Dear lesfic fan,
Here are this week’s new ebook and audio releases and announcements.
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Happy reading and listening,
TB
ROMANCE
NO AFTER YOU
Celebrities Series: Book 1
by Nicole Pyland
Available in Kindle Unlimited
Dani Wilder only intended to go to a fundraiser and donate money to a worthy cause. She had no idea that she’d meet the love of her life that night. There were only a couple of problems with that chance meeting. Dani had a boyfriend. That chance meeting – it was with Peyton Gloss, the world’s most famous music star, who also happened to be a woman.
Peyton had only planned on performing that night. When she’d seen the most beautiful woman in the world in the crowd, she had to talk to her. Dani Wilder was a beautiful, kind, smart supermodel, who also happened to have a boyfriend. When the two women spend time together, though, it’s clear to both of them that this is more than merely a close friendship.
In this prequel to “All the Love Songs,” find out what happened the night these two met, and discover how their relationship began.
TWO HEARTS ALONE
Two Hearts Trilogy: Book 1
by Harper Bliss
In the small town of Donovan Grove, Anna Gunn’s life is organized just the way she likes it: work from home, walks with her dog, Friday night drinks at the bar.
But Anna’s strict routine is challenged when the local bookstore is taken over by city slicker, Zoe Perez.
Will Anna let Zoe into her life, despite the major disruption she will have to tolerate?
And can Zoe look past Anna’s eccentricity and embrace her unconventional behavior?
Find out in part one of this brand new novella trilogy by lesbian romance best-seller Harper Bliss.
Please note that this is only the first part of a three-part story. The second novella, Two Hearts Together, will be out on 3 March 2020. The third and final part of Anna and Zoe’s story, Two Hearts Forever, will come out on 7 April 2020.
THEN & NOW
by Monica McCallan
Available in Kindle Unlimited
Lily Connor has focused all her energy into becoming a successful wedding planner, and after five years, she’s on the precipice of taking on more responsibility at Southerland Wedding Company. When the chance finally presents itself, it comes with a complication she couldn’t have dreamt up in her worst nightmares. With the bride and groom away for a month, Lily needs to work with the bride’s best friend, Bennett Burke, a woman she never thought she’d see again.
It was only for a few months, a study abroad experience that felt plucked from those same dreams turned nightmares, but Bennett is back, and Lily wants nothing to do with her. Bennett broke her heart the first time, and Lily swore she’d never let something like that happen again.
Working together can’t be avoided, but falling in love? Lily needs to stop that at all costs, even if it comes at the sake of her own happiness.
THIS IS MY BODY
Hobbs: Book 2
by Elena Graf
Available in Kindle Unlimited
The new rector of St. Margaret’s by the Sea Episcopal Church has a secret. Lucille Bartlett was a rising star at the Metropolitan Opera, but she disappeared from the stage and no one knows why. Philosophy Professor Erika Bultmann is a confirmed agnostic, who doesn’t have much use for religion, but she is fascinated by Mother Lucy. When Erika returns to her summer cottage in Hobbs to finish her last book before she retires, Lucy is drawn to the enigmatic professor, but she wants much more than a casual affair. Erika has been in open relationships; Lucy wants a commitment. Lucy believes marriage is sacred; Erika thinks it’s a vestige of the patriarchy. When Lucy’s secret is revealed, she needs Erika’s support more than ever. Can they put their differences aside and find common ground?
OVER THE MOON
Madison Edwards
Samantha “Sam” Dempsey is a successful criminal trial attorney. Although she’s professionally at the top of her game, her personal life is empty. Then she meets Tessa, the seemingly straight and very engaged young lawyer, who rents the office next to hers. They have chemistry right from the start, which eases them into a fun friendship and dangerous territory for Sam, an out and proud lesbian.
Tessa begins to have very real feelings for Sam that she struggles to understand and acknowledge. Meanwhile, her relationship with her fiance Craig begins to crumble as her attraction to Sam grows. Feelings and jealousy mix together like a hot mess when Sam finds a new love interest.
VACATION PEOPLE
by Cheri Ritz
Successful Chicago-based artist Lauren Hansen is on a layover in Las Vegas before heading to what was supposed to be the vacation of a lifetime with her partner. Until, that is, that partner became an ex.
Recovering from a nasty break-up herself, workaholic Penny Rothmoor agrees to meet Lauren for dinner, but only out of a sense of obligation to her mother.
One thing leads to another, and soon Penny finds herself on a plane, jetting off to meet Lauren for a week on the beautiful island of Hawaii—but strictly as friends, of course.
