Dear lesfic fan,

Here are this week’s new ebook and audio releases and announcements.

Authors, it would be extremely helpful if you could provide me with your new release details. Here’s the link for how to submit books for the newsletter.

Anyone with lesfic news, give me a shout at tbm@iheartlesfic.com.

Happy reading and listening,

TB

ROMANCE

THE WRONG DATE

by Sienna Waters

Available in Kindle Unlimited

What happens when you fall for Ms. Wrong?

Annie Harland is rich, successful, and very single. So when an invitation to her tenth high school reunion drops on her mat, she’s determined to skip it. Until a drunk evening with her best friend results in an appointment with an escort named Robin.

Robin is supposed to be bookish, well-muscled, and the owner of a golden retriever. Robin is actually tall, curvaceous, and very, very female.

Things should have ended at their very first meeting. But for some strange reason, Annie can’t stop seeing Ms. Wrong. And Robin is Ms. Wrong, if only because she’s a Ms. and not a Mr.

What should have been a story of high school revenge has turned into a romance, and Annie’s life is about to be turned upside down. But love knows no labels, or does it?

THE MOUNTAIN WHISPERS

by Ali Spooner

Arriving home and discovering the betrayal by her best friend and lover, Eli Fortner leaves to run off her anger and hurt. A chance stop at a convenience store and the purchase of lottery tickets, sends Eli’s life into a whirlwind of change.

Able to now pursue her dreams, Eli heads off to see what else fate has in store for her.

Whit Brewster, Eli’s neighbor, is everything Eli never knew she needed and wanted. But can she let go of the betrayal long enough to let Whit in?

Thirteen black cats, a baby goat, and Cruz, her furry best friend, join Eli on her adventure, new life, and the possibility of real love.

THE TEMPTING TEACHER
Retro Lesbian Dream Girls: Book 1

by Amanda Clover

Available in Kindle Unlimited

Coming out of the closet doesn’t have to be unpleasant, even in 1983! Trust me. A little help from the right person, like my gorgeous writing teacher, Ms. Rossi, will go a long way.

My name is Elizabeth Turner, but only my dad calls me that. You can call me Beth. I’m young, struggling with some body issues, and extremely, absolutely, 110% gay. This isn’t one of those sweet stories where a girl realizes she doesn’t like boys. This is the story of a seething caldera of Sapphic desire ready to erupt at the slightest provocation. I have my sexuality figured out. I just haven’t told anyone about it. Yet.

My tempting writing teacher Ms. Rossi decides to coax me out of the closet right before I have to leave New York forever. Talk about timing! Before I depart with my father to live in California, Ms. Rossi is going to throw open the doors of my sexuality and teach me how to live and love as a lesbian. At least that’s what I’m hoping. I’m not sure she knows about it.

LUST
Sins of Mercy: Book 1

by Hildred Billings

Available in Kindle Unlimited

“Mercy Devereux stood on the edge of a bridge, looking into the abyss below.”

Life has not been kind to Mercy: her girlfriend is gone, she’s unappreciated in her corporate job, and depression has always haunted her. That’s how she came to stand on the bridge where she meets Acedia, the deity who oversees the Seven Sinners, bringers of peace and carnal healing.

Now Mercy must embark on a journey to reclaim the sinful delights in life, beginning with Lust, the crimson-colored deity who hopes to reawaken more than just a woman’s heart. But Mercy soon discovers that a spirit’s power is not meant for most mortal flesh – a dire thought, when there are seven ethereal women waiting for her, each with their own sinful agendas!

Sins of Mercy is a series of short stories about one woman’s reawakening to the world around her. It includes topics regarding depression and self-harm. The overall serial has a HEA.

FANTASY

HUMAN
State Changers: Book 3

by Chris Fenwick

Available in Kindle Unlimited

Surprisingly, being a shapeshifting wolf and magical Fae is no longer enough to save humanity.

Casidhe finds herself back where she started, alone. She can’t contact her pack or her mate, Dana, even to let them know she’s safe, for fear she’ll risk their lives.

Cian has won. The Fae portals are closed, the worlds are crumbling, and Saoirse can no longer help. Casidhe’s only hope lies in the mystical Book of State Changers, which she is unable to decipher.

Just when Casidhe’s sure there is no hope, a surprising ally enters her life, but she is unsure her new friends, the Druids, can be trusted.

Can Casidhe find a way to unlock the secrets of the Book? Will the Druids help her defeat Cian? How will Casidhe attain enough power to save the worlds, without Dana by her side?

SCI-FI 

FACETS OF APRIL

by Erik Schubach

After the polar ice caps melt in the Thaw, the Corporations take control of the flooded zones and create virtual utopias over the great cities of the past that rest below the waves.

April Yale is accepted into college, in the stilted mega-city of Greater York, to study programming and robotics for the Frame, the massive worldwide information net which hosts countless Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality locations.

On her first day of class, her father vanishes and corporate agents and military come asking questions about him and his location, claiming he has stolen top secret experimental military technology.

April’s life changes forever as she and her college professor, Doctor Adya Konda, go in search of April’s dad, both on the Frame and across the mega-metropolis. Truths are uncovered that may be too much for April to handle.

REMEMBER ME, SYNTHETICA

by K. Aten

What happens when a woman loses her memory but gains a conscience?

