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  • The Goodmans by Clare Ashton

    The Goodmans by Clare Ashton

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The lovely doctor Abby Hart lives in her dream cottage in the quintessential English border town of Ludbury, home to the Goodmans. Maggie Goodman, all fire and passion, is like another mother to her, amiable Richard a rock and 60s-child Celia is the grandmother she never had. But Abby has a secret. Best friend Jude Goodman is the love of her life, and very, very straight...
  • Nineteen Letters by Jodi Perry, J.L. Perry

    Nineteen Letters by Jodi Perry, J.L. Perry

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    WINNER OF THE ROMANCE WRITERS AUSTRALIA RUBY AWARD FOR 2018 ROMANCE BOOK OF THE YEAR. Braxton Nineteen. There’s something about that number; it not only brought us together, bonding us forever, it also played a hand in tearing us apart. The nineteenth of January 1996. I’ll never forget it. It was the day we met. I was seven and she was six...
  • What the Heart Learns by Jessica Gadziala

    What the Heart Learns by Jessica Gadziala

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Liam has always preferred spending his life inside books, only looking up to occasionally growl at customers in his shop. Until the day someone new comes to town. A woman who could keep up with him, someone who sees beyond his guards, who makes him want something decidedly non -fiction for a change. The only problem is, Riley has a secret. One that just might tear them apart...
  • Melody by Helen Hardt

    Melody by Helen Hardt

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    He’s the melody in her mind… Beautiful Brianna Steel has her life planned out. Graduate college early. Check. Work with her father in the Steel family orchard. Check. Marry Jesse Pike. No check there. Jesse has never given her a look. Finagling her way onto a rock and roll tour with Jesse and his band, Dragonlock, should help move her final goal along. At least Brianna hopes it will...
  • Vanessa: A Mrs Middleton Novel by Melissa Tereze

    Vanessa: A Mrs Middleton Novel by Melissa Tereze

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    They are made for each other. But can their love survive the ultimate test? After her white-roses-and-sunflowers wedding, Vanessa is living a dream. Her cold, lonely house finally feels like a home. She has her beautiful Emma to love for the rest of her life, plus a daughter and a grandchild to grow old with. What could go wrong?Plenty, her persistent insecurities whisper...
    Categorized as:
    wlw  drama  lgbtq  multi-pov  steamy  romance  bisexuality  age-gap
  • The Difference Between Someday and Forever by Aly Martinez

    The Difference Between Someday and Forever by Aly Martinez

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The world took everything from us. As survivors of not only a plane crash, but two other impossible tragedies, we’d more than earned a life of peace. But time and time again, we were shown that fate had no intention of giving that to us. Remi and I were soulmates. Plain and simple. Our love should have died in the depths of our darkness, but the sun still exists even when it’s not shining...
    Categorized as:
    amnesia  angst  multi-pov  steamy  adult  book  contemporary  fiction
  • Then & Now by Monica McCallan

    Then & Now by Monica McCallan

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Lily Connor has focused all her energy into becoming a successful wedding planner, and after five years, she’s on the precipice of taking on more responsibility at Southerland Wedding Company. When the chance finally presents itself, it comes with a complication she couldn’t have dreamt up in her worst nightmares...
  • The Next Chapters: An On the Same Page Novella by Haley Cass

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

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Gianna Mäkinen has been in love with her best friend Riley Beckett for her entire adult life. She’d long accepted that her place in life was Riley’s best friend, and that was okay. It was more than okay.She never imagined that she would have the opportunity to confess her love to Riley, to marry her, to have a herd of children with her...
  • Pieces of Summer by C.M. Owens

    Pieces of Summer by C.M. Owens

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Some people make death beautiful... but we made life ugly... Our story isn't for everyone. Most people will probably hate it. Most people will probably hate us. I stopped giving a damn about what others thought a long time ago. Like I said, our story isn't for everyone. It isn't pretty. It's not sweet. It's not packaged neatly with a bow on top. No...
  • Second Chance Vow by M. Robinson

