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  • Tired Tired Sea by MediaWhore

    Tired Tired Sea by MediaWhore

    Rated: 4.69 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    As a B&B owner on the most remote of all the British Isles, Louis Tomlinson is used to spending the coldest half of the year in complete isolation, with his dog and the sea as sole companions. Until, one day, a mysterious stranger on a quest to rebuild himself rents a room for the winter...
  • On the Same Page by Haley Cass

    On the Same Page by Haley Cass

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 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...
  • The Blind Side of Love by Ingrid Díaz

    The Blind Side of Love by Ingrid Díaz

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A second draft of a not yet published romance novel The Blind Side of Love, about love between an artist Kristina Milano (21) and a famous actress Julianne Franqui (25).Julianne Franqui is a hot actress and secretly gay. On a trip to New York she sees the artwork of artist Kris Milano, whose talent is not the only thing she's attracted to...
  • Midnight Rain: a Those Who Wait story by Haley Cass

    Midnight Rain: a Those Who Wait story by Haley Cass

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    What if...What if Charlotte didn't decide to come out in Those Who Wait? What if she and Sutton didn't get back together? How would that one decision alter the course of their lives, forever?Charlotte Thompson appears to have it all – by forty, her political plans are panning out exactly as she’d always hoped...
  • Maverick by Max Ellendale

    Maverick by Max Ellendale

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Renowned doctor, Lauren Lewis, purchases an old Victorian home after the loss of her former residence and channels her energy into restoring the new property. When a wandering antique restorer shows up to take on the job, together, they uncover the secrets the house harbored for a century...
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    wlw  lgbtq  romance  fiction  book  adult
  • Executive Order by JA Armstrong

    Executive Order by JA Armstrong

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Adjusting to life as the first family takes time. As Candace and Jameson learn to embrace their home in the White House, life all around them continues to change. Jameson navigates the sometimes rocky landscape of motherhood with Cooper. Relationships are reinvented as Candace’s adult children look to establish roots in new places. Marianne and Scott make a move to Connecticut...
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    lgbtq  wlw  romance  lesbian-mc  fiction  book  adult
  • Den Mund voll ungesagter Dinge by Anne Freytag

    Den Mund voll ungesagter Dinge by Anne Freytag

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Wenn Sophie es sich aussuchen könnte, wäre ihr Leben simpel. Aber das ist es nicht. Und das war es auch nie. Das fängt damit an, dass ihre Mutter sie direkt nach der Geburt im Stich gelassen hat. Und endet damit, dass Sophies Vater plötzlich beschließt, mit seiner Tochter zu seiner Freundin nach München zu ziehen. Alle sind glücklich. Bis auf Sophie...
  • Western Shores by Lise Gold

    Western Shores by Lise Gold

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 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...
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    lgbtq  wlw  adult  audiobook  book  fiction  romance
  • Survived by Her Longtime Companion by Chris Paynter

    Survived by Her Longtime Companion by Chris Paynter

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Hired to work on a biography of the late film star, Daphne DeMonet, Bailey Hampton arrives to conduct an interview with Eleanor Burnett, Daphne’s "longtime companion." To Bailey’s dismay, she learns Eleanor has set up a co interview with Bailey’s ex-partner, Chelsea Parker. Estranged for eleven months, the two women hide their painful memories and strain to be civil to one another...
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    angst  celebrity  lgbtq  wlw  adult  book  drama  fiction
  • Controlled Burn by Sherryl D. Hancock

    Controlled Burn by Sherryl D. Hancock

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Battalion Chief Hunter Briggs is struggling with the loss of her wife. Just when she thinks she can't hold on anymore, she is reminded of another lost love.Kori is the one that got away, and years later Hunter is unexpectantly thrust back into Kori's life. But it’s not easy moving on when the past still haunts her at every turn...
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    angst  friends-to-lovers  lgbtq  wlw  adult  audiobook  book  fiction
  • French Summer by Lise Gold

    French Summer by Lise Gold

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Newly divorced and bought out of her company, Nathalie rents a holiday home in the South of France. After years of hard work and a failed marriage in Chicago, she’s looking for some peace and quiet, a place to clear her mind and figure out her future. Lena loves women, her dog, and landscaping, but that’s about as complicated as it gets...
  • Falls From Grace by Ruby Landers

    Falls From Grace by Ruby Landers

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Savannah Grace is a huge star in Nashville. At least, she was. Her hit band Twice Struck topped the country music charts for almost a decade until her high profile marriage to her bandmate and co-writer publicly exploded. Now she’s fading from the spotlight and her own life, just trying to keep her head above water. Brynn Marshall is a little lost...
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    wlw  lgbtq  celebrity  angst  romance  fiction  family  lesbian-mc
  • The Loyal Pin Vol.1 by Mon Maw

