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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...
  • Free from Falling by E.L. Massey

    Free from Falling by E.L. Massey

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Justin “Matts” Matthews is good at a lot of things: Rubik’s Cubes, playing guitar, herding cattle, and most importantly for his career in the NHL, hockey. He’s not good at human interactions or social cues, especially when it comes to women. This deficiency is an annoyance rather than a problem, right up until he meets Sydney Warren. If it’s not love at first sight, it’s sure something close...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • When You Least Expect It by Haley Cass

    When You Least Expect It by Haley Cass

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Caroline Parker knows three things to be true. First, she is going to be Boston's most sought after divorce attorney by thirty-five. Second, given how terrible her romantic track record is, falling in love isn't in the cards for her. And third, Christmas only brings her bad luck - being broken up with not once, not twice, but three times during the holidays is proof enough of that...
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    lgbtq  wlw  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  fiction  romance
  • Damaged by Luke Prescott

    Damaged by Luke Prescott

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I’m damaged. Bad goods. Not good enough for anyone. Brett Daniels is a player with a capital manwhore. The idea of being with just one woman is something that he’d never entertain. He’s out looking for a new wingman, since he lost his to a woman. He won’t make the same mistake, hell no. It’s all about sex, having fun. Forgetting. I’m damaged. Bad goods. Too much for anyone to deal with...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • She'll Steal Your Heart by Rachel Lacey

    She'll Steal Your Heart by Rachel Lacey

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A thief seeking redemption forms an unlikely connection with a former lawyer looking for a fresh start of her own, but what starts as friendship soon feels like much more…Last year, Lauren Booker fled New York with a warrant out for her arrest. Now she’s back and ready to make amends for her crime. She wants to rebuild her life, and Brooklyn is home...
  • Evolution by M.J. Duncan

    Evolution by M.J. Duncan

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Life in The Royal Ballet comes with a set of unwritten rules, and no one knows them better than Nina Devereaux. Even in her current role as the Company’s Artistic Director, those expectations still loom menacingly over her life...
  • Macon's Heart by Nicole Pyland

    Macon's Heart by Nicole Pyland

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    This is book # 2 in the San Francisco Series. Macon Greene is a reluctant, world-renowned violinist. She’d never had a problem playing for a crowd as long as she wasn’t giving a solo. Her friends never seemed to notice her reluctance. In fact, her friends seemed to only really notice one thing about Macon – she always had a different woman around her. Sometimes, she’d flirt...
  • Enthralled by Her by Chelsea M. Cameron

    Enthralled by Her by Chelsea M. Cameron

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Coming...
  • The Outcasts by Kelly Fox

    The Outcasts by Kelly Fox

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    From USA Today Best-Selling Author Kelly Fox comes two tales of love outside the gender norm.Jules:I’m a trans woman, and I’ve been searching for the love of my life for as long as I can remember. When I met Ginger, I knew I’d found the one. Aside from being gorgeous inside and out, she’s dedicated her life to giving back to the community.Our first kiss, however, ended in tears...
  • Distant Shores, Silent Thunder by Radclyffe

    Distant Shores, Silent Thunder by Radclyffe

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    No matter how much we plan, life—and people—have a way of surprising us. For Doctor KT O’Bannon, a near-fatal tragedy derails a career and disrupts everything she thought she knew about herself and her future. Battered and nearly broken, she turns for solace to the one woman who knows her best, her ex-lover Doctor Tory King...
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    lgbtq  wlw  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  fiction  romance
  • 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...
  • 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
  • I'll Be Home For Christmas by Mason Deaver

    I'll Be Home For Christmas by Mason Deaver

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Ben has a plan for the ultimate Christmas present for Nathan. All it requires is taking a large golden retriever from one end of the country to the other. No pressure. When a snowstorm rocks the east coast sooner than expected, though, Ben is trapped at the airport, and suddenly all their plans for a perfect first Christmas with Nathan are on the line...
  • Operation: Secret Santa by M.J. Duncan

    Operation: Secret Santa by M.J. Duncan

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When Holly Burke saw who she’d drawn for Secret Santa, she knew she had to do something to make it special. It was Christmas, after all, and if anyone deserved some extra Christmas cheer, it was Mo Davy...
  • Intentions by Susan X. Meagher

    Intentions by Susan X. Meagher

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    New Book - Intentions is the ninth installment of the twenty-six book serial novel I Found My Heart in San Francisco. In this book, Jamie tries to acclimate to her changing relationship with her father, Jim. Despite his promise to honor and respect her and Ryan's relationship, she has her doubts-both about his sincerity and his ability to follow through...
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    lgbtq  wlw  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  romance
  • 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...
  • Karma by Susan X. Meagher

    Karma by Susan X. Meagher

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Karma is the eleventh book in the I Found My Heart in San Francisco series. Love can be a dangerous game. When to risk, when to run, when to submit. Jordan and Mia have been playing the game as nonchalantly as they can manage, but their feelings are harder and harder to dismiss. Jim and Catherine have had so many ups and downs that they’ve lost track...
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    lgbtq  wlw  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  romance
  • Welcome To Paradise by Lise Gold

