Dear lesfic fan,
Here are this week’s new ebook and audio releases and announcements.
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Happy reading and listening,
TB & Miranda
ROMANCE
LOST IN LOVE
by Emily Banting
Available in Kindle Unlimited
A heart-warming, quintessentially English village novel, centred on the ruins of Nunswick Abbey…
Historical tour guide Anna Walker is determined to make a good impression on her new bosses, but juggling a full-time job with caring for her ailing father is putting her own health – and potentially his – at risk.
When she meets Dr Katherine Atkinson, a charming yet intimidating new arrival to the village, Anna is infuriated by the doctor’s attempts to convince her that her father needs professional, full-time care. She’s even more frustrated by her growing attraction to the classy, wealthy doctor.
Anna’s determination to prove she can cope forces Katherine to divulge a painful event from her past that still haunts her, hopeful it will make Anna see sense before it’s too late.
With Katherine’s heart lost to the past and Anna’s overwhelmed in the present, can the two women help each other overcome their anxieties and move forward? Will a curtain-twitching busy body curtail any blossoming attraction before it even has a chance to bloom?
AND THE TRUTH IS…
Lovers Landing: Book 3
by Jamey Moody
Available in Kindle Unlimited
When the love you’ve been searching for magically appears in the most unexpected person.
Lauren Nichols’ longtime marriage was over. She’d done what was expected, married her high school sweetheart, raised two great kids and now what? There had to be more to life than work. She wanted to share the passion she knew lived deep in her heart.
When she meets the bigger-than-life award-winning actress Tara Holloway something kindles deep inside her.
Can passion pull Tara all the way from Hollywood to a small Texas lake town? Is this the true love they have both been seeking? And can love overcome distance, fame, and family objections? Or is this love so hot they both get burned?
Let’s go back to Lovers Landing for another romance on the lake with Krista and friends. Can Lovers Landing cast it’s magical spell on Tara and Lauren? The truth is…
BACK IN YOUR ARMS
by Monica McCallan
Available in Kindle Unlimited
Seventeen years ago, Quinn McKinley left her small town of Kingsford for a shot at a happier life. Now a successful real estate agent in New York City, she’s brought back on behalf of a client, begrudgingly accepting her return home in order to close the deal of a lifetime.
Coming back opens doors she’s done her best to keep closed all these years, namely, how she felt about her childhood best friend, Sawyer Kent.
Sawyer’s spent her whole life in Kingsford, working at her family’s antique store and trying to make everyone happy. Quinn’s return is unexpected, knocking her routine existence more than a little off balance. She’s still frustrated at how Quinn left things between them, and even if she has all kinds of unresolved feelings, she’s got bigger problems to worry about right now.
LOVE ON COMMISSION
by Caitlin Ryan
Available in Kindle Unlimited
Ten years is long enough to get over high school, right?
Tori Wilson should have things figured out by now. She doesn’t. She’s still the less interesting twin, still living with her parents, still single, and now she has to take a job working for her dad’s real estate agency. When she finds the smartest girl from her high school is her new mentor, things get complicated.
Bianca Scott doesn’t have space in her life for anything new. She has her job as a successful real estate agent, her two best friends, her cat (Odysseus), and the kids from the youth group she runs twice a week. Bianca didn’t like the Wilson twins in high school and she has no interest in changing her opinion now.
Forced to work together, these two enemies need to figure out their issues quickly or risk losing out on the biggest commission of their lives. Old wounds run deep, but if the foundations are solid, there’s hope for the future. The stakes are high when Bianca and Tori find out there is more than money on the line; their hearts are open for inspection and their love is on commission.
GAMES OF CHANCE
Leah & Sloan: Book 2
by Cynthia Dane & Hildred Billings
Available in Kindle Unlimited
Leah Vaughn’s life couldn’t get better. While the world changes around her, she has a successful bakery in Downtown Portland and a girlfriend who tends to her every financial, emotional and physical need.
Yet a wrench is thrown into her life when her daughter Karlie, the one raised as Leah’s little sister, announces that she is pregnant.
What should have been a fond farewell as Karlie returns to college is now the surrealist dream Leah has ever experienced. Not only does she have to navigate these waters on her daughter’s behalf… but she has to reconcile becoming a grandmother in her early thirties!
