Dear lesfic fan,
Here are this week’s new ebook and audio releases, sales, and announcements.
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TB
ROMANCE
YOU’RE MY KIND
by Clare Lydon
Available in Kindle Unlimited
Would you give your first love a second chance?
Justine Thomas and Maddie Kind met at university and were the couple most likely. Everybody said so. That is, until Maddie left without saying goodbye.
Ten years later the pair are reunited at a friend’s funeral, and now Justine can’t shake Maddie from her life. But why is she back? Why did she disappear? And more importantly, is she interested in the whole cake, or just one last slice of Justine?
Strap in for a novel that deals with life’s big topics: love, death & cake. Clare Lydon is the queen of British romantic comedy, and this stellar lesbian romance is guaranteed to give you all the feels.
SCANDALOUS
by Kim Hartfield
Available in Kindle Unlimited
Lacey is the last person to be impressed by wealth and fame. Serious and stoic, she values hard work above all else. When she’s hired as the home care worker to an injured celebrity, she couldn’t care less about Zana’s carefully constructed image. She only sees a rich, spoiled brat. Once Lacey and Zana learn to respect each other, they actually get along – and maybe more than that. Can Zana win over the one person who sees the real her?
FLOWER POWER
by Nicolette Dane
Available in Kindle Unlimited
Taryn Donaghy’s job as an equities trader at a financial services firm is leading her down a dark road. The long hours and the high pressure are taking a toll on her mental health. Taryn knows she needs a change, but she doesn’t know what that change looks like or how to find it.
A chance meeting with Alex Maris, a florist who delivers a flower feature to the office every week, opens Taryn’s eyes and shows her a different path. Alex lives and works on a co-op farm with others like her, a sort of hippie collective of people doing their own thing. It’s hard for Taryn not to be intrigued by Alex. She’s beautiful and kind, and she’s living the blissful and fulfilled life that Taryn is after.
If Taryn doesn’t figure her path out soon she might just break down. Will Alex and her farm show Taryn how to find herself and find the love that’s eluded her for so long?
LAST MINUTE MERMAID
by Tallulah Burns
Available in Kindle Unlimited
When Kasey Martin takes a last minute gig to help out a friend whose catering company is in danger of going under, the last thing she expects is that her job is to be a live centerpiece for a lavish seafood buffet…dressed as a mermaid. It was not the type of thing she expected when she became an actress! She also doesn’t expect to meet the centerpiece of the other buffet table, a gorgeous siren whose name (honest to god) is Lorelei. While Kasey finds the whole experience awful and embarrassing, Lorelei finds it hilarious, and she finds Kasey wonderful. Lorelei is the most amazing woman Kasey has ever met, but she has been hurt too many times and is afraid to take a chance by falling for her. As they work together to help their friend (who soon has bigger and more dangerous problems than a failing catering company) they find themselves irresistably drawn to each other. Kasey wonders what beautiful, confident Lorelei could see in her, but despite herself begins to hope. Is it possible that a beautiful sea siren could fall in love with a last minute mermaid?
LOVE UNSCRIPTED
by Emma Collins
Available in Kindle Unlimited
As Riley Hill’s thirtieth birthday approaches, she’s finally ready to make some changes in her life.
She might be a world famous actress, but she’s far from where she wants to be.
Screenwriting has always been her dream, not acting.
There was also the small matter of coming out.
When Laura Foley is approached at a coffee shop by an attractive young woman who wants to turn her book into a movie, she’s both flattered and stunned.
This was the first time anyone had ever complimented her work in person and not via an online review.
Laura’s even more shocked when she finds out who that woman really is, one of Hollywood’s biggest stars.
SCREEN KISS
by Ann Roberts
Addy Tornado wishes her love life was as dramatic as her name. A true romantic, Addy lives for the movies and yearns for a mate who is as beautiful, sexy, witty, and as smart as the heroines on the screen. Of course that someone would also have to put up with her OCD about color coordination…
Mazie Midnight has one dream—to finish her Master’s program in music performance. She reinvents herself and moves to the west coast to attend Cammon University, hoping a new name and a new start will be what she needs to face the one barrier keeping her from a degree: terrible stage fright.
Mazie takes a job at the Bijou Theater, Addy’s favorite place in the whole world, and the two clash immediately over Mazie’s re-arrangement of the colorful candies. Mazie meets none of Addy’s expectations in a mate, and Addy sees Mazie as nothing more than an adversary…until Mazie opens her mouth to sing.
Believing the world should hear Mazie, Addy vows to help her overcome her stage fright. But can she see Mazie as someone to love? Will they ever share anything as perfect as a screen kiss?
