She wouldn’t change anything about how her life has turned out – having traveled to nearly every country, never staying anywhere long enough to feel stifled. Very few things can hold her attention back in Faircombe: her sister/best friend, her precocious niece, and perhaps the prospect of riling up Brooke Watson.Brooke has known Taylor for her entire life, given that her best friend is Taylor’s younger brother. And a lifelong knowledge of Taylor means that Brooke knows she’s trouble: irresponsible, takes nothing seriously, and is irritatingly attractive. Unlike Taylor, Brooke loves their town so much that she’s spent her adult life dedicated to making sure it doesn’t get swept away like many of the other declining small cities of the American South. Faircombe means the world to her, and she’s willing to do just about anything to make sure it flourishes.Even if it means working with Taylor, whose path seems to continuously be crossing with Brooke’s everywhere she turns…

    Being mistaken for a grandmother at her own son’s wedding has her teetering on the edge—until a stranger at the reception rocks her world.Dakota Washington is a young reporter who is flabbergasted to meet her career idol—and biggest celebrity crush—at a friend’s out-of-town wedding. Their night together goes beyond her wildest fantasies. And she’s had a lot of them.They were never meant to see each other again, until fate steps in, landing Dakota a job at Amanda’s network in New York City. Thanks to a draconian employment contract, the network could fire them on the spot for getting romantically involved. They agree to keep their distance and never breathe a word about their past.Easy, right?Except every time they’re alone for more than five minutes, they end up having sex. Soon, it’s obvious this is more than a fling, leaving them with an unthinkable choice: give up the careers they’ve poured their souls into or lose the love of a lifetime. Which one will be easier to walk away from?If you enjoy scorching celebrity age-gap romance with a touch of heart, don’t miss the latest collaboration of Miranda MacLeod and TB Markinson.

    When the master of the dojang offered to train Eden as a live-in student, he started her on a journey that would eventually lead her to become the UFC featherweight champion of the world. Eden loves competing and coaching the underprivileged kids of her community, but just as she’s getting comfortable with her champion title, a new martial artist from a legendary family comes roaring onto the scene with a dynasty on her shoulders. Brooklyn Shaw is a loud, cocky, aggressive Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu genius who’s also unfortunately pretty dreamy. Brooklyn and Eden’s rivalry attracts worldwide attention, but as they spend time together, Eden sees past Brooklyn’s showmanship to who she really is. They ought to be perfect for one another, but can either really fall in love with the person standing in the way of her dreams?

    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. Coming back opens doors she’s done her best to keep closed all these years, namely, how she felt about her childhood best friend, Sawyer Kent. Sawyer’s spent her whole life in Kingsford, working at her family’s antique store and trying to make everyone happy. Quinn’s return is unexpected, knocking her routine existence more than a little off balance. She’s still frustrated at how Quinn left things between them, and even if she has all kinds of unresolved feelings, she’s got bigger problems to worry about right now.

    Then Elise is seated next to her on a flight, and the emotional progress Avery thought she’d made is reset in an instant.Just like their first flight together, this one also has some bumps. But this time they don’t have to make a go around for a safe landing; they just have to deal with an overzealous fan threatening Elise. And when Elise comes begging for a place to stay until the stalker situation is resolved, Avery has to agree it’s the perfect solution to keep Elise safe. After all, nobody knows Elise Hayes used to have a girlfriend.It’s only for a few weeks, what’s the harm? Except for some tiny issues, like when you’re still kind of in love with your ex and the mutual spark is as strong as ever, it’s easy to fall into familiar habits. Then there’s Elise’s apologies and genuine regret over leaving, which makes it hard for Avery to hold on to past hurts and sends her simmering emotions to a boil.But love and sparks aren’t always enough. If Avery and Elise can find a way to move past everything that came between them last time, maybe they’ll get a chance to go around and try landing their relationship again.Genre: Romance

    Grace Kendal never stands a chance. The injured woman comes out of nowhere, bleeding heavily and holding a gun. Compelled to help her, Grace is dragged into Elin Breckenridge’s nightmare. Their fight to survive will take them across the country and to the limits of their endurance. But who is Elin running from? As Grace struggles for answers, one thing becomes clear—Elin is somehow connected to a dead man, and Grace could be next. For Detective Sergeant Safia Faris, the case should have been easy: one dead body, one suspect. But the deeper she digs, the more obvious it becomes that murder was only the beginning. The investigation sets her on a collision course with Grace and Elin, and she’s forced to reevaluate everything she knows. Because nothing is quite as it seems, and Grace’s and Elin’s lives aren’t the only ones on the line.Cover Artist: Jeanine HenningGenres: Crime & Mystery / Intrigue & Thriller / Romance Tags: Police Procedural, People of Color, Medical Romance, First Responders Words: 88,000 words

    Three hundred years ago, its most powerful talisman, a medallion called the Circle of Sheda, was taken through the portal and lost. When Dr. Savannah Cole is on an archeology dig in Algeria, she takes shelter from a violent sandstorm and discovers the mysterious artifact under a Berber ruin. She soon learns unknown forces are at play, powerful secret forces beyond her control. Compelled to wear the medallion, she's swept through the portal into Rand. There she must forge a new life and embrace her role as the wielder of ancient magic. Never before has someone from the ‘other world’ been chosen to bear the medallion, someone not a warrior. It’s a puzzle Savannah must solve before it’s too late. Why has she been chosen? As she battles demonic creatures and dark sorcery, she fights to take her place as the rightful bearer in the long line of warrior women. But the question remains. What is coming that the lost medallion must resurface after so many years?

    Growing up in a big, rambunctious family, all she’s ever wanted is a little peace and quiet. She may not love her job, but she knows what to expect from it. And maybe she’s never been head over heels for any of her boyfriends, but they’re stable and practical. In her world, a life well-lived is a life well-planned. And there is nothing that gets under her skin more than the chaotic energy of Brooke Nicholas.After an adolescence filled with unpredictability, Brooke Nicholas never got in the habit of expecting things. She managed to finish college, moved to Philadelphia, and lucked her way into working at a hip wine bar after graduation. Other than that, she takes life one day (or night) at a time, choosing to spend her time meeting new people and enjoying the moment.Kennedy and Brooke have circled around one another for years without growing close, and it takes getting stuck together during a post-graduation trip for Kennedy to finally realize she may have only scratched the surface where Brooke is concerned. A growing friendship, an abandoned puppy, and no one to act as a buffer between them is going to upend a lot of ideas Kennedy had about her perfectly crafted world. And it’s going to terrify Brooke because, for the first time in her life, she feels like maybe she’s found a home.

    Just when she thinks she can't hold on anymore, she is reminded of another lost love.Kori is the one that got away, and years later Hunter is unexpectantly thrust back into Kori's life. But it’s not easy moving on when the past still haunts her at every turn.Filled with love, loss, and characters that will steal your heart, this new series will take you into the flames on a ride like never before.

    Jillian Byers only considered two careers: indie rock sensation or physician. Both dreams led her to Los Angeles. She never plotted a course that led back home. With her father’s health declining, Jillian picks up her life and returns to Crystal, Maine. At first, it seems time has stood still in her hometown. It doesn’t take long for Jillian to realize nothing is quite the way she remembers. Returning to life in rural Maine never occurred to Marjorie (MJ) Willard. A successful professor, MJ finds herself at a crossroads after a painful divorce. Her mother suggests MJ move back to Crystal with her seven-year-old daughter, Chloe. Needing an escape, MJ agrees. She never dreamed she’d come face to face with her high school crush. Life gets interesting when MJ collides with Jillian Byers at their thirtieth high school reunion. An unexpected friendship helps Jillian and MJ cope with loss, change, and a few secrets from the past. Finding the way home summons a million questions and some interesting discoveries. There’s no greater surprise than falling in love. Sometimes all it takes to make sense of the world is One Simple Refrain.

