Sapphic Coming Out Stories (IHS Reading Challenge #40)

Working together can’t be avoided, but falling in love? Lily needs to stop that at all costs, even if it comes at the sake of her own happiness.

It was only for a few months, a study abroad experience that felt plucked from those same dreams turned nightmares, but Bennett is back, and Lily wants nothing to do with her. Bennett broke her heart the first time, and Lily swore she’d never let something like that happen again.

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A real-life story of deceit, acceptance, and the quest to find true love, while staying true to yourself.

Olga and Renay find themselves falling in love; one woman comfortable with her sexuality, the other uncomfortable in her own skin. A bottle of wine and a sweet, languid kiss told Olga the time had come to decide if Renay was worth fighting for, and if true love could conquer all.

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Four teenagers discover who they are and fall in love as they try to build their town's first Pride Festival.

A coming-of-age novella told from four perspectives as teenagers discover who they are, fall in love, and try to build their town’s first Pride event.

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A closeted secretary in 1960s Chicago. A fearless activist in San Francisco. A love so powerful it can change the world.

What began as a glance across a room turns into a hopeful, playful and heartwarming courtship across three time zones and four decades in The Beginning of Everything, a standalone historical romance by Cara Malone.

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When Shane accepts a scholarship to the University of California, she doesn’t expect to be housed with a homophobic roommate. Nevertheless, upon making friends with her roommate’s cousin, Rayne and her best friend, Shane starts to feel at home. Then, one night, while hanging out with Rayne and her friend, Adam, on campus, the three witness a murder. Shane’s idea of a normal school year collapses, and she is suddenly the target of this murderous killer. Will the three find out who it is before it’s too late, or will they be the next victim of serious crime?

Stacy assumed she and Jennifer could never be more than friends because Jen was straight--or was she?

Two young women meet by chance at a truck stop and cross the country together, becoming friends in the process. Having little money, they rent an apartment together in San Francisco, thus becoming even closer friends? Where can this lead, with one a lesbian and one straight? Or maybe not?

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Starting again unexpectedly leads to true love.

Paige is slowly finding happiness in her new life alone, with the help of her dog, Bacon. Meanwhile, Ryan feels humiliated at moving back in with her parents after a difficult break up. When the two girls meet, their attraction is immediate and life suddenly feels very different.

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Softball superstar goes off to college and finds her first love.

Cam travels to Baton Rouge to become an SEC superstar in college softball. The experience is much more than her love of softball.

Two Broadway actresses, one starring role, and a kiss that might turn rivals…into lovers.

Jules and Sophie have auditioned for the lead in the same Broadway show, but as their rivalry heats up, they fight an attraction that blazes hotter than the spotlight. When the curtain rises on opening night, love might take center stage.

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Touching, funny, painful, romantic, all these things

When longtime partner Alex nixes Silke’s idea of starting a family, the easy-going German follows her job to San Antonio, where she is pursued by sexy Ana. But Silke has more fun with her seemingly hetero landlady Lauren. A kiss and a confession from Lauren change everything. Still, Silke loves Alex, and then there’s Ana… Can Silke take a stand and save the one relationship that really matters?

A coming-out romance about small towns and big dreams.

Lawyer Sue is totally, completely straight. Then she meets cute doctor Moni. Things get awkward. And kind of gay. And awkward again. A coming-out romance about small towns and big dreams.

C.J. Winslow discovers that the tennis court isn’t the only place where “love” comes into play.

Tennis superstar C.J. Winslow is hiding more than one secret. Trystan Lightfoot’s job is to heal others, even as she fails to heal her own heart. It’s the perfect recipe for game, set, and love.

If you pick away at an ice queen's armour, she might just crack!

Beatrice Russell, renowned international actress, hides her true self from the world at any cost. When her new assistant, Sydney MacKenzie, gets too close for comfort, the cost of hiding herself rises, but is it a price Beatrice is willing to keep paying?

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Suitemates to friends…to happily ever after?

Bailey must traverse the rocky terrain of her friendships, her freshman year of college, and her sexuality to discover not only whom she wants to pursue, but her own identity. For Bailey, learning to be true to herself means being brave enough to let go of the limits on love that are holding her back.

Seeking revenge brought her too close to the flame.

Taking revenge on the entitled Abigail Hunter was Clancy’s priority but drawing close to the beautiful woman’s dangerous flame could get Clancy burned. Her revenge would be worth it, she kept telling herself. Until suddenly she began to suspect it might not.

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Just as Gwen and Taylor are exploring the new love they've found, the present and past collide, threatening the future they long to share.

Gwen Jamison has been attracted to her best friend Taylor for years but has kept her feelings masked as friendship. Left behind by her mother at age nine, then by her first love eight years later, she’s vowed never to trust her heart to anyone. It’s easier to have casual relationships than risk falling in love.

Love can live on in the forever, particularly if it lives courageously in the now

Falling in love is like watching the grandest sunset on the calmest ocean where the tiniest ripples wear silver sparkles as their hats. Kate and Bron find that sunset on that ocean with those ripples of love, but what happens when you take that love for granted? What happens when your person disappears? The answers are hard to hear and too heartbreaking to bear.

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Is finding true love a gamble she's willing to make?

“Sometimes you just gotta roll the dice and see how they land!”

A chance encounter tosses a wild card at Shay and Allie. Can Shay embrace her deepest desires and hit the jackpot? Or will she find the deck’s stacked against her and in Sin City the house always wins?

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Small-town Scotland in the sixties is not the place for a woman to love another woman – especially one of a different religion.

Will they be able to be together in a society where the rules are supposed to be obeyed, and loving another woman – a Protestant one at that – means breaking them all?

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Secrets unfold as rekindled lust leads the way through a damaged trail of family values and misled loyalty.

Growing up on a homophobic council estate with an abusive veteran father made Jamie Taylor’s life intolerable. Her only release was feeding her obsession for rich kid Heather Gardner. When the two girls collide, it creates a web of violence and deceit, leading to the tragic death of a friend.

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