AUGUST
by AJ Marchant
Available in Kindle Unlimited
Coming back to the city after six years away, August wonders how long she’ll be staying for, counting the days and thinking about her next move…
…Until unexpected experiences, newfound friendships and a broken family bond leads August to reconsider.
Coincidences. Connections. Choices. Changes. Flukes and fleeting moments. The unnoticed lessons we teach each other. What we learn about ourselves. The choices we make, for better or for worse. The relationships that change they way we see the world, the way we see ourselves. These are the things that create, build, fill a life; what makes it beautiful.
COMING OF AGE ROMANCE
DORM LIFE, DORM LOVE
by Morgan Routh
Available in Kindle Unlimited
Anneliese “Peaches” Mitchem thought she was straight. But after Jolene “Jo” becomes her new RA for the dorms, Peaches can’t help but become completely infatuated with her. Peaches enlists the help of her BFF and roommate Veronica to try and win Jo’s heart.
This romance is filled with new love, sun, sand on the beach and cute lesbians. An LGBT version of the movie Some Kind Of Wonderful with the fun energy of You Drive Me Crazy.
ROMANTIC COMEDY
THE BEST THINGS IN LIFE
by Kate Sweeney
Cara Pembroke lives comfortably. She goes to the best restaurants, lives in a plush apartment in Chicago and has just about all the best things in life. The only thing she’s missing is that special someone. While on assignment as a reporter, Cara meets a woman who makes her question what a good life is.
Morgan Gavin, who lives a simple life on Lake Kabetogama, has her own idea of the best things in life, and they aren’t the same as Cara’s. Nevertheless, Morgan and Cara have chemistry that’s about to force them to re-examine just what the best things in life actually are.
And where in the hell is Lake Kabetogama? You’re about to find out in Kate Sweeney’s latest romantic comedy.
EROTIC ROMANCE
MENAGE A TROIS
by Cynthia Dane and Hildred Billings
Available in Kindle Unlimited
One needs healing…
Heartbroken redhead Rebecca Pruitt is escaping her toxic past when she bumps into the last thing she needs – but everything she wants.
Business power couple Caitlyn Adams and Jane Wong fancy Becca from the moment they see her in an airline lounge. Jane’s tenacious flirtations and Caitlyn’s beauty queen charms are almost enough to draw Becca into their private plane for the night.’
Another desires recognition…
Instead, she steps into their office a few days later and seals her fate. Becca not only becomes the shared executive assistant at Adams & Wong, the new venture capitalist firm in town, but also their shared girlfriend.
None of them are strangers to aspects of this arrangement. Caitlyn and Jane are pros at entertaining a third in their relationship, but have yet to find their match made in Heaven. Becca still isn’t over the successful woman she dumped to save her own life.
And another simply wants to be a family…
Too bad Becca is hiding a secret from the new girlfriends who give her everything she’s ever wanted. So is Jane, who yearns to come clean. And Caitlyn? What she keeps from Becca could ruin everything they’ve built in such short time.
In this house of three, nothing is conventional, but everything has the potential to unite them… or break them.
EROTICA
WILD RIDES AND OTHER LESBIAN EROTIC ADVENTURES
by Sacchi Green
Sex, adventure, and wild rides—some literal, some journeys of the mind and heart. There’s something for everyone here. How about a mechanical bull at a country-and-western bar in 1980s Amsterdam? An army jeep in Vietnam in the 1960s? A Chinese pirate ship far out in the Pacific in the 1930s? A hot air balloon soaring above post-Civil War Wyoming? These rides transport you through time as well as space.
In more contemporary settings, you can find pent-up passion behind prison walls, a reunion of rivals in a steamy sauna, and a couple both wounded and bonded by modern warfare. There’s plenty of lust and banter, as well as mighty draft horses at a county fair, and a visit with honeymooners in Paris with a fetish for gargoyles. Add a ghost story on a Montana ranch, a lovely vampire in the Old West, the occasional dragon, a noir tale of sex, life, and afterlife in New York City, and you’ll find a variety of characters and settings with a seamless merging of sex, romance, and narrative.
Join Lambda winner Sacchi Green for a ride through the second collection of her own work.
FANTASY ROMANCE
A NIGHT CLAIMED
by Domina Alexandra
Bonnie Collins had plans. And being a werewolf wasn’t one of them. Attacked by a rogue who was out to claim her, and facing what she now has no choice of becoming, Bonnie can’t let go of her human life as a Paramedic.
The last thing Bonnie needs is more challenges. However, Rikki, the Alpha of Mill City will be just that. Finding her to be possessive and ruling, Bonnie begins challenging the Alpha’s every breath.