    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. After being gently rebuffed by the high school senior, young Jess vowed she would return for her some day when their age difference became irrelevant and her own accomplishments made her not merely an equal, but an Olympian. Eleven years later, Jess makes good on her promise, but when she arrives back in Buffalo a few months before the big games, she’s intrigued to find that the woman she’s always dreamed of could also be exactly the coach she needs to win gold. Lauren, however, isn’t the bubbly team captain she’d been at eighteen. After a stellar collegiate career of her own, circumstances forced her to her dreams on the shelf and return to Buffalo. She’d made peace with a quiet life spent running a rustbelt fencing club and coaching kids when Team USA’s hottest young fencer waltzes back into her life. As much as Lauren finds Jess’s confidence and athleticism alluring, she also sees the hot-headed superstar as a threat to the carefully controlled world rebuilt in the wake of the traumatic loss she is desperate to avoid reliving. Never one to turn her back on a friend in need, Lauren agrees to coach Jess on the condition that they focus only on the swordplay and not the sharp point of attraction threatening to sever the bonds of her professionalism. The two women set to work preparing for the biggest event of their lives, but as tension mounts in the lead-up to the Olympic games, the pressure and the passion building between them also grows, leaving both to wonder if Jess is trying to win the gold, or win the girl.

    She picks a stranger online for a one-night stand.Ashley Rylan, the chief of Nadia’s department, is her polar opposite—sweet, agreeable, and soft-spoken—and the stranger Nadia unwittingly chooses.The two women’s meeting is a hostile disaster and they would love nothing more than to never see each other again. However, their paths keep colliding as Nadia embarks on an ambitious experiment that could lead to a historic medical breakthrough.Despite warring egos and the secrets they keep, their connection is powerful and growing. Maybe having sex would help them get over their distraction at work? Or would that just ruin everything?A lesbian medical romance about the powerful breakthroughs we can’t always see.Tags: ice queen romance, medical romance, opposites-attract romance100,000 words

    Betrayed and angry, she trades her meekness for a sword and embarks on a quest for vengeance that will lead her straight into the arms of the legendary Captain Maria Welles.Captain of the famed pirate ship, the Wicked Fate, Maria is every bit as treacherous and bloodthirsty as they say. She has her own vendetta and practically jumps at the chance to trick Emilia into joining her crew.But when their animosity toward each other blossoms into a passionate romance, the two women will have to decide what they want most.Vengeance?Or love?

    

    But when her younger sister and brother-in-law die tragically, the pain of loss is too great to ignore. Reeling from guilt over letting her family take a back seat to her career, Hadley seizes the opportunity to make things right by returning to her hometown to raise the infant son her sister left behind.At 29, Tyne Briggs knows firsthand how hard it is to grow up without a loving family. After being saved from a hostile foster home as a queer pre-teen, the young artist dotes on her large and boisterous adoptive family. When she loses her brother and sister-in-law in a car accident, her top priority is to make sure her baby nephew has the happy childhood she was denied.Shared grief and mutual attraction bring the two women together, where they find solace and passion in equal measure. But they are soon at odds when each decides she is the best choice to give baby Owen a permanent home. Without a will to guide them, and with the two aunts unable to reach a compromise, a lengthy custody battle looms.Cooperation and a common purpose could lead to true love and the creation of a new family together, but not if impulsive decisions and unsavory lawyers tear them apart first.Best-selling lesbian fiction author Miranda MacLeod has written a heartwarming and emotionally gripping medical age-gap romance that will convince you love conquers all.

    Despite being sickly and weak, she has a talent for magic. It’s a shame that her family, her father in particular, doesn’t appreciate her talent, but Jessalyn still has plans. Even in her greatest imaginings, she never considered how far those plans would take her.

    The once successful advice column she runs with her mother is on the brink of cancellation, and it’ll take a miracle to turn things around. Joni’s last-ditch effort to save her job and preserve her mother’s legacy is The Love Project, a web series she’s developing to bring the Help Me Henrietta franchise alive for a new generation. All she needs is a willing victim…er, star.Hope Alvarez dreams of falling in love, but she’s always suspected she’s different. Physical attraction is a foreign language to her. After her only prospect for a meaningful relationship falls through, Hope has to face the fact that she’s completely hopeless when it comes to love. Can her favorite advice columnist, Henrietta, save her from a lonely future?As the series gets underway, fans swoon for the lovable yet unlucky Hope, and they’re not the only ones. Joni is smitten, too. But she’s been down that road before, vowing never again to fall for a straight woman who will keep her forever in the friend zone. Except, what if she’s been reading the situation all wrong? Helping Hope make sense of her identity might save Joni’s job, but will it also bring her love?

    There are so many rules. Rule number 1: Graduate from the Cupids' Academy.Rule number 2: Attend the Annual Cupids’ Convention in Las Vegas.Rule number 3: When shooting your arrows and bringing love to people, strive for the Perfect Match. When junior cupid Abby Angellini, fresh from Cupid Academy, heads to Sin City, she runs smack into her idol.Sabine Goddard is the one cupid who has a faultless record when it comes to slinging arrows and bringing people together. The stats for her own love life, however, aren’t nearly as great.Sparks fly as Cinnamon Roll meets the Queen of the Perfect Match and the word quiver takes on an entirely new meaning.

    Three years removed from a break-up that left her ex―and her life―behind in San Diego, she’s adjusted to the slow pace in Rockport, seeking out neither new friends nor lovers. Vandalism at the resort’s clubhouse―and a cryptic message written in blood―brings Detective Harley Shepherd, with her obnoxious Hawaiian shirts, into her life.A tragedy sent Harley Shepherd running to the sleepy fishing village of Rockport, where violent crime is rare. So different from her life as a homicide detective in a large city, she embraced the quiet and easy-going attitude of the town, determined to put her past behind her.Was it luck or fate that had her catch a case of simple vandalism? The lovely Lauren Voss made no attempt to hide her dislike of both her―she reminded Lauren of her ex―and her Hawaiian shirts.Was the vandalism a prank, as Lauren suspects? When a body is found floating near the resort’s pier, Harley is convinced it’s related. As the formality and animosity between them changes and a friendship forms, the women find themselves growing closer as a killer terrorizes the peaceful town they both now call home.

    Boring in fact, by many people's standards. So, when she unexpectedly finds herself tutoring a student on set at Pinewood Studios, the last thing she imagines is that the lead actress is none other than a global superstar, Robyn White. The same Robyn White her three closest friends have lusted after since they first met back at university a decade-and-a-half ago.Robyn White might be renowned for her enormous smile on the red carpet and her happy-go-lucky attitude, however, it’s all a well-constructed front. Behind the façade is a woman who struggles to fit in, not least because she has a secret, one which on-set tutor Charlie Evans threatens to expose.With tensions rising all around them, will Charlie and Robyn's attraction reach blockbuster heights or be discarded on the cutting room floor?

