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The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden
An exhilarating, twisted tale of desire, suspicion, and obsession between two women staying in the same house in the Dutch countryside during the summer of 1961—a powerful exploration of the legacy of WWII and the darker parts of our collective past. A house is a precious thing... It is 1961 and the rural Dutch province of Overijssel is quiet...Categorized as:
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![Hamilton's Battalion: A Trio of Romances by Courtney Milan, Alyssa Cole]()
Hamilton's Battalion: A Trio of Romances by Courtney Milan, Alyssa Cole
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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![The Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics by Olivia Waite]()
The Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics by Olivia Waite
As Lucy Muchelney watches her ex-lover’s sham of a wedding, she wishes herself anywhere else. It isn’t until she finds a letter from the Countess of Moth, looking for someone to translate a groundbreaking French astronomy text, that she knows where to go. Showing up at the Countess’ London home, she hoped to find a challenge, not a woman who takes her breath away... -
![An Island Princess Starts a Scandal by Adriana Herrera]()
An Island Princess Starts a Scandal by Adriana Herrera
One last summer. For Manuela del Carmen Caceres Galvan, the invitation to show her paintings at the 1889 Exposition Universelle came at the perfect time. Soon to be trapped in a loveless marriage, Manuela has given herself one last summer of freedom—in Paris, with her two best friends. One scandalous encounter... -
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![The Price of Salt by Claire Morgan, Patricia Highsmith]()
The Price of Salt by Claire Morgan, Patricia Highsmith
THE PRICE OF SALT also published as CAROL. THE PRICE OF SALT (1952) is a romance novel by Patricia Highsmith, written under the pseudonym Claire Morgan. The author – known as a suspense writer following the publication of her previous book, STRANGERS ON A TRAIN – became notorious due to the story's latent lesbian content and happy ending, the latter having been unprecedented in homosexual fiction... -
![Her Forgotten Promise by Corin Burnside]()
Her Forgotten Promise by Corin Burnside
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA wartime secret. A journey to uncover the truth.Claire has always had a special bond with her aunt Margaret, but she’s astonished when Margaret suddenly begins talking about a friend called Agnes, who Margaret met working as a WAAF in World War 2 – a past Claire had no idea about. Margaret and Agnes were best friends until Agnes started acting strangely, becoming secretive and distant... -
![Occasions of Sin by Elena Graf]()
Occasions of Sin by Elena Graf
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFor seven centuries, the convent of Obberoth has been hiding the nuns' secrets-scandalous manuscripts locked in a vault, a ruined medical career, forbidden passions, perhaps even a murder. In the spring of 1931, Margarethe von Stahle, an aristocratic physician, arrives at the convent to interview a candidate for head nurse. Dr. von Stahle has a reputation for perfectionism and a quick temper... -
![Heavy Sugar by Roslyn Sinclair]()
Heavy Sugar by Roslyn Sinclair
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsIn this sizzling novella straight out of the Jazz Age, an irrepressible New York dancer named Alice catches the eye of Cora Carter-Price, a wealthy businesswoman, social doyenne, and all-around ice queen...Categorized as:
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![Reverence by Milena McKay]()
Reverence by Milena McKay
Two ballerinas. Two fates. One stage. It's the carefree '80s and Juliette Lucian-Sorel has it all. She’s the greatest dancer to ever grace the floorboards of Palais Garnier, she's royalty to her adoring fans, and Paris is at her feet. Or so it seems…Katarina Vyatka is defecting from behind the Iron Curtain, desperate to save herself and her career... -
![Chain Reactions by Lynn Ames]()
Chain Reactions by Lynn Ames
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSome of Diana Lindstrom’s fondest memories involve childhood experiments conducted under the watchful supervision of her Great-Aunt Nora, a celebrated physicist long ago shunned by the family for mysterious reasons. Now in her adult years and a sought-after scientist herself, Diana learns that Nora is dying. She hires private-duty nurse Brooke Sheldon to care for Nora... -
![Beautiful Little Fools by Jillian Cantor]()
Beautiful Little Fools by Jillian Cantor
Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars · 38 ratingsUSA Today bestselling author Jillian Cantor reimagines and expands on the literary classic The Great Gatsby in this atmospheric historical novel with echoes of Big Little Lies, told in three women’s alternating voices.On a sultry August day in 1922, Jay Gatsby is shot dead in his West Egg swimming pool... -
