December 30 Edition: Age Gap, Friends to Lovers, Second Chance, and More!

Long time crush. First time spark.

When Hannah’s ex threatens to destroy her new life, will this couple let the past tear them apart, or will Hannah and Kate fight for a fresh start together? Steamy sapphic romance with found family, age gap, and all the holiday vibes.

Six months ago, Hallie Thatcher’s parents sold The Stone’s Throw Inn, where she’s lived and worked for her entire life.

What she’s not expecting is to like the new manager, Brynn Fitzpatrick, as much as she does. Nothing about them should click, but they do. And though Brynn’s time in Stoneport is temporary, Hallie can’t help but lean into her unassuming charm, even when it means getting roped into Brynn’s ridiculous plan to start online dating. Or, more dangerously, when it means wondering why, as Hallie tries to start dating, no one compares to Brynn.

Coming home was supposed to be temporary.

Amanda Ellis returns to her hometown for three days to sell her grandmother’s house—except it’s now a thriving fireplace store run by a woman who refuses to leave.

When your world shatters, who helps you pick up the pieces?

Sophia, Luz and Madeline are facing final exams and interpersonal drama, but none of that has prepared them to handle a murder on their college campus. Now, they have to somehow deal with grief while navigating the complexities of their love and guilt, all while trying to prove Luz’s innocence.

Avery Jacobs has been living and working in Moonflower Cove for years.

She loves her job, her tiny apartment, and Diet Coke. What she doesn’t love is the weight of a secret that’s been eating at her since the day she interviewed for her job at Taylor Memorial Hospital. Can Avery and Aspen make their relationship work with the secrets and insecurities that plague their lives? Or will they work through it all to step into the daylight of a new relationship together?

She bought a cabin. She didn’t plan on the woman who came with it.

K-9 officer Kezia Langston emptied her savings to buy a cabin on Mistletoe Mountain. The same one her family rented every Christmas. She fought hard in the bidding war to win the property. But when Kez shows up, she discovers her ex from a decade ago… with her own set of keys in hand. The last time Kez saw Charlotte, she was marrying someone else.

"We couldn't be more different."

Opposites supposedly attract, but Henrietta is having a hard time believing that. As a celebrity tattoo artist, Hen prides herself on knowing what people want. However Jaima is the one person she can neve quiet figure out. Jaima is distant, secretive, and way too tight-wound for them to ever be anything more than lukewarm friends.

A Christmas-hating CEO. A sunshine assistant. One broken elevator that changes everything.

Camille Hartman doesn’t do Christmas—she does control, efficiency, and perfection. But when a winter storm stalls her in an elevator with Lola Brooks, the woman whose bright sweaters and cinnamon-sweet smile undo her daily, Camille’s icy armor finally cracks. This novella also appears in my Naughty and Nice sapphic Christmas box set.

The holidays are stressful enough for Andrea, but discovering her boyfriend cheated makes them unbearable.

Showing up to Thanksgiving solo is not an option. With the family gatherings mere days away, Savannah—the gorgeous local coffee shop owner who’s starred in one too many of Andrea’s daydreams—offers to pose as her girlfriend. It’s the perfect solution to dodge both of their family’s dreaded questions about when they’ll be settling down.

Control, order, precision—Emma Rowland had mastered them all. That is, until a single phone call shattered her perfectly curated life.

DOMESTICATED is a heartfelt, witty story about the family we choose and the love we never saw coming—perfect for readers who enjoy found family, slow-burn romance, and characters who learn that sometimes the best plans are the ones that fall gloriously apart.

This Christmas, Queen Alexandra wants just one thing: her wife back.

Christmas has arrived at a snowy Balmoral Castle in Scotland, and Queen Alexandra and her wife, Erin, are hoping for something they haven’t had in far too long: a quiet moment to themselves. Five years of raising royal triplets have left them exhausted, tangled in duty, and struggling to remember the simple joy of being in love. Alex aches to reconnect. Erin longs to feel close again. But wanting time together and finding it are two very different things.

