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  • If I Don't Ask by E.J. Noyes

    If I Don't Ask by E.J. Noyes

    Rated: 4.76 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 14 ratings
    Rebecca Keane has it all figured out. With a successful career as an Army surgeon and a fresh promotion to Lieutenant Colonel, she loves her life leading a surgical team. Even if that life means she’s spent years hiding her sexuality and ignoring her desires under the Army’s Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy...
  • Like a Power Play by Elle Sprinkle

    Like a Power Play by Elle Sprinkle

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 7 ratings
    From Elle Sprinkle, author of bestselling lesbian romance "Puppy Love", comes "Like a Power Play", a sapphic college hockey rom-com about a team captain who butts heads with her new student coach, until she begins to fall for her.The student coach. The team captain. They’re skating on thin ice— until one of them falls. Peyton Clarke has everything to prove...
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  • Crossed Over by Santana Knox

    Crossed Over by Santana Knox

    Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    From international best-selling author Santana Knox, comes an LGBTQ, women’s fiction, coming out story like nothing you’ve ever read before. A tale that grips the hearts of those who failed to see eye-to-eye with a parent, and anyone who’s ever denied the truth about themselves...
  • 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...
  • Damaged Goods by Eliza Lentzski

    Damaged Goods by Eliza Lentzski

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    New from Eliza Lentzski: Damaged Goods – the sequel to Don’t Call Me Hero. The past few years had been difficult for former Marine, Cassidy Miller. She’d left the military, joined the Minneapolis city police, only to voluntarily remove herself from active duty...
  • Ask Me Again by E.J. Noyes

    Ask Me Again by E.J. Noyes

    Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 11 ratings
    What do you do when the source of all your problems is the one thing you don’t know how to fix? With Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell nothing more than an unpleasant memory, US Army surgeon Sabine Fleischer is ready to move on with her life―if she can just figure out how to move past her PTSD...
  • Like a Power Play: A Novel by Elle Sprinkle

    Like a Power Play: A Novel by Elle Sprinkle

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    From Elle Sprinkle, author of bestselling lesbian romance "Puppy Love", comes "Like a Power Play", a sapphic college hockey rom-com about a team captain who butts heads with her new student coach, until she begins to fall for her.The student coach. The team captain. They’re skating on thin ice— until one of them falls. Peyton Clarke has everything to prove...
  • 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 Swan and The Sparrow by Nancy Ann Healy

    The Swan and The Sparrow by Nancy Ann Healy

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Claire Brackett spent years searching for ways to avoid the pain of her past. Following her father’s direction, she traversed the globe, seducing allies and adversaries to further his agenda. He used her as a pawn to maintain power and thwart enemies. William Brackett made one major mistake. He sent Claire on a mission to get close to FBI Agent Alex Toles...
  • Hoops & Heartstrings by Eliza Lentzski

    Hoops & Heartstrings by Eliza Lentzski

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    When a devastating injury threatens Lex Bennet’s dream of playing in the women’s professional basketball league, her world is turned upside down. Despite the setback, Lex is unexpectedly drafted by the new expansion team in Boston...
    Categorized as:
    sports  queer  f-f  multicultural  length-long  audiobook
  • Safe Harbor by Radclyffe

    Safe Harbor by Radclyffe

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    A mysterious newcomer, a reclusive doctor, and a troubled gay teenager learn about love, friendship, and trust during one tumultuous summer in Provincetown. Reese Conlon, LtCol USMCR, is the new sheriff who has heads turning amidst speculation as to who will be the first woman to capture her attentions. Doctor Victoria King has been betrayed by love once and refuses to risk heartbreak again...
  • Silver Wings by H.P. Munro

    Silver Wings by H.P. Munro

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    WINNER - 2014 Golden Crown Literary Society - Historical FictionWhen in 1943, twenty-five-year-old Lily Rivera is widowed, she finally feels able to step out of the shadows of an unhappy marriage. Her love of flying leads her to join the Womens Airforce Service Pilots, determined to regain her passion and spread her wings, not suspecting that she would experience more than just flying...
  • Conspiracy by Nancy Ann Healy

    Conspiracy by Nancy Ann Healy

    Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    The past sins of fathers will return to haunt their daughters in the final installment of the Alex and Cassidy series. What had started as a simple case three years earlier, forever altered the course of FBI Agent Alex Toles’ life. A committed investigator, Alex had always avoided personal entanglements. That was until she meet Cassidy O’Brien...
    Categorized as:
    military  queer  f-f  mystery  angst  suspense  length-long  audiobook
  • 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...
  • When You Know by Natalie Debrabandere