![Lady Like by Mackenzi Lee]()
Lady Like by Mackenzi Lee
Two women set their sights on marrying the same duke, but instead of becoming enemies, they find themselves falling in love—though not with him.“My new favorite romance author.”—Julia Quinn, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Bridgerton series“A genuinely, strikingly funny romantic romp... -
![Proper English by K.J. Charles]()
Proper English by K.J. Charles
A shooting party at the Earl of Witton’s remote country house is a high treat for champion shot Patricia Merton—until unexpected guests turn the social atmosphere dangerously sour. That’s not Pat’s biggest problem. She’s visiting her old friend, the Earl’s heir Jimmy Yoxall—but she wants to spend a lot more time with Jimmy’s fiancée...Categorized as:
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![Vera Kelly: Lost and Found by Rosalie Knecht]()
Vera Kelly: Lost and Found by Rosalie Knecht
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsEveryone’s favorite sleuth—Vera Kelly—is back and put to the test as she searches for her missing girlfriend.It’s spring 1971 and Vera Kelly and her girlfriend, Max, leave their cozy Brooklyn apartment for an emergency visit to Max's estranged family in Los Angeles... -
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![Daring Duplicity by Edale Lane]()
Daring Duplicity by Edale Lane
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSolving mysteries is her business. Finding love is her dream. Will combining the two get her killed?Victorian Era England. Stetson revels in being unconventional. So when society shies away from her independent nature, the bold woman creates an imaginary boss and opens her own detective agency... -
![A Halifax Holiday by Alexandra Vasti]()
A Halifax Holiday by Alexandra Vasti
An epilogue to the whole series, this forty-page story peeks in on the Halifax family (in all their joy and chaos!) eight years after the events of the Halifax novellas. This epilogue is only available to newsletter subscribers... -
![Fingersmith by Sarah Waters]()
Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
Sue Trinder is an orphan, left as an infant in the care of Mrs. Sucksby, a "baby farmer," who raised her with unusual tenderness, as if Sue were her own. Mrs. Sucksby’s household, with its fussy babies calmed with doses of gin, also hosts a transient family of petty thieves—fingersmiths—for whom this house in the heart of a mean London slum is home... -
![The Breath Between Waves by Charlotte Anne Hamilton]()
The Breath Between Waves by Charlotte Anne Hamilton
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsPenelope Fletcher gave up everything to board the RMS Titanic.Forced to travel to America for her father’s new job, Penelope left her home in Scotland, her beloved grandmother, and even her girlfriend, who promptly got engaged to someone else. Heartbroken, Penelope isn’t looking forward to the weeklong journey. Or that her parents want her to find a husband in America... -
![Basic Training of the Heart by Jaycie Morrison]()
Basic Training of the Heart by Jaycie Morrison
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsSocialite Elizabeth Carlton impulsively joins the Women’s Army Corps to escape love’s disappointments and her father’s attempts to control her life. Still, she has never been one to accept discipline imposed by others—not even someone as intriguing as her new sergeant.Sergeant Gale Rains is accustomed to challenges, but she’s never had a recruit quite like this one... -
![The Unlikely Pursuit of Mary Bennet by Lindz McLeod]()
The Unlikely Pursuit of Mary Bennet by Lindz McLeod
Jane Austen meets Bridgerton in this sapphic romance between Charlotte Lucas and Mary Bennet that begins four years after the end of Pride and Prejudice.When Mr. Collins dies after just four years of marriage, Charlotte is lost. While not exactly heartbroken, she will soon have to quit the parsonage that has become her home. In desperate need of support, she writes to her best friend, Lizzie... -
![Aimée & Jaguar: A Love Story, Berlin 1943 by Erica Fischer, Edna McCown]()
Aimée & Jaguar: A Love Story, Berlin 1943 by Erica Fischer, Edna McCown
Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsExcerpts A letter from Lilly to Felice, March 31st, 1943 Felice, I love you! What a feeling it is to be able to say that! Oh, Felice, the nicest fate I could hope for is that of lasting happiness. I want to live with you for a long, a very long time, do you hear? And life is so beautiful, so wonderful... -
![Mrs. Martin's Incomparable Adventure by Courtney Milan]()
Mrs. Martin's Incomparable Adventure by Courtney Milan
Mrs. Bertrice Martin—a widow, some seventy-three years young—has kept her youthful-ish appearance with the most powerful of home remedies: daily doses of spite, regular baths in man-tears, and refusing to give so much as a single damn about her Terrible Nephew. Then proper, correct Miss Violetta Beauchamps, a sprightly young thing of five and sixty, crashes into her life...Categorized as:
