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  • Inevitable: Carter Kids #5 by Chloe Walsh

    Inevitable: Carter Kids #5 by Chloe Walsh

    Rated: 4.80 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    If two people are truly meant to be together, eventually they will find their way back to each other's arms. It is a prerequisite of love. It is inevitable… Right? Then why does it feel so wrong? Why is my heart pulling me in another direction? Why do I feel so lost? So utterly broken… On paper, Hope Carter has the perfect life...
  • Crossed Over: A coming out story by Santana Knox

    Crossed Over: A coming out story by Santana Knox

    Rated: 4.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 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...
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    wlw  sports  lgbtq  romance  fiction  literary-fiction  book  adult
  • A Naughty Offer: A Two For One Special by Kimberly Brown

    A Naughty Offer: A Two For One Special by Kimberly Brown

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    “I’m gonna make him an offer her can’t refuse.”—Don CorleonePassion St. Charles and her girlfriend Treasure Langford have always had the closest bond. From best friends to lovers, they’ve settled into a comfortable, loving, and fulfilling relationship...
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    steamy  wlw  lgbtq  romance  polyamory  fiction  book  adult
  • Lost Boy by Hannah Gray

    Lost Boy by Hannah Gray

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    I was four when my parents gave me my first pair of skates. By six, I was hooked on hockey and couldn’t get enough. At twelve, I had made a name for myself on the ice. And when I was fifteen, colleges were starting to take notice. Life was great—until it wasn’t. Because when I was seventeen, my best friend died in my arms. And nothing made sense after that. Drinking turned to smoking...
  • 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...
  • The Season: Kaufman by Nicole Edwards

    The Season: Kaufman by Nicole Edwards

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Spencer Kaufman When I signed on to the NHL, I promised to give 150% to the game. I’ve done that. Little did I know, but they would ask more from me than merely my skill on the ice. The team wanted me to be their captain. It’s an honor, one I’ve done my best to fulfill. Although I can’t take all the credit, I was there to lead when we won the Stanley Cup...
  • 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  steamy  wlw  adult  book  fiction  lesbian-mc
  • 68 Days And Counting by Nikki20038

    68 Days And Counting by Nikki20038

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    ~Sequel to The Bad Boy And The Tomboy~Macy Anderson and Sam Cahill are together in Manchester, England living the new university life. Their relationship is striving as they meet new people and experience different things and strengthen their beautiful relationship. But then again there's soccer, the Cahill family and girls because where there's Sam Cahill there will also be many girls...
  • Evolve Series Box Set by S.E. Hall

    Evolve Series Box Set by S.E. Hall

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Fall in love with The Evolve Series by NYTimes & USA Today Bestselling author S.E...
  • 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...
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    wlw  lgbtq  angst  romance  mlm  fiction  book  adult
  • Meant to Be by Skye Von Triessen

    Meant to Be by Skye Von Triessen

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Some couples are destined for eternity, while others are fleeting moments in the grand mosaic of time. Blake and Alexandra’s journey has been a saga of trials that, against all odds, wove their fates together. Their love endured the unimaginable and in the process, their bond strengthened as they healed together, choosing to live each day as if it were their last...
    Categorized as:
    wlw  medical  lgbtq  steamy  lesbian-mc  fiction  contemporary  romance
  • Fusion by Diana Kane

    Fusion by Diana Kane

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Alexis thought her life contained everything she wanted, until her partner of five years lays a bombshell on her. Catherine is an accomplished neurosurgeon looking for a fresh start in a new city. A chance meeting between the two imprints the doctor in Alexis' mind, with thoughts of Catherine pushing to the forefront months after they meet...
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    lgbtq  medical  steamy  wlw  adult  audiobook  book  fiction
  • When We're Meant to Be by Skye Von Triessen

    When We're Meant to Be by Skye Von Triessen

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When Dr. Alexandra Edison’s world was ripped apart, the last thing she expected was to end up in a casual affair with Blake Westmore. Soon after she was forced to choose between her past and her present, when her strong sense of obligation forced her to leave the woman whom she shared one of the most unforgettable experiences with, and head back to L.A. to help the woman who broke her heart...
    Categorized as:
    wlw  steamy  lgbtq  angst  medical  romance  contemporary  fiction
  • Text Talk by merlywhirls

    Text Talk by merlywhirls

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Fandom: Harry PotterRelationship: Sirius Black/Remus Lupin--------------------------------------------------Sirius is in boarding school, Remus is in the hospital, and they don't know each other until Sirius texts the wrong number...
  • Endgame by Zoe Reed

    Endgame by Zoe Reed

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 11 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...
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    lgbtq  sports  university  wlw  book  contemporary  fiction  lesbian-mc
  • Don't You Dare by C.E. Ricci

