October 14 Edition: Holiday Romance, Slow Burn, Enemies to Lovers, and More!

An unputdownable queer holiday romance

A spicy Christmas tree farmer forms a reluctant partnership with a sweet, small town baker. Is it true that sometimes the person you clash with most is exactly the one you need?

Rule number one for moving to a small town: don't fall for your new landlady's daughter

I have no room in my life for dating, not with a daughter to raise on my own. Unfortunately, my heart hasn’t gotten the message.

Finding a ticket and winning the jackpot together was luck—falling for each other... fate?

When Lucy and Tanner both reach for what they think is litter, they don’t expect it to be a winning lottery ticket—or to agree to split any winnings. But as money changes everything, they discover the biggest surprise isn’t the windfall… it’s how much they want each other.

How can Helen produce a successful movie when its director is the woman responsible for the demise of her marriage?

Helen, CEO of a new film company, and Nora, her emergency replacement director, both need this film to succeed. But if they’re going to work together, Helen has to ignore her angry feelings of betrayal, and Nora must dim the spotlight of attraction that glows whenever Helen reenters the frame.

Not What I Ordered buuuut... Exactly What I Needed

Fast forward six months after they end up together, Vatima still needs to find her father, and Silma is busy launching her first fashion collection. Will they still find time for each other?

A drunken voice message is probably not the best way for Kade to propose moving in together, or is it?

The biggest thing on Kade’s mind is coming up with a couples costume for Halloween. That is, until she has a little too much to drink on a night out with friends. Can she and Aiesha handle the consequences?

'Friends' meets the 'L Word' with more chaos and laughs

With one friend in hospital and another wrongly arrested for attempted murder, it’s time for the gang to get involved. In this fifth episode, it’s Baz’s turn to shine as she leads the way to find the much needed evidence.

There is no expiration date on love.

Grammie is far from your typical grandmother. Chaos always finds her, but nothing is more important than family, especially when it comes down to her granddaughter Annie.

When snow falls, sparks fly in this irresistible queer romance from Schneider Family Book Award and Stonewall Honor winner Mariama J. Lockington—for fans of She Gets the Girl and Jennifer Dugan.

High school senior Lyric has always found Christmas to be the hardest season. While other kids got presents and family time by the fire, she was in and out of foster care. An up-and-coming make-up influencer and aspiring cosmetology student who loves a bold lip, Lyric definitely isn’t looking for romance—not when opening up to someone feels a lot like asking to get hurt.

Maya Sanchez never planned on starting over—not like this.

After losing her wife in a tragic accident, she moves back to her Arizona hometown with her four-year-old daughter, determined to rebuild their lives. But their fixer-upper needs more than she can handle alone. Enter Nolan Wright—skilled contractor, ex-Army machinist, and exactly the kind of reliable help Maya needs. What she doesn’t need? The way Nolan makes her feel something she thought was long buried.

Carter Miller-Cooper wants to start fresh and leaving Philadelphia to take her dream job in New York is the perfect way to do that.

The only problem is, it’s hard to do that when she’s living with her sister’s best friend – Jax Michaels. It’s all fun until Jax becomes Carter’s first “no-strings-attached” fling and Carter becomes Jax’s practice girlfriend. With the physical and the romantic side both fulfilled, they are, by all definitions, a couple. Except they aren’t.

After years of hard work, Hudson Greene is keen to launch her tenure-track career at the illustrious Coteau College.

But her first day takes an unexpected turn when she walks into new faculty orientation and discovers that Callie Shaw—her unforgettable one-night stand from the local Pride festival—is also the dean of advising.

Annika Silberberg hates weddings, despite being a wedding dress designer with her own bridal salon.

Over the course of Maia’s wedding year, from engagement party to dress fittings, to bachelorette and bridal shower, Annika and Gabi must decide if what they have is worth keeping, or if they need to rip out the stitches of their relationship at the seams.

All Karen Petersen has ever wanted is to be someone’s number one.

So, of course, the intoxicatingly beautiful new art teacher Bianca Harper has an equally perfect butch wife already on her arm. Then again, Bianca seems just as eager as Karen for the limited time together their packed teaching schedules allow. Bianca definitely isn’t a cheater, but things aren’t exactly as they seem. Has Karen finally found the one who truly wants her to be their person?

A recent widow, Lady Arabella Grey hires the young and unconventional Zandra Lancaster as governess to her children.

Despite Zandra’s impressive recommendations, Arabella is skeptical and unimpressed by Zandra’s youth and artistic nature. But Zandra is brilliant with her daughters, and Arabella’s inexplicably drawn to her. Zandra harbors secret reasons for needing this position, and when she reciprocates their attraction, her feelings escalate. Impropriety abounds as she craves Arabella’s company and increasingly intimate touch.

Romance, resilience, and the salon family who refuses to let you fall.

Lyric has spent years surviving on her own, but the sisterhood at Crown and Glory salon gives her more than safety—it gives her a chance at love. Mouse, the quiet caregiver with a tender heart, becomes her anchor, her laughter, and her unexpected passion. Together they discover that home is not a place but the woman who holds you.

Six months is up now Evie has to go through with whatever plan Lucy has in store, time to see what New Adventures await.

The time for Evie to hide away from the world is over, her best friend has a plan to get her to start living again. Turns out all Evie needed to feel like herself again was to let two women she just met take her back to their hotel room.

