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ROMANCE
THE DATE
by TB Markinson
Available in Kindle Unlimited
What happens when a prickly cat lady runs into the new dog owner next door?
Brittny Parker, an American graduate student, is moving to London with her lovable Boston Terrier, Cooper, in time for the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee and the 2012 Olympics. Could life get any better? How about adding a super sexy woman next door? The problem is her snooty neighbor is not a dog person. In fact, she despises Cooper from the moment he knocks her over and sends her groceries spilling all over the ground.
Prin Jones is a native-born Londoner whose most successful relationship is with Francesca, her Persian cat. With a bakery to run and an unpleasant ex-girlfriend to dodge, the last thing Prin needs in her life is an obnoxious American and her poorly trained dog. But it becomes almost impossible not to run into Brit at every turn.
When Francesca and Cooper decide to become balcony friends, and Prin’s twin sister takes on the role of enthusiastic matchmaker, Brit and Prin decide to give each other a second chance. All they need is one date to see if there might be something more between them.
It should be easy, right? But somehow everything keeps going hilariously and disastrously wrong.
Can two women from different worlds meet in the middle to become more than neighbors?
MINDING HER BUSINESS
A One in a Billion: Book 5
by Lea Ellen
Available in Kindle Unlimited
A failed marriage, an irresistible boss and a roller coaster love life welcomes her to a dream job in fashion.
I’d been searching for a job for what felt like a lifetime. All I wanted was some little assistant job, somewhere in the realm of fashion. I just wanted to get my foot in the door and start my career.
When I received an email back from Kings & Queens, I couldn’t believe my luck. Finally, someone was giving me a chance!
The only problem was my boss. Not only was she a chaotic mess, but she was hauntingly attractive, with deep brown hair and ocean blue eyes and porcelain pale skin.
CONFINED DESIRES
Rehoboth Pact: Book 1
by Katherine McIntyre
Sky’s crush on her best friend has always been unrequited… until they’re stuck in quarantine together and sparks fly.
Sky’s high school bestie is moving back to the area and staying with her for a few weeks. Easy, right? Not when she’d held a torch for the woman since high school. The moment Mia walks through Sky’s door, those unrequited feelings return full-force. So, when a spreading virus keeps them confined in Sky’s apartment even longer, Sky is screwed.
Mia returns home after a bad breakup, but Sky is the only one who offers a safe place to land. However, the seven years they spent apart has her looking at her best friend through a different lens, attraction sparking with every inside joke, shared dinner, and cuddle on the couch.
That flare of desire fast turns physical. They can’t get enough of each other. Yet, whenever Mia tries for the “where is this going” talk, Sky dodges. Sky lost her sister in high school, and ever since, she’s become ace at keeping dates at a distance. Yet if she doesn’t manage to push past her own fears, she might lose her one shot at happiness with the woman she’s waited a lifetime for.
TUSKED
Once Upon a Fangirl: Book 2
by Caitlin Ryan
Available in Kindle Unlimited
One movie star. One small town girl. One Hollywood romance.
Small town girl, Dana Frost, just wants a quiet life of netball and looking after elephants at the local sanctuary. Love is nothing but pain.
Movie star, Tully Daubenspeck has been in the limelight since she was ten. She’s been her on screen persona Paige Parker for so long she’s forgotten who she is.
Can a trip to an elephant sanctuary in small-town Australia remind her who she is and what’s important?
CLOSENESS
by Y. L. Wigman
For Duscha Penhaligon, New South Wales is a long way from friends and family. A talented town planner, she is still grieving her partner when, out of the blue, she inherits her estranged father’s house, and is drawn back to her hometown of Canberra. It’s a chance to reconnect with all that was once familiar, to heal her heart and make a fresh start.
Working to build a business with her partner, Honor Boyce’s world is profoundly shaken by Duscha’s return. Seeming an ordinary gardener, Honor harbors an extraordinary passion—a secret obsession locked in the past.
For a life to be lived fully, it cannot be lived only in safety. Who has the courage to risk it all, knowing things will never be the same again?
THE WOMAN IN THE WINDOW
by Les Mood
Available in Kindle Unlimited
Zelda first saw Val when the two undressed for each other across Michigan Avenue in the windows of their respective hotel rooms. The next day Zelda learned the woman she stripped for was the graduate student she was slated to mentor. They spent two days networking at a marketing conference, and two nights in bed together. When they returned home to Omaha they were both convinced their affair was over; after all, Zelda was twelve years older than Val. She was too old – or was Val too young?
Then Val was given a temporary job reporting to Zelda. For five uncomfortable weeks they worked together, trying not to rekindle their affair. But the rules would change on New Year’s Eve.
