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  • Forever and A Day: a Those Who Wait story by Haley Cass

    Forever and A Day: a Those Who Wait story by Haley Cass

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Good things come to those who wait and now Sutton Spencer and Charlotte Thompson get to reap the benefits. They spent months circling around admitting their feelings, but the time for denying their love is over.As the world watches, their lives never stop growing. The only thing that's for certain is that through every hurdle that comes their way, they'll face it together...
    Categorized as:
    queer  f-f
  • On the Same Page by Haley Cass

    On the Same Page by Haley Cass

    Rated: 4.65 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 14 ratings
    Riley Beckett met Gianna Mäkinen – drop-dead gorgeous influencer, trilingual, daughter of world-famous models, yes, that Gianna Mäkinen – their first year at Boston University, and it changed everything for the both of them...
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  • Whistleblower: The Senator's Wife Series Book III by Jen Lyon

    Whistleblower: The Senator's Wife Series Book III by Jen Lyon

    Rated: 4.81 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    As Alex's career continues to flourish as a US soccer star, Catharine struggles to keep her world from falling apart. Dealing with the repercussions of a high-profile divorce, while Carlton's campaign marches toward the primary election, her only solace remains in her blossoming relationship with Alex...
    Categorized as:
    queer  sports  f-f
  • Whistleblower: The Senator's Wife Series Book III by Jen Lyon

    Whistleblower: The Senator's Wife Series Book III by Jen Lyon

    Rated: 4.81 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    As Alex's career continues to flourish as a US soccer star, Catharine struggles to keep her world from falling apart. Dealing with the repercussions of a high-profile divorce, while Carlton's campaign marches toward the primary election, her only solace remains in her blossoming relationship with Alex...
    Categorized as:
    queer  f-f  athletes  age difference  sports  contemporary
  • The Fixer by Lee Winter

    The Fixer by Lee Winter

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 14 ratings
    A naive activist is hired by a corporate villain but doesn’t realize it. Cue one awkward farce, a twisty puzzle, and the slowest of slow burns in this opposites-attract, ice queen romance.Nine years ago, aloof, icy Michelle Hastings chose career over love. She’s now living with that choice as she rules a secret corporation catering to the rich and powerful.Enter Eden Lawless...
  • Under Your Skin by Lee Winter

    Under Your Skin by Lee Winter

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 8 ratings
    What do a stolen food-delivery robot, a woman from the past, and a bizarre scheme to microchip military veterans have in common? The infamous Caustic Queen, Washington DC bureau chief Catherine Ayers, would love to find out but she has a lot on her plate right now. She and her fiancée, reporter and Iowa girl Lauren King, are busy wedding planning in Lauren’s home town...
  • Election Day by J.A. Armstrong

    Election Day by J.A. Armstrong

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Running a presidential campaign might seem the craziest thing in the world to most people. Candace Reid is not most people. The affable Governor of New York is used to controlled chaos...
    Categorized as:
    queer  f-f
  • In the Long Run by Haley Cass

    In the Long Run by Haley Cass

    Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Free-spirited and easygoing Taylor Vandenberg left her hometown of Faircombe, Tennessee as soon as she could, and in the twenty-five years since, she has rarely looked back. She wouldn’t change anything about how her life has turned out – having traveled to nearly every country, never staying anywhere long enough to feel stifled...
    Categorized as:
    queer  f-f
  • The Love Conspiracy: An Age-Gap Lesbian Romance by J.J. Arias

    The Love Conspiracy: An Age-Gap Lesbian Romance by J.J. Arias

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Could you fall in love with your husband’s mistress?Forty-year-old Veronica Marin is a force to be reckoned with - a fierce trial lawyer who's always in control, including in her marriage to Gabe. But when a stranger shows up and exposes Gabe's infidelity, Veronica's reality is rocked. Her solution? To track down all of Gabe's unsuspecting partners before filing for divorce...
  • Just Three Words by Melissa Brayden

