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

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TB & Miranda

ROMANCE

EVOLUTION

Symphony Series: Book 3

by MJ Duncan

Available in Kindle Unlimited

Life in The Royal Ballet comes with a set of unwritten rules, and no one knows them better than Nina Devereaux. Even in her current role as the Company’s Artistic Director, those expectations still loom menacingly over her life. But when she’s granted the opportunity to bring her revolutionary ballet to stage, the little voice that has always kept her playing by the rules begins to waver as she watches her love letter to the woman who has held her heart for years come to life. She knows better than most that it’s a long road from wanting something to having it, but perhaps this time she’ll finally manage to get it right.

This can be read as a stand-alone. It’s set in the same ‘verse and runs concurrently to Pas de Deux, but features different characters.

MOVING ON

by Sage Donnell

Available in Kindle Unlimited

Lisa is content with her life in Portland, OR. She has a teenage daughter, Jordan, who is great and becoming more independent all the time in spite of, or maybe in part because of, her fairly recent diagnosis of epilepsy. She has friends, including an ex-husband who makes a good parenting partner. She has a part time job she enjoys. But when she meets Jess, a physical therapist volunteering her time with her Jordan’s high school track team, she feels something stir.

Getting closer to Jess brings romance, for sure, and also acts as a catalyst for some necessary change. But when Lisa learns more about Jess, will the spark still be there? Will Jordan be okay with the changes in Lisa’s life? What about her ex-husband, with whom Lisa’s life is still pretty entangled? And how will Jess deal with that?

This feel good lesbian romance follows Lisa as she navigates a new romance at thirty-eight, a changing family unit, and a teenager with health issues. The drama is low, but the romance is strong. Features an ace (asexual) character.

BEACH HOUSE

A Short Story

by KC Luck

Available in Kindle Unlimited

The last time Abby Lewis was at the beach house, she was thirteen, and everything was grand and full of potential. As her fiftieth birthday rapidly approaches, and gray mixes in with the brown of her hair, that was not the case. Maybe even the opposite. Still, being back here is already helping lift her spirits. Especially when a beachcomber wanders into her life. Yet, this isn’t a stranger, but her special summer friend from all those years ago. Someone she lost touch with but never forgot.

Originally published in 2020 as part of the Summer Loving anthology.

EVERYTHING SHE NEEDS

by Cynthia Dane & Hildred Billings

Available in Kindle Unlimited

A scorching age-gap ice-queen romance with a happy ending.

TARA STAUDENMAIER

College student Tara Staudenmaier will do anything for her family. When medical debt looms, she doesn’t hesitate to do whatever it takes.

Even if it means putting herself – and her inexperience in love – up on the auction block.

ASTRID EVANS

Two years after the death of her husband, Astrid is used to the jokes and jeers from the peerage. Everyone knows she’s a trophy wife who received the inheritance of a lifetime.

But it didn’t come without a price. Traumatized by her former experiences, Astrid now spends her nights subjecting herself to the same events that once changed her life.

THE ONLY KEY… IS HYPOCRISY

When Tara arrives at Evans Manor for a month of companionship, Astrid rejects their mutual attraction, if only to sleep better at night.

Soon, she can’t sleep at all.

EROTIC ROMANCE

WICKED FEM

by Edie Marr

Available in Kindle Unlimited

Pix is a kinky butch, Lois is a dominatrix. Pix has never had a BDSM relationship before, although she’s always wanted to. Lois has never had a relationship with a woman before, although she’s always wanted to.

No harm in experimenting, right?

SCI-FI ROMANCE

DEEP MERGE

by Linda North

Available in Kindle Unlimited

2nd Edition with expanded chapters and epilogue.

Kaesah, a geneticist from an all-female species living on the other side of the galaxy, is stranded on Earth when her mate, who was vital in piloting their starship, dies. Kaesah must report the disturbing events on Earth that could impact the survival of her species. Kaesah has no choice but to find a human woman capable of Deep Merge, a process required to guide her ship through the galaxy and to her planet. Can Kaesah overcome her aversion to humans to form a bond with one?

Antonia Lorne, Toni, is mourning the death of her wife. Retiring to bed one night on the promise to herself to start living again, Toni will awaken in a starship with a new course for her life charted. Reluctantly, she enters an agreement with Kaesah to Deep Merge, not knowing all of the ramifications.

Two women, from different worlds, must learn to trust the other, not only for the future of their planets but also for their own future.

YA FANTASY

DEATH’S CHAMPION

Destiny & Darkness: Book 4

by Karen Frost

How can one girl possibly save the world?

In this exciting fourth and final book in the Destiny and Darkness series, Aeryn, a young dead war mage indentured to Death, is the only one standing in the way of looming disaster.

Her world is crumbling. Iliyria is on the brink of falling. The Northmen have invaded. Peace with the Southlands has failed. And worst of all, the Darkness is flooding into the human and divine realms, intent on destroying both.

