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  • Forever and A Day by Haley Cass

    Forever and A Day by Haley Cass

    Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 19 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...
  • Tempting Olivia by Clare Ashton

    Tempting Olivia by Clare Ashton

    Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Olivia Sachdeva’s life is flawless. With a first from Oxford and as the youngest partner at Bentley lawyers, she expects high standards from everyone. Her only indulgences are eating iced desserts and repeat watching romcoms, especially those featuring Kate Laurence – pure escapism and cinematic perfection...
    Categorized as:
    queer  contemporary  humor  f-f  length-long
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  • Just Three Words by Melissa Brayden

    Just Three Words by Melissa Brayden

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 20 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...
  • Truth and Measure by Telanu

    Truth and Measure by Telanu

    Rated: 4.73 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 10 ratings
    The Devil Wears Prada fanfiction:Andy doesn't leave Miranda in Paris, and learns that a single decision can change your life. But the main thing about decisions? You don't get to stop with one...
  • Better Than Expected by Haley Cass

    Better Than Expected by Haley Cass

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 27 ratings
    Hannah Dalton had a lot of expectations in her life. Growing up watching her mother struggle for everything they had, she resolved to make sure she did everything she could to make those hardships worthwhile...
  • Scarlett Fever by Claire Highton-Stevenson

    Scarlett Fever by Claire Highton-Stevenson

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 14 ratings
    On a girl's night out with her friends; fifty-something, divorced, and really not looking for any attention, Claudia Maddox is somewhat surprised when girls' night takes on a whole new meaning. Ending up in bed with a woman twenty years her junior, hadn’t been the plan, but it was a night she certainly wouldn’t forget. Scarlett was sexy, and fun and knew just what she was doing...
  • Election Day by J.A. Armstrong

    Election Day by J.A. Armstrong

    Rated: 4.78 of 5 stars
    · 9 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  length-medium
  • Western Shores by Lise Gold

    Western Shores by Lise Gold

    Rated: 4.63 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
  • The Clinch by Nicole Disney

    The Clinch by Nicole Disney

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 9 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...
  • Meeting Millie by Clare Ashton

    Meeting Millie by Clare Ashton

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 23 ratings
    Oxford – celebrated city of dreaming spires and class warfare – is an ambition come true for lesbian, geeky, upper-middle-class Charlotte and straight, charismatic, working-class Millie. Against the odds, theirs is an instant, best friendship. Forever. Exuberant Millie is a breath of fresh air for polite Charlotte and a force of nature within the university's hallowed walls...
  • 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:
    queer  f-f  sports  length-medium
  • 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  length-medium
  • Then & Now by Monica McCallan

    Then & Now by Monica McCallan

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Lily Connor has focused all her energy into becoming a successful wedding planner, and after five years, she’s on the precipice of taking on more responsibility at Southerland Wedding Company. When the chance finally presents itself, it comes with a complication she couldn’t have dreamt up in her worst nightmares...
  • Reality In Check by Emily Banting

    Reality In Check by Emily Banting

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    From the multi-award-winning, best-selling author of Broken Beyond Repair comes a new sapphic celebrity ice queen romance — read as a standalone or as the second book in the South Downs Romance series.Sculptor Arte Tremaine is thrown into the hospitality industry when her beloved late grandmother bequeaths her and her sister a charming yet rundown country hotel with zero guests...
  • Honey in the Marrow by Emily Waters

    Honey in the Marrow by Emily Waters

    Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    An enemies-to-friends-to-lovers lesbian romance about finding heart, hope, and second chances you never thought you’d have.Stella Carter is a former criminal prosecutor and new widow facing down middle age alone in Los Angeles. Without being a prestigious lawyer and someone’s wife, she’s not sure who she is anymore or where her life is headed...
  • Back in Your Arms by Monica McCallan

    Back in Your Arms by Monica McCallan

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 14 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...
  • 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  length-medium
  • The Forever and The Now by K.J .

    The Forever and The Now by K.J .