    She is so tired of being sick and alone.Angel Ruiz is a loner with a scarred heart that began with homophobic parents years ago.When Gina meets Angel at her friends’ New Year’s Eve party she feels an instant bond. She sees Angel’s damaged heart and wonders if it is as weary as hers?And then she has an idea.All Angel has to do is say yes.

    She's moving up the ranks as a PR strategist for the rich and famous, and she's more than happy to put her personal life on the back burner while she focuses on her career. Go figure that the one time she does something impulsive and sleeps with a gorgeous stranger, said stranger walks into her office the next day--as her newest client.Arianna King is a rockstar with a reputation. The rumors are out of control, and she needs help taking back control of the narrative about who she is and how she lives her life. But she wasn't banking on a PR strategist like Claire...Two careers hang in the balance, but the tension between the two women is undeniable. As time goes on, the lines between professional and personal begin to blur...but will they be able to turn their fling into something more? Or are they destined for heartbreak?

    She’s staying optimistic, though: she’s confident she can fake it till she makes it, roll with the punches, and find a way to save her luxury restaurant, Paramour.But it gets harder when she gets restaurant mogul and star chef Mike Wallace angry, and finds herself on the other end of a campaign to shut down Paramour.Celebrity chef Holly Mason’s show is in trouble: people are bored with her routine of helping struggling restaurants. Worse, her ex-boyfriend Mike Wallace is making backdoor deals trying to steal the starring role.Luckily, Holly’s agent Tay has a solution: ditch her show plans for the season, throw their lot in with luxury restaurant Paramour against Mike Wallace’s racketeering operation of a restaurant partnership. The cherry on top? A fake relationship between Holly and Avery to stir up drama.It would already be a mess if Holly and Avery weren’t already struggling to hold back their attraction for one another. Despite their promise not to date, the lines between acting and reality get awfully blurry sometimes.Fake It is an 80,000-word fake-dating celebrity romance between a disillusioned TV cooking star and a bright-eyed restaurant owner who’s sure she can manifest a solution to her hard times if she believes hard enough. Features an agent named Tay who calls their brilliant ideas “inspir-Tay-tion,” plenty of descriptions of food that made me hungry while I wrote the book, and a cute bisexual trans girl who gets to fall in love. Content warnings for open-door sex scenes that get a little bit kinky, a gross man who won’t stop calling his ex-girlfriend babe, and sapphics getting in the way of their own feelings, like they always do.

    Sometimes what you're running from is exactly what you needOlivia Chevalier is perfectly happy living a quiet life of solitude with her two cats in the tempestuous countryside of Brittany.Olivia’s peace is disrupted when heartbreaker extraordinaire Marie Dievart moves in to the holiday home next door after an event at work makes her flee her everyday life.Olivia hates having a neighbour and Marie is put off by Olivia’s cranky ways.But maybe these two women have more in common than they first believe.Best-selling lesbian romance author Harper Bliss brings you a slow-burn opposites-attract story about the power of connection and opening yourself up to the possibility of love.

    

    She's almost 40 and practically married to her career. When she decides to take some time off to renovate a run-down farmhouse in the middle of nowhere, everyone tells her she's having a midlife crisis. Maybe she is, but she still thinks that buying the farmhouse is the best thing she's done in years. Now if only she could get the roof to stop leaking...Riley has always been a free spirit with nothing to her name besides the shirt on her back and a bag of tools. She's resourceful and knows what she's doing, but it turns out that it's still hard to make it as a woman in the trades. So when she hears about a major farmhouse renovation taking place, she jumps at the opportunity. She never would have imagined her new employer would be someone like Brooke, though...Sparks fly between Brooke and Riley as they’re thrown together. The intensity of their attraction is matched only by the barriers to their relationship.Can two women who are polar opposites find a way to build a home together?

    After three years of competing with Sloane Medina in law school, she’s ready to shine on her own. When Sloane unexpectedly starts working at the same office, Ari’s plans are shattered, and she discovers old rivalries die hard.Sloane expected to be working at a prestigious Manhattan law firm, but she’s trapped in Miami instead. As if things couldn’t get any worse, Ari, who insists on constantly competing with her, is back in her orbit.Thrown together, the women find themselves back at each other’s throats. But, despite their best efforts to remain enemies, their relationship changes when they start to see beyond each other’s icy exteriors.Passions burn hot enough to melt glaciers in this addictive clash between two strong women who have more in common than they realize. The only question is . . . can they get out of their own way?

    . .Newly minted lawyer Cheyenne Flores-Moore is excited to start her career at one of the most prestigious law firms in Miami. That is, until she meets her mentor Erica. It seems that no matter what she does, she can’t win her over - something the perennially sunny Cheyenne has not experienced before.Just when Cheyenne is ready to accept that she will never thaw the frost between them, opportunity strikes. Cheyenne discovers that the very uptight and hyper-professional Erica plays roller derby and decides to join an opposing team. She hopes competing with Erica on neutral ground will show her mentor a different side.Erica Torres is laser-focused on making partner at her firm. When her boss tasks her with mentoring a new lawyer to demonstrate her leadership skills, she jumps at the chance. But her bubbly mentee is too nice to survive in the shark-infested waters they swim in, and she soon regrets her assignment. What’s worse, the human Golden Retriever has discovered Erica’s secret passion for roller derby.Tensions rise until Erica and Cheyenne are forced together and start to see each other for who they really are. In this new light, something unexpected blooms. The only question is can Erica get out of her own way and let Cheyenne penetrate her icy exterior?This excruciatingly slow-burn, workplace romance is hot enough to melt any ice queen’s frosty shell.

    Money, power, women. As the owner of a prestigious winery in France, she enjoys freedom on levels most people only dream about. She’s built a perfect life and is happy sharing it with no one. But when a travelling stranger drops into her world, Elodie is forced to reassess everything she thinks she knows about the way she lives.On the back of a bitter divorce, Kaye Sykes is wandering the world, trying to find somewhere new to put down roots. After a controlling, abusive marriage, she’s taking the time to concentrate on herself and the last thing she’s looking for is a relationship. When she volunteers to pick grapes at a vineyard, Kaye meets the charming, beautiful, and enigmatic Elodie: surely the perfect choice for a little holiday, no-strings fun.What begins as an instant and powerful sexual attraction soon becomes so much more, and both women try to fight it for very different reasons.Will Elodie be strong enough to face the demons of her past so that she can embrace the true love of her future?Dive into this sensual lesbian romance from international bestselling lesbian fiction author Emma Nichols.

    But fairytales end, don’t they? After saying their goodbyes, they doubt they’ll see each other again.But then Abby desperately needs a girlfriend for her brother’s wedding.