    Don't You Dare by C.E. Ricci

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    It was never meant to be more than a dare.A party game. A dare. A single kiss.That’s all it took to flip my world upside down.I’ve always classified myself as straight, and as far as I can tell, so has he.I didn’t think one kiss would change that, but I was so wrong.Now, I can’t stop thinking about him. In all the ways I shouldn’t.My best friend.Aspen...
  • Awaiting by Nicole Pyland

    Awaiting by Nicole Pyland

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    This is book #4 in the Royalty Series.Alexandria – or Alex, as she preferred to be called – would one day be the next Queen of the United Kingdom. She would also be the first out lesbian who would take that title...
  • Unexpected Dreams by Isabelle Peterson

    Unexpected Dreams by Isabelle Peterson

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Divorce is a big change... But there are bigger ones. A few months after his divorce and may failed blind dates, Greg Fairchild met Tanner Williams. What started out as a good friendship unexpectedly turned into something that Greg didn't know what do with...attraction. Why would he be attracted to a man? He had been a ladies man back in the day...
  • Holding Space by Michele L Rivera

    Holding Space by Michele L Rivera

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    After thirty-seven years of heartache, Hannah Bradshaw has every reason to be cynical about love—except she’s not, which turns out to be a real problem when she meets Charlie on an alleged blind date...
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    angst  lgbtq  medical  wlw  adult  book  contemporary  female-author
  • High Rise: The Complete Collection by Harper Bliss

    High Rise: The Complete Collection by Harper Bliss

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Four women. One building. A million complications. High Rise is a series of lesbian erotic romance novellas focusing on four women who live in The Ivy, the ‘sexiest building in Hong Kong’. Alex, a local gym instructor. Her room mate Nat, a celebrated American writer who moved to Hong Kong for love. Their upstairs neighbour Maddie, a workaholic investment banker...
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    angst  lgbtq  steamy  wlw  adult  age-gap  anthologies  contemporary
  • Live This Love by Jamey Moody

    Live This Love by Jamey Moody

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Alex Adams was living a quiet life as a bar owner on an island paradise. At least that's what she thought, until in walked Riley James. Her life would never be the same.​Riley James was looking forward to her friends’ wedding and the following two week vacation in paradise. She walked into a bar and her eyes locked with the bartender. She couldn’t look away...
  • Love Forged by Nicole Pyland

    Love Forged by Nicole Pyland

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Tate Antonio has been without her father for nearly thirteen years. He left one day and never came back. Tate had given up on hearing from her father ever again when a strange letter arrives in the mailbox of her apartment that she shares with her best friend since birth, Flynn McEntire. Born just two weeks apart, the two girls grew into women with a plan...
  • Exposing Eden by J.A. Armstrong

    Exposing Eden by J.A. Armstrong

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Diana Lansing is an art gallery owner who knows a lot about loss. Her adult life has been spent trying to convince herself that living offers more than grief. Dr. Eden Holbrook is a pediatrician who loves art. One of Diana’s many indulgences is attending her best friend, Jessie’s Saturday Night Soirees...
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    wlw  lgbtq  steamy  angst  romance  fiction  book  adult
  • Finding Faith by J.A. Armstrong

    Finding Faith by J.A. Armstrong

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Sadie Watkins has lost her faith—or so she thinks. Sadie’s life once appeared the picture of success—an accomplished prosecutor with an adoring wife and two beautiful children. After an amicable yet painful divorce, and a 360-degree turn in her career, Sadie believes she has accepted what her future holds. Planning, structure, and familiarity are here things Sadie prizes...
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    wlw  steamy  angst  lgbtq  legal  age-gap  anthologies  fiction
  • She's My Patient by Emily Hayes

    She's My Patient by Emily Hayes

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A high level doctor should never cross the line with her patient. But when the patient is so tempting... how can she resist?Don't miss this steamy Age Gap Medical Romance from Emily Hayes. She's My Patient is a standalone romance in the ever popular Forest Vale Hospital SeriesDr Lillian Foster is the highly respected Head of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Forest Vale Hospital...
    Categorized as:
    wlw  steamy  lgbtq  lesbian-mc  fiction  romance  book  adult
  • The People we Trust by Donna Jay

    The People we Trust by Donna Jay

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When Soraya Jansen took over the exotic Libellule's from her boss, she understood two things: The beauty parlour offers certain "extra" services that need to be handled with discretion. And there’s a strict no-fraternising rule between staff or clients. But Soraya's in charge now and can bend the rules to suit her style...
  • Goddess of the Moon by Claire Highton-Stevenson