    Just Three Words by Melissa Brayden

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Sometimes the one you want is the one you least suspect... Accountant Samantha Ennis craves order and structure. As the bookkeeper at the boutique advertising agency she owns with her three best friends, it’s her job to apply logic to the chaos. When one of those best friends, laid back Hunter Blair, moves in to share her loft apartment, Sam’s carefully organized world is thrown wildly askew...
  • Mutual Benefits by H.P. Munro

    Mutual Benefits by H.P. Munro

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Coming out to your loved ones is stressful, so when Hannah Melville’s family not only accept but celebrate her accidental announcement, it should be a relief. Which it would be, if Hannah was gay.Ashley West isn’t looking for a relationship. When she’s set up by her mother on a blind date, she’s ready to nip any expectations in the bud. She’s less prepared for her love interest to be straight...
  • Unadulterated Something by M.J. Duncan

    Unadulterated Something by M.J. Duncan

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Emma Beauchamp and Campbell Jordan’s rivalry on the ice was legendary. Retirement should have closed that chapter of their lives, but when Campbell joins the faculty at Stonebridge—the prestigious Berkshires boarding school where Emma now teaches—it takes on a brand new life...
    Categorized as:
    queer  f-f  sports  from hate to love  contemporary
  • Western Shores by Lise Gold

    Western Shores by Lise Gold

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Madison Wilson, a marine biologist, has recently graduated and is ready to start her adult life with her first job as a research technician in Santa Cruz. After moving to Capitola, a sweet and colorful beach town in Northern California, she is immediately enchanted by her new house, as well as her beautiful landlady, Ally...
    Categorized as:
    queer  f-f  age difference
  • Open Me Carefully: Emily Dickinson's Intimate Letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson by Emily Dickinson

    Open Me Carefully: Emily Dickinson's Intimate Letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson by Emily Dickinson

    Rated: 4.59 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    For the first time, selections from Emily Dickinson's thirty-six year correspondence to her neighbor and sister-in-law, Susan Huntington Dickinson, are compiled in a single volume. Open Me Carefully invites a dramatic new understanding of Emily Dickinson's life and work, overcoming a century of censorship and misinterpretation...
    Categorized as:
    queer  f-f  historical
  • Back in Your Arms by Monica McCallan

    Back in Your Arms by Monica McCallan

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Seventeen years ago, Quinn McKinley left her small town of Kingsford for a shot at a happier life. Now a successful real estate agent in New York City, she’s brought back on behalf of a client, begrudgingly accepting her return home in order to close the deal of a lifetime...
    Categorized as:
    queer  f-f  friends to lovers
  • In the Long Run by Haley Cass

    In the Long Run by Haley Cass

    Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Free-spirited and easygoing Taylor Vandenberg left her hometown of Faircombe, Tennessee as soon as she could, and in the twenty-five years since, she has rarely looked back. She wouldn’t change anything about how her life has turned out – having traveled to nearly every country, never staying anywhere long enough to feel stifled...
    Categorized as:
    queer  f-f
  • Deal with the Devil by Ali Vali

    Deal with the Devil by Ali Vali

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · 11 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:
    queer  suspense  f-f  contemporary
  • Foxy Lady: A Fur-Ever Veterinary Romance by Cara Malone

    Foxy Lady: A Fur-Ever Veterinary Romance by Cara Malone

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Foxes make terrible pets but they’re fantastic wingmen.Sydney Young has dedicated her life to animals. She’s a wildlife rehabilitator on call around the clock for rescue missions all over the state and every last one of her friends are veterinarians. Waiting at home for her is a rambunctious fox too tame to be released...
    Categorized as:
    queer  humor  f-f
  • The Unexpected Dream by Nicole Pyland

    The Unexpected Dream by Nicole Pyland

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Sports Series Book #3.Mia Landis was so close to being an Olympian. Instead, she watched the Tokyo Olympics and her would-be-team from home with her one-year-old daughter. When Mia heard about a serious professional softball league starting up in the US, she thought it would be crazy to try out...
    Categorized as:
    queer  sports  f-f
  • Finding Family by Jamey Moody

