Exciting week for new releases, giveaways, and announcements.
NEW BOOKS
CHIEF EXECUTIVE
by Nicolette Dane
Available in Kindle Unlimited
Release date: March 27, 2018
Romance
Nadia Marek, a graphic designer and account manager at a boutique advertising agency, is about to have her work life flipped upside down. A major competitor has bought her company out and with this shakeup comes the arrival of a new CEO. Nadia’s fears for the future of her job become more complicated, however, when she discovers how attracted she is to her new boss.
That boss is Avery Wool, a confident and strong executive, who has come in to reorganize the company. But Avery appears to have ulterior motives. As the changes begin to take hold, things aren’t always what they seem with Avery. Nadia, however, can’t help but fall for Avery’s advances. She’s a beautiful woman, sultry, powerful, rich… and she has Nadia in her sights.
How will Nadia reconcile her feelings about the corporate takeover with the growing desire she feels for her new CEO? Is the mounting passion between the women for real, or is it all just a game to Avery? Work often takes a backseat when you have romance knocking at your office door.
THE FALL GIRL
The Miracle Girl: Book 2
by T. B. Markinson
Available in Kindle Unlimited
Release date: April 2, 2018
Romantic Suspense
In the news business, owning the headlines comes with a deadly cost.
JJ Cavendish thought she’d escaped her dark past. After publishing her tell-all memoir, she’s ready to settle down with Claire and devote her attention to running a scrappy online news venture. But when her new business partner exploits JJ’s notoriety to keep the company afloat, avoiding the limelight becomes impossible.
As JJ keeps hungry movie producers at bay, she fields an intriguing offer from an old enemy that could help her expose a cyber bully, stop a string of suicides, and get her company the scoop it needs. To bring the story to light, JJ and her team must brave the darkest corners of the web and hope her own name doesn’t make the headlines in the process.
The Fall Girl is the second installment in The Miracle Girl, a captivating series of lesbian romantic suspense novels. If you like pulse-pounding plots and exploring the darker side of social media, then you’ll love T.B. Markinson’s gripping story.
BRING HOLLY HOME
by A. E. Radley
Release date: April 1, 2018
Romance
Leading fashion magazine editor Victoria Hastings always thought that her trusted assistant quit her job and abandoned her in Paris.
A year later, she discovers that Holly Carter was injured in an accident. Brain trauma led to amnesia and Holly cannot remember anything about her life.
Guilt causes Victoria to bring Holly home and into her life to aid her in recovery. But when guilt turns into something else, what will she do?
FORBIDDEN
Beyond Borders: Book 1
by Emma Nichols
Available in Kindle Unlimited
Release date: March 28, 2018
Romance
What is there to celebrate when you turn 32, you’re still desperately single and thousands of miles away from home?
As Ash contemplates her life, a lesbian stuck in the middle of the Syrian oil fields surrounded by more men than there is sand, a blast from the past brings with it the opportunity to rekindle old flames.
But what of local chef, Iman? As she awakens to her sexuality, in a country where such love is forbidden, will her heart’s yearning be satisfied or forever denied?
Available in Kindle Unlimited
Release date: March 28, 2018
Romance
Racing through life means love can pass you by.
Billie Page. IndyCar racing’s darling. To the outside world, she seems put together. Determined. Serious. Only she and the ones close to her know the truth. Billie’s a failure. She works every day to change that, to strengthen her mind and her body for the grueling demands of her job. Everything is about racing. It has to be. It’s all she has left.
Then a woman makes her laugh.
Krysta Ekert lives life on the whims of the wind. She doesn’t know where her next paycheck will come from and doesn’t care. She does what she wants, when she wants it, and asks for forgiveness rather than permission. The moment she meets Billie Page she knows whose bed she’ll be sleeping in that night and it’s not her own.
When Krysta is hit by a car, her accident binds the women together in a way neither of them could have predicted. It’s dangerous for both to stay—Billie may lose her career, Krysta her independence—but leaving becomes less and less of an option the longer they wait. Will they find a way to make it work? Can one really have it all?
Heartwarming and often humorous, Rocky Road is an emotional look at two women searching for happiness in all the wrong places and discovering how much more life offers when you open your heart.