DO IT FOR THE PRESTIGE
The Lady Lotharios: Book 1
by Kaya LaSalle
Available in Kindle Unlimited
One fateful night in the club leads to more than Claire ever could have imagined…
Claire Evans is going places. She’s moving up the ranks as a PR strategist for the rich and famous, and she’s more than happy to put her personal life on the back burner while she focuses on her career. Go figure that the one time she does something impulsive and sleeps with a gorgeous stranger, said stranger walks into her office the next day–as her newest client.
Arianna King is a rockstar with a reputation. The rumors are out of control, and she needs help taking back control of the narrative about who she is and how she lives her life. But she wasn’t banking on a PR strategist like Claire…
Two careers hang in the balance, but the tension between the two women is undeniable. As time goes on, the lines between professional and personal begin to blur…but will they be able to turn their fling into something more? Or are they destined for heartbreak?
OTHER WOMEN
by Andrea Johnson
Available in Kindle Unlimited
Kirsten Hansen is a femme, twenty-something writer living in San Francisco with her partner, Soraya, a therapist who barely escaped war-torn Afghanistan. Soraya announces she would like to have a baby just as Kirsten realizes she may not want to stay in their relationship. Punctuated by arguments in razor-sharp dialogue, flashbacks to Kirsten’s first love in Iowa, and Kirsten’s own internal narrative of temptation, betrayal, guilt, and often humor, the plot unfolds as Kirsten goes about haphazardly dismantling her relationship with Soraya while not-so-secretly plunging into an on-line search for love.
OBJECTING TO HER
by JJ Arias
Available in Kindle Unlimited
When law school rivals are forced together, fierce competitors go from enemies to something even more intense in this steamy slow burn.
Ari Vidal is starting her dream job as a prosecutor in Miami. After three years of competing with Sloane Medina in law school, she’s ready to shine on her own. When Sloane unexpectedly starts working at the same office, Ari’s plans are shattered, and she discovers old rivalries die hard.
Sloane expected to be working at a prestigious Manhattan law firm, but she’s trapped in Miami instead. As if things couldn’t get any worse, Ari, who insists on constantly competing with her, is back in her orbit.
Thrown together, the women find themselves back at each other’s throats. But, despite their best efforts to remain enemies, their relationship changes when they start to see beyond each other’s icy exteriors.
Passions burn hot enough to melt glaciers in this addictive clash between two strong women who have more in common than they realize. The only question is . . . can they get out of their own way?
MRS MIDDLETON
by Melissa Tereze
Available in Kindle Unlimited
Their love could heal their hearts…but destroy the relationships they both hold dear.
Emma Bradley is trembling. And not because of the climate difference between England and Africa, where she’s just ended an 18-month stint teaching sports to kids. She’s about to see Vanessa again.
Golden hair, luminous blue eyes, a smile to light up a room. The woman Emma loves. The woman she spilled her heart out to, then ran away to another continent to avoid a humiliating scene—because Vanessa is her best friend’s mum. If Emma is lucky, maybe Vanessa chalked it up to too much wine. Or better yet, forgot all about it.
Vanessa Middleton is fighting a serious case of uncertainty. Emma’s confession is crystal clear in her memory, and now that Vanessa is divorced from her cheating husband, the strongest barrier between them is gone. But there are others no less challenging.
Because if Vanessa couldn’t keep her husband’s attention, what could bright, beautiful, much younger Emma possibly see in her? Worse, if the two of them act on their attraction, their affair could jeopardise the relationship they both hold dear: Vanessa’s daughter—Emma’s closest friend.
LEAD ME HOME
by Shannon O’Brien
A confidant to all who need her, Rose Pruitt is a familiar face at Jones University thanks to her years of dedicated service at the Campus Center. Only a few days into the new school year, Rose finds herself cleaning up all kinds of messes, including one that involves a newcomer to campus—Professor Allison Chandler. Although their first encounter is all business, the two women soon discover an easy rapport and attraction that neither can deny.
Hurdles abound as the two women face challenges both separately and together. Can they get beyond the obstacles and potential disaster they face? Only time will tell in this timeless romance by author Shannon O’Brien.
TRAILS OF THE HEART
City General: Medic 1 Series: Book 5
by Ruby Scott
Available in Kindle Unlimited
Brilliant but socially awkward, trauma specialist Rachel Adams is all about making a difference. Returning to the US after working with Doctors Beyond Borders in Haiti, she faces the challenge of settling into ‘normal’ life as part of the City General ER team. But all she has is her work.
Andy (Andrea) Jones, a no nonsense Medevac pilot has always played the field since her Air Force days, having never met the right woman. Charming, charismatic and caring, women rarely say no to her, that is, until she meets Rachel.
