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  • 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
  • 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...
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  • Rookie Days by Natalie Debrabandere

    Rookie Days by Natalie Debrabandere

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    The Sequel to HEART OF DUTY. Rookie detective, Ellie James, always wanted to be a cop. Being promoted to a special crimes unit under her mentor, Quinn Wesley, is a dream come true. But when a job brings her face to face with past trauma, Ellie realizes that she has a lot to prove...
    Categorized as:
    queer  f-f  age difference  mystery  dark  angst  length-medium
  • Stranger on the Shore by Claire Highton-Stevenson

    Stranger on the Shore by Claire Highton-Stevenson

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Quinn Harper is living the life she always wanted. She’s well-liked and respected by everyone and has been a success in life with awards to prove it. She spends her free time running along the shore, returning to her quiet home on the beach. It was almost the perfect life, but there was one thing missing: Love...
    Categorized as:
    queer  f-f  dark  angst  contemporary  length-medium
  • Angel of Mercy by Cara Malone

    Angel of Mercy by Cara Malone

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    “Angel of mercy. It was the stuff of legend, and nightmares. The caregiver who was supposed to heal and protect, who chose instead to kill. ”. In her very first case with the FCPD homicide division, Tate Macawi is investigating a death at one of Fox County’s most upscale nursing homes. With no evidence of foul play, it looks like the family is unduly suspicious…...
    Categorized as:
    queer  mystery  f-f  dark  contemporary  suspense  length-short
  • 君と綴るうたかた 5 [The Summer You Were There 5] by Yuama, ゆあま

    君と綴るうたかた 5 [The Summer You Were There 5] by Yuama, ゆあま

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    「私書くよ。私たち二人の恋愛小説を。」そう言って、離れようとする夏織をつなぎとめた雫。病院にお見舞いに通いながらさらに仲を深めていく二人。しかし、そんな雫を見る夏織の妹・栞の目は冷ややかで── 物語を通してつながる少女二人の、甘く切ないひと夏だけの恋人ごっこ.
    Categorized as:
    queer  contemporary  angst  f-f  dark  length-short
  • Strong by Natalie Debrabandere

    Strong by Natalie Debrabandere

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    ASIN moved from less recent edition here. When British Army medic Kate Sanderson arrives at Cobel, an American checkpoint deep inside Afghanistan's Helmand Province, the only thing on her mind is her mission to save lives. There she meets USMC Captain Tyler Jackson, a talented young officer who uses her career as an excuse to avoid personal relationships...
  • I Did by Mardria Portuondo

    I Did by Mardria Portuondo

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    All I ever want is to be a mother, and in my quest, I realize that not everyone possesses that desire. Kay is one of those people, but I fall deeply in love with her. After a long fight, I accept that I will not get all that I want in this life, and I am lucky to have gotten the gift of love. Ready to walk down the aisle with Kay, we go to get a marriage license...
    Categorized as:
    queer  f-f-f  dark  contemporary  f-f  poly  length-long
  • The Last First Time by Andrea Bramhall

    The Last First Time by Andrea Bramhall

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When Gina Temple decides to go Christmas shopping for her girlfriend, Detective Sergeant Kate Brannon, in the Norfolk town of King’s Lynn, it seems like an easy enough task. If only life were that simple. A split-second event, months in the planning, tips their safe world upside-down...
    Categorized as:
    queer  mystery  f-f  dark  contemporary  christmas  suspense  audiobook
  • Remnants by D.J. Krimmer

    Remnants by D.J. Krimmer

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Kaitlin. On the surface, my life is a flawless performance. I stay home, keep the house spotless, and play the role of the devoted wife. It doesn’t matter that behind the curtains, the truth is darker than anyone could imagine. I’ve mastered the art of concealing the bruises, spinning lies to explain the tears, and burying the horrors of what happened behind closed doors. Until her...
  • No Tomorrow by Luke Jennings

    No Tomorrow by Luke Jennings

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 39 ratings
    "If you want us to remain silent - if you want to retain your freedom, your job, and your reputation - you need to tell us everything, and I mean everything. . . ". We last saw Eve and Villanelle in a spy vs. spy race around the world, crossing powerful criminal organizations and dangerous governments, each trying to come out on top. But they aren't finished yet...
  • Girl Flesh by May Leitz

