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  • Face the Wind by Caren J. Werlinger

    Face the Wind by Caren J. Werlinger

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Kathleen Halloran has never been happier. She and Molly Cooper have built a life together, living in her grandmother’s cottage. The family drama of the past has calmed down. She and Molly will soon be aunts. Life on Little Sister Island is everything Kathleen could wish for… until the island begins to send ominous signals that change is in the wind...
    Categorized as:
    queer  f-f  fantasy  magic  contemporary  angst  paranormal
  • Lilacs and Leather by Thora Woods

    Lilacs and Leather by Thora Woods

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 64 ratings
    She's safe as long as she's hidden.Lydia Anderson is an unbonded omega who left her life behind to escape a family more interested in their status than protecting their daughter from an alpha who won't take no for an answer. It took everything, but Lydia managed to break free, running as far as she could. Now she lives with her head down, avoiding attention.Her past is still on the hunt...
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  • She Came from the Swamp by Darva Green

    She Came from the Swamp by Darva Green

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 6 ratings
    When the creature from your nightmares turns out to be the woman of your dreams...Nadezhda is running away from her problems—mainly her family's supernatural murder cult that's constantly putting her loved ones in danger. Fortunately, her grandmother left her the house at the edge of a swamplife preserve so she can go off-grid for a while...
  • The Magic Hunt by L.L. Raand

    The Magic Hunt by L.L. Raand

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    In the aftermath of an assassination attempt, Sylvan Mir, wolf Were Alpha, and her mate Drake McKennan turn their backs on the government that has threatened their survival, vowing to protect their own with primal force, regardless the cost in blood...
    Categorized as:
    queer  f-f  paranormal  contemporary  fantasy
  • Demons are Forever by Kim Baldwin, Xenia Alexiou

    Demons are Forever by Kim Baldwin, Xenia Alexiou

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Veteran Elite Operative Landis “Chase” Coolidge’s latest mission requires every bit of her considerable tracking skills because she has to locate a colleague kidnapped by a brilliant scientist responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands. Former op Phantom is along for the ride, desperate to find her missing lover. By day, Heather Snyder works in the New York fashion industry...
    Categorized as:
    queer  contemporary  f-f  suspense  demons  paranormal  fantasy
  • Hell's Highway by Gerri Hill

    Hell's Highway by Gerri Hill

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    FBI Agents Cameron Ross and Andrea Sullivan found the unexpected when they met amongst the warm red rocks and cliffs of Sedona—each other. That commitment, along with their ingenuity, courage and resolve, will be tested along the most barren of stretches in California’s Mojave Desert...
  • The Empress And the Acolyte by Jane Fletcher

    The Empress And the Acolyte by Jane Fletcher

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    After three years of studying with the Empress Bykoda, Jemeryl has learned all that the elderly sorcerer can teach her and is ready to return to Lyremouth. However, before she leaves, Bykoda reveals a grim secret - an oracle of death, and asks her to perform one final assignment. Jemeryl must take Bykoda's talisman to a place of safety...
  • Keepers of the Cave by Gerri Hill

    Keepers of the Cave by Gerri Hill

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    While the investigations go on in Dallas and Baton Rouge after the disappearance of a senator’s daughter, FBI agents CJ Johnston and Paige Riley are assigned to the sleepy backwoods of East Texas for a dead-end assignment to infiltrate an all-girls school. Random disappearances dating back fifty years and more raise red flags that point to the tiny, isolated community of Hoganville...
  • Balance of Forces: Toujours Ici by Ali Vali

    Balance of Forces: Toujours Ici by Ali Vali

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Kendal Richoux’s life began during the reign of Egypt’s only female pharaoh. After accepting the opportunity to drink the elixir of the sun, Kendal becomes immortal and the Genesis Clan’s slayer. History has taught her the dangers of getting too close to anyone who hasn’t harnessed the power of time. After many years, she returns to New Orleans to finish a job she’s trained for all her life...
    Categorized as:
    queer  contemporary  f-f  vampires  paranormal  fantasy
  • All That Lies Within by Lynn Ames

    All That Lies Within by Lynn Ames

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    How far would you go to hide who you really are inside? And what do you do when you find the one person from whom hiding your true self isn’t an option?Glamorous movie star Dara Thomas has it all—an Oscar nomination, dozens of magazine covers proclaiming her the sexiest woman alive, and people of both sexes clamoring for her attention. She also has a carefully guarded secret life...
    Categorized as:
    queer  contemporary  f-f  paranormal  actors  fantasy
  • Secrets in the Stone by Radclyffe