    A scroll she acquires to sell in Montbard’s Antiquities in New Orleans leads Levi on an adventure that will take her from London to Morocco, by way of the Sahara Desert. A story of a female Templar Knight should sound like a hoax, but to Levi the new information rings true. Proving the scroll accurate becomes an obsession. She’ll stop at nothing to uncover the truth.Yasmine Hassani spends her days teaching female studies in Marrakech to women who want to leave a mark on their country. An arrogant Westerner storming into her office is highly unexpected and leaves Yasmine laughing off the absurdity of her claims. No one knows more about the history of the Templar Knights than Yasmine, and reluctantly intrigued, she agrees to help Levi.But their search turns down one dead end after another, almost as if someone is working hard to keep old secrets buried. They’ll have to fight the Catholic Church, centuries of tradition, and their growing attraction for each other to uncover the mystery of the female Templar Knight.Cover Artist: Tammy SeidickGenres: Action & Adventure / RomanceWords: 100,500

    Six Feet is a contemporary, pandemic romance with the emphasis on romance.Henley Stones Smith, 42, is a psychologist with three foster daughters: Paloma, Jackie and Manhattan.Nicki Zabelle, 28, is a professional video gamer who sleeps in late and always orders take-out.The Covid pandemic hits and Nicki abruptly moves from Boston to Western Massachusetts where Henley is juggling working from home, remote school, and single parenthood.Little Jackie's early morning mishap brings Henley and Nicki together.Henley sees Nicki as an incredibly young neighbor who is kind enough to share her pool.Nicki sees Henley as an incredibly hot neighbor who she hopes is kind enough to share her bed.

    She’s spent most of her adult life avoiding any kind of affection and has put off romantic relationships. Her small but mighty family circle includes her exuberant dog Goose who gets her through the days between doing what she loves most, flying. Skyler Callaghan had to leave Sitka while she was still attending high school. Despite the time and distance, a childhood crush on her best friend’s older sister never went away—a little fact she almost forgot about until an unplanned trip back home reminds her. When the two women find themselves stranded in the Alaskan wilderness, it isn’t exactly the setting Skyler always dreamt of when she pictured nights with Cam. She tries to put her feelings aside for the sake of her sanity and survival but she feels herself being drawn even closer to Cam. As things start to shift between them, Cam has to decide if she can learn to trust and let go. A sapphic romance adventure

    Sometimes the perfect person has been right in front of you all alongKylie and Regan have been best friends since kindergarten, supporting each other through thick and thin.While everyone thinks they would be perfect for each other, they insist there’s no chemistry between them—and Regan should know since she’s a chemistry teacher.To prove it, they agree to a little chemistry experiment: they’ll go on three dates with each other.So what if their gazes start to linger and accidental touches no longer feel platonic? They chalk it up to the romantic atmosphere—until a friendly good night kiss turns passionate.Can their friendship go back to the way it was before? Do they even want it to? Or will they risk losing what they have for a chance at love?73,000 wordsTags: friends to lovers, slow burn romance

    If she let her, Elizabeth would threaten her carefully erected walls. Louka has no intention of allowing her close.In Provence for a summer of teaching at the Maritima archaeological centre, Oxford University lecturer Elizabeth McLean would have no such qualms. She is absolutely up for some fun on the side, and the sexy coastguard has got under her skin.As the weeks unfold, and the two women get close, not all is as it seems.In the end…What’s the best that could happen?

    But after her mother passes away, and after licking her wounds from a bitter divorce, it’s time for Sid to deal with the family home.After years of deferred maintenance, the once beautiful country home looks more like a giant pile of kindling to the angst Sid bears for the past it represents. But after running into her first love – Chloe Macintyre and her teenage kid, who’s looking for a summer job, Sid decides to keep the flame in her chest, and hires Brook to help her get the house ready to go on the market.It’s been twenty-two years since they’ve seen each other, but that torch Sid and Chloe held for one another in high school never fully extinguished, and they are just as attracted to each other as ever before. But Sid’s contracting business and home are two-plus-hours away in Philadelphia. And Chloe has her own dental practice in Granite.If they start dating, how long can they make a long-distance relationship last before they have to make a serious decision?And Chloe has never come out of the closet as bisexual, even after Brook told her the year prior that they’re non-binary. The fear of what happened to Sid in high school has always stuck with her. Can she get over that fear, accept herself, and build the life with Sid that she had always wanted?

    

    After a life spent exploring the most remote places on earth, she’s found her way back home to Scotland, where she teaches her expert survival skills.Kelsey Campbell has spent her whole life acting, both personally and professionally, and has had it with the pressure of keeping everyone else happy. Craving somewhere far from the glaring spotlight, she signs up for a two-week team survival course.It’s not just the remote island location that appeals to Kelsey. There’s the fact she met the course leader years ago and always regretted how they left things.However, just as Georgia and Kelsey are renewing their long-lost connection over bushcraft, a storm hits, leaving them stranded. With the group’s lives now in Georgia’s hands, the race is on to find a way home.As the reality of survival kicks in, their battle becomes about more than just facing the elements.

     The most captivating woman in the city has walked into my office. Hair as red as carnal passion and a body I can’t stop fantasizing about. She doesn’t know it yet, but I’m about to ask her out. And she will say yes, because she won’t have a reason to say no. When my conquest is complete, I intend to forget all about her. She is, after all, the reason for my pain. She is the source of my breakup and the woman my good-for-nothing ex seduced. I will consume the woman who wrecked my relationship. I will not fall for her, no matter how tempting she is. It’s not becoming to be The Other Woman, after all. Good girls shouldn’t cross me.But Keira isn’t a good girl, is she? I’m no saint myself. In the end, we’ll probably go down together. It’ll be what we both deserve. THE OTHER WOMAN is a heated tale of revenge and scarred hearts. It has a HEA – but how Evelyn and Keira get there? You’ll have to find out for yourself.

    When Frankie Shaw moves 250 miles south, hoping to start a new life without the ghost that haunts her, the last thing she expects to see is her ex-girlfriend Lisa Bittern.Because Lisa was murdered fourteen years ago.Alice Trent is the mother of two little boys and the wife of a local police officer, could she have any answers that would give Frankie peace of mind, or is it really just a case of mistaken identity?

    Second chances. Three problems.Dani Smith has a problem. Scratch that: this fun-loving lesbian has three of them.First, she wakes up hungover and married in Vegas. Oops. She was only supposed to be in Sin City for a friend's wedding, but now she's the one with a shiny gold ring on her finger.Second, she's not exactly sure who she married. She may have a ring, but her bride is nowhere in sight.The third problem is aloof, cold-hearted Mia: Dani's ex. The last thing that Dani needs is that know-it-all ice queen—even if her first love still makes Dani's heart race. But if she's going to track down her mystery bride before she leaves town, she's going to need some help...Fairytale romances don't exist—and if they did, they wouldn't involve Elvis impersonators.Mia Reyes has enough on her plate. Between arranging her best friend's wedding and pulling long hours as a family doctor, she has no time for anything else—including herself.But when her ex, Dani, shows up in Vegas, Mia can't resist her irresistible smile. In the City of Lights, old sparks fly.Now, Dani has a wedding ring on her finger, and Mia can't remember exactly what it is that she did last night. But Mia knows she's not the kind of person to get blackout drunk and marry her ex. She's far too sensible for that. Right?Once upon a time, Mia broke Dani's heart. Now, she has a second chance. Can she and Dani rekindle their love, or will their relationship be lost in one big Vegas gamble?

    

    

    Her friends are spiraling, one in particular with dire consequences. If that’s not enough, Tegan’s job is threatened by a conman and a cop trying to recruit Tegan into a leadership role at the university.Whoever said college was the best years of your life never had to come out in a state determined to strip basic human rights from the LGBTQ community.Girl Love Happens: Season Three contains all six episodes of the continuing lesbian romance series infused with 1990s’ nostalgia. If you like tumultuous love stories, simmering chemistry, and a quirky and troubled cast of characters, then you’ll love T.B. Markinson’s smart, sexy series.

