She is also one of the Kingdom’s most privileged slaves – one of the Praetoria: five of the best, sworn to protect the Prince and, one day, to rule at his side. It’s not a bad life – luxurious parties in any of the eighteen worlds, beautiful women falling over themselves to land in her bed, her orders to be obeyed by over forty-eight billion citizens.But when a routine job goes spectacularly wrong, Cie discovers there is a witness to her failure – a witness to a political assassination the King would never want revealed. It’s Cie’s intense misfortune that the witness is a beauty – a woman with sweet, warm skin that Cie longs to sink into, with deep, brown eyes that hold promises that Cie has only ever dreamt of, a woman whose embrace offers a gentleness and a kindness Cie craves above all else.Jemma thought she’d been in love before, but when she falls for the King’s assassin, she falls hard. Cie burns her up – the assassin plays fast and loves harder, and Jemma’s head is whirling even as her body is thrilled. Jemma watches as a growing terrorist threat pushes the King to madness and Cie’s orders become more and more violent. The woman she thinks she loves is steeped in red. Is it even possible for a girl from the suburbs to love a person so drenched in blood?

    Single and recently scorned, she’s dreading the next two weeks of couple’s massages, wine tastings and moonlight walks surrounded by people in love. Even the staff are hot and flirty… or maybe that’s just Haley’s heartache talking.But when a white-out catches Haley unprepared and underdressed, romance is the least of her worries.She’s disoriented and shivering when someone reaches through the storm and pulls her into an unoccupied cabin. As the blizzard rages outside, Haley meets her savior—the admirer she’d noticed before, a tall, dark and handsome woman named Destiny. And those sultry looks? Haley wasn’t imagining them.Des builds a fire in the hearth and kindles another in Haley’s core. Snowed in on Valentine’s Day, Haley can’t resist Cupid’s arrow—or Des herself. At least until the storm lets up.

    

    Cue the nervous flop sweat.In a tiny town on the coast of Rhode Island, Maggie has built a quiet life running her family’s bookshop. But as much as she loves her work—and the eclectic town she calls home—something is missing. Then one day, an absolute smoke show walks through the front door and throws Maggie off her (arguably, very small and unreliable) game.Parker’s entire life blew up a few months back when she walked away from her home, job, and longtime girlfriend, all in a single day.When a new job presents itself in the next state over, she jumps at the chance for a fresh start, determined to avoid romance this time around. But, because life always has a way of knocking Parker on her ass, she finds the most alluring, adorably nervous woman standing behind the register of a local bookshop.Add in that Maggie’s over a decade younger than Parker and has a really hard time finishing a sentence around her, and everyone ends up flustered.WarningThis book contains snark, lesbian age gap butterflies, husbands you’ll fall in love with, and just so much gay panic. Please read at your own risk.

    When her great-grandmother passes, her estate bequeathed Peri a piece of jewelry, a stack of cash, and a note that simply reads “find her.” As a newly licensed private investigator, Peri travels to Italy to find the mysterious woman whose photo was perfectly preserved in the heart-shaped locket. What she doesn’t expect is to be given the runaround from a beautiful stranger who offers to help and does anything but.Camila Barnes is bored. Nothing exciting ever happens in the small town of Sequina, Italy. When a pushy American shows up demanding to meet the woman in Camila’s artwork, instead of introducing her to her great-grandmother, Camila decides to lead her on a wild goose chase all over town. Nobody messes with her family, especially people who won’t tell her why.When the truth is finally revealed, Peri and Camilla realize they are a part of something greater than they ever expected. Attraction is fleeting and true love touches only a few. Do they take the easy road home, or do they fight the odds and give love the chance to last for always?

