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  • Southern Roots by Lise Gold

    Southern Roots by Lise Gold

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Hannah Hudson has had a rough start to the year. Returning home to London from her magical holiday in Norway, still on a high after meeting the wonderful Kristine, her newfound happiness is dealt a crushing blow when she discovers that her ex has been stealing from her and she is going to lose her business...
  • Ribbonwood by Ruby Landers

    Ribbonwood by Ruby Landers

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Lara Bennett is world-famous in Ribbonwood, population 907. She’s the woman you don't trust your husband with: a real-life femme fatale. If there’s a scandal in town, she’s at the center of it, ruining businesses, marriages, and egos everywhere she goes, with her sharp tongue and that body that makes you look twice...
  • Night Cap by J.A. Armstrong

    Night Cap by J.A. Armstrong

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    It’s autumn in Whiskey Springs, Vermont, and more than the leaves have changed color. Life has never been better for Fallon Foster. Her relationship with the town’s newest citizen, Riley Main is progressing as Fallon had hoped. Fallon finally believes she may get the family she’s dreamed of. Her business is thriving, and her friendship with her former lover, Andi Maguire is back on track...
  • Say Cheese by T.B. Markinson, Miranda MacLeod

    Say Cheese by T.B. Markinson, Miranda MacLeod

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A spicy age gap romance where one night of passion could lead to a lifetime of love...
  • Falling For Who by Erica Lee

    Falling For Who by Erica Lee

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Marjorie Madden has it all. She’s been out since middle school, is the most popular person in her grade, and according to her friends could get any girl she wants (even the straight ones).Marjorie isn’t interested in dating, though. All of her focus is on becoming a starter on the varsity basketball team and leading her team to victory...
  • Hunter by Eliza Lentzski

    Hunter by Eliza Lentzski

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The Winter Jacket prequel It all started with a navy blue dress... In her junior year of college, Hunter Dyson has some big decisions to make about her future. She wants to be a nurse, that much she knows, but everyone from her parents to her academic advisor is nagging her about what kind of nursing she wants to pursue...
    Categorized as:
    lgbtq  wlw  adult  age-gap  book  contemporary  fiction  forbidden-love
  • All In by Eliza Lentzski

    All In by Eliza Lentzski

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Book Four and the dénouement of the Winter Jacket Series. Hollywood had been a disaster. Elle Graft—Associate Professor of English and once-budding television screenwriter—could admit that much. Now back in Minnesota and back to her old life, Elle’s determined to get her relationship with Hunter back on track. It all started with a broken classroom heater and a blue winter coat...
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    lgbtq  wlw  adult  age-gap  angst  audiobook  book  contemporary
  • Cigar Club by J.A. Armstrong

    Cigar Club by J.A. Armstrong

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Fallon Foster is Whiskey Springs' self-proclaimed token lesbian. She isn't a token any longer. After her year-long affair with best friend, Andi Maguire ends, Fallon hopes to earn the trust and win the heart of the town's newest resident, Riley Main. Ghosts from the past still haunt Fallon and Riley. Informed by loss and betrayal, the pair endeavors to find their way to each other...
  • Home for the Holidays by Erin Zak

    Home for the Holidays by Erin Zak

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When Iris Abbott, alongside her best friend and roommate Zac Nowak, returns to his hometown, the sleepy familiarity of Indiana holds more than just nostalgia. Little does Iris know that her own journey of self-discovery is about to take an unexpected turn.Enter Heidi, a breathtaking woman who captivates Iris from the moment their eyes meet...
  • Turning Back by Katia Rose

    Turning Back by Katia Rose

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Nestled in a towering fir forest on British Columbia’s famous Vancouver Island, Three Rivers Campground is calling you to come relax, explore, and maybe even fall in love...Trish Rivers lives a good life. A happy life...
  • Red Rock Ranch by Lise Gold, Madeleine Taylor