Dr. Alexandra Turing is a roboticist whose intellect is unrivaled in the field of artificial intelligence. While science has always come easy, Alexandra struggles to understand emotional cues and responses. Driven by the legacy of her late great-uncle, she dedicates her life to the Synthetica project at her father’s company, Organic Advancement Solutions (OAS).​

Her life is rebooted when she wakes from a coma, six months after being struck by a car. Traumatic brain injury altered Alex’s senses, her memory, and her personality. Despite the changes, she feels reborn as she navigates her way back into her old life. Part of her new journey includes dating the alluring Doctor of Veterinary Medicine, Emily St. John.

Emily is enamored with the hyper-intelligent scientist, but there are things about Alex and OAS that don’t add up. With Emily’s prompting, Alex undergoes testing that leaves her with more questions than answers. What she discovers changes more than her life, it will change the world around her.

YA DYSTOPIAN 

SPARKS
Blackout: Book 2

by Kit Mallory

Available in Kindle Unlimited

It’s 2034 and the United Kingdom is no more. Now there is only North and South, and the vast concrete Wall that separates the two.

A furious teenage hacker, a former dancer turned assassin and a thief with OCD have started a fight with a totalitarian regime. Now they’ve got to finish it.

Please visit this page for trigger warnings.

LITERARY

WHERE THE LIGHT LASTS LONGER
Windfall: Book 1

by A.J. Marchant

Available in Kindle Unlimited

After the death of her estranged mother, Hennie returns to the Lloyd family property to find a rundown house and an orchard in decay. While Hennie works on fixing up the house, her partner Dot reads Faye’s journal to her, reliving sweet moments from Hennie’s childhood and the events that led to her leaving the small rural town as a young teen, uncovering a secret, and giving her something she thought she’d never have.

NEW AUDIOBOOKS

OUTBACK BORN
A Woman Down Under: Book 1

by K’Anne Meinel
narrated by Rachel Quinn Haines

Alinta, raised in a simple land far from the white man, is suddenly thrust into their realm through no fault of her own. Suddenly, she must learn to survive amongst these strange, unfamiliar creatures.

But not all white men treat her the same: Some see her as the frightened girl she is, and some see her as the amazing woman she is about to become.

Follow along as this primitive aboriginal child/woman attempts to survive in a new and rapidly changing world.

FIVE MOONS RISING
Book 1

by Lise MacTague
narrated by Lori Prince

Unknown to regular citizens, nightmarish supranormals (“supras”) lurk in the dark underbelly of human civilization.

Code-named Malice, Hunter Mary Alice Nolan was genetically modified and rigorously trained to use her great strength, heightened senses, and killer instincts to track and eliminate supras who prey on the innocent. A loner by choice, her only real link to the human world is her close connection to her mother and sister – until the unthinkable happens…

Ruri Samson has been a werewolf for more than a century and is comfortably situated as the Beta of her peaceful pack. Until she is betrayed by the woman she loves and an evil outsider massacres her Alpha and his most loyal followers. Barely escaping with her life, Ruri is forced to tread the perilous path of a lone wolf while vowing vengeance against the usurper and his minions.

Although these two powerful women should rightfully despise each other, fate will soon compel them to join forces on a dangerous quest to avenge their loved ones – and will ignite a forbidden passion that neither of them ever imagined.

GALLOWS HUMOR
Curtis & Reynolds Series: Book 1

by Carolyn Elizabeth
narrated by Lori Prince

Corey Curtis is coasting. At 33, she’s in the best shape of her life and has a satisfying position at Jackson City Memorial Hospital. With a good paycheck, great friends, and occasional relationships with smart, beautiful women, she couldn’t be happier. She thinks.

Dr. Thayer Reynolds, whiling away some time before the start of her Emergency Department fellowship at JCMH and intrigued by the stories she’s heard, crashes the morgue to get a look at Corey – the woman her young colleagues are whispering about.

Totally spinning from her first interactions with Thayer, Corey throws herself into the post-mortem exam of a construction worker who fell to his death, which isn’t at all suspicious – until it is. With no support from her boss or the police, Corey investigates the death on her own. Making bad decisions with good intentions, she recklessly endangers her own life and Thayer’s.

Even worse – she potentially dooms any chance of a real relationship with Thayer before it even gets started.

COYOTE SKY

by Gerri Hill
narrated by Abby Craden

Kate Winters, author of the popular mystery series The Masters, finds herself in a bit of a predicament – she doesn’t seem to be able to write any longer. So when her old friend and wealthy widow Brenda invites Kate to spend the summer in Coyote, New Mexico, Kate decides that a summer in Coyote might be just what she needs to clear her writer’s block.

Leaving behind the Dallas heat – and her girlfriend, Robin – Kate retreats to the high mountain desert and soon finds herself surrounded by Brenda’s eccentric friends and artists. But it’s the local sheriff, Lee Foxx, who soon grabs her attention. It doesn’t take long for Kate to discover that Lee has a penchant for dating the young tourists that flock to the river canyon each summer – and that Lee has no intention of ever settling down.

Then an unexpected visit by Kate’s girlfriend sends everyone scrambling. Torn between safety and desire, Kate has no idea which way to turn. And as for Lee – she can’t quite believe that she’s actually fallen in love…for the very first time in her life.

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