I Heart SapphFic Reading Challenge Week 1: 13 Books on Sale

Can two women be too different to fall in love?

Nera Booker and Squeak McFadden are beautiful African American women in their early thirties, but that’s where the similarities end. Nera, college educated with an upbringing in a comfortable suburb, makes a good living in health care IT systems. Squeak, with several small businesses on the go, grew up in a rough city neighborhood and has hustled for every dime she’s ever made. They’re madly attracted to each other from the start. Nera admires Squeak’s entrepreneurial spirit, although she thinks Squeak could do even better. Squeak envies Nera’s suburban childhood, but wonders if maybe this accomplished woman is out of her reach.

Falling in love with your best friend is simultaneously one of the most nerve-wracking, terrifying, and beautiful experiences of one's life – beautiful, if they reciprocate.

After over seventeen years of friendship, and being in love with her best friend for just as long, Dani goes on vacation with Taylor thinking it’s going to end in a farewell. But what if Taylor feels the same? What if they could have the life they’ve always dreamed of?

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How much will Ashlyn submit to a sensual succubus and sexy sorceress?

Demon Hunter Ashlyn has somehow gotten herself into an illicit love affair with Thalia, a beautiful succubus. When Thalia needs a sexy sorceress’s help, how kinky and submissive will Ashlyn get to help her new demon friend?

Is 30 years too long to wait for a second chance?

High school best friends Sara and Sofia had always been inseparable, but neither of them knew that they were hiding a secret attraction. The girls lost touch after graduation, but thirty years later, they run into each other in a coffee shop, and it’s love at first sight. Or second sight, anyway.

Indiscretions can lead to danger...

While hunting a vicious killer, a cop seeks escape in the arms of a young officer. But letting down her guard could be fatal…

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All's Fair in Love and Eco-war

Dr. Jay Tanner seeks the coveted CEO position, while enjoying flings with unattainable women. Cordelia Armstrong-Forde, from a privileged lineage, fights against big oil. When they meet, sparks fly, but their differing ideologies on saving the planet challenge their chemistry. Can love overcome their staunch beliefs?

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Can romance survive the ancient queen's demands for a proper burial?

Conversations with a long-dead queen brings tension between Ellie and her wife, Robin. The queen’s demands for a proper burial take Ellie, Robin, and their friends on a new journey of discovery, moving from the British Museum in London to the windswept landscapes of northern Britain.

Eighty-nine-year-old Regina and ninety-year-old Jackie met in 1955, an era when women were rounded up and jailed simply for dancing together or dressing like a man.

On a cold winter day they manage to get themselves out of the house with the help of TJ and Ramon, two young men from their working-class neighborhood in Western Massachusetts. They tie their long-dead Christmas tree to the top of their car and, using a screwdriver in place of a broken gearshift, slowly make the drive to the dump.

This is also the day when everything changes.

A shy reality-TV competition-show contestant meets an outgoing player on the show, who surprises her in every way.

When Cali loses her job and ends up on a reality competition show to earn some quick cash, she meets a player who is intrigued by Cali’s approach to the game.

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Kelli MacCabe is a no nonsense detective with a tough exterior.

Only a select few know her as a loyal, loving friend. Committed to her family, her friends, and her job, Kelli puts her needs behind everyone else’s.

As a surgeon, Nora Whitmore is used to being in control. The hospital is her life and leaves room for little else. Respected by her colleagues, but misunderstood by the residents, Nora takes what she needs and keeps everyone at arm’s length. In the process, she creates unexpected enemies.

What do you do when your favorite author isn’t at all what you expected but so much more than you bargained for?

Grace Harper is a hopeless romantic hanging on every word of the lesbian romance novels she reads. When Grace’s childhood best friend, Leah, suggests that she comes to Philly to get space from her ex, it seems like the perfect opportunity to start over, especially since Leah’s roommate is none other than Laurel Lake – Grace’s favorite romance author.

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Forced to work together, Addison and Kate discover that opposites really do attract.