    

    She’s not sure it’s really her thing, but the assignment gives her the chance to write something more substantial than her usual fluff pieces. All she needs now is a willing lesbian.For Cody Dawson, signing up for Jess’s project is a no-brainer. She gets to date an interesting woman, enjoy her company, and not disrupt the tidy life she’s built for her son. Everything’s perfect until she starts falling for Jess. When she realizes she’s heart-deep in the feelings she’s agreed not to have, their convenient arrangement becomes anything but.

    Ten Years. Twelve stories.When sisters Maggie and Kiera McBride bring their friends together for a night of fun, they have no idea what it will lead to. Neither of them expected this crazy group to become like family.Throughout the next year, follow this group of friends as they navigate ten years of life and love together.*This 10,000 word novelette is book one of an LGBTQ+ twelve-book series*

    If you want perfect madeleines, heavenly Rose de sables, or exquisite eclairs, Mer Pacifique is the place to go.Unfortunately, Ariel has been so busy perfecting recipes and getting the business up and running that she has found no time for romance.Plant shop owner Lani Tetuanui loves houseplants, and her shop is the largest on the island of Tahiti. She also has been so busy with work that her love life has suffered. The occasional dalliances she has with beautiful lesbian tourists who fly in from all over the world to vacation in Tahiti are no longer cutting it. She’d like to find romance, but has no idea how to go about it.When Ariel flies to Tahiti to attend her cousin Vanessa’s wedding at the Rainbow Pearl Luxury Resort, she’s only looking for a stress-free vacation, and perhaps a little no-strings-attached fun with a woman or two.When Lani arrives one afternoon to deliver a potted tree to The Rainbow Pearl, she’s only interested in making the delivery and then going home to enjoy some wine.However, Fate has other ideas, including literally knocking one of these women off her feet.“Seven Days to Forever” is the newest installment in the Carlsbad Lesbian Romance series, by Sabrina Kane. A funny, incredibly sexy and low-angst lesbian romance that will not only keep you amused, but will also tug on your emotions a bit.And for the first time ever…Don’t forget to read the companion story “Starting Forever in Paradise.”A companion novella to this book, “Starting Forever in Paradise” tells the story of Megan and Vanessa’s wedding in Tahiti!Combined together, “Seven Days to Forever” and “Starting Forever in Paradise” will give you a delightful account of what some of your favorite Carlsbad lesbians get up to in the earthly paradise of Tahiti (in and out of the bedroom).

    The events take place after each story's respective Epilogue.Here’s a glimpse into the lives of the ladies of the Boston Series. Find out what’s been going on with Gretchen & Amanda, Becca & Erin, Cassie & Tessa, and Jamie & Lauren.Epilogues are nice, but they’re a snapshot in time. Maybe it’s a year after the book ends, or even just a few months. Maybe there’s a wedding or another life-changing event. Maybe a character announces she’s pregnant. Maybe the characters are moving across the country.In this group of short stories, you’ll find out about the directions the lives of Boston Series characters have taken and will take in the coming years, how they’re doing together, how they’re doing at work, and learn about what’s coming next for each of the characters in their relationships.If you plan to read these, please read all the books in the series first. While the respective books in the series are always complete without What Happened After…, the context of the main stories is essential for you to enjoy these post-Epilogue vignettes.List of books in the Boston Series:

    Committed to her extraordinary mission, life on that little blue planet feels a bit irrelevant. That is until she meets Dr. Carter.Dr. Daphne Carter’s exemplary two-decade tenure studying astronauts has come to an exciting climax, as she prepares to venture to space for the very first time. A woman of science, Daphne is all work and no play, but while collaborating alongside the beautiful and charming Ruby, she finds herself beginning to unravel.The two can’t deny it. There’s chemistry between them, as hot as the ignited rocket engines on a space shuttle. As perfect as they may seem for one another, their secret romance brings back pieces of a past Daphne fought desperately to forget, and threatens the careers that she and Ruby have worked their entire lives for…

    When romance knocks on her door, she will have to find a balance between her athletic ambitions and her desire for a relationship or risk sacrificing one for the other.Law student Ari Nunez is struggling with managing the expectations of her family and dedicating her life to a profession she dislikes more every day. Her relationship with Daniela, full of international travel and vacations, is the perfect escape, even if it feels too good to be true.Follow their journey from a chance online meeting to power couple taking on the world together.

    

    Running a new company with her girlfriend, Austen, is taking some getting used to, especially since Austen doesn’t deem knocking heads together to be an acceptable leadership choice.When disaster strikes at work and their management styles clash, they’re forced to figure out how to be as good together as business partners as they are lovers. It might take compromises and donut bribes, but they’re determined to find a way.“Partners” is a short story sequel to Jae’s award-winning lesbian romance Under a Falling Star.

    That’s why her friends introduce her to a niche matchmaking service that will make her forbidden dreams come true. She only needs to show up to a media mogul’s high-rise office for the first date of a lifetime.The body knows what it needs…Recently burned by the love of her life, entrepreneur Elena Zelenko has a heart harder than steel and colder than ice. Yet when she meets Jewel, she becomes instantly attached. Not that Elena believes anyone could replace the woman she once loved more than her career. She doesn’t believe in miracles, no matter how perfect and natural they feel in her bed.The more the dates go by, however, the more Elena realizes that Jewel may be her last chance at lasting happiness. Their instantaneous chemistry and ravenous hunger for one another can’t be a fluke.The soul knows what it yearns to have…A romantic weekend in New York seals their fate. Elena and Jewel enter the most legally binding contract that two women can sign. What ensues is the epic fallout of their whirlwind affair.While optimistic Jewel embraces her new life as the partner of the city’s toughest Domme, Elena spirals into self-doubt and regrets about her life before Jewel. If they are to remember why it feels so right, they’ll have to prove that their love is more than pageantry and passion.It’s destiny.VOWS THAT BIND is an insta-love tale with a happy ending. It features a couple who embrace an alternative full-time lifestyle.

    She's acutely aware of her sexuality – despite how uncomfortable it makes her in her conservative Georgia town.When Jamie Kendall, the cute, openly-gay, new girl from Chicago moves to the small town of Branton, Peyton finds it harder to conceal the truth about herself. As the girls end up working together for a mural competition, Peyton is forced to recognize her fears of coming out and must find the courage to show everyone her true colors.

    She's lined up an interview with Morgan Leithe—THE Morgan Leithe, the self-made billionaire who mysteriously vanished from the public eye three years ago. Amy only has to travel to the tiny New Zealand town Morgan's hiding in, nab that interview, and have it published before her big performance review. Wham, bam, thank you ma'am—that promotion is basically in the bag.But Amy didn't plan for the bone-chilling blizzard sweeping through the sleepy little town, and she definitely didn't plan to have to wait out a snowstorm with a woman whose piercing blue eyes seem to see right through her...Betrayed by those closest to her, brilliant philanthropist Morgan Leithe has made a new life for herself far away from the glitz and glamour. She'll keep everyone at arm's length to make sure that no-one can hurt her again. She's sworn off romance. All that she needs in life is a good book, her dogs by her side, and solitude. Life in her cosy mountain cottage is peaceful and quiet, just the way she wants it.But now a tenacious younger woman with sparkling eyes is awakening something in her that she's tried her hardest to bury.Four days. That's how long she'll have to wait before the snowstorm lifts and the stranger with the heart-stopping smile can leave for good.Four days of just the two of them, a crackling fire, and the wild New Zealand scenery around them.She can keep this professional, right?

