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  • The Delicate Things We Make by Milena McKay

    The Delicate Things We Make by Milena McKay

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Hitting rock bottom in the concrete jungle of Manhattan, investigative journalist Jamie Walker lands the assignment of a lifetime: Find the most elusive artist of a generation, who has enthralled the art and fashion world for over a decade.This assignment is supposed to finally be Jamie’s ticket to journalistic fame and fortune...
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    angst  celebrity  grumpy-mc  lgbtq  wlw  writer  adult  age-gap
  • 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 Brutal Truth by Lee Winter

    The Brutal Truth by Lee Winter

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Australian crime reporter Maddie Grey is out of her depth in New York, miserable, and secretly drawn to her powerful, twice-married, media mogul boss, Elena Bartell, who eats failing newspapers for breakfast. As work takes them to Australia, Maddie is goaded into a brief, seemingly harmless bet with her enigmatic boss—where they have to tell the complete truth to each other...
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    angst  grumpy-mc  lgbtq  slow-burn  steamy  wlw  workplace  writer
  • 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...
  • Destination You: An Age-Gap Lesbian Romance by J.J. Arias

    Destination You: An Age-Gap Lesbian Romance by J.J. Arias

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Fantasy Becomes Reality in this Super Steamy Age-Gap, Ice Queen RomanceWhen 27-year-old free-spirit Taylor Lopez flies back to Miami to attend her high school reunion, she doesn’t expect to run into Mrs. Alonso — her former history teacher — at the airport...
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    grumpy-mc  lgbtq  steamy  wlw  adult  age-gap  book  contemporary
  • Truth and Measure by Telanu

    Truth and Measure by Telanu

    Rated: 4.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 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...
  • Hotel Queens by Lee Winter

    Hotel Queens by Lee Winter

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Ice meets fire in this opposites-attract lesbian romance, as layered, sassy, and smart as its characters. Over one long night at a bar in Las Vegas, two powerful hotel executives meet, flirt, and challenge each other—having no clue they’re rivals after the same dream deal.Brilliant ice queen Amelia Duxton is a hotel vice president who thrives on control, truth, and efficiency...
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    angst  female-mc  grumpy-mc  lgbtq  slow-burn  steamy  wlw  workplace
  • Meeting Millie by Clare Ashton

    Meeting Millie by Clare Ashton

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 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...
  • Just Three Words by Melissa Brayden

    Just Three Words by Melissa Brayden

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 17 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 organised world is thrown wildly askew...
  • Low Love, Low Fidelity by Love Belvin

    Low Love, Low Fidelity by Love Belvin

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Fidelity isn’t black and white. When you marry young and for the wrong reasons, you can easily choose the wrong partner, costing you something you cannot time.Lennox Curry, at twenty-eight-years-old, has made the difficult, long-awaited decision to leave her marriage of eight years. It’s taken just about the length of the union for her to come to terms with it not being healthy for her...
  • 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...
  • Marked by Drew Elyse

    Marked by Drew Elyse

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    “MOVING ON” IS JUST ABOUT ACTING THE PART. I would never say as much to the people I love, but it’s the truth. They want to see me doing better. They want to see me living for more than just my son. So I let them. Every day is about putting on a face, pretending to get over the loss of my husband. And every day is a lie. UNTIL MOVING ON IS A TEMPTATION THAT CAN’T BE DENIED...
  • Purposefully Accidental by G. Benson

    Purposefully Accidental by G. Benson

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    An unfortunate accident, an old grudge, and a Sapphic fake romance.Since A-List actress and Hollywood’s sweetheart Wren Acker came out, not only is she at the top of the acting world; she’s also crush number one for her queer fanbase. Loving life, loving her job, loving her cat—everything is fantastic. Except that lack of any kind of private life...
  • Chemistry by Rachael Sommers

    Chemistry by Rachael Sommers

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    An opposites-attract, ice queen lesbian romance about finding the softest of hearts behind the highest walls.Newly minted high school teacher Lily Cross is young, bubbly, and can’t wait to put her fresh ideas into practice in the classroom. Her excitement is derailed after a disastrous run-in with a colleague...
  • Reality In Check by Emily Banting

    Reality In Check by Emily Banting

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 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...
  • 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  slow-burn  workplace  angst  romance  fiction
  • Thrust by Rachel Spangler, Ann Shanks Etter

    Thrust by Rachel Spangler, Ann Shanks Etter

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Fencing prodigy Jess Kidman has always been ahead of her peers. At the age of thirteen she made the varsity team, won a state championship, came out, and fell head over heels in love with her team captain, Lauren Standish...
  • If It's Meant to Be by Skye Von Triessen

    If It's Meant to Be by Skye Von Triessen

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Dr. Alexandra Edison lives a life that many would be envious of. A beautiful world-famous fiancée, more money than she could spend, and a career that she loved. To honor her grandfather’s wishes, she moved from L.A. to Seattle to take over one of her family’s hospitals. When her perfect life fell apart, the last person she expected to be there to help her pick up the pieces was Dr. Blake Westmore...
  • Appointing by Nicole Pyland

