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

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ROMANCE

LOVE BY NUMBERS

by Sienna Waters

Available in Kindle Unlimited

When love comes knocking, you’d better open the door…

For Annabel Taylor, romance is business. As the co-owner of an up-and-coming dating app, love is big money. But business means she’s not willing to indulge in any romantic shenanigans herself.

Indy Chambers has a bucket list, and falling in love before she’s thirty is just waiting to be checked off. But since she’s never had a relationship last more than a date or two, that box doesn’t look like it’s going to be ticked any time soon.

When Annabel’s flawless algorithm matches her with Indy, neither of them is exactly thrilled. But Annabel’s business could depend on making their date a marketing success, and her algorithm could be just what Indy needs to finally find the love she’s been searching for.

Before long, #IndyAnna is trending on social media and the two are inescapably bound together, at least in public. But in private, they know that they’re not the perfect match. They’re too different, they want different things, they live different lives.

Can their differences bring them together? Or is Annabel’s perfectly programmed algorithm less flawless than she thought? As the world watches their every move, Indy and Annabel have to decide what it really is they want. And maybe, just maybe, it’s each other.

GRAVE MISTAKE

Don’t Call Me Hero: Book 5

by Eliza Lentzski

Available in Kindle Unlimited

William Desjardin was dead: the victim of an interrupted home burglary, according to the police. Cassidy returns to Embarrass with Julia to support her with the funeral details, rehoming Julia’s mother, and settling the Desjardin estate. For Cassidy, being back in the small, northern Minnesotan town has brought back a number of good memories—most starring Julia herself. But it’s also triggered some memories she’d rather leave buried. And when an unexpected life insurance policy implicates Julia in her father’s death, the short visit turns into much more than a trip down memory lane.

CATCH AND CRADLE

by Katia Rose

Available in Kindle Unlimited

Thou shalt not date thine teammates.

The UNS Women’s Lacrosse team doesn’t have an official policy against inter-teammate relationships, but those words might as well be carved into stone tablets in the middle of the field. After witnessing way too much drama in the past, Captain Becca Moore is intent on keeping her players’ love lives out of the locker room.

Becca has no time or tolerance for any distractions from the game. Unfortunately, that’s exactly what Hope Hastings has been since the day she showed up for tryouts: one walking, talking, charismatically dorky and way-too-kissable distraction.

Hope knew she was headed straight to the danger zone from the moment she saw Becca’s flame-red hair and surly captain smirk. She’s spent the past two years writing off her attraction as a harmless crush, but starting a new semester fresh out of an awful relationship makes Hope realize just how far from harmless the heat between her and Becca really is.

The friendships of a tight-knit team and their shot at the title are all lying on the line, but as Hope and Becca get closer to bending rules they’ve sworn never to break, they realize they’ve put their hearts on that line too. Losing has never been an option, but winning might cost more than they’re willing to pay.

Catch and Cradle is a New Adult F/F romance from Katia Rose that’s filled with all the hilarity and heartache of finding your way through college while discovering love, friendship, and what it means to be yourself.

Trigger Warning: Brief, non-descriptive mention of abortion in regards to a supporting character.

THE WAY TO YOU

by Hannah Key

Available in Kindle Unlimited

Hannah Key’s latest novel is the charming story of a Hollywood composer and her vibrant interpreter traveling through Mexico searching for an elderly songwriter.

Rachel is a film music composing genius—it’s just taken Hollywood years to realize it. So when a missing songwriter threatens her first big-budget gig, Rachel decides to track the man down.

There’s just one problem: he lives in Mexico, and she doesn’t speak Spanish. To make matters worse, she can’t get an interpreter before her deadline.

Jade has a complicated relationship with Mexico, her childhood home. When the head of the company she works for requests her help as an interpreter, she’s hesitant to return, but Rachel proves persuasive.

As they travel through beautiful landscapes and lively towns, they develop a mutual attraction. While Rachel debates if she can trust someone so young with her heart, Jade wonders if Rachel will still want to be with her if she reveals her complicated past…

YANCY IN LOVE

by JB Marsden

Yancy and Gen return from their honeymoon to tackle the big question: how to have a family. Through the anxiety of pregnancy, they finally decide to adopt a child, and enter the long, tedious process of classes, interviews, and home visits to be approved.

In the meantime, Yancy’s mom starts seeing the governor, and one of Gen’s rural fellows, Bobbi Webster, begins seeing Erin, their priest. Gen helps Bobbi deal with her PTSD from a past abusive relationship.