As the bikini-clad duo relaxes and gets to know each other better, they begin to realize that there’s more to enjoy in Hawaii than just sun and sand—and that king-size bed is looking awfully inviting. What is it about the words “no strings attached” that are sure to create a tangled mess of desire, mind-blowing pleasure, and the pain of separation?
REST AND RELAXATION: THE NEXT CHAPTER
by Rhavensfyre
Available in Kindle Unlimited
When we left Dani and Allyse, they had the farm all to themselves, but now? Allyse’s two girls are headed that way after their summer plans suddenly fall apart. With a budding romance on the line, and the looming specter of Allyse’s one month vacation coming to a close…how will Dani take to having two more strangers invading her space? To make matters worse, doubt rears it’s ugly head as does a few not so well-kept secrets.
This novella is the continuing story of Dani and Allyse, part two of the Rest and Relaxation Series.
REVEALED
Oaktown Girls: Book 4
by Suzanne Falter
Available in Kindle Unlimited
From the author of the best-selling Oaktown Girls series.
There are times in life when we must reveal who we truly are… or we cannot have the love we crave. Tenika Cummins, the co-owner of the Driven garage, wants to become a parent. But first, she must reveal a long held secret she’s kept from everyone … including her wife. Rosalind, an Asian-American tech lesbian, must come out to her homophobic, evangelical parents before she can begin a relationship with her love-at-first sight crush, Monroe. But Monroe, who is non-binary, must confront their own family in court as they file for a new gender marker and name change. Three deeply engrossing stories of love, loss and the power of owning your truth interweave in this fourth book in the Oaktown Girls series.
CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE
THE TASTE OF CYN
by Les Mood
Available in Kindle Unlimited
Lou did not want to go to the New Year’s Eve party, but her sister Sheila bullied her into it. She was determined not to enjoy herself. Then she met Cyn. They talked. They flirted. They danced. They kissed – or at least Cyn kissed her. Lou couldn’t understand why the woman kept apologizing for the kisses.
Cyn got a little drunk New Year’s Eve and somehow ended up kissing her co-worker’s sister. Several times. She apologized for the kisses and hoped Lou wouldn’t hold them against her. She was relieved when Sheila told her Lou wanted to see her again. Their first real date turned epic when they were caught in a Nebraska ice storm and ended up spending the night at Cyn’s apartment. There were unicorns involved. And more kissing.
Even though Lou had never dated a woman before, her mother thought it was a wonderful idea. Even though Cyn had always dated women, her mother thought it was a terrible idea. Then Cyn’s boss ordered them not to date.
EROTIC ROMANCE
THE CONTRACT
by Raven J. Spencer
Available in Kindle Unlimited
Daisy is behind paying her rent. To make matters worse, hours at her job have been cut, and her kind landlady is moving away, handing the business over to her daughter Taylor.
When Taylor finds out about Daisy’s dilemma, she makes her an offer that would solve the problem, but is morally questionable…but who’s to judge?
Their arrangement becomes more complicated when emotions come into play, making it even harder to keep the secret…
ACTION & ADVENTURE / ROMANCE
IN DYER CIRCUMSTANCES
Ren Dyer Series: Book 2
by Claire Highton-Stevenson
Available in Kindle Unlimited
Everything you thought you knew – is wrong!
Agent Ren Dyer wakes up in a hospital room with her lover Andrea Fielding by her bedside, but not all is as it seems when Andrea appears distant, and not at all like the lover she has come to depend upon.
With no recollection of what has happened, Ren must rely on those around her to explain, but when the explanation makes no sense, what can she do?
Walking out of the hospital, she comes face to face with a new reality, a familiar one that leaves her lost and confused. And now she must regain the love of Andrea Fielding all over again.
GUARDIAN ANGEL
by Becky Harmon
Newly appointed US ambassador Elizabeth Turner is still getting used to her post in Mauritania, Africa. She has lots of plans for her time in office, but those plans are forgotten when a crowd of angry protestors start to gather outside the embassy—bringing both sporadic gunfire and concern for the Ambassador’s safety.
Flagler security agent Angel McTaggart will never understand why an intelligent woman would choose to come to a country where women are devalued. Not that her opinion matters, she knows, because she’s here to do one job and one job only—keep the ambassador safe at all costs.
Angel needs to get the situation under control quickly before an attempt to storm the embassy becomes an option for the rioters. Elizabeth Turner isn’t uncooperative, she reasons, just headstrong and opinionated. Angel knows she’s worked with worse, but no one that’s had the effect on her that the ambassador seems to be having now.