    Secrets in the Stone by Radclyffe

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Three women caught in a web of secrets and dark desires— Rooke Tyler lives a solitary life in a small town on the Hudson River, carving intricate headstones in an exclusive cemetery for the county's wealthy families. At night she pours her dreams and desires into the figures she sculpts—waiting for the woman she senses in the stone...
    Categorized as:
    queer  f-f  contemporary  paranormal  fantasy
  • Secrets in the Stone by Radclyffe

    Secrets in the Stone by Radclyffe

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Rooke Tyler lives a solitary life in a small western Pennsylvania town, making a living by carving intricate headstones in an exclusive cemetery for the county's wealthy families. At night she sculpts stone, pouring her dreams and desires into the figures she chisels. Then two women enter life, one offering her passion, the other fame. Rooke's choice may expose her secrets and change her life..
    Categorized as:
    queer  f-f  contemporary  paranormal  fantasy
  • Half to Death by Robin Alexander

    Half to Death by Robin Alexander

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Sloan Hawkins cheated death when she slipped from its icy grip. It wasn't until then she realized that she'd only lived half a life in more ways than one. She now accepts that to truly live life to its fullest she must bring down the walls she had built to protect herself. Sloan is ready to let go and love, but finds herself behind a new wall not of her own making...
    Categorized as:
    queer  contemporary  paranormal  f-f  fantasy
  • The Protector by Bridget Essex

    The Protector by Bridget Essex

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    What would you do if the woman you loved was the one person you could never be with? Elizabeth Grayson doesn't want a bodyguard. She's worked hard for her normal life and her job as a violinist in the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra, and the last thing she needs is a reminder of how much power her father still has over her...
  • Exalted by Anna Dorn

    Exalted by Anna Dorn

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Emily Forrest runs the hottest astrology account on Instagram, @Exalted, but astrology is on the outs, and her finances are dwindling. Emily doesn't even really believe in astrology, despite her gift for deciphering the moons and signs, until she comes across a birth-chart that could potentially change her mind. Beau Rubidoux’s chart has all the planets in their right places—it is exalted...
    Categorized as:
    queer  contemporary  f-f  fantasy  witches  mystery  paranormal
  • CREMA  (comiXology Originals) by Johnnie Christmas, Dante Luiz

    CREMA (comiXology Originals) by Johnnie Christmas, Dante Luiz

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Esme, a barista, feels invisible, like a ghost.... Also, when Esme drinks too much coffee she actually sees ghosts.Yara, the elegant heir to a coffee plantation, is always seen, but only has eyes for Esme...
    Categorized as:
    queer  fantasy  contemporary  paranormal  f-f
  • Wolfsbane Winter by Jane Fletcher

    Wolfsbane Winter by Jane Fletcher

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    "Anything with two legs and a pulse." The Iron Wolf mercenaries who guard travelers on the Misery Trail are notorious for their quick and casual sex lives. Deryn may fit the stereotype better than most, but she has her reasons. Tragedy in her childhood has left her wary of forming attachments...
  • Affinity by Sarah Waters

    Affinity by Sarah Waters

    Rated: 3.73 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 25 ratings
    An upper-class woman recovering from a suicide attempt, Margaret Prior has begun visiting the women’s ward of Millbank prison, Victorian London’s grimmest jail, as part of her rehabilitative charity work. Amongst Millbank’s murderers and common thieves, Margaret finds herself increasingly fascinated by one apparently innocent inmate, the enigmatic spiritualist Selina Dawes...
  • The Witch Sea by Sarah Diemer

    The Witch Sea by Sarah Diemer

    Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    The witch Meriel has spent her entire life in the lighthouse on tiny Bound Island. Upon the distant shore prowls an ancient sea god kept captive by a generations-old spell, a spell that Meriel alone must protect. Meriel's life has been lonely and unchanging--until the arrival of Nor. Nor's shape is that of a woman, but her heart belongs to the sea...
  • Lunatic Fringe by Allison Moon

    Lunatic Fringe by Allison Moon

    Rated: 3.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    New author Allison Moon indulges the feminine wild by giving the classic werewolf myth a lesbian twist. Lexie Clarion's first night at college, she falls in with a pack of radical feminist werewolf hunters. The next morning, she falls for a mysterious woman who may be among the hunted...
  • The First Taste is Free by Zephyr Indigo

