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When You Least Expect It by Haley Cass
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsCaroline 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... -
Den Mund voll ungesagter Dinge by Anne Freytag
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsWenn 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... -
Falling For Who by Erica Lee
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsMarjorie 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... -
Imogen, Obviously by Becky Albertalli
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsWith humor and insight, #1 New York Times bestseller Becky Albertalli explores the nuances of sexuality, identity, and friendship. Imogen Scott may be hopelessly heterosexual, but she’s got the World’s Greatest Ally title locked down.She's never missed a Pride Alliance meeting. She knows more about queer media discourse than her very queer little sister. She even has two queer best friends... -
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There's Something About Mira by Sonali Dev
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsFrom USA Today bestselling author Sonali Dev comes the heartfelt story of a woman determined to reunite a lost ring with its owner, who ends up finding herself along the way.Mira Salvi has the perfect life—a job she loves, a fiancé everyone adores, and the secure future she’s always imagined for herself... -
Storm Surge - Book One by Melissa Good
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIt's fall. Dar and Kerry are traveling - Dar overseas to clinch a deal with their new ship owner partners in England, and Kerry on a reluctant visit home for her high school reunion. In the midst of corporate deals and personal conflict, their world goes unexpectedly out of control when an early morning spurt of unusual alarms turns out to be the beginning of a shocking nightmare neither expected... -
The Sum of These Things by Emily O’Beirne
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn the sequel to A Story of Now, Claire Pearson has already learned a few things this summer. Like falling for a girl is easy. Well, it is if that girl is Mia. What Claire hasn’t learned yet is that now comes the hard part: learning to trust in this new relationship. And that isn’t easy when no one has ever given you a reason to trust before... -
Love in Bloom Series Reading Order and Checklist: Snow Sisters, The Bradens, The Remingtons, Seaside Summers, The Ryders, Wild Boys, Bad Boys, Harborside Nights by Melissa Foster
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis is a reader guide outlining Melissa Foster's current Love in Bloom series titles and the reading order as of March 2016. The Love in Bloom big family romance collection consists of several subseries. Characters from each subseries appear in future Love in Bloom books. All Love in Bloom books may be enjoyed as stand-alone novels, or as part of the series... -
A Midlife Woman by T.B. Markinson
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLizzie Petrie can’t quite believe she’s approaching middle age.It’s summertime and Lizzie is determined to have the best summer yet.Just as long as no one acknowledges that on July fourteenth she’s turning forty. She can’t kick the thought that getting older is a failure on her part. And it’s dangerous, too. She tweaks her neck simply trying to make toast... -
Thicker Than Water by Melissa Good
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThis sequel to Red Sky at Morning is the continuing saga of Dar Roberts and Kerry Stuart. It starts off with Kerry involved in the church group of girls. Kerry is forced to acknowledge her own feelings/experience toward/with her folks as she and Dar assist a teenager from the group who gets jailed because her parents tossed her out onto the streets when they find out she is gay... -
Eye of the Storm by Melissa Good
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsEye of the Storm picks up the story of Dar Roberts and Kerry Stuart a few months after the story Hurricane Watch ends. At first it looks like they are settling into their lives together but, as readers of this series have learned, life is never simple around Dar and Kerry... -
Going Up by A.E. Radley
Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsA ruthless executive. A destitute woman. Both on the way up. Selina Hale is on her way to the top. She's been working towards a boardroom position on the thirteenth floor for her entire career. And no one is going to get in her way. Not her clueless boss, her soon to be ex-wife, and most certainly not the homeless person who has moved into the car park at work... -
Distant Shores, Silent Thunder by Radclyffe
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsNo 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... -
Beautiful Dreamer by Melissa Brayden
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWho 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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Intentions by Susan X. Meagher
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNew 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... -
Karma by Susan X. Meagher
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsKarma 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... -
Zero Chill by Carolyn Elizabeth
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCorey Curtis and Thayer Reynolds, now living together, are more than happy to put the days of their turbulent courtship behind them, trading hospital rooms and jail cells for quiet nights in front of a crackling fire. With the holidays upon them they are looking forward to celebrating with friends and family, intimate moments alone, and festive surprises... -
11:59 by Erica Lee
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAfter 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... -
Handle With Care by Michele L. Rivera
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNewly 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... -
Lifted by Nia Forrester
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhat if your soulmate could never be your bedmate?Tessa Denison knows who she is—she never has and as far as she’s concerned, never will date men. Though she struggles with coming to terms with the loss of her parents at a young age and her very protective and overbearing brother, Trey, her sexuality and free-loving lifestyle have never given her a moment’s pause.Tyson Clark is a screw-up...Categorized as:
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Informed Consent by Rachel Spangler
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBrooke Metcalf is an accomplished therapist who’s fallen into a rut she can’t seem to shake. Tegan Cooper is a recent graduate trying to acclimate to a new city before starting the job she’s worked for years to secure. At the nudging of good friends, they end up at the same bar, seeming to have little in common but a desire to do something different... -
The One True Me and You by Remi K. England
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsOne small fandom convention. One teen beauty pageant.One meet cute waiting to happen.Up and coming fanfic author Kaylee Beaumont is internally screaming at the chance to finally meet her fandom friends in real life and spend a weekend at GreatCon... -
Carly's Sound by Ali Vali
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIs 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... -
Storm in Her Heart by KC Luck
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsLove 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... -
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Flight SQA016 by A.E. Radley
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSpurred 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... -
Bet Against Me by Fiona Riley
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsTrina 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... -
Kill Your Darlings by MesserMoon
