Road Tripping Across the USA Mini Reading Challenge: Washington, DC

Ellen Church doesn’t have time for relationships. Her eyes are on a bigger prize—a Warhol painting she plans to steal.

Reformed art thief Mattie Pearson is living life on the straight and narrow. She’s just married Alex Holland and the two women couldn’t be happier. But when Mattie’s old friend Ellen shows up with a big-payday proposal, the lure of her old life proves too strong to resist.

Mattie Pearson has a secret—one that has left her on the run from her life, her friends, and the law.

When Mattie falls for Alex Holland she’s determined to keep her feelings under wraps.

What choice does she have? If Alex knew her secret—that Mattie was once part of a gang of female art thieves—their friendship would come to an end.

Have you ever had a dream so intense that you felt it had to be real?

Lana keeps waking up in two different lives, with alternate lovers. She must decide between her lesbian lover, and her husband. Is Claire only a fling or the love of her life?

Gabriella Worrington, who has just moved with her family to a new San Francisco neighborhood, clashes with Seren Doyle, president of the local homeowner association.

Their meeting is interrupted, leading to a fast-paced, eventful race across the country, with both the mob and the FBI nipping at their heels.

What happens when the sweetest employee learns her boss’s evil secrets?

This opposites-attract ice queen romance asks: Can a villain truly be redeemed?

Morgan Allen arrives at her first national trade show expecting to make a splash and a ton of sales.

She didn’t expect her biggest rival, Shelby Howard, to be there, stealing her thunder and all her clients. Why couldn’t Shelby just stay home and let Morgan have this one? After all, Shelby doesn’t believe in her product, not like Morgan does. She’s just successful because she’s charming and magnetic with a killer smile and legs for days.

Building bridges has a very different meaning for Jameson Reid than it does for Candace Fletcher.

J.D. Reid spends her days designing some of the most elegant and majestic buildings and homes in North America. U.S. Senator Candace Fletcher has spent her life working to build bridges between people. J.D. Reid is not who Candace Fletcher was expecting to arrive on her doorstep. Candace will challenge all of Jameson’s preconceptions about the women of Washington D.C. The enigmatic architect will test the resolve of the Junior Senator from New York. Two women will discover that falling in love may be out of their control, but creating a relationship in the world of politics and business is completely BY DESIGN.

Set in a near future Washington, D.C., a clever, incisive, and fresh feminist twist on a classic literary icon—Sherlock Holmes—in which Dr. Janet Watson and covert agent Sara Holmes will use espionage, advanced technology, and the power of deduction to unmask a murderer targeting Civil War veterans.

Dr. Janet Watson knows firsthand the horrifying cost of a divided nation. While treating broken soldiers on the battlefields of the New Civil War, a sniper’s bullet shattered her arm and ended her career. Honorably discharged and struggling with the semi-functional mechanical arm that replaced the limb she lost, she returns to the nation’s capital, a bleak, edgy city in the throes of a fraught presidential election. Homeless and jobless, Watson is uncertain of the future when she meets another black and queer woman, Sara Holmes, a mysterious yet playfully challenging covert agent who offers the doctor a place to stay.

Lorena Hickok meets Eleanor Roosevelt in 1932 while reporting on Franklin Roosevelt’s first presidential campaign.

From Washington, D.C. to Hyde Park, from a little white house on Long Island to an apartment on Manhattan’s Washington Square, Amy Bloom’s new novel moves elegantly through fascinating places and times, written in compelling prose and with emotional depth, wit, and acuity.

You will be forever changed once you meet Nikki Blue.

From playing house as a child to her first kiss as a teenager, Nikki Blue knew that she was different from other girls. One day her slice of the American dream would include a white picket fence and a wife. While her family life is in upheaval and her loved ones battle around her, Nikki’s struggles escalate as her childhood innocence is stolen and she is uprooted over and over again. Despite her father’s abandonment and her mother’s denial, Nikki is determined to discover her truest self. She stumbles through adolescence with the visage of a debutante and the attitude of a cocksure college boy.

How can you find love when the whole world is watching?

High-flying pediatric surgeon Emily Lawrence is new to Washington DC. Her first week in her new job puts her on a collision course with the most powerful woman in America, President Calvin.

Two Women—Two Worlds—One Love Worth Risking It All.

When a professional soccer player saves the life of a prominent senator’s wife, the two women inadvertently form a powerful bond. As their friendship deepens, an undeniable attraction unfolds, threatening to flip both women’s worlds upside down.

Unravel the threads of clandestine love and political intrigue in this captivating tale, where entangled hearts and hidden agendas collide, weaving a thrilling dance of romance and deception in the shadowy corridors of power.

In this tantalizing lesbian romantic thriller, Sarah Lou Rogers, a disgraced former Secret Service Agent, has sworn off love, finding refuge in fleeting, no-strings-attached encounters after a perilous affair left her life in shambles.

Fifteen years, countless miles: a sapphic love story defying time and duty.

Fifteen years after they first meet, Army Major Reagan Jennings realizes she has one last chance to win the heart of the woman she’s always loved. If only she can make Sydney see she’s worth risking everything for.