Dear lesfic fan,

Before we get to today’s newsletter, we have some announcements.

99-Cent Blowout

On December 26th, we’ll be popping into your email inboxes to announce the start of the end of the year 99-cent blowout. Over one hundred books are priced at 99 cents (each) for you to load up your ereaders without breaking the bank. The sale runs December 26th through December 30th.

2022 IHL Reading Challenge

For the last six months, the IHL team has been organizing a reading challenge for 2022 and lo and behold, the new year is almost here. The challenge will officially launch on January 3rd, when we’ll explain the rules, prizes, and everything in between. But if you want a sneak peek of the categories that have been selected and book suggestions for each one, click here.

We want to stress that this page is still under construction. The team continues to sort through book submissions and the page will be updated accordingly. Authors and publishers can still submit books for inclusion in the reading challenge. Submissions for a category will close 14 days before being featured for the week. That means the first one, Age Gap, will close on December 27th, so the clock is ticking on that one. For more about submitting a book, click here.

Free book!

If you need some holiday cheer with lots of chuckles and you haven’t already grabbed your free copy of All I Want for Christmas by Clare Lydon, we strongly encourage you to download it today. Tomorrow is the last day it’s free.

New Release Newsletter and Friday Feels

Today is the last new release newsletter of 2021. The next one will be January 4th and the next Friday Feels will be January 7th.

New Releases

And now for this week’s new ebook and audio releases and announcements. There are loads of fab new books so keep scrolling to see all the goodies! 

Please click on this link for how to submit books (ebook and audio) for the newsletter. IHL will not include books unless they receive an email from either the author or publisher.

Happy reading and listening,

TB & Miranda

ROMANCE

THE NUMBER 94 PROJECT

by Cheyenne Blue

Available in Kindle Unlimited

Renovation takes a sexy turn when a cute country girl rocks up with a tool belt and plans that throw the whole gay neighbourhood into disarray in this light-hearted lesbian romance.

When handywoman Jorgie’s uncle leaves her an old house in Melbourne, it’s a dream come true. Sure, 94 Gaylord Street is falling apart, and she has to deal with her uncle Bruce’s eccentric friends thanks to his unusual Will.

But that’s okay. She’ll fire up her power tools and turn the dilapidated terrace house into a desirable inner-city pad. Then she’ll sell up and head home to the country.

Jorgie hasn’t counted on falling for cute neighbour Marta, who’s found her heart-home among the tight queer-community of Gaylord Street. Between mugs of too-strong tea and Jorgie’s lack of a working shower, the two forge a surprising connection.

But what happens when the renovation’s complete? Can Jorgie really just toss aside her tool belt and saunter away?

MEANT TO BE

by Chloe Peterson

Becoming a parent has never crossed Faith Rawlings’ mind. Navigating life with a single arm has kept her focus on more pressing matters. But when the nephew she never knew existed loses his only parent, she steps up to be his guardian.

The role entails a temporary move to a community for the deaf. Learning ASL online to better communicate with her nephew proves to be fruitless, so she hires a teacher. When Faith meets the attractive Julia, she dreams of a future she never thought she could have.

Faith settles into her new life with determination and heart. But if the out-of-reach primary guardian listed on the will of her nephew’s late mother seeks custody, she could lose the family she’s built.

CUFFING SEASON

by Monica McCallan

Available in Kindle Unlimited

Maeve Murphy doesn’t have much to celebrate this holiday season. Ten years ago, she moved from Kingsford with no intention of returning. But home came calling, in the form of her mother’s unexpected death. The least thing Maeve wants is to make friends—she’s only back in Kingsford to help her father keep the family business, Murph’s, afloat.

Bianca Rossi, whose father is the chef at Murph’s, moved to Kingsford four years ago from the hustle and bustle of New York City. She loves everything about the charming little river town, and her positive attitude and willingness to engage is usually reciprocated by the Kingsford locals.

Maeve’s been resistant to Bianca’s attempts to strike up a friendship so far, but a little holiday magic may be just the thing they need to push them both in the right direction.

Cuffing Season is a 65k full-length standalone romance novel set in the world of Back in Your Arms.

