Before we get to today’s new releases, including gems by Melissa Tereze, Erica Lee, A.L. Brooks, TJ Dallas, and many others, we have some announcements.
IHL SAPPHIC READING CHALLENGE
It’s week 12 of IHL’s Sapphic Reading Challenge. You can click here for reading suggestions for stories showcasing a Medical Character. 6 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.
VOTE FOR FAVORITE AGE GAP
We asked readers to nominate their all-time favorite sapphic age gap romances. Find out who made the cut and cast your vote. Voting ends on April 15th and the top three winners will be announced in the April 19th newsletter.
FREE BOOKS
by Elle Armstrong
Available in Kindle Unlimited
There’s an instant connection when Max and Lauren’s eyes meet across a crowded cafe. A visit from an ex, kickstarts a chain reaction, leading to drama on the moors, that will have far reaching repercussions for both Max and Lauren.
Deal ends on March 29th.
by M. E. Tudor
Available in Kindle Unlimited
Ava White finds herself alone after her wife leaves her for a younger woman. Her friend, Emily Rios, convinces her to spend two weeks at Emily’s vacation home in Ouray, Colorado, where Ava meets Melody Graves, discovers a new love for the outdoors, and finds confidence in herself as she and Mel become close. When Ava returns to Houston, she must make some tough decisions to build a new life with the possibility of a relationship with Mel.
Deal ends March 31st.
NEW RELEASES
Here are this week’s new ebook and audio releases.
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 Six Pack: Book 3
by Erica Lee
Available in Kindle Unlimited
Amelia Serrano hated dirt, so when her friends suggested going to a carnival, it was the last thing she wanted to do. Little did she know she would meet Mackenzie Kaufman there – her opposite in so many ways. Mackenzie was a small-town mechanic whose first love was her sprint car that she raced on dirt tracks on the weekends.
What could these two possibly have in common? Not much, aside from a mutual attraction and the desire to be around each other constantly. Is this romance a winner or are they destined to crash and burn?
This 24,000 word novella is book number three in The Six Pack Series
2022 IHL Reading Challenge Categories: Sports; One Night to Forever
by Katia Rose
Available in Kindle Unlimited
Some couples are a match made in heaven.
Moira and Kenzie are convinced the only place they’re a match is in hell.
Raised as the shining prodigies of warring highland dance schools, the two grew up with blaring bagpipes as the backing track for a feud that took them all the way to the world championships.
Moira could never keep Kenzie’s icy glares from getting under her skin, and Kenzie could never hold back an eye-roll as she watched the crowds fawn over her rival’s happy-go-lucky charm.
Starting college has forced both women to hang up their kilts, but when their local highland dance association announces a scholarship for a life-changing amount of money, they find themselves back onstage for one last season.
The stakes are higher than ever, but between shooting daggers at each other’s backs and insults at each other’s faces, their eyes start lingering, their hearts start pounding, and the sparks begin to build into a fire neither of them can control.
Hell could freeze before either woman would admit their attraction, but that won’t stop them from using it to play dirty—and getting caught in the crossfire of their feelings along the way.
After all, sometimes the devil wears tartan.
2022 IHL Reading Challenge Categories: New Adult; Enemies to Lovers
Small Town Sparks: Book 3
by Bel Blackwood
Available in Kindle Unlimited
Introverted screenwriter Layla has one rule: never hook up with the same woman twice. Relationships? No thanks. The thought of letting anyone get too close to her is terrifying. It’s better to be alone than to get hurt.
But when she sets down in New Zealand for the movie shoot of a lifetime, she takes a chance: an anonymous no-strings-attached hookup with a thrilling older woman.
It’s fine. It’s not like they’re ever going to see each other again.
Except… her one-night stand turns out to be her brand new coworker. They’re forced to work together.
Layla’s rule is there to protect her. But as she gets closer to Kora, the walls around her heart start crumbling.
