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  • The Red Files by Lee Winter

    The Red Files by Lee Winter

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 31 ratings
    Ambitious Daily Sentinel journalist Lauren King is chafing on LA’s vapid social circuit, reporting on glamorous A-list parties while sparring with her rival—the formidable, icy Catherine Ayers. Ayers is an ex-Washington political correspondent who suffered a humiliating fall from grace, and her acerbic, vicious tongue keeps everyone at bay...
  • Ribbonwood by Ruby Landers

    Ribbonwood by Ruby Landers

    Rated: 4.80 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Lara Bennett is world-famous in Ribbonwood, population 907. She’s the woman you don't trust your husband with: a real-life femme fatale. If there’s a scandal in town, she’s at the center of it, ruining businesses, marriages, and egos everywhere she goes, with her sharp tongue and that body that makes you look twice...
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  • Honor Bound by Radclyffe

    Honor Bound by Radclyffe

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Secret Service Agent Cameron Roberts made a promise to Blair Powell, the President's daughter--not to place her own life in danger protecting Blair--but a request from the Commander in Chief forces her to break her word...
  • Deal with the Devil by Ali Vali

    Deal with the Devil by Ali Vali

    Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    It’s business as usual for crime boss Cain Casey as she maneuvers to form an alliance with the Jatibon organization and secure peace among the ruling families in New Orleans. Cain’s new associate Remington Jatibon is a lot like Cain used to be—a playgirl with a passion for bedding beautiful women and an even greater passion for expanding her father’s empire, on both sides of the law...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  queer  f-f  contemporary  length-medium
  • The Devil Be Damned by Ali Vali

    The Devil Be Damned by Ali Vali

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Cain Casey is close to getting everything she wants. Her partner Emma is pregnant with their third child, her children are safe and happy, and her business is still thriving despite the FBI’s vendetta. Life is perfect on the surface, but it’s the underbelly that worries her...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  queer  contemporary  f-f  length-medium
  • Honor Guards by Radclyffe

    Honor Guards by Radclyffe

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    When you're the president's daughter and the closest thing the country has to a first lady, your life is never really your own. When you're the woman charged to guard the first daughter, and you also happen to be her lover, every moment of every day is filled with challenges—and a mistake could cost you everything...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  queer  contemporary  f-f  length-medium
  • The Devil's Orchard by Ali Vali

    The Devil's Orchard by Ali Vali

    Rated: 4.59 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    In book five of the Casey Family series, Cain and Emma are planning a wedding before the birth of their third child. Cain has done everything possible to protect her family and get their lives back to normal. Cain is strengthening her partnership with the Jatibons and Carlotti families, as well as trying to help her cousin Muriel heal from FBI agent Shelby Phillips’s betrayal...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  queer  f-f  contemporary  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
  • Cold Blooded Lover by Eliza Lentzski

    Cold Blooded Lover by Eliza Lentzski

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Former Marine, Cassidy Miller knew what it took to be a good soldier and even a decent beat cop. She was starting to figure out how to be a girlfriend as her relationship with Julia Desjardin progressed, but what did she know about being a cold case detective? Buried under paperwork in the basement of the Fourth Police Precinct, she was going to have to figure it out...
  • The Summer of Our Discontent by Robin Alexander

    The Summer of Our Discontent by Robin Alexander

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    A fun summer read. Faith Leblanc is looking for that special someone, but her tactics have branded her somewhat of a womanizer. A few doors down, Rachel Chauvin is looking for the same, but her conservative style hasn’t yielded any keepers, either. Neither woman is willing to consider the other as a prospective partner, mostly because they’ve hated each other for nearly four decades...
  • Love & Honor by Radclyffe

    Love & Honor by Radclyffe

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    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. Blair Powell, the first daughter, returns the feeling despite her ambivalence about Cam’s role as her security chief, particularly in the aftermath of an assassination attempt that nearly cost Cam her life...
  • The Devil Unleashed by Ali Vali

    The Devil Unleashed by Ali Vali

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    As the heat of violence rises, so does passion. A gunshot meant to end the legacy of the Casey Clan has left a weakened Cain fighting to regain control of her business while trying to protect her heart from the woman who left her. Threatened from every side, Cain must unleash that devil to protect all she holds dear...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  mystery  queer  f-f  contemporary  length-short
  • The Devil Incarnate by Ali Vali