    Finding Family by Jamey Moody

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    How many life changing events can a brand new relationship stand?Erin Evans is hoping the fourth time’s the charm in her quest to have a baby. At forty-one she’s out of time and doing this on her own. She knows the odds of finding her happily-ever-after are slim, but she wants to be a mother more than anything...
    Categorized as:
    queer  f-f
  • A Breathless Place by Harper Bliss

    A Breathless Place by Harper Bliss

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The date is set. Six months from now, former music icon Isabel ‘Izzy’ Adler will die.Since she lost her voice ten years ago, Izzy’s been to hell—and hasn’t found her way back. She would rather die than live without the instrument that used to define her.When journalist Leila Zadeh is brought in to finish her biography, Izzy’s desire to end her life is profoundly challenged...
    Categorized as:
    queer  f-f
  • Frost by Elizabeth Knox

    Frost by Elizabeth Knox

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    FrostI’m doing something I’d never thought I would. Something I swore I wouldn’t do when Elena went off and married Reed. But, as the years went by I saw the unity within the biker lifestyle and I began to crave it. Now I’m in my late-thirties and all I have to show is scars on my body, battle wounds and marks that will forever scar my skin after being on the field for the bureau...
    Categorized as:
    queer  f-f
  • Finding a Keeper by Nicole Pyland

    Finding a Keeper by Nicole Pyland

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Sports Series Book #4. This series is related by a sports theme, not by characters.Sloan Rossi is about to go to college on a soccer scholarship. She has spent the past six years living in London and playing for a well-known team...
    Categorized as:
    new adult  queer  sports  f-f
  • The Tell Tale by Clare Ashton

    The Tell Tale by Clare Ashton

    Rated: 4.71 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    A small town, enduring love, a web of secrets.The Tell Tale has been watching and waiting, because there’s something queer about the village of Foel.Beth Griffiths has returned home to raise her daughter in the Welsh hills. They arrive to the open arms of the community, but not all is what it seems and Beth isn’t home for the reason she pretends either...
    Categorized as:
    queer  mystery  f-f  f-f-f  poly
  • The Devil Incarnate by Ali Vali

    The Devil Incarnate by Ali Vali

    Rated: 4.71 of 5 stars
    · 7 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...
    Categorized as:
    queer  mystery  f-f  suspense  contemporary  mafia
  • The Clinch by Nicole Disney

    The Clinch by Nicole Disney

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Eden Bauer grew up in a rough part of New York with an unsafe home life and took refuge in the neighborhood Taekwondo dojang. When the master of the dojang offered to train Eden as a live-in student, he started her on a journey that would eventually lead her to become the UFC featherweight champion of the world...
    Categorized as:
    queer  f-f
  • Untold by Nancy Ann Healy

    Untold by Nancy Ann Healy

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Five years have passed since Alex Toles walked away from the covert world of international espionage.Alex spends her days as an instructor at the police academy, and her evenings coaching the local high school track team. Life in the Toles household has fallen into a familiar routine...
    Categorized as:
    queer  f-f  mystery  heroine sleuth
  • Karaoke Queen by Erik Schubach

    Karaoke Queen by Erik Schubach

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Skylar was horribly scarred by a fire in a violent crime, thoughts of suicide plagued her until she found music. It was her savior. She came forward from the shadows to express her pain through song. Karaoke bars were her salvation. Now in an international competition, she finds herself continually vexed by her rival, Kim, who never shows her any quarter...
    Categorized as:
    queer  contemporary  f-f
  • A Deafening Whisper by Erik Schubach

    A Deafening Whisper by Erik Schubach

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Mia has lived a life full of harassment, for an affliction not many understand. She thought college would be different, her escape, after all, people there are more mature right? She was wrong. A rebellious girl, Vee, saves her from a bad situation and teaches her that every single day is a gift. A romance blooms between them that not even time can erase...
    Categorized as:
    new adult  queer  contemporary  f-f
  • Consequences by Skyy