Available in Kindle Unlimited
Release date: March 30, 2018
Steamy Romance
When competitive caterer Adonia and the company she works for are hired to cater for a crazy pop-rock star, she is put on a crew where each budding chef is competing against each other for a spot on her cut-throat boss’s exclusive first line. She is forced to deal with everything from crazy-fast deadlines to a forced spa weekend while still cooking up to professional standards, keeping her temper in check, and fighting the building tension between her and her cute co-worker, Leah. Losing means being blacklisted from the industry, but winning could cost her something a lot more important – her self-respect.
TRUSTING HEARTS
by Samantha Hicks
Release date: April 1, 2018
Romance
Carrie-Ann Stedman, an advertising executive, who has excelled in the world she occupies, is told by her boss she is to train a new hire, a woman who Carrie has very bad feelings toward.
Holly Fletcher, the newbie, once stole a very important client away from Carrie, a fact that Carrie has never forgiven.
Thrown together to make a presentation and trade show the best the company have ever seen, they must overcome their own obstacles and resentments to work together and build a working relationship that will make the company succeed.
Add in a high mix of attraction and sexual chemistry, they struggle to fight the urges that push them together and the obstacles that pull them apart. Carrie’s mistrust of Holly’s motives and Holly’s guilt over the accident that landed her younger sister in a facility for brain damaged adults, may have just left the bridge of doubt too insurmountable to find the happiness they both crave.
NOT MY TYPE
by Michele L. Rivera
Available in Kindle Unlimited
Release date: March 25, 2018
Romance
At twenty-nine years old, Blake is living the life she has worked hard to build for herself in exactly the way she wants to live it: unattached.
Meanwhile, somewhere on the other side of town, Hayden has just turned thirty and she wants nothing more than to be with the one woman she cannot have, living a life she can only imagine.
When Blake and Hayden’s worlds collide, they take each other by surprise. Suddenly, everything these two women know about what they have and what they think they want is being called into question.
Release date: April 1, 2018
Romantic Comedy
Rachel Wallach has a great life—on paper. Millions of people fall in love with her words every day. Her greeting card sentiments are the stuff of legend in the industry. And yet … and yet she couldn’t find the right girl if you stuffed her into a Subaru full of lesbians.
Her overbearing mother and obnoxiously perfect siblings, with whom she shares Shabbat dinner every Friday, only want to know when she’s going to get a “real” job and a life. Then her elderly neighbor suffers a catastrophic health crisis, leaving canine-phobic Rachel holding the leash.
Julia Spielman’s grandmother, Gladys, a matchmaker descended from a long line of matchmakers, has just moved into the Shady Acres Assisted Living Community where she happily renews her friendship with Rachel’s Grandma Goldie. When Goldie learns that Julia runs a successful online dating service, it seems too good to be true.
So, let’s see. We have Rachel’s deaf-as-a-post grandmother, her grandmother’s clever, scheming match-making friend, and a mutt named Freud, all hell-bent on “helping” Rachel with her love life—what could possibly go wrong?
ALI SPOONER’S FAVORITES COLLECTION
Release date: April 1, 2018
Lesfic Collection
A wonderful trilogy showcasing Ali Spooner’s writing talents.
THE SETTLEMENT
COWGIRL UP
SOUTH OF HEAVEN
CHICKENSHIT
Volume 2: Just Hatched
by Amy Stinnett
Available in Kindle Unlimited
Release date: April 1, 2018
Contemporary Fiction
Now that Billie has made her choice to run the farm, it’s time to roll up her sleeves and get to work.
Baby chicks and goats want to be fed. Gardens need to be planted and tended. And Billie seems up for the task.
As the farm teems with life, Billie goes after her chores with zeal and tenacity, as her dad did before her. But, unlike her dad, Billie’s no hermit. Before long, the farm has more visitors than ever, but the one person Billie wants in her bed insists on taking things slow, to grow their relationship from the ground up. Dates, day trips, and working with friends on the farm give Billie and Jodie time to get to know each other’s virtues and vices before they are in over their heads. Soon, Billie will learn that nature works on its own schedule.