    With every book she reads, she hopes for her own magical holiday love story.Kit Gunderson is back in Beaumont for the holidays and feeling more at home than she has in a long time, especially when she meets her adorable niece’s teacher, Ms. Stringer. As they bond over the school’s winter production, their distaste of holiday tacos, and Kit learning to ski, everything seems to be falling into place.The only problem? Ivy’s poked around and figured out exactly who Kit’s author persona is—except that she’s totally wrong, and has no idea the woman she’s falling for is the favorite author she knows she could never keep her cool around, Ivy Winters.After all, there’s no better way to meet your favorite author than by accidentally falling in love first.

    

    A quirk of inheritance law allows Margarethe von Stahle to inherit both her grandmother’s and father’s noble titles. Her elders collaborate to educate her to take on her future duties, which include administering her family estates and supporting an order of nuns. Margarethe’s curiosity and precocity delight and perplex her teachers as they try to mold her. Her father trains her with his military cadets. A retired opera singer, now the choir mistress of the convent, teaches her how to sing. Her grandaunt, headmistress of the convent school, educates her in philosophy and classics. At an early age, Margarethe heads to Oxford to follow in her father’s footsteps. Gifted with both musical and intellectual talents, she must choose between singing and service. Raised to take her duty and noblesse oblige seriously, she decides to study medicine and becomes one of a handful of female surgeons in 1920s Germany. Being the heir means she needs children to inherit her titles. She reluctantly marries, despite preferring her own sex, but that doesn’t stop her from finding solace in the arms of women. She trains under the best surgeons in Germany and England and rises to prominence as London’s infamous “Lady Doctor.” But duty finally demands that she return to her homeland and take the reins of the family fortunes. The Imperative of Desire, the first volume in The Passing Rites Series, takes Margarethe from La Belle Époque, through a world war, a revolution that outlawed the German nobility, the roaring twenties, to the decadent demimonde of Weimar Berlin. This coming-of-age story spans one of the most tumultuous periods of history, a time that changed women’s lives forever.

    She wasn't a struggling teenager anymore. She was thirty-three years old, and she ran a successful marketing agency in New York City.Taylor was proud of how far she'd come. Maybe, she was finally ready to face her past.Lynn had no idea her neighbor and friend, Kathy, had a daughter. Not until Taylor showed up at the cabin.Not once had Kathy mentioned her.Lynn had been missing her friend, and even though Taylor wasn't staying long, Lynn found herself enjoying the younger woman's company, curious to find out how Lynn had no idea Taylor even existed.The evenings weren't as long when she shared a bottle of wine or had dinner with Taylor, but as Lynn got to know her, she was shocked to find out that the version of Kathy that Taylor had known was nothing like the woman Lynn had called her friend for more than ten years.As they spend more time together, Taylor wonders if she should keep the cabin and not sell it like she'd planned.She could see herself getting away from the city and coming here the odd weekend.And when they act on the growing attraction between them, Taylor has another decision to make.Should they even bother pursuing whatever was going on between them?Or was this a fling? Something that seemed like the most natural thing after spending so much time together, sitting out by the bonfire behind Lynn's house or being snowed in together when a storm hits.Steamy age gap lesbian romance

    Love is the only way forward.Maud Heaston has been in love with Beatrice Williams since they first met in 1939. They’ve been through hell and back; family, careers, and secrets have threatened to tear them apart, but their love has endured it all. Until now. Old age and illness have forced them into separate nursing homes and the family Maud trusted to take care of them are only out for themselves. Hannah Jones is trying to put her past behind her and find her place in the world. Midway through a doctorate and living with Suki, the woman she’d like to be more than just friends with, the last thing she needs is Gammy, her interfering great aunt, back in her life. Though Gammy took Hannah in when her mother died, her overbearing nature and constant criticisms forced them apart. Now they barely speak.Maud needs Hannah’s help to be reunited with the love of her life. Hannah needs Suki to take a chance on love. Can a reconciliation between Maud and Hannah free them both to be with the women they love or will the past destroy their future?

    He saved her. She owes him. Even if that means hiding her passions in favor of life in a golden cage.Cut-off from her criminal family, Cassia Salvatore finds herself at the bottom of the barrel: completely broke and doing the very thing she’d always promised herself she wouldn’t do – escorting. Lost and incredibly lonely, she seeks a way out.When their fates collide on that one wild night in Vegas, the two women are thrown into the turmoil of their true desires. Adalynn is taken by Cassia’s otherworldly beauty and her lovely naive personality. And Cassia is stunned by the breathtaking raven-haired Goddess with a fierce spirit.At dawn, the two split ways, feeling trapped and lonelier than ever.Will Adalynn and Cassia go on with their miserable lives hiding their true passions? Or will they gather the courage to fight for their love and their choices?

    British writer Holly McKay aims to find out if this is true, and perhaps win herself a Pulitzer Prize in the process... Or at least, a front cover!The leader of the group, Raven Black, is just as unusual and intriguing as she is charismatic. A woman who claims to channel Pleiadian entities… Someone who can even change the weather at will, apparently! Is she nothing but a deluded guru? A talented liar? Something else?As Holly delves deep into her world on a 5-day retreat, she can only be sure of one thing:on the far side of ‘out there’, anything is possible.

    Driven by her own past run-ins with Clan violence, she thrives in her job—until the day her boss assigns her to look after his estranged sister, who just so happens to be the heir to one of the city’s most notorious Clans.Dangerous, magnetic, and calculating, Sora Hoshino has spent her life devoted to upholding her father’s legacy as Red Palms’ kingpin. But when his arrest throws her world into violent upheaval, she reluctantly accepts help from her disgraced older brother—and Rei.With both life and legacy hanging in the balance, a tangled history weaving between them, and a wary but powerful attraction sparking at every turn, Rei and Sora’s world heats up to a dangerous boiling point. In the end, the only question is whether their bond is strong enough to survive the flames, or if they’ll both go up in smoke.

    Her life might be a little secretive and a lot lonely, but she’s selling out stadiums around the world on her most successful tour yet. Who wouldn’t want a piece of her success?Tyra MacLean has been there, done that, ripped the sleeves off the T-shirt. Still scarred by her own experience of fame, she hates celebrity and everything that comes with it. All she wants is a quiet life. But when Alex decides she wants Tyra and her band to join her tour, Ty has to put her bandmates first and return to the world that nearly destroyed her.As Alex and Tyra tour America together can they put aside their fears and their differences to find love?Iona Kane’s debut novel is a cool, fun romance set in the world of rock music.

    

    Megan and Vanessa are getting married!The two queens of the Carlsbad sapphic universe are finally tying the knot in Tahiti…and you’re invited!Megan and Vanessa fly to the South Pacific, bringing their entourage of friends and family with them.There’s a yacht, two women pretending to be gay, jet skiing and a bachelorette party that will make your heart race.Enjoy this novella-length entry in the Carlsbad Village Lesbian Romance collection as a companion story to “Seven Days to Forever,” the sixth installment of the Carlsbad series.Both stories detail the adventures (and misadventures) of some of your favorite Carlsbad lesbians.Each book can be read as a standalone story, yet both are also intertwined, creating a delightful (and incredibly sexy) duo of lesbian romances which take place on the exotic island of Tahiti.If you haven’t already, it is recommended that you read “Nothing But A Fling,” the first novel in the Carlsbad Village Lesbian Romance series, before you read this novella.