HIGHLAND WHIRL

by Anna Larner

When city girl about town Roxanne Barns reluctantly accepts a holiday invite to her best friend Eve’s birthday party in the Scottish Highlands, the last thing she expects is to fall for the very person she’s been dreading seeing again—the feisty Highlander, Alice Campbell.

The moment Alice learns that Roxanne is visiting her home hamlet of Newland, she couldn’t be more suspicious or defensive. A warm welcome is certainly not the plan, let alone falling in love.

Despite Eve’s warnings that Roxanne is not relationship material, Alice can’t ignore her growing attraction. She absolutely trusts Eve’s judgment, but taking her advice just might break Alice’s heart.

Highland Whirl reunites readers with the characters and landscape of Highland Fling in an emotionally enthralling story of trust, friendship, family, and love.

LONG-DISTANCE LOVING

by Dorothy Rice Bennett

Available in Kindle Unlimited

Keeping the home fires burning . . . .

Dorothy Rice Bennett’s sixth lesbian romance novel is a sequel to her last book, LIVES INTERTWINED: Love on Sequim Bay (2020), set in Sequim, Washington, on the beautiful Olympic Peninsula.

LONG-DISTANCE LOVING focuses on two of the main characters from the preceding novel, vet tech Brittany Forrest and lawn girl Ginger Robbins, with the additional heroines from the first book, Aggie, Wilma, Lori, and Teddi, appearing in supportive roles.

Brittany and Ginger have moved into an old farmhouse with acreage on Washington’s Sequim Prairie after spending nearly a year in a shared residence owned by a Sequim widow, Aggie Hollister. That experience in the big house overlooking Sequim Bay led to a friendship between Brit and Ginger—then a steamy romance and a fledgling relationship.

Now Ginger is camping in the outdated Olympic Peninsula farmhouse with her Schnauzer Spice and Brit’s rescue dog Chica, while Brit has gone off to graduate school in veterinary science in Corvallis, Oregon. Having only lived together for a few weeks, both Brit and Ginger are lonely and fear for their relationship when they are so far apart and will seldom see each other during the next four years.

Brit and Ginger struggle in their own ways to remain connected, hold onto their loving feelings, and protect their dream for the future. Can they pull it off, or will time and distance tear them apart?

FALSE STARTS AND ARTICHOKE HEARTS

by Sofi Keren

Available in Kindle Unlimited

Daniela Restrepo was used to being half of a culinary power couple. Now single, she’s determined to open the city’s first fine dining vegan restaurant – all on her own. Jules Cahill spent decades on tour with no real roots, until a broken heart sent her searching for home, stability, and a whole new path. When Daniela offers Jules a job, they connect immediately over their shared love of food – and so much more. But as they each find their own way to start over, will their pasts stop them from finding the way together?

BRAT

by Kim Hartfield

Available in Kindle Unlimited

Sara’s landscaping business is her pride and joy – but her latest client is unexpectedly difficult. Emery is a rich, spoiled, utterly gorgeous former child actress… who keeps trying to coax Sara into bed.

Emery likes what Sara’s doing to her yard, and she’s dying to find out if her authoritative attitude extends beyond closed doors. But that doesn’t mean she plans to submit sweetly. Once she gets Sara between the sheets, she’ll tease, talk back, and misbehave as much as she pleases.

Can Sara learn to tame this brat? And even if she does, who’s really in charge?

HUMBUG

by Amanda Radley

Ellie Pearce adores Christmas so much she celebrates all year round, earning herself the nickname Christmas Girl. If only she liked her job as much as eggnog lattes and mistletoe. Stuck as a marketing analyst for London-based recruitment company Caldwell & Atkinson, Ellie is desperate for a career change but afraid to take a chance.

CEO Rosalind Caldwell needs a new personal assistant after the last one quit, putting the extremely important corporate Christmas party in jeopardy. Christmas Girl is just the holiday miracle Rosalind needs, and Ellie is quickly promoted to the top floor of the Canary Wharf skyscraper.

Ellie isn’t a PA, has never planned a party in her life, and is terrified of heights. If things weren’t bad enough, she then goes and develops a ridiculous crush on her totally intimidating new boss. With the festive season fast approaching, what could possibly go wrong?