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Bron McIntyre, forty-two, has it all together. Terrific job. Loving family. No desperate need for a girlfriend but would be interested if one came along. Bron McIntyre is Teflon.Kate Agostino, forty-eight, is not Teflon. Yes, she has a terrific job. But a loving family? Not really. And her personal life is rapidly disintegrating and turning into dust...
  • The Secret Pond by Gerri Hill

    The Secret Pond by Gerri Hill

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Grieving over the loss of her family and feeling like her life is unraveling, Lindsey McDermott quits her job, gets a puppy and retreats to her grandparents’ home in the Texas Hill Country. She spends her solitary days walking childhood trails and reminiscing, trying to reconcile the conflict within her as she struggles with survivor’s guilt...
  • From Fan to Forever by Tiana Warner

    From Fan to Forever by Tiana Warner

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    An age-gap lesbian celebrity romance about how much you’d risk to have your dream.Talented A-lister Cate Whitney is the gorgeous middle-aged movie star almost every lesbian has a crush on.Rachel Janssen, an introverted medical physics student, is no exception. So when her celebrity crush starts filming near her Vancouver apartment, she can’t believe her luck...
  • Two of a Kind by T.B. Markinson, Miranda MacLeod

    Two of a Kind by T.B. Markinson, Miranda MacLeod

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Could something you can’t remember be the best decision of your life?Maisie Sullivan is a hard-working marketing assistant from Milwaukee who wants nothing more than to earn a promotion and finally finish her college degree. But when she’s swept off her feet by a charming cowgirl while on a business trip to Las Vegas, she decides there’s no harm in having a little fun...
  • The Misperception by Nicole Pyland

    The Misperception by Nicole Pyland

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    This is book #5 in the Holiday Series.Paisley Hill cared about one thing – she was building her company from the ground up without accepting any money from her wealthy family to do it. That was important to Paisley, and she took her job as a consultant seriously, wanting to help companies grow and get more efficient because of her ideas...
  • Paradise Pride by Lise Gold

    Paradise Pride by Lise Gold

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    London-based casino manager Meghan has no expectations of her two-week holiday in Spain; she’s just tagging along with her friend who’s visiting her love interest. When they arrive at a deserted hotel due to a booking fault and her friend leaves to see her boyfriend, she’s left with the bartender who stays on for the night...
  • If It's Meant to Be by Lily Seabrooke

    If It's Meant to Be by Lily Seabrooke

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Some love stories just aren’t meant to be. And some people don’t care. While she’s lost in her biggest contract yet, freelance producer Emberlynn’s comfy small-town life gets turned upside-down by the arrival of her best friend Paisley’s older sister. Sleek, chic, impossibly cool and way more attractive than her friend’s sister has any right being, Aria is distracting—and off-limits...
  • Forgetting With You by Robin Clairvaux

    Forgetting With You by Robin Clairvaux

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    A simple night of forgetting. A connection that’s simply unforgettable.Camryn Durant plays it safe. Since losing her heart to the wrong woman ten years ago, the shy graphic designer focuses on work and never takes risks...
  • 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...
  • Open Tab by J.A. Armstrong

    Open Tab by J.A. Armstrong

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Fallon Foster serves up more than the most potent drinks at Murphy’s Law, the local pub in Whiskey Springs, Vermont. Fallon is the keeper of the town’s secrets. She’s heard tales of broken hearts, torrid affairs, closet cases, and the dreams of hopeful romantics. With a sensitive ear and a warm bed, Fallon is a legend in her small town. One thing still eludes her—love...
  • The Stepmother by Melissa Tereze

    The Stepmother by Melissa Tereze

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 9 ratings
    Their connection flares hot in an instant…but is it doomed to fizzle out?After the death of her estranged father, Hayley McAllister plans to endure cold, wet England just long enough to tie up loose ends. Then she’s heading straight back to Ibiza, where she lives exactly as she pleases—performing her music, soaking up sunshine, and indulging in flings with gorgeous women...
  • Tricky Wisdom: Year I by Camryn Eyde