A deadly global threat locks two women in a race against time

When cybersecurity agent Iris Knowles is recruited to restore a hacked computer system, she’s afraid her traumatic brain injury will keep her from completing the job, but meeting scientist Rebecca Roth instantly quells her fears. Can the two women stop a deadly virus from destroying humankind?

One wedding. One reluctant bodyguard. One dangerously inconvenient attraction…

A Game of Vows and Vendettas is a short crossover novel for the Girl Games and Kingdom of Immortal Lovers series, set at Morrigan and Stirling’s wedding. It is a vampire bodyguard x bratty princess romance with chaos, spice, and features the faces of all your favourites from across both Ruby’s main series.

Three generations of women struggle with a curse unfairly placed on their ancestor in this gothic story of magic, queer love, and mother-daughter relationships, perfect for fans of Spells for Forgetting and Practical Magic.

Told in three interwoven timelines in the late twentieth century, The Curse of the Cole Women unravels the lives of three women who struggle with their relationships with each other as they contend with the reality of their fates—is it truly a curse, or is it generational madness that drives Cole women to the sea?

She was destined for the ending of the curse.

Every century, The Devil’s Bride chooses a mortal to love and kill. Elyria was once a knight then was cursed to seduce and destroy. Fangs, blood, and hunger bind her as forbidden, beautiful, and brutal in Midnight Masquerade. Her kiss is deadly. Brides do not survive it. Until Calla.

She didn't know that it was gonna take so many heartbreaks to find LOVE

Ira Sehgal has a type: the unavailable. Trapped between a soul-crushing job and a past love that reduced her to an experiment, she finds herself drawn into a high-stakes office flirtation. In a city built on data, can Ira navigate a love that refuses to follow the script?

Two broken people find solace and healing in each other's company

An unlikely friendship-of-convenience blooms into love between an obsessive psychopath and her schoolmate who is scared to ever have her feelings reciprocated. I Love Amy features captivatingly complex characters and a deceptively cute aesthetic that contrasts its dark and psychologically intense narrative.

Loving a soldier means learning where the perimeter is.

A burned-out woman leaves Los Angeles for Seattle and falls into a slow, intentional romance with a quiet soldier. As intimacy deepens, she must decide whether calm is enough—or if loving someone sworn to duty means learning how to let go.

Sometimes, it's okay to let go of being so serious.

Featuring short stories with queer characters sprinkled throughout, Sometimes Unserious blends humor with deeper themes.

She went to Montana to inspire her next book. Instead, she found the woman to rewrite her whole story.

A slow-burn, opposites-attract romance about finding love where you least expect it, and daring to stay once you do.

A slow-burn queer romance about the complicated beauty of rebuilding your life from the middle.

With love, ambition, and identity colliding at full force, Balancing Act is a rich, emotional story about letting go, holding on, and finding your footing when everything feels like it’s shifting beneath you.

Juliette always thought she was straight.

Her new step-sister is a driven, successful and beautiful CEO. Juliette can’t be attracted to her new step-sister though… can she?

Tragedy threatens everything that matters to Erin. Will her family survive?

Sergeant Erin Kennedy and her new wife, Princess Alexandra want to have children and build a family together, their Royal Family. Being a lesbian couple, they knew it wouldn’t be easy, but they couldn’t have foreseen the difficulties it would bring. Will they be able to build their little family when everything seems to be against them?

One boy, his mother, and a captain with secrets from her crew. Amongst the stars, all things lost are found.

A Sapphic sci-fi romance described as Becky Chambers meets Delilah Green Doesn’t Care. A mother goes to great lengths to stop her son from being abducted, and is forced to rely on the captain of the ship—a woman with a dark past and an irresistible pull.

As head of the infamous Sharkey family crime syndicate, Nikki Sharkey trusts no one with her secrets.

Sometimes she’s had to bend the law, and sometimes she’s had to break it. But there’s one secret not even her closest family knows, and Nikki would do anything to keep it safe.