She doesn't believe in magic... but magic believes in her.

When a bet with her best friend leads to a hike in the maze-like nature preserve behind the Shadow Ridge Library, Corinthia meets a mysterious woman who challenges everything she thought she knew about her town, her destiny, and her heart.

Flowers mean death to all but the gifted.

An ostracized young woman smothers her grief to become a royal poison girl in service to the demonic lady king. Seduced by the routines of the castle, she believes she can finally transcend her past, but her heart is not easily sated.

A false seer, a reluctant queen, and a mysterious healer try to avoid being caught in the web of their own lies.

This sweeping, slow-burn sapphic fantasy is perfect for fans of the tragic romance of Ava Reid’s “Fable for the End of the World” and the lyrical prose of Nina Varela’s “Crier’s War.” False prophecies spill from Isolde’s lips. When forced to choose between her precious independence and the queen who has stolen her heart, how will she navigate the web of lies she’s crafted?

When reluctance leads to an awakening...

A lesbian romance with a psychic twist about finding the confidence to believe in yourself.

Iris and the Dead is a haunting exploration of love and desire, madness and recovery that asks: What if you could look back and tell someone exactly how they changed the course of your life?

Weaving personal memory with magic realism and folklore, Iris and the Dead unfurls the hidden power dynamics of abuse, offering a beguiling inquiry into intergenerational trauma, moral ambiguity, and queer identity.

The ultimate question remains: do our choices matter—or is fate inevitable?

In the final Dimensions of Love installment, Julia, Jules, Denise, Andrea, Trista, and Gwen face love, loyalty, and fate. As timelines fracture and reality unravels, couples must choose: grow stronger together or break apart. Hearts are tested, dreams pursued, and one question remains—do choices matter, or is destiny fixed?

Cantor Gold returns—art thief, smuggler, and reluctant avenger—in a city where loyalty can get you killed.

Cantor Gold, dapper dyke and outlaw in 1958 New York City, faces the question: how far will she go to find justice for a friend? All the way, baby. All the way.

A dirty spy thriller with a high heat level

Attorney Hank Hart is recruited into a CIA special operations unit on a lark. As she gets her bearings in a duplicitous world, she discovers she has skills the CIA needs. While on a mission in the French Alps, one of Hank’s covert team members sets her sights on Hank, using the most lethal weapon of all—the striptease.

She wasn’t expecting the answer to her problems to literally crash right into her, but life has a funny way of doing things.

Lena was searching for her best friend. Raven was searching for the bad guys. Neither one was searching for love. Sometimes you find what you’re looking for when you aren’t even looking.

A queer woman must fight her way out of a craft store run by a megachurch in this gripping survival horror novel by Jenny Kiefer, author of This Wretched Valley.

Ruth is trapped. She’s stuck in her small, religious hometown of Kill Devil, Kentucky, stuck in the closet, and stuck living paycheck to paycheck. After her manager finds out that she lives with her girlfriend, Ruth is fired from her job at New Creations—a craft store owned by the church that dominates life in Kill Devil.

Hurt by the past, comforted by ritual: a quiet sapphic second-chance that ends in joy.

Two women meet again after years apart—one chasing order, the other honesty. In a quiet Berlin winter, they learn how love sounds when it’s spoken softly and kept. All the Pieces of You is a sapphic story of restraint, repair, and earned peace.

Who knew the school's ghost would be so important?

A spooky sapphic short story of sisterhood between the generations. Amber is a modern girl, but the tradition of befriending the school ghost when working at the theatre is life changing for her in more ways than one.

Can the wrong date lead you to the right woman?

Dating isn’t going well for Piper and August. After mistaking each other for their dates, they strike a deal to support each other through the trials and tribulations of trying to find ‘The One’. However, when sparks fly, will they acknowledge they might already have done so?

When your memory is lost, can the heart still remember?

Gracie’s life was perfect—until a tragic accident erased five years of her memory. Her fiancée, her band, her future—all gone. As Ashley fights for the love they built, Gracie clings to a past she doesn’t recall. Can love survive when memories fade? Find out in this unforgettable journey.

A “captivating” lesbian romance set in the “wonderfully atmospheric” art world of 1600s Amsterdam (Sarah Jessica Parker, SJP Lit)

While Maria rises in the ranks of society as a painting prodigy, Gerta makes herself invaluable in every way: confidante, muse, lover. But as Gerta steps into her own talents, their relationship fractures into a complex web of obsession and rivalry—and the secrets they keep threaten to unravel everything.

An utterly fantastical and undeniably queer melding of Pride and Prejudice and Frankenstein that recasts Mary Bennet as an insatiable scientist, one who creates a monster in an attempt to save herself from spinsterdom

Mary’s genius and determination aren’t enough to control the malevolent force that she unwittingly unleashes. Soon, her attempts to rein in the destruction wreaked by her creations leads her to forge a perhaps unlikely friendship with another brilliant young woman unlike any she’s ever known. As that friendship blossoms into something passionate and all-consuming, Mary begins to realize that she may have to choose between the acceptance she’s always fought for and true happiness.

The Sovereign brings princess Luca and soldier Touraine together one last time in the thrilling conclusion to C. L. Clark's beloved queer political fantasy trilogy.

A storm is coming. Touraine and Luca will stand against it together, or it will tear them apart once and for all.