    The Devil Incarnate by Ali Vali

    Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    For Cain Casey nothing is more important than family, and having hers close—Emma, Hayden, Hannah, and the new baby—is as near as she’ll get to true happiness. But enemies who lurk in the shadows threaten more than just her business, forcing her to question whether the biggest threat comes from having it all...
  • Sliced Ice by Lee Winter

    Sliced Ice by Lee Winter

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Ten short stories based on Lee Winter’s fierce and unforgettable ice queens and villains have been gathered into one anthology containing lesbian love, lust, friendship, and romance.Find out what happened after Lee’s stories ended, and in one case, before it began...
  • Conflict of Interest by Jae

    Conflict of Interest by Jae

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Workaholic Detective Aiden Carlisle isn’t looking for love—and certainly not at the law enforcement seminar she reluctantly agreed to attend. But the first lecturer is not at all what she expected. Psychologist Dawn Kinsley has just found her place in life...
  • 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...
    Categorized as:
    mystery  queer  f-f  contemporary  length-medium
  • The Devil Inside by Ali Vali

    The Devil Inside by Ali Vali

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Brains, guts, and ruthless ambition should be enough to come out on top in any fight. Except when the battle is over love, all bets are off. Derby Cain Casey was groomed from birth to take the reins of the Casey family enterprises, which just happens to be one of the major crime organizations in New Orleans...
  • A Quiet Death by Cari Hunter

    A Quiet Death by Cari Hunter

    Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    In book three in the Dark Peak series, things are looking up for Detective Sanne Jensen and Dr. Meg Fielding. Dating each other seems to be working, their families are behaving themselves, and the worst of the post-Christmas crime wave is over.The discovery of a Pakistani girl’s body out on the moors changes all that. No one knows who she is, who hurt her, or how she came to be there...
  • Vesting Period by Monica McCallan

    Vesting Period by Monica McCallan

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    App designer Carter Montgomery has thrown herself into being a successful co-founder of LadyLuck for the last half decade. Until now, she’s been content to focus on work mixed with a little light fun. It takes a horrible date with an infuriating woman to make her realize that maybe she isn’t so satisfied with things and that it’s time she got serious about investing in her love life...
  • Honor Reclaimed by Radclyffe

    Honor Reclaimed by Radclyffe

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    In the chaotic aftermath of 9/11, Secret Service agent Cameron Roberts and her lover, first daughter Blair Powell, must contend with recriminations from within the government and danger from without as they struggle to uncover those who betrayed the nation and nearly claimed Blair’s life...
  • 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...
    Categorized as:
    mystery  queer  f-f  contemporary  length-medium
  • A Matter of Trust (Justice Series) by Radclyffe

    A Matter of Trust (Justice Series) by Radclyffe

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 18 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:
    suspense  queer  contemporary  f-f  length-short
  • Graceless by Ruby Landers

    Graceless by Ruby Landers

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 12 ratings
    Savannah Grace is on top of the world. She’s back to selling out stadium tours and winning Grammys, and she’s just arrived home from her honeymoon after marrying the love of her life… nothing could burst this bubble. Except, of course, her estranged family...
  • A Calculated Risk (DI Jo Shaw) by Cari Hunter

    A Calculated Risk (DI Jo Shaw) by Cari Hunter

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Detective Jo Shaw has it all worked out. She’s good at her job, she has loads of mates, and she likes being single. She doesn’t need complications, but an emergency call to the stabbing of a young woman brings plenty of those...
  • The Kidnapped by Nicole Pyland

    The Kidnapped by Nicole Pyland

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When she sees a picture of a little girl who looks just like her younger self in a book about lost children, Heidi realizes she was born Hollis Richardson and that she’d been stolen from her mother...
    Categorized as:
    mystery  queer  suspense  contemporary  f-f  length-medium
  • Loyalty by E.J. Noyes