    Second Chance Vow by M. Robinson

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    From Wall Street Journal and USA Today Bestselling Author M. Robinson comes a second chance romance.From the moment I laid eyes on her, Kinley was mine. At fifteen years old I was determined to make it happen, but we were on and off for years until I got it right between us and finally made her my wife.We were supposed to be forever. So in love. So devoted.So consumed with each other...
  • Still Surviving by A.M. Johnson

    Still Surviving by A.M. Johnson

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Hate… Anger… Distrust… it fed the animal. Status… Money… Power it’s all women want. Never yield… Never give them a piece of who you are. These were the ideals that Seth Montgomery had lived with since he was a child. After his mother abandoned their family for another man, the same man who took everything from Seth’s father, Seth’s life turned dark. He’d never give a woman all that control...
  • Rapture by Skye Jordan

    Rapture by Skye Jordan

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    New York Times bestselling author Skye Jordan brings you another steamy Renegades story! As a premier stuntwoman in Hollywood, Zahara Parrish is no stranger to risk. Neglected as a child, she learned early on never to depend on others to keep her safe. Now, she’s as protective over her heart as she is over her hard earned success, which is why she’ll never mix business and pleasure...
  • 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...
  • This Above All by Nicole Pyland

    This Above All by Nicole Pyland

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    This is book # 3 in the San Francisco Series. Hillary Robins had watched all of her friends couple off. Everyone in her group had their person now, while she’d turned into something like the eighth wheel. After Caroline had broken her heart, Hillary had always known that she’d be the last of her friends to find someone. Caroline had done a number on her...
  • 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
  • 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
  • Forever by Kindle Alexander

    Forever by Kindle Alexander

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Dr. Robert Adams grew up with more advantages than most, the son of a former vice president, he had two loving fathers, a twin sister he adores and wonderfully doting grandparents. Life is good until one afternoon when his dreams flat-line. And no scalpel can repair the guilt and grief he carries with him for the first time in his life...
  • Lawless by R.G. Alexander

    Lawless by R.G. Alexander

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    From New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author R.G. Alexander, Book 8 in the Finn Factor Series Who says love isn’t Lawless? Chief Solomon Finn needed a change. After leaving the force to help his family and think about his future, it doesn't take him long to figure out what it is that he's been missing. Hugo Wayne...
  • 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...
  • Only Him by Melanie Harlow

    Only Him by Melanie Harlow

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Sometimes your first love deserves a second chance. He was my first crush, my first kiss, my first everything. But I’m not a lovesick teenager anymore, and I’d never let that cocky troublemaker break my heart again. So when he shows up out of the blue asking me to have dinner with him “for old time’s sake,” I say I will...
  • 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
  • Surviving the Break by C.P. Harris

    Surviving the Break by C.P. Harris

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Max doesn’t do repeats, and he definitely doesn’t do commitments. Months after a hot encounter with a smooth-talking stranger in a bar room bathroom, Max comes face to face with the same sexy doctor during the unveiling of the community center’s dance studio. And the man is just as pushy and perceptive as Max remembers. Because of their mutual friendships, Max now has to work overtime to keep Dr...
  • 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...
    Categorized as:
    angst  lgbtq  steamy  wlw  adult  age-gap  anthologies  contemporary
  • Ariana: Love always finds a way home by Emma Nichols

    Ariana: Love always finds a way home by Emma Nichols

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    On the back of an unhappy marriage and bitter divorce, stressed out Ariana Carter-Cruz, returns to the remote Greek island of Sakros, to claim the estate of her late grandmother, Sophia. A straightforward affair - go there, sell the house, get out - and start a new life with her daughter...
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    angst  lgbtq  second-chances  wlw  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary
  • Claire and the Lady Billionaire 3 by Giselle Fox

    Claire and the Lady Billionaire 3 by Giselle Fox

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A Fun and Sexy Lesbian Romance (Book Three)Camille's departure looms near and Claire must face the reality that her affair with the beautiful billionaire is coming to an end. Nevermind that her MBA program begins in a matter of weeks.The lovers grand finale weekend in the city takes a very unexpected turn when Claire meets someone new and witnesses something scandalous...
    Categorized as:
    angst  drama  lgbtq  steamy  wlw  adult  age-gap  book
  • Wet Dreams by Emily Bishop