    When You Know by Natalie Debrabandere

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    TWO WOMEN. TWO WEEKS. ONE SHOT AT FOREVER.Jennifer Middleton, gifted Wall Street executive, works and plays hard. When compromising photos of her are leaked to the press, her uncle, president of the prestigious family firm, imposes a if Jenn wants the top job, she’ll need to prove that she’s not just a loose cannon by attending a bootcamp-style training course for top-level CEOs...
    Categorized as:
    queer  military  f-f  length-medium
  • Spin Serve by Nicole Pyland

    Spin Serve by Nicole Pyland

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Sports Series Book #8. This series is related by a sports theme, not by characters.Aspen Ashley had been a beach volleyball star on the court for years now, but due to an issue with a previous partner, this was her first real shot to represent the US at the Olympics...
  • Crashing into Love by Nicole Pyland

    Crashing into Love by Nicole Pyland

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Sports Series Book #7. This series is related by a sports theme, not by characters.Drew Oakes had her first chance to take home an Olympic gold medal taken away from her when another rider crashed into her in the first race of the competition.Four years later, she is determined to get on that podium, and preferably, at the top of it...
  • Arriving by Nicole Pyland

    Arriving by Nicole Pyland

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 9 ratings
    This is book #3 in the Royalty Series.Alice, a small-town teacher who had lost her parents years ago, had always felt out of place. There was just something missing in her life that she could never seem to identify. When a man showed up to tell her that she was the long-lost daughter of a King and Queen who had been exiled from their country and were now dead, Alice didn’t believe him...
  • Marking Time by Sherryl D. Hancock

    Marking Time by Sherryl D. Hancock

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Raine Mason has never been in a relationship with a woman… or anyone for that matter. Then she meets Natalia, the feisty Latina dance teacher. A dancerturned cop, Raine captivates the eyes of the dance teacher and with a little push from their friend, they embark on a whirlwind romance...
    Categorized as:
    queer  sports  military  f-f  angst  length-short
  • Sparks Like Ours by Melissa Brayden

    Sparks Like Ours by Melissa Brayden

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 20 ratings
    Gia Malone wants one thing and one thing only: to be the best surfer in the world. Her biggest obstacle is the annoyingly perky Elle Britton. Not only is Elle number one in the rankings, she’s also a fan favorite. But there’s a lot about Elle that Gia never noticed, like her surprising sense of humor and picture-perfect mouth. Elle Britton is tired...
  • Loser of the Year by Carrie Byrd

    Loser of the Year by Carrie Byrd

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Mattie Belman’s life has gone from dismal to desperate. After the loss of her acting career, her marriage, and her usual optimism, she’s back home teaching high school theater. Maybe it’ll be a fresh start.St. Rita’s arrogant soccer coach Jillian Reed sees Mattie’s musical as an outrageous distraction for her champion players. When Jillian declares war, Mattie is far too stubborn to back down...
  • Price of Honor by Radclyffe

    Price of Honor by Radclyffe

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Honor and duty are not always black and white—and when self-styled patriots take up arms against the government, the price of honor may be a life. Blair Powell and Jane Graves have much in common and even more that sets them apart in an invisible battle raging on home soil...
  • When Angels Fall by Sherryl D. Hancock

    When Angels Fall by Sherryl D. Hancock

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Skyler Boché survived the war, as well as a horrific crash that should have killed her and her entire crew. Now, every day she has to deal with the aftermath and the crippling PTSD that’s tearing her apart.Devin James is a wild child. Headstrong and beautiful, she’s a force to be reckoned with...
  • Borrowed by Max Ellendale, Victoria Miller

    Borrowed by Max Ellendale, Victoria Miller

    Rated: 4.80 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Maggie and Sali Miller share an enviable love story. The hardships and heartaches they've suffered in their years together wove them into an impermeable bond. When Maggie receives devastating news, she's thrust back into the consequences of the life she lived during her time in the U.S. Army...
    Categorized as:
    military  queer  f-f  length-medium
  • Side by Side by Nicole Pyland

    Side by Side by Nicole Pyland

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Sports Series Book #6. This series is related by a sports theme, not by characters.As teenagers, Belle Elrod and Chandler Wolfe had been chosen to be part of Team USA figure skating’s elite training program. But when something happened, and Belle left the program, they were both left wondering what might have been...
  • Darkness Unknown by K.C. Luck