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![Carol by Claire Morgan, Cassandra Campbell]()
Carol by Claire Morgan, Cassandra Campbell
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 56 ratingsArguably Patricia Highsmith's finest, The Price of Salt is story of Therese Belivet, a stage designer trapped in a department-store day job, whose salvation arrives one day in the form of Carol Aird, an alluring suburban housewife in the throes of a divorce... -
![The Seduction of Moxie by Colette Moody]()
The Seduction of Moxie by Colette Moody
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhen Hollywood-bound actress Violet London meets speakeasy singer Moxie Valette, her trip takes an unexpected turn toward love. New York City, 1931: When wry Broadway actress Violet London and her hard-drinking cohorts venture into a speakeasy the night before she is to board a train for Hollywood, she is floored by sassy blond singer Moxie Valette... -
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![Cobalt by Nathan Aldyne]()
Cobalt by Nathan Aldyne
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe 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... -
![The Murder Next Door by Sarah Bell]()
The Murder Next Door by Sarah Bell
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsJuly 1912Leeds, EnglandA man is found dead on his study floor and his now-missing wife is the obvious suspect. To their neighbour, Louisa Knight, it's a shocking piece of news but nothing more. However, when she tells her 'companion' over breakfast, Ada Chapman nearly breaks their teapot and looks ready to run out the door.For Ada watched Mrs Pearce leave from the window of her painting studio... -
![The Way Home by Lily Hammond]()
The Way Home by Lily Hammond
In 1941 May Lewis is looking for a fresh start. Leaving the city and an old love affair behind, she buys a medical practice in a small country town. Here she hopes to find peace, friendships, and the sort of medical practice she’s always dreamed of, where she knows all her patients by name...Categorized as:
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![The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister by Anne Lister, Helena Whitbread]()
The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister by Anne Lister, Helena Whitbread
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsThese remarkable diaries are a piece of lost lesbian history. Anne Lister defied the role of womanhood seen in the novels of Jane Austen: she was bold, fiercely independent, a landowner, industrialist, traveller, and lesbian. She kept extensive diaries, written partly in code, of her life and loves. The diaries have been edited by Helena Whitbread, who spent years decoding and transcribing them... -
![Daughter of Mystery by Heather Rose Jones]()
Daughter of Mystery by Heather Rose Jones
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsMargerit Sovitre did not expect to inherit the Baron Saveze’s fortunes—and even less his bodyguard. The formidable Barbara, of unknown parentage and tied to the barony for secretive reasons, is a feared duelist, capable of defending her charges with efficient, deadly force... -
![The Case of the Good-For-Nothing Girlfriend by Mabel Maney]()
The Case of the Good-For-Nothing Girlfriend by Mabel Maney
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA collector's edition of the best-selling all-girl action adventure... -
![Patience & Sarah by Isabel Miller, Emma Donoghue]()
Patience & Sarah by Isabel Miller, Emma Donoghue
Set in the nineteenth century, Isabel Miller's classic lesbian novel traces the relationship between Patience White, a painter, and Sarah Dowling, a farmer, whose romantic bond does not sit well with the puritanical New England farming community in which they live. Ultimately, they are forced to make life-changing decisions that depend on their courage and their commitment to one another... -
![A Little Light Mischief by Cat Sebastian]()
A Little Light Mischief by Cat Sebastian
A seductive thief Lady’s maid Molly Wilkins is done with thieving—and cheating and stabbing and all the rest of it. She’s determined to keep her hands to herself, so she really shouldn’t be tempted to seduce her employer’s prim and proper companion, Alice...Categorized as:
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![How to Talk to Nice English Girls by Gretchen Evans]()
How to Talk to Nice English Girls by Gretchen Evans
In the aftermath of The Great War, everything is changing.But not for Marian Fielding.Marian’s life is quiet and predictable in the solitude of the English countryside, where she plans to remain. But Marian’s world is turned upside down when she meets brash, confident Katherine Fuller... -
![The Covert Captain: Or, A Marriage of Equals by Jeannelle M. Ferreira]()
The Covert Captain: Or, A Marriage of Equals by Jeannelle M. Ferreira
Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsNathaniel Fleming, veteran of Waterloo, falls in love with his Major's spinster sister, Harriet. But Nathaniel is not what he seems, and before the wedding, the truth will out... Eleanor Charlotte Fleming, forgotten daughter of a minor baronet, stakes her life on a deception and makes her name—if not her fortune—on the battlefield... -
