Road Tripping Across the USA Mini Reading Challenge: Arizona

Ever want a butch biker werewolf to sweep you off your feet?

Christiana is on the run from her abusive ex. Micah is on the hunt for her fated mate. When their worlds collide, love gets complicated – fast.

Two women from different worlds have nothing in common and every reason to wish they’d never met—except for the attraction neither can deny.

Kelsey Brunel knows exactly what the future holds: she’ll one day inherit the Arizona dude ranch that has been in her family for three generations. Long-term relationships aren’t in the picture, which is just fine with her. Elizabeth Sutton’s assignment, to turn a backwater dude ranch in Arizona into another link in the family’s international chain of wellness centers, feels like a demotion. Elizabeth can’t wait to escape back to civilization, if only the prickly rancher whose home she’s about to demolish didn’t claim center stage in her fantasies.

In the heart of Arizona, nestled among the red rocks and lush orchards, two vastly different worlds collide.

When Lori Hawthorne trades her high-powered city life for the unexpected inheritance of her late aunt’s neglected fruit farm in Sedona, Arizona, she soon realizes that mending a broken orchard is only half the battle. Seeking a chance to rewrite her story, she’s determined to breathe new life into both the farm and her own existence.

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Will the power of love close the gap that is worlds apart?

A Shadow in Love is a story of survival and self-discovery. It is about breaking away from repression that prevents you from being who you are. It is about feeling comfortable in your own skin and surrounding yourself with others who see you as you want to be seen.

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Highway Patrol Loni Wagner encounters the good and the bad on her night patrols across the Arizona desert.

In this first Loni Wagner Mystery life sizzles during long hot summer nights for Highway Patroller Loni Wagner in a small Arizona desert town. She sees it all – a murderous plane wreck, freeway pileups during deadly haboobs, and abandoned people left to die in unforgiving desert places – as she investigates murders involving human smugglers, drug runners.

For such a small town problems are not just big, they are massive.

Loni Wagner’s second crime fiction in this series adventure finds her resigning her night patrol with the state and taking a new job under a new boss, her old friend Carl as a Caliente town cop in a life just as strange, heartbreaking, and dangerous and often as humorous with wacky characters as her former job.

When survival is determined by a ticking fuse, a rogue team of experts brings the fire.

Officer Harris and her bomb squad pyros defend the public from dangerous murders when they are in fact facing a perilous stalker themselves. Harris and McKenzie, her professional and romantic partner, are in search of who they are as a couple and who their local serial bomber is in this first book of the highly anticipated Light Em’ Up series.

Her niece is kidnapped and the clock is ticking...

Shea Stevens has put her criminal past and her outlaw biker family in her rearview. But when someone abducts her niece, the tough-as-nails ex-con puts her freedom and her life on the line to find the girl.

A Classic Hot Rodder is Dead. An Unlikely Hero Is Determined to Find Out Why.

Avery Byrne is hungry for vengeance. Only a month after the goth tattoo artist’s girlfriend was brutally murdered, she is still grieving the loss. When a friend’s death is made to look like an overdose, Avery refuses to let the killer get away.

Amidst a violent storm of hate, she fights for justice and her community’s survival.

A swatting attack on a fellow transgender woman ignites a fire within Avery Byrne. A goth tattoo artist by day and a fierce vigilante by night, Avery sees a sinister pattern linking this tragedy to escalating assaults on the trans community—a pattern the police refuse to acknowledge.

Fueled by a relentless need to protect her people, Avery, with the help of her girlfriend Roz, vows to unravel the conspiracy that targets her community.

They Killed Her Girlfriend. Now She Wants Revenge.

Avery Byrne is haunted by guilt. Years have passed since the young goth tattoo artist murdered an abusive pimp to protect a friend. But when a ruthless mobster murders her girlfriend, Avery fears her past sins have caught up with her.

Lace Reynolds has a three-month rule for a reason.

Long-term romantic relationships get complicated. And Lace doesn’t do complicated. She’s had enough of that in her life. Besides, she’s too busy running Frisky Business, just voted Best Sex Toy Shop in Arizona, and she’s got big expansion plans in the works. If she’s helping others find pleasure and connection, she’s happy. Right?

Wealthy tech whiz Sena Abrigo has deep roots in the Arizona-Mexico borderlands.

But when she marches into Owen Station on red-soled stilettos like she just walked off the cover of Vogue, she plans to pull this little town into the future. And she is used to getting exactly what she wants. First, she has to get past Hazel Butler.

Elena Murphy tried to escape the ghosts by moving as far away from Owen Station as she could get.

It didn’t work. So when her dad asks her to manage the front-of-the-house at Murphy’s Mortuary Funeral Services, which her cold-as-ice brothers are burying, she packs up her art studio and comes home. This time, though, she’s not the town weirdo but an up-and-coming photographer who has embraced her sixth sense—and learned how to use it.

A poignant, erotic romance packed with adventure and set in the harsh beauty of the Arizona countryside.

Real estate guru Krista Wyler is soon at the mercy of the Arizona desert when she learns she has inherited her family’s business, Wyler Ranch. Her aunt is dying and her uncle is no longer capable of making decisions. Krista reluctantly moves in, but her plan is to sell the ranch as soon as possible.

As they face the storm and the looming threat of a stalker, Riley and Zoey just might find love in the most unexpected of places.

All Riley Robinson wants is peace and serenity. She can’t wait to spend the winter at her new cabin in snowy, remote Northern Arizona. On the way Riley meets Zoe Mitchell, a secretive woman whose barely hidden vulnerability captures her curiosity and sparks her interest.

Maggie Douglas enjoys her reclusive life in the mountains.

