Road Tripping Across the USA Mini Reading Challenge: Wisconsin

When opposites attract no matter how hard they try to fight it.

Sydney Brisbane is working hard to balance being Dr. Brisbane, the psychologist, and Sydney, the girlfriend. Zabe Abazi is Sydney’s fiery opposite – dark and wild to Sydney’s blonde optimism and serious nature. Separated by time and geographical distance, these former college roommates are ill-prepared for what happens when they unexpectedly reconnect.

Being alone for the holidays is the worst kind of loneliness

Spend the holidays with Jaycee and Piper in this heartwarming lesbian romance, where Jaycee discovers the true meaning of family in the unlikeliest of places- a homeless shelter.

They’re finally getting a second chance with their first love!

Esther

The first summer I have my freedom from the religious cult I was raised in, my grandmother sends me to a summer camp for teens. There I learned to swim, how to dress like a ‘normal’ girl, how to wear lipstick, and most importantly, I fell in love. But like all summer romances, ours had to end. Until we find ourselves back at the place where it all began…

Monica falls deeper into love and mayhem.

When fledgling lawyer, Monica Spade, becomes involved in a murder trial, she uncovers racial and ethnic bias against the victim as well as ugly truths about her law firm. Risking her life and career, Monica pursues justice and the love of a woman.

Can Amanda's and Jen's relationship survive a break?

Amanda daydreams about Jen, who has retreated to her parents’ lake cabin in Wisconsin. Are they on an official break? And what does that mean when Jen meets Victoria, a sharp interior designer?

Can an opening night encounter ignite an unexpected love?

Kate sparks an instant connection with Pen, fueled by mutual attraction and shared passion for theatre. Through fiery, intense rehearsal rooms and double-edged banter, Pen is forced to confront challenges of the past and present and redefine her art to try desperately to win the woman she loves.

A spring break trip unexpectedly transformed her. When she returns, will she still have a place in the family and pack that raised her?

Fifteen-year-old Jade Stone’s place in her werewolf pack as the next healer is all but assured–until a trip to Florida brings about changes that threaten her dreams. As she struggles to reassemble the crumbling pieces of her well-organized life, she finds strength in her friends.

Jade didn’t expect to have to help track down a rogue werewolf, but what happens when it begins hunting her?

Jade’s family takes in a young girl after her parents were attacked by a werewolf. When a wild animal starts killing people around town, Jade and friends try to stay out of its way, but what should they do when trouble seeks them out?

When captured with a former rival, will Jade find a way to save them both?

After spending half of gym class on her butt, Jade joins track to help round out her college application. While touring colleges she ends up in the clutches of a group of rogue wolves with a rival she never thought to see again. Can she get them both out safely?

Hollywood glamor meets “‘Tis the Damn Season” in this irresistibly buzzy sapphic romance, perfect for fans of Alexandria Bellefleur and Casey McQuiston

Witty, emotional, and steamy, Everyone I Kissed Since You Got Famous is an unforgettable romantic read for everyone who almost kissed their best friend. And then finally did.

When a scheme goes sideways can true love right the course?

When Chris Karner’s business partner and best friend, Mike, loses his fiancée to the incredibly hot Angel Lux, Mike and Chris hatch a plan to make Chris Angel’s new conquest. Can Chris seduce Angel and avoid falling in love?

Set in the nineteenth century, Isabel Miller’s classic lesbian novel traces the relationship between Patience White, an educated painter, and Sarah Dowling, a cross-dressing farmer, whose romantic bond does not sit well with the puritanical New England farming community in which they live.

They choose to live together and love each other freely, even though they know of no precedents for their relationship; they must trust their own instincts and see beyond the disdain of their neighbors. Ultimately, they are forced to make life-changing decisions that depend on their courage and their commitment to one another.

Inspired to help others, Sam, finds her elusive happy ever after..

Samantha Wilson is an award-winning freelance writer with a passion for being the voice of others. Despite vowing never to go back home, she returns for an assignment. The assignment takes her on a journey, helping her find a purpose, friendships, and a community that embraces her passion.

When Cordelia Thorn ventures to Summer Green, Wisconsin, for a reunion with some old college friends, she finds trouble in paradise.

Twenty-plus years have definitely changed things. Soap opera star Diana has become an alcoholic. Curt and Annie’s marriage is falling apart. Orson is hostile and surly. Theo is secretive. Alarmed when one of her friends unexpectedly dies, Cordelia sends for her old friend Jane Lawless to do some quiet snooping. Together they follow their hunches–into the not-so-carefree past and back to the troubled present, where they find a single match could blow up all their lives.

When Guthrie Hewitt calls on restaurateur and private investigator Jane Lawless, he doesn't know where else he can turn.

Guthrie has fallen for a girl-Kira Adler. In fact, he was planning to propose to her on Christmas Eve. But his trip home with Kira over Thanksgiving made him uneasy. All her life, Kira has been haunted by a dream-a nightmare, really. In the dream, she witnesses her mother being murdered. She knows it can’t be true because the dream doesn’t line up with the facts of her mother’s death. But after visiting Kira’s home for the first time, and receiving a disturbing anonymous package in the mail, Guthrie starts to wonder if Kira’s dream might hold more truth than she knows.

From a brilliant new voice comes an electrifying novel of a young immigrant building a life for herself—a warm, dazzling, and profound saga of queer love, friendship, work, and precarity in twenty-first century America

A beautiful and capacious novel rendered in singular, unforgettable prose, All This Could Be Different is a wise, tender, and riveting group portrait of young people forging love and community amidst struggle, and a moving story of one immigrant’s journey to make her home in the world.

First comes love, then comes roommates, then comes friends with benefits... are they doing this right?

Soccer player Rose Olivieri has held a flame for goalkeeper Cassie Dickinson for years. To shake off her feelings, Rose invites Cassie, a recent divorcee, to be her roommate. Proximity should douse the romance, right?

It's hard being a woman in 1870 and even harder if you happen to have feelings for another woman.

But that is exactly what is happening to 20-year old Rebecca Wallis. Dropped off at her new life as a schoolteacher after a long wagon trip to Almond, Wisconsin, Rebecca meets Sarah Barton. Sarah is unlike any woman Rebecca has ever met, strong, independent, and she wears trousers!

Haunted by a fire that claimed the lives of two colleagues, Julie Burke seizes upon an unexpected inheritance from her aunt as the lifeline it is.

Claiming the large Queen Anne home in Wisconsin she hopes to escape the nightmares. Free to pursue her passion for music, Julie’s path crosses more and more frequently with that of the attractive and intriguing Elisabeth de Gramont.

Jennifer Cameron arrives in Stone Creek, Wisconsin to sell her grandparents’ large Victorian home.

While going through the contents of the house, she finds an old newspaper describing the discovery of a girl’s body behind the school in 1951. When Jennifer learns the murder was never solved, she decides to investigate it as something to occupy her time. Several women in town, including the charming real estate agent, Laura; the lovely and mysterious librarian, Diana; and the murder mystery all vie for her attention.

Jennifer Westbrook is invited to join her fellow musicians for Christmas at a resort in northern Wisconsin.

Though there are some bad feelings within the group Jennifer reluctantly agrees to attend. At the resort she meets an attractive stranger Susan Edwards and they hit it off immediately. Will this Christmas be the one that changes her future forever.