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![Budding Romance: F/F Historical Romance Short by Lara Kinsey]()
Budding Romance: F/F Historical Romance Short by Lara Kinsey
Budding romance between a sweet-talking gardener and a bluestocking headmistress blooms to full flower in this steamy lesbian historical romance.On the cusp of the 20th century, France is where libertines indulge poetic desires. Dorothea has fled the structure of dreary old England for the Côte d'Azur...Categorized as:
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![A Lady's Desire (The Townsends) by Lily Maxton]()
A Lady's Desire (The Townsends) by Lily Maxton
Lady Sarah Lark has never had much interest in any of the suitors that surround her. She’s decided that, instead of choosing a husband, she’ll save her pin money and travel like she’s always wanted to. However, her plans are interrupted when her family invites her cousin’s widow, Winifred Wakefield, to stay with them...Categorized as:
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![The Sublime and Spirited Voyage of Original Sin by Colette Moody]()
The Sublime and Spirited Voyage of Original Sin by Colette Moody
Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsThe Gulf of Mexico, 1702: When pirates of the square-rigger Original Sin steal ashore to abduct a doctor to tend to their wounded, they end up settling for the doctor's attractive fiancée--Celia Pierce, the town seamstress... -
![Dear Sylvia, Love Jane: Detective Molly Malone by Erin Hall]()
Dear Sylvia, Love Jane: Detective Molly Malone by Erin Hall
Rated: 3.56 of 5 stars · 9 ratings1943, San Francisco. In a city overrun by corruption, sticking to the shadows is the safest option, especially for patrons of gay bars like Whiskers, Duke’s, and the Hot Spot. But when city officials have a personal score to settle, even the shadows are dangerous. Join Detective Molly Malone on her first queer noir adventure as she faces deadly stakes that threaten her friends and family... -
![A Rare Find by Joanna Lowell]()
A Rare Find by Joanna Lowell
When an aspiring archaeologist teams up with her childhood enemy for a treasure hunt, they find it impossible to bury their growing feelings, in a charming queer historical romance from the author of A Shore Thing. Elfreda Marsden has finally made a major discovery—an ancient amulet proving the Viking army camped on her family’s estate...Categorized as:
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![The Wicked Cometh by Laura Carlin]()
The Wicked Cometh by Laura Carlin
Rated: 3.45 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsThe year is 1831 Down the murky alleyways of London, acts of unspeakable wickedness are taking place and no one is willing to speak out on behalf of the city's vulnerable poor as they disappear from the streets. Out of these shadows comes Hester White, a bright young woman who is desperate to escape the slums by any means possible... -
![The Wife in the Attic by Rose Lerner]()
The Wife in the Attic by Rose Lerner
Rated: 3.16 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsGoldengrove’s towers and twisted chimneys rose at the very edge of the peaceful Weald, a stone’s throw from the poisonous marshes and merciless waters of Rye Bay. Young Tabby Palethorp had been running wild there, ever since her mother grew too ill to leave her room... -
![The Sealed Letter by Emma Donoghue]()
The Sealed Letter by Emma Donoghue
Rated: 3.31 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsMiss Emily "Fido" Faithfull is a "woman of business" and a spinster pioneer in the British women's movement, independent of mind but naively trusting of heart. Distracted from her cause by the sudden return of her once-dear friend, the unhappily wed Helen Codrington, Fido is swept up in the intimate details of Helen's failing marriage and obsessive affair with a young army officer... -
![Derrière la porte by Sarah Waters]()
Derrière la porte by Sarah Waters
Rated: 3.46 of 5 stars · 61 ratingsIt is 1922, and London is tense. Ex-servicemen are disillusioned; the out-of-work and the hungry are demanding change. And in South London, in a genteel Camberwell villa—a large, silent house now bereft of brothers, husband, and even servants—life is about to be transformed, as impoverished widow Mrs. Wray and her spinster daughter, Frances, are obliged to take in lodgers... -
![The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters]()
The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters
Rated: 3.46 of 5 stars · 62 ratingsIt is 1922, and London is tense. Ex-servicemen are disillusioned; the out-of-work and the hungry are demanding change. And in South London, in a genteel Camberwell villa—a large, silent house now bereft of brothers, husband, and even servants—life is about to be transformed, as impoverished widow Mrs. Wray and her spinster daughter, Frances, are obliged to take in lodgers... -
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