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ROMANCE
TWO HEARTS FOREVER
Two Hearts Trilogy: Book 3
by Harper Bliss
After overcoming their difficulties in Two Hearts Together, Anna and Zoe are nurturing their relationship, letting it grow slowly but surely.
When a surprise visitor shows up in Donovan Grove, things threaten to go off course.
Or will the unexpected circumstances help Anna and Zoe grow closer to each other?
Find out in the third and final part of this brand new novella trilogy by lesbian romance best-seller Harper Bliss.
HER ROYAL BODYGUARD
by Margaux Fox
Available in Kindle Unlimited
What happens when a female bodyguard falls in love with the Princess she is supposed to be protecting?
The beautiful and charismatic British Princess, Alexandra is due to marry a prince, but things begin to heat up between her and her bodyguard, Erin Kennedy.
How long can they keep each other’s secrets and manage the strength of their forbidden love before things start to break?
Trigger warning: Sexual assault
LIVE THIS LOVE
by Jamey Moody
Available in Kindle Unlimited
Alex Adams was living a quiet life as a bar owner on an island paradise until in walked Riley James. Their eyes met, they couldn’t look away.
What can happen on a two week vacation? Alex and Riley were about to find out. But Alex had a secret, would it end this love story before it even got started?
It’s only two weeks.
THOSE WHO WAIT
by Haley Cass
Available in Kindle Unlimited
Sutton Spencer’s ideas for her life were fairly simple: finish graduate school and fall in love. It would be a lot simpler if she could pinpoint exactly what she should do when she graduates in less than a year. Oh, and if she could figure out how to talk to a woman without feeling like a total mess, that would be great too.
Charlotte Thompson is very much the opposite. She’s always had clear steps outlining her path to success with no time or inclination for romance. Her burgeoning career in politics means everything to her and she’s not willing to compromise it for something as insignificant as love. Fleeting, casual, and discreet worked perfectly fine.
When they meet through a dating app, it’s immediately clear that they aren’t suited for anything more than friendship. Right?
WELCOME HOME BAILEY
by Hope A. Milam
Bailey Cooper is a guitarist in a metal/punk band. With the band on an extended break, the 43 year old has nothing but time on her hands and a bad case of writer’s block. A call for wedding help brings her home to Bayview, her hometown.
While Bailey has mastered her inner demons, she’s never come to terms with a lot of things she keeps buried in Bayview. This trip home will force her to face her mother, her parentage, the results of her actions and Beth, her one true love.
REST STOP: A SHORT STORY
by Amy Stinnett
Available in Kindle Unlimited
A desolate truck stop on a lonely Oregon highway. Lisa doesn’t want to go home, and the road is Betta’s home. This short story explores a moment in time when women from two different cultures are truly there for each other.
CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE
FLAVOR OF THE MONTH
by Georgia Beers
Charlie Stetko had a life to envy. A penthouse in Manhattan, a beautiful girlfriend, and a high-octane marketing career. Or so she thought. When her girlfriend sends her packing, Charlie ends up unemployed. Without a place to live or money of her own, she’s forced to do the one thing she vowed she never would: go back to Shaker Falls, Vermont. Back to her parents and back to the small town life—and the people—she left behind. Back to a part-time job in the new bakery in town.
Emma Grier thought Charlie was the love of her life until that uppity Manhattan entrepreneur swept Charlie off her feet. Charlie left everything in Shaker Falls behind, including Emma’s shattered heart. But Emma picked herself back up and now owns a popular restaurant in town. As for her love life? She doesn’t need one. Something else she doesn’t need? Charlie waltzing into her restaurant to sell her the bakery’s pie.
THE LAST PLACE YOU LOOK
by Aurora Rey
Julia Pierce can think of nothing more humiliating than her wife of eight years leaving her for her personal trainer. Oh, wait. She can. Without a career or a place to go when that exact thing happens, she’s forced to move home and take a job at her family’s winery.