Focusing on her job might be harder than she thinks…
OUT OF THE SHADOWS
by Kayden Sol
Available in Kindle Unlimited
Living with guilt and a broken heart, Lacey joins the military to drown out the memories of her past. But the time has come for her to return to the civilian world, and face her fears. Little did she know that the same demons she’d been running from, would be the same ones she’d be confronting on her return.
She must fight to protect the woman who she is quickly falling in love with. But is she strong enough to succeed through all the obstacles in her way? Can she protect her family and the new woman in her life from danger?
SCI-FI ROMANCE
THE SUM OF LOVE
by Olivia Lark
Available in Kindle Unlimited
Born a century apart, they will overcome time itself, or lose each other forever.
Faith Spaulding is a math prodigy stuck on her uncle’s farm in 1895. Hollis Davis is a wisecracking bike messenger in 2020, just getting over a breakup. Obviously, to have met at all is the unlikeliest of impossibilities – let alone to have found true love together. Now they’re facing some of the deepest puzzles about the nature of time and space that the universe has to offer.
BASTET’S DAUGHTERS: THE ACINONYX
by Scott Kujawa
Available in Kindle Unlimited
For years, Captain Chloe dreamed of leaving the planet and exploring the solar system. When the world settled after the changes during The Event, she settled in Roswell, New Mexico. Working with those who survived in this part of the country, the captain of the Acinonyx completed her dream when she built a military base and gathered those who protected it. Working with those who settled outside Roswell, they designed and built the ship. As the ship became a reality, she gathered those who wanted to leave the planet with her.
Harperia is one of those who joined Captain Chloe at the military base. She’s the commander of the troops who she trained, and who protected the crew aboard the Acinonyx. Having secrets of her own, no one on the ship knows she’s a worshiper of Eris. Following the orders of the Greek goddess, Harperia works to remove Chloe from the captain of the ship.
Sabrina is the leader of the doctors aboard the ship. She journeyed across the country to reach the military base. Working with the other doctors in the medical bay, she keeps the crew of the Acinonyx from dying from the injuries they have as the crew explores the solar system and outer space once they leave the known system behind.
MYSTERY / ROMANCE
SHADOWS IN THE NIGHT
Shadow Series: Book 5
by Kat Smith
Availale in Kindle Unlimited
Devan faces her biggest challenge yet as demons from the past come back to haunt her. She must finally decide if she is going to once again run away, or finally stand her ground and face the enemies of her past once and for all.
Mara, Payton, and the entire SpecOps Division come under siege when an intruder invades their ranks. When Mara loses an entire team because of the intruder’s nefarious plan to take control, she will stop at nothing to get justice for her soldiers.
Meanwhile, Alex struggles to overcome an attack of her own. While the investigation gets underway, she must come to terms with news she’s learned, and her reaction threatens to destroy her lifelong relationship with Payton.
THRILLER / ROMANCE
DIRT NAP
by Carolyn Elizabeth
Though still suffering side effects from the injuries she sustained in a serious fall, Corey Curtis is off restricted duty and back at work in the morgue. Within hours of cutting the cast off her arm with a bone saw she’s asked by her former mentor to assist on a body recovery. Now she’s elbow deep in decomposing human remains and a suspicious death that hits far too close to home.
Just when her relationship with Dr. Thayer Reynolds has reached a new milestone, the new case tests Corey’s limits while Thayer struggles with a difficult situation at work. Corey’s impulsive nature has her hurtling down an all too familiar road with trouble around every corner.
The only thing keeping the wheels from totally coming off is Thayer’s unwavering love and support. But when the investigation comes full circle, everyone is caught off guard…threatening a most unhappy ending.
Picking up minutes from the end of Gallows Humor, Dirt Nap is the second Corey Curtis and Thayer Reynolds romantic thriller.
SUSPENSE
THE TRAVELER
Book 2: The Hunter
by Kim Pritekel
A story so epic one book can’t contain it.
BOOK TWO:
1890: In the dying days of the Old West, Sally Little runs her booming brothel with the passion and tenacity the business of sex requires. Savvy and indulgent, there’s one itch Sally can’t let herself scratch. Afraid of hurting the woman she loves, she instead unleashes …
Present Day: … her renovation crew and fixer upper TV show on a dilapidated mansion that has known nothing but death since a murder there in 1977. Samantha Leyton sees ratings gold in bringing the sagging old house to life, but instead she discovers only she has the power to unlock the mystery that hunted four women across time, leaving death and destruction in its wake. Can she release her sisters who came before her and finally be granted the gift of love that is stronger than any evil?