    The Loyal Pin Vol.1 by Mon Maw

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Period Girl Love novel in 1950 between Princess Anilaphat and Lady Pilantita. In Sawetawarit Palace, Lady Pilantita has grown up as a well-manner young lady. Throughout her childhood with Princess Anilaphat who always treated her with love and care, their relation turn to be more complicated...
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    lgbtq  wlw  romance  fiction  lesbian-mc  book  adult
  • Halcyon Nights by M.J. Duncan

    Halcyon Nights by M.J. Duncan

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Emerson Riis has a job she loves, friends she considers family, and her goofy malamute Sasha for company. As far as she’s concerned, life in the small town of Mystic is pretty much perfect. Enter Mari Davenport, a Hollywood screenwriter with a dozen blockbusters to her name, who arrives in a car that is completely unfit for the north woods of Minnesota...
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    angst  lgbtq  wlw  adult  book  fiction  lesbian-mc  small-town
  • Gray For You by Spencer Spears

    Gray For You by Spencer Spears

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    I might be your fantasy. But I’m nobody’s forever… Gray: I’m not the kind of guy you take home to meet your mother. I’m an ex-adult film star with a GED and a giant co...llection of movie credits I can’t talk about in polite company. I might be good at helping other guys get their happy endings, but I’ve more or less given up on finding one of my own. Until Tyler Lang walks into my life...
  • Fireflies by Lise Gold

    Fireflies by Lise Gold

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Senior purser Mia Donoghue is always on the go, leaving her little time for herself. She doesn’t mind being busy; it provides distraction from painful memories and her daily struggle to stay sober. Captain Ava Alfarsi has just been promoted, carrying more responsibility than she’s ever had before...
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    wlw  lgbtq  romance  fiction  audiobook  book  adult
  • Behind Her Eyes by Melissa Tereze

    Behind Her Eyes by Melissa Tereze

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    A STEAMY AGE-GAP ROMANCEAll it takes is one cold lie to ruin the recipe for a perfect love…Five years ago, Abi was in culinary school and dreaming of working at Adley’s, a Michelin-starred restaurant, and for its equally delectable owner. Instead, she’s alone, broke, and out of friendly couches to sleep on. Her only direction…rock bottom.Abi’s in a mess, but it’s her mess, and she plans to fix it...
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    angst  lgbtq  wlw  adult  age-gap  book  contemporary  fiction
  • Then & Now by Monica McCallan

    Then & Now by Monica McCallan

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 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...
  • The Next Chapters: An On the Same Page Novella by Haley Cass

    The Next Chapters: An On the Same Page Novella by Haley Cass

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Gianna Mäkinen has been in love with her best friend Riley Beckett for her entire adult life. She’d long accepted that her place in life was Riley’s best friend, and that was okay. It was more than okay.She never imagined that she would have the opportunity to confess her love to Riley, to marry her, to have a herd of children with her...
  • 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...
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    angst  friends-to-lovers  lgbtq  wlw  adult  book  fiction  lesbian-mc
  • Marking Time by Sherryl D. Hancock

    Marking Time by Sherryl D. Hancock

    Rated: 4.50 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...
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    angst  lgbtq  wlw  action-adventure  adult  book  fiction  military
  • Two Hearts Forever by Harper Bliss

    Two Hearts Forever by Harper Bliss

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    After overcoming their difficulties in Two Hearts Together, Anna and Zoe are nurturing their relationship, letting it grow slowly but surely. When a surprise visitor shows up in Donovan Grove, things threaten to go off course...
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    lgbtq  wlw  adult  book  family  fiction  romance
  • Sun Catcher: Book Two by Giselle Fox

    Sun Catcher: Book Two by Giselle Fox

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Love can find you … even when you’re hiding Taylor is on the run from Stinger James, her drug-crazed criminal of a husband. Along with her mother and her baby boy, she hides out in a small town where she hopes they’ll all be safe. One of her new neighbors, a woman named Jericho, soon enchants Taylor with her kindness and charm...
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    lgbtq  wlw  adult  book  fiction  mystery  romance
  • What Happened After...: Celebrities Series Finale by Nicole Pyland

    What Happened After...: Celebrities Series Finale by Nicole Pyland

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Here’s a glimpse into the lives of the ladies of the Celebrities Series. Find out what’s been going on with Dani & Peyton, Kenzie & Lennox, Maddox & Avery, and Jessica & Venice. Epilogues are nice, but they’re a snapshot in time. Maybe it’s a year after the end of the book, or even just a few months. Maybe there’s a wedding. Maybe a character announces she’s pregnant...
  • Holding her Heart by Melissa Tereze

    Holding her Heart by Melissa Tereze

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
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  • Water under the Bridge by Sherryl Hancock