Nobody is less impressed by the situation than Sloan, an older woman who has not only endured one of the nastiest divorces to hit the Pacific Northwest but has sworn to never have children. Yet as the drama in Leah’s family ramps up, Sloan realizes that things won’t be as simple as their kid, their problem.
Leah will make sure it’s Sloan’s concern, too.
THE ESSENCE OF GREEN
Coffee and Emeralds: Book Three
by Rae McDaniel
Available in Kindle Unlimited
As Sarah continues to heal both physically and mentally from the horrific attack of last year, she struggles with unexpected feelings of jealousy regarding Jo as well as her Mama’s new love interest. Jo’s professional life takes an unexpected turn, pushing her to work more closely with Davina, someone that she cannot stand to be in the same room with. The couple continues to contemplate having children in the midst of the ever increasing busyness of life and maintaining their marriage. Follow the two as they attempt to find their way through, seeking healing, growth and the tranquil restfulness of being in each others arms.
THE ART OF GROWING
by Jacqueline Ramsden
Available in Kindle Unlimited
Maybe a weekend is just the right amount of time to fall in love.
Sloane Abbott likes her quiet life. She owns a landscaping business, she tends her plants, lives alone, and secretly crushes on her favorite nonbinary garden center employee, Polly. Between anxiety and modesty, Sloane’s never planning on telling Polly she likes them. She’ll just be admiring from afar while she deals with her demanding family and fulfills her sister’s order.
Polly Stanwick loves people. She has the best time working at Blooms, talking to customers, hanging out with the kids, and generally being a ray of sunshine. When they hear their regular, Sloane Abbott, is having a rough day, they naturally sweep in to help.
What neither of them is expecting is for Polly’s colleague to suggest her as a fake date for Sloane’s weekend with her family. For Sloane, it’s the only way to avoid the heteronormative life her parents will push on her, so despite her misgivings, she agrees. It’s only one weekend, right?
Fooling the Abbotts into thinking she and Polly are a couple is easy, but for Sloane, handling her own feelings is harder. Holding hands and sharing a bed doesn’t make things any easier—nor does Polly being there for her in all the ways she ever wished somebody would.
Sometimes the hardest thing to face is our own potential to grow.
The Art of Growing is a 75k-word slow-burn, friends-to-lovers, fake-dating romance over a weekend full of mutual pining and blurred lines. Content warnings for on-page sex scenes, abusive family dynamics, off-screen references to past abusive relationships, and anxiety attacks.
THIS USED TO BE EASIER
by Katia Rose
Available in Kindle Unlimited
Meg Doyle did not intend to return home from college with a suitcase and nowhere else to go.
Ideally, she would have rolled up to her tiny home town in a limousine and jumped out wearing a designer tuxedo. She would have shaken a few hands, signed a few autographs, and maybe kissed a few girls before riding off into the sunset of her glorious, post-grad future in set design.
Instead, she’s stuck spending the summer in her childhood bedroom, trawling the internet for job listings after a last minute internship cancellation in Europe.
It’s anything but triumphant. Her friends in the city won’t stop reminding her what she’s missing, her mom won’t stop researching lesbian slang terms to seem more ‘relatable,’ and around every corner in the small town of Chapel Creek, there’s Connie Shipley.
The girl Meg used to know better than anyone in the world.
The girl she spent countless nights huddled under the blankets with for sleepovers and movie marathons.
The girl who leaned in and kissed her four summers before.
The girl who hasn’t spoken to her since.
…Which makes it very inconvenient that Meg’s heart still stops every single time she sees her.
This Used to Be Easier is a New Adult, small town F/F romance from Katia Rose. It features a quirky cast of unforgettable characters, an endless supply of cheesy fishing puns, and the kind of love that lasts a lifetime, despite a few bumps along the way.
IF LOVE COMES CALLING
by Susie Ray
Fay was having dinner with a friend of her cousin and apparently, one of her friends too. It was meant to be purely a distraction after Fay put had her all into her new posting in Cheltenham, but she reckoned without the spark she felt immediately for Julia.