Attractive women make Rachel flustered. Confident, attractive medevac pilots who flirt with her, send her into a tailspin.
There are a hundred reasons to say no; one is older, the other young; one is outgoing, the other quiet; one loves nature, the other loves their couch. But will a hundred reasons to say no blind them to the thousand reasons to say yes?
A slow burn, age gap, lesbian medical romance.
MATZO MATCH
Hot for the Holidays: Book 1
by Roz Alexander
Samantha is still healing from heartbreak, but her best friend has decided she’s taken long enough. With Passover just around the corner, will a surprise blind date, three celebrations in eight days, and approximately 100 glasses of wine be enough to finally move on? After one taste of the hard-bodied, immaculately dressed Jordan, it just might be time. Too bad Jordan has her own baggage to work through. Matzo Match is a steamy lesbian love story and the first entry in the “Hot for the Holidays” series.
FALL OUT
The Intern: Book 3
by Scarlett Grace
Available in Kindle Unlimited
The intern’s obsession with her boss spirals dangerously out of control…
Chloe has spent the night with her hot boss Yves twice, indulging in her secret, wild desires. Yet Yves insists that they are done.
The ice queen is back, and no matter what Chloe does, she can’t melt her boss’s heart.
Chloe, she can’t stop but give it her all one last time. Will Chloe convince Yves that they are meant to be? Or will Chloe’s efforts backfire and lead to her losing everything?
BREAKING OUT
by Lise MacTague
KJ Stennes has only one thing on her mind: winning the league championship. She certainly doesn’t have time for her defense partner to get pregnant, of all things. But breaking in a new partner—even one who shows as much promise as Adrienne—just isn’t part of her plan.
Adrienne Pierce hopes moving to a new town with her son, Lawrence, will bring some stability to their lives. That the town has a women’s recreational hockey team is definitely a bonus. Despite a rocky start with KJ, the team’s star player, Adrienne can’t deny the attraction building between them. But how can she get involved with someone when she hasn’t yet found the stability her family needs?
And soon KJ’s budding attraction to Adrienne reminds her that there’s more to life than hockey… Maybe it’s time for KJ to get a new plan after all.
EROTIC ROMANCE
PAID TO PLEASE HER
by Athina Duarte
Available in Kindle Unlimited
Catherine Boughton’s exacting personality and strict sexual preferences make a perfect match difficult. Her non-binary biology flusters people. She’s been told she’s demanding. All the money she has amassed can’t buy happiness, but thanks to news laws regulating sex work, it can lend her a plaything.
Bettina Thompson has wanted to enter the specially engaged assistant program since her older sister graduated from it. She has this one opportunity to make enough money to clear her debts and get experience, and she is grabbing it. She didn’t expect to be eager for the position, but the fantasies are stronger than her common sense.
Their arrangement is supposed to be simple. Their relationship is business.
They have a contract and it ends in a year.
Even if Catherine starts to like this business transaction a little too much. Even if Bettina is infatuated from day one. Even if they are impossibly perfect for each other.
FANTASY ROMANCE
BASTET’S DAUGHTERS: CLEO AND PETRA
Book 6
by Scott Kujawa
Available in Kindle Unlimited
Having been reunited, it’s time for Cleo & Petra to return to New York City.
Along the way, they’ll encounter how the Event changed New York State, meet others who help them, and share news about the Matron, the orphanage, and the girls who lived there. With magic flowing across the country, the dangers they face are ones they haven’t experienced while completing the tasks Bastet and Anubis commanded.
With Serissa and Wren as their companions, the four complete the journey which started when Petra was taken from the orphanage, leading the twins to learn more about themselves, meet their partners, and experience their adventures.
PARANORMAL ROMANCE
AWAKENED DAWN
Blood and Darkness: Book 1
by Aria Storm
Available in Kindle Unlimited
Mavis was my name, and you could say I have had a bit of a tough go. Following a tremendous personal loss, I was entombed by my own daughter rather than allow me to expose our secret to the world.
I woke up in a mausoleum and two centuries have passed. All I want to do is drink a bit of blood and maybe find a beautiful modern maiden to entertain what’s left of my soul. However, sinister forces are ever at play in my world. Even a queen who is two-centuries usurped cannot rest. Vampyrs are dying and the royals including my only surviving child are all in danger, as are the communities around us.
Set in modern New Orleans, this is the tale of the Lower Queen, Mavis Aubrey the mysterious vampyr who once led most of Britannia. Come follow Mavis as she struggles to learn how to function in the post-modern world and the vast array of new challenges rising to greet her.
Slow building poly lesbian romance.