    Appointing by Nicole Pyland

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    This is book #2 in the Royalty Series.Elin, the Princess of Norway, never planned to become the country’s Queen – her twin brother, older by minutes, would be the next King. When her father decided to retire, and her brother abdicated to continue his career in the military service, Elin was thrust into being not only the next in line, but the new Queen...
  • Above All Things by Roslyn Sinclair

    Above All Things by Roslyn Sinclair

    Rated: 4.62 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    The Carlisle saga continues…Aspiring writer Jules Moretti and iconic fashion editor Vivian Carlisle have been through the wringer.As Vivian’s personal assistant, Jules was there for her ice queen boss’s whims, commands, and the shocking discovery of her pregnancy. Just as shocking was Jules’s realization that she was falling hard for Vivian…and that the feeling was mutual...
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    celebrity  grumpy-mc  lgbtq  steamy  wlw  workplace  adult  age-gap
  • Damage Control by Jae

    Damage Control by Jae

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    An actress practically since birth, Grace Durand has finally made it in Hollywood. When a photo of her in a seeming compromising situation with another woman is plastered all over the tabloids, she fears for her career as a lead in romantic movies...
  • Fated Love by Radclyffe

    Fated Love by Radclyffe

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    What do you do when your carefully planned life takes a wrong turn into hell? When Quinn Maguire, a dashing young trauma surgeon, unaccountably accepts a position as an ER physician, her new boss, Honor Blake, suspects that Quinn is hiding a dark secret. While the two declare an uneasy truce in an effort to work together, both struggle with mutual, and unexpected, attraction...
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    angst  children  grumpy-mc  lgbtq  steamy  wlw  workplace  adult
  • And Playing the Role of Herself by K.E. Lane

    And Playing the Role of Herself by K.E. Lane

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    ***Recipient of three "Goldies" from the Golden Crown Literary Society, the premier organization for the support and nourishment of quality lesbian literature. And Playing the Role of Herself won in the categories of Lesbian Romance, Lesbian Debut Author, and the Ann Bannon Popular Choice Award...
  • The Show Must Go On by Nicole Pyland

    The Show Must Go On by Nicole Pyland

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Baker Eagan has just wrapped the TV show she created and ran for the past five years of her life. She’s ready for a break and to refocus on her writing, and the last thing she wants to do is go to her agent’s birthday party. Little does she know that her agent plans to play matchmaker.Casey Jinx is the lead actress on a hit TV show...
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    celebrity  lgbtq  slow-burn  steamy  wlw  workplace  adult  book
  • Without Regret by Aubrey Bondurant

    Without Regret by Aubrey Bondurant

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Rejection and I have an understanding: I don't put myself out there and it doesn't screw with my life any more. I keep my feelings hidden, and my heart locked away. It was working well until he came along and threatened my impenetrable armor, one honeyed word at a time. With his clean cut looks, and southern manners, I'm convinced he's not my type...
  • Happy Hour Hoe by Shae Sanders

    Happy Hour Hoe by Shae Sanders

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    According to office gossip, Cairo King has bagged every single woman in his department. A couple of married ones, too. The man is so legendary, the employees at Billingsley-Davis have dubbed him the "happy hour hoe." So when Taylor Knowles is unceremoniously dumped by her boyfriend, her coworkers take her for drinks after work and point her right in Cairo's direction...
  • And The Truth Is... by Jamey Moody

    And The Truth Is... by Jamey Moody

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When the love you've been searching for magically appears in the most unexpected person.Lauren Nichols' longtime marriage was over. She’d done what was expected, married her high school sweetheart, raised two great kids and now what? There had to be more to life than work. She wanted to share the passion she knew lived deep in her heart...
  • 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...
  • Until There Was You by Nancy Ann Healy

    Until There Was You by Nancy Ann Healy

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
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    grumpy-mc  lgbtq  slow-burn  wlw  adult  age-gap  book  contemporary
  • Love Walked into The Lantern by Nicole Pyland

    Love Walked into The Lantern by Nicole Pyland

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Summer Taft is a twenty-seven-year-old billionaire, who founded a tech startup with her brother while she was still in college. As that company’s CEO, she feels stuck and underappreciated. She also has to take care of the company while her brother goes off exploring the world, leaving her holding the bag. The company recently opened an office in Chicago, where Summer has met some new friends...
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    angst  lgbtq  slow-burn  wlw  adult  age-gap  bisexuality  book
  • Pieces of Us by T.B. Markinson, Miranda MacLeod

    Pieces of Us by T.B. Markinson, Miranda MacLeod

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The nanny is hot for her boss, but she’s been burned falling for a straight woman in the past. Julianna Bristol is on the brink of success as her fledgling video game design company goes after the opportunity of a lifetime. But her ex-husband is intent on making her fodder for late-night comedy...
  • Always Emilie: A Sapphic Romance by Alyson Root