Four women – three deaths – two words – one house
THE HUNTER
SALE ALERT
SURRENDER YOUR HEART
Surrender Series: Book 1
by Raven J. Spencer
FREE $2.99 (Also in Kindle Unlimited)
One day Penny is studying sociology and paying her tuition with her job at a local café, the next she wakes up in a luxurious house, the property of a rich and enigmatic woman. Carter Forbes is ready to lay the world at her feet, but what will she expect in return? As she uncovers Carter’s reasons to create this unusual situation, Penny can’t deny the attraction between them. Can she reconcile her desire with her beliefs about herself, or is this passionate affair doomed from the start?
NEW AUDIOBOOKS
MADE IN LONDON
London Romance Series: Book 6
by Clare Lydon
narrated by Lucy Price-Lewis
Ready or not, here comes romance…
Photographer Heidi Hughes has been single since her daughter was born. But now that Maya’s walking and talking, she’s ready to meet someone who’s happy with her cute-but-chaotic extra.
Eden Price’s world is all about order and precision: in her job, home, friendships. A PR guru, she’s designed her life to run like clockwork.
At least, she had, until the universe decided she needed to meet Heidi.
Now, Eden’s not sure of much because Heidi is everything she didn’t want, but now categorically does.
Can the family-phobic singleton really be falling for the single mum?
Made in London is the sixth book in the London Romance series and features cats, kids, and calamity, along with chocolate spread exactly where you want it.
Clare Lydon has done it again with another glittering and hilarious romantic comedy! Strap in for the latest feel-good, laugh-out-loud London adventure!
ADD ROMANCE AND MIX
by Shannon M. Harris
narrated by Lindsay Greene
Briley Anderson hasn’t been in a serious relationship for the past two years. The pain of her last breakup has made her wary of giving her heart away again. She spends her days flipping houses and her downtime baking treats for her neighbors. Falling in love wasn’t in her plans, but then again, neither was her next-door neighbor.
Leah Daniels is a divorced mother of two and a grandmother at the age of 49. Love was the last thing she was looking for, especially with a woman 16 years her junior. All she was hoping for was a quiet neighborhood to raise her 15-year-old son. What she hadn’t expected was the unavoidable draw she felt toward Briley.
Through laughter, heartache, love, and fear, it’s up to Briley and Leah to figure out if what they’ve created is strong enough to make a relationship last and if taking the chance on love is really worth the risk.
HOLD ME
by Hildred Billings
narrated by Laura Angell
The Jiai Jouwa (Story of Love) series takes a look into how one lesbian relationship overcomes the dichotomies that can keep two hearts apart: Age, class, social expectations, and distance.
Born into an elite family, Jun has spent her life cultivating the professional qualities needed to claim her inheritance, the Nippon Royal Hotel empire. Just when she thinks her dream is about to come true, however, Jun’s uncle ships her from her homeland of Hokkaido to the city of Nagoya to become the new local general manager.
Enter Saya, a 20-something who invades Jun’s life with a bang and leaves just as swiftly. It’s the hope of seeing Saya again that keeps Jun grounded in her goal of taking over the family empire one day…and the more she encounters the enigmatic Saya, the more she realizes she’s falling for her.
Under the scrutiny of her uncle, Jun must prove that she can become the head of the family. But she also must prove to herself that she is capable of sustaining a romantic relationship, even if her intended has an insatiable wanderlust. Her family’s judgment, Saya’s crippling demons, and the needs of the people she meets along the way will all conspire to change Jun’s life forever.
GIVEAWAYS
LESFIC BOOKCLUBS
LESFIC BOOK EVENTS
WLW & lesbian books from Bold Strokes Books (F/F Fiction Crossword Challenge #5)
PROJECT LAUGHTER
Welcome to Project Laughter. At least once a week, hopefully more, I’ll post a guest blog from a lesfic author sharing an embarrassing moment in their lives to help us laugh.
Check out Anne Hagan’s Pranking the Prankster. Anne is giving away 1 ecopy of Steel City Confidential.
Claire Highton-Stevenson’s provides some chuckles with her Really Grave Decisions guest post. Also, Claire is giving away 1 ecopy of In Dyer Need and In Dyer Circumstances.
Authors if you’d like to get involved in the project, see this page for more details.
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