THE CHRISTMAS BUCKET LIST

by Lora Rye

Available in Kindle Unlimited

Tiegan, a world renown blogger, has known love. The kind of love that comes around only once in a life time. Now, everything has changed and she can’t imagine herself ever being happy again.

Only, there is a bucket list; one that she promised her late wife she’ll complete. It takes courage to get started, but much more than that to tick off the last item.

Join Tiegan on this beautiful, heart warming Christmas tale, a journey through Italy, and eventually, self discovery. Explore with her all the emotions that comes with love, loss, and finding joy and purpose again.

‘The Christmas Bucket List’ is an emotional and joyous celebration of woman loving woman, a lesfic romance that will delight readers.

MISTLETOE AND IVY

by Jacqueline Ramsden

Available in Kindle Unlimited

Ivy Stringer loves Christmas, lesfic, and, secretly, the fact that she shares a first name with her favorite author, Ivy Winters. With every book she reads, she hopes for her own magical holiday love story.

Kit Gunderson is back in Beaumont for the holidays and feeling more at home than she has in a long time, especially when she meets her adorable niece’s teacher, Ms. Stringer. As they bond over the school’s winter production, their distaste of holiday tacos, and Kit learning to ski, everything seems to be falling into place.

The only problem? Ivy’s poked around and figured out exactly who Kit’s author persona is—except that she’s totally wrong, and has no idea the woman she’s falling for is the favorite author she knows she could never keep her cool around, Ivy Winters.

After all, there’s no better way to meet your favorite author than by accidentally falling in love first.

Mistletoe and Ivy is a 35k mistaken identity, return to hometown, low angst holiday romance. Content warning for on-the-page sex.

HOLIDAY HEARTS

by Diana Day-Admire & Lyn Cole

Logan Brady is dreading coming out to her family over the holidays. She’s just lost her job, her life is a mess, and the last thing she needs is to be at the center of her family’s passion for drama.

Mick Finnegan survives on coffee, adrenaline, and one-night stands that don’t complicate her entrepreneurial lifestyle. She doesn’t have anyone she’s close to, so when an old college friend invites her to spend the holidays with his family, she jumps at the chance for a good old-fashioned Christmas.

Logan and Mick are on the same hellish flight from DC to Kansas City, become stranded in Chicago overnight, and share the only available hotel room. Their chemistry is undeniable, and a fling seems like a fine idea, until Logan’s brother shows up, and they realize they’re going to be spending the entire holiday together. Being home for the holidays is complicated, and Logan and Mick are one food fight and a ride to jail away from learning to live without fear and love without limits.

THE CHRISTMAS PROPOSAL

by Lisa Moreau

Grace Dawson is completely over her ex, Christina. But that doesn’t mean she wants to plan her wedding proposal to another woman.

Grace dreams of the day she’ll have a romantic proposal like those she plans for her clients at Tie the Knot. She’s spent the last year reading a boatload of self-help books. No way she’s going to fall back into old patterns and date someone afraid of commitment ever again. When it comes to everlasting love, Grace is all in.

Bridget Cartwright, Christina’s personal assistant, will do anything for Christina with the hopes of getting a promotion, even plan her proposal. So what if she knows zilch about romance and doesn’t even believe in happily-ever-after? There are companies for hire that do that sort of thing.

When Grace and Bridget end up stranded together on Mistletoe Mountain, Grace has no chance to escape. Not from her painful past, not from her attraction to Bridget, and definitely not from all the romance in the air.

EROTIC ROMANCE

POETIC ATTRACTION

by Stephanie Osborne

Available in Kindle Unlimited

Zoe is the owner of Diamond Records, a record company built by her parents and turned over to her. Diamond Records is a competitive record label searching for up-and-coming artists. However, Zoe has an entirely different type of lifestyle. She yearned for submissives she calls muses. Contracts and muses come and go, and now she was on the hunt for her next muse.

Ellie is new to New York from a small town and a talented ballet dancer. She is on the set of a music video, where she meets Zoe. It was an instant connection. Though, inexperienced in sex, she was tempted by the proposition of being her muse.

The story explores how these two women learn their hard and soft limits, inside and outside of play.