    Red Rock Ranch by Lise Gold, Madeleine Taylor

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Casino lights and desert nights, love takes a wild gamble. Dakota's plan was drive to Las Vegas, start her dream job at a luxury spa, and leave her old life behind. But when her ancient pickup breaks down in the middle of the Nevada desert, she's stranded, helpless, and alone.Enter Frankie, a charming cowgirl with a heart of gold and a big ranch to run...
  • Sunsets and Shades by Erica Lee

    Sunsets and Shades by Erica Lee

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Kinsley Scott is a lesbian romance author who doesn’t actually believe in love. While her alter ego, Laurel Lake, loves happy endings and epic love stories, Kinsley has a more cynical view of the world. Grace Harper is a hopeless romantic hanging on every word of the lesbian romance novels she reads...
  • The View from the Top by Rachel Lacey

    The View from the Top by Rachel Lacey

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    When a driven businesswoman from Boston collides with a free-spirited artist on a Vermont mountainside, they share a memorable—and steamy—night, but life soon pits them against each other over the fate of a family business.Emily Janssen prefers to play it safe...
  • Back in Your Arms by Monica McCallan

    Back in Your Arms by Monica McCallan

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 17 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...
  • Short Stack 2 by Lily Morton

    Short Stack 2 by Lily Morton

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    What happens after the happy ending?Drawn together for the first time, this is a collection of Lily’s short stories about some of the much-loved men from her books. Follow them through wet and windy marriage proposals, surprise workplace visits, and a very entertaining ghost tour...
  • The School of Starting Over by Lisa Swift

    The School of Starting Over by Lisa Swift

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Nell’s going back to school… but now she’s learning lessons of the heartReception class teacher Nell Shackleton has a plan. At least, she had until she arrived at her new home of Humblebee Farm, a dilapidated farmhouse on the Yorkshire moors...
  • Girls Who Pray by Evelyn Dar

    Girls Who Pray by Evelyn Dar

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    New York Times bestselling author Claire Roberts is being sued by the Amish. Yep, those Amish. Claire’s latest release, a tell-all memoir about growing up Amish, reveals startling truths and intimate details about a passionate, secret love affair between herself and another woman...
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    lgbtq  wlw  romance  fiction  family  contemporary  drama  religion
  • Charmed By Her by Chelsea M. Cameron

    Charmed By Her by Chelsea M. Cameron

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The only thing I had to look forward to was getting as far away from my hometown of Arrowbridge, Maine, as possible. That is, until I bump into a single mom and her bug-loving daughter. Ingrid Davidson and I have absolutely nothing in common. She’s older, she has a child, and she’s settled in Arrowbridge for good.Still, I can’t stop finding reasons to spend time with her, and her adorable toddler...
  • To Be With You by T.J. O'Shea

    To Be With You by T.J. O'Shea

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Leah Vasquez and Victoria Lockwood should not fall in love.They’re smart enough to know a star-crossed lovers’ situation never works out. Leah’s a loner from the poor side of town, working two jobs, and aching to leave their sleepy hometown in her rear view forever...
  • Beguiled By Her by Chelsea M. Cameron

    Beguiled By Her by Chelsea M. Cameron

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    There were only two things I had to look forward finally moving into my own place without an awful roommate, and my Saturday nights at the only lesbian bar in the state of Maine—Sapph. I make it a rule to never kiss the same person twice, but one night I lock lips (and do a little more) with a platinum-blonde, tattooed stunner and I can’t resist having a second taste...
  • Covenant by Ann McMan

    Covenant by Ann McMan

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Present Day: Jericho, Virginia.Covenant continues the beloved saga of the residents of Jericho, a sleepy town in the Appalachian Mountains of Virginia, where life and love have as many twists and turns as a winding mountain road.Six weeks have passed since the fateful unfolding of events at the town’s Fourth of July celebration...
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    lgbtq  wlw  romance  audiobook  family  mystery  small-town  angst
  • Side by Side by Nicole Pyland