    

    Lily is a criminal. What happens when they fall for each other?This is a passionate forbidden love Romance by Margaux Fox. Lose yourself in Lily's World today.Francesca 'Frankie' Miller bumps into an enigmatic stranger in a coffee shop. She feels an instant rush of desire for this woman, Lily.When she finds out that Lily isn't who she thought she was, Frankie is determined find out more.Their relationship from the very start is at the heart of a web of secrets.Falling in love was never supposed to be part of immersing herself in Lily's World.Now she is here, can she find a way to save Lily from the dangerous mess she is in?

    As the co-owner of an up-and-coming dating app, love is big money. But business means she's not willing to indulge in any romantic shenanigans herself.Indy Chambers has a bucket list, and falling in love before she's thirty is just waiting to be checked off. But since she's never had a relationship last more than a date or two, that box doesn't look like it's going to be ticked any time soon.When Annabel's flawless algorithm matches her with Indy, neither of them is exactly thrilled. But Annabel's business could depend on making their date a marketing success, and her algorithm could be just what Indy needs to finally find the love she's been searching for.Before long, #IndyAnna is trending on social media and the two are inescapably bound together, at least in public. But in private, they know that they're not the perfect match. They're too different, they want different things, they live different lives.Can their differences bring them together? Or is Annabel's perfectly programmed algorithm less flawless than she thought? As the world watches their every move, Indy and Annabel have to decide what it really is they want. And maybe, just maybe, it's each other.Love By Numbers is a new stand-alone lesbian romance from Sienna Waters, the bestselling author of The Wrong Date, A Perfect Mess and the Oakview series.

    However, as blame shifts for the accident, their fledging relationship is tested as nefarious forces try to spin the narrative to conceal a darker truth.

    Although Hel continues to threaten Raine in her dreams, training with the strange phantasm, Sentinel, seems to keep the Goddess at bay. Her plans thwarted, Hel finally releases a dangerous prisoner to the mortal realm, sending the enemy of the gods themselves to wreak the havoc she cannot. Terror sweeps the land as a new evil appears in Arianthem: a succubus Witch who empowers herself through sexual activity. The dragon’s daughter, Idonea, stands in the land of the Ha’kan as “The Green” approaches. Powerful allies have fallen, friends have mysteriously disappeared, and now indecision takes hold. Should she face this threat alone? Does “The Green” want her dead? Or does the witch have some worse fate in store for her?

    Brooke is willing to do just about anything for her boss.She's got student loans to pay back, and even though being Liz Walker's personal assistant is a demanding job, she needs it.Brooke's crush on Liz makes it easy to get through those long days running around New York City rescheduling appointments or putting out fires for her.When Liz caved and got herself a personal assistant a year ago, she never imagined it would work out so well, but when they're mistaken for a couple and presented with a business opportunity, Liz thinks about continuing the charade beyond one night.It doesn't take long for lines to blur.What happens when a pretend relationship is full of real feelings?With Liz's reputation and a payday for Brooke on the line, figuring out how to keep this sham relationship going gets harder and harder.If you love lesbian fake relationship romances or age gap romances, this book is for you.

    Not just any revenge; she’s out to mend her recently shattered heart. Her ex, Wyatt, is going to pay, and the best way to make that happen is to seduce the girl he’s always wanted but has never caught: Esme Bell. To be fair, the dark-haired bartender with the infectious laugh is the girl just about everyone wants, and Wyatt is no exception.Paige’s plan is simple, and it’s going to work. Go out with Esme, take her home, and then rub her victory in Wyatt’s face for the whole town of Castleton, Maine to see. She does reconnaissance at the bar where Esme works, and soon, the game is ON.Is Paige just going to head right for the bedroom? No. She’s more subtle than that. Paige has never really seduced anyone like this, but how hard could it be? She’s not completely devoid of sexy skills.What starts as a plot to get back at her ex turns into something a whole lot more complicated when Paige catches major feelings. Is she ready to give up her mission and put her heart on the line again? Or should she just cut her losses and call the whole thing off?

    Antiquities is her game, and she’s the best there is, moving in the shadows even as she trades in the light. When an ambitious businessman approaches her to take on a deadlier game than even she’s willing to play, she knows she has to stop him. But she’ll need help…After a previous betrayal, Chase Stinsen doesn’t want anything to do with Rayne. Chase believes archeology is a tool to understand the past in an effort to help the future and has no use for profiting from the finds of history. But when Rayne proposes they track the legendary Golden Trinity, with the added benefit of helping indigenous tribes, she’s hooked.Danger lurks around every corner, and their defenses crumble as they have to depend on one another to survive. If Chase can finally trust Rayne again, she might just end up with more than the gold.

    What she does need is a nanny, but the incompetent idiots sent her way make her lose faith in ever finding anyone useful.Enter Emily Walker—fresh out of college, bright, a little naive, and new to New York City. Emily is everything Camila is not and frankly it’s a little unsettling how innocent and gentle the young woman is.That’s not all that’s unsettling. Camila’s growing feelings for Emily are making it hard to maintain a professional distance. Surely she can’t possibly be falling for the nanny? God, it’s such a mid-life crisis cliché. But would it be too impossible?As time goes on, Camila starts to wonder if maybe even she can get her happy ending after all.75,000 wordsTags: age gap romance, ice queen romance, New York, opposites-attract romance, single mom

    In these poems joy and loss hold hands—at sleepovers and haircuts, at symphonies and haunted mazes, among fathers, on dating apps, during car sex, in matching tattoos, on Pinterest boards, at funerals. Lisa Summe’s debut collection queers the love poem by demanding that the whole story be told—what it means to love, to grieve, and to heal by saying it out loud.Alive with moats of pink catfish, and gardens of boomerangs, Lisa Summe’s debut collection, Say It Hurts, draws us what we need most: new shapes of loss, new contours of love. And because we need it, Summe paints a vibrant queerness onto buzz cuts, backseats, and sleepovers. Forthright and declarative, Summe writes, in the book’s opening poem, “When a lesbian / writes a poem / it’s a lesbian poem.” What a queer wonder, to play light as a feather, stiff as a board. What a queer wonder to be both alive and capable of love, in a world that prefers we be neither. Summe writes, “see how I tried not to write a love poem but here it comes,”and it does come, and we love it.—Kayleb Rae Candrilli, Water I Won’t TouchIn Say It Hurts, Summe shows us what it can feel like to come home and come out again and again in the Midwest, home where a father can be “both nest & hawk,” home where a ten-year- old girl draws her dream wedding to a girl on a sheet of graph paper in math class, home where her body stands “steady like a home,” home where she misses the girl she loved and where she swims in the Allegheny River, home where the poem is the place and the girl she loved is there, too.—Julia Koets, Pine

    Frustrated, heartbroken and caught in the headlights, the last thing Alice needs is another relationship, but there’s something about Kerry which draws her in. As time passes, professional ethics are tested and lines blur as Alice and Kerry grow closer.However, when Alice discovers Kerry’s secret, she decides that fate may have brought them together… but fate, it appears, has a mind of its own…

    She moves to LA and jumps in with both feet to turn her books into movies. It gets even better when her new director is dapper butch, Rix Reardon. Everything is looking damn near perfect. For now, anyway.Rix Reardon splits her time between running her own production company and fundraising for the local LGBTQ Center. Life is great, but she yearns for a soul mate and the patter of tiny feet. When she starts filming with her favorite writer and they hit it off, Rix begins to wonder if Layla could be her future.But Layla receives an offer of a lifetime that Rix sees as a betrayal. Then there's the bombshell that Layla doesn’t believe in happy ever after, and Rix’s dream life begins to slip away.Will Layla and Rix find their way to love, or is happy ever after not in the script?

