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  • Knot Her Reality by Miranda May

    Knot Her Reality by Miranda May

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 15 ratings
    Season three of Heated is starting out with a bang—public outcry, protests, and boycotts—all before we’ve even begun filming.I know you have to be wondering how a reality dating show could cause this kind of reaction. That would be because of me. My name’s Evangeline, and I'm this season’s omega...
  • Hamilton's Battalion: A Trio of Romances by Courtney Milan, Alyssa Cole

    Hamilton's Battalion: A Trio of Romances by Courtney Milan, Alyssa Cole

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 10 ratings
    Love in the time of Hamilton… On October 14, 1781, Alexander Hamilton led a daring assault on Yorktown's defenses and won a decisive victory in America's fight for independence. Decades later, when Eliza Hamilton collected his soldiers' stories, she discovered that while the war was won at Yorktown, the battle for love took place on many fronts..
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  • Southbound and Down by K.B. Draper

    Southbound and Down by K.B. Draper

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Drew Beckett’s life is a well-curated plan. Small-town to successful Assistant U.S. Attorney, assigned to an above-the-fold case that could eliminate a notorious crime family and put her firmly in line for her ultimate promotion. The last thing she needs is a distraction; like a threat on her life or the seriously lickable dimples on the U.S. Marshal assigned to protect her.U.S...
  • Worthy: A Pride Anthology by Ashley James, Marie Ann

    Worthy: A Pride Anthology by Ashley James, Marie Ann

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 10 ratings
    A Pride Anthology is a collection of original, brand-new short stories brought to you by thirteen incredible authors. Each story touches on the common theme of LGBTQ+ Acceptance. Participating Marie Ann, Ashley James, Andi Jaxon, Nyla K, Riley Nash, Nicole Dykes, Harleigh Beck, Cora Rose, Jessie Walker, T. Ashleigh, Isabel Lucero, Hayden Hall...
  • Vengeance Planning for Amateurs by Lee Winter

    Vengeance Planning for Amateurs by Lee Winter

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    An offbeat lesbian romantic comedy starring penguins, plotting, and payback.Muffin maker Olivia Roberts has had it with her awful exes taking advantage of her good nature. The theft of her nana’s beloved stuffed penguin is the absolute last straw.She puts up an ad at her local crime bookstore for a henchperson to help her enact a little mild revenge...
    Categorized as:
    age difference  queer  christmas  contemporary  office  f-f  humor  m-m
  • Naughty or Nice? A Very Merry Decadence Christmas by M. Never

    Naughty or Nice? A Very Merry Decadence Christmas by M. Never

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Are you Naughty or are you Nice? Get claimed by Kayne one last time as the entire Decadence crew comes together for a winter wedding no one will forget! Christmas is magical in New York— lights gleam and snow swirls as a powerful foursome reunites! Warning NSFW! Available only during the month of December! Get it while it’s hot! My Christmas gift to you! Author note: Naughty or Nice is a...
    Categorized as:
    queer  f-f  m-m  military  bdsm  menage  contemporary  christmas
  • I Do by Cheyenne Blue

    I Do by Cheyenne Blue

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    A fabulous twin-swap lesbian romance where the toaster oven could double as a wedding gift.Accountant Allie Lane would do anything for her injured twin sister, including pretend to be her to save Sophie’s fledgling event-planning business. All Allie has to do is fake being a lesbian for a few weeks and co-ordinate a rural gay wedding festival. Simple...
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    queer  f-f  office  contemporary  bisexual  m-m  length-medium
  • All In by Eliza Lentzski

    All In by Eliza Lentzski

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Book Four and the dénouement of the Winter Jacket Series. Hollywood had been a disaster. Elle Graft—Associate Professor of English and once-budding television screenwriter—could admit that much. Now back in Minnesota and back to her old life, Elle’s determined to get her relationship with Hunter back on track. It all started with a broken classroom heater and a blue winter coat...
  • American Superstar: Set the Stage by Shay Paris

    American Superstar: Set the Stage by Shay Paris

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Lennon Emery, an aspiring singer and closeted lesbian, auditions for a spot on the famous American Superstar, a singing competition that promises fame and fortune for the winner. Lennon's goal is simple, win the show and become the performer she was born to be, and then maybe her parents might finally be proud of her - all the while keeping her secret just that, a secret...
    Categorized as:
    queer  m-m  f-f  length-medium
  • Daddy's Pride by Nora Phoenix, Ellie Rose