    Loyalty by E.J. Noyes

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 10 ratings
    Intelligence analyst Lexie Martin is important. At least that’s what she’s been told by the director of Halcyon Division, the secret organization she works for. Problem is—Lexie doesn’t feel important. She feels…devastated. Struggling to equilibrate after the unexpected implosion of her personal life, and reeling from her failed assignment overseas, Lexie’s barely treading water...
  • Fearless by Robin Alexander, Lori Prince

    Fearless by Robin Alexander, Lori Prince

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Falon Whyte books a cruise for her girlfriend of two years. What she hopes will be a fun vacation quickly turns out to be a nightmare. Falon is normally a woman who can roll with the punches, but life delivers a series of blows that knock her on her butt and leave her stranded in Honduras with the company of an uptight woman she doesn’t like. Haley Hollis isn’t having a good time, either...
    Categorized as:
    queer  from hate to love  humor  f-f  contemporary
  • The View from the Top by Rachel Lacey

    The View from the Top by Rachel Lacey

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    When a driven businesswoman from Boston collides with a free-spirited artist on a Vermont mountainside, they share a memorable—and steamy—night, but life soon pits them against each other over the fate of a family business.Emily Janssen prefers to play it safe...
  • Turn Back Time by Radclyffe

    Turn Back Time by Radclyffe

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Love has a way of derailing the best of plans. Wynter Thompson, divorced with a young child, struggles to balance the demands of her surgical residency with the responsibilities of motherhood -and between the two, discovers there is little time left for anything else...
  • Shield of Justice by Radclyffe

    Shield of Justice by Radclyffe

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Special Crimes Unit Investigator Rebecca Frye attempts to solve a series of sexual assaults amid dead ends, battered witnesses, and a growing attraction to the physician who saved one of the victims...
    Categorized as:
    mystery  suspense  queer  contemporary  f-f  length-short
  • Weeping Walls by Gerri Hill

    Weeping Walls by Gerri Hill

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 12 ratings
    An abandoned old house in a small town northeast of Houston is the site of a second murder, eerily similar to a supposed cold case of fourteen years earlier. FBI Agents CJ Johnston and Paige Riley are dispatched to find the link between the two homicides. The team, including Ice and Billy, find the case to be anything but cold...
  • Tropical Storm by Melissa Good

    Tropical Storm by Melissa Good

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    From bestselling author Melissa Good comes a tale of heartache, longing, family strife, lust for love, and redemption. Tropical Storm took the lesbian reading world by storm when it was first written . . . Don't miss this exciting revised "author's cut" edition. Dar Roberts, corporate raider for a multi-national tech company, is cold, practical, and merciless...
  • Code of Honor by Radclyffe

    Code of Honor by Radclyffe

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The face of terror is hard to recognize—especially when it’s homegrown. Blair Powell is set to join her father on the campaign trail even though a domestic terrorist group has already launched one attack on President Andrew Powell's life...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  queer  f-f  contemporary  length-medium
  • Justice for All by Radclyffe

    Justice for All by Radclyffe

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    While Detective Lt. Rebecca Frye's elite unit attempts to uncover the connection between the local organized crime syndicate and a human trafficking ring, she and her team, and those they love, unwittingly become targets. As part of the operation, Dellon Mitchell goes undercover with a young woman posing as her lover--a woman with a secret agenda that might cause them both their lives...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  queer  f-f  contemporary  length-medium
  • Justice in the Shadows by Radclyffe

    Justice in the Shadows by Radclyffe

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    In a shadow world of secrets, lies, and hidden agendas, Detective Sergeant Rebecca Frye and her lover, Dr. Catherine Rawlings, join forces once again in the elusive search for justice...
  • 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...
  • Covenant by Ann McMan

    Covenant by Ann McMan

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Independent Publishers Awards (IPPY) Bronze Medalist in Mid-Atlantic Best Regional FictionCovenant continues the beloved saga of the residents of Jericho, a sleepy town in the Appalachian Mountains of Virginia, where life and love have as many twists and turns as a winding mountain road.Six weeks have passed since the fateful unfolding of events at the town's Fourth of July celebration...
    Categorized as:
    queer  mystery  f-f  angst  contemporary  length-medium
  • Dying to Live by Kim Baldwin, Xenia Alexiou

