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  • Crossed Over by Santana Knox

    Crossed Over by Santana Knox

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 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...
    Categorized as:
    sports  queer  f-f  length-medium
  • 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  length-short
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  • She'll Steal Your Heart by Rachel Lacey

    She'll Steal Your Heart by Rachel Lacey

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 9 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...
  • Spin Serve by Nicole Pyland

    Spin Serve by Nicole Pyland

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 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...
  • Surprised By Her (Mainely Books Club) by Chelsea M. Cameron

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

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 7 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  length-short
  • Charmed By Her by Chelsea M. Cameron

    Charmed By Her by Chelsea M. Cameron

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 7 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  length-short
  • Sparks Like Ours by Melissa Brayden

    Sparks Like Ours by Melissa Brayden

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 14 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...
  • 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:
    sports  queer  f-f  length-short
  • 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  sports  queer  f-f  length-medium
  • The Last to Leave by Erica Lee

    The Last to Leave by Erica Lee

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Courtney Fields and Nicole Dawson were high school rivals who thought they would never have to deal with each other again. Eight years after graduating, the two are thrown back together on a trip to Cabo with their two best friends. Throughout the trip, they quickly learn they get under each other’s skin in more ways than one...
    Categorized as:
    sports  queer  f-f  from hate to love
  • Thrust by Rachel Spangler

    Thrust by Rachel Spangler

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Fencing prodigy Jess Kidman has always been ahead of her peers. At the age of thirteen she made the varsity team, won a state championship, came out, and fell head over heels in love with her team captain, Lauren Standish...
    Categorized as:
    sports  queer  contemporary  f-f
  • Tempted By Her (Mainely Books Club) by Chelsea M. Cameron

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

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 7 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  length-short
  • 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  length-short
  • Whipped by J.J. Arias

    Whipped by J.J. Arias

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 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...
  • Teach Me by Melissa Tereze, Jourdyn Kelly

    Teach Me by Melissa Tereze, Jourdyn Kelly

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    After years of separation and mutual longing, Vanessa Hughes and Emma Bradley are blissfully engaged. Everything about their new life together is wonderful, until Emma learns the children’s sport agency that sent her to Africa has gone bankrupt. Back when she was pining for Vanessa, Emma’s work was a godsend, both for her and for the kids who had nothing else good in their lives...
  • 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...
  • Shattered Pieces by Alisha Williams

    Shattered Pieces by Alisha Williams

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 15 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...
  • 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: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 8 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...
  • 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...
  • Kick Back by K J

    Kick Back by K J

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 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
  • Always More by Nicole Pyland

    Always More by Nicole Pyland

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Everly Holman is between an internship and, hopefully, finding her dream job when she finds an online listing she thinks will be perfect for her. As a relatively new sports psychologist, she’s worried she won’t find the right place for herself. When she applies for a job with the Los Angeles Legends, the professional women’s volleyball team, she finally feels at home...
    Categorized as:
    sports  queer  f-f  contemporary  length-short
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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  length-short
  • Whitewater Rendezvous by Kim Baldwin

    Whitewater Rendezvous by Kim Baldwin

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 7 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
  • Never Mine: A Lesbian Romance by Bryce Oakley

    Never Mine: A Lesbian Romance by Bryce Oakley

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    What if their fake relationship wasn’t ever just pretend?Sage Carson has a messy reputation. Sure, she’s a soccer star with World Cup trophies and Olympic medals, but she’s almost as well known for her rebellious behavior off the pitch. She’s left enough gorgeous women with broken hearts in her dust to fill a roster. That was, until she got injured...
    Categorized as:
    sports  queer  humor  f-f  length-medium  contemporary
  • Endgame by Zoe Reed

    Endgame by Zoe Reed

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 7 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
  • Strength Check by Katherine McIntyre

    Strength Check by Katherine McIntyre

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Roxie Esposito just opened a board game café in San Francisco and should be basking in success. Instead, she’s picking out shards from her last relationship and handling her perpetually drunk mother, both of which strain her finances and fuel the need for a roommate.Melody Roberts finally got the promotion she’d been aiming for—across the country in San Francisco...
  • Enchanted By Her by Chelsea M. Cameron

    Enchanted By Her by Chelsea M. Cameron

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 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:
    queer  new adult  f-f  contemporary  length-medium
  • 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...
  • That Secret Something by Emily Wright

    That Secret Something by Emily Wright

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Rebecca Lawson is off-limits. Jess knows this, but Rebecca has captured her heart for as long as she can remember. She’s sporty, tall and confident—all the things Jess is not—but most of all…she’s her best friend Lily’s sister. Nothing can ever happen between them.Especially after that slip-up at prom night...
    Categorized as:
    new adult  queer  f-f  length-long
  • 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...
  • A Shot at Gold by Nicole Pyland

    A Shot at Gold by Nicole Pyland

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Elodie Booker was a phenomenon. No one had ever taken the sport of archery by storm the way she had. Trophies and accolades piled up around her even in her first years in the sport. Then, something terrible happened. She lost the only father figure she had ever known after losing person after person in her life...
  • Outdrawn by Deanna Grey

    Outdrawn by Deanna Grey

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 9 ratings
    It isn’t always lonely at the top.Noah Blue’s finally got her foot in the door. After clawing her way to the top of the charts with her webcomic, she’s garnered enough attention to earn a full-time position at a company re-launching their cult classic Queen Leisah.Queen Leisah is predicted to be an instant bestseller with movie deals already in the making. Things are falling into place...
  • My Boss's Stalker: Spoiler It's Not Me by Adrian J. Smith