    Wet Dreams by Emily Bishop

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I knew with one look. She’s the one. The face of my modeling agency empire. What are the chances I would find her working at the local diner? Years of fake Barbie’s have built a fortress around me. Demi’s not like the others. We have a real connection. One that makes it hard to keep it professional. I’ll smile. She’ll blush. I’ll rise to the occasion. She’ll bend over backwards to accommodate...
  • 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...
  • Endgame by Meghan O'Brien

    Endgame by Meghan O'Brien

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Delaney, a self-confessed cad and committment-phobe, meets a woman she shouldn't play. However, it's also the one woman she can't resist...
    Categorized as:
    wlw  lgbtq  steamy  drama  angst  friends-to-lovers  romance  abuse
  • 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...
  • Saving Grace by H.P. Munro

    Saving Grace by H.P. Munro

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When Charlotte Grace left Grace Falls at the age of seventeen, she swore she’d never return. More than twenty years on she still regrets breaking the heart of her first love. Reaching a crossroads in her life, Charlotte has started to merely drift along. Erin Hunter has spent a lifetime recovering from having her heart shattered by the person she trusted most...
  • Finding Jaime by P. Dawn

    Finding Jaime by P. Dawn

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    "If I'd stood up for what I knew to be right, and not allowed myself to be bullied into suppressing who I really am, then I wouldn't be the huge fucking mess I am today. Well, I'm setting that straight. Now I don't give a damn because I know who I am. I know who I love is nobody's business but my own, and if anybody has a problem with it, then that's theirs, not mine...
    Categorized as:
    drama  friends-to-lovers  lgbtq  steamy  wlw  adult  bdsm  book
  • Wilder Mind by Taryn Quinn

    Wilder Mind by Taryn Quinn

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Forever is the lyric he has on repeat.   Rockstar Myles Vaughn quit his band to escape the pressures of fame. He’s ready to leave LA and the glamorous music scene behind, but only if he has his best friend, Felicity Hudson, by his side.   And in his bed, clad in nothing but her tattoos...
  • Table 10: Part 3 by Jiffy Kate

    Table 10: Part 3 by Jiffy Kate

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A waitress fielding life’s curveballs.A CEO with a penchant for pie.She’s independent and tenacious.He’s chivalrous and demanding.They’re an unexpected match...
  • Before You Go by Melissa Tereze

    Before You Go by Melissa Tereze

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Ryann Harris has everything she needs. A thriving tattoo studio and the woman she loves by her side.But Ryann’s world is turned upside down when she discovers lies and deceit.With the belief that she has no comeback, Ryann makes a drastic decision. She heads towards the river.And then she meets Lydia Nelson.Both are at the river railings for different reasons...
  • 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...
  • Echoes of Us by Carina Adams

    Echoes of Us by Carina Adams

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Young love.Unpredictable. Fleeting. They say it never lasts.Falling in love when you’re a teenager isn’t supposed to shape your life, but it had defined us.I was fifteen when I fell for the boy with stars in his eyes. At seventeen, desperate to fight the currents pulling us apart, against our families’ wishes, I married him...
  • 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...
  • Change of Heart by K.M. Neuhold

    Change of Heart by K.M. Neuhold

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Does my husband's heart still miss me now that it beats in the chest of another man? Lub-dub A heartbeat more familiar than Easton’s own Lub-dub He vowed to love his husband until death do they part. And then the worst happened. Lub-dub His heart kept another man alive. River. A stranger in the world with Easton's husband's heart pumping the blood that warms his skin...
  • Honey Flava by Zane

    Honey Flava by Zane

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Honey Flava features an erotic feast of short stories with enough Asian flava to ignite fireworks. With an African American and Asian mix of sexy characters, Zane picks the most clever and bold male and female writers to deliver a collection like no other...
  • Free Me: Tattoos and Temptation Book 3 by Mia Monroe