Finally, a young boy arrives for adoption. Yancy and Gen deal with his trauma, getting help from family and friends, while also confronting medical crises for both the governor and Bobbi.

Yancy goes through many changes. Will she and Gen be able to ride through the rough places of life together?

WHEN HEARTS ALIGN

Short Stories

by Susie Ray and Bel Egerton

Available in Kindle Unlimited

When Hearts Align – Sometimes it’s an unforeseen collision… Sometimes it’s a spontaneous surprise and sometimes it does happen when you’re least expecting it.

Samantha fell in love with a woman for the first time and was willing to go with her heart. Kate however, allowed fear to hold the reins and in true Kate-fashion let her feet do the walking. Can they find their way from the wreckage and make a fresh start?

Enjoy the celebrations as Barbara gives Sophia a birthday she’ll never forget. Will Barbara just say it with champagne and flowers or does she have more up her sleeve that will add much more sparkle than a bottle of bubbly?

Connie is convinced that for her it’s a case of never the bridesmaid and never the bride! That is until she meets Morgan. Follow their journey as they navigate their unexpected love through family relationships and separate lives to find common ground.

THE PERFECT BLEND

by Teresa Purkis

Available in Kindle Unlimited

This workplace lesbian romance explores the relationship between two older women. A heart warming, slow burn, late in life, friends to lovers story.

Georgina owns an independent coffeehouse. Her co-owner, ex lover and sometime friend with benefits, has recently died in a car accident. Grieving, and trying to keep the business going, she finds out the half share has been willed to a complete stranger.

Catherine has flitted from job to job, always searching for an important missing piece in her life. Dumped by her boyfriend, jobless, single, penniless and soon to be homeless, Catherine receives a letter which could solve all her problems.

Georgina has said she would never again date a straight woman. So why is Catherine continually invading her thoughts? Catherine knows she isn’t gay. So why is she feeling something more than friendship towards Georgina? Will Georgina let her past control her future? Will Catherine acknowledge a future different to her past?

Set in a coffeehouse on a busy, bustling main thoroughfare into Bristol. The Perfect Blend introduces us to the owners and characters who frequent the establishment.

SPRINKLED IN THE STARS

by Violet Morley

Available in Kindle Unlimited

AJ Beckett is just trying to get Parker, her seven-year-old autistic daughter, through life in one piece. As a paramedic, AJ puts others’ needs above her own; in her personal life, she keeps everyone an arm’s length away. That distance disappears when a chance run-in with actor Melanie Cooper leaves her sticky, angry, and fed up.

Melanie Cooper has just signed her last movie. The media keeps portraying her as cold and hard to work with, and Mel has absolutely nothing more to give. As she begins to imagine a new life, a challenging part of her past comes back on the scene, determined to cause problems for Mel.

After a series of coincidental meetings, AJ battles her desire for control while Mel struggles with trust. Despite the challenges and complications, Mel finds herself drawn to the Beckett ladies, and AJ can’t deny their connection, either.

Falling in love has never been so sweet.

HISTORICAL ROMANCE

THE BLACK KNIGHT AND THE LADY

by JM Dragon

A lady faces the bleak loss of someone who had caught her heart but never known her love at the final battle where King Arthur Pendragon is returned to the Ladies of the Lake.

A knight armored in black, in search of redemption, has a personal secret that at any time could ruin the reputation of the family name.

When the lady’s father, a nobleman affiliated with King Arthur, asks the Black Knight to bring his daughter home from Camelot, the knight reluctantly agrees.

Neither the lady nor the Black Knight could have expected what was to follow in this timeless romance of love battling secrets and treachery.

PARANORMAL ROMANCE

BLOOD PRICE

Blood and Darkness: Book 3

by Aria Storm

Available in Kindle Unlimited

My week is off to a bloody terrible start. A horrifyingly grizzly mortal death has my new friend Quinn convinced we have a Dark Druid lurking about. Add to that, a possible creature from another world–a shadow world–hunting and killing humans. I also seem to have slipped up and revealed to my newly mated she-wolf that her grandfather is convinced he is dying.

With the rising death rate of humans, and a mysterious lockdown on the vampyr court. I have my hands full, and not all are problems I can tackle myself. I will be forced to watch as my daughter fights her own battles. All the while attempting to restrain myself from murdering her so-called step-mother!

Before all is over, I will come face-to-face with powers that potentially rival the gods.

Slow building poly lesbian romance.

