Please check trigger/content warnings at the beginning of the book or on our website. It contains graphic and disturbing scenes that some readers may find uncomfortable or triggering. It is a heavy seated Stockholm Syndrome with no guaranteed HEA. P U P P E T. My life as I know it was taken from me. Murdered in cold blood...
  • Dimitri's Forbidden Submissive by Ann Mayburn

    Dimitri's Forbidden Submissive by Ann Mayburn

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    As the daughter of an outlaw biker, Rya DeLuca is used to living a wild life, but nothing could prepare her for the danger of falling in love with Dimitri Novikov...
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