New Lesfic Goodies: March 20th Edition |

Here are this week’s new releases, giveaways, and lesfic news.

NEW BOOKS

HEIST
by MJ Duncan

Available in Kindle Unlimited
Release date: March 15, 2018
Romance

Life is full of choices. Some are easy, others are more difficult, and then there are the ones that aren’t really choices at all. For Parker Ravenscroft, helping her brother always fell into that last category—risks be damned. All that changes when Sheridan Sloan re-enters her life. As their relationship grows from friendship to something more she’s forced to choose between her brother and her own happiness. Picking one over the other isn’t the end of things, however, because the ghosts of her past choices have the very real power to destroy the future she so badly wants.

FRENCH KISSING
Season Four
by Harper Bliss

Release date: March 9, 2018
Romance

Two years have passed since Dominique Laroche was elected President of France at the end of French Kissing: Season Three. She and Steph are living together at the Elysée, but their relationship is strained by the demands of Dominique’s job.

When a rising star of the opposition proposes a new law that would affect lesbians’ right to have children, Dominique is torn between her personal feelings and her party’s political line.

Feminist radio host Aurore Seauve is advising the opposition on the new law proposal, but finds herself more caught up in the intrigue at the Elysée than she wants to be, not in the least because of her interest in Dominique’s uptight chief of staff, Solange.

Zoya Das has moved from Sydney to Paris to be with her new love Camille, and is finding it difficult to settle into her new country, new language and new job. Meanwhile Camille is finding out the hard way that not all her colleagues are comfortable with an out and proud lesbian at work, even if she is friends with the president.

Relationships will be tested, loyalties will be questioned and assumptions will have to be set aside as both familiar and new characters navigate the turbulent waters of love–and politics.

RESCUE ME
by Saxon Bennett & Layce Gardner

Available in Kindle Unlimited
Release date: March 15, 2018
Romance

Lucy Marshall thought she had it all—a successful career, a gorgeous girlfriend, and a well-organized life. Until she didn’t. Her girlfriend leaves her for a yoga instructor, her boss fires her, and she wants nothing more than to crawl under the covers and stay there. But her best friend, Harriet, won’t allow it. Harriet drags her to the wilderness of Oregon to meet the women of Sugar Pines. What she thinks is a relaxing retreat actually turns out to be much, much more. Lucy discovers the importance of friendship, sisterhood and, ultimately, love.

MY LADY LIPSTICK
by Karin Kallmaker

Release date: March 16, 2018
Romance

Anita Topaz, Queen of the Bodice Rippers, is deliberately a woman of mystery. But pressure is mounting for Anita to reveal herself to her clamoring public. It’s scrutiny that writer Paris Ellison can’t allow, especially since the glamorous “Anita” is a work of pure fiction.

Lady Diana Beckinsale excels at disappearing into a good role. Especially if that role gets her close to certain objects she desires. When Diana proposes the perfect solution to Paris’s predicament, Paris is less than enthusiastic. She can’t let someone as unsettling and observant as Diana get too close.

But Diana is persistent. After all, if she and the handsome, secretive Paris both get what they want out of an unorthodox arrangement, then it’s a win-win for them both.

My Lady Lipstick is high stakes on a merry-go-round of lies—it’s all fun and games until somebody loses her heart.

THE ONE THAT RAN AWAY
by Hildred Billings

Available in Kindle Unlimited
Release date: March 8, 2018
Romance

Their love was written in the stars, but one of them wasn’t yet ready for fate.

Ten years ago, Jess Mills had her life changed when she crossed paths with Shannon Parker, the most beautiful girl at their small liberal arts college. But what Jess assumed to be nothing more than a crush on a straight girl turned into the night of her dreams senior year.

Then? Nothing. Shannon was gone before graduation.

One of them has moved on. The other is just getting started.

Shannon bumps into Jess shortly after moving to Portland, a place her ex-boyfriend decided to call home. Both single, and both reeling from post-college life, Shannon realizes that it’s no mere coincidence she’s once again encountered the girl who defined her co-ed years.