Their connection took them both by surprise – neither of them were looking for anything more than a pleasant night out. Julia was still miffed with her ex and Fay, well, she just wanted to learn more about her new town… Why did the words of her ex-boss suddenly spring to mind?
If Love Comes Calling is a gentle love story, with its share of tragedy, but love cushions the blows.
LOVE SET IN GRANITE
by Amy DeMeritt
Available in Kindle Unlimited
Sidney – Sid – Taranto had planned on never returning to the small town of her youth – Granite, Pennsylvania, a never-heard-of town with a heart just as hard as its name. But after her mother passes away, and after licking her wounds from a bitter divorce, it’s time for Sid to deal with the family home.
After years of deferred maintenance, the once beautiful country home looks more like a giant pile of kindling to the angst Sid bears for the past it represents. But after running into her first love – Chloe Macintyre and her teenage kid, who’s looking for a summer job, Sid decides to keep the flame in her chest, and hires Brook to help her get the house ready to go on the market.
It’s been twenty-two years since they’ve seen each other, but that torch Sid and Chloe held for one another in high school never fully extinguished, and they are just as attracted to each other as ever before. But Sid’s contracting business and home are two-plus-hours away in Philadelphia. And Chloe has her own dental practice in Granite.
If they start dating, how long can they make a long-distance relationship last before they have to make a serious decision?
And Chloe has never come out of the closet as bisexual, even after Brook told her the year prior that they’re non-binary. The fear of what happened to Sid in high school has always stuck with her. Can she get over that fear, accept herself, and build the life with Sid that she had always wanted?
HISTORICAL ROMANCE
WARM PEARLS AND PAPER CRANES
by E V Bancroft
Available in Kindle Unlimited
A family torn apart by secrets. Love is the only way forward.
Maud Heaston has been in love with Beatrice Williams since they first met in 1939. They’ve been through hell and back; family, careers, and secrets have threatened to tear them apart, but their love has endured it all. Until now. Old age and illness have forced them into separate nursing homes and the family Maud trusted to take care of them are only out for themselves.
Hannah Jones is trying to put her past behind her and find her place in the world. Midway through a doctorate and living with Suki, the woman she’d like to be more than just friends with, the last thing she needs is Gammy, her interfering great aunt, back in her life. Though Gammy took Hannah in when her mother died, her overbearing nature and constant criticisms forced them apart. Now they barely speak.
Maud needs Hannah’s help to be reunited with the love of her life. Hannah needs Suki to take a chance on love. Can a reconciliation between Maud and Hannah free them both to be with the women they love or will the past destroy their future?
Content Warning: Death of a family member.
ROMANTIC COMEDY
THE MISSUS
by Natasha West
Available in Kindle Unlimited
Keira Evans is single for life and lets the many woman she takes the bed know what the deal is. Trouble is, some of them don’t heed the warning and fall in love with her anyway. It’s a problem. But when Keira is trying to pry yet another lovesick woman out the door, her next-door neighbour, Alanna Hall, decides to come to her rescue – pretending to be Keira’s serious girlfriend who is furious at catching her in the act of cheating. The one-night stand, shocked at Keira’s seeming deceit, decides to ditch the drama and never bothers her again. Keira’s amazed by the effectiveness of the charade and convinces recently homeless Alanna to take on the position of pretend girlfriend full time, in exchange for a room in her flat. Keira thinks she’s got it made now that Alanna’s ready to chase off every casual sex partner who doesn’t know when it’s time to leave. But living with Alanna creates more chaos in Keira’s perfect little world than she’s expecting. Particularly when the sham starts to feel real…
EROTIC ROMANCE
ADMISSIBLE AFFAIR
by Adrian J. Smith
Available in Kindle Unlimited
One-night stands aren’t supposed to turn into forever.
Bellamy has worked with and loved her wife of ten years, but it’s never enough. When Bellamy finds her limit of abuse and a young, cute waitress offers an opportunity, she seizes the moment, knowing she’ll never see Payton again. But months later, Bellamy comes face-to-face with the one-night stand she can’t forget and the failed marriage she has yet to escape.