    The First Taste is Free by Zephyr Indigo

    Rated: 3.14 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    EPISODE ONE - Where Felicia learns that Pixies may be able to cure her vampirism, if she’s willing to pay the price. If you like magical quests and sex in the snowy dark of night, then read on…- - - - - -Felicia is a vampire. Serious, sexy… and maybe even suicidal. She finds her need to feed on the life of others abhorrent, but is the victim of her own desires.Mint is a Pixie...
    Categorized as:
    queer  contemporary  fantasy  vampires  paranormal  fae  f-f  magic
  • Scatter by Molly J. Bragg

    Scatter by Molly J. Bragg

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 15 ratings
    When Deputy US Marshal Danielle ‘Danny’ Martin was told she’d gotten a promotion, she expected to be leading her own fugitive retrieval team. Instead, she got transferred to Pontian Florida of all places, and assigned to a Superhero support detail for Focus, a seemingly immortal superhero who is also one of the most famous lesbian icons on the planet...
  • Sovereign by April Daniels

    Sovereign by April Daniels

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 18 ratings
    Only nine months after her debut as the superhero Dreadnought, Danny Tozer is already a scarred veteran. Protecting a city the size of New Port is a team-sized job and she’s doing it alone. Between her newfound celebrity and her demanding cape duties, Dreadnought is stretched thin, and it’s only going to get worse...
  • I'm in Love with the Villainess  Vol. 2 by Inori

    I'm in Love with the Villainess Vol. 2 by Inori

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 13 ratings
    DO GIRLS LIKE HER LIVE HAPPILY EVER AFTER?Together, Rei and Claire have endured love, loss, and ridicule. Now, they face a challenge that will shake the foundations of the kingdom—revolution...
  • Door of Bruises by Sierra Simone

    Door of Bruises by Sierra Simone

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 19 ratings
    𝐓𝐰𝐞𝐥𝐯𝐞 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐠𝐨, 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐟𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐚 𝐤𝐢𝐬𝐬.We are all, for better or worse, doomed to love each other until death do us part. My heart belongs to Proserpina and St. Sebastian—even if he no longer wants it. Even if she has left it behind to follow him.Delphine’s fled back home, and Becket’s holy calling is in peril...
  • Naamah's Blessing by Jacqueline Carey

    Naamah's Blessing by Jacqueline Carey

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 22 ratings
    Returning to Terre d'Ange, Moirin finds the royal family broken. Wracked by unrelenting grief at the loss of his wife, Queen Jehanne, King Daniel is unable to rule. Prince Thierry, leading an expedition to explore the deadly jungles of Terra Nova, is halfway across the world...
  • When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain by Nghi Vo

    When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain by Nghi Vo

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    "Dangerous, subtle, unexpected and familiar, angry and ferocious and hopeful. . . . The Empress of Salt and Fortune is a remarkable accomplishment of storytelling."—NPRThe cleric Chih finds themself and their companions at the mercy of a band of fierce tigers who ache with hunger...
  • Otherside Picnic: Volume 4 by Iori Miyazawa, 宮澤 伊織

    Otherside Picnic: Volume 4 by Iori Miyazawa, 宮澤 伊織

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 7 ratings
    Winter is coming. Having been attacked by a group that worshiped Satsuki Uruma, Sorawo and Toriko head to the cult's former base—the Farm in the Mountains. The other world is still chock full of all kinds of dangerous mysteries, but the allure of exploring the unknown is ever present...
  • Otherside Picnic: Volume 3 by Iori Miyazawa

    Otherside Picnic: Volume 3 by Iori Miyazawa

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 7 ratings
    Autumn has arrived. Having narrowly avoided the curse of the Kotoribako, Sorawo and Toriko are back to exploring the other world. With boxed lunches in tow, the two take their agricultural vehicle for a leisurely drive across grassy terrain, deal with the problems caused by Sorawo's kouhai at university, and hang out at cognitive scientist Kozakura's house...
  • The Girl from the Sea by Molly Knox Ostertag

    The Girl from the Sea by Molly Knox Ostertag

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 34 ratings
    From the author of The Witch Boy trilogy comes a graphic novel about family, romance, and first love.Fifteen-year-old Morgan has a secret: She can't wait to escape the perfect little island where she lives. She's desperate to finish high school and escape her sad divorced mom, her volatile little brother, and worst of all, her great group of friends...who don't understand Morgan at all...
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