2025 I Heart SapphFic Reading Challenge Week Ten: 10 Books on Sale

Solving mysteries is her business. Finding love is her dream. Will combining the two get her killed?

Victorian London brims with dangers as Stetson plays the detective she was born to. But will she ever find the right woman to be her co-star?

When unlocking the past one family secret leads to another.

While researching the family history of the pioneering Chaseley family, and under the watchful eyes of the mistrustful and aloof Peri Moyland, genealogist, Asha West finds two old diaries that unlock secrets from the past. For reasons she doesn’t want to examine too deeply Asha wants to prove the sceptical Peri’s suspicions were wrong. Then she realises there’s an earth-shattering secret from the not so distant past.

Twelfth Night, but how it should have been!

All the hijinks of the original Shakespeare play, with a modern setting and a queer twist!

But as the mistletoe is hung and the stockings are filled, are sparks flying too?

But as Christmas approaches, will each woman get what they want? Or will they be stuck out in the cold as the days of Morgan’s nannying contract are up?

A gripping tale of survival, perseverance, and love that takes the reader along an emotional roller coaster the whole way through.

Jessica Pratt is only ten when her world is destroyed. For nearly a decade she calls the mountain home until tragedy strikes again. Forced to reenter a world that is controlled by men, Jessica transforms into Jesse, and soon finds herself at the mercy of emotions beyond her control when she attracts the attention of a local singer.

Dell has spent her whole life afraid of the ocean. Now she lives on it.

A fast-paced, steamy lesbian romance full of memorable characters, fall in love on the high seas in Sailing Home.

Lancelot is a lesbian; so is Guinevere

Lancelot is a woman in disguise who discovers she’s a lesbian when she meets Guinevere. Lancelot fears Guinevere would be disgusted by a woman’s body. But Guinevere sees through the disguise and loves Lancelot.

This is the Alternaitve History Lesbian Fiction (Sapphic Fiction) Novel written by Jacque Lyon in "Sealed with a Kiss"

The best-kept secret of antiquity—the veil has finally been lifted on the legend of Sappho and her true love, Phaon. A vivid tale of rivalry, passion, power, loss and love.

It all started on an ‘unsinkable’ ship, caught in the eye of a raging storm. Here, politics and passion collided and by an act of the Gods, a young slave girl is spared and given another chance at life—a life beyond even her wildest imaginings.

Working in the past is hell on your future.

Changing the past to save the future isn’t easy. Extractor Landry Donovan’s fractured mind and Jacqulyn Delaney’s haunted past threaten their latest mission: rescuing a doctor from Nazi Germany. With everything on the line, can they overcome their struggles, or will they fail and doom the past, present, and future?

Previously published in 2017. Rewritten and refreshed (including 20k words stripped out and replaced with better ones!).

Women in the wild west and historical fiction that will keep you turning the pages.

Even a forbidden true love can find its way out of the darkness and into the sunlight. Set in the early nineteen hundreds, “Barbed Wire” weaves a thrilling, twisted story of star-crossed lovers in the wild west.

2,000 miles of raging rivers, searing heat, and tender love

“Luke” Hamilton accepted that she would spend her life alone when she chose to live her life disguised as a man. Nora Macauley, who worked in a brothel for years, has lost all illusions about love. But now they find themselves married and on the dangerous journey to Oregon.

Nature versus nurture takes the battle to the boardroom - and to Natalie Chen.

What’s the first thing they teach you in business school?

Never let emotions decide your fate.

That’s how people get hurt. That’s how millions lose their jobs. That’s how I almost lost everything.

A penniless Countess. A rich Marquis. A grand deception.

In this ‘disguised as a man’ lesbian romance set in England just before the Regency Period, things aren’t as they seem.

Two worlds collide, bound by an undeniable connection.

In the quaint seaside town of Provincetown, Massachusetts in 1874, Lizzy Darby finds sanctuary in the familiarity of her family’s general store. Joana, an immigrant from the Azores Islands, adopts a disguise that will change her fate forever. In a battle against prejudice and tradition, can love emerge victorious?

The exile asked the empress, "How would you have me love you?"