Payton knows she can’t be the normal twenty-something when she ends up with custody of her nephew. Leaping at the opportunity for a full-time job, she has instant regrets when in walks the woman of her dreams. Bellamy. Her one-night stand from the waitress job she just quit. Not willing to risk stability for love, Payton is determined to stand by Bellamy as she fights for her law firm and reclaims her life.
Neither are prepared for what lies ahead or just how much they will have to risk to protect the ones they love.
Trigger warning: cheating, abuse, sexual coercion.
CRIMSON ROSE
Book 7
by Scott Kujawa
Available in Kindle Unlimited
For seven weeks, May explored her relationship with Catherine after she visited Crimson Rose.
May’s experiences deepened once she completed the beginner class. It was time for her to learn what Catherine wanted, and what May wanted from her domme. Catherine hinted about taking May to the Ranch outside the town, but before it happened, May learned June wanted her to join her best friend in a Shibari session at Crimson Rose. May agreed, knowing June needed her for support.
Catherine worked on her plans to leave the small town, bringing May to the Ranch. It was the place where those who wanted a deeper connection with their domme/dom would receive it while experiencing sessions they didn’t have the space to do at Crimson Rose. When she learned Mistress Briana agreed to the Shibari session, Catherine’s eagerness to have a scene with May delayed her plans.
May enjoyed her pleasures at Crimson Rose, but it was time for her to find them at the Ranch.
EROTICA
WRATH, WAR, AND THE WOE TRUMPETS
Wrath Trilogy: Book 2
by TJ Dallas
Available in Kindle Unlimited
A lesbian erotic novel featuring the Seven Deadly Sins. This sequel follows on from Prewrath and Rapture.
The fate of Caledonia hangs by a thread.
When a chance encounter reveals that the archangels are close to finding the key Persephone stole from them, Astar must convince Emilia to return to Caledonia. If Michael gets hold of the key and manages to break the final seal, he would command the sounding of seven trumpets, instigating the next stage of the apocalypse. With the help of Pride and Envy, three Deadly Sins now join the four Horsewomen in the second battle between good and evil.
Come and see.
Content Warning: 18+, mature content, sexually explicit wlw sex. One scene involves breast milk.
FANTASY
LOVE SICKNESS
Sellswords & Spellweavers Series: Book 5
by Rachel Ford
Available in Kindle Unlimited
A mysterious newcomer. Strange new infatuations. A cursed treasure.
A beautiful stranger arrives in Little Eerie asking questions about an ancient treasure. The jarl is smitten at first sight. He’s sick with love for her.
But when she doesn’t even recognize him the next day, Apprentice Wizard Idun Wintermoon knows there’s some kind of sorcery at play.
As more people succumb to the love sickness, Idun and the sellsword Liss Forlatt are in a race against time to find the culprit – and discover what her real motives are. Before she unleashes a curse on the jarldom that’ll make love sickness seem like a minor inconvenience.
BLOODY ALCHEMY
Prequel to Bloody Quests Series
by naghree
Available in Kindle Unlimited
Damp stones, sturdy iron bars.
An abrupt awakening for Aleideen. Locked up, but she doesn’t know why. Held captive, but she doesn’t know by whom.
Thankfully, Ladavia is with her. By the side of the woman she loves, Aleideen knows she can face anything.
Even that monster who wants her blood.
Caught between legend and reality, the choice lies in the certainty of memories, or the possibilities of the present.
Because sometimes the most solid prison is the one of the mind.
PARANORMAL ROMANCE
WORLD ABLAZE
Blood and Darkness Series: Book 7
by Aria Storm
Available in Kindle Unlimited
Following Ragnarok, we are struggling to adapt to the many changes across the earth. All manners of horrors have been unleashed upon humanity due to the collapsing afterlife. Many events are set in motion and I must figure out how to protect the humans, as well as my people from humans.
Political divisions enflame the frayed peace. Humanity is on the knife’s edge of war with the immortals. Despite the many ways they undermine me, it seems to fall to me to keep the peace and defend the ignorant masses from their own stupidity, while fighting greater forces at work on earth.
Ultimately, I am seeking a cure for the vampyrs enslaved to Emalia. All while hosting a particularly famous Viking Thunder God.
The plot thickens in this Seventh installment in the “Blood and Darkness Series.”