EROTICA

TRIBADISM

Jade’s Erotic Adventures: Book 44

by Victoria Rush

Just when you thought you knew everything about lesbian sex…

When Jade receives an invitation from her intimacy coach to attend a new women-only workshop, her interest is piqued. With the cryptic title Tribadism, the workshop promises to teach her new sex techniques that will elevate her erotic connections to a whole new level.

When she arrives at the studio, she sees a group of twenty women gathered in a circle around a large padded mat. When the coach asks the women to describe how many different lesbian positions they know and they can only list eight or ten, Jade’s shocked when the leader says there are over a hundred different ways two women can enjoy sex together.

At first, the workshop leader begins to demonstrate the positions with fully clothed volunteers, but when she asks everybody to strip naked and pair up to try them out for themselves, the session takes on a whole new tone. With each of the couples watching and listening to one another practicing the new techniques, the experience is a feast for the senses.

But it’s not until the leader shows all the different ways multiple women can engage at the same time that Jade begins to learn how limited her prior sexual experience has been…

ACTION & ADVENTURE

STROKE OF THE BRUSH

by Morgan Elliot

Available in Kindle Unlimited

A lesbian age-gap romance filled with action and adventure. When Riley Raynor, a fifty-year-old eye surgeon, is smitten with the painting of a dancer. It sets in motion a deeply intimate journey across three countries in search of the one thing missing in her life.

Ana, a quirky mother-figure and best friend, who hilariously drives Riley to the brink of insanity, is devoted and true-blue. Young, hip Sara turns Riley upside down and inside out, challenging her views of age-gap relationships. Quinn, the mysterious artist, who painted the portrait of the dancer that hangs in Riley’s bedroom, brings an entirely new and unexpected challenge. Riley is faced with tough, heartbreaking choices she will have to live with for the rest of her life.

Follow these characters in this engaging, witty, adventurous book. They will have you laughing out loud, crying tears of joy and sorrow, and cheering for the love that was meant to be.

PARANORMAL ROMANCE

UNDYING FRACTURE

Blood and Darkness: Book 10

by Aria Storm

Available in Kindle Unlimited

The identity of my enemies has finally been revealed. Now Calder will make his ultimate play for New Orleans. Even put at a grim disadvantage at every junction, a girl must fight. For the love of friends, family, and for the sake of New Orleans, we will resist with everything inside us!

Fate counts down to the final act in the final scene. Mavis confronts the ultimate conspiracy shrouded in the darkness, in this final addition to the Blood and Darkness Series.

One more dance of the macabre with Mavis and her friends!

WINTER WOLF

by C. A. Hall

Available in Kindle Unlimited

Alana doesn’t believe in fate. She doesn’t believe in second chances, either. But when a wolf pulls her out of the ice, not even Alana’s swan can keep her from taking notice.

Fay’s kind, beautiful, and everything Alana isn’t. From being a predator to moving away from her pack, Fay lives a life Alana would do anything to have.

So when Fay suggests they start a fake relationship to spice up the holidays, Alana jumps at the idea. A new relationship is just the excuse she needs to skip out on visiting her folks.

Falling for the she-wolf wasn’t part of the plan, but as the holidays come to an end, Alana finds herself fearing her flight home more than ever before.

Can Alana find the strength to break away from her flock, or are her family’s expectations of her stronger than her heart?

Winter Wolf is a paranormal lesbian romance with no cliffhangers and a happily ever after.

SCI-FI ROMANCE

ACCEPTING REFUGE

A Place of Refuge: Book Two 

by Victoria Janssen

Escaping the fascist Federated Colonies was the easy part.

Genius engineer Miki Boudreaux found sanctuary on the planet Refuge for herself and her partner, Damarae telepath Talia Avi. They have plenty of delicious food to eat and don’t need to fear death or capture at every turn. They might never have to pick up weapons again. It’s terrific.

But Miki isn’t as happy as she ought to be.

While supporting Talia’s recovery from a harrowing captivity, Miki’s also grieving the loss of their former leader and their failed revolution. It hurts that she doesn’t even know how he died. She can’t get past that alone – but she can’t rely solely on Talia and their beloved companion Faigin, either, because they have wounds of their own.

Refuge might have some answers, though…can Miki bring herself to reach out and ask?

