Before we get to today’s new releases, including gems by Adrian J. Smith, Nicole Pyland, Rachel Ford, Rita Potter, and many others, we have some announcements.
IHL SAPPHIC READING CHALLENGE
It’s week 11 of IHL’s Sapphic Reading Challenge. You can click here for reading suggestions for Fantasy romances. 8 of the books featured on the page are on sale.
Remember, you can join the I Heart Lesfic Facebook reader group. Every Monday we will announce the category for the week, and every Wednesday you will have the opportunity to post what book you are reading and be entered into the monthly drawing for a $25 Amazon gift card. (For those who are not on Facebook and still want to enter, remember you can email your reading selection to tbm@iheartlesfic.com).
Second, we have created a Goodreads group where readers can discuss books, swap recommendations, and generally have a good time.
FREE BOOK
Four Point
by Max Ellendale
Available in Kindle Unlimited
Thirty-two bodies, twenty years, and a cold case that lives inside her alone. Detective Sali James teeters on the edge of sanity as she’s forced to unearth her darkest days in order to stop Washington’s most elusive serial killer. “Isn’t watching beautiful?”
Deal ends on March 22
NEW RELEASES
Here are this week’s new ebook and audio releases and announcements.
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
Here You Go
NOL Series: Book 3
by Leigh Landry
Available in Kindle Unlimited
One more gig…
Courtney should be thrilled at the chance to sing on stage again. The festival sounds great. She could use the money. Plus, she misses performing with her old bandmates… most of them.
When Vanessa bailed on her old band for bigger dreams three years ago, she never expected to play with them again. But those big dreams fizzled, and her former friends need a guitarist. It’s just one gig. Might as well.
Vanessa’s return is met with mixed reviews, since Courtney isn’t ready to forgive and forget. When the band books more gigs, the women must heal old wounds or break up the band forever.
To further complicate things? Vanessa soon realizes she wants more than Courtney’s forgiveness, and she doesn’t plan to walk away this time.
Here You Go is a sweet, slow burn f/f romance about the reunion of an all-female New Orleans rock band. Enjoy the betrayals, bitter grudges, and a bird named Bob!
2022 IHL Reading Challenge Categories: Sweet; Slow Burn; Enemies to Lovers; Musician
Thundering Pines
by Rita Potter
Returning to her hometown was the last thing Brianna Goodwin wanted to do. She and her mom had left Flower Hills under a cloud of secrecy and shame when she was ten years old. Her life is different now. She has a high-powered career, a beautiful girlfriend, and a trendy life in Chicago.
Upon her estranged father’s death, she reluctantly agrees to attend the reading of his will. It should be simple—settle his estate and return to her life in the city—but nothing has ever been simple when it comes to Donald Goodwin.
Dani Thorton, the down-to-earth manager of Thundering Pines, is confused when she’s asked to attend the reading of the will of her longtime employer. She fears that her simple, although secluded life will be interrupted by the stylish daughter who breezes into town.
When a bombshell is revealed at the meeting, two women seemingly so different are thrust together. Maybe they’ll discover they have more in common than they think.
2022 IHL Reading Challenge Categories: Slow burn; Return to Hometown; Forced Proximity
HISTORICAL ROMANCE
Once in Berlin
by Jo Havens
Available in Kindle Unlimited
Could you spy on the woman you loved?
It’s 1938 and Europe teeters on the edge of war.
In Berlin, life for Mila Nessian – genius mathematician, billionaire and womaniser – is one long party. A spot of rocket science by day, the Third Reich’s prettiest daughters by night. She knows what they whisper behind their hands – that Germany’s most dazzling mind has nothing but a calculator where her heart should be, a sliver of ice instead of soul. She smirks through yet another boring cocktail party and hopes they’re wrong.
Cecelia Balfour is dragged to Berlin by her socialite mother – and it’s the last place she wants to be. Cecelia has lost a lover and worries that her heart is too bruised to ever properly love again. To distract her, to maybe get her back in the game, her cousin at MI6 sets up a play: flirt with Mila Nessian, capture her secrets, lure her back to London.
Because what Mila is working on could steer the course of the coming war. The Nazis want her brilliance, British Secret Intelligence wants her silence, and Cecelia – once she has laughed with her, slept with her, sipped champagne on a zeppelin with her and lost her heart to her – Cecelia wants her love.
Can she win Mila’s trust and save her from the powers that control both their lives?
2022 IHL Reading Challenge Categories: Romantic Suspense; Historical Fiction; Historical Romance; Musician
EROTICA
A Weekend Away
Short Story
by Sam Kestrel
Available in Kindle Unlimited
Julie planned a weekend away from the city at a bed-and-breakfast. What she didn’t plan was for the owner of the bed-and-breakfast to be beautiful, sexy and lascivious.
2022 IHL Reading Challenge Category: Hot & Steamy
MYSTERY
Silent Service
The MC McCall Suspense Series: Book 2
by Judy M. Kerr
Postal Inspector MC McCall is struggling after the murder of her partner, Barb. Nearly four months have passed, and MC isn’t able to keep her distance from the investigation into Barb’s death. The homicide detective in charge orders her to back away and let him do his job.
While sneaking around to investigate Barb’s death, MC throws herself into her work—or tries to, anyway, what with many late nights cozied up to a vodka bottle. Her supervisor lets her know he’d love to force her out, and MC’s co-workers and close friends notice her decline. They reach out, but MC closes up, even more hellbent on handling everything alone.
Will investigating a drug scam along the North Shore be the ticket to keep her on track? Can MC resolve the death of her partner once and for all? Or will she spiral into a personal and professional darkness from which she won’t return?