    Side by Side by Nicole Pyland

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Sports Series Book #6. This series is related by a sports theme, not by characters.As teenagers, Belle Elrod and Chandler Wolfe had been chosen to be part of Team USA figure skating’s elite training program. But when something happened, and Belle left the program, they were both left wondering what might have been...
  • Leif's Serenity by Misty Walker

    Leif's Serenity by Misty Walker

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    LeifThe world knows me as Leif in Wanderlust, travel blogger.Through the lens of my camera, I take my followers along as I vacation in some of the most beautiful places all over the world.Sure, it can get lonely, but I’m literally living everyone’s best life and loving every second of it.Until I’m hired for a job in Brigs Ferry Bay, Maine, where I meet a local diner owner, Fernando...
  • Escape & Freedom by Claire Highton-Stevenson

    Escape & Freedom by Claire Highton-Stevenson

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Two women escaping their own demons. One stuck in the past, the other a very real present. Lucy Owens’ life was irrevocably changed in a matter of seconds. Life as she knew it was over in the blink of an eye. Moving away from all that she knew, Lucy now lives a solitary life in her cabin on the shores of Lake Tahoe...
    Categorized as:
    lgbtq  wlw  abuse  adult  age-gap  angst  audiobook  bisexuality
  • Keep Tahoe Blue by Nicole Pyland

    Keep Tahoe Blue by Nicole Pyland

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    This is book #1 in the Tahoe Series. It follows the events in the San Francisco Series Book #1: "Checking the Right Box." Kellan Cobb had to get out of San Francisco. She’d just watched her ex-girlfriend meet the woman of her dreams. Her broken heart needed a break from it all, and Lake Tahoe was calling her name.Reese Lee has a secret...
  • Someday, Maybe by Addison Clarke

    Someday, Maybe by Addison Clarke

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Walker Forsyth is two years sober and back in her hometown of Moonflower Cove after two years away. She’s made her amends with her sisters and friends and is ready to start a new chapter in her life. More than anything though, she’s hoping to have a second chance with the love of her life.Maddie Carlson has spent two years wondering what it would be like when Walker came back to the Cove...
  • Learning to Trust by Kallie Mont

    Learning to Trust by Kallie Mont

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    “Parker?”Parker loved that voice and she adored hearing it say her name. But in this moment, it scared the shit out of her.In the sleepy coastal town of Doveport, the pot isn’t just stirred—that bitch is boiling over.Maggie and Parker are new... like, brand-spanking-new. But for all of their flirting and butterflies and romantic intention, the universe has devised one giant beaver-dam...
  • The Perfect View by Nicole Pyland

    The Perfect View by Nicole Pyland

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    This is book #3 in the Tahoe Series. Adler Williams had been surprised with a trip to Jackson Hole, Wyoming, by her boyfriend; but not in a good way. That was the last place Adler ever wanted to be. She was not a woman who enjoyed camping or the outdoors in any way...
  • Shifting Gears by Jazz Forrester

    Shifting Gears by Jazz Forrester

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A spicy, small-town, opposites attract lesbian romance about learning to let go, no matter the cost.Workaholic Eleanor Cromwell blows into rural Canada, laser focused on her real estate development project. Given the locals already hate her father’s company, she plans to hide away in a cabin and conceal her identity to get the job done...
  • In the Long Run by Haley Cass

    In the Long Run by Haley Cass

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Free-spirited and easygoing Taylor Vandenberg left her hometown of Faircombe, Tennessee as soon as she could, and in the twenty-five years since, she has rarely looked back. She wouldn’t change anything about how her life has turned out – having traveled to nearly every country, never staying anywhere long enough to feel stifled...
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    lgbtq  wlw  adult  age-gap  angst  audiobook  book  contemporary
  • Finding Home by Eliza Lentzski