    Welcome To Paradise by Lise Gold

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Paradise Hotel is anything but paradise. Lisa Walker comes to that conclusion the moment she arrives at the all-inclusive resort in Benidorm, Spain. Recovering from a painful break-up as well as the impact of the pandemic—including the loss of her job and her flat— she was hoping the low-budget escape might do her good, yet she couldn’t have been more wrong...
  • This Is the Season to Make You Mine by Johana Gavez

    This Is the Season to Make You Mine by Johana Gavez

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Will the Christmas magic help these two friends take a shot at love?Morgan Bergman doesn’t want to go home for Christmas. She loves her family, but since her parents retired and her sister moved back to their hometown of Apfelville to take over the family business, she’s been avoiding them, feeling guilty about choosing her rising career in New York over her family...
  • 11:59 by Erica Lee

    11:59 by Erica Lee

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    After spending her whole childhood in and out of foster care, TJ Edmonds has created a whole brand around not getting attached to other people. She has a best-selling novel and a popular phone app both dedicated to helping people stay detached from their significant others, so they don't get hurt. She even uses the method in her own life to allow her to jump from woman to woman...
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    lgbtq  wlw  fiction  lesbian-mc  romance  contemporary  book  adult
  • Under My Skin by A.E. Dooland

    Under My Skin by A.E. Dooland

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Min Lee is a workaholic who can’t say no. She substitutes sleep with Red Bull and, through a combination of repression and bad habits, has managed to score herself a luxury apartment, a fabulous boyfriend and the approval of her billionaire CEO. Things are looking pretty awesome… well, apart from those body image issues that constantly plague her.But Min thinks she's got everything worked out...
  • 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...
  • Handle With Care by Michele L. Rivera

    Handle With Care by Michele L. Rivera

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Newly divorced Quinn Gellar is rebuilding her life—something she never thought she’d be doing in her forties. A creature of habit, she’s trying to embrace change and go with the unexpected. But when the unexpected appears to her in the form of an alluring bartender, Quinn becomes uncertain of exactly how much change she’s ready to embrace.Theo Harrington isn’t much of a planner...
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    lgbtq  wlw  romance  fiction  age-gap  contemporary  young-adult  book
  • Where the Heart Is by Lily Seabrooke

    Where the Heart Is by Lily Seabrooke

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Kissing her childhood friend on a family Christmas vacation is probably a bad idea…The Jackson family is primed to explode over Christmas—with Stella’s parents hiding their divorce proceedings from the family during a two-week vacation to the cozy Christmas town of Bellsford, Stella and her sisters are under strict orders not to cause drama...
  • No More Wasted Time: A Carlsbad Village Lesbian Romance by Sabrina Kane

    No More Wasted Time: A Carlsbad Village Lesbian Romance by Sabrina Kane

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Battalion Chief Becca Roberts is a hero firefighter in Carlsbad—even more so when she performs a miraculous rescue one night, saving another firefighter from certain death. Unfortunately, Becca is now a celebrity in town and on social media, and she hates every minute of it.Investment advisor Krissy Kincaid is smart, driven and really good at making her wealthy clients—and herself—plenty of money...
  • Elite Connections: an LGBTQ Romance Charity Anthology by Ana Ashley, B.A. Tortuga

    Elite Connections: an LGBTQ Romance Charity Anthology by Ana Ashley, B.A. Tortuga

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Every need met. Every desire fulfilled.Welcome to Elite Connections, the secret, exclusive service where money is no object and your every wish is guaranteed to come true.Fake dates, arranged marriages, or just some company for the night, whatever it is, with Elite you are covered...
  • Carly's Sound by Ali Vali

    Carly's Sound by Ali Vali

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Is passion still possible the second time around? Poppy Valente has the world in the palm of her hand until fate steals from her the one thing that matters most – her wife Carly. When breast cancer ends their life together, Poppy finds herself at a loss as to how to begin to live again...
    Categorized as:
    lgbtq  wlw  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  mlm  romance
  • All Aglow: A Lesbian Christmas Romance by Bryce Oakley

    All Aglow: A Lesbian Christmas Romance by Bryce Oakley

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A college tradition turned long-term promise means the Payne and Sideris families have spent every Christmas together for the past thirty-something years.Cass Sideris loves traditions...
  • Heist by M.J. Duncan

    Heist by M.J. Duncan

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Life is full of choices. Some are easy, others are more difficult, and then there are the ones that aren’t really choices at all. For Parker Ravenscroft, helping her brother always fell into that last category—risks be damned. All that changes when Sheridan Sloan re-enters her life...
  • Performance in a Leading Role by MadLori

    Performance in a Leading Role by MadLori

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Sherlock/Watson FanficSherlock Holmes is an Oscar winner in the midst of a career slump. John Watson is an Everyman actor trapped in the rom-com ghetto...
  • 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...
  • Flight SQA016 by A.E. Radley

