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One Last Stop By Casey McQuiston Cover Image
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Published: St. Martin's Griffin - June 1st, 2021

*INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*
*INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER*
*INSTANT #1 INDIE BESTSELLER*


From the New York Times bestselling author of Red, White & Royal Blue comes a new romantic comedy that will stop readers in their tracks...


Honey Girl By Morgan Rogers Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780778311027
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Published: Park Row - February 23rd, 2021

Named Most Anticipated of 2021 by Oprah Magazine * Marie Claire * Ms. Magazine * E * Parade Magazine * Buzzfeed * Cosmo * The Rumpus * GoodReads * Autostraddle * Brit & Co * Refinery29 * Betches * BookRiot and others

A LibraryReads Pick

"HONEY GIRL is an emotional, heartfelt, charming debut, and I loved every moment of it."


Patience & Sarah (Little Sister's Classics #3) By Isabel Miller, Emma Donoghue (Introduction by) Cover Image
By Isabel Miller, Emma Donoghue (Introduction by)
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ISBN: 9781551521916
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Published: Arsenal Pulp Press - September 1st, 2005

"A remarkable story."--Publishers Weekly


Simply the Best By Karin Kallmaker Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781642471502
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Published: Bella Books - August 17th, 2021

Simply the Worst...Alice Cabot's only great love is science, but a lapse in judgment has exiled the New York journalist to the glitzy Gallerias and vapid bubble-babble of Beverly Hills. The assignment to do a flattering feature series on Simply the Best and the superficial nonsense it sells threatens to crush what little is left of her spirit.


House of Agnes By Fiona Zedde Cover Image
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ISBN: 9783963245022
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Published: Ylva Verlag E.Kfr. - June 30th, 2021

How to Find a Princess: Runaway Royals By Alyssa Cole Cover Image
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Published: Avon - May 25th, 2021

New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Alyssa Cole’s second Runaway Royals novel is a queer Anastasia retelling, featuring a long-lost princess who finds love with the female investigator tasked with tracking her down.


Unrivaled By Radclyffe Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781636790138
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Published: Bold Strokes Books - May 11th, 2021

Zoey Cohen spent a lifetime learning to hide disappointment and loss behind a mask of unshakeable calm and control, even when her longtime friend-with-benefits lover moves on for true love.



Beebo Brinker By Ann Bannon Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781573441254
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Published: Cleis Press - May 16th, 2001

Designated the "Queen of Lesbian Pulp Fiction" for authoring five landmark novels beginning in 1957, Ann Bannon's work defined lesbian fiction for the pre-Stonewall generation.


I Kissed a Girl By Jennet Alexander Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781728222707
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Published: Sourcebooks Casablanca - August 3rd, 2021

Can an up-and-coming horror actress

and the makeup artist for her newest "creature feature"

turn on-set chemistry into the romance of a lifetime?


Spindrift By Anna Burke Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781612941776
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Published: Bywater Books - August 25th, 2020

Sometimes love finds you when you least expect it . . .


Satisfaction Guaranteed By Karelia Stetz-Waters Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781538735527
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Published: Forever - June 1st, 2021

For fans of Casey McQuiston and Abby Jimenez comes a bold, hilarious, and out-of-the-box novel about mixing business with battery-operated pleasure . . .

When it comes to her career, Cade Elgin has it all figured out.


A World Between By Emily Hashimoto Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781936932955
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Published: Feminist Press - September 15th, 2020

A college fling between two women turns into a lifelong connection--and spells out a new kind of love story for a millennial, immigrant America.

"A sweetly poignant look at the transformative power of young love." --O, The Oprah Magazine


The Hellion's Waltz: Feminine Pursuits By Olivia Waite Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780062931832
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Published: Avon Impulse - June 15th, 2021

It’s not a crime to steal a heart... 


Chemistry Lessons By Jae Cover Image
By Jae
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ISBN: 9783963245473
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Published: Ylva Verlag E.Kfr. - August 4th, 2021

Calumet By Ali Vali Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781635559002
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Published: Bold Strokes Books - August 10th, 2021

Jaxon Lavigne left the small town of Chackbay, Louisiana, to escape disapproving parents and has never looked back. She's now a popular English lit professor. Life is good. Really. The only problem is the invite in her mailbox. Who in their right mind has a fifteen-year high school reunion?



Femme Like Her: A Lesbian Romance By Fiona Zedde Cover Image
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ISBN: 9798655047259
Published: Independently Published - November 30th, 2020

Nailah Grant only dates studs, races her Camaro for therapy, and believes in leaving her exes in the past where they belong.