Outsider is a contemporary novel set in Japan and New Zealand that follows the connections between a light artist, a video game-obsessed businessman, a writer who refuses to speak, and a the star of a gender-bending host bar. For fans of Ruth Ozeki’s A Tale for the Time Being and Ali Smith’s How to be Both, Jade du Preez’s Outsider is a rich, stylish, engrossing read that convincingly blurs the boundaries between fact and fable.

You can't hide from yourself

Evelyne, born into nobility, and Annika, a peasant girl with a deadly secret, struggle to change their destinies in Valmora, a medieval world controlled by religion, magic, and men.

Meridian Bay – A Place for New Beginnings

In the midst of the Gilded Age and the contentious storm fronts of the Suffragette movement, we enter a world where privilege is paramount in a reforming Boston, and there is no room for error or the weak at heart.

Three lost souls attempt to navigate the dangerous waters of piracy, and being true to themselves...

Vesta goes to sea armed with determination and dreams but piracy brings both adventure and unimagined dangers as she fights for survival and the glory, riches and adoration she knows she is destined for.

Ancient Egypt meets Edwardian America in this romance that spans time.

In 1901, Rose, a young American woman, visits Egypt and is kidnapped by slavers. She is rescued by Merytneit, the female ruler of a Kingdom hidden in the Sahara. Meryt claims a reluctant Rose as hers. Can love bloom when cultures clash?

Quiet Fenwood-On-Sea is the perfect place for an heiress with secrets to hide...or a killer.

After a series of mysterious killings in quiet Fenwood-On-Sea, locals Meredith and Alec Thatch race to find the killer before he strikes again – or the inspector Scotland Yard sent looks too closely at them and their own secrets.

The True Story of Robyn Hood

Nottingham is a delightful romp rife with bois bearing bows, transmen wielding quarterstaffs, noble ladies loving ladies bawdy bisexual musicians, naughty nonbinary outlaws, and saucy sapphic nuns—in other words, Robyn Hood like you’ve never seen her before.

Holland's passion is Awakened by Elle's Embrace at the Midnight Masquerade.

Holland Archer, 53, hiding from her past in New Orleans, is captivated by Elle Caruso, 29, a bold poker player. At the Valentine Midnight Masquerade, Elle’s sultry embrace ignites a fire that shatters Holland’s defenses. As their connection deepens, danger forces Elle underground, leaving Holland desperate to reclaim her.

Dybbuks. Illegal printing. A genderqueer lesbian with a knife.

On the night before her wedding, 17-year-old Sorel leaps from a window and runs away from her life. To keep from being discovered, she takes on the male identity of Isser Jacobs — but it soon becomes clear that there is a real Isser Jacobs, and people want him dead. Her mistaken identity takes Sorel into the dark underworld of her small city in the Pale of Settlement, where smugglers, forgers, and wicked angels fight for control of the Jewish community. In order to make it out, Sorel must discover who Isser Jacobs really is — and who she wants to be.

Will the masked outlaw who stole Lucia’s locket also claim her heart?

When Miss Lucia Foxe is robbed by a band of shadowy highwaymen, she does not realize this frightening event will change her life forever. Her brave quest to retrieve her stolen locket brings her into close contact with the thieves and their dashing and fearless masked leader, Len Hawkins. But there is more to Len than meets the eye. Beneath the robber’s mask lies a woman who, in her heart, is not really so very different from Lucia.

The year is 1862.

The war between the states has been raging intensely for a year now. The country is in complete and utter turmoil, and brother is fighting brother to the death, dying for what each believed. It seems it’s all the townsfolk of New Albany, Indiana can speak of, and Melody Coffield is paying attention. Through a series of heartbreaks and sorrow, she settles on the decision to cut her hair and don men’s attire.

Everything that mattered to Frances Moriarty was left behind in famine-ravaged Ireland, including the love of her life.

Beset with grief and guilt, she is scraping out a shadowy existence as a New York shoeshine boy when word spreads like wildfire: gold nuggets line the riverbeds of California.

Eager to stake a claim, Frances boldly sets out on the overland trek to California’s gold fields, praying that her journey will lead her to riches—and a place a woman like her can call her own.