Dear lesfic fan,
Here are this week’s new ebook and audio releases, sales, and announcements.
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Happy reading and listening,
TB
ROMANCE
A SHOT AT LOVE
The Village Romance Series: Book 1
by TB Markinson
Available in Kindle Unlimited
Can the sassy American win the shy Brit?
Josie Adams had a brilliant speechwriting career in American politics–until a scandal destroyed everything. Unsure what to do with the rest of her life, she moves home with her mother in the Cotswolds.
Journalist Harriet Powell ditched London after getting sacked and divorced within six months of each other. She hopes to find peace in the village, but after meeting Josie, Harry’s world will never be the same.
While the two don’t see eye to eye on the professional front, it’s hard to deny their connection, even if Josie’s mum is determined to set Josie up with anyone who isn’t Harry.
Can the two conquer their personal and professional struggles to let the other in?
Best-selling lesbian romance author T.B. Markinson teams up with Clare Lydon and Harper Bliss to bring lesfic readers a touching trilogy set in the Cotswolds. Grab your copy of the first book of The Village Romance series that’s the talk of the summer.
MOUNTAIN DREAMS
by Ellie Green
Available in Kindle Unlimited
Competition for the same job makes quick enemies of Darcy and Emilia. But getting stranded in the Patagonian wilderness means they’ll have to work together if they want to make it home. It’s cold outside amongst the glaciers and granite peaks, but there’s a fire between them they can’t ignore.
THE PLAYER 2
by Denise Warner
Available in Kindle Unlimited
As small town girl Dina reaps the success of a local theater production, a new contact,the young, gorgeous ambitious Taylor emerges to talk big business, throwing Dina for a loop. Dina’s current girlfriend Liz, has started the ball rolling by handing off Dina’s pet project, a play she wrote years ago, to a big-time producer and this starts a ripple effect of the unexpected for everyone. How will this play out for Dina?
DANCING THE NIGHT AWAY
by Laura Conway
Available in Kindle Unlimited
Spencer has been working at Club Pink for more than ten years. When she suggested to her boss that they should have salsa classes on a Tuesday night, she never could have imagined who would walk through the door.
Delaney Meyers, her favorite actress, wanted to learn how to dance, and she didn’t have a partner.
Spencer couldn’t have dreamed it up.
There were so many questions that Spencer wanted answers to.
If Delaney Meyers was in Club Pink, did that mean she was gay?
Would she dance with Spencer?
How would she react to finding out Spencer was a fan?
Sparks fly when these two hit the dance floor.
Is chemistry enough to overcome their pasts and their difference in age?
THE IRON HORSE
by Amy DeMeritt
Available in Kindle Unlimited
Nadia’s car breaks down in an unfamiliar town, and with a dead cellphone battery, she walks till she comes to the first place with lights on – The Iron Horse, a biker bar.
Gina is at the bar late and offers to fix Nadia’s car and get her back on the road. The women bond and find something within each other that feels like they could have finally found “the one.”
But will a complicated friendship with a single mother take Gina away from Nadia?
TASTE OF LIFE
Forever Series: Book 6
by Jessa Stone
Available in Kindle Unlimited
Experience is the best teacher but sometimes those lessons are only learned when you’ve been pushed beyond your limits.
Age is just a number when it comes to attraction, so it shouldn’t be a hindrance when Erin finds herself attracted to an older woman. While the feeling is mutual, Riane cannot help wanting to guide Erin towards becoming the woman she has the potential to be, even if it’s not what Erin wants between them.
An unexpected wrench in her plans though, is the catalyst for the biggest life lesson of all and both Riane and Erin must step up, or lose out on what countless persons have lived their whole lives without ever experiencing…..true love.
UNKNOWN FORCES
by Samantha Hicks
Jennifer Wilson spent the last seventeen years raising her younger sister Kelsey, after a boating accident killed their parents. It hasn’t always been easy – especially with her sister’s best friend, Riley Blake, always hanging around. Riley hasn’t had an easy life either. Growing up with an alcoholic father, abandoned by her mother when she was ten, Riley has learned to cope with being on her own. Her friendship with Kelsey is the only thing steadfast in her life, and she cherishes it.When tragedy and secrets emerge, Jennifer and Riley must learn to lean on each other. The growing attraction between them only complicates matters. When events conspire to keep them apart, will they trust the unknown forces that keep pushing them together, or hide from their feelings forever?
THE WOMAN AT THE EDGE OF TOWN
by Georgette Kaplan
A humorous lesbian romance about how love can flourish in even the most barren places.
Sarah Kay is having the worst year. She’s dropped out of college, hasn’t dealt with her father’s death, and now she’s back living with her mother in her old hometown. A chance encounter with reclusive millionaire Nina Rose leads to a job looking after the mysterious woman’s garden on the edge of town. The longer Sarah spends with the curious Nina, tending to her rich earth and blooms, the deeper her connection becomes with her. Sarah slowly begins to get over her father, think about her future, and is drawn to digging deeper into her beautiful employer’s world.
CRIMSON AND AMBER
Coffee and Emeralds: Book 2
by Rae McDaniel
Available in Kindle Unlimited
Follow Jo and Sarah as they continue to navigate through their new relationship. Life and work changes, a wedding, and a traumatic event will forever follow them. Can they heal and continue their journey together? A book about life, love and the ever-changing way in which LGBTQ persons adapt to the world in this uncertain time.
**This book contains scenes of verbal and violent assault towards a lesbian character.
ROMANTIC COMEDY
GREENGAGE HOLIDAY CHEER
The Greengage Series: Book 2
by Emma Sterner-Radley
Librarian and solver of mysteries, Kit Sorel, has a lot on her plate this December. The eccentric but cosy island of Greengage can do that to a person.