Last Night at the Telegraph Club By Malinda Lo Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780525555254
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Published: Dutton Books for Young Readers - January 19th, 2021

Winner of the National Book Award
A New York Times Bestseller

"The queer romance we’ve been waiting for.”—Ms. Magazine


The Stars at Night By Gerri Hill Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781642471755
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Published: Bella Books - November 17th, 2020

Self-described city girl Lexie Walton is a million miles from nowhere and completely out of her element.


Shaken or Stirred By Georgia Beers Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781635559286
Published: Bold Strokes Books - August 10th, 2021

The only girl in a house of boys, Julia Martini worked extra hard to get noticed. That has made her business-minded and driven, and she's determined to turn her family's struggling bar around. Simple. All she has to do is remodel, re-staff, and rebrand the place, work insane hours and ignore the sexy blonde who comes in to...she's flirting, right?


The Price of Salt, or Carol By Patricia Highsmith Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780393325997
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - March 17th, 2004

"A great American writer…Highsmith's writing is wicked…it puts a spell on you." —Entertainment Weekly

Patricia Highsmith's story of romantic obsession may be one of the most important, but still largely unrecognized, novels of the twentieth century. First published in 1952 and touted as "the novel of a love that society forbids," the book soon became a cult classic.


Patience & Esther: An Edwardian Romance By Sw Searle Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781945820700
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Published: Iron Circus Comics - January 26th, 2021

Sensual, sweet, and beautifully illustrated, PATIENCE & ESTHER is a steamy period romance and an inspirational erotic journey across the epic sweep of history, from the end of a gilded age to the start of an uncharted future.


Masquerade By Anne Shade Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781635558319
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Published: Bold Strokes Books - February 9th, 2021

When Katie Met Cassidy By Camille Perri Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780735212824
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Published: G.P. Putnam's Sons - June 4th, 2019

"A film-ready rom-com about finding love when you least expect it."--Elle

"My favorite romantic book of recent memory." --Emma Straub

"The delightful, sexy, queer rom-com of the summer . . . [with] all the makings of a Nora Ephron classic." --Vogue

*One of NPR's Best Books of 2018*
*One of Washington Post's 50 Notable Works of Fiction in 2018*


Once Ghosted, Twice Shy: A Reluctant Royals Novella By Alyssa Cole Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780062931870
Published: Avon Impulse - February 19th, 2019

Alyssa Cole returns with a fun, sexy romance novella in the Reluctant Royals series!


Treacherous Seas (Provincetown Tales #8) By Radclyffe Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781635557787
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Published: Bold Strokes Books - November 10th, 2020

Reese Conlon's much anticipated family leave is only two weeks away, and nothing is going to stand in the way of her being at her wife's side for the upcoming birth--not even the summer crowds in Provincetown, a new rookie cop with a hero complex, and a cruise ship at anchor in the harbor with a reported outbreak of a mysterious illness.


Curious Wine By Katherine V. Forrest Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781594932557
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Published: Bella Books - April 19th, 2011

The intimacy of a cabin at Lake Tahoe provides the combustible circumstances that bring Diana Holland and Lane Christianson together in this passionate novel of first discovery.

Candid in its eroticism, intensely romantic, remarkably beautiful, CURIOUS WINE is a love story that will remain in your memory.


The Care and Feeding of Waspish Widows: Feminine Pursuits By Olivia Waite Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780062931825
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Published: Avon Impulse - July 28th, 2020

When Agatha Griffin finds a colony of bees in her warehouse, it’s the not-so-perfect ending to a not-so-perfect week. Busy trying to keep her printing business afloat amidst rising taxes and the suppression of radical printers like her son, the last thing the widow wants is to be the victim of a thousand bees.


The Secret of You and Me By Melissa Lenhardt Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781525832208
Published: Graydon House - August 4th, 2020

A DVF Book Club Pick

True love never fades--and old secrets never die...


Spirit of the Law By Carsen Taite Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781635557664
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Published: Bold Strokes Books - February 9th, 2021

The first time Summer Byrne met hard-nosed prosecutor Owen Lassiter, Summer was the jury forewoman who delivered the verdict that ruined Owen's winning streak.


Hairpin Curves: A Road Trip Romance By Elia Winters Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781335146656
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Published: Carina Adores - July 28th, 2020

A Popsugar Best Romance Novel of 2020

RITA(R) Award--winning author Elia Winters delivers a sexy, playful frenemies-to-lovers road trip romance.


Bliss By Fiona Zedde Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781534756557
Published: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform - September 16th, 2016

A WOMAN WHO HAS NEVER BEEN TRULY SATISFIED...


Winter's Harbor By Rey Aurora Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781626394988
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Published: Bold Strokes Books - November 16th, 2015

Lia Brooks has a broken heart and a burning desire to escape New York City. She decides Provincetown is the perfect winter escape to find some peace and regroup. Alex McKinnon is the pastry chef and proprietor of The Flour Pot Caf in the heart of Provincetown. She loves owning her own business and the easy, no-strings-attached relationships that come with living in a gay tourist mecca.