It’s fate.

Jess’s love for astrology and divination is about to come in handy now that Shannon is determined to face her feelings and understand the whim of the universe.

She isn’t running anymore.

THE PROMISE
by Claire Highton-Stevenson

Available in Kindle Unlimited
Release date: March 8, 2018
Romance

Ali and Susan Jenkins have it all. Their life together is mapped out on a one-way path to happiness, that is until Susan is diagnosed with terminal cancer.

Ali refuses to accept it – her world is shattered.

Susan’s last act of love is to make her wife promise that one day she will open her heart again and let somebody else love her.

But will Ali keep her promise?

CONFRONTING DARKNESS
Salvaggio’s Light: Book 7
by C.L. Cattano

Release date: March 12, 2018
Romance

Rafe Salvaggio was left behind in Mexico and has to decide where she is going next. Eden Kingsley and their other friends can do nothing but wait and hope Rafe will come home. Katheryn Hardam has a new client who may be the key to stopping the Stewards group. She has new information and must decide if she only shows it to Eden or if she shows it to Rafe as well. Julia Hawthorn decides to help Eden and gets their friends involved. The issue is will her help be hindered by old jealousy or will she be able to put her feelings aside.

You won’t want to miss any of the action in this epic drama as Confronting Darkness, book seven of the Salvaggio’s Light serial, continues the journey of this epic contemporary romance.

WARNING

It is suggested that readers of this story are adults over the age of eighteen. This dramatic series has many scenes describing sex as well as intense emotional scenes and acts of violence.

This is a serial story with themes that flow from one book into another with lots of twists and turns. Reading this series from the beginning is highly suggested, or the reader may not be able to follow all of the storylines.

CRACKING LOVE
by Emily King

Release date: March 16, 2018
Romance

When pharmacist Janet Webber relocates to the agricultural heart of California for a new job, she is not at all certain that she has made the right decision. Her love life is in bad shape, and the weekly business travel now required of her isn’t helping. But when Janet meets walnut farmer Gail Lawrence at a housewarming party, Janet decides that her love life may be turning in the right direction.

Soon Janet finds herself inspired by the abundance of local crops and begins cooking and baking to escape the stress of her work. When Janet’s baked goods are well received in the community, she allows herself to dream of starting her own business. With Gail’s encouragement—and her walnuts—anything seems possible. But will Gail’s reluctance to trust another woman again push the two of them apart before they can even get started?

OBJECTS IN MOTION
Conch Garden Book 2
by Kristen Mae

Release date: March 19, 2018
Contemporary FFM Romance

A new friendship. A simple gift. A love that defies convention.

It’s been three years since Claire Pyles lost her baby to stillbirth, three years since her picture-perfect husband committed an act Claire can’t seem to forget, much less forgive. Three years she’s spent struggling to reclaim peace. Still, she has every reason to be happy—a dream job as principal cellist in the symphony, a beautiful home, meaningful volunteer work at the cancer center. Claire may have suffered tragedy, but it’s true what her mother always said: Someone always has it worse.

Right now, that someone is Hazel Duval, a violinist who recently stumbled into Claire’s life. Shy and prone to panic attacks, Hazel offers a welcome distraction from Claire’s own problems—something Claire can actually fix.

But when the two women travel to Italy for a music festival, Hazel’s panic intensifies, and Claire’s attempts to help seem only to worsen her friend’s mental state. Then one morning, Hazel does something Claire never would have predicted: she kisses her.

Claire views this kiss, and what follows, as the purest form of giving—a restorative she can offer her friend that no one else can. But what Claire is about to learn is that Hazel is not the only one who is broken, and Claire is not the only one with the power to heal.

Provocative, revelatory, and tragically realistic, Objects in Motion tells the other side of the story from Beyond the Break, where readers saw Claire only through Hazel’s eyes. Whatever readers of Beyond the Break thought they knew about Claire…they were wrong.