    Free Me: Tattoos and Temptation Book 3 by Mia Monroe

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Only his ropes can unravel the past. I never thought I’d see him again, but when my former best friend shows up ready to make amends, it becomes clear just how tied to the past I am. He disappeared when I needed him the most, leaving me to navigate my truth alone. Now he’s back.Nixon’s art leaves me vulnerable, defenseless, and I like it...
  • Unforgettable by Marley Valentine

    Unforgettable by Marley Valentine

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    One night with Reeve Hale wasn’t enough. I knew it when I kissed him, I knew it when I slept with him, and I was certain of it when I walked out of his motel room the very next day. So when the shy, gorgeous man is introduced as our newest employee at Vino and Veritas, I can’t help but conjure up all the ridiculous ways to convince him to repeat that unforgettable night...
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    angst  drama  friends-to-lovers  lgbtq  multi-pov  steamy  adult  book
  • Temptation by J.D. Hawkins

    Temptation by J.D. Hawkins

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    What happens when the boy you've wanted your whole life finally wants you back? I'm used to taking what I want, being the best at what I do. During the day, I make big bucks as New York's premiere consultant. At night, I can get any girl I lay my eyes on...
  • Casey by Shaw Montgomery

    Casey by Shaw Montgomery

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Casey knows what he wants; he’s just not always sure how to go about getting it. He knows he’ll never get Preston, the sexy man who runs Leashes & Lace, to notice him unless he’s ready to open up and step out of his comfort zone...
  • 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...
  • Ruin Porn by S.A. McAuley, S.J.D. Peterson

    Ruin Porn by S.A. McAuley, S.J.D. Peterson

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    There is underlying beauty in destruction….Miah Thade, Finn Reese, and Ritchie Meyer are Resonator, an indie rock band with an edge—best friends turned rock stars, known as the Detroit 3. When Evin Rene appears in their life none of them can deny he belongs with Rez...
  • Bloom by Bryce Oakley

    Bloom by Bryce Oakley

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    What happens when you let your guard down and let someone see the real you? Will they like what they find? Meghan Koo doesn’t take life too seriously — especially not in the ten years since she’s broken away from her conservative, homophobic upbringing. Now, as the drummer for The Shrikes, she’s touring the world and getting to play the music she loves...
    Categorized as:
    drama  lgbtq  steamy  wlw  adult  book  celebrity  contemporary
  • Just Joshing by Evie Mitchell, Kim Congram

    Just Joshing by Evie Mitchell, Kim Congram

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    MollyI'd always assumed I'd end up marrying and having a family. But it's not until my best friends announce their engagement that I realize I'm stuck in a rut. A really deep dating rut.If I want that family? It's not gonna fall into my lap.So, what's a girl to do? Shake off her blues, dust off her heels, and try and win herself a man. My only issue? Joshua Greenfeld...
  • It Takes Two by Harper Bliss

    It Takes Two by Harper Bliss

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    What if the love of your life proposes but you’re not the marrying kind? Ella and Kay are living happily ever after in Northville, but when Kay asks Ella to marry her, their happiness is threatened by Ella’s past...
  • Revel by Bryce Oakley

    Revel by Bryce Oakley

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Billie and Vero are getting married and the gang’s all here, even the only two members left of the Singles Girl’s Club, Isla and Freya.When the wedding planner mixes up reservations for the wedding, party girl Isla and jaded artist Freya find that they’re either sharing the very last room available or one of them is sleeping out on the beach...
    Categorized as:
    drama  friends-to-lovers  lgbtq  wlw  adult  age-gap  book  celebrity
  • Lollipops and Leashes by Della Cain

    Lollipops and Leashes by Della Cain

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Sometimes the Daddy you are looking for isn’t a Daddy at all.Evan Taylor gave up finding a Daddy years ago. Instead, he focuses on his successful candy shop, embracing his little side on his own. It’s not the same as being taken care of and being loved, but it’s something. Playdates, craft hours, and story times at Club Collared help fill the void left by being daddyless—sort of...
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