Sometimes, accepting help is the hard part.

ROMANTIC SUSPENSE

JUST ONE MISTAKE

by Jade Winters

Available in Kindle Unlimited

Can just one mistake change your life forever?

When Louise meets her friends for pre-Christmas drinks, little does she realise how her life will change when walking home that night.

In the aftermath of a car accident which leaves Louise in hospital, she forms an unlikely bond with Kirsty – the sister of the other accident victim. After the initial shock of what happened wears off, Kirsty and Louise begin to question if it was really just an accident.

As they work together to uncover the circumstances surrounding the crash, romance blossoms between them but their fledgling relationship is tested when nefarious forces try to spin the narrative to conceal a darker truth.

Can Louise and Kirsty overcome the odds and stay together? Or will the shocking reality tear them apart?

THE GUNRUNNER AND HER HOUND

Those Who Bear Arms: Book 1

by Maria Ying

Viveca Hua, arms-dealer, is driven by three things: the certainty of steel, the need to win, and the compulsion to possess.

Yves, bodyguard, hunts for the place she belongs, and she might just have found it in the captivating Viveca, who offers her a new organization, an answer—and a collar.

But their world is violent. It is unpredictable. Luck alone will not shield them. Together they must survive assassins, rival gunrunners, and their own lethal attraction.

The Gunrunner and Her Hound is an F/F/F mosaic novella (40,000 words) part romance (happy ever after included), part thriller, this is a high-heat love story set in contemporary Hong Kong, where passion burns between a ruthless ice queen and an ex-soldier who fled a ruined empire.

NEW AUDIOBOOKS

UNDER A FALLING STAR

by Jae

narrated by Abby Craden

A new job and a hot but grouchy boss for Christmas.

Falling stars are supposed to be a lucky sign, but not for Austen. Her new job as a secretary in an international games company isn’t off to a good start. Her first assignment – decorating the Christmas tree in the lobby – results in a trip to the ER after Dee, the company’s second-in-command, gets hit by the star-shaped tree topper.

Dee blames her instant attraction to Austen on her head wound, not the magic of the falling star. She’s determined not to act on it, especially since Austen has no idea that Dee is practically her boss.

UNITE

Forgotten Worlds: Book 6

by Prudence MacLeod

narrated by Kathleen Starr Hall

Caught up in an ancient battle, the crew of EX-2 must face the gods themselves. Before long, the entire fleet is drawn into the conflict, a conflict that can only end one way: in the destruction of a traditional way of life, provided they can survive.

DARK JUSTICE

God’s Canyon, Book 1

by Erin Wade

narrated by Melody Alice

You will cheer and cry for Courtney and Sage, as they navigate first-time experiences for both of them.

Award-winning producer Courtney Southerland turned down lucrative career opportunities to learn the truth about the legend of Palo Duro Canyon. Determined to track down the famous Black Panther and the girl that had been seen with it, Court devoted two years of her life living in caves and tents as she tracked the pair through the second largest canyon in the United States. She was about to relegate the panther’s legend to the category of Big Foot and the Loch Ness Monster when the girl appeared from nowhere to save her life.

MALICE MASTERPIECES 3

Books 11 through 15

by K’Anne Meinel

narrated by Desarae Holland

The third set of five Malice Masterpieces audiobooks in the series, all herein contained in one delicious and enthralling audiobook collection!

SNOWED IN WITH MY BEST FRIEND’S MILF

Submissive MILF Series: Book 3

by Riley Rose

narrated by Nikki Monroe

Alex Masters is in an illicit love affair with her daughter’s best friend Melody. She knows she should break it off, but she just can’t resist Mel’s amazing 20-year-old body.

When Alex goes on a ski trip with Mel, will the slopes heat up with their lovemaking? And will Alex be able to keep their relationship a secret from her daughter Josie, who’s also along on the snowy sojourn?

Find out how naughty Alex gets on the slopes and in the hot tub in book three of the Submissive MILF series!

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.

Chris Zett shared Chocolate is Kindness. Also, Chris is giving away 1 ecopy of Heart Failure.

FRIDAY FEELS 

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.

All of us at IHL wish you a festive holiday seasson!

Miranda & TB

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