How can you tell when your shields are the things that you need protecting from?
2022 IHL Reading Challenge Categories: Age Gap; Cute Animal; One Night to Forever; Forced Proximity
by Melissa Tereze
Available in Kindle Unlimited
All it takes is one cold lie to ruin the recipe for a perfect love…
Five years ago, Abi was in culinary school and dreaming of working at Adley’s, a Michelin-starred restaurant, and for its equally delectable owner. Instead, she’s alone, broke, and out of friendly couches to sleep on. Her only direction…rock bottom.
Abi’s in a mess, but it’s her mess, and she plans to fix it. She just doesn’t know how—until, huddled and shivering in a doorway across from Adley’s, she sees the beautiful owner drop her purse. And returning it reaps an unexpected reward.
Behind Victoria Adley’s cool public persona and power suits is a woman in turmoil, a victim of tabloid lies that have thrown her for a loop. Accused of having an affair with a female employee, her family has fallen apart and her business is suffering.
When Victoria offers temporary shelter to the homeless young woman who found and returned her dropped purse, she is irresistibly drawn to Abi’s kindness and warmth. Their instant attraction melts into something more, but they can’t pretend the real world doesn’t exist. While all the ingredients for a lasting love are there, putting them together isn’t so easy.
Because Victoria isn’t out.
And Abi can’t live a lie.
2022 IHL Reading Challenge Categories: Age Gap; Toaster Oven; Celebrity; Rich Girl / Poor Girl
by A.L. Brooks
A warm, feel-good, enemies-to-lovers, lesbian romance about chasing your dreams—wherever they might lead.
Powerful venture capitalist Claire Pressley is done with stressful New York and has set her sights on a “treechange”— renovating a homestead in Eagle Cove, Oregon to make a gorgeous guesthouse.
Her plan isn’t quite so simple when it turns out Eagle Cove’s beloved town librarian Ruby Jordan had been saving to buy the homestead herself. Worse, Ruby had some grand, beautiful dream to turn it into an animal shelter.
Claire couldn’t look more like a villain in her new town if she tried. Now she has to find a way to make peace with the locals, as Ruby furiously works out a Plan B for her animal shelter.
But even as the hot-headed women keep clashing, it’s hard not to notice their sizzling chemistry, and how attractive they find each other.
It seems unlikely they’ll even manage to be friends at this rate. And being more than friends…that would be just ridiculous! Right?
2022 IHL Reading Challenge Category: Enemies to Lovers
EROTIC ROMANCE
Book 8
by Scott Kujawa
Available in Kindle Unlimited
For eight weeks, May explored her relationship with Catherine after she visited Crimson Rose.
May agreed to spend time at the Ranch, giving Catherine what she wanted. She wasn’t sure what she’d experience while there, but she trusted the woman she loved. The beauty pageant wasn’t what she expected, but May desired to play her part in it. It was another of the gatherings May’s been involved in since her first visit to Crimson Rose.
Catherine helped May learn more of the interests after the blond woman visited Crimson Rose. Taking May to the Ranch and exploring them was something Catherine enjoyed doing. The surprise she planned with the owner of the club and the others willing to help her added to the joys she wanted May to feel. The relationship she had with May was built on trust, and Catherine had no interest in breaking it by asking May to do something she wasn’t interested in.
They enjoyed their pleasures at the Ranch, but it was time to return to their small town and the changes they planned while there.
2022 IHL Reading Challenge Categories: Hot & Steamy; BDSM; Musician
EROTICA
by TJ Dallas
Available in Kindle Unlimited
When your friend recommends a renowned sex club, the location you find yourself at is not what you expected. The seven-story building in the heart of Edinburgh also hosts a hotel, a restaurant, a casino… Even a nightclub! As you explore in your own time, prepare to meet a plethora of sinful people. Do you want to learn how to play Blackjack, or would you prefer the owner to show you a good time over her private poker table? Are you ravenous for food, or something more in the restaurant? Does the sexy butch who runs the gym really know what she’s doing with a strap-on? (*Spoiler alert, of course she does.) Choose wisely.