FANTASY

QUEEN OF ALL

The Jena Cycle: Book 1

by Anya Leigh Josephs

Jena lives on her family’s struggling farm and in her beautiful friend Sisi’s shadow. She’s not interested in Sisi’s plans to uncover the Kingdom’s darkest secrets: the suppression of magic, and the crown prince’s systemic murder of those who practice it.

Jena only wants to keep a secret of her own—her changing feelings for Sisi. Yet when a letter arrives summoning Sisi to the royal Midwinter Ball, Jena has no choice but to follow her into a new world of mystery and danger.

Sisi falls into a perilous romance with the very crown prince she despises. Desperate to save her, Jena searches for answers in the halls of the palace and in the ancient texts of its library.

She discovers that the chance to save her friend, and their world, lies in her own ability to bring the magic back and embrace her own power.

ROMANTIC SUSPENSE

JAYCE & EMMA: THE COLLECTION

by Barbara Winkes

Available in Kindle Unlimited

Jayce & Emma meet in a halfway house. Will their secrets keep them apart, or do they stand a chance?

This bundle contains all the stories in the Jayce & Emma series: Halfway Home, Familiar Places, New Rooms, Close Quarters and Honeymoon Suite.

NEW AUDIOBOOKS

A COUNTRY GIRL’S HEART

by Dena Blake

narrated by Lula Larkin

Kat Jackson is successful despite her estrangement from her parents and the loss of her wife. She’s resigned to live alone while struggling to maintain her dream ranch. When she falls for weekend cowgirl DJ Callahan, she soon fears all she knows to be true may be a cruel façade developed for her own protection.

DJ Callahan is a corporate lawyer who lives in the moment, never limiting herself to any one relationship. When DJ arrives at the Jumpin’ J Ranch, she has no plans to become involved with Kat, let alone open the door to her own past, which bubbles just below the surface, threatening to destroy her entire existence as a “big city lawyer”.

Having everything she could ever want in life, twice, is something Kat never expected. When she gets a second chance at love, following her heart will prove the hardest decision of all.

A WOMAN TO TREASURE

by Ali Vali

narrated by Paige McKinney

Levi Montbard loves history and isn’t afraid to search it out no matter where it takes her. A scroll she acquires to sell in Montbard’s Antiquities in New Orleans leads Levi on an adventure that will take her from London to Morocco, by way of the Sahara Desert. A story of a female Templar Knight should sound like a hoax, but to Levi the new information rings true. Proving the scroll accurate becomes an obsession. She’ll stop at nothing to uncover the truth.

Yasmine Hassani spends her days teaching female studies in Marrakech to women who want to leave a mark on their country. An arrogant Westerner storming into her office is highly unexpected and leaves Yasmine laughing off the absurdity of her claims. No one knows more about the history of the Templar Knights than Yasmine, and reluctantly intrigued, she agrees to help Levi.

But their search turns down one dead end after another, almost as if someone is working hard to keep old secrets buried. They’ll have to fight the Catholic Church, centuries of tradition, and their growing attraction for each other to uncover the mystery of the female Templar Knight.

SURVIVORS

by K’Anne Meinel

narrated by Lois Ridge

For some, the world would end with the dropping of the bombs. For others, a select few, it would present an opportunity to show their true mettle. Those who will take on the challenge to live without, make do, and subsist on are the survivors.

Jodi was one of the few. She knew what was coming. She read the signs, and she had friends in low places who kept her informed. She bought a cabin in the middle of nowhere, fixed it up, and warned her closest friends and family that the time would come to abandon the big cities, to hide and seclude yourself for the safety of your family and everyone closest to you.

Krista was her partner, her best friend, and her wife at a time when states didn’t recognize same-sex marriage. Krista coped with her mate’s compulsions by recognizing that indulging her was the best way to maintain a harmonious union. After all, they could afford it. Little did she realize that Jodi was destined to be the savior of them all.

Finding that things were much worse than everyone had speculated didn’t surprise Jodi. But it would forever alter her family’s world view and transform them into something they hadn’t realized they were destined to become: survivors!

A LOST LOVE

by Jennis Slaughter

narrated by Kassie Pines

Dawn Lorrayne isn’t happy, and she is going to make sure that no one else is happy…even if her macabre plan for revenge is the last thing that she does.

Laurel Taylor has moved on with her life and has found a new love in Alex James. They are making plans to take the next step in their relationship.

To what lengths will all three go to in order to fulfill their destiny, or will Dawn’s violent plan end everything before it really gets started?

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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.

McGee Mathews is here to share Rescued. Also, McGee is giving away 1 ecopy of Delivering Generations.

SAPPHIC READING

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LESFIC BOOKCLUBS

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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