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsKill Your Darlings: To remove or refrain from using something in spite of one's affection for itYears after Regulus loses his brother they're reunited, and as he struggles to figure out where he fits in Sirius's life he also struggles not to get lost in the impossible feelings he has for Sirius's best friend... -
Blend by Georgia Beers
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWhen 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... -
Love Like This by Melissa Brayden
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsSometimes the most imperfect match is the most perfect surprise. Hadley Cooper believes in happily-ever-afters with her whole heart. Described by her friends as a wide-eyed, eternal optimist, she looks for the bright side in most any situation... -
Disclosures by Susan X. Meagher
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsJune 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... -
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... -
Out of Practice by Carsen Taite
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAttorney 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... -
Treacherous Seas (Provincetown Tales) by Radclyffe
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsReese 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... -
Fidelity by Susan X. Meagher
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFidelity 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... -
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Entwined by Susan X. Meagher
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn Awakenings, the first of 26 novels of the series, we met Ryan O'Flaherty and Jamie Evans, juniors at the University of California at Berkeley. Since then we've followed them from the first flicker of attraction to their declarations of love, struggles with their families and a long, love-filled honeymoon. Now they're back in Berkeley, enjoying their summer vacation... -
Getaway by Susan X. Meagher
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsGetaway is the seventh 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... -
Honesty by Susan X. Meagher
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHonesty is the eighth installment of the planned twenty-six book serial novel I Found My Heart in San Francisco. The previous books in the series are also available here on Amazon. In this book, the fun they had on their short holiday is a fading memory as Jamie and Ryan return to the world of family, school and sports. Jamie is determined to have it out with her father over his treatment of Ryan... -
Journeys by Susan X. Meagher
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsJourneys is the tenth installment of the twenty-six book serial novel I Found My Heart in San Francisco. Love is in the air! Martin and Maeve find themselves having a big, joyous wedding - with Catherine’s fingerprints are all over the celebration. Jim is determined to win Catherine back and is on his best behavior... -
Finding the Grain by Wynn Malone
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen Augusta "Blue" Riley's parents are killed by a tornado in her last month of high school, Blue is thrown into a world where nothing is what she expected. She moves from her farm in Alabama to North Carolina to be near her aunt and attend college. Interesting classes and the love of sorority girl Grace Lancaster help Blue let go of her grief... -
All Wrapped Up by G. Benson
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWho doesn’t love a birthday party? Especially a toddler’s. There’s sugar, balloons, games—all the makings for fun; that is unless it’s the first toddler birthday party you’ve ever planned in your life.It can’t be that hard, Anna Foster decides; and when she’s decided something, that’s it... -
Playing the Spy by Maggie Brown
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHollywood star and the nation’s favorite daughter, Eleanor Godwin wants nothing more than time by herself, especially from the persistent press. What better place to recuperate after a particularly gruelling round of interviews than a picture-perfect exclusive island resort in the Great Barrier Reef? Political reporter Sophie Marsh is used to digging up dirt... -
With a Purpose by Michele L. Rivera
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTwo years ago, Jordan Davids’ first love Riley walked out on her with no explanation. She's been trying to move on, and luckily Amber, a local bartender, is more than willing to help Jordan get over her ex-girlfriend. On the verge of pursuing a romance with Amber, a tragedy brings Jordan’s long-lost lover back into town. Only Riley does not arrive alone—she comes bearing secrets... -
Paper Is White by Hilary Zaid
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen oral historian Ellen Margolis and her girlfriend decide to get married, Ellen realizes that she can't go through with a wedding until she tells her grandmother. There's only one problem: her grandmother is dead... -
The Summer List by Katia Rose
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOne summer can change everything.At least, that’s what Naomi has heard. Personally, she’s not interested in changing anything. With the start of university looming like the Ghost of Adulthood Yet to Come, Naomi is ready to spend the most uneventful summer of her life house sitting for her dad’s boss... -
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Arbor Vitae by Susan X. Meagher
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsEven when you're not expecting it, love can find you. The flames of passion can ignite so quickly that all of the impediments to love can seem immaterial. They're not. Overcoming differences in age, sexual orientation, social status and familial expectations is daunting, but if it's right, love will find a way... -
Training Ground: Book One of Girls of Summer by Kate Christie
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSometimes a chance meeting can change everything. At fifteen, Jamie Maxwell’s main goals in life are to make the United States youth national soccer pool, move past the Incident-That-Shall-Not-Be- Named, and maybe—someday—kiss a girl. When she meets Emma Blakeley at a tournament in Southern California, something about the older girl draws her in... -
To the Moon and Back by Melissa Brayden
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsLauren Prescott had dreamed of being an actress since she was cast as Wendy in her middle school production of Peter Pan. Yes, her nightgown snagged and brought the set tumbling down, but she was hooked. After years of unsuccessful auditions, performing just wasn’t in the cards. Instead, Lauren established herself as a successful stage manager at the esteemed McAllister Theater... -
Fear of Falling by Georgia Beers
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSince she was fourteen, singer Sophie James has been an international superstar. With her career (and life) directed by her manager, Ray, she hasn’t had to worry about a thing for more than a decade…not where she goes, not what she sings, not who she is... -
Aftershock by K.G. MacGregor
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsBook Two in the Shaken Series Finally at peace with the mistakes of her disastrous first marriage, Anna Kaklis is ready to experience love again, and Lily Stewart is the woman she will fight to keep forever. As she gathers her courage to go to the next level with Lily, she is suddenly handed the reins of Premier Motors. It’s an irresistible opportunity, and Lily’s support is crucial... -
Chasing a Brighter Blue by Gerri Hill
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA Christmas wedding in Colorado? A two-week celebration for family and friends? Who does that? Photojournalist Reagan Bryant is haunted by the tragedy that ended her last assignment in Afghanistan. She’s searching for some peace, something to end her guilt and chase away her trauma...
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