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Alexandra Wolfe takes Sherlock Holmes and Stephanie Plum and rolls them into a fresh, irreverent, tough cop who skates on the edge of the law in her quest for justice.

This action-packed mystery is filled with strong, likable women. Their comradery and determination may turn Alex’s life upside down, but together, they get the job done.

A naive activist is hired by a corporate villain but doesn’t realize it.

Cue one awkward farce, a twisty puzzle, and the slowest of slow burns in this opposites-attract, ice queen romance.

A daring FBI agent infiltrates a dazzling empire of secrets, shadows, and seduction ruled by a captivating mafia heiress.

When undercover agent Natalie Miller infiltrates mafia heiress Alessa de Luca’s glamorous inner circle and gains access to the Ruby Realm, simmering attraction clashes with her sworn duty. But the closer she gets to Alessa, the more Natalie finds her principles tested. Will she choose love – or the law?

A Mafia Queen takes a reluctant bride

Caitlin lives a life of fun and fast cars until she’s forced to marry the refined Juno, icy heiress to a Mafia empire.

Once upon a time, a vampire corrupted a hunter.

This is a very steamy lesbian vampire romance with a sprinkling of enemies to lovers and second chance romance, royals, multiple POV and timelines, bratty bedroom vampires, exhibitionism, and more. Please check author website or look inside for the trigger warnings. 18+ only.

What would make a ruthless underworld assassin hesitate?

Requiem is a cellist with a secret. The assassin has made an artform out of killing Australia’s underworld figures. One day she’s hired to kill an innocent. Requiem can’t work out why anyone would want her dead—and why she should care. A dark lesbian thriller with plenty of twists.

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?

On Her Majesty's Secret Sapphic Service

Detective Rose Martin’s hunt for justice leads her into the arms of a dangerous woman known only as the Nightingale. Drawn into a world of spies, assassins, and a relentless enemy, Rose must choose between duty and desire, loyalty and love – because the Nightingale is a woman she cannot resist.

It's Not a Crime to Steal a Heart

Sophie Roseingrave hates nothing more than a swindler. After her family lost their piano shop to a con man in London, they’re trying to start fresh in a new town. Her father is convinced Carrisford is an upright and honest place, but Sophie is not so sure. She has grave suspicions about silk-weaver Madeline Crewe, whose stunning beauty doesn’t hide the fact that she’s up to something.

Everything goes wrong just when love starts going right.

Step into the world of Andrea de Laney, at the helm of the DeLaney Mob. Andrea finds herself entangled in a web of personal and professional challenges as her organization faces attacks. Amidst the chaos, she unexpectedly encounters Valerie, a resilient young woman whose past traumas resonate deeply with Andrea.

The first of Nicola Griffith’s beloved Aud Torvingen crime series.

It would be so easy—a step, a smile, swift whirl and grab, and snap: done. I even knew how she would fall, what a tiny sound her last sigh would be, how she would fold onto the pavement. Eight seconds.

First published July 1, 1998

Aud Torvingen returns—against her better instincts—scarred, heartbroken, changed, but tougher and rougher than ever.

As arresting as a razor at the throat, Nicola Griffith’s Stay is a ferocious masterpiece of literary noir, a stunning juxtaposition of beauty and brutality. In its pages Griffith fuses Aud’s steely moral authority with a new, ever-evolving emotional depth.

The final entry in Nicola Griffith’s undeniably iconic Aud trilogy.

Aud Torvingen has never worried about violence. To her it is simply a tool, one of many, to be used, as appropriate, with dispassion, speed, and precision. In Always, she takes on a new challenge: teaching a group of ordinary Atlanta women self-defense skills.

First released on May 3, 2007.

Hit woman and thief Reed Gable works for the highest bidder, no matter where the job takes her.

Reed has Brinley in her sights and is ready to close the contract when she sees Brinley’s son in the car with her. Even hard-hearted Reed can’t kill a mother in front of her child. Before Reed can come up with a plan to finish the job, she’s double-crossed. It’ll take all her street smarts to keep herself, and her surprisingly beautiful mark, alive.

When the hunter becomes the hunted...do you trust your instincts or your heart?

A killer for hire, Katarzyna Demetrious has grown weary of her violent and solitary life. Contemplating retirement, she has gone into hiding in her remote bunker home as a blizzard rages outside. But her seclusion is shattered by the appearance of a mysterious stranger, and, with a price tag on her head, Kat is thrust into the most perilous situation she has ever faced. Can she outwit the assassins on her trail? And could the woman she rescues…and is unexpectedly attracted to…be the deadliest of them all?

Aging and reclusive Hollywood movie icon Evelyn Hugo is finally ready to tell the truth about her glamorous and scandalous life.

But when she chooses unknown magazine reporter Monique Grant for the job, no one is more astounded than Monique herself. Why her? Why now?

Paris: City of lights, City of love... City of sapphic drama!

The third season of French Kissing will deliver the answers to all these questions… and then some!

Friendships will be tested, old attractions will flare up, long-suppressed emotions will finally have to be dealt with and… a presidential election is on the line.

Sometimes what you're running from is exactly what you need

Olivia Chevalier is perfectly happy living a quiet life of solitude with her two cats in the tempestuous countryside of Brittany.

Olivia’s peace is disrupted when heartbreaker extraordinaire Marie Dievart moves in to the holiday home next door after an event at work makes her flee her everyday life.

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?

Mafia romance but make it sapphic.

Overlooked as her father’s heir, Giovanna dedicates herself to supporting her hedonistic playboy brother as the new mafia boss. Loyal and stoic, Giovanna puts the famiglia before all else, but when she meets the woman her brother is being forced to marry it feels like fate is screwing her again.

Sinful, spicy and utterly seductive.