For Addison Fairchild, success is a guarantee. Groomed since childhood to run a division of Fairchild Enterprises, she takes her birthright seriously. Maybe a little too seriously if you ask her friends. But work is so much easier than the rest of her life. Her employees hate her, her best friend is worried about her, and her last date was hide-in-the-restroom awkward. If all that wasn’t bad enough, she’s stuck with a new cheerful-happy-annoyingly-morning-person assistant just when the head of FE is about to choose a successor—a job Addison wants so badly, she can taste it.

What happens in the elevator doesn’t stay in the elevator.

Don’t Quit Your Daydream is an age gap, lesbian romance that deals with infertility and grief that comes with the loss of dreams. Be prepared for the ride up to the sixth floor, where all the magic happens.

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When Samantha tries to help Abby and Sasha discover they have more in common than being unlucky in love, they have to decide if their shared passion will blaze on or burn out.

Could they be each other’s perfect match? Or did the notorious Miss Match strike out?

She must lower her guard in order to keep the love of her life.

June and Brennan are best friends, they are secretly in love but neither wants to ruin their friendship. Now a new opportunity might take Brennan far away. June must admit her true feelings or risk missing out on the love of her life.

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Sometimes you have to take a leap to find love!

When Maddie Wilson’s life goes to hell in a handbasket, she’s left isolated from her family and questioning why this keeps happening to her. Ex-Olympian, Bek Bennett has everything figured out. This is the year she’s finally going to finish her social work degree and win Australia’s Ultimate Ninja (aka the biggest obstacle course competition on Australian TV). With fate throwing them together (repeatedly), one of them might just have to take a leap of faith.

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Simone and Loreto don’t have to like each other.

They only need to work together, but the heat and the history around them and between them conspires to demand so much more.

Greed. Jealousy. Revenge. With a plot to engineer the total destruction of APS in the bargain.

Add in a healthy dose of pulse-pounding mayhem and watch the flames ignite. Because that’s just before lunch.

Can a Machiavellian furry and a laid-back Rugby player find love?

Arugula J. Cunningham, wunderkind of the Seattle sports scene, is up to her floppy ears in problems. Wendy Plunkett, New Zealand rugby player with a questionable contract, and a wedding from Hell. Can they fool family and friends.

And why are all those furries being dragged off to jail?

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Aren’t weddings wonderful?

As Victoria Fraser and Abby Mason’s big day draws closer, Bo McKinnon, Victoria’s best woman, asks just that. How can anyone be so certain of another’s love? Most would consider her to be wild and free, some would say untamable, but not Destinee Sonas.

Having joined Victoria and Abby’s household as a cook, the ex-offender is nobody’s fool, or plaything… Not even when they own a castle. If only the same could be said for Freya, Abby’s sister, who has more underwear and secrets than Victoria… (Not Fraser, the other one).

One is grumpy. One is sunshine. There is only one bed.

Kiskeya Burgos left the tropical beaches of the Dominican Republic with a lot to prove. As a pastry chef on the come up, when she arrives in Scotland, she has one goal in mind: win the Holiday Baking Challenge. Winning would prove to her family, her former boss, and most importantly to herself, that she can make it in the culinary world. Kiskeya will stop at nothing to win, that is if she can keep her eyes on the prize and off her infuriating teammate’s perfect lips.

Ashleigh McAllister’s life is a total disaster.

Her ex dumped her for a guy, and she can’t seem to stop bumping into them in their suddenly way too small Brooklyn neighborhood. At least Mother Nature is on her side. Summer is here and the forecast is all sun. Ashleigh needs a little excitement, and things get exponentially hotter when Kellan Dwyer walks into her life.

When a chance meeting in the snowy mountains turns a city girl's life upside down, will she stop running from her past and let real love into her heart?

When a friend offers up her mountain cabin for a relaxing vacation, Leigh packs her bags. She’s never been to the mountains and certainly never in heavy snow. What could go wrong?

New York advertising executive Lauren Montgomery loses her job, inherits an inn, and moves to England—all in the span of a week.