YOUNG ADULT
THE CONVINCING HOUR
by Ann Roberts
Juvenile delinquents are vanishing from Lakeview, Michigan.
Brilliant fifteen-year-old Story Black has heard that the smartest kids go from jail to a special school—and then on to college. The mastermind behind it all is Lakeview’s newest citizen, Charlotte Barnaby, a former high school principal and winner of the largest lottery jackpot in history. Char brings her powerful billions back to her dying hometown, determined to save it and the worthiest children—regardless of what it costs.
Story plans to be next. Getting arrested is easy but getting out of Lakeview may be impossible. Standing between her and her new life is her mother Patty, a meth user with a genius I.Q. and a mysterious past of her own. Char launches an elaborate scheme to convince Patty to let Story go, but Patty is an immovable force, unwilling to put Story’s happiness before her own.
If Story wants the future she sees, she must confront her mother and be willing to lose everything—even their relationship.
NEW AUDIOBOOKS
DEAL WITH THE DEVIL
Cain Casey Series: Book 3
by Ali Vali
narrated by Paige McKinney
It’s business as usual for crime boss Cain Casey as she maneuvers to form an alliance with the Jatibon organization and secure peace among the ruling families in New Orleans. Cain’s new associate Remington Jatibon is a lot like Cain used to be – a playgirl with a passion for bedding beautiful women and an even greater passion for expanding her father’s empire, on both sides of the law. When Remi meets Dallas Montgomery, a budding actress working for the studio Remi’s father has just acquired, she finds that there is more to Dallas than is included in her press pages.
Meanwhile, on the home front, life is anything but routine as Cain and Emma hope to conceive another child. Little do they know, an old enemy is about to surface bent on revenge on Cain, and what better way than to take what Cain values above all else – her wife.
VETTED AGAIN
by K’Anne Meinel
narrated by Cassandra Arnold
Allyssa Herriot and her wife Fiona, are experiencing growing pains in this marriage of theirs.
From the large animal practice they established on their ranch, to the horse rescue, to their growing family…all will put strains on the marriage as well as themselves physically, emotionally, and economically.
Add in outside influences like the well-meaning friends, family, and volunteers and these things can add to the stress.
Trying to make a living on the remote ranch is hard enough, but in this modern day and age, keeping up on the latest technology and ideas can motivate some and keep others from venturing outside of their comfortable little nest.
Will Allyssa and Fiona rise above the problems, or fail not only at their marriage, but at the businesses they have established together?
Join the continuing saga, a ranch, a rescue, a thriving veterinary practice, and their lives as they juggle the things they are building together for themselves and their family.
A CONVENIENT ARRANGEMENT
by Aurora Rey and Jaime Clevenger
narrated by Kira Omans
Cuffing season has come for lesbians.
Jess Archer, digital journalist for the internet’s hottest lesbian media platform, has been assigned to research cuffing, from an up close and personal perspective. She’s not sure it’s really her thing, but the assignment gives her the chance to write something more substantial than her usual fluff pieces. All she needs now is a willing lesbian.
For Cody Dawson, signing up for Jess’s project is a no-brainer. She gets to date an interesting woman, enjoy her company, and not disrupt the tidy life she’s built for her son. Everything’s perfect until she starts falling for Jess. When she realizes she’s heart-deep in the feelings she’s agreed not to have, their convenient arrangement becomes anything but.
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.
Barbara Wilson penned Postcards. Also, Barbara is giving away 1 ecopy of Not the Real Jupiter.
Monique S shared From Strangers to Friends. Also, Monique is giving away 3 copies The Princess of Lights.
SAPPHIC READING
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Click here for the latest edition.
And, if you want to know what inspired TB to start the project, click here to learn more.
Wanna get involved? Readers and authors can participate. Find out how here.
2022 IHL READING CHALLENGE
Beginning in January, IHL will launch the I Heart Lesfic 2022 Reading Challenge. We will feature 2 new book categories each week, along with a recommended reading list for books that qualify for each category.
We have collected a lot of suggestions for categories, so our first task is to narrow the list to 90 choices based on the number of nominations we receive for each.
Authors can submit a total of 5 books for consideration.
Click here for the Book Submission page.
Have a wonderful day!
Miranda & TB
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