An enemies-to-lovers dark romance novel. Loosely inspired by the Hades and Persephone myth.

She was everything I ever wanted.

From Eden Emory comes an f/f spicy dark age-gap romance between an adult club owner and her son’s ex.

In this fast-paced, science fiction lesbian thriller no one and nothing is quite as it seems.

Within a tangled web of love, sex, power, and deceit, the truth is far stranger and more sinister than any of them could have ever believed possible. Strap yourself in.

Can an act of murder, for the right reasons, ever be justified? Can love based on lies ever win a true heart?

As deadly secrets about the vigilante murders are revealed, in this sequel to The Stranger Within Me, Detective Ashley Tate has the power to implode Jude’s tangled web of illusion and deceit, but to what consequences?

Mia thought her first bounty-hunting gig was going great—until she got stuffed into a suitcase.

What starts as a stepping stone job turns into a mess of mob threats, buried grief, and feelings Mia really doesn’t have time for. Lara’s trouble, and Mia’s too soft to walk away. Turns out, catching her mark was the easy part.

Gloria romances a lovely lady, but retains an explosive sense of honor.

Gloria is a relentless private detective in love with a captivating lady. Though amour is in the air, so is debauchery. Gloria hunts through the streets and denizens of San Francisco and ferrets out the truth, but how will it affect her life-changing romance?

Captain Cinder, Princess Georgina and the crew of the Crimson Siren are back for more adventures.

Captain Cinder has the home she’s always dreamed of, with the woman she loves at her side. But when a new threat emerges, her home starts to take on water. Can she save Georgina and her crew before time runs out?

When an FBI agent and the heir of a crime family cross paths, desire and danger create an explosive mix.

For FBI agent Robyn, and her target Kendall Mancini, the heir to a criminal empire, there’s a lot on the line. They can’t deny the mutual attraction, but can they afford to trust each other?

She'll stop the killer - whatever it takes.

Joanna Mitchell has paid a price after stopping a predator, but the past won’t leave her be. This time, a lot more is at stake – including the new love she’s found…

A lesbian billionaire romance with a suspense twist...

Penny is falling for the enigmatic, incredibly wealthy Carter Forbes. There’s just one problem: Carter is the woman who kidnapped her…Will her reasons make a difference?

'Until death do us part' is only the beginning.

She needs an assassin. They’re the best in the business. Falling in love was never part of the deal.

Icy operative Zoe is sent to abduct a nine-year-old girl who is the only one that knows the riddle that holds the code to unleash the most lethal weapon on earth

A riddle holds the code for the most lethal weapon on earth and one person knows it: a nine-year-old girl. Operative Zoe abducts her to get the code, but soon is in a race to save the child she’s grown to care about—while battling the demons of her addiction.

Rae never thought falling in love could be so dangerous.

A volatile love story fueled by pulse-pounding mayhem, fiery tempers, hungry passion, and gunpowder.

Elkie's not afraid of bad men anymore – bad men are afraid of her. And so they should be.

Elkie Kransky was just six years old when a man grabbed her older brother, Bryan, from a playground near their home in Perth, Western Australia.

Unable to save her own brother, perhaps she can save someone else’s.

Sapphic fairytale mashup with monsters and magic.

Alice never wanted to return to Underland. She thought it was all a dream, now she’s back and she’s found friendship in Red; a werewolf with a vengeance. Is Alice willing to do what it takes to get back home and save herself or will she be another casualty in Red’s fight for revenge?

As Max traverses the open road, her journey of impossible love, loss, and courage mirrors her voyage of self-discovery.

But before she can look to the future, she must come to terms with the history she’d rather forget.

Alexi didn't know picking up a damsel in distress would turn into a hot burning affair.

A simple romance was never meant to turn her life upside down, but Alexi finds herself going toe-to-toe with a drug cartel’s underboss after saving a damsel in distress.

Someone or something is following me.

Hidden in the shadows, she stalks me every second of the night, bringing me fear like nothing I’ve felt before. Gifts left in my home and on my doorstep. Can I survive her, or will she take me to hell with her?

Disappearing to a small town under witness protection with her new fake wife, more than just her life and reputation are on the line.

Federal prosecutor Catherine Bellefort lives by the book, and she’s proud of her perfect conviction record. U.S. Marshal Jordan Mason lives in the shadows; her orders are clear: protect and investigate Catherine, and if needed—eliminate her. Falling in love was never part of the plan.

Spy. Seductress. Queenmaker.

She came to start a revolution. She found a queen worth dying for.

The Fair Folk are the stuff of myth.

When Tannin’s grandfather dies, he leaves her with a mountain of trouble. Between cryptic journals that warn of unknown foes lying in wait and a crippling debt owed to a cruel and formidable local Laird, Tannin is thrown into a cut-throat world where she is perilously out of her depth.

What happens when a mysterious former spy with seemingly little interest in sex meets a provocative expert in sexual fantasies?

An opposites-attract, spicy lesbian romance set in Lee Winter’s Villains series and Hotel Queens worlds.

For two smart women accustomed to seeing through everyone else with ease, it’s disconcerting to discover they cannot read each other. How can they walk away now?

Jason Bourne meets Robin Hood, but with lesbians

Like all young girls of Dur, Corelle dreamed of love. Unlike almost all young girls of Dur, Corelle grew up to become a clandestine killer whose deadly art led her down dark holes of self-hatred that brought agony or death to each life she touched.

Love demands sacrifice: her blood, her body; even her life.

A destitute maidservant must choose whom to love: her vampire mistress, or the woman trying to save her life in The Wicked and the Willing, a standalone, F/F steamy historical gothic horror vampire novel with a love triangle, a choice of endings and no cliffhangers.