    Goddess of the Moon by Claire Highton-Stevenson

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Diana Maddox is a creature of comfort, she plays by the rules and she likes things done properly. Now, she finds herself in a bit of a rut. Single after an almost decade-long relationship with Jason, who cheated on her, Diana is sharing a flat with her sister and nephew. Her friends have all married and had families of their own, so there's only one thing for it, Diana decides...
  • Lifers: A Sapphic Dark Romance by K.C. Blume

    Lifers: A Sapphic Dark Romance by K.C. Blume

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    RILEY Nearly everyone who enters Elsberry leaves in one way or another, but I am the one constant. I am always here. I continue to remain. Time doesn't pass in days between these walls. It passes in people. The girl with peach pink hair who I loved in my head but never got the chance to speak to. The boy that swung from the stairwell because he couldn't love himself enough...
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    lgbtq  wlw  steamy  angst  romance  dark  lesbian-mc  suspense
  • Making It Count by Nicole Pyland

    Making It Count by Nicole Pyland

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Sports Series Book #5. This series is related by a sports theme, not by characters.NOTE: The characters of this book are living during the first year of the pandemic.Shay Amos chose Dunbar University because she wanted to play basketball at a smaller school and be the best player on the team...
  • Daddy's Pride by Nora Phoenix, Ellie Rose

    Daddy's Pride by Nora Phoenix, Ellie Rose

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    an LGTBQ romance daddy anthology His good boy. Her naughty girl. Their happily ever after. Yes, Daddy. Two little words that can send shivers of need and fear up the spine of any girl… or boy.Because for these Daddies, love knows no limits…and love always wins...
  • Requited by Jesse H. Reign

    Requited by Jesse H. Reign

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    If you've read Unrequited, and have been left longing for more of Andy and West's story - you are in luck.Requited tells the story of roommates and best friends Andy Montgomery and West Baxter from West's perspective. It is a sweeping story of friendship that turns into longing that can't be ignored...
  • Dirty Score by Skye Jordan

    Dirty Score by Skye Jordan

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Rafe “Savage” lives up to his name on the ice and in the bedroom. Forging a legacy as the Rough Riders’ most notorious playboy is easy when the woman he really wants is off limits. Mia’s brother isn’t just Rafe's best friend, he’s also a teammate. With the Cup in site, Rafe won’t screw with anything that threatens the team’s winning streak...
  • Gravity by Reneé Porter

    Gravity by Reneé Porter

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    B Montgomery hates her life. She's not popular, constantly bullied, and now the whole school knows her sexual orientation and not by choice. The only person in her corner is her mother and B was fine with that...that is, until she meets her new neighbor, Madeline Fields. Madeline Fields is everything that B is not...
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    angst  friends-to-lovers  lgbtq  steamy  wlw  adult  book  celebrity
  • Providence by Diana Kane

    Providence by Diana Kane

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Dr. Sara Hudson has dedicated her life to her patients. Unable to turn anyone away, she sacrifices more and more of herself to them, trying to do the impossible by helping everyone. Her tight knit network of friends are one of the few things that have kept her sane, but after 10 years of putting everything into her career she is hurtling headlong into burnout...
    Categorized as:
    angst  lgbtq  medical  steamy  wlw  adult  audiobook  book
  • Can't Fight Love by K.C. Luck

    Can't Fight Love by K.C. Luck

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The hardest thing to protect is your heart…Can’t Fight Love is an enemies-to-lovers romance intertwined with the thrill of sports, the importance of family, and the power of falling in love.Alexa Knight has one more battle before she retires as an undefeated mixed martial arts champion. When ESPN wants to film her preparation for the final match, she reluctantly agrees...
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    lgbtq  sports  steamy  wlw  adult  book  enemies-to-lovers  fiction
  • Storm in Her Heart by KC Luck

    Storm in Her Heart by KC Luck

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Love can weather the stormiest of hearts…Athena Storm, the resilient owner of a struggling tavern, has weathered many storms in her life. As she fights to keep her establishment afloat, she is convinced she does not have time for a relationship.Enter Kate Franklin, an ex-cop turned delivery driver who seeks refuge from her past...
  • Begin Again… Again by Addison Clarke

    Begin Again… Again by Addison Clarke

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Hayden Forrester has decided to live like she was dying. After all, her doctor told her she was. She quit her job, moved out of her hometown, and confessed her love to her best friend.Molly Jaymes has everything planned out. That is until Hayden shows up on her doorstep in the middle of the night...
  • Concussion Protocol: A Short & Spicy MM Romance by Rebecca Rathe

    Concussion Protocol: A Short & Spicy MM Romance by Rebecca Rathe

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A sweet and spicy short story by Rebecca RatheHe's a ten, but he's my ex-boyfriend's straight teammate and my patient...
  • The Professor's Date by Lane Hayes