    Love hurts.Special Agent Dak Farrell works cold cases, and she's damn good at it. She's always on the move and doesn't care where the next case takes her. But when the Salt Lake City police department need her help with a new serial killer, she'll be around a little longer than usual. Long enough to get attached to the beautiful woman next door...Mortician Callie "CJ" Johnson is on top of the world until her show, Dead Pretty, is canceled. Thanks to a frivolous lifestyle, she's got nothing to show for it. With no other alternative, she heads home to lick her wounds and wait for a new opportunity. When she sees the hot FBI agent living next door, that opportunity isn't what she expected.When CJ fixes the serial killer's "artistic" work, she becomes his next target. Will Dak be able to save her? Or will The Artist claim CJ as his next victim?

    Those secrets lead back to Melissa’s home system and a threat to the existence of her clan.

    All she wants is a quiet life. Until a stray dog sets her on a collision course with a beautiful young vet.Emory Carter is fresh out of vet school and desperate to save her dead father's veterinary practice. But when she ends up getting sued, it looks like her dreams are shattered.When ice queen lawyer meets ambitious young vet sparks start to fly. But it's all so wrong. Holland is too old and broken for this, and Emory is too busy failing at life. And yet the two just can't keep their hands off each other. Right up until tragedy strikes.Opposites can attract, but can they build a life together? When lives are quite literally on the line sometimes the only thing you can do is believe in true love. Which might be a problem if you're a cold-hearted lawyer...A Quiet Life is a new stand-alone lesbian romance from Sienna Waters, the bestselling author of The Wrong Date, A Perfect Mess and Tea Leaves & Tourniquets.

    They get pushback from surprising places, even from friends they’ve counted on for support. Unresolved issues from Liz’s marriage cloud the prospect even more, especially when her ex-wife returns, desperately needing help. A new doctor has joined Hobbs Family Practice, sparking rumors that Liz will retire. Across town, Police chief, Brenda Harrison, and her wife are settling into a new relationship, but Cherie hears her biological clock ticking. When a shocking tragedy creates an opportunity for them to become parents, all their friends need to step in to help. When couples rearrange in surprising ways, the women of Hobbs find their lives intertwined like the strands of a rope.

    Where has she fled to? Why has she gone? And why is the dragon stirring?Enter our hero. Gwen has been hunting wanted criminals for years, collecting bounties to provide for her mother and brother since the death of their father. The promise of an armful of gold for bringing the princess home is too good to ignore.But bringing her home doesn't solve anyone's problems. Gwen still has family to support, and Ava still has a miserable marriage to look forward to. How will they get over these hurdles? And what new ones will they create along the way?

    

    

    She finds out just how unprepared she is when a blizzard hits. Snow and ice trap her alone in her home, and with it come unexpected complications. The only person available to help is her neighbor Joy. Hotter than hell on the outside but with a personality colder than ice, Joy has lived in the area for years but hasn’t said one word to Willow since she moved in next door. Initially, both women refuse to reach out to one another in the blizzard, but after the neighborhood loses electricity, everything changes. Joy is no stranger to surviving winter storms, and Willow quickly realizes she has a lot to learn from her, including how to start a fire. But as the two women spend more and more time together during the storm, a different sort of flame begins burning between them.

    Pebbled asphalt abrades my skin. The rain is cool on my flesh – washing the blood away; my husband's death. The pregnancy he never knew about.Then there was Her.My savior is unrefined. Temperamental. Strong. Deliberate.And... beautiful.My husband is gone. I don't want anyone to replace him. I don't need anyone else.Except Her.

    Espicially a gay one, now add to that being the only one of your species. I am the only dhampir in existence. I'm left to stumble blindly as I figure out who and what I am.Two decades after one of my mothers, Mavis Aubrey, sacrificed herself, becoming the source of all darkness, the immortal community outside New Orleans opens the first Magiks University. Naturally, being eighteen, and eagar to discover more about my gifts, mainly how to control my growing psychic abilities, and my deep empathic sense, I enroll in the first class. Along with my younger siblings, and my best friend and sort-of twin sister Jaxie, I start my post-apycalyptic university life.Dangers follow me everywhere I go. Something is hunting the immortals of my class, and hunting me. Some unseen malice is directed at me, and I don't even know if I have what it takes to stop the threat, before the first class of Magiks University, is the last class.Expanded universe of the Blood and Darkness universe. A new generation of burgeoning immortals come into a crueler world, a world without the protection Mavis once provided her peoples. It is up to the survivors of the appycalypse to figure out how to navigate this viceral, unforgiving world.Dhampir Dylan is like Vampire Academy and Chicagolands Vampires had a Distopian lovechild!New Adult/ Coming of Age has never looked this gritty! New Adult/ Young Adult told in only the manner Aria Storm could deem appropriate!

