IHS Best Selling Books of December 2025

Can not-so-innocent flirting lead to forever?

When CeCe Sloan’s favorite client comes to her new salon’s open house a sexy, flirty banter begins. Alexis is so far out of her league, but what happens in the back room doesn’t count, right?

Come along on this sexy, romantic adventure and find out why CeCe Sloan is swooning.

The only thing harder than saving the world is doing it alone.

When Holly and Ivy meet, sparks fly, but it’s hardly smooth sailing. After their one-night stand ends in disaster, both decide they’d rather spend the cold months ahead sleeping alone. However, it soon becomes undeniable that each woman possesses something the other needs. Working together, they just might get what they want and find the love of a lifetime along the way, but only if their own insecurities and secrets don’t destroy them first.

Broken horses. Wary hearts. One slow turn toward grace.

Bone-tired and running from a life that’s hollowed her out, a woman drifts into a small Northeast town with no intention of staying—until she’s drawn to a junkyard of abandoned carousel horses and the stubborn urge to mend what’s been left behind. As she begins restoring them, the town circles close: wary, curious, and slowly undone by shared labor, quiet glances, and intimacy that edges toward love. Tender and deeply sapphic, this is a story about repair as devotion—and the radical choice to stay.

She didn't know a ring given as a young girl would mean they'd be engaged as adults.

A ring given in childhood bound them. An ancient law tried to separate them. Can the princess keep both the crown and the girl?

Life has other plans...

Fifteen-year-olds, Eleanor and Lysette couldn’t be any more different if they tried in 1930s Colorado. But, the moment they meet, the attraction and connection is instant. It soon becomes apparent that it’s not safe for them, so they devise a plan to escape and be together. The plan goes terribly wrong and they’re torn apart for twenty-two years. Can they find a new plan?

Keller Mitchum has already lived a lifetime in eighteen years.

Garrison tries to make a safe space for Keller and Parker, only partially aware of the horrors they come from. As time passes, it becomes clear that it’s not only the past that keeps the two sisters at arm’s length. Can Garrison break through Keller’s defenses and help her regain control?

A tentative, first-time sweet summer romance between two young women just starting out in life who aren’t looking for love until love finds them.

When Nova White, a special girl from Eve’s past returns home from university, a fire kickstarts inside Eve’s heart and suddenly, the path to her future changes.

Cateline is the seventeen-year-old daughter of a nobleman in fourteenth-century France.

It’s a time when children aren’t seen as those to be loved and cherished, but instead are used as pawns and bargaining chips on the chessboard of control and privilege.

She is married off to a prince in the country of Sursha, a Gaelic-speaking island nation near Ireland. Fergus, her betrothed, is next in line to take over once beloved King Carthac dies. Or is he?

Sometimes the best way to move on is to let a stranger pin you against a wall.

Josie came for a Christmas tree, not the tattooed worker with electric eyes. When a rainstorm traps them in the shed, Shay shows her exactly how to forget her ex-wife. One unforgettable afternoon proves the best gifts come unwrapped. Perfect for fans of holiday instalove, service tops, dirty talk, and blue-collar love.

A lesbian historian reads the past — her pug sniffs out the truth.

Stranded in a snowbound mansion on Christmas Eve, historian Olivia Corbyn, her loyal pug, and her partner Vivian must unmask a killer before the snow melts. A witty, Sapphic Christmas mystery filled with romance and holiday charm.

A midnight rendezvous might lead to an unexpected shot at love.

Laurel chose the perfect revenge dress to sign her divorce papers, but a chance encounter with a stray dog and a hauntingly beautiful veterinarian causes her to question everything she thought she knew about love.

Danny Felts grew up in the heart of the Midwest on a dairy farm, expected to follow in her mother’s footsteps and marry a farmer and become a mother.

Danny had other ideas. As World War II heats up, she makes a decision that will change her life forever as she becomes a lie, serving with the Seabees in the Navy as Daniel Felts.

Kate Adams is about to graduate high school in her prestigious and elite San Diego neighborhood when she’s dragged to the USO for a dance with friends and servicemen. There, she meets the person that will catch her eye and her heart, only for jealousy and vengeance to tear her apart.

Sapphic It's a Wonderful Life retelling with adorable dogs, angelic drag queens, and a little magic

A sweet Sapphic retelling of the holiday movie classic. Realtor Bailey George puts her plans on hold—again—to help with her small town’s winter festival. With the aid of angelic drag queens, she reconnects with her high school crush, Maria Hatcher.

What happens when the price of saving your job is betraying the woman you love?

An American reporter in London encounters a princess in disguise in this modern-day homage to the classic film Roman Holiday, with a sapphic twist and the happily ever after ending you always wanted.

A charming and funny romance that will fill your heart with holiday cheer!

A year ago, their lives fell apart. Can a bit of Christmas magic help them build a new life together?

They were the perfect couple until pride got in the way…

A professor needs a celebrity for her local Pride parade. An actor needs a girlfriend to survive a month of filming in her hometown. It should be a match made in heaven, except the two women dated in college, and haven’t spoken since. Can this fake relationship lead to a second chance at love?

The soul sings, the heart just has to listen.

Haunted by the ghosts of her past, mega-star, Christine Swann decides she’s had enough and jumps off a rickety old country bridge, only to have an angel jump in after her. But, in the light of day, who saves who?

Olivia Sachdeva is in love.

But marriage is the last thing Olivia would raise with Kate. Trouble is, underneath, Olivia is only human, and her besotted heart would really like to marry Kate. So, what if she took a chance at Christmas to ask her?

What will it take to rekindle an old flame?

Maggie never imagined her ex would one day walk back into her life, and her firehouse. Ten years ago, Jacq broke her heart and left town. Now she’s returned, with a surprise that could send their second shot at love up in flames.

She saved her once, will love give them both the strength to fight for more?

To the world, Dominique Fournier lived a perfect life, but behind closed doors, she was silently suffocating. When Robyn Diamont takes a job working for her, an unexpected attraction sparks. One dangerous choice change everything, but with secrets, consequences, and desire colliding, the question remains: can they survive the fallout?

London might change everything.

When musical legend Lydia Howard Fox is at her lowest, a composer’s program in London might be the key to finding her music again. And for Ella Hendrickson, it might be the key to getting her life back.

Last Christmas was a no-ribbons-attached gift, but this year she wants more.

Maura didn’t expect to encounter last year’s one night stand at her family Christmas dinner. Now Sabrina is sitting across the table with knowing eyes and a secret smile. When they finally get a moment alone, the truth changes everything. For fans of second chance sapphic holiday heat.

One lie. Two holidays. Zero chance this stays fake.

Claire desperately needs a fake girlfriend for Christmas. Ellie needs a Hanukkah date. Their brilliant solution? Pretend to date each other. But between menorah lightings and Christmas dinner, fake touches turn real. An interracial sapphic holiday romance where two women discover their perfect lie might be their perfect love story.

When you're lost, Wynter will find you.

Disillusioned from eleven miserable years as a Manhattan attorney, Faith decides to pack it up and go home to Colorado. No job, no home and no clue what to do, she stumbles upon a tiny mountain town that needs as much of a new start as she does, as does the stunning waitress at the local diner, who just happens to be the wife of the Sheriff’s deputy.

Love is rooted in understanding in this opposites attract sapphic Christmas Novella

At Dirty Hands Farm, Bridgette Faul has built a life from the trimmings of her past—helping others find purpose after prison. When up and coming prosecutor Olivia Predmore crosses her path, neither expects the spark that follows.