    My Boss's Stalker: Spoiler It's Not Me by Adrian J. Smith

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    An unrequited crush. A stalker on the loose. Will she be able to save her boss?Zoe’s boss is a force to be reckoned with. And Zoe has had a crush on Gwen Fudala for the last three years. In a twist of events, Zoe drunkenly ends up on the phone with Gwen while in a compromising position. But it sparks a wildfire that neither can put out.Still, something isn’t right.Gwen is being stalked...
  • Sirens & Muses by Antonia Angress

    Sirens & Muses by Antonia Angress

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Four artists are drawn into a web of rivalry and desire at an elite art school and on the streets of New York in this “gripping, provocative, and supremely entertaining” (BuzzFeed) debut“Captures the ache-inducing quality of art and desire . . . a deeply relatable and profoundly enjoyable read, one drenched in prismatic color and light...
    Categorized as:
    new adult  queer  contemporary  f-f  length-medium
  • 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...
  • I Saw Mommy Kissing the Nanny by Shannon O'Connor

    I Saw Mommy Kissing the Nanny by Shannon O'Connor

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Morgan loves three things; Books, women, and being single. But when Grad school costs more than her rent, she needs to come up with a way to make some money and fast. After a one night stand with a beautiful woman, she wakes the next morning in a hurry to make it to her interview as a live in nanny...
  • Goode Girls Steal by J.J. Arias

    Goode Girls Steal by J.J. Arias

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A compelling story about unexpected love, new beginnings, and second chancesGoode College's star pitcher Gabby is nearing the end of her athletic career. With only one more chance at winning the national championship before she graduates, Gabby is determined to play the best season of her life and enjoy her final year with her teammates...
    Categorized as:
    sports  queer  f-f  contemporary  length-short
  • Roller Girl by Vanessa North

    Roller Girl by Vanessa North

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 10 ratings
    Recently divorced Tina Durham is trying to be self-sufficient, but her personal-training career is floundering, her closest friends are swept up in new relationships, and her washing machine has just flooded her kitchen. It’s enough to make a girl cry. Instead, she calls a plumbing service, and Joanne “Joe Mama” Delario comes to the rescue. Joe is sweet, funny, and good at fixing things...
  • The Love Song of Sawyer Bell by Avon Gale

    The Love Song of Sawyer Bell by Avon Gale

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    This book has been previously published under the same titleDon’t miss this heartwarming and funny reunion romance from Avon Gale Indie rocker Victoria “Vix” Vincent knows a good thing when she hears it. The moment Sawyer Bell picks up her fiddle, magic happens. Beautiful and wildly talented, Sawyer is the perfect match for Vix’s band—and, just maybe, for Vix...
  • Simply the Best by Karin Kallmaker

    Simply the Best by Karin Kallmaker

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Simply the Worst…Alice Cabot’s only great love is science, but a lapse in judgment has exiled the New York journalist to the glitzy Gallerias and vapid bubble-babble of Beverly Hills. The assignment to do a flattering feature series on Simply the Best and the superficial nonsense it sells threatens to crush what little is left of her spirit...
  • When You Smile by Melissa Brayden

    When You Smile by Melissa Brayden

    Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Have you ever had a crush on your babysitter? Taryn Ross sure did. Sixteen-year-old Charlotte was sophisticated, thoughtful, gorgeous, and fun. Taryn counted the minutes until they’d hang out. But Charlotte and her family moved away. Now a transfer student at Hillspoint University, Taryn is ready to officially come out when she runs into a familiar face at a party...
  • Something in Return by Michele L. Rivera

    Something in Return by Michele L. Rivera

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Nineteen-year-old Taylor has life under control, content with a routine of work and casual encounters, until the day a prospective roommate shows up at her apartment and challenges Taylor to share more than just the spare bedroom. Taylor Silva abides by her own set of rules. She is careful to avoid intimacy and does not allow anyone to get close to her...
    Categorized as:
    new adult  queer  f-f  length-medium
  • Zero-Sum Game by Cynthia Dane, Hildred Billings

    Zero-Sum Game by Cynthia Dane, Hildred Billings

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When Brynn aims for a goal, she makes it.Now? Ember is her goal.“I’ll never forget the woman who offered an escape.”Ember Donoghue, former high school soccer star, only needs three things to be content:A place to live. Her little sister Cinder. Fantasies of her old coach, Brynn Morgan...
  • Food for Love by C. Fonseca

    Food for Love by C. Fonseca

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When Jessica Harris flies home to Australia to sort out her late brother’s estate, the last thing she wants to face is his altruistic investment—an eatery on the rural Bellarine Peninsula...
    Categorized as:
    sports  queer  f-f  angst  length-medium
  • Educating Eve by Anna Archer

    Educating Eve by Anna Archer

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Nineteen-year-old soccer star, Manny Jones, is world famous. Her purple hair and unapologetic approach to her sexuality has been the talk of the Women’s World Cup. A magical player who seemingly has it all, until one horror tackle changes everything. Going from hero to zero, Manny’s career comes to a grinding halt...
    Categorized as:
    sports  queer  f-f  length-medium
  • A Swing at Love by Harper Bliss, Caroline Bliss

    A Swing at Love by Harper Bliss, Caroline Bliss

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    On the fairway of life, love comes when you least expect it.Diane Thompson is happy enough. Her successful accounting firm allows her plenty of time to play all the golf she wants and enjoy her life in small Sussex village Tynebury. She’s finally over the divorce from her husband, but potential suitors are few and far between for a fifty-something woman in the English countryside...
  • All In by Nell Stark

    All In by Nell Stark

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Annie Jump Navarro is an Ivy League math whiz kid who has won numerous Internet poker championships under the handle supern0va. But when the Feds crack down on legislation making the funding of online gambling accounts illegal, most of Nova's assets are frozen...
    Categorized as:
    new adult  queer  f-f  contemporary  angst  bdsm  length-medium
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