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Eight Dates
Lori L. Lake - 2014
She’s found that meeting women is difficult – kind of daunting, actually. She feels like she’s been run through the mill, and she doesn’t want to go through it again. But when her best pal and business partner Mitchell signs her up at the GirlsGaylore.com dating website and characterizes her as a happy-go-lucky, amorous, risk-taking single, all hell breaks loose. Suddenly women are coming out of the woodwork and Sky hardly knows what to make of it. EIGHT DATES is a comical story of a woman’s search for Ms. Right—and how she finds quite a few Ms. Wrongs along the way.
One Way Ticket
Emma Collins - 2017
ASIN B075N7XLDV moved to the most recent edition hereWhen Abbey's best friend and business partner, Melissa, suggests that Abbey take a year long vacation, Abbey thinks she's crazy.How could she drop everything, leave New York and their law firm behind, to go sit on a beach for a year?But the more Abbey thinks about it, the nicer it starts to sound.She takes her friend's advice and decides to spend the next year in Tampa, renting a house beside the beach.The last thing Abbey wanted is to fall for someone.Payton isn't Abbey's type and there's so many reasons why they shouldn't get together.Even if it did work, does Abbey care enough about Payton to leave her life in NYC behind?
Building Love
M.E. Tudor - 2018
Theresa Garland is working as a foreman for her father's construction company. He assigns her a job working for Patty McNeal's mother. The two young women are on different paths that converge. They will have to get over the pain from the past caused by other people, and their fears of the future to build a life together.
Secrets of the Heart
Syd Parker - 2010
Suddenly, she is left without her best friend, no love life and serious doubts where her life is headed. Jude Stafford is a hard—nosed attorney who has lived with the knowledge that she wasn’t the son her father always wanted and somehow manages not to care. She lives on the edge, fast cars and faster women. She is a self—professed one night stand who has sworn off love. But when fate brings the two together, all bets are off. The passion is there, but can they let go enough to let destiny do its work?
Duct Tape and a Tarp: A Dubious Adventure
Kelli Jae Baeli - 2018
Sometimes it’s a sprinkle, and sometimes it’s a deluge. This is the wetter one.Drew Keen is not a people-person. No surprise, she’s lived in the Northwoods for the last decade, living simply and working freelance photography jobs for National Geographic. Finally, the loneliness persuades her to attend her college reunion, intent on reconnecting with the one that got away.Amber Richards has gone to every class reunion, hoping to see Drew, who fell off the grid after their graduation led to an inevitable breakup. She didn't expect Drew to be there this year either.She also didn't expect to spend her reunion time with an old flame, running away from her in the Northwoods.
Crossing Into Brooklyn
J.A. Armstrong - 2020
She spends her days creating fantastical realms full of magic, elves, and other mythical creatures. It’s not unusual for her characters to find true love. But Carter has lost faith in finding her Happily Ever After. Aside from her doubts about finding real-life love, Carter’s greatest nemesis is the chaos on her desk and in her computer files. Her best friend, Ali, thinks she has the solution: hire Brooklyn Brady to “organize” Carter’s life. Carter is skeptical. Brooklyn’s picture and her online profile pique Carter’s curiosity, and she agrees to meet Brooklyn in New York.A coffee meeting followed by a marathon dinner pave the way for a working relationship between Carter and Brooklyn. Brooklyn Brady quickly captures more than Carter’s interest. Leaving old wounds in the past and taking a chance with someone new isn’t in Carter’s plans. Brooklyn’s unassuming nature, her intelligence, humility, and her honesty test the limits of Carter’s resolve. The question for Carter is whether she can allow Brooklyn to clear more than the chaos from her desk. Can Brooklyn resolve the turmoil in Carter’s heart? Will Crossing Into Brooklyn finally help Carter find her Happily Ever After?
Hope & a Canoe
Michele M. Reynolds - 2014
She’s just waiting until she turns eighteen and has enough money saved to run away from her unbearable life with her grandparents. Gracie has everything Tember never knew she was missing—a good education and a loving father, who is supportive of her sexual orientation and even tries to set her up with girls. When he introduces the two girls, Gracie’s blue eyes and strong character immediately catch Tember’s attention. But a summer romance is not Tember’s style, especially since she’s about to run away.
Falling Slowly
Laura Conway - 2017
She's confident, charismatic and stunning. The only thing is Harper doesn't do relationships and Kate doesn't do one night stands... Or could she? Just this one time. Kate knows she can't fall for Harper but that doesn't mean she can stop it from happening. Do these two have a chance? After all, they say opposites attract. 18+ Mature Audiences Read for free with Kindle Unlimited
Alex Hope
A.J. Estelliam - 2017
They were a bright, crystal clear green-yet one had a fleck of brown in it. Her eyes were extraordinary and they were smiling at me warmly.’ When Alex Hope wakes from a car accident, she is a changed woman. Suddenly able to hear the thoughts of everyone around her, she struggles to cope. With part of her thinking she is going crazy and the other part overwhelmed, she decides to go away on holiday. With noise and thoughts consuming her, she travels to the remotest part of Scotland she can find. The trouble is, she doesn’t find what she is looking for. While settling into a cabin in wooded seclusion, Alex hears a distress call. She can hear a woman nearby…and she is in desperate need of help. Alex calls the police for assistance, and despite their disbelief, she leads them to the woods where they find a missing woman buried in a chamber under the ground. As a second woman is discovered deeper down, Alex is whisked away for safety. Stuck with JJ (Jess) Love, a female police detective who works locally, she is taken to a safe house. Alex is thrown by Jess, as she has been dreaming about a woman with green eyes-with unique flecks of brown in. Jess is the woman who has been haunting her thoughts. As the women bond in their close quarters, Alex begins to feel like she was destined to meet Jess. As thoughts and memories of Jess’ past begin to fill her head, Alex is determined to help her. With an attraction building and a murder investigation ensuing, the women are unable to stay away from each other. Alex can’t walk away. Jess has captured her thoughts…and her heart. Will Alex be able to save Jess? Find out in…Alex Hope.