Taylor Winslow has been in love with Julia since tenth grade. Not the desperate, pining sort, but the kind that never really went away. When Julia reappears, Taylor has a chance to finally win her heart. The only problem? Julia’s hell-bent on making up for lost time by dating every eligible lesbian in town.
Signing on as Julia’s wingman may land Taylor in the friend zone for good, but it’s a gamble she’s willing to take. With Taylor in her corner, will Julia find love, and herself, where she least expects it?
FACE THE MUSIC
by Ali Vali
Music producer, Mason Liner, has one passion: the acts she can bring to the top of the charts. When the biggest record label in Nashville hands her a new client, country music royalty, Sophie Roddy, Mason’s reluctant to take on a problem diva whose excessive lifestyle almost ruined her career, but can’t turn down the challenge.
Victoria Roddy has lived in Sophie Roddy’s shadow for as long as she can remember. Being her mother’s assistant is more than a job description…it’s her life. Now arrogant and aggravating Mason thinks she can turn Sophie’s career around, but Victoria doesn’t believe Mason’s ridiculous demands and exhaustive schedule are what her mother needs right now.
Mason and Victoria have to work together, so it’s really too bad they can’t stand each other, and even worse that they can’t seem to deny their attraction.
WHAT THE HEART REMEMBERS MOST
by M. Ullrich
Fate will find a way to intervene when it’s least expected.
Jax Levine and Gretchen Mills fell madly in love in college and never looked back. They built a great life together, but careers, a baby, and years of mounting tension later, they are living separate lives and their once grand love is forgotten.
After an accident, Gretchen suffers a brain injury that erases years of her memories. She wakes in the hospital with Jax at her side and everything seems normal…except Jax won’t look her in the eye and their baby boy is now a rambunctious toddler. Every line drawn between Jax and Gretchen starts to blur while Gretchen fights to figure out which of her most haunting recollections are real, and which are fake.
Is it possible for this accident to be the second chance neither Jax nor Gretchen knew they wanted?
THE REAL THING
by Laney Webber
Allison McDonald has a thriving massage practice and a spot on the local roller derby team. When an amazing woman swipes right on her dating profile, life couldn’t be more perfect. Perfection turns out to be illusion when she finds out she’s been catfished by someone using the photo of the actress, Geena. Determined to protect others from heartbreak, she contacts the dating site and Geena about the fraud.
Virginia Harris’s fans know her as “Geena,” the lesbian star of a popular web series. Playing the role of Geena, and protecting her identity, is Virginia’s latest way of keeping real life—and real love—at arm’s length. Until the woman of her dreams walks into her life. But is it Geena she’s really interested in?
Their attraction is immediate, but when Allison looks at Virginia, she struggles not to see the woman she thought she was in love with. As the lines between fantasy and reality blur, will they know the real thing?
MENDING FENCES
by Angie Williams
When rancher Bobbie Del Rey walks into the veterinarian’s office with an injured pup, the last person she expects to see is the one woman she’s never allowed herself to love. The only thing more dangerous than the storm raging outside is the tempest in her heart.
Veterinarian Grace Hammond is looking for a fresh start. Haunted by her past, she hopes moving back to her hometown will help her find the strength to stand up for what she needs in matters of the heart. The moment her first love, Bobbie Del Rey, walks into her clinic—tall, dark, and soaking wet—the boundaries Grace desperately needs become paper thin.
Can the heartbreaks of the past ever truly be mended?
FLYING FIRST
by Lucy Bexley
Available in Kindle Unlimited
Chloe is down on her luck when she takes an assistant job for Monroe. She’s been dreaming of her new boss for months but only getting icy stares in return. When tensions rise, Chloe is ready to walk out, but Monroe pulls her back in with a promised work trip to India for the two of them. When things go horribly wrong somewhere over the Atlantic will their attraction get the better of them or will the stress finally tear them apart?