    Dying to Live by Kim Baldwin, Xenia Alexiou

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    British socialite Zoe Anderson-Howe’s pampered life is abruptly shattered when she’s taken hostage by FARC guerrillas while on a business trip to Bogota. While her father struggles to come up with the ransom, she must endure hardships that test her both mentally and physically...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  queer  contemporary  f-f  length-medium
  • A Calculated Risk by Cari Hunter

    A Calculated Risk by Cari Hunter

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Detective Jo Shaw has it all worked out. She’s good at her job, she has loads of mates, and she likes being single. She doesn’t need complications, but an emergency call to the stabbing of a young woman brings plenty of those...
  • French Kissing: Season Five by Harper Bliss

    French Kissing: Season Five by Harper Bliss

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    ASIN B07S73K4SR moved to the more recent edition Paris... City of lights, City of love... City of drama! With a year remaining on Dominique's first presidential term, the Laroche camp is gearing up for her re-election campaign. Dominique herself, however, doesn't seem so keen on going through it all again.Aurore and Solange's relationship has been on and off so many times, nobody can keep count...
  • Next of Kin by Jae

    Next of Kin by Jae

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Lesbian Fiction: Romance Crime - Sequel to Conflict of Interest. Sex crimes Detective Aiden Carlisle is slowly getting used to being in a committed relationship with Dawn Kinsley-a relationship that isn't always easy since Dawn is not only a psychologist but also a former victim in one of Aiden's cases...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  queer  f-f  contemporary  length-long
  • 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...
    Categorized as:
    queer  mystery  suspense  f-f  angst  contemporary  length-long
  • Don't Call Me Hero by Eliza Lentzski

    Don't Call Me Hero by Eliza Lentzski

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    It’s been over a year since Cassidy Miller retired from the United States Marine Corps, but try telling that to her nightmares. She knew that coming back after eight years in a war zone wouldn’t be easy, but she’d underestimated the real difficulties of transitioning back to civilian life. War is hell, but the aftermath is endless...
  • Hunter's Way by Gerri Hill

    Hunter's Way by Gerri Hill

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 31 ratings
    Homicide detective Tori Hunter was used to doing things her way. But even after having six different partners in seven years, Tori isn't prepared when she's forced to team up with the hot-tempered Samantha Kennedy...
  • In Pursuit of Justice by Radclyffe

    In Pursuit of Justice by Radclyffe

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    In the dynamic double sequel to Shield of Justice and A Matter of Trust, Det. Sgt. Rebecca Frye struggles to return to duty after a near fatal shooting. Joining forces with enigmatic computer consultant J.T. Sloan, Rebecca accepts a temporary assignment with a Federal task force investigating an Internet child pornography ring...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  queer  f-f  contemporary  length-medium
  • Dear Me by Robin Alexander

    Dear Me by Robin Alexander

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Alexis Holt unknowingly meets the woman of her dreams at a party. Unfortunately, Alexis was at the wrong place at the wrong time and walked away from the encounter thinking Stacy Kirkland was an arrogant snob. Alexis knew it wouldn’t be the last time she saw Stacy, and she wasn’t looking forward to their next meeting...
  • The Trip by Robin Alexander

    The Trip by Robin Alexander

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Who wants to take a road trip with two old, bickering women and a complete stranger? Not Jill Savoy. She finds herself behind the wheel of her father’s sacred Winnebago anyway, responsible for her grandmother and adopted aunt, both of whom are mischievous teenagers in old bodies, and then there’s Shay. The last thing on Shay Macaluso’s mind was a vacation...
  • 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
  • Guarding Evelyn by Erin Zak

    Guarding Evelyn by Erin Zak

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    After an unfortunate incident and a forced leave of absence from the Secret Service, Arden Ryan is moving back to Chicago where she can get over her failures in the comfort of her childhood home. Her parents, who are lovely, if not a tad overbearing, will provide the support she needs...
  • Calling the Dead by Ali Vali

    Calling the Dead by Ali Vali

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Detective Sept Savoie is a cop who thinks making a relationship work is harder than catching a serial killer, but her current case may prove her wrong...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  queer  f-f  contemporary  length-short
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