Finding out her attack was no accident only makes her more angry at the situation. A group of rogues are out to get her. With no clue why, Bonnie has no choice but to seek help from the alluring Alpha and her pack, accepting the new world she was forced into.
SCI-FI ROMANCE
ALL THINGS MORTAL
by Laurel Johanson
Available in Kindle Unlimited
“A thousand years ago the goddess of death almost destroyed our universe. Three dead planets and a handful of dead gods stand as a testament to that. Now they say she wanders among us, powerless but waiting for another chance.”
Daiga has heard many versions of her story told over the years, many of them untrue. Once the feared goddess of death, she was imprisoned in a mortal’s body and stripped of her powers by her sister, Odisa, the goddess of life.
But Daiga has never really been as vengeful as they say, and reclaiming her old life was never really an option. Until she meets Lane.
Lane is one of the wives of the Lord—the current ruler of those still alive in the galaxy of Fira Moder. Both queen and warrior, Daiga knows she is dangerous. And Lane has her mind set on one thing: restoring Daiga’s powers and killing the Lord, in that order.
NEW AUDIOBOOKS
THE FALL GIRL
The Miracle Girl Series: Book 2
by TB Markinson
narrated by TJ Richards
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.
BETWEEN THE LINES
Cops and Docs: Book 3
by KD Williamson
narrated by Abby Craden
Psychiatrist Dr. Tonya Preston lives a life of cool detachment, often sacrificing her personal needs to appease her opinionated father. She often finds it easier to deal with patients than confront her family or her own issues. When her path dramatically crosses that of irrepressible rookie Police Officer Haley Jordan, she’s thrown out of her comfort zone.
Things have come easy for Haley, who has a drama-free life filled with love and friends that Tonya finds as alluring as the irreverent woman behind the badge. An attraction simmers between them, drawing them to each other. But will it be enough when work, family, and a confronting police case starts to tear at their fledgling relationship?
WRONGLY ACCUSED
by Erin Wade
narrated by Victoria Mei
When esteemed surgeon Dawn Fairchild is wrongly accused of vehicular manslaughter, her world is turned upside down. Sentenced to two years in a federal women’s prison, Dawn encounters a side of life she didn’t know existed. Caged with drug addicts, killers, and rapists, she is surprised when her knight in shining armor is a scrawny, scrappy redhead serving time for drug addiction and prostitution. A woman she couldn’t bring herself to shake hands with for fear of touching her.
You will laugh, cry, and cheer for these two unlikely friends as they navigate the horrors of a prison ran by a no-nonsense warden with her own plans for Dr. Dawn Fairchild.
THE PIKE: NEW BEGINNINGS
by Erik Schubach
narrated by Allyson Voller
Eve, along with her sister Zoey, has an uncanny knack for helping people who frequent the Pike bakery at Pike Place Market in Seattle to find love. Her meddling is a thing of legends when it comes to matchmaking. But for Eve, it is a spectator sport as she has never really pursued a romantic relationship of her own.
Love was for other people, and she basked in the results of watching people find their happily-ever-afters. Imagine her surprise when serendipity came knocking and she found herself falling head over heels.
Her family has been dying of curiosity for months to find out who has Eve sneaking off to talk to in the middle of movies, or has her turning down events because she “has a date.” Her secret has them all frantically trying to discover who has stolen the red-headed dynamo’s heart.
Eve promises everyone that her certain someone will be attending their annual family Thanksgiving celebration…but first, she has to pick up a family friend from London at the airport.
(The Pike series is set in the same world as Music of the Soul and London Harmony, and can be read as a stand-alone book.)
SALE ALERT
BEING HERS
by Anna Stone
$0.99 $4.99 (Free with Kindle Unlimited)
Melanie has spent her entire life working her way up in the world. By day, she studies at law school, and by night, she serves drinks at an exclusive club to afford her tuition. But the hard-working Melanie will never admit her true desire: to escape from her fast-paced, high-pressure life, if only for a moment.
When Melanie meets Vanessa, a glamorous executive and a regular at the club, she is drawn to the enigmatic black-haired woman. Vanessa is relentless in pursuing what she wants—and what she wants is Melanie. Soon, Melanie finds herself caught up in Vanessa’s sensual games of submission.
Melanie insists that her affair with Vanessa remain purely physical. But as her limits are tested, so is the line between lust and love. When ghosts from the past reappear, both women must face their deepest fears. Can Melanie surrender her everything to Vanessa, or will old wounds prove too great?
PODCAST NEWS
Have you listened to the latest Lesbians Who Write podcast episode? Clare and TB tackle the burning question: How do you stay on track for physical health? Click here for episode 4.
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