    Finding Home by Eliza Lentzski

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Book Three in the Winter Jacket series There are signs everywhere if you know what you're looking for-signs that tell you you're doing something wrong. Go back. Detour. Choose again. Do not collect two hundred dollars when you pass Go. But I hadn't paid attention to the warnings, too blinded by ambition and the desire to experience something new...
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    lgbtq  wlw  action-adventure  adult  age-gap  angst  audiobook  book
  • What a Tangled Web by Melissa Brayden

    What a Tangled Web by Melissa Brayden

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    As winemaker at Tangle Valley Vineyard, Madison LeGrange relies on science and logic to make the best vintage possible. It’s also how she manages her life. But with her career in its prime, her accountant thinks it’s time she diversifies her income. Not a problem because her favorite café, the Bacon and Biscuit, is up for sale...
    Categorized as:
    lgbtq  wlw  adult  angst  audiobook  book  boss-employee  contemporary
  • When the Stars Sang by Caren J. Werlinger

    When the Stars Sang by Caren J. Werlinger

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    ASIN B07B7CT41D moved to the most recent editionNearly twenty-five years ago, Kathleen Halloran’s brother drowned during the last summer they ever spent with their grandmother on a remote island off Maine’s coast. Like a siren’s call she can’t resist, Kathleen is pulled back to Little Sister Island...
    Categorized as:
    lgbtq  wlw  adult  angst  audiobook  book  contemporary  drama
  • Two of a Kind by T.B. Markinson, Miranda MacLeod

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

    Rated: 4.30 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...
  • Chasing Stars by Katia Rose

    Chasing Stars by Katia Rose

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Nestled in a towering fir forest on British Columbia’s famous Vancouver Island, Three Rivers Campground is calling you to come relax, explore, and maybe even fall in love...Clover Rivers is completely, totally over her ex.Sure, her first ever relationship with a girl might have ended in a catastrophic breakup people still whisper about, but Clover is done with it...
  • One Golden Summer by Clare Lydon, T.B. Markinson

    One Golden Summer by Clare Lydon, T.B. Markinson

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Saffron Oliver is the golden girl. Golden hair. Golden skin. Golden movie career.Only one problem: she hates it.She flees to her sister’s seaside town – where she meets the confident & charming Kirsty McBride.Kirsty is everything Saffron wants to be. Perhaps also, everything she wants.But Saffron can’t have it all...
    Categorized as:
    lgbtq  wlw  adult  age-gap  audiobook  book  celebrity  contemporary
  • 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...
  • Atramentum by M.J. Duncan

    Atramentum by M.J. Duncan

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Joss Perrault left Sky, Colorado after high school with no intention of ever returning, but all that changes when she inherits Atramentum...
  • Safe Harbor by Radclyffe

    Safe Harbor by Radclyffe

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A mysterious newcomer, a reclusive doctor, and a troubled gay teenager learn about love, friendship, and trust during one tumultuous summer in Provincetown. Reese Conlon, LtCol USMCR, is the new sheriff who has heads turning amidst speculation as to who will be the first woman to capture her attentions. Doctor Victoria King has been betrayed by love once and refuses to risk heartbreak again...
  • How Sweet It Is by Melissa Brayden

    How Sweet It Is by Melissa Brayden

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Some things are better than chocolate... Molly O’Brien is a sweetheart. Her friends and neighbors all think so. While she enjoys her quiet life running the town bakeshop in Applewood, Illinois, she wonders if there could be more. After losing the love of her life four years prior in a plane crash, Molly thinks she’s ready to navigate the dicey dating waters once again...
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    lgbtq  wlw  adult  age-gap  angst  audiobook  book  contemporary
  • The Flaw in Our Design by Monica McCallan