DRAGON ESSENCE
Prequel to the Dark Age Trilogy
Niamh Murphy
Available in Kindle Unlimited
Release date: April 1, 2018
Epic Fantasy
A lover lost in battle. An offer she can’t refuse. A price she might not be able to pay.
When Andra, a Captain in the formidable Dragon Guard, sees her lover killed in a vicious wizard duel, a grizzled half-mage offers a chance to bring her back from the dead.
But the offer is not without a price.
Torn between her honour and her heart, Andra has until first light to obtain the life essence of a dragon she has sworn to protect or lose the woman she loves forever.
This is a short prequel story to the epic fantasy trilogy, Dark Age, set in a world of knights and magic, where dragons are worshipped as Gods. For lovers of Game of Thrones, Skyrim, and kick-ass women-warriors who battle dragons.
THE ARCHER
The Arrow of Artemis: Book 2
by K. Aten
Release date: April 2, 2018
Historical Fiction
Kyri was raised a fletcher but after finding a new home and family with the Telequire Amazons, she discovers a desire to take on more responsibility within the tribe. She has skills they desperately need and she is called to action to protect those around her. But Kyri’s path is ever-changing even as she finds herself altered by love, loyalty, and grief. Far away from home, the new Amazon is forced to decide what to sacrifice and who to become in order to get back to all that she has left behind. And she wonders what is worse, losing everyone she’s ever loved or having those people lose her?
ADARA AND THE BEAST
by Emily Sharp
Available in Kindle Unlimited
Release date: March 28, 2018
Fairy Tale Romance
A Tale as Old as Time
Scarred and bitter billionaire Louise Vandercourt lives in a modern-day castle, but she does not believe in fairy tales, nor the silly ideas of love that are associated with them. However, she does believe in the power of money and knows it can buy her anything, including the Beauty that walks by her property every day. No one tells Louise no, and no matter what the cost, Louise will have her Beauty by her side forever.
Though life isn’t exactly a bed of roses, Adara Monroe still believes in fairytale endings, and the majestic castle not far from her home may be the very place where it could happen. Love, laughter, and happily ever afters, all these things must be so close…
When a series of events forces Adara to reside in the castle, she soon realizes that not all fairy tales are filled with happiness and princesses full of love. In fact, some are cursed with darkness and a very cruel Beast. When Adara first meets the beautiful but bitter Louise, she instantly loathes her. Louise is the opposite of everything that Adara holds dear.
However, as time goes on, she soon begins to see beneath the external and internal scars that Louise bears. In order for Adara to have the happily ever after she has always desired, she must find a way to break the curse of the castle-and the curse of the one that has taken hold of her as well.
VILLAINS DON’T TRAIN HEROES!
by Mia Archer
Available in Kindle Unlimited
Release date: March 30, 2018
Scifi Superhero
Night Terror, the greatest villain the world has ever known, has problems.
Life should be great. She saved the day again. She sort of defeated her new archnemesis again. She got the girl again.
Only Night Terror is learning that if she starts doing heroic things then the world, and her girlfriend, is going to start expecting her to be heroic.
Everything should be smooth sailing as Night Terror teaches Fialux how to use super science toys to be the hero she once was, but it’s hard focusing on training when all her inner villain wants to do is break out the super science and wreck shit in pursuit of taking over the world!
Yeah, it turns out taking over the world is tough when your girlfriend expects you to save it, and that’s the least of her problems!
Night Terror has defeated the evil Dr. Lana, or has she? CORVAC is still out there in need of rescue, or is he? Fialux needs to be trained on using her new equipment, but will she?
Find out all the exciting answers, and what it’s like to fight through the insides of a giant radioactive lizard’s digestive system!
Old enemies. New enemies. Giant irradiated lizards. The urge to risk pissing off her girlfriend by letting her villain flag fly. Yeah, Night Terror has problems, and they’re all about to come together in a perfect storm that will be the greatest challenge of her villainous career!
Villains Don’t Train Heroes! is a lesbian scifi superhero novel that continues exploring the world of villains, antiheroes, and heroes first introduced in Villains Don’t Date Heroes!
Release date: April 1, 2018
Dystopian
For some, the world would end with the dropping of the bombs. For others, a select few, it would present an opportunity to show their true mettle. Those who will take on the challenge to live without, make do, and subsist on, are the survivors.