    Consequences by Skyy

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    School's back in session and there's a lot of unfinished business to handle. As Lena prepares for her wedding day, she can't help but think about Denise, her sexy b-ball roommate who almost stole her away. A summer isn't enough time to get over a true love. Denise just can't shake the feelings she developed for soon-to-be-married Lena...
    Categorized as:
    queer  f-f
  • She'll Steal Your Heart by Rachel Lacey

    She'll Steal Your Heart by Rachel Lacey

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A thief seeking redemption forms an unlikely connection with a former lawyer looking for a fresh start of her own, but what starts as friendship soon feels like much more…Last year, Lauren Booker fled New York with a warrant out for her arrest. Now she’s back and ready to make amends for her crime. She wants to rebuild her life, and Brooklyn is home...
  • Passing Through by Katia Rose

    Passing Through by Katia Rose

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Nestled in a towering fir forest on British Columbia’s famous Vancouver Island, Three Rivers Campground is calling you to come relax, explore, and maybe even fall in love...Emily Rivers does not have time for love.Or dating.Or even a one night stand...
  • Surprised By Her (Mainely Books Club) by Chelsea M. Cameron

    Surprised By Her (Mainely Books Club) by Chelsea M. Cameron

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When my boss at Bluebird Pottery, Sydney, left me in charge while she went on vacation with her girlfriend, I wasn’t looking forward to it. During my first few hours, a tall, stunning stranger walked in, and I could barely breathe. Of course I ruined everything by spilling coffee all over her...
    Categorized as:
    new adult  queer  f-f  age difference
  • Charmed By Her by Chelsea M. Cameron

    Charmed By Her by Chelsea M. Cameron

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The only thing I had to look forward to was getting as far away from my hometown of Arrowbridge, Maine, as possible. That is, until I bump into a single mom and her bug-loving daughter. Ingrid Davidson and I have absolutely nothing in common. She’s older, she has a child, and she’s settled in Arrowbridge for good.Still, I can’t stop finding reasons to spend time with her, and her adorable toddler...
    Categorized as:
    new adult  queer  f-f  age difference
  • 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: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 7 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...
    Categorized as:
    new adult  queer  f-f  sports  contemporary  death  female-rake
  • Some Part of Me is You by Adrienne Marsh

    Some Part of Me is You by Adrienne Marsh

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Alison has been in her brother's indie rock band, Right Turn, since she was a teenager...
    Categorized as:
    new adult  queer  f-f
  • Just Might Work by Katia Rose

    Just Might Work by Katia Rose

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Dane Marner’s aunt is obsessed with soul mates.As a self-proclaimed ‘cosmically guided matchmaker,’ she’s played every card in the deck trying to set Dane up with the perfect match she’s found.The problem? The ‘perfect’ match is Evangeline Hudson. Dane and Evangeline rent rooms in Dane’s eccentric aunt’s house, but that’s where their similarities end...
  • Discovering Delilah by Melissa Foster

    Discovering Delilah by Melissa Foster

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    After the death of her parents on the day of her college graduation, Delilah Armstrong thought she could finally follow her heart and come out to her closest friends, but the guilt of going against her parents’ beliefs haunts her...
    Categorized as:
    new adult  queer  f-f  contemporary  lgbtqia hate
  • Hotshot by Clare Lydon

    Hotshot by Clare Lydon

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Sloane Patterson is the ultimate a US soccer sensation whose arrival in the UK causes quite the stir. She’s got the game, the fame, the looks, the fiancée. But looks can be deceiving.When Sloane’s life starts to unravel, Salchester Rovers’ new hire, Ella Carmichael, helps her pick up the pieces. But as the lines between their professional and personal lives blur, tensions surface...
    Categorized as:
    new adult  queer  f-f  sports  contemporary
  • Hotshot by Clare Lydon

    Hotshot by Clare Lydon

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Sloane Patterson is the ultimate a US soccer sensation whose arrival in the UK causes quite the stir. She’s got the game, the fame, the looks, the fiancée. But looks can be deceiving.When Sloane’s life starts to unravel, Salchester Rovers’ new hire, Ella Carmichael, helps her pick up the pieces. But as the lines between their professional and personal lives blur, tensions surface...
    Categorized as:
    new adult  queer  sports  f-f  contemporary
  • This Is the Season to Make You Mine by Johana Gavez