    Darkness Unknown by K.C. Luck

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    If the lights go out forever, can love survive?Return to the story about a world without power where a group of strong women have come together to not only survive the apocalypse but thrive in it.Still haunted by her time in the Middle East, Sergeant Geri Fischer is grateful to be stationed in the simple, almost boring town of Astoria...
    Categorized as:
    queer  military  f-f  length-medium
  • Last Chance by Claire Highton-Stevenson

    Last Chance by Claire Highton-Stevenson

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 7 ratings
    An injured athlete desperate for a comeback. A career-driven team owner. Passion ignites when they meet, but will victory cost them true love?Nora Brady has one last shot at the career she adores. After a devastating injury knocks her off the women’s football A-list, the tenacious midfielder accepts an offer to play for a struggling young team longing to compete in the big time...
  • Dead Shot by Erik Schubach

    Dead Shot by Erik Schubach

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    McKenzie is a soldier and her girlfriend, Katie, is a contractor with the United Nations peacekeeping force. McKenzie's squad has named her Dead Shot for her uncanny ability with weapons.When her unit is ambushed, will her skills be enough?This is set in the same world as Music of the Soul but is a standalone book...
  • Identity by Nancy Ann Healy

    Identity by Nancy Ann Healy

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Once a spy, always a spy. Alex Toles and Claire Brackett are back in action. Once rivals, the pair of FBI agents receive a summons from President Candace Reid to the White House. Evidence of forced starvation scattered throughout Russia coincides with a growing military presence in the small Russian exclave of Kaliningrad...
  • Fuze by Brian Christopher Shea, Stacy Lynn Miller

    Fuze by Brian Christopher Shea, Stacy Lynn Miller

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Special Agent Lexi Mills chases the criminal who killed her partner in this thrilling novel of grit, betrayal, and retribution.After a lifetime of fighting to get what she wants, Lexi Mills has finally made it into the elite ATF Special Response Team. But when a wrong move during a bomb disposal operation takes half her leg—and her partner’s life—Lexi must shoulder the guilt alone...
    Categorized as:
    military  queer  f-f  suspense  mystery  length-medium
  • Whipped by J.J. Arias

    Whipped by J.J. Arias

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    If she can’t get through to her in the office, she’ll smash into her on skates. . .Newly minted lawyer Cheyenne Flores-Moore is excited to start her career at one of the most prestigious law firms in Miami. That is, until she meets her mentor Erica. It seems that no matter what she does, she can’t win her over - something the perennially sunny Cheyenne has not experienced before...
  • 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...
  • 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:
    military  queer  f-f  m-m  bdsm  menage  contemporary  christmas
  • A Game Of Two Hearts by Iona Kane

    A Game Of Two Hearts by Iona Kane

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Tess Kennedy isn’t where she thought she’d be at forty-six. She’s focusing on keeping things together as a single parent as she returns to a town that holds mixed memories. As she tries to build a new life for her family, she’s relieved that she’s finally in control of her own destiny. The last thing she’s looking for is a relationship.Rowan Russell is living her regular, predictable life...
  • Kick Back by K J

    Kick Back by K J

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Sophia Lindstrom plays football for South Melbourne. She’s tall, focused, intense, and has some major trust issues, which she’s currently ignoring. Sophia just wants her life to stay exactly the same, which means playing AFL, running the boutique fine foods and wine store with her brother, and volunteering at the homeless shelter. The same...
    Categorized as:
    sports  queer  f-f  misogyny  length-short
  • Her Forgotten Promise by Corin Burnside

    Her Forgotten Promise by Corin Burnside

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A 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...
  • Girls of Summer by Kate Christie

    Girls of Summer by Kate Christie

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The first four books of the Girls of Summer series introduced Emma Blakeley and Jamie Maxwell, two athletes with bright soccer futures. Now, in Girls of Summer, the US Women's National Team (USWNT) is in its final round of preparations before the 2015 World Cup. For Jamie, a starting spot on the World Cup roster would be a dream come true...
  • Quiver by Rachel Spangler

    Quiver by Rachel Spangler

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Kye Manchester is no stranger to ambition. She sacrificed more than she cares to admit to become a highly acclaimed actress. Now more than a decade after her big break, her prospects are waning, and in a moment of desperation, she tells a lie that sends her spiraling back to where she started, and to the one woman she swore she’d never let herself need again...
  • Darkness Remains by KC Luck

    Darkness Remains by KC Luck

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    If the lights go out forever, can love survive? When a group of women from different walks of life are brought together by fate during the end of the world as they know it, each must find a way to survive against the odds as well as learn to rely on each other...
    Categorized as:
    military  queer  f-f  length-short  audiobook
  • Lethal Affairs by Kim Baldwin, Xenia Alexiou