Jodi was one of the few. She knew what was coming. She read the signs, and she had friends in low places who kept her informed. She bought a cabin in the middle of nowhere, fixed it up, and warned her closest friends and family that the time would come to abandon the big cities, to hide and seclude yourself for the safety of your family and everyone closest to you.
Krista was her partner, her best friend, and her wife at a time when states didn’t recognize same-sex marriage. Krista coped with her mate’s compulsions by recognizing that indulging her was the best way to maintain a harmonious union. After all, they could afford it. Little did she realize that Jodi was destined to be the savior of them all.
Finding that things were much worse than everyone had speculated didn’t surprise Jodi. But it would forever alter her family’s world view and transform them into something they hadn’t realized they were destined to become…SURVIVORS!
NEW AUDIOBOOKS
THIEF OF HEARTS
by Bridget Essex
narrated by Stephanie Murphy
Only love can set her free….
Envy is a lucky lady with a secret vice: She’s (arguably) one of the best thieves in the kingdom – something her current employer, the queen herself, has no knowledge of. When one of her more audacious gambles gets her caught, Envy thinks her luck’s run out. The queen banishes her to Bran Tower, a haunted, forgotten prison of no escape.
Envy thinks she’s doomed to be alone and trapped forever, but – each night – a stunning woman appears in her impenetrable prison. The mysterious, enchanting Merle befriends her, and as each magical night enfolds, Envy soon realizes that she’s falling in love with her….
What follows next is a magical love story and adventure that will sweep you off your feet! Set in the enchanting world of Bridget’s beloved Knight books, this is a stand-alone novel of bewitching romance that you’ll never forget!
Note: This book got its start in life as the novella, Cage the Darlings, previously published by Elora Bishop, Bridget’s old fantasy romance pen name. It was expanded into the novel you are about to hear and is now being published again under Bridget’s actual name.
Amazon US / Amazon UK / Audible US / Audible UK
PERFECT RHYTHM
by Jae
narrated by Angela Dawe
Pop star Leontyne Blake might sing about love, but she stopped believing in it a long time ago. What women want is her image, not the real her. When her father has a stroke, she flees the spotlight and returns to her tiny Missouri hometown.
In her childhood home, she meets small-town nurse Holly Drummond, who isn’t impressed by Leo’s fame at all. That isn’t the only thing that makes Holly different from other women. She’s also asexual. For her, dating is a minefield of expectations that she has decided to avoid.
Can the tentative friendship between a burned-out pop star and a woman not interested in sex develop into something more despite their diverse expectations?
Contains mature themes.
Amazon US / Amazon UK / Audible US / Audible UK
BEYOND THE SKYLINE
by Lise Gold
narrated by Jessica Jeffries
Sophie Scott is a privileged but hard working London girl who’s had just about enough of her mother’s obsessive attempts to set her up with an eligible bachelor. She has no interest in dating and has never been in love.
When she meets her new colleague Mel on a business trip to Hong Kong, her whole world is turned upside down by the beautiful and independent woman who couldn’t be more different from her. It’s hard to hide from love in a city that never dims its lights. But love is never easy when everything you know changes….
Amazon US / Amazon UK / Audible US / Audible UK
HOW STILL MY LOVE
by Diane Marina
narrated by Daniela Acitelli
Beth Anders is just fine with her single life. Why mess with the heart when it isn’t broken? Being alone means never dealing with hurtful ex-girlfriends or parents who have shunned her for being gay. Being alone has its perks – she’s just fine on her own. Or so she thinks until the young, vivacious, and sexy Toni Vincent enters her life. In one moment, Toni quickly unlocks Beth’s heart, and the two women plan a future together.
But when Beth learns that Toni may not want the same type of happy ending she had in mind, fate steps in yet again to steal her happily ever after. Toni wants things that Beth might not be able to provide. When an interested new woman steps into the picture, chaos erupts.
Can Beth fix things before it’s too late, or will she lose Toni forever? Travel with Beth on this funny and heartbreaking journey to true love.
Amazon US / Amazon UK / Audible US / Audible UK
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