    Daddy's Pride by Nora Phoenix, Ellie Rose

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    His good boy. Her naughty girl. Their happily ever after. Yes, Daddy. Two little words that can send shivers of need and fear up the spine of any girl… or boy.Because for these Daddies, love knows no limits…and love always wins...
    Categorized as:
    queer  m-m  f-f
  • Shattered Pieces by Alisha Williams

    Shattered Pieces by Alisha Williams

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 18 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...
  • Elite Connections: an LGBTQ Romance Charity Anthology by Ana Ashley, B.A. Tortuga

    Elite Connections: an LGBTQ Romance Charity Anthology by Ana Ashley, B.A. Tortuga

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Every need met. Every desire fulfilled.Welcome to Elite Connections, the secret, exclusive service where money is no object and your every wish is guaranteed to come true.Fake dates, arranged marriages, or just some company for the night, whatever it is, with Elite you are covered...
    Categorized as:
    queer  m-m  super rich hero  f-f
  • Love’s Learning Curve by Lindsey Pennington

    Love’s Learning Curve by Lindsey Pennington

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Two women in different places in life find exactly what they are looking for together. Skylar Nash’s life is in turmoil after her mom is unexpectedly killed in a car accident. She’s moved back to her hometown to get her mom’s life settled while putting her own on hold. Torn between the life she loves in the city with her girlfriend and giving her siblings the kind of small town childhood she had...
  • Words Heard in Silence by T. Novan, Taylor Rickard

    Words Heard in Silence by T. Novan, Taylor Rickard

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 7 ratings
    An epic love story in war-ravaged Culpeper during the Civil War where an unlikely romance blossoms between the widowed Rebecca and the dashing Union Officer Colonel Charles. Can their love survive the agony of war?It's 1864 in Culpeper, Virginia, and the Civil War is raging. War widow Rebecca Gaines struggles to manage the family farm on her own...
  • 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:
    queer  f-f  m-m  new adult  length-short
  • Kiss Her Once for Me by Alison Cochrun

    Kiss Her Once for Me by Alison Cochrun

    Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 77 ratings
    One year ago, recent Portland transplant Ellie Oliver had her dream job in animation and a Christmas Eve meet-cute with a woman at a bookstore that led her to fall in love over the course of a single night. But after a betrayal the next morning and the loss of her job soon after, she finds herself adrift, alone, and desperate for money...
  • The Principal's Office by Jae

    The Principal's Office by Jae

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Chemistry teacher Regan and her childhood best friend, Kylie, are no strangers to visiting the principal’s office. When they were growing up, mischievous Regan often got them in trouble at school. But this time, their trip to the principal’s office has a very different they need to tell Regan’s boss that the gossip about them is no longer just rumors...
  • Starting From Scratch by Georgia Beers

    Starting From Scratch by Georgia Beers

    Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    What happens when your life takes an unexpected turn? What happens when you need to protect the one you love from the one you want to love? What happens when you lose something you never knew you wanted? Lambda and Golden Crown Literary Award-winning author Georgia Beers brings to you her long-awaited seventh novel, Starting from Scratch, a story where learning, laughing, loving, and baked...
  • Honeymoon for One by Rachel Bowdler

    Honeymoon for One by Rachel Bowdler

    Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 16 ratings
    A cancelled engagement. A non-refundable honeymoon. A Christmas Robin will never forget. Robin Ellis has had a year she'd like to forget. She's tired, overworked and most definitely not ready to spend the holidays with her rowdy family in Manchester...
  • The Love Song of Sawyer Bell by Avon Gale

    The Love Song of Sawyer Bell by Avon Gale

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    This book has been previously published under the same titleDon’t miss this heartwarming and funny reunion romance from Avon Gale Indie rocker Victoria “Vix” Vincent knows a good thing when she hears it. The moment Sawyer Bell picks up her fiddle, magic happens. Beautiful and wildly talented, Sawyer is the perfect match for Vix’s band—and, just maybe, for Vix...
  • Firebird by Rory Wilde, Savannah Swan