It’s not how her career, or her life, is supposed to unfold. But necessity is the mother of invention and Lauren has a new plan. She’s going to spruce up the inn, turn the attached pub into a hot spot, sell it for a killing, and start her own advertising agency.

Love can bloom even in outer space.

A reclusive young botanist on a space station is given an icy, domineering slave as her personal assistant. Where is this “assistant” really from, and can she have any connection to the powerful pirate queen who’s been marauding all over the galaxy?

After eighteen years, the stars may have finally aligned to give Cecily and Rorie a second chance at happiness together.

The second book of the series finds Rorie and Cecily embarking on a new life in sunny California, but will the pressures of time, distance, and some very persistent paparazzi be too much for them?

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Can Lucy and Jaz’s relationship deal with Lucy’s boredom and wandering eye?

Lucy believed living the country life with Jaz could solve all of her problems, but Jaz was always at work and Lucy was disillusioned and bored. Lucy’s trip to Canada and flirtatious nature cause problems with her and Jaz’s relationship. Will they be able to resolve their issues and rekindle their love?

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Don't shake the family tree. You don't know what will fall out.

Nora Schaffer has returned to Colorado when she gets news that the youngest of the four Schaffer siblings has disappeared. The woman she’d tried to forget for twenty years is suddenly front and center as the investigator on the case. But, much more will come to light than the whereabouts of a younger sister – much, much more.

What if the lady wants more?

Mix Cancer with Aquarius? Like oil and water – but when levelheaded Janet Baxter re-connects with free spirited Brenda Cassidy, the lady knows she wants more!

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All Jenna has to do is look past everything she’s known, and maybe she’ll find everything she’s been looking for.

As another softball season begins, Coach Lennox Clementine is juggling many balls in the air. Outside of the softball field, Lennox has to keep up with the challenges of her job at the hospital. Everything would be easier if she could keep her mind from drifting to her boss, Jenna.

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When uptight lawyer meets sexy lounge singer, the unexpected happens.

Corporate lawyer Winter Carlyle is the first to admit that she’s become jaded with romance after a very messy public breakup.

For Pandora, the sultry siren with the slinky low-cut gown façade is all an act. It’s showbiz. Besides, she has an ulterior motive for being at the club, and romance is definitely off the agenda.

But uptight, reserved Winter is a complication she hasn’t foreseen. And even with the best intentions, love has a way of striking at the most inopportune times.

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After a life-threatening incident you were meant to go forward and not look back, weren’t you?

After nearly getting killed in the line of duty Mac’s friends decided she needed to move forward, and not alone. But new relationships were too complicated, Mac thought, until she met the delightful Liv Murray. However, Liv was just as reticent and carried baggage of her own.

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Why say how you feel when you can show it?

Brooke never expected to fall in love again. Especially not with a woman 10 years younger. Can she overcome her fears to give love a chance?

Andrea gets a second chance at true love attending her best friend's Alaskan wedding.

Andrea Daniels jumps at being her best friend’s maid of honor. The last thing she expects is to bump into the one who broke her heart a lifetime ago, but the moment their eyes meet, the feelings come rushing back. Could they overcome the past and get a second chance?

As their friendship grows, a malicious act of revenge throws their lives into turmoil. but can they recover from the devastation and what will it take for them to find each other?

Michaela is driven by ambition and her vast creative fire burns for expression, acknowledgement and acclaim. Kim has been there, knows the cost, and has lost the spark of inspiration she once had. Their chance meeting and growing friendship sets in motion a series of events that leads them through loss and heartbreak onto new paths of discovery. How will they finally put the past behind them to find their peace and place in the world?

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Recently divorced, Ashley Kobayashi is done mourning the end of her failed marriage; she is working on building a new life filled with adventure, excitement, and, most importantly, love.

As she breathes life back into hobbies she’d let slip during her years of matrimony, she also explores new paths of recreation like burlesque dancing and aerial arts. Ashley decides to take up the challenge of performing live with her former instructor to push her comfort zone boundaries.