    Girl Flesh by May Leitz

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Does anyone remember Angie Kirby and Caroline Ellis? Two women, wholly enraptured in their professional lives, find themselves thrust into the Texas mesa with nowhere to go and no one to trust. Angie is a chronically timid, guilt-ridden internet writer lost in a life she didn’t choose. Caroline is an ironic, nihilistic musician, pleased to find herself away from her responsibilities...
    Categorized as:
    horror  queer  f-f  dark  length-medium
  • Forbidden Temptation by Emmanuelle de Maupassant

    Forbidden Temptation by Emmanuelle de Maupassant

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    What dark secrets lie within those walls? Madness, abduction, imprisonment. .. murder? The past does not lie quietly. Towering above its island of wave-lashed rock is Castello di Scogliera. Look up at the narrow windows, and you might think yourself watched...
    Categorized as:
    queer  historical  dark  bdsm  f-f  mystery  contemporary  length-short
  • She's With Me by Sade Rena, B.L. Mute

    She's With Me by Sade Rena, B.L. Mute

    Rated: 3.56 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Being a Ciccone comes with a certain set of perks. A lifestyle that is like no others. Brothers who are ruthless. A father who’s worse. Love doesn’t exist in our world until Courtlin enters mine. She’s innocent, sweet—an angel. She doesn’t belong in this life, but none of that matters when she’s with me. I’m Kenley, and I’m the only female Ciccone...
  • She's With Me by Sade Rena, B.L. Mute

    She's With Me by Sade Rena, B.L. Mute

    Rated: 3.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Being a Ciccone comes with a certain set of perks. A lifestyle that is like no others. Brothers who are ruthless. A father who’s worse. Love doesn’t exist in our world until Courtlin enters mine. She’s innocent, sweet—an angel. She doesn’t belong in this life, but none of that matters when she’s with me. I’m Kenley, and I’m the only female Ciccone. SHES WITH ME is a steamy, short FF story by. S...
  • Sedating Elaine by Dawn Winter

    Sedating Elaine by Dawn Winter

    Rated: 3.29 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Frances was not looking for a relationship when she met Elaine in a bar. She was, in fact, looking to drown her sorrows in a pint or twelve and nurse a broken heart, shattered by the gorgeous, electric Adrienne. But somehow (it involved a steady stream of beer and weed, as things often did with Frances) Elaine ended up in Frances's bed and never left...
  • Codename Villanelle by Luke Jennings

    Codename Villanelle by Luke Jennings

    Rated: 3.44 of 5 stars
    · 41 ratings
    stylish, thrilling game of spy vs. spy played by Villanelle, a peerless international assassin, and Eve, the fiercely intelligent MI6 analyst whose mission is to take her out-- soon to be a BBC America series. Villanelle (a codename, of course) is one of the world's most skilled assassins...
  • Nightshift by Kiare Ladner

    Nightshift by Kiare Ladner

    Rated: 3.24 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    A haunting, compelling debut novel of complex female friendship and obsession, following one young woman's decision to abandon her normal life and join the otherworldly, nocturnal existence of London's nightshift workers. When twenty-three-year-old Meggie meets her distant and enigmatic new coworker Sabine, she recognizes in her the person she would like to be...
  • Mostly Dead Things by Kristen Arnett

    Mostly Dead Things by Kristen Arnett

    Rated: 3.35 of 5 stars
    · 39 ratings
    One morning, Jessa-Lynn Morton walks into the family taxidermy shop to find that her father has committed suicide, right there on one of the metal tables. Shocked and grieving, Jessa steps up to manage the failing business, while the rest of the Morton family crumbles. Her mother starts sneaking into the shop to make aggressively lewd art with the taxidermied animals...
    Categorized as:
    queer  horror  contemporary  f-f  death  humor  suicide  dark
  • Godsgrave by Jay Kristoff

    Godsgrave by Jay Kristoff

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 89 ratings
    Mia Corvere has found her place among the Blades of Our Lady of Blessed Murder, but many in the Red Church hierarchy think she's far from earned it. Plying her bloody trade in a backwater of the Republic, she's no closer to ending the men who destroyed her familia; in fact, she's told directly that Consul Scaeva is off limits...
  • House of Crimson Hearts by Ruby Roe