    Flight SQA016 by A.E. Radley

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Spurred on by overwhelming and ever-increasing debts, Emily White takes a job working in the first-class cabin on the prestigious commuter route from her home of New York to London with Crown Airlines. A gruelling transatlantic schedule means she is in the air nearly as much as she is on the ground and desperately misses her five-year-old son...
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    lgbtq  wlw  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  romance
  • Bet Against Me by Fiona Riley

    Bet Against Me by Fiona Riley

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Trina Lee would sell her own mother’s house out from under her if it meant securing a sale, no joke. Her reputation as a ruthless deal closer and her record sales year in Boston’s luxury property market should’ve landed her Realtor of the Year, so when the award goes to new girl rival Kendall Yates, Trina is left speechless. And, okay, turned on...
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    lgbtq  wlw  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  fiction  romance
  • Heart2Heart: A Charity Anthology (Collection), Volume 2 by R.G. Alexander, May Archer

    Heart2Heart: A Charity Anthology (Collection), Volume 2 by R.G. Alexander, May Archer

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    **LIMITED TIME ONLY! Get it while you can.** Once upon a time, a bunch of M/M authors wondered… What if the Heart2Heart dating app put on a charity raffle in cities around the globe, and random guys in each location were paired up for an adventure? The dates could go terribly wrong…or spectacularly right...
  • Blend by Georgia Beers

    Blend by Georgia Beers

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    When the widowed owner of the wine bar Vineyard decides she wants to take some time off and travel abroad, she leaves her business in the very capable hands of the two women she trusts most: her daughter Piper and Vineyard's general manager, Lindsay.For Lindsay Kent, Vineyard is her dream job...
    Categorized as:
    lgbtq  wlw  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  romance
  • Like First Love, Again: a sapphic romance by J.J. Arias

    Like First Love, Again: a sapphic romance by J.J. Arias

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    When the one who got away comes back...Real estate broker Tori Cruz has spent years building a life of structure and control — keeping her heart, and her past, carefully locked away. But when Mia Falcon, her childhood best friend and secret first love, crashes back into her life after fourteen years apart, everything Tori thought she buried comes rushing back.Mia didn’t mean to find Tori again...
  • My Ride, I Love You by Patrick Rangimant

    My Ride, I Love You by Patrick Rangimant

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    This is a love story of Mork, who is a motorcycle taxi driver in Bangkok, and Tawan, a junior internal medicine resident doctor in the university hospital. Seems like they both have a small chance to meet, let alone the falling in love, but it did happen...
  • Simply Connected by Alex Washoe

    Simply Connected by Alex Washoe

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Once a celebrated child prodigy, Blaise Noether is now a struggling widowed mom trying to keep her head above water while she pursues her Ph.D. Only two things make her really angry: her kid's math textbooks and jocks. In her mind, all athletes are like the bullies who terrorized her in high school...
    Categorized as:
    lgbtq  wlw  trans-mc  romance  sports  fiction  contemporary  age-gap
  • Disclosures by Susan X. Meagher

    Disclosures by Susan X. Meagher

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    June in San Francisco and a young woman's thoughts turn to ... Pride Weekend! Ryan begins to introduce Jamie to some of the "secrets" of the lesbian lifestyle. The first night they make love in her family home, Jamie falls asleep while Ryan whispers "Go goinnne Dia thu." ay God keep you...
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    lgbtq  wlw  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  lesbian-mc  romance
  • When You Know by Kiki Archer

    When You Know by Kiki Archer

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    "When You Know," is the sequel to Kiki Archer’s best-selling lesbian fiction novel, "One Foot Onto The Ice." Teacher, Susan Quinn, and Club Ski instructor, Jenna James, have finally found love. True love. Real love. Breathless love. There’s chemistry. There’s passion. There’s a future...
    Categorized as:
    lgbtq  wlw  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  humor  romance
  • Out of Practice by Carsen Taite

    Out of Practice by Carsen Taite

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Attorney Abby Keane’s vacation is perfect, especially her steamy interlude with a beautiful stranger. But her newfound zen crumbles when her biggest client, a chain of bridal stores, leaves hundreds of brides without dresses. As if reentry isn’t bad enough, a new wedding blogger is doing her best to stoke the anger of the already unhappy brides, and has chosen Abby as the villain...
    Categorized as:
    lgbtq  wlw  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  romance
  • Treacherous Seas (Provincetown Tales) by Radclyffe

    Treacherous Seas (Provincetown Tales) by Radclyffe

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Reese Conlon’s much anticipated family leave is only two weeks away, and nothing is going to stand in the way of her being at her wife’s side for the upcoming birth—not even the summer crowds in Provincetown, a new rookie cop with a hero complex, and a cruise ship at anchor in the harbor with a reported outbreak of a mysterious illness...
    Categorized as:
    lgbtq  wlw  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  romance
  • Fidelity by Susan X. Meagher

    Fidelity by Susan X. Meagher

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Fidelity is the sixth installment in a twenty-six book series following the lives of Jamie Evans and Ryan O'Flaherty. Jamie, Ryan, their friends, families and the times they live in are chronicled in the series, which was created for the reader who hates to have a book end just when it's getting good...
    Categorized as:
    lgbtq  wlw  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  lesbian-mc  romance
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