Best Yearning So Intense it Hurt to Read

Dec 3, 2025 | Best of the Best Winners

It’s time to crown this week’s Best of the Best Winners.

How do we decide on the sapphic books to include in these polls? We value reader input, so we ask them on Patreon to nominate their favorites. It’s easy to follow the account for free. We take those nominations to create a best of the best poll and put it to the readers for a vote.

Nominating and voting is a fantastic way to show your favorite authors some rainbow love.

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Before we get to the Best of the Best Winners this week, it’s time for Guess the Author

Every week we’ll provide five clues about a sapphic author. This game helps readers get to know their favorite authors while having fun.

Here is today’s clue:

Clue #3: In my latest book, I was able to fulfil a dear friend’s lifelong dream: to be a character who is murdered in a book.

Find Clue #1 here.

Find Clue #2 here.

Don’t forget to check out the Best of the Best Poll post tomorrow for Clue #4.

Now for this Week’s Winners

Drum roll please… Below you’ll find the winners for Best Yearning So Intense it Hurt to Read

Contemporary Romance

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A Whisper Of Solace

By Milena McKay

What Makes An Ice Queen?

Neve Blackthorne, heads the most successful Studio in Hollywood. Powerful and aloof, she’s ruthless, yet irresistible. Above all, is her unquenchable survival instinct.

There’s no chink in her untouchable armor, but when the lights go out and the cameras stop rolling, what becomes of an Ice Queen whose heart is ruled by love and fear?
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Contemporary Romance

Available through Kindle Unlimited

Available as an audiobook at some retailers
When You Least Expect It

By Haley Cass

Caroline Parker knows three things to be true.

First, she is going to be Boston’s most sought after divorce attorney by thirty-five. Second, given how terrible her romantic track record is, falling in love isn’t in the cards for her. And third, Christmas only brings her bad luck – being broken up with not once, not twice, but three times during the holidays is proof enough of that.

When she runs into Hannah Dalton on Christmas Eve, she has no reason to believe her luck will change. After all, though Hannah is probably the most gorgeous woman she’s ever seen, she’s also straight. And married to Caroline’s work rival.
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Contemporary Romance

Available through Kindle Unlimited
The Goodmans

By Clare Ashton

Family drama, second chances and love of a lifetime

Lovely Abby Hart lives in the town of Ludbury, England, where Maggie Goodman is like another mother to her. But Abby has a secret. Best friend Jude, Maggie’s daughter, is the love of her life, and very, very straight. But secrets always come out.
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