    The caller pins her father's death on a mobster selling secrets to the enemy. In her plan to bring him down, she didn't count on falling for the mobster's mistress, Kathryn Hammond.Kathryn Hammond is a popular nightclub singer with elegant grace and stunning good looks, but she harbors a secret. Stuck stateside carrying out dead-end missions for the OSS while the war rages in Europe, her life is turned upside down when Jenny Ryan becomes her latest dead-end mission and awakens the enemy that could cost her everything—desire.Lush with the sights and sounds of the 1940s, this mesmerizing slow burn love story will carry you deep into the shadow of the past and have you turning pages well into the night.In the Shadow of the Past is the first book in the lesbian noir Shadow series.

    As with all Emily Hayes books, you can guarantee some hot scenes and a Happy Ever After.Dr Nicole Graham is a hardworking Pediatrician at Forest Vale hospital. She meets a beautiful newcomer to Forest Vale at a Christmas party and is immediately drawn to her.But, the newcomer has her own complex story and Nicole doesn't do relationships, so it would never work, right?What will it take for Nicole to finally give her heart to another?Join Nicole and Suzie for Christmas parties, carols and festivities. Will Nicole get all she wants for Christmas?

    Unable to face a life cut off from the ocean with a man she despises, she chooses freedom at a terrible cost. Posing as a human wavesinger to remain hidden from her pursuers, she finds work on the ship of the dashing captain Anaar Kahlani.Anaar is searching for a mythical treasure and believes that Keola is the key to finding it. Amidst the hunt for fame and fortune, Anaar begins to fall for the mysterious wavesinger. Confronted with a secret and a dangerous revelation, she must decide what price she is willing to pay for untold riches – and for love.When Keola’s past catches up with her, can they survive the oncoming storm together, or will the trials ahead demand more of them than they are willing to sacrifice?

    Jill is trapped in an abusive marriage, while raising two young girls. Her husband has isolated her from the world and filled her days with fear. The last thing on her mind is love, but she sure could use a friend.Alex McCoy is enjoying a comfortable life, with great friends and a prosperous business. She has given up on love, after picking the wrong woman one too many times. Little does she know, a simple act of kindness might change her life forever.When Alex lends a helping hand to Jill at the local grocery store, they are surprised by their immediate connection and an unlikely friendship develops. As their friendship deepens, so too do their fears. In order to protect herself and the girls, Jill can’t let her husband know about her friendship with Alex, and Alex can’t discover what goes on behind closed doors. What would Alex do if she finds out the truth? At the same time, Alex must fight her attraction and be the friend she suspects Jill needs. Besides, Alex knows what every lesbian knows – don’t fall for a straight woman, especially one that’s married…but will her heart listen?

    

    

    

    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. So when she crosses paths with rising basketball star Christie Dillard, Blaise's interest is a null set. Christie is everything Blaise fears, fiercely competitive, brashly confident, and totally devoted to her game. That she is also endearingly awkward and irresistibly gorgeous is irrelevant data.But when Blaise glimpses a paradigm-shifting epiphany in the geometry of Christie’s jump shot, she begins to suspect this jock might be the missing variable that could balance the equation of her life.

    

    Beating Hearts is filled with exciting supernatural romance stories exploring the bonds between fated mates, where love knows no boundaries, crafted by some of your favorite bestselling and award-winning authors.

    Book three in the Sarah Sawyer series is an exciting Western that’s as down to earth as the dust on a tough rancher’s boots.

    How could she not? There isn’t a person alive who wouldn’t be drawn to the irresistibly beautiful and charming Connie. It seems impossible that she could reciprocate- not when Alex is so awkward, so timid, so very much a girl- until what starts as a sweet friendship blossoms into something so much more than Alex could have dreamed of.Alex knows that what they have is a momentary thing, not enough to be called forever. Connie’s the most popular girl in the school, wealthy and admired. She’s going to go to Trinity, maybe marry a lawyer. She’s going to have everything Alex could never give her. She isn’t stupid, after all. Status and reputation might mean nothing to her but to Connie they are everything. The only out-lesbian they know is ridiculed by everyone she meets, and it’ll be a cold day in Hell before Connie lets that be her.But when rumors spark and new faces enter the picture, they’re both set to discover that while it may be easy to walk away, it’s a lot harder to move on.

    Mac is Back! In part two of the Retrospect story and it is darker, bolder and sexier than ever!Mckenna Scott is alive! But far from out of her misery. After two years vanished, Mac Scott fought to unwrap the mystery of her disappearance and bring down the monsters that stole her life away. And she won. Yet, it soon became clear that behind those monsters was an evil force so formidable that they not only threaten her life but all of humanity.Mac Scott’s path to rediscovering herself continues. As the conflict in her heart finally finds harmony, some bonds break - while others strengthen. Who does her heart truly beat for?Her time held captive from the world and every battle fought to bring down Jakub, have taken their toll on Mac. The ghosts of her past haunt her, and she is learning that sometimes to move forwards, you must look back.Mac fights to destroy her demons, but as she grows stronger and faster, so does The Culling. With the weight of the world on her shoulders - It is no longer a question of why she was captured, but if she can convince herself that she is no longer the girl in chains.Escape was just the beginning; war is coming. Agent Scott must adapt. She must infiltrate. She must become a member of The Culling. Too many lives depend upon it.Mac is back! And she is going to raise hell.

    

    

    

    

    

    Her new employee, who once was her high-school bully. Fireworks soon ignite – but the question remains: Do people ever really change?June’s life is a dream come true. A confident, successful CEO of her own company, she’s so different from the bullied, scared girl she was in high school, sometimes she can’t believe those days were real.That’s until one day, she finds none other than Arabella, a.k.a. The Queen of Mean, working for her. Why in the world did her old tormentor take a position at June’s company of all places?And how come she’s so…different…too?Fallen from grace, formerly rich Arabella is reduced to a paycheck-to-paycheck lifestyle, and she wants June’s forgiveness – and soon, her love. June fights her suspicions and her growing attraction to the woman who once threatened to destroy her – until she can’t.Just as June gives in to her feelings, her company comes under attack, and there’s only one suspect: Arabella.As she struggles to find the truth, June can’t help but wonder. Did Arabella really change? Or did she just pretend so she could make good on her old threat to destroy June?

    Globe-trotting photographer Eleanor Heysen is edgy, sexy, and just passing through.When a family mystery emerges while she’s back home in Melbourne, Eleanor crosses paths with intoxicating historian Alexa Bellamy. The self-assured picture-collections manager is irresistible.Steamy kisses between the stacks at the State Library are one thing, but what happens when the ever-curious Eleanor shakes Alexa’s family tree, and dark secrets tumble out?Alexa is in an emotional free-fall, overwhelmed by her broody, spirited, and likely fleeting admirer, and the fear and betrayal stirred up from the truth about Alexa’s ancestors.Is the invisible thread that brought the women together strong enough to pull them tighter? Or could it unravel and, just as Alexa fears, Eleanor will disappear?