    House of Crimson Hearts by Ruby Roe

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 49 ratings
    Once upon a time, a vampire corrupted a hunter. Octavia Beaumont, one of the original three vampires, is determined to run the city. Red, an expert hunter, is hell-bent on getting revenge on the vampire that turned her sister. When deadly trials for the heir of the city begin, Red and Octavia are forced to work together. Octavia wants a crown. Red wants blood. But there’s only one first place...
  • The Emperor's Bone Palace by Hailey Turner

    The Emperor's Bone Palace by Hailey Turner

    Rated: 4.68 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 14 ratings
    Every heart is meant to break. THE NAMELESS. As a warden, Soren’s duty is to guard against the dead, but he was never trained to guard against his heart. Drawn into a web of Solarian politics, Soren finds himself at the center of a storm of his own making, unwilling to break free if it means losing the man he loves...
    Categorized as:
    high fantasy  magic  queer  fantasy  m-m  steampunk  f-f  mystery
  • A Game of Romance and Ruin by Ruby Roe

    A Game of Romance and Ruin by Ruby Roe

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 30 ratings
    In a game of power, can love be the deadliest weapon? Stirling Grey, a legendary negotiator, is on a mission: to mend her broken heart and avenge its ruin. Morrigan Lee, a hidden princess and heir to the throne, is harbouring a dark secret. For years, Stirling and Morrigan navigated the perilous games of power and politics, shared clandestine moments, and ultimately. .. fell in love. .
  • Blood of the Moon by S.D. Simper

    Blood of the Moon by S.D. Simper

    Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 15 ratings
    Successful in her quest, Flowridia returns to Staelash for a joyous affair—the long awaited wedding of Marielle and Zorlaeus, an event promising to seal her kingdom and Nox’Kartha as allies. But the price of Ayla’s return, and the sacrifice it demands, weighs heavily on her heart. To do nothing means to live a life of loneliness, but to act would condemn her eternal soul...
    Categorized as:
    vampires  witches  queer  horror  fantasy  f-f  dark  paranormal
  • Architecti by Ruby Roe

    Architecti by Ruby Roe

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 16 ratings
    Never make a deal with the devil, and if you do, don’t fall in love with his daughter. Ruby Roe’s latest novel Architecti, follows Midnight’s steamy romance as she attends Finis Academy and makes a deal with the devil she’ll live to regret. If you love dark academia, fantasy romance and the spiciest of lesbians, you’ll love Architecti, the first in the Deals of Dark Descent duet.
  • Darkdawn by Jay Kristoff

    Darkdawn by Jay Kristoff

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 72 ratings
    The greatest games in Godsgrave’s history have ended with the most audacious murders in the history of the Itreyan Republic. Mia Corvere, gladiatii, escaped slave and infamous assassin, is on the run. Pursued by Blades of the Red Church and soldiers of the Luminatii legion, she may never escape the City of Bridges and Bones alive. Her mentor Mercurio is now in the clutches of her enemies...
  • The Tyrant Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson

    The Tyrant Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 31 ratings
    "The hunt is over. After fifteen years of lies and sacrifice, Baru Cormorant has the power to destroy the Imperial Republic of Falcrest that she pretends to serve. The secret society called the Cancrioth is real, and Baru is among them. But the Cancrioth's weapon cannot distinguish the guilty from the innocent...
  • 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...
  • Of Tides and Snow by Darva Green

    Of Tides and Snow by Darva Green

    Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 11 ratings
    A spicy f/f Snow White retelling…. On the night Gwen is meant to commit herself to the Moon Coven, a murder attempt has her running for her life. She flees the only home she’s ever known, running straight past the cottage in the woods and into the arms of a ruthless pirate captain...
  • The Guns of Empire by Django Wexler

    The Guns of Empire by Django Wexler

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 30 ratings
    As the “audacious and subversive”* Shadow Campaigns novels continue, the weather is growing warmer, but the frosty threat of Vordan’s enemies is only growing worse. .. As the roar of the guns subsides and the smoke of battle clears, the country of Vordan is offered a fragile peace…...
    Categorized as:
    queer  high fantasy  magic  horror  fantasy  military  war  historical
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