Love on the Night Shift (Rivers Community Romance #6) By Radclyffe Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781635556681
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Published: Bold Strokes Books - May 12th, 2020

Between ruling the night shift in the ER at the Rivers and raising her teenage daughter, Blaise Richelieu has all the drama she needs in her life. When a dashing young attending appears on the scene and relentlessly pursues her, Blaise has plenty of reasons to say no--or at least she tells herself she does, despite Grady's nearly irresistible charm.


Hopeless Romantic By Georgia Beers Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781635556506
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Published: Bold Strokes Books - August 11th, 2020

Teddi Baker used to believe in happily ever after. It's why she became a wedding planner and worked so hard to make her business, Hopeless Romantic, successful. But after the catastrophe of her own marriage, Teddi loses her heart, her hope, and half of her assets. She is officially jaded, but she needs every job she can get to make ends meet.


Something to Talk About By Meryl Wilsner Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780593102527
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Published: Berkley - May 26th, 2020

A showrunner and her assistant give the world something to talk about when they accidentally fuel a ridiculous rumor in this debut romance.


Aurora's Angel: A dark fantasy romance By Emily Noon Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780473505134
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Published: Bluefire Books - January 1st, 2020

Joined in a battle for survival, a broken-winged angel and a shapeshifter huntress with a bloody past form a bond that will change their world.


How to Find a Princess: Runaway Royals By Alyssa Cole Cover Image
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Published: Avon - May 25th, 2021

New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Alyssa Cole’s second Runaway Royals novel is a queer Anastasia retelling, featuring a long-lost princess who finds love with the female investigator tasked with tracking her down.


In At The Deep End By Kate Davies Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780358299592
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Published: Mariner Books - May 26th, 2020

* A Finalist for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction * One of Autostraddle's Best Queer Books of 2019 * 

A deliciously disarming debut novel about a twenty-something Londoner who discovers that she may have been looking for love—and pleasure—in all the wrong places (i.e., from men).


Out of Practice (Legal Affairs #2) By Carsen Taite Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781635553598
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Published: Bold Strokes Books - February 11th, 2020

Attorney Abby Keane's vacation is perfect, especially her steamy interlude with a beautiful stranger. But her newfound zen crumbles when her biggest client, a chain of bridal stores, leaves hundreds of brides without dresses. As if reentry isn't bad enough, a new wedding blogger is doing her best to stoke the anger of the already unhappy brides, and has chosen Abby as the villain.


The Girl Next Door: A Lesbian Small Town Romance By Chelsea M. Cameron Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781335146946
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Published: Carina Adores - May 26th, 2020

"Cameron's cleverly conceived and brilliantly executed contemporary romance is elevated by her superb character development and flair for delivering exquisite sexual tension." --Booklist

New York Times bestselling author Chelsea M. Cameron delivers the opposites-attract, sweet-and-sexy small-town romance you've been waiting for.


Painted Moon 25th Anniversary Edition By Karin Kallmaker Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781642471304
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Published: Bella Books - October 22nd, 2019

Cursing the familial obligation that sent her into the path of a blizzard, Jackie Frakes is deeply grateful for rescue on a snow-choked mountain road, even if her rescuer's reception is as cold as the landscape.


After the Summer Rain By Gerri Hill Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781642470710
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Published: Bella Books - September 24th, 2019

Workaholic Erin Ryder was on the fast track to self-destruction. Reeling after her lover walked out on her, she turned to booze and caffeine to make it through each day. After a family intervention, she finds herself on a remote ranch in New Mexico--on womyn's land--to detox and heal.


The Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics: Feminine Pursuits By Olivia Waite Cover Image
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Published: Avon Impulse - July 23rd, 2019

As Lucy Muchelney watches her ex-lover’s sham of a wedding, she wishes herself anywhere else. It isn’t until she finds a letter from the Countess of Moth, looking for someone to translate a groundbreaking French astronomy text, that she knows where to go. Showing up at the Countess’ London home, she hoped to find a challenge, not a woman who takes her breath away.


I Can't Think Straight By Shamim Sarif Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781612941011
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Published: Bywater Books - March 28th, 2017

Tala, a London-based Palestinian, is preparing for her elaborate Middle Eastern wedding when she meets Leyla, a young British Indian woman who is dating her best friend. Spirited Christian Tala and shy Muslim Leyla could not be more different from each other, but the attraction is immediate and goes deeper than friendship.


Blades of Bluegrass By D. Jackson Leigh Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781635556377
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Published: Bold Strokes Books - August 11th, 2020

Captain Britt Story lost more than her left arm in Afghanistan. She lost faith in honor and humanity when her command's failure to act cost a young soldier's life, turning Britt into a ticking political time bomb the U.S. Army and her father, an influential senator, are desperate to disarm.