CHOOSING ETERNITY
The Sullivan Vampires: Book 3
by Bridget Essex

Available in Kindle Unlimited
Release date: March 12, 2018
Paranormal Romance

Is love forever?

Rose Clyde is irrevocably in love with the alluring vampire Kane Sullivan…but their passionate love affair has seemingly been doomed from the very start.

Once, long ago, Kane made an immortal enemy…and now that enemy has returned and craves revenge. Kane’s love for Rose is her only weakness, and–to exploit it–there is a plot for Rose’s life. If Kane’s enemies have their way, Rose will die at the grandest event of the year: the vampire ball.

But Rose just got Kane back. And she won’t lose her without a fight…

Find out if love is eternal in the passionate, thrilling conclusion to the SULLIVAN VAMPIRES trilogy.

THE FAERIE QUEEN
by Lucy True

Available in Kindle Unlimited
Release date: March 12, 2018
Paranormal Romance

Nine years after committing a heinous crime against the Fae, Chiara thought her trespass had been forgotten. She thought wrong.

Now an evil queen wants more than Chiara’s life – she demands her love as well. Forever.

Seeking retribution, she drags Chiara into the Otherworld and gives her a near-impossible task: She has nine days to find the gate to the mortal realm or be trapped in the Otherworld forever.

Desperate to get away from the queen and back to her old life, Chiara is prepared to face nasty fae, a dangerous world, and overwhelming odds to gain her freedom. What she isn’t prepared for is Shea, a cocky faerie huntress who dogs her every step.

The stakes are high, the temptations deadly, and failure looms at every corner. Chiara can’t let her guard down. She needs to be focused and determined.

She needs to not fall in love.

But as she navigates a twisted world, Chiara learns about an ancient blood and faerie secrets which have shaped her fate. And that infuriating, intoxicating huntress is tied to it all.

What happens if she succeeds?

And what happens if she finds she has a reason not to leave?

FROSTBITTEN
The Ice Rose Series: Book 1
by Destiny Hawkins

Available in Kindle Unlimited
Release date: March 10, 2018
Paranormal Romance

I wanted to die that night. I wanted it all to end.

I stood at the edge of the rooftop ready to jump when my tired eyes met her glowing blues.

They weren’t natural. Nothing about her was natural, but I wasn’t afraid.

It wasn’t until her ice-cold fangs sunk into my neck did I find myself terrified.

But why?

Wasn’t death what I wanted? For once, wasn’t I getting exactly what I wished for?

Maybe I had hoped that in death, I would be reborn.

Who knows, maybe I would be.

WITCHCRAFT & WINDS
Weather Witch: Book 1
Emilia Spring

Available in Kindle Unlimited
Release date: March 16, 2018
Cozy Paranormal Mystery

Burnt-out social worker Natalie Ethridge thinks she’s caught a lucky break–a free cottage from her Great-Aunt. With nothing to lose, Natalie heads for the hills, or, in this case, the mountains. Turns out the cottage comes with a big family secret—Natalie is from a long line of witches. She quickly discovers that living in a new town isn’t easy, especially when lightning strikes whenever she loses her temper!

When an orphaned eleven-year-old stands accused of murder, Natalie’s social worker instincts compel her to solve the case and clear the child, even if it means digging into painful secrets the town considers long buried. Secrets that paint a target on her back.

Between her crazy family, magic lessons, investigating a murder, and the sexy witch detective hell-bent on keeping her in line, Natalie’s not sure which one will be the death of her first–her newfound abilities or the killer.

THE FLAMEBRINGERS
by Charley Clarke

Available in Kindle Unlimited
Release date: March 16, 2018
Romantic Fantasy / Short Read

An orphan, Mal has never felt at home in her village. When wildfires force her people into the mountains, she finds a way of life she never knew existed. But will she finally find a place to belong?

Astraea leads the Dagruhn people, who live in the mountains, bond with dragons, and don’t take kindly to outsiders. When Mal and her people need shelter, will Astraea find the courage to put the needs of her heart above the needs of her people?