    

    

    For two years she’s been playing open mic night at bars throughout the city, trying to catch a break. And it doesn’t help that she feels in direct competition with Kirsten Kavanaugh, another singer-songwriter who looks so similar to Winnie that the two are often confused for each other.While Winnie battles with her own wavering feelings of self-worth, Kirsten appears so confident and talented. Deep down, Kirsten is exactly who Winnie wishes she could be. But when these two young women are paired up for a songwriting event, Winnie must put aside her envy and work together with her musical rival.The stories that Winnie has let stew in her head don’t always reflect the reality that’s in front of her. As she grows closer to Kirsten and begins to open up, will Winnie’s dreams of getting noticed come to fruition alongside an unlikely romance?

    

    The trouble started when she found him.It looked like a simple task: serve divorce papers on failed businessman Harry Smith, who’s run off to rural north Wales leaving his wife with a baby and a mountain of debt. A welcome distraction from the implosion of her personal life.But it turns out that Teema Crowe isn’t the only one looking for Harry when she — literally — trips over his body, lying face down in a pool of oil, with a knife in his back.The police think Teema makes an excellent suspect for the murder. Her employer and her cheating ex-girlfriend know far too much about it but they aren’t telling. There’s an illegal money-lender who wants Teema silenced, and doesn’t mind hurting the people she loves, and a widow who just wants the insurance.It’s a race against time for Teema to find out who killed Harry, before the police or the murderer find her.

    You’ll never hear from me again.”Bonnie tilted up Natalie’s chin with one, manicured finger.“Then let’s have some fun.”Natalie Roche has made it. She has her life, her independence, and her rock-and-roll dream job: a talent manager in L.A., at the world’s largest music management firm.But when Natalie’s grandmother dies and leaves her the family house in Appalachian Maryland, she has no choice but to trek her way back east and confront the past she’s worked so hard to escape. But luckily for her, family drama isn’t the only thing she finds in the mountains.A luscious lawyer, a heartthrob handyman, a mediocre mom, and an absolute asshole of a half-brother… This road trip might be more than what she’d bargained for.

    Worse, Ruby had some grand, beautiful dream to turn it into an animal shelter.Claire couldn’t look more like a villain in her new town if she tried. Now she has to find a way to make peace with the locals, as Ruby furiously works out a Plan B for her animal shelter.But even as the hot-headed women keep clashing, it’s hard not to notice their sizzling chemistry, and how attractive they find each other.It seems unlikely they’ll even manage to be friends at this rate. And being more than friends…that would be just ridiculous! Right?

    A network of spies and saboteurs.Valia Iceborn is the daughter of two worlds, and a servant of none: her mother was a Northern outlaw and her father a Southern deserter. She grew up in the wilds of No Man’s Land, but the open sea is her home. She swears no allegiances, lest they be to gold.Knight Protector Portia Daysen is a loyal of daughter of the empire. She goes where she’s told, and does what she’s told. When the empire sends her to the bustling city of Black Port to ferret out a mysterious secret order threatening stability in the region, she doesn’t think twice.Plunged into a world of deceit and derring-do, where no one is who they pretend to be, and nothing is at it seems, Daysen’s investigation leads her to Valia’s dock.And crossing sabers with the most formidable – and charming – foe of her career might be the last mission Knight Protector Portia Daysen ever takes.