All Kit wants is to settle into her first holiday season on this quaint English isle, torn away from her past home, family and old friends as she is.
Instead she has to contend with Laura—her girlfriend who happens to be an island celebrity and current owner of Howard Hall—never having time for her. To complicate Kit’s life further, she gets asked to find the missing and naughty “Pinky” for the owner of a local pub.
All this while trying to figure out what her Christmas plans will be.
Thank goodness Kit has the comical and quirky characters of Greengage to assist. Ethel Rosenthal gives advice, and Rajesh Singh shows her that skipping celebrating altogether is an option. But are these well-meaning people helping or hindering? Can Kit get over her holiday blues? Will Laura find time for them to be together? Oh, and where on earth is Pinky?!
SPORTS ROMANCE
GIRLS OF SUMMER
Girls of Summer: Book 5
by Kate Christie
The first four books of the Girls of Summer series introduced Emma Blakeley and Jamie Maxwell, two athletes with bright soccer futures. Now, in Girls of Summer, the US Women’s National Team (USWNT) is in its final round of preparations before the 2015 World Cup. For Jamie, a starting spot on the World Cup roster would be a dream come true. For Emma, the summer of 2015 offers a chance at redemption. Will both women see their lifelong hopes and dreams realized? And can their relationship withstand the intense scrutiny of the outside world?
To find out where this crucial summer takes Jamie and Emma, check out the latest installment in the story of their lives, loves, and would-be world championships in Girls of Summer, book five of the bestselling series.
URBAN FANTASY
BURGUNDY HART
The Complete Series
by Lucy True
Burgundy Jane Hart is Rock Grove’s librarian and witch-in-training. Life in a supernatural town is pretty good for Burgundy and her quirky neighbors… until Burgundy is forced to face the unexpected.
Will Burgundy ever learn how to use her powers, save her beloved town, and – oh, yeah – get the girl? Find out what it takes for an outlawed paranormal race to make a stand in this compilation of all three books in the Burgundy Hart series – The Cupid Conundrum, The Unlocked Legacy, and The Firebrand Syndicate!
SUPERHERO FICTION
WHO’S AFRAID OF AMY SINCLAIR?
Hopefuls: Book 2
by Jenn Gott
No one ever said coming back to life would be easy.
Clair Maxwell didn’t ask to be resurrected, or to inherit the mind, body, and superpowers of her parallel self, but she’s done her best to live with it. Even if it means carrying around memories that aren’t hers, even if it means living on a world not quite her own, even if it means learning how to be a reluctant superhero. She has her childhood sweetheart-turned-wife back, and a second chance at living. She has no intention of wasting it.
But just as she’s walking down the aisle again, setting things back the way they should be, her world is up-ended once more. An attack on her life throws everything into chaos. Surrounded by old foes and new secrets, suddenly everything Clair thought she knew about her past is in question. And now she’s forced to wonder just where Clair ends… and Amy begins.
LEGAL THRILLER
STEEL CITY CONFIDENTIAL
Steel City Series: Book 1
by Anne Hagan
Available in Kindle Unlimited
Clients hide things from their lawyers all the time. Pam Wilson makes it an art form.
Pam’s been on the run from the law for years and she was getting away with it. The statute of limitations ran out on most of her crimes. For her spouse Charlotte? Not so much. Though they were aging, they looked forward to enjoying their golden years and, hopefully, forgetting about the past.
Life got complicated when Charlotte became gravely ill, their daughter got pregnant with the child of a married man…a married man someone took shots at from a rare motorcycle Pam happens to own. When the man was shot again and killed in his office at Pitt a couple of weeks later, the police found all signs pointing to Pam.
Rochelle ‘Ro’ Rabinowitz, a second-generation Pittsburgh lawyer, and her little firm take on Pam’s case pro-bono. Ro thinks it’s a slam dunk for the defense and hands the case off to her new associate and – she hopes – her future partner in the firm, Dominique, to get her feet wet in a courtroom. Clients are never completely honest with their lawyers and Ro and Dominque soon learn this one is no exception.
Slam dunk? More like a pipe dream…
NEW AUDIOBOOKS
FRENCH KISSING
Season 5
by Harper Bliss
narrated by Abby Craden
Paris…. City of lights, City of love…. City of drama!
With a year remaining on Dominique’s first presidential term, the Laroche camp is gearing up for her re-election campaign. Dominique herself, however, doesn’t seem so keen on going through it all again.
Aurore and Solange’s relationship has been on and off so many times, nobody can keep count. The prospect of being on opposing sides of an election campaign is proving too difficult to overcome. Unless one of them can find it in her heart to make a sacrifice.
Claire is showing signs of a midlife crisis. Rather than test her marriage to Margot, her behaviour puts in danger Barbier and Cyr, and her friendship with Juliette and Steph.
Partnerships will be questioned, loyalties will shift, and priorities will be reassessed as favourite characters, and old foes, return for a new season of Parisian drama and intrigue.
PODCAST NEWS
LWW-19: Let’s Talk About Lesbian Fiction Covers?
On the latest Lesbian Book Club podcast, Clare and TB chat book covers, ice cream & nipples. Possibly not in that order.
Click here to listen.
If you’d like to leave a comment on the episode, head on over to www.lesbianswhowrite.com. Or email lesbianswhowrite@gmail.com. Also, if you have a suggested topic for an episode, please let Clare and TB know! They’d love to hear from you!
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