    The Flaw in Our Design by Monica McCallan

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Olivia Carver’s life in Lake Cabot, New York is simple. That’s how she likes it, even if she can’t stop the town she loves from being overrun by wealthy tourists each summer. When she’s not working at her family’s paddleboard shop or spending time with her lovable but infuriating brothers, she puts her energy into writing professionally, a dream that has yet to materialize...
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    lgbtq  wlw  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  family  fiction
  • Letters to Cupid by Miranda MacLeod

    Letters to Cupid by Miranda MacLeod

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    An American celebrity chef and an Italian chocolate maker cook up a magical recipe for true love. In a tiny village in the hills of Tuscany is a statue of Cupid with the power to grant the deepest desires of the heart to all who ask. The village is home to single mother Valentina, who runs a struggling chocolate shop...
    Categorized as:
    lgbtq  wlw  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  fiction  holidays
  • Blooming by Sean Ashcroft

    Blooming by Sean Ashcroft

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Instagram crush. Instant fling.The last thing amateur food photographer Milo expects to find in the sleepy town of Otter Bay is the cute boy he’s been crushing on from Instagram. He’s in town to help his pregnant sister, not to look for a fling, but his best friend is right—it’s been so long since he got laid that they’ll be reissuing his v-card any day now...
  • Enchanted By Her by Chelsea M. Cameron

    Enchanted By Her by Chelsea M. Cameron

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
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    Categorized as:
    lgbtq  wlw  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  humor  new-adult
  • Claire and the Lady Billionaire 4 by Giselle Fox

    Claire and the Lady Billionaire 4 by Giselle Fox

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Book Four in this fun and spicy Lesbian Romance series. No Cliffhanger. Camille must return to Singapore and Claire is left with the heartbreaking uncertainty of when her beautiful billionaire lover will return. But when her MBA program begins, Claire is faced with a sudden and surprising challenge that puts her love affair with Camille on the line and a foe that she never saw coming...
    Categorized as:
    lgbtq  wlw  adult  age-gap  billionaire  book  celebrity  contemporary
  • Holme for the Holidays by Miranda MacLeod

    Holme for the Holidays by Miranda MacLeod

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    An American musician with a broken heart meets a local farmer with a hidden past on a holiday house swap in Yorkshire. A charming romantic comedy that will fill your heart with holiday cheer A country cottage is the last place Paige expected to spend the holidays, but a year after her girlfriend dumped her, her life is in shambles...
    Categorized as:
    lgbtq  wlw  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  fiction  holidays
  • Begin Again by Nicole Pyland

    Begin Again by Nicole Pyland

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    This is book #4 in the Tahoe Series. Chris Florence’s circumstances had never been ideal, but they’d gotten worse after a car accident took the lives of her parents and left her with a kid brother to support...
    Categorized as:
    wlw  lgbtq  family  workplace  fiction  small-town  contemporary  book
  • Rebel Without A Claus by Bryce Oakley

    Rebel Without A Claus by Bryce Oakley

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I’ve finally gotten a handle on my life. Sure, it’s taken into my 30s to get here, but I’ve finally got all my candy canes in a row. A job I love, a house I adore, and a town that still takes my breath away every holiday season.Let’s just forget all of the things that had to go wrong for me to get here. In fact, that’s just what I’m doing when Joy Martin waltzes back into town for the holidays...
  • Just One Date by Chelsea M. Cameron

    Just One Date by Chelsea M. Cameron

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Hollis Carr never expected her city-loving self moving to Castleton, Maine, and living in a converted barn. She’s not totally hating the slower pace of life in Castleton, but one thing she can’t handle is the pressure from her mother and her sister to find a nice person to settle down with. Hollis doesn’t do love, period...
  • Oh My Stars by S-Jay Hart

    Oh My Stars by S-Jay Hart

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Can you ever find something you never knew you’d lost? You can outgrow a place, it’s common knowledge. You can even outgrow people. Honey Rosenberg has spent her entire life in the small town of Verity Vale and it still fits her perfectly. She lives her life in certainties. She goes to work every day with her sisters at their family deli...
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