    Firebird by Rory Wilde, Savannah Swan

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A woman who understands animals better than people... Since her grandparents died, wildlife rehabber Reese Greeley became a hermit with only wild animals and her dog, Cocoa, for company. Juggling the care of dozens of injured and sick creatures in her barn, she's forged a simple, if lonely, life for herself...
    Categorized as:
    queer  f-f  military  m-m  length-short
  • London, Actually by Clare Lydon

    London, Actually by Clare Lydon

    Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Rules Are Made To Be Broken…Two years after her marriage implodes, event-planner Cleo Nightingale is ready to get back in the dating game. However, she has one key no younger women. How hard can it be?Fresh out of uni, Becca Cramer is single and ready to embrace her new career. She’s not looking for a relationship, but then fate steps in and introduces her to Cleo...
  • Cobalt by Nathan Aldyne

    Cobalt by Nathan Aldyne

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The two sometimes-detectives from VERMILION have teamed up again for a summer of fun in Provincetown. While Valentine browses for Mr. Right, Clarisse nabs a hunky cop all her own. But suddenly suspicion burns hotter than the sun as a string of murders mars the merriment. And somehwere in the endless secrets, jealousies, and lies behind the beautiful faces around them is a motive for murder...
  • Goldenrod by Ann McMan

    Goldenrod by Ann McMan

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Welcome back to Jericho, a small town tightly tucked into the Appalachian Mountains of Virginia, where life and love have as many twists and turns as a winding mountain road. Join Syd, Maddie, David, Michael, Henry, Celine, and the irrepressible Roma Jean Freemantle as they band together to navigate the minefields of their ever-changing world in this newest Jericho novel...
    Categorized as:
    queer  humor  f-f  m-m  length-medium
  • Citywide by Santino Hassell

    Citywide by Santino Hassell

    Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    A record-breaking heatwave engulfs the Five Boroughs, and emotions run as hot as the temperatures.In Rerouted, Chris Mendez is trying to live a drama-free life. That doesn’t include another threesome with Jace and Aiden Fairbairn. But then a citywide blackout leaves them trapped together, and Chris is forced to re-examine everything he thought he knew about relationships and his own heart...
  • Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta

    Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta

    Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Inspired by Nigeria’s folktales and its war, Under the Udala Trees is a deeply searching, powerful debut about the dangers of living and loving openly. Ijeoma comes of age as her nation does; born before independence, she is eleven when civil war breaks out in the young republic of Nigeria. Sent away to safety, she meets another displaced child and they, star-crossed, fall in love...
    Categorized as:
    historical  queer  f-f  war  contemporary  m-m  length-medium
  • Reunited by H.L. Logan

    Reunited by H.L. Logan

    Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Taylor Lyle. Everyone on the planet knows the CEO of BluTech’s name. Taylor is rich, successful and famous—but that means nothing to her. She aches to start a family, but she’s had her heart bashed to pieces once again by a woman just after her money. El Hail thought she’d missed her chance with her school crush ten years ago...
    Categorized as:
    queer  f-f  m-m  new adult  length-novella
  • Lost Hearts by H. L. Logan

    Lost Hearts by H. L. Logan

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    “Out of the frying pan, into the fire.” Chrissy Seitz just can’t catch a break. Driving west to escape the flooding that rocked her Georgia hometown, she finds her stranded during a record monsoon in a rural Arizona town. With just a bag of clothes and the kitten she rescued from the flood, Chrissy has never felt more alone...
    Categorized as:
    queer  f-f  m-m
  • Never Let Me Go by Lydia Rose

    Never Let Me Go by Lydia Rose

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Mary Rogers grew up in a small town in Virginia. Her best friend Thomas has been trying to get her to leave Virginia and join him in Washington, DC for years. The opportunity arrives when Thomas’ secretary leaves her position and he offers the job to Mary. Needing to leave her religious family who would never accept Mary being a lesbian accepts Thomas’ offer of a job...
    Categorized as:
    queer  f-f  m-m  length-short
  • The Legacy by Susan X. Meagher

    The Legacy by Susan X. Meagher

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The good news is that you’ve just been given a guest house in a great gay and lesbian resort area. The bad news is that your mother, who gave you away at birth, left it to you in her will.Noel wants to sell her gift as soon as possible. But when she makes a few trips down to Rehoboth Beach before putting it on the market she’s convinced that she’d get a much better price if she made some repairs...
    Categorized as:
    queer  contemporary  m-m  f-f  length-medium
  • Thrall by Avon Gale, Roan Parrish