This story is approximately 9,500 words.

TINTED CHAPSTICK
The San Francisco Mystery Series: Book 4
by Alexi Venice

Release date: March 15, 2018
Romantic Suspense

A suspenseful romance nestled in The San Francisco Mystery Series.

Temporarily living with Detective Tommy Vietti, Dr. Jen Dawson is frustrated with her love life. She’s interested in someone at the CrossFit box, but wonders why she keeps thinking about her ex-lover, District Attorney Amanda Hawthorne, while cultivating a relationship with the CrossFit goddess.

As Jen works through her conflicted feelings, she also must manage the expectations of her irritated boss-Dr. Melissa Cohen-and the daily drama served up by angry patients, wild animals and confidential information made public at the Cohen Clinic.

Even worse, Jen is asked by Amanda’s campaign manager to defend Amanda after her HEA-hellish ending to an affair-with Roxy. Jen will be damned before she’ll turn into the abused political wife, standing by “her woman” after Amanda fooled around on her. Yet, with just a short TV interview, Jen could clear up a mischaracterization of Amanda….

And, why won’t Roxy MacNeil, the Scottish MI-6 agent, leave San Francisco? Why must she continue working at the Hall of Justice, so close to Amanda?

To make matters worse, Tommy expresses his true feelings to Jen late one night, upsetting the emotional equilibrium in their co-parenting relationship.

Jen has been patient with Tommy, Amanda and Roxy’s dangerous jobs-and the way they bleed into her clinic and home life-but when all hell breaks loose, she’s forced to make some tough choices.

THE TREEHOUSE
by Randi Triant

Release date: March 15, 2018
Literary Fiction

Camilla Thompson, a Humanities college professor who never did write that Great American Novel, hasn’t seen her son Nico for two years.

One morning she drives to the house where her ex, Allison, is still raising Nico. Knowing that they are away for a week’s vacation, Camilla begins to build a treehouse as a surprise for the son she’s not allowed to see.

But Camilla’s regrets, grief, and lack of construction skills aren’t the only challenges she’ll face. Old friends and unexpected visitors show up to help—and complicate matters. Free-spirited Taylor, Camilla’s best friend, arrives with her lover, Audrey, whom Camilla finds herself falling for. Then Wallace, Camilla’s Department Chair, disrupts everything with startling news that threatens to end Camilla’s career.

At first an impulsive idea, the treehouse soon promises to be an oasis for Camilla’s redemption that could free her for another chance at love and family. Then again, it might simply be just a bad decision.

NEW AUDIOBOOKS

MEET ME IN THE MIDDLE
by Yvonne Heidt
narrated by Leslie McDonel

Veterinarian Aislin O’Shea runs a busy clinic. She wasn’t looking for a relationship. She’d already had the perfect one. She certainly wasn’t attracted to fancy pants executive, Ms. Zane Whitman — she wasn’t her type.

Zane Whitman had it all. Stellar career, wealth, exclusive social circle, and models vying for her attention. Impulsive, emotionally charged Aislin was not her type.

Two women from the opposite side of the tracks.

Neither one expects meddling from an unexpected source on the Other side.

Neither one knows the train is coming.

Amazon US / Amazon UK / Audible US / Audible UK

FOR THE LOVE OF CAKE
by Erin Dutton
narrated by AJ Ferraro

Maya Vaughn, the hottest young pastry chef to emerge from the reality television machine, takes a turn as a judge on the very show that launched her career, expecting to find a nice change of scenery and a little diversion.

A late-bloomer at 42 years old, Shannon Hayes is finally on the precipice of achieving her dreams. She has one shot to prove she can compete with chefs half her age and with much more experience. Engaging in a fling with a judge 14 years her junior would almost certainly kill that chance.

Their attraction offers a taste of the exotic but could turn into a recipe for disaster.

Amazon US / Amazon UK / Audible US / Audible UK