    Tricky Wisdom: Year I by Camryn Eyde

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Darcy Wright is a closeted lesbian who has been infatuated with her best friend, Taylor, since junior high. Leaving her small northeast Minnesota town for Harvard in a quest to become a doctor, she moves in with med-student Olivia Boyd, a neurotic, anal, gigantic pain in the backside. The first year of juggling medical school is gruelling, but it’s nothing compared to living with Olivia...
  • Love Next Door by Rachael Sommers

    Love Next Door by Rachael Sommers

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 8 ratings
    A sweet toaster-oven lesbian romance that asks whether the one we’re meant to be with might be right under our nose.Reserved tattoo artist Riley Foster has just moved apartments and can’t take her eyes off the single mom who lives next door...
  • Popcorn Love by K.L. Hughes

    Popcorn Love by K.L. Hughes

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    A prominent figure amongst New York City’s fashion elite, Elena Vega is a successful businesswoman and single mother to an adorable three-year-old son, Lucas. Her love life, however, is lacking, as those closest to her keep pointing out.At the persistent urging of her closest friend, Elena reluctantly agrees to a string of blind dates if she can find a suitable babysitter for Lucas...
  • Just Jorie by Robin Alexander

    Just Jorie by Robin Alexander

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Some believe that special someone is out there just waiting to be found. Jorie Andolini is one of those people and has spent a lot of time envisioning that moment. She bumps into a woman at a grocery store, the woman drops a can of peas, Jorie picks it up, their eyes meet, and two souls connect...
  • Fake It by Lily Seabrooke

    Fake It by Lily Seabrooke

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 6 ratings
    To spark interest in Avery’s restaurant, and to revitalize Holly’s image, a fake relationship is the answer to both their problems.And the start of a pressing new problem: falling in love.Avery Lindt finally opened her dream restaurant—and there’s no customers...
  • I Do by Cheyenne Blue

    I Do by Cheyenne Blue

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A fabulous twin-swap lesbian romance where the toaster oven could double as a wedding gift.Accountant Allie Lane would do anything for her injured twin sister, including pretend to be her to save Sophie’s fledgling event-planning business. All Allie has to do is fake being a lesbian for a few weeks and co-ordinate a rural gay wedding festival. Simple...
    Categorized as:
    bisexual  queer  f-f  office  contemporary  m-m  length-medium
  • Bingo Love Volume 1: Jackpot Edition by Tee Franklin, Marguerite Bennett

    Bingo Love Volume 1: Jackpot Edition by Tee Franklin, Marguerite Bennett

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 7 ratings
    When Hazel Johnson and Mari McCray met at church bingo in 1963, it was love at first sight. Forced apart by their families and society, Hazel and Mari both married young men and had families. Decades later, now in their mid-'60s, Hazel and Mari reunite again at a church bingo hall...
  • 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...
  • Lightning Strikes Twice by Erik Schubach

    Lightning Strikes Twice by Erik Schubach

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Returning home to Seattle from a twenty year absence in London...Victoria discovers that time has not erased her feelings for an unrequited love. It soon becomes obvious that with true love, lightning can sometimes strike twice.This is set in the same world as Music of the Soul but is a standalone book...
  • The Art of Us by K.L. Hughes

    The Art of Us by K.L. Hughes

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 9 ratings
    Eighteen-year-old Charlee Parker met the love of her life in a parking lot—a leggy brunette with a valedictorian medal hanging from her rear-view mirror and an attitude as biting as a Boston winter. Alexandra Woodson was guarded, a nineteen-year-old orphan set on a bright future in hospitality administration...
  • In the Distance There Is Light by Harper Bliss

    In the Distance There Is Light by Harper Bliss

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 12 ratings
    Two women lose the man they love. All they have left is each other. After her partner dies in a terrible accident, Sophie thinks she'll never recover...
  • On the Rocks by Georgia Beers