Switchback
S.W. Andersen - 2017
A rising star in women's professional downhill mountain bike racing, she has all the tools to become a world champion. All she needs to do is fully commit herself. Something far easier said than done. As stubborn as she is independent, Sierra has always carved her own path, refusing to fall in line with the controlling, commercialized aspects of the sport. Her trademark no-holds-barred, reckless style of riding has earned her as many cheers as it has jeers. Dr. Kara Davies, a highly regarded and accomplished physician, is well on her way to achieving her dreams in chiropractic research. Commitment to her goals has never been an issue, but her personal life is a different story. Preferring the comfort and safety of her lab over personal relationships, Kara's one-track mind allows no deviation. But life is full of twists and turns. After an accident on the track lands Sierra in Kara's on-site medical center, the doctor suddenly finds she has more on her mind that work. Blindsided by mutual attraction, Sierra and Kara struggle to accept their feelings for each other and to deal with the change it brings. Will love be enough? Or will life's little switchbacks send them both careening off course?
A Place to Call Home
Jenny Bloom - 2019
She has never been on a plane before. She’s upset and nervous enough, but she just has to get out of Chicago for a little while to clear her head. Lindsey never thought one meeting on a plane would change her life forever. Is there true love out there? She didn’t think so after what she’s just been through. After meeting Kelli Monroe, Lindsey can see that she’s bubbly, kind and nice. They sit beside each other on the plane. Lindsey likes her positive attitude. It’s just the thing she needs to pull her out of her gloom and pity. Kelli comforts Lindsey on the plane without even personally knowing her! Lindsey finds out quickly that Kelli is also from Chicago. What are the odds that they are from the same place, going to the same place? Lindsey thinks. So when Kelli asks to exchange telephone, Lindsey is all in. There’s nothing wrong with making a friend along this rough road of life. Little does Lindsey know just how much Kelli is going to change her life, how much she is going to learn from her. How she can turn any heart that’s bitter, into wanting to love again. Kelli shows Lindsey just how strong she is when she feels like Lindsey can’t make it through at all. Please Note: This book contains adult language and steamy adult activities, it is intended for 18+ Adults Only. Novel, approximately 40,000 words in length. HEA (happy ever after ending). Does not end with a "cliffhanger."
Full of Grace: A Monday's Child Romance
Sienna Waters - 2019
Why would a dancer provoke the wrath of an anonymous letter writer? And when her director hires ex-soldier Sam Weaver to be Alena's bodyguard, the dancer is furious. Having her privacy invaded and her independence ripped away mean that Alena hates Sam at first sight.Sam's reeling from a job gone wrong, an incident that means she's practically unemployable in the security field. A contract with Alena could be enough to prop up Sam's failing reputation. The only problem? Alena doesn't want her there and refuses to follow her instructions, meaning she's a risk that Sam might not be able to afford to take.Alena and Sam might be stuck with each other, but that doesn't mean they have to like each other. Unfortunately, the heart doesn't always listen to the head. And as danger races closer the two must decide just exactly what chances they're prepared to take.Love has to be about compromise, but what if you've never had to compromise before? Career-oriented Alena and controlling Sam are the last people in the world willing to change themselves for love. There's no reason they should be together and every reason they should stay apart, but can Alena and Sam end up in each others' arms anyway?Full of Grace is the second in the Monday's Child series of lesbian romance novels, and features a HEA ending. Monday's Child books can be read independently and in any order.
The Sound of Silence
Lou J. Bard - 2018
Among her charges is the young and elusive Alice Jameson. Alice Jameson has been silent for the last fifteen years of her life and doesn’t have any plans to open up about her past or her traumatic life anytime soon, especially not to someone as beautiful and perfect as Indiana Reynolds who manages to get the shy Alice to start experiencing what life could be like outside of the sound of silence.
Paying the Price
Julia P. Lynde - 2013
She discovers her captor is Dareena, daughter of the Tendarian queen, who intends to return Meorie to Tendaria to stand trial for war crimes of four years ago.Dareena promises justice, but Meorie knows she will only receive vengeance. She is offered the choice of spending the voyage trussed like a turkey with an equally undignified delivery to the Tendarian palace, or she can accept a magical slave collar of obedience, to be removed upon delivery. She accepts the collar, binding her to obedience to Dareena.As the voyage progresses, Meorie attempts to defeat the collar while learning how deep the treachery towards her has extended. She also finds herself falling in love with her captor.This novella of 43,000 words, about 130 printed pages, is the darkest story Julia P. Lynde has written.
Love Is Eternal
Emily Sharp - 2017
After a childhood blighted by addiction and foster homes and an engagement that ended with no reason given, she's built walls so big it would take dynamite to destroy them. Then she meets Julie and those walls begin to crumble. At the age of twenty-two, Julie Summers is ready to embark on her last year of college. Positive, happy-go-lucky and drop-dead gorgeous, Julie has the world at her feet. And then she meets Veronica. She's instantly bewitched by her beauty and wants to be the one who chases all her shadows away. As both women learn more about each other, will it bring them closer together or drive them apart?