    Water under the Bridge by Sherryl Hancock

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Shenin and Tyler have been happily married for four years. Well, almost happily. Shenin, currently living alone in LA, is struggling with some dark secrets that are tearing their marriage apart. Those secrets end up landing her in hospital before the situation goes from bad to worse. Her friend, Jet, ends up in a nightmare crash with Skyler and Sebastian that leaves her fighting for her life...
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    wlw  lgbtq  angst  romance  military  mlm  action-adventure  fiction
  • In Plain Sight by Sherryl Hancock

    In Plain Sight by Sherryl Hancock

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Meet Memphis McQueen: a music obsessed, quirky individual, who becomes fascinated with her best friend Oliver’s online girlfriend, often speaking to her under his name. Meanwhile, her career as a budding DJ starts to take off, and it isn’t long before she catches the ear of superstar singer and producer, BJ Sparks...
    Categorized as:
    wlw  lgbtq  angst  romance  mlm  fiction  book  adult
  • Pretty Black by J.R. Gray

    Pretty Black by J.R. Gray

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Iris'...
  • Rocking the Bodyguard by Natalie Debrabandere

    Rocking the Bodyguard by Natalie Debrabandere

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    WHAT HAPPENS WHEN FIERY ROCKER MEETS STOIC BODYGUARD? Tristan Briggs was once a member of an elite law-enforcement task force. Following the murder of her partner, for which she blames herself, Tristan now works as a close-protection officer. Used to guarding CEOs or high-ranking diplomats, the last thing she expects is a bubblegum singer for a client. Still, a job is a job...
    Categorized as:
    wlw  lgbtq  celebrity  romance  bodyguard  crime  fiction  book
  • Stranger on the Shore by Claire Highton-Stevenson

    Stranger on the Shore by Claire Highton-Stevenson

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Quinn Harper is living the life she always wanted. She’s well-liked and respected by everyone and has been a success in life with awards to prove it. She spends her free time running along the shore, returning to her quiet home on the beach.It was almost the perfect life, but there was one thing missing: Love...
    Categorized as:
    wlw  lgbtq  angst  romance  lesbian-mc  dark  contemporary  fiction
  • Enthralled by Her by Chelsea M. Cameron

    Enthralled by Her by Chelsea M. Cameron

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Coming...
  • Broken Parts Included: A Sapphic Romance by Alyson Root, Tara Sullivan

    Broken Parts Included: A Sapphic Romance by Alyson Root, Tara Sullivan

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    For as long as Lydia Archer can remember, her life has been a balancing act between a tireless battle with her health and the tireless search for "the one." She's put herself out there time and again, yet still, has found nobody prepared for the rollercoaster of her mystery ailment. Persistent pain and dismissive doctors are Lydia’s constant shadow...
  • Euphoria by Claire Highton-Stevenson

    Euphoria by Claire Highton-Stevenson

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Euphoria, is the latest standalone contemporary romance novel by Best-Selling author of women loving women fiction, Claire Highton-Stevenson. When Alexandra Montgomery took on the persona of Sasha, she had no idea where her life would lead.Wanting to rebel against her feisty mother, she joined a pop band, Solar Flare, and found a foothold on the ladder to fame and fortune...
  • Broken Bridges by Tania Joyce

    Broken Bridges by Tania Joyce

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    He's lost his band, his lover and his grandfather - the friends and family who'd accepted his lifestyle choices.She's lost her career, the love of her life and after a freak accident has to accept she'll never be the same.A chance audition for The Flintlocks could change his life.A move across the country could be the fresh start he needs.She needs to find her way in the world again...
  • You're Still The One by Claire Highton-Stevenson

    You're Still The One by Claire Highton-Stevenson

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A twenty-five-year-old heartbreak. A surprising reunion. Their lives are completely different now, but what about their hearts?Natalie Shultz is a success in business but not in love. Although she’s built an empire of female-empowering sex toy stores, she’s never been able to find a deep, passionate connection of her own since running away from the girl of her dreams twenty-five years ago...
    Categorized as:
    lgbtq  wlw  angst  romance  contemporary  lesbian-mc  fiction  book
  • Aaron's Awakening by K.C. Wells

    Aaron's Awakening by K.C. Wells

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Aaron isn’t looking for love, but it finds him – and it has a few surprises in store…A laidback man who goes with the flowAaron is happy for his friends who’ve found love, but he’s starting to feel as if he’s an endangered species – a single guy. Not that he’s looking for anyone...
  • Turning Tables by Sherryl D. Hancock

    Turning Tables by Sherryl D. Hancock

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Jericho Tehrani is a veteran law enforcement officer who’s recently been appointed by California Attorney General Midnight Chevalier as the new Director of the Division of Law Enforcement. With the appointment comes a move to Los Angeles and the decision by her wife of ten years to leave her...
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    angst  lgbtq  wlw  adult  book  fiction  law-enforcement  mlm
  • Your Hand Found Mine by Adrienne Marsh

