Silvia Shaw’s TOP 5 Sapphic Books of 2025

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?

What if you wanted to change your old life before it changed you?

She desperately needed to escape and it was all going to plan until it wasn’t. Waking in hospital, supposedly having no memories of the past, suited her perfectly.

When an injured young woman with beautiful dark eyes called Lou her guardian angel her uncomplicated life became far more, well, complicated.

In the year 2597, Earth’s colony world of Mariposa is shared with an alien race, the Tipruii.

When war breaks out between the human colony and the aliens, Fiona learns that her future will be the price of peace. To save her people, she will be the tribute in a treaty marriage to the Tipruii princess, Simaala, and spend the rest of her days on the other side of the wall between their races.

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?

In a land torn by war for generations, Princess Jessa is sent as a peace offering to the country of Arravan, understanding all too well that she is being sacrificed upon the altar of her father’s ambitions—and condemned to an uncertain and possibly short-lived future, if the machinations of her own family are any indication.

But what she finds at Blackstone Keep is not what she expects, and for a daughter of royal blood who has known little of freedom and even less of love, the members of the Durand family are proving to be a very pleasant riddle to be solved—the youngest daughter, Darrius Durand, is the most surprising of all. A captain in the King’s elite guard, Darry’s considerable charms pull Jessa rather happily into an unexpected friendship that quickly becomes something more, promising passion and the fulfillment of her deepest desires.