A create-your-own lesfic erotic adventure based on the Cardinal, the setting of my women-loving-women series featuring the Seven Deadly Sins. Over twenty seductive sapphic encounters to enjoy!
2022 IHL Reading Challenge Category: Hot & Steamy
by Sam Kestrel
Available in Kindle Unlimited
Jo Clark was tired of her day job and knew her skills and passions lied elsewhere. So she started a business. If people asked, her goal was to inspire women to be fully themselves. What she did was give curious and straight women an hour of sex, or whatever else they fancied. But mostly sex. Jo didn’t care what their reason was for responding to her ad.
In this second book of the series, Jo discovers that her ad appeals to more than the curious, when a lesbian couple calls asking for more than she ever bargained for.
2022 IHL Reading Challenge Categories: Hot & Steamy; Toaster Oven
ROMANTIC SUSPENSE
by L. Dreamer
Available in Kindle Unlimited
For FBI Special Agent Lake Stuart, doing the right thing had come at a price—her family. Years later, in a new city, a new career, she’s still feeling the burden of the cost. She refuses to let anyone close enough to break her heart again. She’s the one to walk away now—until she goes home with Dr. Mel Pascale for one of her many routine one-night stands. What happens to Lake’s ‘one and done’ way of companionship when she can’t get Mel out of her head?
Pediatrician Mel Pascale likes her life the way it is: working at a premier hospital and volunteering at a refugee clinic, hanging out with her nephew, sister, and best friend, and surfing. But she yearns to find someone special. When she (literally) runs into a beautiful, assertive woman, she’s taken with her immediately. And when she does something she’s never done before–take a stranger home for the night—something clicks into place and falls into an incongruous mess all at once.
Just as the two women are figuring out who they can be to each other, Mel gets embroiled in Lake’s multi-agency drug cartel corruption investigation, putting their burgeoning relationship—and lives—at risk.
2022 IHL Reading Challenge Categories: Romantic Suspense; Suspense; Medical Character
by A.J. Marchant
Available in Kindle Unlimited
Wilde is a thief…
Grace is a teacher…
Will secrets tear them apart?
It’s a boring day at Wilde’s cover job as a docent at the local museum. She fills the time with a little mischief… but it turns interesting when the boss walks in with a young woman. Seeing her chance to test a theory, Wilde introduces herself to the woman. Little does she know, that moment causes a ripple that changes everything.
What happens when a thief falls in love with a school teacher? When the biggest part of a person is held back, unknown to the other? When someone starts to question what it is they really want in their life?
The Heart of a Heist is a story about the meeting of a mastermind thief and a school teacher, and how they navigate the hidden pieces of themselves. It’s set in a town with a tale that could be either history or legend. There are ancient artefacts, lives at stake, a super secret agency, a fumbling fence as a friend, thugs battling for possession and power… and a love story that seems impossible, until it isn’t.
2022 IHL Reading Challenge Categories: Romantic Suspense; Suspense
SCI-FI ROMANCE
by Linda North
Available in Kindle Unlimited
Revised and expanded edition with additional chapters.
In 2098, humankind is traveling throughout the solar system.
“I want to develop light speed spaceships capable of taking us out of our solar system and to the stars.” This is Kiernan O’Shay’s dream. Before she can do this, she must fulfill stipulations in her late grandmother’s will to marry and produce an heir before her fortieth birthday. This will give her control of Stellardyne, the lead manufacturer of space freighters, and the resources she needs. At thirty-eight, Kiernan’s time is running out.
Twenty-five-year-old Ariel Thorsen, a physics professor, is introduced to Kiernan at a dinner celebrating her mother’s recent promotion at Stellardyne. Later, after a tour of Kiernan’s spaceship, Celeste, Ariel is shocked when Kiernan offers monetary wealth if she will marry her and bear her heir. “Marriage should be based on love and respect.”