    Thrall by Avon Gale, Roan Parrish

    Rated: 3.60 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Dating Sucks & Love Bites Happy couple Mina Murray and Lucy Westenra have begun to garner national attention for their quirky New Orleans true-crime podcast, Shadowcast. When Lucy's brother Harker disappears while researching the popular new dating app Thrall, they're thrown into a real-life mystery...
  • Fauxmance by H.L. Logan

    Fauxmance by H.L. Logan

    Rated: 3.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Carrie and Rosa are more than roommates - they're also best friends. Although Carrie's a cheerleader and Rosa’s a geek, the two college seniors even adopt a puppy together. When the power goes out one stormy evening, Carrie suggests making a “fauxmantic” night out of it. Rosa plays along, even when the one-off joke turns into a weekly “date night...
  • All I Love and Know by Judith Frank

    All I Love and Know by Judith Frank

    Rated: 3.74 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    With the storytelling power and emotional fidelity of Wally Lamb, this is a searing drama of a modern American family on the brink of dissolution, one that explores adoption, gay marriage, and love lost and found.For years, Matthew Greene and Daniel Rosen have enjoyed a quiet domestic life together in Northampton, Massachusetts...
    Categorized as:
    queer  contemporary  m-m  death  f-f  length-long
  • Stuck Landing by Lauren Gallagher

    Stuck Landing by Lauren Gallagher

    Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    For months, acclaimed Wolf’s Landing director/producer Anna Maxwell has been nursing a crush on Natalya Izmaylova, a former Russian gymnast and current Wolf’s Landing stunt coordinator. When Anna witnesses Natalya’s very public breakup with her boyfriend, she can’t resist inviting her over for drinks to commiserate about love and all that nonsense...
    Categorized as:
    queer  f-f  contemporary  m-m  bisexual  length-short
  • The Melody of You and Me by Maria Hollis

    The Melody of You and Me by Maria Hollis

    Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    "After dropping out of university and breaking up with her girlfriend of three years, Chris Morrison’s life is now a mind-numbing mess. She doubts that working at the small neighborhood bookstore is going to change that. The rest of her time is spent mostly playing guitar and ignoring the many messages her mother keeps sending her about going back to college...
    Categorized as:
    queer  m-m  contemporary  f-f  length-novella
  • Diamond in the Ruff by Cora Jay

    Diamond in the Ruff by Cora Jay

    Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    After being brutally dumped, freelance designer Ellie Rookwood has shut herself off to being hurt again. After all, she's happy with just her sweet greyhound Bella for company. But when a stray dog attacks her faithful companion, all Ellie can think about is rushing to the nearest vet. The last thing on her mind is the thought of meeting the woman who can save her dog—and her heart...
    Categorized as:
    queer  f-f  multicultural  m-m  contemporary  length-short
  • A Girl's Best Friend by Cora Jay

    A Girl's Best Friend by Cora Jay

    Rated: 3.48 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Animal shelter manager Tyra Haines is absolutely committed to the pets under her care. Despite having limited resources and staff, her boundless compassion and patience make her good at her job. But when the county decides to drastically cut the shelter's funding, the lives of her beloved animals hang in the balance...
    Categorized as:
    queer  f-f  m-m
  • The Holiday Trap by Roan Parrish

    The Holiday Trap by Roan Parrish

    Rated: 3.47 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 34 ratings
    Greta Russakoff loves her tight-knit family and tiny Maine hometown, but they can't seem to understand what it's like to be a lesbian living in such a small world. When an act of familial meddling goes way too far, she realizes just how desperately she needs space to figure out who she is...
  • Small Game by Blair Braverman

    Small Game by Blair Braverman

    Rated: 3.46 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    A gripping debut novel about a survival reality show gone wrong that leaves a group of strangers stranded in the northern wilds Four strangers and six weeks: this is all that separates Mara from one life-changing payday...
  • A Love Story for Bewildered Girls by Emma Morgan

    A Love Story for Bewildered Girls by Emma Morgan

    Rated: 3.19 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Grace loves a woman. Annie loves a man. Violet isn't quite sure. But you'll love them all...Grace has what one might call a 'full and interesting life' which is code for not married and has no kids. Her life is the envy of her friends, who assume she doesn't want that kind of commitment...
    Categorized as:
    queer  contemporary  f-f  bisexual  humor  m-m  length-medium
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