    She decides to move across the country and establish a new and independent life after college. On the way to her new position in Flagstaff, Arizona, Vanna meets out and proud Trey, who loves to flirt.Trey has never forgotten the beautiful young woman she met briefly and is determined to ensure their paths cross again.Thousands of miles from home, Vanna finds out more about herself, but not her feeling of being disconnected from her parents. Will Vanna ever form the connection she desperately seeks? Does Trey’s determination work out?

    But after years of searching, the trail went cold and everyone wrote her off as dead. She left behind her girlfriend Lex and a grieving family, including a father whose health worsens every day.Only she’s not dead. She’s been held in an underground cellar for eight years, abused by a man whose name she doesn’t know. Reading her favorite fantasy book over and over to escape the abuse, she slowly begins to lose track of what’s fiction and what’s real. By the time freedom comes, Etta confuses herself for the main character in the book – a girl named Mathilde who suffers her own story of abuse.The world Etta returns to doesn’t know what to make of her, and she can’t tell what’s real. She doesn’t even know how to be a person anymore, let alone reconnect with her family and girlfriend. How can she learn to exist again when for so many years she just tried to hide?And who is she really, Etta or Mathilde?

    She's a talented computer programmer and app developer but she has a visa problem. With only temporary working papers, she takes the only job offered, one as a courier for a posh Manhattan based company.If only Rachel could figure out what RHS actually does. That might appease her fiancee Amelie that her job and the company are legitimate and there's future potential for her.Alas, figuring it all out proves to be hard, even for a tech geek. When strange things start to happen, Rachel and Amelie get caught up in a high stakes game neither could have imagined.

    After the Great War, there was no power more sought after than a being gifted a bloostone, gems endowed with the last of the power from the fallen rulers. Alette is one of the few in the Seelie Realm who holds such a gift. Constantly bound by the Elders, Alette feels the weight of her bloodstone like a noose around her neck. She wishes they would trust her with the powers she knows she could control, if only given the chance. Cricket's home has been stolen away from her, her family and all she loves. She may not know how to navigate all her elemental powers, but she was always skilled with a blade, and those skills pay well. All she cares about these days are the bounties. She can't let anything else get too close, she's not sure she'd survive another heartbreak.A bounty is set, and Cricket is the only assassin in all the Seven Realms worthy of stealing something important.It was supposed to be as simple as any bounty. Get in, get out. No questions asked, Cricket never cared for answers anyhow. Yet, she can't deny the pull in her chest, the promise of a hole still open and raw being filled, and a chance at something bigger than she could ever dream. Alette feels it too, and unlike Cricket, she is ready to dive into this head first. Is Cricket strong enough to protect the Pixie everyone in the Seven Realms seems to want to get their hands on? Or will she lose her just like she's lost everything else?

    Set things on fire. Fall in love? A superpowered sci-fi romance.When dying alien ships materialized across the Earth, their nanite infection knocked Deneve Wilder out cold. She woke up with the ability to see the future. Determined to keep anyone from using her visions for evil, she took to the road. Giving up everything was a small price to pay for freedom.The ship that hit Jolie Betancourt's town gave her the power to set things on fire. It was safer to start over in a new city. Then one terrible mistake demonstrated far too clearly that for her, solitude is safer. For everyone.So when Deneve shows up after a vision of Jolie being kidnapped, Jolie wants little to do with the frustratingly attractive drifter. Deneve's surprised by how much she wants to thaw the pretty shopkeeper's chilly attitude, but the idea of staying in one place sets off her alarm bells.If they can't evade whoever's abducting people with powers, however, the growing connection they both feel in spite of themselves might be the least of their problems.The first installment of a near-future science fiction F/F romance series, which is slow burn to high heat with a guaranteed HEA at series end.Tropes: superpowers, drifter, ice queen, battle couple, forced proximity.Detailed content warnings are available in the book's front matter and on the author's website.Cover artist: Sarah Waites, Illustrated Page Book Design