    Your Hand Found Mine by Adrienne Marsh

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Cassandra Vasquez wasn't hiding away. She was just really busy; the design studio she and her brother owned was really starting to make a name for itself, and the work was just flying in. That was the only reason she didn't go out much, or really even keep in touch with her friends anymore. It had nothing to do with her ex; she wasn't hung up on Sarah, or afraid to get back out there. She wasn't...
  • A Shot at Gold by Nicole Pyland

    A Shot at Gold by Nicole Pyland

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 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...
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    wlw  lgbtq  celebrity  angst  romance  sports  fiction  age-gap
  • Some Part of Me Is You by Adrienne Marsh

    Some Part of Me Is You by Adrienne Marsh

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Alison has been in her brother's indie rock band, Right Turn, since she was a teenager...
  • All the Way Home by Nancy Ann Healy

    All the Way Home by Nancy Ann Healy

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When two bicycles collide at the end of a driveway in 1993, three lives are changed forever.Katelyn (Kat) Summers’ family has just moved to Webster, Massachusetts. It’s the day before her twelfth birthday, and all Katelyn wants to do is go back home to Pennsylvania. That is until a ten-year-old boy named Neil Masters crashes into her bicycle...
  • Don't Cry for Me by Rachel Lacey

    Don't Cry for Me by Rachel Lacey

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    A frosty television host, a bubbly bar owner, and a litter of abandoned kittens. The recipe for ratings gold...or heartbreak?Eve Marlow has her eyes on the prize: a third season of her popular business makeover show, Do Over. But when her ratings take an unexpected dive, Eve needs a blockbuster new client, or she can kiss season three goodbye...
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    angst  celebrity  lgbtq  wlw  adult  age-gap  animals  book
  • No After You by Nicole Pyland

    No After You by Nicole Pyland

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Dani Wilder only intended to go to a fundraiser and donate money to a worthy cause. She had no idea that she’d meet the love of her life that night. There were only a couple of problems with that chance meeting. Dani had a boyfriend. That chance meeting – it was with Peyton Gloss, the world’s most famous music star, who also happened to be a woman.Peyton had only planned on performing that night...
  • Just Physical by Jae

    Just Physical by Jae

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    After being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, twenty-five-year-old Jill Corrigan takes herself off the romantic market. Not wanting to become a burden to a potential partner, she focuses on her career as an actress instead. On the set of a disaster movie, she meets stunt woman Kristine “Crash” Patterson, whose easy smile instantly makes Jill wish things were different...
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    angst  celebrity  friends-to-lovers  lgbtq  wlw  adult  audiobook  book
  • Back to the Start by Monica McCallan

    Back to the Start by Monica McCallan

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    When Remy’s grandmother dies, it means leaving her life in San Francisco and returning to a town she swore she'd never revisit, forced to confront a world she'd worked hard to put behind her over the last twelve years...
  • Living by Lise Gold

    Living by Lise Gold

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    During her morning exercise, yoga instructor Cam Saunders finds herself rescuing a young woman who has walked into the sea, seemingly intent on taking her own life. When the woman in question turns out to be a famous actress, Cam promises to keep her secret safe...
  • Beautiful Dreamer by Melissa Brayden

    Beautiful Dreamer by Melissa Brayden

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Who says you can’t go home again? Philadelphia real estate broker Devyn Winters is at the peak of her career, closing multimillion-dollar deals and relishing it. She’s pretty much blocked out her formative years in Dreamer’s Bay, where the most exciting thing to happen was the twice a year bake sale. Unfortunately, a distress call hauls her back home and away from the life she’s constructed...
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    lgbtq  wlw  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  romance
  • KELABU by Nadia Khan

    KELABU by Nadia Khan

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Senang kalau hidup dalam dunia hitam putih.Baik-buruk, betul-salah, cinta-benci,lelaki-perempuan.Apa jadi pada yang tengah-tengah?Apa jadi pada orang-orang macam aku?Bila Jun datang pada aku, menawarkan posisi sebagai 'boyfriend kontrak', aku tak tolak...
    Categorized as:
    lgbtq  wlw  adult  book  fiction  romance
  • The Progress of Sherlock Holmes by Ivy Blossom

    The Progress of Sherlock Holmes by Ivy Blossom

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Author's summary: Sherlock is head over heels for John, but you wouldn't know it by looking at him. First-person present-tense series of short scenes from Sherlock's point of view, borrowing heavily from Arthur Conan Doyle's stories...
  • The Race Is On by Lily Velden

    The Race Is On by Lily Velden

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Book Two: How the Light Gets In Hollywood heartthrob Jaxon Moncrieff and Liam Lassiter are finally on the same page: committed and in it for the long haul. Now they just have to prepare for the inevitable fallout when they reveal their relationship...
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