INKED WITH A KISS
Thorn & Thistle: Book 2
by Jennie Davids
Tattoo artist Jamie Winston is used to caring for others. Between her assistant manager position at a tattoo parlor, single-parenting her twelve-year-old daughter and supporting her alcoholic parents, Jamie rarely prioritizes her own needs—unless Sierra Clark is in her chair. The bubbly younger woman somehow manages to make Jamie feel like the carefree teenager she never got to be, making anything seem possible.
For Sierra, time with Jamie is a much-needed escape. She takes her work as a social worker seriously, but with budget cuts threatening her job, there’s a lot riding on the fund-raiser she’s planning with Jamie. The fact that it means working closely with the sexy older tattooist is a bonus—a deliciously tempting bonus. Sierra isn’t one for relationships, but she’s never felt such a strong desire to mix business with pleasure.
EROTICA
MAID SERVICE
Jade’s Erotic Adventures: Book 23
by Victoria Rush
Available in Kindle Unlimited
When Jade is quietly working in her hotel room one morning, she hears a tap on the door for room service. She invites the maid in and is shocked at how young and pretty she is.
As the girl begins to clean the room, she discovers Jade’s sex toy lying under the bed covers. She places the object on Jade’s nightstand and continues to go about her duties while Jade catches glimpses of her sexy figure in her tight uniform.
When the maid returns later that evening for turndown service and catches Jade in the act, things quickly escalate as they share a brief but passionate tryst. But when she returns the following evening with another sexy maid for dual turndown service, Jade soon realizes that this business trip is going to be unlike any other…
EROTICA ANTHOLOGY
SILK AND LEATHER
edited by Victoria Villasenor
What happens when you leave your inhibitions at the door? When you’re ready for something different, something that pushes your boundaries and makes your wildest, wettest fantasies come true? What would you do if no one was watching? Or if they were? Is there something you’ve always wanted try? A bit of role play? A top to someone’s bottom? That chance meeting that leads to unexpected pleasures?
Life is anything but ordinary when the lights go out and there are no rules to follow. This collection of stories by award winning authors offers fantasies as soft as silk and tough as leather. The only question is: How far will you go to make your deepest desires come true?
ACTION & ADVENTURE / ROMANCE
REDEMPTION’S ROAD
Five Points: Book 3
by CJ Murphy
My name is Rebekka Deklan, and I’m one of the most unconventional pastors you’ll ever meet. I’m covered in tattoos and frequently can be found on a sawhorse at the local brewery with a 1956 Gibson on my knee. Grandpa taught me to play, and I use those gifts to share God’s grace at my non-denominational church, House of the Rising Son. From the stage of an old opera house in Thomas West Virginia, this retired rock star turned spiritual leader, tries my best to imitate the pastoral style of my former lover, Naomi Layman. Years ago, when we were together, I broke her heart during a night I can’t remember. Sometimes, it’s hard to teach lessons of grace when I can’t find a way to forgive myself for the biggest mistake of my life. Until then, my life is helping others find their path, while I wage war inside myself to balance the saint within the sinner as I make my way down Redemption’s Road.
PARANORMAL ROMANCE
THE MORTICIAN’S DAUGHTER
by Nan Higgins
On the night of her twenty-second birthday, Aria Jasper discovers the family secret: she comes from a long line of people who communicate with ghosts. Now that she’s beginning to see and hear the newly dead, she’s expected to pledge her service to her father’s company, AfterCorps, and help rookie ghosts get their earthly affairs in order so they can make their final transfer. Angry about having to give up a music career that’s on the verge of exploding, Aria reluctantly begins her training.
The only other student, Sloane, is a sexy AfterCorps devotee determined to join the most dangerous branch of the organization: the Criminally Demonic Unit. As Aria and Sloane grow closer, they begin to suspect all is not as it seems. A terrified ghost claims that Aria’s father is evil and keeping her earthbound against her will. She begs for their help to cross over, but Aria and Sloane may not be prepared for the consequences of defying an organization powerful enough to exert influence in both the land of the living and the dead.
MYSTERY
FOREIGN INFLUENCE
by Monique S.