2022 IHL Reading Challenge Category: Mystery
FANTASY
Throw Me a Bone
Flint & Co Paranormal Investigations: Book 2
by Rachel Ford
Available in Kindle Unlimited
I’m a magic-wielding Freak. My partner is a sentient skeleton. My fiancée is a broke lawyer. We’re Flint & Co Paranormal Investigations. And we’re going to change the world.
Being a Freak cost me my job with the police department, but that’s okay. My magic isn’t a curse, and I’m done running from it.
Which is good, because with my fiancée too busy saving the world one pro bono lawsuit at a time to take a case that actually pays and my partner losing his shirt on a Crypt Coin investment scam, it’s going to take some supernatural help just to keep the lights on.
Never mind track down the Southside Stalker, the notorious serial killer terrorizing New Boston and baffling law enforcement. Or the Pestilence, the mysterious vigilante targeting the undead. (Come on, universe! Throw a girl a bone, why don’t you?)
But, whatever: I’m ready. I can shoot fire from my freaking fingertips. I’ve got this.
I hope.
2022 IHL Reading Challenge Categories: Mystery; Fantasy; Speculative Fiction
PARANORMAL ROMANCE
Coven be Charmed
Honeydrop House Witches: Book 1
by Caitlin Ryan
Available in Kindle Unlimited
A little charm goes a long way with witches.
Rose Cromwell is a life coach but that doesn’t mean she believes in all that woo-woo stuff. When her romantic weekend away at the mysterious Honeydrop House turns supernatural, she doesn’t believe it. A witch? She can’t be.
It turns out it’s harder to escape who you are than it is to outrun a bushfire. Rose is thrust into a world of witches, warlocks, witch hunters, and demons where ancient tensions put her in the middle of a fight to destroy not only the coven but Rose herself.
With no choice but to turn to the coven, Rose discovers none of the coven are what they seem. In fact, nobody is what they seem. Not even her girlfriend.
2022 IHL Reading Challenge Categories: Cute animal; Paranormal Romance; Ghost
Dead Night
Dhampir Dylan: Book 3
by Aria Storm
Available in Kindle Unlimited
Finally, a moment to stress over the drama of being in love with two girls at the same time. I never thought I would count myself so lucky to be able to freely hyperventilate over my inability to choose between Carolyn and Diana.
Spike, my adopted Fairy kitten is finally ready to come home, and my little sister has cemented her place as the top dog–so to speak–just below our mother.
All that is left for us to do right now is to learn, and live our college lives. Of course, that would be the prime opportunity for yet another sinister evil to rear its ugly head. A series of near-fatal assaults on me leave me chasing shadows.
All around me, it seems there are hidden dangers, and lurking foes waiting to be vanquished.
I will come face-to-face with an evil even my father couldn’t defeat in his youth. This sinister full-circle culmination of a danger waiting in the wings of our world, shall strike at my beloved university.
In order to survive long enough to have an angsty college life, I must find a way out of this hellscape situation. I must unlock new depths of myself!
2022 IHL Reading Challenge Categories: Paranormal Romance; Magical Realism
NEW AUDIOBOOKS
The Block Party
Holiday Series: Book 2
by Nicole Pyland
narrated by Carolyn Eve
Talon Mitchell had gotten a job right out of college, had her own coffee mug at the office that no one else could use, and planned to keep her job as sales manager for a long time, because she had practically grown up working for this company. She was content and not looking for anything, when a new sales director showed up and changed everything.
Emerson Bagley just got a new job, and while she felt ready for the next step, when she sees someone she recognizes from a holiday party working on the same team, she can’t believe her luck – both good and bad. Good, because Talon Mitchell was very attractive, very smart, and seemingly, very interested in Emerson, too. Bad, because she couldn’t date someone who worked for her, especially in her brand-new job.
Feeling the simmering heat begin to boil over, the two women decide to at least take one step, and deal with the rest later. When neither of them had been prepared to seek out love, they managed to find it where they least expected it.
2022 IHL Reading Challenge Categories: Hot & Steamy; Holiday Romance
Rand
Book 1
by Silvia Shaw
narrated by Susan McGurl
An epic story of magic, heroism, love, and treachery, Rand is a magical world ruled by an imperial line of queens.
Three hundred ago, Rand’s most powerful talisman, a medallion called the “Circle of Sheda”, was taken through the portal into Earth and lost. When Dr. Savannah Cole is on an archeology dig in Algeria, she takes shelter from a violent sandstorm and discovers the mysterious artifact under a Berber ruin. She soon learns unknown forces are at play, powerful secret forces beyond her control.
Compelled to wear the medallion, she is swept through the portal into Rand. There, she must forge a new life and embrace her role as the wielder of ancient magic. Never before has someone from the “other world” been chosen to bear the medallion, someone not a warrior. It’s a puzzle Savannah must solve before it’s too late. Why has she been chosen? As she battles demonic creatures and dark sorcery, she fights to take her place as the rightful bearer in the long line of warrior women. But, the question remains; what is coming that the lost medallion must resurface after so many years?
2022 IHL Reading Challenge Categories: Fantasy; Enemies to Lovers
Admissible Affair
by Adrian J. Smith
narrated by Lois Ridge
One-night stands aren’t supposed to turn into forever.
Bellamy has worked with and loved her wife of 10 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 20-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 warnings: Cheating, mental/emotional abuse, sexual coercion, mentions of drug abuse and child abuse.
2022 IHL Reading Challenge Categories: Age Gap; Ice Queen
JAE’S SAPPHIC BOOK BINGO
BUY US A COFFEE
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Have a wonderful day!
Miranda & TB
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