MYSTERY
LAWLESS
by Jenna Rae
Kate Hollister has worked hard to build the life she always wanted. As an analyst in a federal law enforcement agency, she’s become an expert in researching crime and criminal behavior. From the safety of her cubicle, it all seems predictable and manageable. But after her latest heartbreak, Kate looks for a way to escape the confines of her sedate, comfortable life and jumps at a chance to work in the field.
Kate goes undercover as Kate Sooner in Lawless, a remote mountain town in northern California. In a run-down trailer park on the outskirts of town, Kate works to infiltrate a small-time drug ring purportedly run by her new neighbor, Stoney Randall. Though she doubts the value of pursuing such a minor criminal, Kate befriends Stoney’s girlfriend Sierra Finn and her best friend Maggie Herndon.
Kate soon finds that Lawless more than lives up to its name. Everywhere she turns she finds drugs, stolen goods, creepy criminals, mysterious animal disappearances, and the overwhelming odor of marijuana. Turns out the crime behind the data she manipulated so easily in the office is a lot more complicated—now that she’s right smack in the middle of it.
NEW AUDIOBOOKS
YOU AGAIN
by Aurora Rey
narrated by Keira Grace
Sometimes, a second chance comes when you least expect it.
Kate Cormier thought she’d love Sutton Guidry forever. But when one bad decision ended things, she moved on, building a life for herself and her daughter. These days, she hardly thinks about all those dreams. Until Sutton shows up, acting like she never left and looking more gorgeous than ever.
Sutton has spent a decade avoiding her hometown, memories of first love, and the girl who broke her heart. She’s built a career, but the life that goes with it leaves her uninspired. When her father needs surgery, she decides coming home to help him recover is a chance to face those ghosts, once and for all. But with so many pieces of her life still there – including Kate – it’s hard not to imagine trying again. Can she find a way to put them together without falling apart all over again?
THE DEVIL INCARNATE
Cain Casey: Book 7
by Ali Vali
narrated by Paige McKinney
For Cain Casey, nothing is more important than family, and having hers close – Emma, Hayden, Hannah, and the new baby – is as near as she’ll get to true happiness. But enemies who lurk in the shadows threaten more than just her business, forcing her to question whether the biggest threat comes from having it all.
As Cain continues to search for lingering adversaries like agent-turned-drug dealer Anthony Curtis, the FBI is hot on her tail and will stop at nothing to lock her away. Add the Russian mob into the mix, and it might be too much to handle. It will take a transformation into the devil incarnate for Cain to keep those she loves safe and to hold on to her rightful place as the head of the family.
A Cain Casey romantic intrigue.
RED NOVA
The Nova Series: Book 5
by Prudence MacLeod
narrated by Kristin Bentley
Deep in the Gap where time and space don’t follow the rules, Deann of Nova stumbles on a group of people who claim to be her descendants. Now she has to keep them alive, escape the time ship that imprisons them all, and prevent the total annihilation of Sector Nine and the Borelian Clans.
A mighty task, even for the matriarch of Red Nova.
SACRED GROUNDS
Endless: Book 2
by Maria Siopis
narrated by Rachel Errington
Rachael O’Connor is trapped in the mortal realm again, and no matter how hard she tries, she never accomplishes her goal of crossing to the divine end. However, this time is different. Rachael doesn’t proclaim her innocence in front of the judge as she has done in the past. Instead, she embraces the journey to another era, no matter how painful it is.
In this journey, Rachael battles dark forces that will produce heartache and pain, yet she is willing to sacrifice everything to be with Elizabeth. Is she going to find out the true meaning? Or, will she be forced to assume another life when she faces the judge? One person holds the answers, but Rachael has to listen. Will she?
THE COTTAGE
by Gerri Hill
narrated by Abby Craden
Jill and Carrie – both married with teenage children – meet one day during Jill’s lunch break at a local park. Soon a friendship is forged. A friendship that deepens with each visit.
Jill’s husband still lives and breathes the coach’s life, a life that leaves him little time to spare for Jill. Left on her own more and more, Jill finds herself searching for the indefinable something that has been missing all her life.
Married to a successful businessman, Carrie Howell retired early from a career in real estate to spend more time with her teenage boys and to pursue her lone passion – painting. She, too, has felt for some time that something is missing from her world.
The Cottage is the story of two women pulled by a force stronger than their marriages, stronger than themselves. The story of Jill and Carrie. Two women. One love.
VOTE FOR BOOK OF THE MONTH
PROJECT KINDNESS
At I Heart Lesfic, we believe the world could use a bit more kindness after one of the hardest and longest of years. Many authors have signed up to help IHL spread kindness in the world.
C.S. Joseph and Kathleen Greyson shared A Helping Hand. Also, they’re giving away 1 ecopy of The Hidden Room.
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