Drawing friends and new allies around her, Aeryn sets out to fight evil, but can she stop the forces of the Dark before her short time allowed in the land of the living runs out?

The race is on, and now Aeryn isn’t just facing impossible odds, but a terrible fear: What if the price she must pay is the one thing she doesn’t want to give?

Karen Frost brings together all the incredible elements for an exhilarating ending to her epic young adult fantasy adventure series.

SUPERHERO

THE MERCY CHRONICLES

The Superheroines Collection

by Fiona Zedde

Available in Kindle Unlimited

The two thrilling halves of Fiona Zedde’s lesbian superhero book series come together in The Mercy Chronicles.

In The Power of Mercy, shape-shifter Mercy is a blade that can cut both ways. To her family, she is weak. Her power is nowhere near as impressive as their abilities to alter the world around them.

But when Mai Redstone puts on the costume to become Mercy, a rooftop-climbing chameleon with a thousand disguises and at least nine lives, she feels almost invincible. Until the day she must make the cruellest of choices, between family loyalty and self-preservation. How can she decide?

In A Lover’s Mercy, Mai returns to prowling Atlanta as its hero, Mercy. For all her new strength and heightened powers, her heart remains good and kind. Her passionate lover, Xóchitl, is the opposite. The softest thing about her is her love for Mai. Xóchitl hunts and punishes anyone who dares to break her people’s rules.

When Mai ends up in an enemy’s crosshairs, Xóchitl is terrified. She’s used to being the most dangerous one in the room, but when she suddenly isn’t, will she allow herself to surrender to her lover’s mercy?

ROMANTIC SUSPENSE

LADY FATALE

Gina Giles PI Series: Book 2

by Aria Storm

Available in Kindle Unlimited

Gina just can’t seem to stay off the radar. Nor can she seem to get along with local law enforcement. Three weeks after her big bust, she finds herself out of the fryer and in the flames.

While prepping to enter the court on a new case. Gina is approached by an assassin she once arrested. This dubious person claims that she is in danger, and he is on her side. Before she can even begin to untangle the weave of lies, she is badly injured.

Now she must discover who tried to blow her up. She must also protect her latest client. Gina once again finds herself battling one of the mobs of Peckford. All while attempting to wrangle loose international threats spread across her city.

Ultimately, Gina knows that her supposed friend will eventually betray her. She must figure out their endgame before someone she loves ends up paying with their lives!

NEW AUDIOBOOKS

THE SECRET POET

by Georgia Beers

narrated by AJ Ferraro

Morgan Thompson likes her life just fine. She has a tight-knit family, two opinionated cats, and her job as office manager for her brother Perry’s medical practice. Perry’s an eligible bachelor, but his divorce left him gun-shy, so Morgan has fun tweaking his responses to potential dates online, using her affinity for words to make him sound impressive. When new pharmaceutical rep Zoe Blake walks into his office, though, he’s smitten, and he needs Morgan more than ever.

Zoe is beautiful and a little mysterious, and doesn’t seem terribly interested in Perry. Morgan decides she’ll need to get to know Zoe before she plays matchmaker. But soon, she’s talking books and movies and writing to her as Perry, and the more she knows, the more she wants to know, until she begins to wonder: Is she wooing Zoe for her brother? Or for herself?

THE SECOND

by Prudence MacLeod

narrated by Karen Hawthorne

Oona, a slave beaten and tortured, is saved from certain death by a pirate queen. Nurtured and nursed back to health by Red Meera, Oona becomes the Second Queen of the Westermen, the largest fighting force in the known world.

When Meera falls near death from poison, Oona becomes First Queen. Will she use her newfound power to avenge herself on her former master? Indeed, she will – him and those who originally took her. The wrath of the Westermen is about to fall on the slave masters. There will be no mercy.

TEMPTING MY BEST FRIEND’S MILF

Submissive MILF Series: Book 2

by Riley Rose

narrated by Nikki Monroe

Alex Masters is still the hottest MILF in town! But now she’s in a submissive relationship with her daughter’s 20 year-old best friend Melody. And loves letting Mel dominate her sexy 40-year-old body.

But she also loves her daughter. More than anything. And can’t let her find out about her and Melody.

Will Alex and Mel be able to keep their illicit love affair a secret? Will Alex let her daughter’s best friend dominate all her most sensitive areas in new and kinky ways? Find out how much naughtier Alex gets in Book 2 of the Submissive MILF Series!

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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.

Carolyn Elizabeth shared Roadside Assistance. Carolyn is giving away 1 ecopy of Zero Chill.

SAPPHIC READING

CHALLENGE

RAINBOW AWARDS

The Rainbow Awards is an annual contest celebrating outstanding work in LGBT fiction and nonfiction. Hosted and owned by blogger Elisa Rolle, the contest is open to all authors of work containing LGBT fictional characters and work chronicling the true stories of LGBT persons.

Click here for submission guidelines.

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