She writes her books, loves her dog, and enjoys the spoils of living at the base of the San Francisco Peaks in Northern Arizona. Hurt by a long-time lover in her past, she keeps people at bay and keeps her life simple…

Two sisters travel to an isolated Arizona town to investigate its connection to their mother’s death, but uncover more than they bargained for in this supernatural thriller from the author of The Dead and the Dark.

In Where Echoes Die, Courtney Gould draws readers into a haunting desert town to explore grief, the weight of not letting go of the past, first love, and the bonds between sisters, mothers and daughters.

The evil lies dormant, waiting to be awakened.

As the tormented spirits of massacred migrant workers call out for revenge, the malevolent force that imprisons their souls begins to lure Brenna into its hell. But Alex’s love may not be enough to stand between Brenna and death.

If you love the movie and series A League of Their Own, this novel is especially for you.

Before there was a women’s professional baseball league, there was Dot Wilkinson and her Phoenix Ramblers. Follow along on Diz and Frannie and the Ramblers’ exploits in the 1940s.The best fiction is based on the truth, and there’s A LOT of truth in here!

The story of a forgotten era in women's history and sports, and one extraordinary woman's place at the center of it all

The magic of Dot’s story is in the details. It’s the tale of a childhood spent in poverty, an indomitable, unbreakable spirit, a determination to be the very best to play whatever sport she undertook, the independence to live her personal life on her own terms, and her tremendous success at all of it.

Looking for salvation she finds hell but love saves her.

Suffering a mental breakdown, Lindy is convinced by religious acquaintances that her wife is Satan and agrees to be spirited to a religious sanctuary to save herself and her two daughters from hell. But when she comes to her senses, she realizes she’s in hell. Will her wife save them?

A sharply funny and moving debut novel about a queer Mexican American girl navigating Catholic school, while falling in love and learning to celebrate her true self.

Sixteen-year-old Yamilet Flores prefers to be known for her killer eyeliner, not for being one of the only Mexican kids at her new, mostly white, very rich Catholic school. But at least here no one knows she’s gay, and Yami intends to keep it that way.

After telling Gwen's grandmother that they are lovers, Stoner and Gwen set off to Arizona to escape the fallout.

However, it’s no vacation when things turn frightening and Stoner’s friend Stell falls ill with a mysterious disease and she meets the old woman Siyamtiwa.

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Two women vow to bring a killer to justice.

Deputy Andrea Sullivan had hoped to leave the horrors of Los Angeles behind her, but the serial murders of college students in peaceful, picturesque Sedona is her nightmare case to solve. The complexities stretch local resources to the limit, and the FBI joins the case with Agent Cameron Ross in the lead.

Can she have both love and career as a medical doctor?

The true story of a young woman striving to have both love and career as a lesbian and a medical doctor in the 1970s when neither was approved by society. Making the Rounds is a well-paced and deeply humanizing memoir of what it means to seek belonging and love—and to find them, in the most surprising ways.

Secrets always have a way of finding the light.

Thousands of miles from home, Vanna finds out more about herself, but not her feeling of being disconnected from her parents. Will Vanna ever form the connection she desperately seeks?

What if every story you'd ever heard was true?

Jack killed the giants. Red slayed the wolf. Rapunzel fled the tower. But the greatest one of all, had yet to be told.

Once upon a time, the magical Kingdom of Avalon was left to wither and die after the Snow Queen encased it in ice. Its former citizens are now refugees. Which is why crown prince Alex and his protectors are stuck in… Arizona.

We Are Okay meets The Lesbiana’s Guide to Catholic School in this heartfelt, queer coming-of-age story set against the backdrop of a small town’s evangelical megachurch culture.

The end of Daya Keane’s junior year in Escondido, Arizona, is anything but expected.

And it starts when her longtime swoon-worthy crush, Beckett Wild, actually talks to her at a party neither of them should’ve been at.

Fabulous gingerbread cookies, a mooning reindeer, and a first love rekindled are the key ingredients for this romantic holiday comedy.

Karol Kleinz learns the home she inherited in the JOY neighborhood has been transformed into Santa’s Workshop for the yearly Extravaganza. She confronts Carol Joy (CJ), her first love and the Extravaganza’s leader. Sparks fly between them and old feelings return during the season of love and kindness.

Throw a handful of women together at a lesbian resort and things can get complicated.

Malley plans to profess her secret love for Lizzie, her best friend. Lizzie is trying to get away from her ex, who incidentally tracks her down. Jessie, Malley’s dangerously sexy next-door neighbor, shows up unexpectedly. Circumstances throw Malley and Jessie together, disrupting Malley’s plans to be with Lizzie. Toss in forbidden desires, an unexpected love, and Malley soon finds herself in the middle of a love triangle.

After an attack that left her both physically and emotionally scarred, Tucson prosecutor Mackenzie Wilson is ready to get back to work.

Reassigned from prosecuting to public relations, Mack is trying to make the best of her new situation. And though she’s back together with her ex-girlfriend, Dr. Anna Lapin, their reignited relationship has already begun to fray.

While Assistant District Attorney Mack Wilson’s days are devoted to arguing sex crime cases in the courtroom, her evenings are troubled by a series of disturbing incidents in her neighborhood.

As the media madness swirls around her trial, evidence that an unknown stalker is watching her just a little too closely begins to mount. Mack finds herself seeking help from the one person she never thought she would—ex-girlfriend Anna Lapin.

It’s the hottest city in the U.S., and it’s not just the weather that’s heating up.

The beauty and mystery of the Sonoran Desert provide the vibrant backdrop for Robbi McCoy’s (Waltzing at Midnight, Songs Without Words) passionate story of two women forced to question everything they thought they knew about themselves before they can risk their fiery hearts on the biggest gamble of all.