    The Professor's Date by Lane Hayes

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The professor, the hair stylist, and a wedding date…TommyHelp! My sister is getting married and according to her, I need a date. And a makeover. I’m a busy man, though. I don’t have time to meet eligible bachelors, and the tape holding my glasses together works just fine. Until my hair stylist steps on them...
  • Safe at First by J. Sterling

    Safe at First by J. Sterling

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    I have one more year of baseball eligibility left. One more year to show the major league scouts that I'm worth it. That I'm good enough to play professional baseball for them.But honestly, I'm not sure that I am. I'm good enough to play for one of the best college baseball teams in the country, but that doesn’t mean that I have what it takes to go beyond that...
  • Unadulterated Something by M.J. Duncan

    Unadulterated Something by M.J. Duncan

    Rated: 4.18 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...
  • Any Given Sunday by Mari Carr

    Any Given Sunday by Mari Carr

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Wild Irish, Book Seven.The child who is born on the Sabbath day, is bonny and blithe and good and gay. Sean Collins is happy working at the family pub and sharing a house with the woman of his dreams. He and Lauren are equals in every way, including in bed, where they burn the sheets. Life is good. Even if he must hide a couple of secrets to keep it that way.Lauren is madly in love with Sean...
  • Una maldita confusión by América Rodas

    Una maldita confusión by América Rodas

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Jean intenta confesar su atracción hacia Olivia en una fiesta, pero por culpa del alcohol termina declarándose a su mejor amigo, Oliver. ***Cuando invitaron a Jean a la fiesta de una desconocida sabía que debía decir que sí, sobre todo porque necesitaba liberar el estrés de la escuela, de su casa, de su equipo de básquetbol y de él mismo...
  • One More Night by Marian Snowe

    One More Night by Marian Snowe

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    How many one-night stands does it take before a fling turns into a real relationship?Hazel Greco's chocolate shop is finding its feet and she’s on the road to success. While traveling for business, she meets Audrey Vaughn, a gorgeous and charismatic TV personality. Audrey sweeps her off her feet for a night of passion and romance, no strings attached...
  • Discovering Morgan by J.A. Armstrong

    Discovering Morgan by J.A. Armstrong

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Hannah Moran likes rules. She lives by them. Her rules have been her guide for thirty-one years. That is, until she meets Morgan Lane. When Hannah's best-friend and business partner asks her to appear on his friend, Morgan's radio show, Hannah balks. When Morgan approaches Hannah, Hannah finds herself unable to refuse...
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    friends-to-lovers  lgbtq  steamy  wlw  adult  book  drama  fiction
  • Love by Shaw Montgomery

    Love by Shaw Montgomery

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    As his muscular, submissive boys grow more confident, Dare couldn’t be more proud of them. Each step they take brings them all closer together and gives Dare glimpses of the family they’ll become. They just have a few hurdles to get over first, like the fact that his boys need to move and that they aren’t exactly forthcoming with what they want from a Dom or a boyfriend...
  • Twice Upon a Train by K.A. Moll

    Twice Upon a Train by K.A. Moll

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Can you imagine falling for a girl so hard that through the years, with no hope of being reunited, that love remains as strong as ever?At 40, Dr. Keegan Wade is the Chief of Trauma Surgery, a rising star at NYC General. She's immersed 24-7 in work that she once loved. No one waits for her at home and she has nothing to offer...
    Categorized as:
    lgbtq  medical  wlw  adult  book  fiction  romance
  • At First Sight by Harper Bliss

    At First Sight by Harper Bliss

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When love finds you, resistance is futileJill Becket knows she’s in trouble the minute a brand new, gorgeous client walks into her practice. Amelia Shaw is suffering from a massive burnout, and has no clue of the calamitous effect she’s having on her new therapist. Jill’s ethical code prevents her from acting on her feelings...
  • Understanding Desire by Quinn Ward

    Understanding Desire by Quinn Ward

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    They were both filled with regrets over the night they accidentally wound up in bed together. When they realize the chemistry is real, the fun begins... Tanner has never forgotten the night he let his impulsive nature get the best of him... or the look on Ryan's face the morning after. He was certain he'd blown any chance of turning his fantasies into reality...
    Categorized as:
    lgbtq  steamy  friends-to-lovers  mlm  fiction  book  adult  romance
  • Mostly My Girlfriend by S. Doyle

    Mostly My Girlfriend by S. Doyle

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A friends to lover boss/secretary story...continued.JuliaHe’s not my boss anymore but nothing has changed. After one hour of therapy we’re more broken than when we started. I kept a secret from him. A big one. Twelve years of lies and half-truths, of telling each other only what we think and never what we feel. I love him, but I don’t know if can do this anymore...
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