    On the Rocks by Georgia Beers

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 5 ratings
    No straight women. No parents of students. Nobody under thirty-five. Vanessa Martini makes no apologies for her dating checklist. She’s been up close to enough messy breakups to know what havoc they wreak in life. Just because people see her as fun and happy, and just because she loves her life in general, that doesn’t mean she can’t be careful. Or discerning. Or, okay, fine, super picky...
  • 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...
  • The Revenge Plot by Sienna Waters

    The Revenge Plot by Sienna Waters

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Can a tale of revenge have a happy ending?Prim and proper Elizabeth Marks has the perfect life: a big house, the right friends, credit cards galore, and a handsome husband. Until the perfect man leaves her for another woman.Enter Poppy Robbins, bubbly Canadian barista and eternal optimist. Elizabeth thinks Poppy’s just the person to help her wreak revenge on her cheating husband...
    Categorized as:
    bisexual  queer  f-f  length-medium
  • The Wife App by Erinne Bates

    The Wife App by Erinne Bates

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When Rachel accepts that she isn't going to fall in love the way others appear to, she decides she is at least going to have a fulfilling career. While her friends spend an afternoon complaining about the lack of help they receive from their husbands, one of them announces she needs her own wife to help her get her tasks done...
    Categorized as:
    bisexual  queer  f-f  age difference  length-medium
  • Two is a Pattern by Emily Waters

    Two is a Pattern by Emily Waters

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A charged lesbian romantic suspense set in the early nineties, with gripping twists, turns, and surprising secrets.A mission gone wrong leads to rising-star CIA operative Annie Weaver quitting her job and reinventing herself as a college student. But the CIA, desperate for her skills, refuses to let her go without a price...
  • Two is a Pattern by Emily Waters

    Two is a Pattern by Emily Waters

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A charged lesbian romantic suspense set in the early nineties, with gripping twists, turns, and surprising secrets.A mission gone wrong leads to rising-star CIA operative Annie Weaver quitting her job and reinventing herself as a college student. But the CIA, desperate for her skills, refuses to let her go without a price...
  • Dare to Love by A.L. Brooks

    Dare to Love by A.L. Brooks

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Investment banker Ash Taylor left her cut-throat world to set up a cool, cutting-edge tattoo studio. Her love life’s been a lot bumpier, though. Ever since a heart-breaking affair with a straight colleague, she’s vowed to steer clear of women unsure of their sexuality...
  • Not Just Gal Pals by Elizabeth Luly

    Not Just Gal Pals by Elizabeth Luly

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A light-hearted sapphic fall rom com that’ll make you want to cozy up in front of a log fire with mug of steaming cider!Jenny Lynton never planned to be an influencer. It just sort of…happened. When an unfortunate post results in Jenny being “almost canceled,” she extends her stay in her hometown, Sapphire Springs, New York, to wait out the storm...
  • Presidential by Lola Keeley

    Presidential by Lola Keeley

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    How can you find love when the whole world is watching? High-flying environmental lobbyist Emily Lawrence wants to save the world—literally. Her disastrous first day in her new job puts her on a collision course with the most powerful woman in America, President Calvin...
  • Not Like Before by Lily Seabrooke, Jacqueline Ramsden

    Not Like Before by Lily Seabrooke, Jacqueline Ramsden

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 5 ratings
    Lola never wanted to be on camera alongside an A-list star—but maybe Mackenzie is everything she needs.History professor Lola Barnes never cared about celebrities, and filming alongside superstar actress Mackenzie Vale isn’t exactly on her bucket list...
  • Flight SQA016 by A.E. Radley

    Flight SQA016 by A.E. Radley

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Spurred on by overwhelming and ever-increasing debts, Emily White takes a job working in the first-class cabin on the prestigious commuter route from her home of New York to London with Crown Airlines. A gruelling transatlantic schedule means she is in the air nearly as much as she is on the ground and desperately misses her five-year-old son...
    Categorized as:
    bisexual  queer  f-f  contemporary  length-medium
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