Kiernan is not accustomed to anyone telling her no.
When Ariel’s mother is accused of industrial theft, Ariel feels she has no choice but to accept Kiernan’s proposal if charges aren’t brought against her mother.
How can love and respect grow when trust isn’t in the equation?
2022 IHL Reading Challenge Categories: Speculative Fiction; Age Gap; Enemies to Lovers
YOUNG ADULT
by Genta Sebastian
Available in Kindle Unlimited
This book has been reedited since the 2014 edition came out.
Lily loves her two out-loud-and-proud moms almost as much as she loves horses, but bullies makes life tough during bus rides, in class, and on the playground. Clara sits across the schoolroom, still as a statue, never volunteering or raising her hand, keeping her family’s big secret; she has two in-the-closet dads.
If they become best friends, what’s the worst that can happen?
Blackmail? Kidnapping?
Maybe even…murder?
2022 IHL Reading Challenge Categories: Young Adult; Suspense
NEW AUDIOBOOKS
A Wild for You Novel: Book 3
by Jenny Frame
narrated by Amy Putt
Victorija Dred, principe of the Dred clan, is one of the most feared vampires to walk the earth, but since her unwanted blood bond with Daisy, she’s slowly losing herself to blood sickness. Her clan is dismayed by her reluctance to order Daisy brought to her. The old Victorija would have used her for her blood without a second thought. However no one knows of the age-old vow holding her back.
Daisy MacDougall is struggling to cope with the vampire bite that is urging her to seek out Victorija. Secrets and history bind them in unfathomable ways, and when she discovers her family’s past and a very different Victorija, she vows to find the truth even if she must force their meeting.
Victorija and Daisy travel a dark and seductive path even as Victorija fights every instinct to take Daisy’s blood, and love seems all but impossible. As if that wasn’t bad enough, neither expects the real threat to Daisy’s life to be hiding inside the Dred clan.
2022 IHL Reading Challenge Categories: Paranormal Romance; Vampires; Enemies to Lovers
by Erin Zak
narrated by Lula Larkin
Enjoy your vacation at the Hummingbird Sanctuary, Colorado’s hottest resort destination. Come for the mountains, stay for the charm, and enjoy the drama as Olive, Eleanor, and Harriet figure out their lives, their loves, and the meaning of true friendship.
Owning and operating the Hummingbird Sanctuary was supposed to be the best time of Olive Zyntarski’s life. She was going to tackle the future with eyes wide open and forget about her guilty conscience. All that changes when a chance meeting with a mysterious new guest has Olive’s long-buried secrets bubbling to the surface.
As marketing director, Eleanor Fitzwallace knows how to present everything in its best light—everything except her nonexistent love life. When her high school heartbreak unexpectedly saunters into the Sanctuary’s restaurant, Eleanor’s determined to ignore her. She wants real love, and people don’t change, do they?
After hitting rock bottom, Harriet Marshall made a promise to herself: no more one-night stands that make her feel bad about herself. She’s determined to turn her life around, and that means focusing on keeping the Sanctuary’s restaurant and bar hip, trendy, and booked solid. So, of course, she meets the most gorgeous woman ever, and everything changes.
2022 IHL Reading Challenge Categories: Friends to Lovers; Enemies to Lovers; Coming Out; POC Character; Cute Animals
BUY US A COFFEE
Running IHL takes the three of us many hours every single week. Also, the costs add up. Last year we setup a Buy Us a Coffee page, which allows people to help cover the expenses. When we first announced the page, we were blown away by the response. Not only were people willing to pitch in, but all of the kind notes and encouragement brought more than a few tears to TB’s eyes. If you’d like to support us, click here. Every cup helps immensely! If you’d like to learn more about TB’s initial response to the outpouring of support, click here.
Have a wonderful day!
Miranda & TB
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