A new beginning, an old nemesis.

Kelli and Merin are together, planning their future. But first, Kelli needs to deal with an old nemesis, and Merin has her own past to overcome…

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Two softball players are both living the dream of playing in a professional league but don't yet know that the unexpected dream of finding each other awaits them.

Mia gave up softball to have her daughter. Skylar wants to make the national team. A professional league starts up, and Mia and Skylar end up on the same team with both of them focused on their dream of playing, not realizing the unexpected dream that awaits them both.

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Newly divorced Quinn Gellar is rebuilding her life—something she never thought she’d be doing in her forties.

A creature of habit, she’s trying to embrace change and go with the unexpected. But when the unexpected appears to her in the form of an alluring bartender, Quinn becomes uncertain of exactly how much change she’s ready to embrace.

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Unworthy. Married to a ghost. Will fate bring these two together?

With secrets kept on all sides, will Ash and Chris be able to navigate just one more complication? Or will the next surprise collapse their house of cards?

This steamy age gap romance is full of self-discovery and risking for love. If you enjoy romance with depth, this is the story for you.

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After some unexpected life detours, Callie Lewes is determined to complete her PhD program and figure out what to do with the rest of her life.

Her laser focus is finely tuned and she’s ready for total immersion in literature, subpar student essays, and all the joys that come with being a graduate teaching assistant. She has no time for, or interest in, anything else. Especially not dating.

When the storm threatens to drown you, who can you hold onto for safety?

When Kate and Seph first met it was flirting at first sight, but with Kate married it wad never meant to be. Now they’ve found themselves thrown together again, but Seph is a shadow of who she used to be. Can she fight her way back through the darkness and to Kate?

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Love has a way of derailing the best of plans.

Two women with nothing in common but a shared passion for surgery clash at every opportunity, especially when matters of the heart are suddenly at stake.

When a notorious art thief surfaces, warring detective exes reunite for the hunt.

Six years ago, the “Fabulous Gustave” slipped the grasp of Agent Fleur van Beekhof, making off with a priceless artwork…and Fleur’s beautifully ordered life. Suddenly the cool, pragmatic Europol detective lost her detective partner and wife, her rising career, and her control, thanks to the addictive lure of cards.

When a new Italian art theft bears all the markings of Gustave’s taunting style, Fleur is put back in the field, because no one knows him better. She jumps at the chance to correct the mistake that ruined her life. The hitch? She has to work with her fiery ex-wife.

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Georgia isn't ready to find love again.

What do you do when your world falls apart? You go home. But what if that home hasn’t been home for far too long?

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No straight women. No parents of students. Nobody under thirty-five.

Grace ticks all Vanessa’s Do Not Date boxes. Vanessa is yet one more person who disapproves of Grace. Of course, they’re never going to fall in love.

“A landmark work of lesbian fiction” and the basis for the acclaimed film Desert Hearts (The New York Times).

Against the backdrop of Reno, Nevada, in the late 1950s, award-winning author Jane Rule chronicles a love affair between two women. When Desert of the Heart opens, Evelyn Hall is on a plane that will take her from her old life in Oakland, California, to Reno, where she plans to divorce her husband of sixteen years. A voluntary exile in a brave new world, she meets a woman who will change her life.

High school teacher Emily Sanders’s bucket list didn’t include getting divorced and starting a new job in a new city.

When Emily meets Andi Marino she thinks she’s found a new best friend, just the right kind of fun and caring person to keep her from spending every weekend alone. So when Emily discovers she’s a lesbian and wants to explore her feelings for women, Andi seems like the perfect social guide. Except Emily doesn’t know that Andi has been attracted to her from the start and is fast falling in love with her. Caught up in exploring her sexuality, will Emily see the only woman she needs is right in front of her?

To say Sheriff Natalie Strand is shocked that Sarah Eastman, the girl who kissed her at a high school party, is back in town would be a huge understatement.

Between Sarah’s return and a stray dog that gets the best of her, Natalie’s world is suddenly turned upside down.