Available in Kindle Unlimited
Foreign Influence is an epic crime story set 1993 in Hamburg, Germany’s (in)famous capital of trade, shipping and sex. Undercover special branch (Sonderdezernat) operator and master of disguises Wolf Schwedt gets charged by his superior, Hauptkommissar (chief superintendent) Buchholz, nickname “Bubi”, to investigate the suspicious death of an unidentified body dumped in the district of Kommissar (superintendent) Schneider, the red light district around Davidstrasse, Herbertstrasse, Reeperbahn and Grosse Freiheit.
It quickly becomes apparent, that he will get nowhere, if he doesn’t go undercover into the transvestite- and transgender-prostitution scene on Grosse Freiheit, where predators might roam all too freely. Lesbian patrol woman Angela Liebetanz is assigned as his liaison to the district’s station, Davidwache.
The investigation turns all too quickly into a nightmare for Wolf, who gets drugged and abducted. A dangerous journey begins, in which only experience and Angela can help him find herself and to stay sane.
Trigger warning: Sexual Assault
MYSTERY / ROMANCE
A PROMISE KEPT
MacGregor FBI Series: Book 4
R.E. Gauthier
Available in Kindle Unlimited
A promise made is a promise kept. Follow Special Agent Nicole Hyland as she fights the odds to bring her best friend, Senior Special Agent Kelsey MacGregor home. People who make promises have good intentions and people who keep promises have a good character.
NEW AUDIOBOOKS
RESERVATIONS OF THE HEART
by TB Markinson
narrated by Lori Prince
Can two wounded souls find solace together?
Forty-one-year-old doctor Stella Gilbert used to have it all. Her career was on fire, and she had a picture-perfect family – until she was blindsided by her wife doing the unthinkable. Three years after her divorce, Stella’s loved ones worry about her nonexistent personal life and her stubborn belief that focusing on her career and raising her daughter are all she needs to be fulfilled.
Reeling from the revelation of a long-held family secret, 29-year-old Aurora Shirley is just over it all. If her parents could lie to Aurora all her life, won’t everyone else? Women are the last thing on her mind as she starts a temporary job at a local medical school. Unfortunately for Aurora, she needs to find a date for her best friend’s wedding or be deemed the worst maid of honor in history.
When Stella and Aurora unexpectedly come together, sparks fly. Neither is looking for a relationship, but what they discover in one another is so much more than a physical connection. Can two wounded women who believe love is the last thing they want overcome their fears to find healing?
TO THE MOON AND BACK
by Melissa Brayden
narrated by Melissa Sternenberg
Lauren Prescott had dreamed of being an actress since she was cast as Wendy in her junior high production of Peter Pan. Yes, her nightgown snagged and brought the set tumbling down, but she was hooked. After years of unsuccessful auditions, performing just wasn’t in the cards. Instead, Lauren established herself as a successful stage manager at the esteemed McAllister Theatre. Unfortunately, the resident director has cast celebrity, Carly Daniel: Headstrong, entitled, and always late. So, why is their chemistry turning her the hell on?
After partying her way through her twenties and ruining a successful film career, Carly Daniel has to take whatever she can get. If schlepping it onstage will raise her star again, she’ll listen to her pesky agent. Added bonus: The uptight stage manager is a sexy distraction.
When Carly’s costar is sidelined, Lauren must decide whether renewing a long-forgotten dream will jeopardize what she has percolating with Carly. Is the limelight big enough for two?
GOOD ENOUGH TO EAT
by Jae & Alison Grey
narrated by Lori Prince
Robin is a vampire on a no-blood diet. Determined to fight her craving for a pint of O negative, she attends an AA meeting, where she meets Alana, a woman who harbors a secret of her own.
Despite their determination not to get involved, the attraction is undeniable. Is it just bloodlust that makes Robin think Alana looks good enough to eat, or is it something more? Will it even matter once Alana finds out who Robin really is?
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PROJECT LAUGHTER
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