    Lethal Affairs by Kim Baldwin, Xenia Alexiou

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Love has never been more lethal.Elite operative Domino is no stranger to peril and impossible situations. Trained all her life to be just as comfortable fighting terrorists as mixing with the gala crowd, she is proficient at playing any role necessary to accomplish her objective and believes the cause sanctifies the means...
  • To Have Loved & Lost: A new adult lesbian romance by Eliza Andrews

    To Have Loved & Lost: A new adult lesbian romance by Eliza Andrews

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 10 ratings
    When two people's lives are spiraling out of control, can coming together pull both of them back up? On sale for 99 cents between now and January 1! Alexis Woods knows who she is — or at least, she thought she did. She's number 17, point guard, MVP, all-star, co-captain of the Lady Raiders NCAA Division I women's basketball team...
  • Whitewater Rendezvous by Kim Baldwin

    Whitewater Rendezvous by Kim Baldwin

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Danger, destiny, and romance on the river.A wilderness kayak adventure brings together two very different women—Chaz Herrick, a laid-back outdoorswoman, and Megan Maxwell, a workaholic news executive. As they battle the challenges of nature for survival, they discover that true love may be nothing at all like they imagined...
    Categorized as:
    sports  queer  f-f  contemporary  length-short  audiobook
  • Endgame by Zoe Reed

    Endgame by Zoe Reed

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Audrey Caplan knew what she wanted. It was simple, really: get the spot as captain of her college soccer team, and focus on school. That was it, and with her aptitude for structure and discipline, it'd be easy to ignore distractions. At least it would've been if Morgan Bailey hadn't shown up...
    Categorized as:
    sports  queer  f-f  soccer  length-short
  • Take a Chance by Claire Highton-Stevenson

    Take a Chance by Claire Highton-Stevenson

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A December romance sparkles between two strangers. Is it holiday infatuation or Christmas magic?Daisy Rose Foster is desperate to sort out her life. After dumping her cheating girlfriend, she flees her apartment and the job she detests to return to her family home and regroup over the holidays...
    Categorized as:
    queer  sports  f-f  length-medium
  • Tip In by Josie Mae

    Tip In by Josie Mae

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    In this sapphic romance, a superstar women’s college basketball player and a commitment-phobe college student navigate complicated feelings—and busy schedules—after a photo of the two of them goes viral and fans theorize that they’re a couple...
  • When Angels Fall by Sherryl D. Hancock

    When Angels Fall by Sherryl D. Hancock

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Skyler Boche' survived the war, and a crash that should have killed her and her entire crew. What the crash didn't do, PTSD kept loosely at bay, is working on doing damage to what remains of Skyler's heart. But when she meets headstrong, beautiful and wild Devin James, she's met someone she can't push away or put off...
    Categorized as:
    military  queer  f-f  length-medium
  • When Angels Fall by Sherryl Hancock

    When Angels Fall by Sherryl Hancock

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Skyler Boché survived the war, as well as a horrific crash that should have killed her and her entire crew. Now, every day she has to deal with the aftermath and the crippling PTSD that’s tearing her apart. Devin James is a wild child. Headstrong and beautiful, she’s a force to be reckoned with...
    Categorized as:
    military  queer  f-f  audiobook
  • Marking Time by Sherryl D. Hancock

    Marking Time by Sherryl D. Hancock

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Raine Mason has never been in a relationship with a woman… or anyone for that matter. Then she meets Natalia, the feisty Latina dance teacher. A dancer-turned cop, Raine captivates the eyes of the dance teacher and with a little push from their friend, they embark on a whirlwind romance...
    Categorized as:
    military  queer  f-f  length-short
  • Choosing Her by Natalie Debrabandere

    Choosing Her by Natalie Debrabandere

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    WHAT HAPPENS WHEN LOVE IS THE HARDEST CHOICE?Being shot multiple times while saving the life of one of her men has cost Marine Captain, Charlie Winters, the career and lifestyle that she loved. Following that, losing her temper in a bar robbed her of her freedom...
    Categorized as:
    military  queer  age difference  f-f  length-medium
  • The Light in You by Lisa Elliot

    The Light in You by Lisa Elliot

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    ASIN moved from less recent editionYoga teacher Angela Forbes has fulfilled her dream of opening her very own studio, Heart Yoga, on the outskirts of Edinburgh, Scotland. Passionate and principled, she believes in yoga and wants to make a difference. Unfortunately, her studio is hanging by a thread after a slow start...
    Categorized as:
    sports  queer  f-f  angst  length-medium
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