    This Is the Season to Make You Mine by Johana Gavez

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Will the Christmas magic help these two friends take a shot at love?Morgan Bergman doesn’t want to go home for Christmas. She loves her family, but since her parents retired and her sister moved back to their hometown of Apfelville to take over the family business, she’s been avoiding them, feeling guilty about choosing her rising career in New York over her family...
  • Tempted By Her (Mainely Books Club) by Chelsea M. Cameron

    Tempted By Her (Mainely Books Club) by Chelsea M. Cameron

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I wasn’t looking forward to finding a new roommate after my best friend, Joy, moved in with her girlfriend, Ezra. We’ve lived together for years, and I didn’t want to start over with a stranger. Then there’s a fire at the house Lark’s renting and for some reason I open my mouth and offer to let her move in with me...
    Categorized as:
    new adult  queer  f-f  contemporary
  • Work In Progress by Olivia Lucas

    Work In Progress by Olivia Lucas

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Dear God, Can I please return her?I know I asked for a hot, amazing woman to shake things up, but this is not what I had in mind. Not even close.Sure, she has mesmerizing eyes that hypnotize me, killer legs, wild hair –Ugh.Anyway, Reagan and I are polar opposites.First of all – she is New York, I am small-town Harmon Valley.She is also bossy, career-obsessed, and oh, a royal pain in my ass...
  • Tempted By Her (Mainely Books Club) by Chelsea M. Cameron

    Tempted By Her (Mainely Books Club) by Chelsea M. Cameron

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I wasn’t looking forward to finding a new roommate after my best friend, Joy, moved in with her girlfriend, Ezra. We’ve lived together for years, and I didn’t want to start over with a stranger. Then there’s a fire at the house Lark’s renting and for some reason I open my mouth and offer to let her move in with me...
    Categorized as:
    new adult  queer  f-f  contemporary
  • Enchanted By Her (Mainely Books Club) by Chelsea M. Cameron

    Enchanted By Her (Mainely Books Club) by Chelsea M. Cameron

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I was NOT looking forward to my sister’s wedding in the fall. It’s just another reminder of how single I am and how much pressure my family is putting on me to “find the one.” Don’t get me wrong, I’m a hopeless romantic, but all their meddling is making me feel a little murderous.Then one day a woman walks into the bookshop where I work...
    Categorized as:
    new adult  queer  f-f  contemporary
  • Her Forgotten Promise by Corin Burnside

    Her Forgotten Promise by Corin Burnside

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 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...
    Categorized as:
    new adult  queer  historical  20th century  war  military  f-f
  • A Long Way From Home by Olivia Lucas

    A Long Way From Home by Olivia Lucas

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Logic versus desire – only one can survive the scorching heat of the Australian Outback. When no-nonsense, Chicago teacher Callie Rogers receives news that her deadbeat father has passed and has left her a share of his million-acre cattle station in the inhospitable Outback, she begrudgingly flies to the other side of the world...
    Categorized as:
    new adult  queer  f-f  contemporary
  • Different Worlds by Lily Seabrooke

    Different Worlds by Lily Seabrooke

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Natasha Seychelle, heiress to the vast Seychelle Enterprise, has been on a crumbling road ever since losing her mother. Losing her friends, falling away from her work responsibilities, and sinking deeper into depression, rumors are she won’t be able to succeed the company at the end of the summer.Annelise Benson just lost her kitchen job and is in freefall...
  • Shattered Pieces by Alisha Williams

    Shattered Pieces by Alisha Williams

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 13 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...
  • Finding Home by Eliza Lentzski

    Finding Home by Eliza Lentzski

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Book Three in the Winter Jacket series There are signs everywhere if you know what you're looking for-signs that tell you you're doing something wrong. Go back. Detour. Choose again. Do not collect two hundred dollars when you pass Go. But I hadn't paid attention to the warnings, too blinded by ambition and the desire to experience something new...
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