Face the Music By Ali Vali Cover Image
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Published: Bold Strokes Books - April 14th, 2020

Music producer Mason Liner has one passion: the acts she can bring to the top of the charts. When the biggest record label in Nashville hands her a new client, country music royalty, Sophie Roddy, Mason's reluctant to take on a problem diva whose excessive lifestyle almost ruined her career, but can't turn down the challenge.


Dare to Love By A. L. Brooks Cover Image
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Published: Ylva Verlag E.Kfr. - April 29th, 2020

Investment banker Ash Taylor left her cut-throat world to set up a cool, cutting-edge tattoo studio. Her love life's been a lot bumpier, though. Ever since a heart-breaking affair with a straight colleague, she's vowed to steer clear of women unsure of their sexuality.


Fire & Ice By Rachel Spangler Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781612941639
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Published: Bywater Books - October 22nd, 2019

Max Lauren made a mistake that shattered her pride, her heart, and her career in one fell swoop. Relegated to covering the lowly game of curling, she already resents the so-called "sport," and then she steps onto the ice, where things get infinitely worse. She's been knocked down before, and she's always gotten back up, but a frosty resolve goes only so far in a world of people who thrive on ice.


Because I Said So By Karin Kallmaker Cover Image
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Published: Bella Books - July 23rd, 2019

Kesa Sapiro had to grow up fast. With her parents gone and a little sister to protect, Kesa has spent over a decade of her life trying to keep a roof over their heads. She's learned the hard way that love is a luxury and that the price is way too high. When her sister Josie announces she wants to marry a boy she's known for less than a month, Kesa immediately forbids it.


Savor the Moment By Dana Piccoli Cover Image
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Published: Bella Books - March 19th, 2019

Natalia Chambers is a successful singer/songwriter whose star is on the rise. But Nat has a problem. She can't seem to write any new music and the pressure is on to write a follow-up to her last record. The fact that her last girlfriend betrayed her and left her with a wounded heart certainly isn't helping any.


Hard Fall: A McStoner & Martinelli Thriller By Pascal Scott Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781948232678
Published: Sapphire Books Publishing - June 1st, 2019

Five days after the Loma Prieta earthquake strikes San Francisco, Emily Bryson, a young, everything-to-live-for lesbian SFSU student/part-time exotic dancer, is dead, her body washed up on a beach south of the Golden Gate Bridge. The medical examiner rules it a suicide, and the police close the missing person case filed by Emily's lover, K. M. "Stone" McStone.


Passionate Rivals By Radclyffe Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781635552317
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Published: Bold Strokes Books - September 11th, 2018

Onetime lovers, unexpected rivals...


A Little Light Mischief: A Turner Novella By Cat Sebastian Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780062951045
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Published: Avon Impulse - September 3rd, 2019

A seductive thief

Lady’s maid Molly Wilkins is done with thieving—and cheating and stabbing and all the rest of it. She’s determined to keep her hands to herself, so she really shouldn’t be tempted to seduce her employer’s prim and proper companion, Alice. But how can she resist when Alice can’t seem to keep her eyes off Molly?


Entangled By Melissa Brayden Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781635557091
Published: Bold Strokes Books - July 14th, 2020

Josephine Wilder's torrid love affair is with Tangle Valley Vineyard, her family's legacy. She's grown up dreaming between the vines. She's always had secret ideas about how to make the place shine, so when it passes to her, Joey vows to make Tangle Valley everything she knows it can be. Her biggest obstacle?


First Bloom: stories of blossoming black lesbian love By Saydeah E. Howard (Editor) Cover Image
By Saydeah E. Howard (Editor)
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ISBN: 9781944623005
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Published: Brown Sugar Griots - October 1st, 2016

First Bloom, a collection of stories about blossoming Black lesbian love, takes a look at the beginnings--and sometimes the middle and end--of the love that flourishes between same-gender-loving women of African descent.


Femme Tales By Anne Shade Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781635556575
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Published: Bold Strokes Books - March 10th, 2020

Beast: Former hip-hop artist Ebony "The Beast" Trent has wrapped her persona around herself like a protective wall of bitterness. Belinda Jansen is confident, intelligent, sexy, and--to Ebony's fascination--not the least bit intimidated by Ebony's beastly demeanor. Can Beauty truly tame The Beast?


Written in the Stars: A Novel By Alexandria Bellefleur Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780063000803
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Published: Avon - November 10th, 2020

"I was hooked from the very first page!” – Christina Lauren, New York Times bestselling author of In a Holidaze

"This book is a delight." – New York Times Book Review