    Always Emilie: A Sapphic Romance by Alyson Root

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Charlie Baxter has it all. A beautiful house, successful company and a set of tattoos that light women on fire at the mere sight of them. Not to mention, she’s tall and gorgeous! Life is good… Well, that is until her old music teacher calls insisting she return to her old school to take part in their annual charity ball. Charlie left Pickerton Academy behind twenty years ago...
  • Broken Beyond Repair by Emily Banting

    Broken Beyond Repair by Emily Banting

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    WINNER OF THE QUEER INDIE AWARDS 2022 CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE CATEGORYAn age gap, celebrity ice queen romance that will pull at the heart strings — even the icy ones!Sydney MacKenzie, personal assistant to the rich and famous, is looking forward to a well-earned break to go travelling in her beloved VW camper van, Gertie — that is, until Gertie cries off sick...
  • Breaking Character by Lee Winter

    Breaking Character by Lee Winter

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Life has become a farcical mess for icy British A-lister Elizabeth Thornton. America’s most-hated villain stars in a top-rated TV medical drama that she hates. Now, she’s been romantically linked to her perky, new co-star, Summer, due to the young woman’s clumsiness. As a closeted actress, that’s the last thing Elizabeth needs...
  • Every Time I Fall by Lexi Ryan

    Every Time I Fall by Lexi Ryan

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    New York Times bestselling author Lexi Ryan brings you Every Time I Fall, a sexy standalone romance about a woman learning to love herself and the guy who’s loved her all along.He’s my brother’s best friend.The hot guy with the heart of gold I’ve never let myself want.Guys like Dean don’t go for girls like me.Curvy. Thick. A big girl...
  • 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...
  • Blurred Lines by Olivia Lucas

    Blurred Lines by Olivia Lucas

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    This week is not going to plan…So far, I’ve been stood up, taunted by a kid, and dunked in coffee. And that was just on my way to my job interview.I almost couldn’t believe it when the hot stranger who crashed into me in the coffee shop came to my rescue. Unfortunately, this stranger has a name – Natalie Dalton – and she might’ve also popped up at my job interview. And then on a night out...
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    lgbtq  wlw  slow-burn  workplace  steamy  grumpy-mc  romance  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...
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    wlw  steamy  lgbtq  angst  grumpy-mc  romance  contemporary  fiction
  • In Development by Rachel Spangler

    In Development by Rachel Spangler

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    From a young age, Cobie Galloway made a career of playing the girl-next-door on the silver screen. Only, she's not a teenager anymore. Ready to challenge herself artistically and earn the part she's always dreamed of, she's forced to face the realization that in order to win the roles afforded to edgier actresses, she might first have to audition by playing someone edgier in her day-to-day life...
  • Temptation by Kris Bryant

    Temptation by Kris Bryant

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Cassie Miller is broke. Her parents cut off all funding when she dropped out of medical school, and graduate school is expensive. A full-time nanny job at the Wellington estate is the answer to her problems, except working for beautiful, successful Brook Wellington wasn't in the job description. Brook has always had a head for business...
  • 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...
  • All the Love Songs by Nicole Pyland

    All the Love Songs by Nicole Pyland

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Peyton Gloss is the world’s most famous and popular singer & songwriter, known for her chart-topping hits as well as her famous girl squad and July 4th events, inviting all of her famous friends to celebrate. This year, she did something even more extravagant than ever, and invited her friends to join her for a week-long adult summer camp experience...
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    angst  celebrity  lgbtq  slow-burn  steamy  wlw  adult  audiobook
  • Just Ten Seconds by Jeannine Colette

    Just Ten Seconds by Jeannine Colette

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    "Top 2019 Reads List!" -Guide To Romance Novels Just Ten Seconds That's all it took for my life to change forever. I left my posh life in Manhattan and escaped to the Hudson Valley in hopes of a fresh start. It wasn't until I happened upon a bereavement group when I finally found a place I felt understood. I told them my husband was dead when, really, I was the one who had died inside...
  • Trauma Alert by Radclyffe

    Trauma Alert by Radclyffe

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Dr. Ali Torveau knows just how fragile life can be—she sees death and tragedy every day in the trauma unit. Battling the dark forces of fate is her life’s work and she doesn’t want or need anything else, certainly nothing as transient as love. Plenty of women try to change her mind, but she never has any trouble saying no...
  • Being Hers by Anna Stone

    Being Hers by Anna Stone

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Melanie has spent her entire life working her way up in the world. By day, she studies at law school, and by night, she serves drinks at an exclusive club to afford her tuition. But the hard-working Melanie will never admit her true desire: to escape from her fast-paced, high-pressure life, if only for a moment...
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    angst  grumpy-mc  lgbtq  steamy  wlw  workplace  adult  age-gap
  • 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...
  • Waiting in the Wings by Melissa Brayden

    Waiting in the Wings by Melissa Brayden

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    If you don’t get lost, there’s a chance you may never be found. Jenna McGovern has spent her whole life training for the stage. She’s taken dance classes, voice lessons, and even earned her performance degree from one of the most prestigious musical theater programs in the nation...
  • 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...
    Categorized as:
    angst  friends-to-lovers  lgbtq  slow-burn  steamy  wlw  adult  book
  • 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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